The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-17
sEATTLE. sUyDAy. APRIL ~.
RESURRECTION OF THE FLOWERS.

that there are moments when the worship
Of the golden day il better than the idoiatry
Of the golden calf The Easter season on
this coast stands for an earlier resurrec-
ton morn Of Nature than we find on the
Atlantic seaboard. The Claytonia. one Of
the first Of washington's wild flowers to
take the winds Of March with beauty.
has DO. yet in Neg England opened
its violet baby eyes responsive 70
the tender winning smile Of maternal
spring. Il is the middle Of April gener-
ally before the trailing arbutus begins TO
fill the pine woods a. the East with It's
fragrance; and the beautiful little
anernone we call Liver Leaf carpets the
dry leaves with all the changing hues Of
the SKY. Outside Of these two flowers
Northern New England has no wild
blooms today, and unless the season 10 ex-
ceptionally well advanced there are few
spots where even these blossoms can be
found.
The resurrection Of nature in Washing
ton begins nearly two months before it
starts in New England. despite the fact
that we are in higher latitude than New
England. Portland. Or, being in abou.
the latitude Of Montreal, which is 800
miles north Of Boston. In March we get
all the Wild blossoms. common to both
coats, that do not open their
eyes in New England before the
FIST week in May. The difference
bween the flowers Of New England and
Washington is noteworthy. We have not
the trailing arbutus 1.-THE Nay flower Of
New EDgiand). the Andromeda, the Cas-
sandra. the cheekerbcrry, the Houstonia,
the white pond lily. or New Eng,aud's
various lady slippers; we have not the
white corydalis, the cardinal flower, the
painted triiIium: we have none Of the
beautiful Wild orchids of New England
save the Calypso borealis, which is gener-
ally termed here u lady slipper.
We have not the mountain laurel,
the Cematis Yirginiana or the fringed
gentian; nor tie wild szalea, or
the rhodora. We have beautiful wild
rhododendrops blooming in May.
rare plant in New England and not found
north OF the latitude Of Montpelier. We
have balf-dozen varieties Of wild field
aud wood lilies unknown at the East We
have the Dicentra Formosa. purple squirrel
corn, splendid towering dogwood and a
beautiful STRAIGHTFORWARD wild curran..
Our red and yellow columbne is hand
somer than that of New England. New
England has but a single variety of
lupine, while we have at least TWENTY-FIVE.
come yellow, white, and various shades Of
red and purple. We are rich in beautiful
spiraea and sa1ifrage, and the Linnaa bo-
reals. or twin flower. rare in New En-
gland, grows everywhere in profusion. In
New England but a single type of the
mimulus is found. against twenty varie-
ties here.
Among the plants common to both this
coast and New England are the swamp
laurel, the Labrador tea, the buck bean,
the pitcher plant, the common anemone or
wind flower, the red trilllum, the common
white tTillium. the Indian pipe, the orchis
yperborea, the spiTanthes, Cadies'
TessesL the trientalis, mitella. tiareila
and several varieties of pyrola The
"0regon grape" and the saal berry are
beautiful shrubs in leaf blossom and
fruit unknown At the East, and we have
three varieties Of Erythronium, the little
lilies we call adder's tongue. against the
single variety known at the East. There
are no golden rods here to compare with
those Of the East, and we miss the blue
bonnet Of the barebell. our campanula be.
ing sickly pale and not pretty.
We have nothing in Washington to
compensate for the srbutus, that max es
the Eastern pine woods fragrant in May,
or the Hepatica triloba, that is watched
for like the coming Of the first robin.
The prettest sorts Of the Western Clay
tonia are not found here in Seattle, but
one species Is abundant. The yellow
violet grows everywhere in wet places.
Our tao species OF huckleberry are worth
R0tsclng: one, that has the big red
berry. has branches like the broom. and
the leaves are tinted red when they I'M
bld.
Our elovers are worth noticing: there
are two remarkable species on the shores
Of Lake Washington, one with heads ike
the white clover, bat deep red the other
tall and exceedingly fragrant. The para
SOS Of the Achlys triphylia are Just open.
ing. TO be accompanied later by spikes of
white. The mook-orauge is common.
The Aeer maerophyila (aowering maple)
1. no mean tree, and the Arbutus MA
drono or Manzanitsl, with smooth brown
trunk like an Indian in the woods. is n
striking object. Our alder is big tree.
We have not the wintergreen of the Rast,
but the Salal (5aultheris Shsllon) is a
sister species. Look at the blossom and
berry and see how nearly alike they are.
You see the red clover IS full of the
glow Of ruidy health in November here as
you DO in June; you see the yellow BIOS
SONS Of she hawkweed as fresh and fine
ss they were in July. The reign Of flowers
at the East is brilliant hut brief. Few Of
them last above two weeks. Flowers like
the wild lupine, the hawkweed and the
Ciaytonia, common TO both seahoards, are
found here in bud and bloom in .utuma,