The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-18
GOOD OLD SUMNER TIME.
Prof. liugheS'S Letters Are Awakening
Interest in the Study Of Our
Native Flora.

tended to send you this a fort
night earlier in May, the merry
month the month of blossoms
Every month has it's own charm
but none is so prolific of new anC
varied beauty as May the
lover of Nature is sometime!
tempted to wish that May might
remain forever-so bewitchine
are the delights of field and for.
est in this Middle Spring Season.
But no one who has inquiringly
followed the months year after
year, really does wish that any
of them should tarry beyond
their period. There is always toe
much fascination ahead. We
never are quite willing to sur
render the wondrous glory that
is to be.
Since a bit of poetry is a seas
oning to everything | write,
please insert the following, taken
from The Amethyst" a Tenn
perance journal every one should
read:
Heart ONE, the world is sweet,
The violets are blooming:
All the tender greenlng things
Are laughing in the sun;
Sad, my heart? be glad, my heart
Summer time is coming
Bird and brook are singing,
For the ioy-days now begun"
This was indited for the month
of June, but better suits that of
May; for while everything is
laughing in the sun, and the
birds and brooks singing, the
violets have ceased to bloom
and this will serve to remind my
botany friends that their indif-
ference of this year will now
have almost ten or eleven months
to change into interest-before
Violet time comes again. ITO
every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose un-
der the heaven.
Would you think it?-my offer
to identify the violets aroused
some interest; but, all the speci-
mems sent me were one kind only,
viz, the one known to botanists
as Viola papilionacea; and, to the
laity as The Meadow or Hooded
Blue Violet-the commonest of
the violets. In this | confess to
a disappointment; for, expected
twelve species, at the least. |
shall not scold, however, for,
where ignorance is bliss, it's
folly to be wise"
As to Arbutus, every point of
t h e compass contributed-an
some of the finest specimens i'm
Evidently this plant
is plentiful, and obviously it is
well-beloved by young and old. |
| received enough Arbutus to put |
a ray of sunshine into the hearts
Of some worthy people thanks
to my friends. would like to
commend the good spirit of the
Webster Mills lassie, who, with
her specimens, wrote me two
charming letters; also of one
from Three Springs and one from
Burnt Cabins, who sent me Noun
tain Tea, Spring Beauty, Arbu-
tus, and VOLTS foot. Keep it up
brave girls despite the Copper
heads-you will come into a glo-
rious knowing some dayl
The aromatic plant found in
the woods, now in white blossom,
is Sweet Cicely; another, with
finely divided leaf is Yarrow, or
the many-lobed leaves
from a tree are Paper Mulberry
"a good tree for shade. In 1907
there was one standing at the
rear of Martin Bender's place,
the Lutheran church
yard in McConnellsburg plant
I'd by Mr.. Bender. This will suf-
ice for the present; and will
ask my friends to remember to
send good specimens, and to en-
,lose postal card or stamps for
'eply.
|
w. F. HUGHES,
143N. Eighth St.,
Iune 10th. Philadelphia, Pa.