Wild flowers and where they grow . itter-sweet. The latter keeps close to ahollow by the side of the railroad, and is scorched every fewyears in the attempt to burn out the shrubbery which is inclinedto encroach on that highway of the locomotive. At last, beingwarned, it has wandered under a fence, and by winding andclambering, as its way is, has managed to lose itself in somescrasgy trees till the orange berries betray it in autumn. Another rarity is the mountain laurel or broad-leaved kalmia,the clamoun of the Indians. Calico-bush is another name,and spoon-wood, which, with the ingenuity cha
Wild flowers and where they grow . itter-sweet. The latter keeps close to ahollow by the side of the railroad, and is scorched every fewyears in the attempt to burn out the shrubbery which is inclinedto encroach on that highway of the locomotive. At last, beingwarned, it has wandered under a fence, and by winding andclambering, as its way is, has managed to lose itself in somescrasgy trees till the orange berries betray it in autumn. Another rarity is the mountain laurel or broad-leaved kalmia,the clamoun of the Indians. Calico-bush is another name,and spoon-wood, which, with the ingenuity characteristic ofsome people, has been made over so that it would not know itselfinto spoon-hunch. This laurel is a native of mountain regions,as may be inferred, and may be found all the way from Canadato Florida, from Maine to Ohio. Why, then, does not it growplentifully for us? Mr. Emerson, in his book on the trees andshrubs of Massachusetts, speaks of a pasture where it makessuch islets of bloom crowned with white or rose-colored. THE SWAMP. —CATKINS, CATERPILLARS. TRAILING ARBUTUS. 21 flowers, that it is a sight worth going out of ones way tosee. It is a shrub which has roving kind of roots, yet it keepspretty much to the same area in this one spot, when there isnothing in the loose soil to hinder its spreading. The questionis, how came it just there, instead of being in any other sandyground beside the road ? And being there, the next questionis, why does not it run along into the adjacent territory ? Whyshould not there be laurel in all similar places as well ? TRAILING ARBUTUS. This darling of the spring is notoriously and provokinglyuncertain in what botanists call its habitats, There are sec-tions of country where it is not to be found, and where itcannot be made to live; and the curious part is, that thereseems no reason for its likes and dislikes, for to all humanappearance the conditions are about the same where it isand where it is not. It is not on account o
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