The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1905-07-27
Prote ctIon Of Native Plants.a Yer.
mont Treasure Spot.

Many OF cur resders may not be aware
that there IL Society for the Protection
Of Nature Pants" There is such society
with its headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
represented In thirty-two States, the Brit.
ish provinces and even in far Korea, and
has relations with $50 village improvement
societies and many other organizations
with the laudable object Of preventing the
extermination OF beautiful and interesting
v lid flowers. II issues leaflets which are
sent to hundreds Of hotels, colleges, schools
libraries, women's clubs, publishing houses
and individuals. From one Of these, leaf.
let No. II, we copy the following:
A TREASURE SPOT OF WILD FLOW.
(By G Sreeter, High School, Trenton,
N. -
There are still to be found places In New
Eogla where Wild flowers have been able
to hold their own. Back among the foot
bills Of the Green Mountains, on hillside
sloping sharply to the esst, terraced by
broken rocks and jagged ledges, there is
such bit OF woods, not more than twenty
acres 10 sll. where the number and variety
OF native plants are q constant source Of
surpriie ard delight.
The oldest inhsbitant cannot remember
that the ground wss ever cleared. Most
OF the trees are mspcs, growing straight
ard bare for twenty or thirty feet up to
the first branches. Scattered among the m
are few beeches, ronwoods, hemlocks,
ash trees, and birches. Ferns grow In great
abundance, and here may be found varieties
OF lsdy-fern, great beds OF msidenhair,
clumps OF marginal hield-erns. Christmas
ferns scattered everywhere, common poly.
poppy drspIng the rocks, the ebony spleen
wort half hidden In the clefts Of the ledges,
New York ferns filing in all the spaces
nothing else wants; and on the fat down
AZ the bottom are to be found, growing 10
great profusor, the rattlesnske and sensl-
tive ferns.
Blu. ferns are not the only 0owerless
plants to be found. Fungi and lichens are
always plentiful. Oa the drv hill-tops
there are three varieties of clubmosses
growing and the shaded rocks are carpet
cd with many species Of true mosies.
The H)wers begin to open before the
have gone, ard last until the
frosts have taken the last aster and stalk
Of goldenrod. The 6rn to appear are the
growing high up on the sunny
side OF the rocks. little later there are
lhe graceful dicentsas, hanging on shelves
10 the ledger, 30 high up that they have
been many times declared "tour grapes"
BY the ervious passer-by. At any season
thi. ledge ID the gem OF the woods. Around
!, can be fouod the little yellow violet, the
h1, sprirg beauty, the adder's tongue,
j.ck-in ihe-pulpit, Wild garlic,
blue cohosh, purple trilllum, red and white
Aneberries, CanadA violets In bloom near.
" all the summer, downy violets, AID the
common blue violet present In one or more
II Its many forms There ha clump OF
.nowey orchids which adds one or two TO
r. number each seAsor, and q few stalks Of
purple or white frirged orchids can be
'ound every year. woodbine and si'd gin
ter cover the broktn rocks ., The base Of
he ledge.
Going on up the bill, there are beds Ct
'esthery foam dover, nooks 1lied with
.wo lesiec sSlomori seal, and old s,pmps