Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-05-28
Flowers on The Kansas Prairies.

Flowers on The Kansas Prairies.
| Barbarc splendor Of the scenes in Aidd and
| Lifricdine seemed repeated as the glorious
panorama OF biossomlng prairie unrolled day
after day. Can YOU picture TO Yourself ten
acres of portuiaca? or whole hillsides curtain
ed with what seems a superb variety of wis
TARA, except that it grows on stalk instead
of hanging from a vine? DO you know now
Ii feels not to b- able to step without crush
ing flower. so that the little prairie dogs,
sitting contentedy with their intimate
friends the owls on the little heaps of earth
thrown around their holes, have every ap-
pearance of having planted their own front
yards with the choicest floral varieties ?
Think OF driving into great field of sun
flowers, thr horses tramping down the
tall stalks, that spring up again behind
the carriage, so that one outside the field
would never know that ,arriage- load of
people were anywhere in 1t; or riding
through 'srove' of them. the blossoms
towering out Of reach you SIT on horse
back, and tall hedge Of them grown up as
barrier between YOU and your companion
Not daisy buttercup, or clover or a
uahdt'iNiI, WI Nuu Ntt All Uul new
flowers too exquisite for belief the great
white prickly popples, and the sensitive rose
with ITS leaves delicate maiden hair fern,
and lis blossom countless mass of crimson
stamens trimmed with gold. and family fra
grant Even familiar flowers are unfamiliar IN
SIZE and profusion and color WHAT at home
would be daisy. is here the size of a small
suntlowtr with petal, of delicate rose-plnk
-. -, ,,r
maroon shot with gold.
A-htd brought with her numerous
packages of seeds and slips, noblv bent on
having ribbon flower beds and mosaic par
terrcs about the house; but she sat on the
steps agl threw them broadcast, neNer know
Ing. Iu the pru.us.un OF flowers that woud
have been there ANYWAY, whether hers ever
came ~ w not. And how beautiful were the
-rasse, e,--thc m,st useful and the most beau
titu! Of all the delicate little ''buffalo
grass, for winch the prairie IS famous, wa'-
ing rs tiny eured sickle Of teathery dam
ttnr>~ # is beauty were It's only excuse
for being, get bravery curing" itself into
dry hay il stands, when the autumn
winds btgn to b,o~, that the happy hocks
ml, ''nlhbir, sharp toothe,l. the rich, thick
growing blades" all through the winter.
without their being gathered into harns
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