Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-19

While looking over list of Wild flowers collected by Woodstock chil- species. the old questions come up Whats in name? and Would rose by any other name smell as sweetE The very Idea of flowers at first Eug- xests lovely forms, glorious solers. sas lows flowers should all have fine names like rose, lily, violet. bluebell and honeysuckle, and the scientific nomenclature, it would seem, should be as sweetly appropriate as Nym- fl we were only to see the following list of popular names in common use, we might think that Natures garden was Q riot of grotesque. bad smelling, Skull Cap. Dead Mans Fingers. Dsad-
 y Nightshade, Poison Dogwood. Poison Ivy. Skunk Cabbage, Rattle snake Plantain, Rattlesnake Weed, vipers Bugloss. Adder's Tongue, Snake Mouth. Snake Head, Snake Mullein, FIeabane, Dogbane, Toad Flax, Ragwort, Ragged Robin. Starved Aster. Poor Mans Weather-Glass, Catgut, Carrfon Flower, Devils Paint Brush. Dutchman's Pipe. Dutchman's Brooches. Skin Leaf. Green Dragon, Crowfoot, Bull Thistle. Bull Brier, Hog Peanut, Pigweed. Sow's Ear. Lamb Kill. sF'rostweed, Mud Plantain, Cancer Root. Pleurisy Plant, Feverfew. Ague Weed, Colic Root. Garget. Bittersweet. Bitter Buttons. Beard Mouth, Loosestrife. Sheep Poison. Brook Lime, Broom Rape. Rosin Weed. Ill-smelling Wake Robin Stinkweed. Rams Head Lady's Slip per, Poke Milkweed, Smartweed, Rat tlebox, Common Dodder, Iron Wood, Hard Hack. Wait-a-Bit, Spotted Touch -Me-NoE
 The Yellow. Lady's Slipper, we transplanted in congenial soil and shade four years ago. had twenty three blossoms in one plot and thir- teen in another. from which we pick ed but two thus insuring under pro- lection continued bloom in future
 seasons. They are called moccasins from fancied resemblance. But did
 you ever pull off a purple cypripedim,
 remove the base, invert, and behold a duck even to the eyes? There are hundreds of ladys slippers growing in
 a restricted patch of burned-over pine
 sprout- land not far from Woodstock.
 A coral or trumpet honeysucl<Ie,
 transplanted from Mohegan park to a
 Broadway garden, blossomed about
 seven years. which is the limit of most
 wild flowers under cultivation. There
 is a shady nook near Village Corners
 in North Woodstock where this pretty
 creeper is widely rooted, and many
 roots have been transplanted to back
 door trellises. I brought two bushels
 of water-lily bulbs from pond in
 Centre Groton, tied stones to them,
 threw them into Noank ice-pond and
 the next year got four lilies, the sec
 ond season forty. the third year four
 hundred, and now there are thousands
 of lilies peerless in size and tint.
 There is no overflow to this pond
 which is wholly surrounded by trees,
 with six inches of dentritus from rot
 ten leaves on the bottom, which &C., counts for the long lilies and the bullpouts which are brown -meated and unfit for the table.
 The marsh maIlow bed on Groton Long Point has been torn up by the
 Improvements" and large sections of the marsh rosemary and sandfire shoveled away. These three plants are carried away by up-country chill | dren for analysis and they take beach
 barberry, dogberry, the large shore
 goldenrod sweet brier, pink haw- thorn, and the yellow prickly pear blossoms. which we also find on Mamecoke and Bargy Ledges. Part of the point on the Haley and Abby 1 was the best mushroom ground In Groton.
 The wise grey squirrel that made | free with out tent-fare last season has called at the new camp to see if we had again left him the key to our | lardcr. From our tent door we can see kingbirds skimming the clover | tops below us for mosquitoes just az | they skim the surface of Mohegan lake | for skeeters and money-bugs. The snapply hunting -dashes of these fly l catchers reminds me of the far-away | days when an Amos Lake farmer stationed me inside his open kitchen | window with a musket loaded with slugs and wadded with hornets nests f to shoot the ''bee martins that were | catching honey-bees at the garden | hives. A new sight from our tent door is 8 cock pheasant leading his l sitting mate to nice feeding patches i and then fescorting her back to heI | nest with coaxing repetitions of his | bantam-ike crow. We can keep the ! dogs from these eggs, but may not | continue to keep away the crows, who are already on the trail; just as wt have seen crows follow hen-turkeys 1 to their stolen nests in the LedyarC and North Stonington woods-yes, and once at the Lillibridge woods In tho l town of Norwich. Crows are silent and cunning sleuths at this business