The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-06-15
fBy G. ". HinckleY
rur FRINGED ORCHIDS

IN
ssams as though anyone would
s,s TO tell when and where he
..w the Fringed Orchids; / am
,nly able to do that. but ! can re-
,hs day and the place where |
basty and foolish thing. / had
those beautiful flowers in two or
n,ares at Good Will and admired
Then. one day, | was walking
tho Bowdoln Trail alone; ] came
nlank that makes it possible to
narrow marsh without wetting
.st and, there, close to the plank,
,be most perfect orchid raceme
ever seen. 1t was not a lilly
field" but Solomon in all his
wap not arrayed like IT. In
|ly-I think instinctively, l took
kpy pocket-knife and cut the long
pr stem near the ground; and
|p,t moment | felt, as | fancy men
IOmetimes when they have wan
destroyed the life OF some rare
are and would gladly give the
Iack again were it in their pow
could do nothing with the ra-
after | had cut it. Whence comes
ieslre-the instinct, perhaps to
sh things. At ApplehurN there
haple tree which gives me pecu-
Measure; all naples are alike,
al elms differ from others. but
btple in question Is unusually
rical. point it out to my
5, | show it to them where 1t
B; have never planned 70 have
down and taken to them; Why
b take my friends to the end
plank to show them the priced
instead of cutting the defence
ling down with the ideA that l
take It to someone who Would
it. OF course the chief cause
regret. was that byscptting. that
hk might have prevented the
y of the orchid in that particua
Abn, and | have never seen one
snce. They are found, how
\ several places on Good Wills
YES.
WITCH HAZEL
before one reaches the Murray
rs at the End OF the Trail" =
hwdoin--he passes two or three
IS Of the friendly witch hazel.
Justified in using the word
|dg' in this case. 4
morning ! met John Bush. q
h year old boy who had baeh
|ol VIII but a few weeks,
I'D morning, boy" | said. Good
ing How are YOU getting Af6nE z"
uely'" said John, with a smile
bad a very broadening effect on
hddy c0untenance. II likes ev-
Ny and | guess most everybody
NE
nay be that 1t is on about the
principle that the witch-hazel
at place seems so friendly to
leel very friendly to it. There
place on the Bowdoin Trail
stop as often, except at the
ffden Tablets as | do where the
-hazel or hammemelis grows,
nay-ilower is the first blossoms
spring the witch hazel Is the
hing to bloom in the fail. At
VIII 1t flowers the last Of Octo-
10 some years, the first week in
hoer' ! always like to step, just
what followed the adtumnal
ring or what preparations are
made for the next stage of de-
meht' and | have introduced
friends to It.
one occasion | was ACCOMPANY
number % teachers over the
olh' 1t was the last of October
'ae wlteh-hazel branches were
ia striking object for that sea-
The year, when everything else
'u'oush until winter should come
90, and the witch hazel
Sefelt Of its foliage. l was sur
=" discover that no one In the
!" ADMINISTRATIONS from
separated portions OF the state
~ tel what it was that appeared
80 hopelessly behind all other
, mug trees and shrubs. But
WI more surprised one day later
a'rolIIng over the trail with a
'"o mad spent all his life near
anu forests and in the fields
O'erea that he was skeptical
my statements.
united to the witch-hazel ana told
Sn h'ghly priced those witch
. pusnes and how glad | was that
'"snced to grow just where thew
,ra ne asked me if l got many
,au 'nem, and when | attempt
,o vi, !, MIN that it is the hazel
MI. Tue witch-hazel that bears
,n NUTS he seemed to regard me
s ,rsplcion, am not sure that he
~ s,'aced yet that there is sny dif-
,,. between the witch hasei and
, .ss But the hazel bears the
kr,,so. 'ne witch-hazel fdfHishes
sss sII with its healing Qualities
aus Ih,ns OF the healingi sooth.
sm an',,les of the witch-hasel. i
kha, ueu mat a barber once told
shs,.sv n mat particular day he
m a man who was rs0fesen.
s a. Wholesale druggist Arm
Fun ' eo whether he would have
AIled VI VI wlteh-hazel on mia face
va. Tor s the latter. As tho sr
''a'eller said r''''' the oomAsF'