The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-12

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Some of the embyro blossoms. however.
had turned dark, showing they had been
| frozen.
THAT IS, think, the most snowy or all
/ our imported shrubbery." said Betty. 1T
| flowers before the leaves have fully devel-
| oped and presents a gorgeous appearance.
There is nothing that approaches 1t in the
! brilliance of its red blooms. Although
called japonica IL is really the Japan
| ounce It's fruit is much smaller and hard
er than our domestic ounce. but has
fragrance that is delicious. A few put in a
clothes press will impart an odor that Is
| never forgotten"
| At the bridge we stopped few minutes
to watch a school of minnows whose sill
very sides indicated they were sinners or
| light-colored clubs. wondered what would
happen If a healthy two-pound bass should
/ suddenly dart into the school. What a
feast for pike. pickerel or bass!
Beyond the bridge, on the east side of the
road, is a barbed wire fence, with gate
on a driveway leading to the creek. When
we reached the gate We found 1t locked.
suggested to Betty that climbing seemed
| necessary, but she had found an easier
| way to get on the other side Of the fence.
4
hold up the other" she said.
Then by little maneuvering she went
through the opening without tearing her
clothes on the barbs. / profited by her ex-
| ample and also escaped damage.
Now We are in Irvington's fiowery king
| DOM" Betty informed me as she started
| towards the trees and thicket on the side
of the bank
Il Jnyy fho nrrrfr rrIeh fCt she
exclaimed. as she halted near the edge of
| the creek
| Securing rush? Why has it that Manner
| Betty seemed to know everything worth
| knowing about rushees and reeds, and she
told me the slender jointed plant was gen.
orally called Dutch rush, but because 1t
| was used for securing and polishing the
name securing was more popular and ex-
/ pressive in this country. 1t has a rough
surface, and housewives often use 1t for
| securing pots and pans.
On the side of the bank facing SOUTH
| sheltered from the north wind, there were
| plenty Of wild flowers.
what a beautiful display of violets!'
Betty almost shouted as she proceeded to
gather a handful.
They were the largest blue violets had
| ever seen, but none had a trace of fra
GRANGE.
How perfect these anemones. and what
| delicate pink shade" said Betty min
| ute later as she found a cluster of the beau
tiful wildfiowers.
"And here are trilliums by the dozen.
some in bloom and others just forming
| their leaves" she continued. "Notice the
three leaves each plant bears and the three
petals of each flower"
And what Is this?'
| "It is called the spring beauty. but many
other spring flowers are prettier, the ane-
none and the snowdrop. for instance. The
| spring beauty, however, is prolific and is
often found where other flowers do not
grow. 1t belongs to the genus Claytonia-
The insect world also has spring beauty,
a small butterfly that makes its appear
| ance here early in the season. 1t is one
of the most beautiful members of the but
terny family
And this pretty white blossom at the
end Of the long stem?"
THAT is the flower of the bloodroot. No
tice how red the stem Is where you broke
| 1t OF. and look at the root
Betty, with the aid of stick, had un-
earthed the root, and she held 1t up for
| my inspection.
HAS a sangulnary appearance" I re-
| marked when saw that the sap exudng
from a break was red.
Yes; it's botanical name IL sanguinaria
canadensis. 1t is a genus of the poppy
| family, but there is only one species of the
bloodroot 1t is used in medicine and is
| said to be valuable as an emetic and slim
| ulant of expectoration."
L ho h,,H <ho<
small tree look as If they. too, were nour-
attention to a tree that was about to burst
into leaf.
THAT tree is the red buckeye"
Probably brought here by an Ohioan?"
mo. The buckeye is as plenty in Indi-
ana as anywhere. Ohio possibly is called
the Buckeye State because there is a tree
known in botany as the Ohio buckeye. or
fetid buckeye. Other buckeyes are the
sweet, yellow and small They all belong to
the genus Aescuus, of which the horse
chestnut is a member.
Some Of the exposed buds have been
frozen" continued Betty. as she examined
limb that was unprotected. Here is one
| off when touched it."
Betty gathered a few more flowers and
then held up an odd umbrella-shaped plant
which she found growing near a log The
leaves wereDfolded back against the stem,
as IL they had developed before the stem
forced itself through the surface of the
soil.
This is the May apple" Betty explained.
"Tt has two lobed leaves" Then she raised
the leaves and showed where the bloom
was forming. THE May apple is the man
drake of the pharmacopoeia. The root has
medicinal value, its properties being of a
very drastic nature. The mandrake belongs
to the nightshade family, like the trillum
You will find ii mentioned in the Bible and
old books. The supposed resemblance of
the root to man gave IL the name man
drake. Shakespeare evidently had in mind
the belief of the ancients that the root was
an animal when he wrote
land shrieks the mandrakes torn out of
| the earth.
That living mortals. hearing them, run
4 mad
1.-THE fruit the May apple itself, has a
peculiar flavor that is relished by some per-
sons. but is disliked by others"
Further along Betty pointed out dog
wood tree. Its buds resembled those of the
| buckeye, but were not so dark.
1.-THE dogwood and the tulip poplar" Bet
ty said. ARE the two prettiest Towering