The Newtown bee., 1896-12-25
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 When we say ','oqr wild flowers, ,'' we mean those found in Newtown, and they include nearly every variety in New Eng lang. Along the banks of our beautiful Housatonic are distributed the seeds. .of l the wild flowers by the overflow of this
 at times t'mad Diver.n Driving ''for & drive from Bennett's Bridge to Zoar Bridge in the sunny season, where can you find more delightful scenery or 1a' more rapturOus display of wild flowers !? When the summer solstice enters, one is delayed along the road by the iVies with ] inoomparable beauty lining either side.
 The great lobelia greets you from every place of continued moisture in Septem~ Der. The Scotch hair bells tempt one to jump from the wagon and cut them from their tender stems in June and July. But ac whatever season when flowers can bloom you will find that determined pur-
 pose to live and display, their beauty, like our girls and boys. The human-like pansies, the little viofets, the dandelion and hundreds of other flowers are fight l ing in their wild state to live and not be bluffad by their hot house friends.
 l Do flowers talk? ! ou look into the
 face of a pansy and then ask! Do they
 have the sense of feeling? Touch 8 sen-
 sitive plant and see. Touch the witch hazel nut when ripe; touch jewel weed, or lady slipper, and see the seeds jump Touch the thistle and see the law that ] God made Eoc0ntjnue the kind. Oh this universal law, this universal God that 1 puts His fingers on all creation and
 guards the flowers and also all animal life, and the millions of worlds and 'all ! that dwell therein!' To go back along the Housatonic. Look atthe "Grass of Parnassus; ;" look 1 at the coarse pickereI weed rolling along the shore by the uudulati0ns of the waves
 and wina AHthrough the towering sea- 1 son one family of il )wers follows anoth- CT, as raspberries follow strawberries, and blackberries and cherries follow them, aud the billberries, hQckIeberlics with IbeiF blossoms ana fruit all instime. 4 little botanist of Newtown, with eth CT scholars were requesteda t0 bring into the High school in Thompsonvile, not l less than 30 varieties of wild lowers, on certain day. The Newtown scholar took m g9. The fate Johnson T. Platt of
 Yale read with great pleasure 8 modest little article on wild flowers, published in THE NEwTowE BEE. Being a native of Newtown, and extremely interested in Newtown wild flowers he expressed S
 wish to see the ''littie author a few days before he died. She preserved every flower on her 'herbarium paper" she had collected in Gray's Plain and vicinity. In parenthesis (we wish to assert here what
 she found. among the dudes" in art
 stores in New Hagenli "Have youl her. 0arium paper?" "Herbarium paper: We will ask the proprietor" Ne" he said,
 ''perhaps you will find it at the other art store above" These city dudes" are always ready to laugh at and ''run" on countryIgirIs and boys, when often the country boys and girls could put them
 'into B hole," by the most historical
 facts. Well, this collection of flowers
 from the hills of Shiloh and and the wilds of Great Quarter, rather astonished the
 scholars in Thompsonville.' There was
 over 90 varieties of. orchids, nearly an of
 the best of the pulse family; the. best of
 the multitude of, astors; wild roses, fripged blue gentian and yiolets. ''WiId flowers" are not confined to the little aae-
 mones and hipati6as that open in the cold
 winds of March and April, but he blood root comes ,0ut with it's bios
 som, of white in the hledges SO that one longs to greet them as sweetly
 as they greet us! With all the beauty of worlds of flowers before us how many there are that pass them by unnoticed If THE BEE is willing, we would like to 1 notice the pitcher plant we found in ! s%Cub Swamp7' while getting 'bill-berFies ! with Florence The blossom was held over the pitcher full of water, by a para | sol, colored red, white and buowa: e-'', 4 l All thewoods here are filled with priQ,
 cess pine, vioIete, ferns and orchids. The l bee orchid, with it's bell shaped and crim- ! son veins meets you with it's wonderful form and beauty in sweet May. The white and red trilliums stand all about you and invite your admiration. You will find,, even in this 'dense forest the
 red clover in the most secluded places. l God has provided ways and means to per | s4e os animal, life. How wonderful and how
 beautiful it allis! The water lily comes
 up from the bottom of the muddy pond and sheds it's. ''sweetness or. the deser
 air" It lies upon the water,. like a mer
 maid, and sports in the rays of sol. w 1 must remember that, the species Of sun
 l Ld3wer growing so slender, and tall D. I our roadways is doing it's best to keep u I with. progress and cultivation. But th
 1 wild roses. are the sweetest still, and tn
 white honey suckle, agalfa, in our swamp
 has the best of sweets about them. Tn }. frost grape while in bloom throws ,ot y more fragrance than any cultivate ifgrape vine. Sc the apple blossom vii U eentinHe itszexstatici fragrance from th
 native trees, a fragance not surpassed D :, ipeculation-s Tbe wild sfpwers are sti
 the most beaptiflq flqqtlk aPd the most fragrant The wild,foweEs along the AmazonriVe are the sweetest in the world ana, tn
 most magnificent. But give us wil it1f33W@tgsff add the Afids Of Newtown, in he ltEPdg9p fa17fnass along the EIbusatonio rive and d9Rs We Will Yife cHnAt6nt. 7i7nj E=GYa1
 There are manly beautfful flowers 2 8 every hand insapaingg5fall.and summe lbb thakle eoned sQhoshaov sthamg isaalWas sS happy in meeting them.-sAYe reHemh' Fl