The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-21


much sought for greens.
The lovely laurel or rhodora, of which
we have two varieties, is sometimes
called lamb-kill. Though considered poi
sonous, if carefully handled it is harm
less. Of this family is the mountain
laurel, which grows to the height of
four or FIVE feet in Massachusetts and
is said to resemble the southern mag
nolia
Among the rankly growing vegetation
is the trillium, the red and also white
and rose color, sometimes called by chill
dren benjamin. Next comes our beloved
violet. This is the tiny, shy, white vio-
let, dainty, penciled with black, hiding
in the most obscure places, usually in
damp moss. family fragrant with per-
fume all its own. Then there is the bril-
liant yellow violet, far more rare than
the other violets. But our loved blue
violet is everywhere; sometimes it is
found in sand heap with poor stunted
leaves ard tiny blossoms, then amid con-
genial surroundings with lovely fragrant
purple blossoms borne on long stems with
bright leaves and not surpassed in beauty
by the fairest dollhouse production. The
grown-ups love them and we Sc them IN
the hands of every little child. The
fields and roadside are white or delicate
ly tinted with the dainty little bluets
and with them are great clumps OF
the moose or dog wood its blossoms
resembling garden hydrangea, though
prettier. Far back in the moist shell
tered spots may be found the moccasin
flower or lady's slipper, both pink and
white. This is strain of the orchid
family. There is variety with yellow,
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per in shape, but this kind is rare.
What pleasure to see springing from
a shady cover, John, the Preacher, in his
satin coat, standing within his green and
ebony pulpit, fianked by two or three
grassy green leaves and known as Jack-in
the Pulpit 1t will bear being rudely
/ pulled up by the roots and transplanted to
! cultivation.
June brings wealth of golden butter
cups and fields of white daisies or white
weed Is anything lovelier than such
field? Nothing can surpass its beauty.
! The seeds of the daisy were brought
from Russia by a traveller who admired
the cultivated flowers of that country.
Hated as they are by the farmers, they
form many beautiful wreath or pill
| low to rest on the casket of some loved
one, and grace the wedding of many
/ fair June BRIDE
The lovely blue flag or iris, the flaming
red and yellow lilies, the caraway with
its lacey white blossoms, all add beauty
to the land; red clover, pink or alsike
clover, and white or honeysuckle, dis
| pense heir sweetness and attract the
| gay bees about them Then there is the
| delicate yellow clover, and on the lodges
by the river grow the lovely harebels,
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fragile stems.
BY the brookside one fnds the flaming
cardinal flower, the blue and white hya-
| cinths ano fragile floss flower; the saucy
! black eyed Susans and evening primroses
with pale golden blooms and spicy odor
! Though this is called evening primrose it
blooms as frequently in the morning az
in the evening How lovely are the single
wild roses running riot wherever they
| chance to take root and sending forth
wealth of fragrance with every passing
breeze! The white dragon flower, the
| fringed gentlan, the blue lobelia, pretty
though with pungent and somewhat dis
agreeable odor, cureall or lnonkshood,
/ yellow starwort and St. John swort, also
| the white clemats or virgins bower run
riot in July and August.
Then come predictions of autumn, for
the saying is, 'When goldenro1 blooms,
frost will come in six weeks" And now
the pastures and roadsides glow with
gorgeous beauty and everywhere we see
the wild asters, blue and white, the jewel
weed and fireweed. And the white ever
lasting is ready to stuff our sofa pillows
with its fragrant. globular blossoms and
the graceful bitterroot with its dainty
pink and white bellshaped flowers and
seed pods like great clusters OF darning
needles is in evidence.
l counted between Jay intervals and
the village while riding one day, over
seventy different wild flower. There
were none but the common kinds, to be
seen any day, but the list included every
thing from the rankly growing wild par
snip and hardly milkweed to the small
white daisy and nouse-eared clover.
And so we go down the list to the witch
hazel, which puts forth its pa.e yellow
blossoms on leafless branches, the last
bloom to cheer US before snow flies.
Time and space will permit me to men,
ton but small number of the lovely
things all about US, for there is no flower
however humble, no leaflet ever so
minute, that is not beautiful and marvel
Gus, and does not reveal The wonderful
handiwork of the Great Master Work.
! man.