Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-04
EVENING Chat


terday make the call of the flowers
pretty strong and thousands of people
OF this part of Pennsylvania spent
hours admiring the blossoms in the
yards of the cities and towns and
walking along country roads or into
mountains and valleys. Nature is sing
ing now and the flowers of every hue
are the notes which tell that it is
Spring throughout the Susquehanna
Valley and that the time for visiting
Wildwood Park and the First Noun
tain is at hand. For weeks arbutus
has been in the markets, having come
with the dandelion but now the violet
1fult trees are gorgeous with their
mowers OF white, pink and that reddish
tint, which we hail, apple blossom. 1t
is really worth while now to take an
hour or so in the early evening to go
on one of the trolley lines radiating
from the city to get the air of the open
country and to see the splendor of the
pledges of fruitfulness which are to be
found by the thousands throughout
this part of Dauphin county and which
can be seen from the city Frightening
the landscape of Cumberland and York
counties and even distinguished in
Perry county from the heights of
Reservoir Hill or the slopes of the
Susquehanna Water Gap. The people
who took walks into the country came
back yesterday with their hands laden
with violets and. it must be confessed
with some branches of Towering ap-
pie, pear, plum or peach trees. But
no one begrudged them. The season is
late ana everyone is glad to see the
flowers.
While some of the gardens in Har-
rlsburg which have been notable for
years for their displays of tulips and
other early flowers are brilliant with
the colors of the great bloom of Spring
time, Capitol Park is really the great
snow place. In front of the building,
skirting the plaza, are two beds of
tulps, an aggregate of about 400 feet
OF blooming tulips. They are in six
sections, red, white and the gay red
ana gold of one of the varieties which
mas won such favor in this country.
The colors alternate and the Capitol
oihclals are taking big pride in the
display. In addition the several hya-
cinth beds are now bright with flowers
and walk through the Capitol will
repay the busy man, just as will a
stroll through Reservoir or Wildwood
Parks reward the man or woman with
more leisure.
school students took advantage of
the fine weather ON Saturday after
noon to 90 'botanizing." No doubt
there was d good bit of attention paid
TO the flora of such sections of Dau-
ph1n and Cumberland counties as were
visited by the groups of students, but
me boys and girls seemed to be as
Slad OF the opportunity to get out into
the open after the long weeks of the
deferred Spring as to trace the de-
velopment of the humble Johnny
Jumpup' or to dissect the blossom of
a sour apple tree. Probably to-day
there was good bit of learned discus
sion of various leaves and flowers dis
covered on the foothills and inquiries
ABOUT the soldier blackbird and the
hapltS OF the song sparrow in the
schools OF the city, and it is to be sin
cerely hoped that next Saturday will
be fine so that the study of nature at
ilrst hand and in the flower tide may
be pushed. 1t is good practical edu-
catlon and the teachers maintain
school spirit amazingly by excursions
On only commences to find out how
many fruit trees there are in a citv
IKE Harrisburg at this season of the
ChSiiS IlStS, RESEMBLING glgan-
TIC blooms of SNOWFALL bushes. are to
De seen rising from many of the Yards
OF the city and the delicate color of
the peach trees is to be spotted" by
the younger generation. Really, when
one thinks Of it it is astonishing the
number of fruit trees in the built-up
portions of Harrisburg and Towering
frult trees are to be found in unsus-
pected number within a few blocks of
the Courthouse and how apricots grow
not lar from one of the chief theaters
and man in one of the central resi-
dentlal districts cultivates strawber-
rles, which, by the way, are blooming
now.
Magnolia trees throughout Harris
purg are adding to the attractiveness
OF natures display and there is moth
ing more attractive for a lawn. The
wonder is that there are not trees of
thls notable beauty in the parks. Some
OF the magnolias are well known, one
being on the Reilly property at Front
and Reilly. Although fifty years of
age, 1t is covered with blooms, and is
perhaps the finest of the variety in
Harrisburg and the country round
about.
we'll KNOWN PEOPLE