Connecticut western news., 1914-03-12
THE CORNWALL FLORA
Interesting Data Concerning the Flow CTS of Rough Town"

combination of mountain and valley give Cornwall an exceptionally diversified flora. In a sheltered place have picked plants killed by frost in mid-June. Only such are here mentioned as are characteristic of the town, either by their abundance or their mere existence in the place.
 The Spreading Globe Flower, (Trollius taxus) with pale greenish. yellow blos- soms grows at the foot of Dream Hill. but is only noteworthy for its rarity. It has been said to grow nowhere else in the state but Cornwall botanists have found it in Falls Village.
 The common Barberry, (Berberis vul- garis) is abnndanU on Dibble Hill and is of interest from the sensitiveness of Its stamens, its autumnal beauty and-to housekeepers-for its fruit.
 The Towering Rosberry, (Rubus odoratus) blooms rather showily along the hill roads, and the Red Raspberry. R. strigorus) is common.
 The Hawthorns abound, not only the usual one, (Urataegus coccinea) but there are three that are comparatively rare, co. glancophylla, O. na pala and O.. pringlei.) in our neglected pastures.
 Cultivated members of the Rose fam. fly also thrive here. The soil of the hills is peculiarly fitted for apple culture. Only in I844 have spring frosts entirely prevented a crop and once since then seriously reduced the yield. Pears also find clay enough on the hills, and plums, peaches and cherries flourish there witness "Cherry Hill" For these the valleys ars less favorable, but they seem peculiarly suited to the Wild Cherry. | (Padus serotina) which sometimes adds an inch yearly to it's diameter and at tains large size. A row of these trees, five feet through, used to stand south of the Cemetery Hill road west of the West Cornwall road. Their wood is said to be so hard to work, perhaps from the rspidIty of their growth. that it com- mands less than the usual price.
 The Climbing BIttersweet. (Celastrus scandens) is found in scrubby thiokets along the road sides.
 The Twin-hower, (Limaea Corealis) diffuses it's delicate aud enduring fra grance in few other towns of Connecti. cut.
 White Partridge Berries. (Michella repensl by the Natural History Survey are credited to Canaan instead of Corn. wall.
 Sugar Naples, (Acer Saceharinns) is common on the hillsidos and considera. ble sugar is made from it on some farms. Our hills are we'll adapted to display its autumnal foliage aud are as brilliant as the eastern shores of Japan. A large maple on the east side of the Green marks where the former church edifice stood, for it grew beside the spire which it has out lived three-fourth of century.
 The Locust, (Robinla pseudacaoia) like lilacs, tansy and yellow lilies, often marks the neighborhood of departed dwellings and some are of large size. MT. Gold published photograph of a group at the center and there are large ones especially in front of MT. John P. Winchell's.
 Shrubby Cinque-foil, (Potentilla fruticosa) is the plague of Cornwall pastures, Probably none except it's Creator can see any beauty In it's scrag- gly and unthrifty, half dead looking bush with scattered blossoms, covering the fields and preventing other growth. It is popularly mis-called "Hardhack |" There also occur the rarest P. tridenta and P. recta.
 Wild Lettace. Oactuca elongatal grows to great height for an annual in the edge of thickets.
 Trailing Arbutus, (Epigaea repens) Whose roots cling fast as faithfulness {; Leaves, evergreen as truth, Half hide its flower of modesty,
 Rosy as dreams of youth.
 is yet abundant on the mountains, but grows less so from the multitude that gather 1t every spring and ln spite of the law passed for its protection, tear up It's roots.
 The pink "Honeysuckle," so called, (Azalea arborescens) glorifies the rocky hillsides with masses of bloom. The White Azalea, (Azalea viscosa) is rarely found.
 The Great Laurel, (Rhododeudron maximum) is found in East Cornwall. It IS large and showy hut not common.
 The Cardinal flower, (Lobelia cardi- nalis) occurs in moist grounds. "Deep-dyed CobeIia, gorgeous as bride Of Ind, and firing with her torch, the
 gloom
 Of alder or other growth of dark, dull
 leaf"
 The Fringed Gentian, (Gentiana crinita) also is found in damp meadows.
 Mountain Laurel and "Ivy." (Kalmia latifolia) covers June pastures with rosy splendor or grows pale in the hillside yunodc