Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-07-28
Did Fashioned Wild F10wers
Glorious Array Of Beauty

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versed the progress. and she now has Sc
cured a foothold in and is fighting for the
conquest of the fields of Europe.
Among the truly wild flowers, TIVE
that ask of man to be let alone In their
native Businesses, are the mayfower, or
trailing arbutus, and the W berry. or
partridge berry, the last named q mem
Der of the madden family, and a distant
relative of the coffee tree. The may
flower is widest and shyest of all. Ne
more Is the eagle at home In the farm
yard or the cardinal in the cage than the
mayfiower in the garden. AS the imprls-
oned cardinal pines away and dies when
the gilded bars of a bird cage separate 1t
from it's liberty, so the mayflower sickens
and withers away in the garden.
Natures lnsectcide.
1.-THE moth mullen for nan years has
been q rural mothball. 1t is a member OF
the figwort family. Among it's relatives
are the great mullen, the blue toadfax.
the small snapdragon. the turtlehead, the
b~eardtongue, the monkey flower. the louise
wort, and the cow wheat. The country
dwelling housewife uses it's leaves In
packing away wooden garments of winter
to keep out the tiny cloth moths of SUM
mer. 1t is also believed to be a bane to
cockroaches.
THE show lady's slipper. a shy member
of the orchid family, Towering from June
to September, never seeks haunts OF man.
but tries to remove itself as far from their
comings and goingS as 1t can, and 1t sue
ceeds so we'll that only the w lover
who is willing to take pains can approach
it's dwelling place. Moreover, 1t Is SO per-
sistent in its efforts to be let alone that
1t has come to have tiny g%landular hairs
which contain an Oil that is somewhat poi
sonous to the human skin, and 1t Is said
that a number of cases of dermatitis have
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carry it in triumph out of the woods.
Gods Choicest Berry.
Speaking of the beautiful lowered,
toothsome fruited wild strawberry. Izaak
Walton, the patient fisherman. is said to
have declared: Doubtless God could a
made a better berry, blu doubtless he new
er did, And those who have tasted the
wild strawberry will agree that cultivation
has added nothing to it's flavor, however
1t may have increased the size. The duke
of Gloucester, who became Richard Ill.
had a weakness for the wild strawberry.
1t is said that in 1883, as certain great
lords were sitting in council arranging for
his coronation, the duke came in and 'sa-
luting courteouslie, said to the bishop of
Ely, my lord, you have verie good straw
! berries in your garden at Holbonne; l re-
quire you to let me have a mess of Them
1T is when the sun goes to bed that the
evening primrose's morning dawns. 1t is
one of the denizens of the great white way
of the flower city. waking while the world
sleeps and sleeping while the world wakes.
| At the approach of evening 1t decks itself
in yellow and white, perfumes itself with
the most seductive Of sweet smelling Cd
ors. and prepares to welcome the sphinx
moths that came to tarry and to sip its
sweetness through the long. silent night.
Gay Life But a Short One.
lone night of revelry is enough for a
flower Of 'milady primrose for when
morning dawns The corolla willis. hangs
awhile and then drops away. She pays
dearly for her night of dissipation.
"No flower of the field or forest can sur
vive long unless 1t learns to adjust itself
to it's environment. It is only the culti-
waited plant that can not do this. Years
of reliance upon man to fight It's battles
J for it have taken from the cultivated
plant all ability to fight its own battle
of existence. Whoever heard of lettuce
being able to flourish outside Of the gar
len? Or the bean? Or the beet? Or the
cabbage? Their resourcefulness has been
bred out of them and they must a v their
homes prepared for them. Not so with
weed n wild flower. With no hand to
help them. they fight their own battle for
the survival Of the fttest with their own
generalship and their own forces"