The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-09-18
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watkins stick Groat pecan trees
nlEo burr oaks, waluuts, hickorirs
and three on four smaller varieties
/ OF oak, black, white. red aud chin
/ Quapin, are here Then there are
/ great hagkhorrics with the corrugated
/ and winged bark. and here is that
| beautiful black coated member Of the
rose family which has been dcsignat
ed 10y the natives as the shittim wood
! Of the Sacred Book The wood is
! hard, the hardest of the forest trees
with the possible exception OF the
! pcrsimmon; but the pcrsmmon sci,
| dom gets beyond the bush size
though there are some large trees
| Here, underneath the taller growth.
are the black haw bushes, while grow.
| Ing out of the bluffs are JuncbcrrIcs
both prizes for boys. but insipid to n
mature appetite. And along close to
the stream are the few remaining CO
dars which were uncut by telephone
| poI"rs before the land was open to
settlement
To climb among the hlurs, 10 IN.
spoct holes left by disintcgratcd fos
siI trees; to listen to the tufted tit.
| mous"'s golden CALL to see the
| mountain boomer" scampcr along to
| the shcltcrinE rocks, where he leaves
his tail in plain view and. doubling
back, pokes ont his head to see where
| the danger lies; to look at the ferns
clinginE To the rock is rejuvenating,
inspiring, life giving. There are at
least seven varieties of ferns The
abrupt perpendicular walls clothed
with the resurrection fern are passed
by unhoedcd when the heat cries ND
the ironds brown and inconspicuous
like the hands OF paralytc; but the
rains come and the face OF the bhr,
Is spotted with great dark green
patches where the mass Of separate
tronds blend In green drapcry. And
there, on the north side Of huge, wet
rock, is the walking leaf, camptosorus
chi2Ophilus. the slender, lcaf.like
frond, draWnuut arrow head, whose
long whip cracker end takes root in
the moss and liycrwOrts and starts n
new plant. OF the splocnw0rts there
are two species, one small, growing
out on the under side Of cool. wet
oNorhanging rocks; another, tan and
slender living more In the open. And
cIInging TO the side Of the canyon, are
ferns a foot or more high and sub
dlyidod-a sort Of magnihcd edition
varying, however. from the two small
or species that can be found growing
all about the woods. The most singu
lar, however, is the very small
dwarfcd one on the edge of lime
rocks frond and all but couple OF
Inches long with wiry stems like the
maiden hair, which spring back and
forth with their sprawlng, scattered
double compound frondlcts an eighth
OF an inch long, dark green above and
white underneath. with whole masses
growing from a perfect nest OF fine
black rootlcts imbedded in the cracks
OF the rocks
From the bluffs one can look ou,
across the tree tops - the other side
where the Usage hili,, wave upon
wave. reach as far as the eye can
see, with here and there dcadcning
where the leaves of the girdlcd trees
make brown patch ON the land
scapc Fields freshly plowcd or ,Uy
cred with corn ana cotton stretch
away in the valleys, while the nearby
hills stil bcnr the scattered growth
Of oaks ana hirkor'os An2 Tar, fai
away no bold prairie cXpllse. with
here ana there "A CiLmp OF trees IN