The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-05-18

pasture and COOK tneH. uo noe hho"
that they were ever, in that household,
| stewed. or cooked in a dish, but the
manner of procedure was this; The
tough outer. covering OF the mush-
| room would be carefully peeled off ;
then the mushroom would be turned
bottom side up, butter spread on il,
and II would then be placed on the
hot stove. The butter would melt and
permeate every section of it and, when
POND LILIES
There are three places at Good Will
where the Pond Lilly grows, but in
each case they are there because they
were planted. Between the Maine
Central Railroad and the Kennebec
River there is a small hole. | say
"hole." because it is not large enough
to he called lake or a pond. Just
why il is there is difficult To explain
| there Is no low or marshy ground
about 1t, and 1t might be inferred that
it had been dug for some purpose by
previous generation. The land
around it and close to its borders is
a light sandy loan. Sometime ago
| IWtuly sVui D 1 1ilihh aNA III
! ed a few roots OF the pond lilly and
planted them, or, | tied stones to the
roots with cotton Irvine and threw
them into the center OF the water
| filled hole. This was an experiment,
1 and it proved successful. The niue
ky bottom was apparently rich in
/ plant food. for the lilies thriyed Won
4 derfully, the second year the leaves
took on a size and a luXuriant ap-
pearance quite unlike those in the
place from which the roots had been
taken and the blossoms were twice
! as large as those from which these
! roots had borne in their former en-
i yironment And then after several
years of an almost tropical growth,
something happened. The dam at
Shawmut on the Kennebee was raised
1 several feet 1t might have been
prophesied that, as this hole was not
great distance from the river, the
! water might set back in some hidden
vein and result in higher water for
these planted lilies. But strange to
relate-or it seems strange 10 me
conditions, just the opposite of what
might have been expected followed,
for at no time in the summer since
the raising of the river, has the wa
ter been as deep or the hole as full
as before the change. 1t has seem
cd at times as though the lilies might
become only memory, so dry does the
place become in August. Roots have
been taken from THIS lily bed and
planted after the same manner in two
other places with reasonable success.
| was so interetel in the increase
of the lilies that | made request
that the flowers be lett undisturbed.
4 The second year there were severa!
beautiful blossoms in one Of the new
ly planted areas, and | WIS watching
them with interest. One day the
! flowers all disappeared, the natural
conclusion would be that some Good
Will boy-perhaps a new boy who
! did not understand yielded to
the temptation. The fact was how
ever, that Mr. A. H. Broadway Of
4 brooklyn, " Y. who with his wife
and daughter, were spending few
/ days at "Rest-a- while" in the Good
! VIII Pines. saw them, was surprised
at their size and beauty gathered all
there were, and with many signs of
/ pleasure presented them to his fam
lily at Rest-a-while When | diseov-
cred the unintentional theft, II
seemed to me too good a joke to be
kept from Mr.. Broadways son, viii
liam G.. who is treasurer of the Good
/ viii Home Association, and so com
mitted the facts in the case to him.
4 Thereupon father Broadway bad to
4 submit to a deal of good-naturel guy
| ing from his son and personal friends,
/ with whom he was pleased to share
his amusement over his fathers dis
comflture The good man who had.
unwittinyly brought all the banterinG
4 upon himself determined to make good
and so the following spring he or
! dcred collection of pond lily roots
to be shipped to Good VIII and the
collection included some of other
shades than white. The pink and
! blue lilies. however. are not hardly
enough for this section and only the
robust sort survived the first win
ter The pond lily is a Wild flower.
It belongs to the uncultivated plant
life at Good VIII, but some of the
! blossoms that appear are from native
/ STOCK anu SDulG HUH IOOtS olilppt l
! TO Good Will by New York florist
at Mr.. Broadway's request.
BALTIMORE ORIOLE
Orange and black were Lord Balti-
! more's colors. and after Lord Balti-
more fer that reason, one of the most
! desirable of all summer visitors is
named; and Lord Baltimore's innu-
ence is discoyerable in both the com
mon and s"ientfiic names, and this is
unusual the common name is Balti-
more oriole and by this he seems to
be known everywhere EXCEPT when he
| Is called the "hre-hand brid fire"
becaue of his flaming color scheme,
hang bird because of the way he
| hangs his nest from the tips of branch
es And his scientific name is Icterus
! Baltimore so the Maryland Lord con-
fronts YOU in the nomenclature which
ever way YOU look.
There are usually two or three
pairs of the orioles summering at
Good VIII. we like to think that the
number has increased or will in
crease, but this cannot be proved.