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4 WILD FLOWER SHOW.
Tho Storm King Clubs Exhibit at Their
Home Overlooking the Hudson.

Tho Storm King Clubs Exhibit at Their
Home Overlooking t,o Hudson.
Once year the Storm King Club gathers in
it's picturesque home on the crest of one Of the
mountains back Of Cornwall-on- Hudson col
lection of the wild flowers Of that region and
invites its friends to come and view the display.
Yesterday the collection Of this year was on ex-
hibit, and the whole ground floor Of the build
ing blossomed like a garden of natures own
making with tho flowery spodls Of wood and
mountain and swamp. About 100 Towering
plants were shown. and of these there was not
one in the cultivation of which man had aided
nature.
The exhibits represented a great amount of
work quickly accomplished. for most Of tho
wild flowers when transplanted. even with their
own native soil around their roots. quickly
wither and die Consequently the labor of
transferring the plants had all to be done on the
day before the display, and Mr.. Henry c. Lee of
Cornwall. the moving spirit in the matter. hav-
ing first located the plants. kept his assistants
busy all day Friday carrying them to the club
house and arranging them. The only botanical
specimens that could be relied upon to keep
their freshness were the moses. and IL took
four men three days to get the swamp moses
intact from their original home to the new
swamp arranged for them in the club house.
This swamp was the gem of the exhibition.
1t was In the middle OF a room hunR with the
snowy dogwood blossoms and the lnxIriant
deep pink azaleas Rocks, covered with column
bines the yesters among the wild flowers. clad
in motley. surrounded it. and; to maze II tho
Dark green moses carpeted the nat rocks, and
swamp flowers. A bit OF talnurack Limb overhead
was hung with the rare wild clematis The
swamp marigold and the snowy otchids reared
their heads below 1t. In the centre was q group
Of the pitcher plant. that strange ect-devour-
ing rarity that later in the GUNNER r., blossoms sons
flower. Specimens of golden club gold thread.
cranberry. sheathed cotton grass, and winter
green chickweed made up the remainder Of this
exhibit, which was a tamarack swamp In minia-
ture.
Around the room. either fastened to the walls
or planted in boxes filled with their native
earth. were many other varieties. There were
kind. immortelles. and ten varieties OF wild
violets. the most noticeable being large blue
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the wild pansy. a small flower like the purple
the club members on the top Of one OF
the mountains, growing on q rock where
it seemed impossible tnat any living thing could
gla paucifoia and there were seven varieties OF
wild orchid shown. Besides the living plants.
water-color paintings of all the flowers of the
FEsssioni Eisifed painted by Mr. and Mrs. Lee were eH
Many guests went up from this CITY, Among
those present, were Chancellor McCracken and
Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. Brakeman, Mrs. Payson Mer-
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Lee Of Cornwall.