The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . s forced to note,even though without sentiment, the rich pageant oftransitory wild bloom that will force a passage foritself over the landscape: firmaments of golden dan-delions in the lawns; vast beds of violets, gray andblue, in dim glades; patches of flaunting sunflowersalong the road-sides; purple thistles; and, of deeperpurple still and far denser growth, beautiful iron-weed in the woods; with many clumps of. alderbloom, and fast-extending patches of perennial black-berry, and groups of delicate May-apples, and wholefields
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . s forced to note,even though without sentiment, the rich pageant oftransitory wild bloom that will force a passage foritself over the landscape: firmaments of golden dan-delions in the lawns; vast beds of violets, gray andblue, in dim glades; patches of flaunting sunflowersalong the road-sides; purple thistles; and, of deeperpurple still and far denser growth, beautiful iron-weed in the woods; with many clumps of. alderbloom, and fast-extending patches of perennial black-berry, and groups of delicate May-apples, and wholefields of dog-fennel and golden-rod. And why men-tion indomitable dock and gigantic poke, burrs andplenteous nightshade, and mullein and plantain, withdusty gray-green ragweed and thrifty fox-tail ?—aninnumerable company. Maize, pumpkins, and beans grow together in afield—a triple crop. Nature perfects them all, yetmust do more. Scarce have the ploughs left thefurrows before there springs up a varied wild growth,and a fourth crop, morning-glories, festoon the tall. THE BLUE-GRASS REGION 23 tassels of the Indian corn ere the knife can be laidagainst the stalk. Harvest fields usually have theirstubble well hidden by a rich, deep aftermath. Gar-den patches, for all that hoe and rake can do, com-monly look at last like spots given over to weedsand grasses. Sidewalks quickly lose their would soon disappear from sight; thewinding of a distant stream through the fields canbe readily followed by the line of vegetation thatrushes there to fight for life, from the minutest creep-ing vines to forest trees. Every neglected fencecorner becomes an area for a fresh colony. Leaveone of these sweet, humanized woodland pasturesalone for a short period of years, it runs wild with adense young natural forest; vines shoot up to thetops of the tallest trees, and then tumble over ingreen sprays on the heads of others. A kind, true, patient, self-helpful soil if ever therewas one! Some
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