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. A CAPE MAY CATCH THE $TORY OF A WELL FILLED , GAME-BAG OF SOUTHERN NEW , JERSEY WILD FLOWERS. , (Continued from last week.; , i Bo then 1 searched for the Oounty Superintendent and found him, and when I . told him what 1 wanted he said, "Why, j yes, 1 have a botany,"— and just as 1 was expressing pleasure at the end of l »y search he said— "but now I think of , tt, it it in my office at Cape May Court , Bouse." "How far is that," I asked, and when he . informed me that it was twelve miles, ] I. was in despair and thought 1 would | Aavt to send the flowers without the name after all. 1 was so disappointed,. that the Superintendent ( _ came to my rescue, by saying, , "There is, 1 think, some one here in | town who may . know the name of the , Bowers." So he sent me to you, and you . have a botany, so my quest is ended. How do tell me its name, giving me as ( she spoke, the bunch of white star-like flowers of the S. lanceolata, which she had been holding in her hand, and whose | beauty had sent her on such a tireless search for its name. We had quite a talk about the S. Ian- ( eeolata, the Lady of the Botany and 1We certainly did agree about its tractionsOne might look in many flower books and never see it mentioned, ( as it is unknown in many places. Its | habitat is the Bifie Barrens of New Jersey, the Carolines and Florida, and it , does not grow north of the State. So even if the boy did make good the bribe given him and send the seed, it surely would not grow in Canada. It is curious that when pressed the S. lanceolata turns a brilliant copper color, most all white flowers turning gray and then black Beyond the Button Weed Swamp is another called the Cotton Crass Meadow, a hlossomy place, loved by the Red Wing Blackbird, wide open to sun and sky, a regular sea garden. There is a boggy place in the centre lined with Sphagnum and Club Mosses, around its margin are thickets of Sumach, Wild Roses, Alder, Button Bushes, and Royal Fern. The Polygala Lutea, Polygala Cruciat*, Rexia, Zyris Elata, Pink St John's Wort, and Narrow-leaved Arrow-head Lily and the Rose Pogonia were all flowering in the damp places. But only one fading spike of the Rose Pogonia though, it was blooming here in profusion earlier, it is a beautiful pink orchid. There were many dry stalks of the Colic Root, rising from its perfect rosette of basal leaves and also the seeded spikes of the Skull Cap. The Cotton Grass, is a beautiful grass, a tuft of ivory-white down, a. terminal growth on a long slender stem and with long narrow leaves. It is a typical grass of the autumn but I found one piece of it. It is not supposed to bloom until nearer August. I found the Asclepias Rubra going to seed; H is the only bog is this locality

that I have ever seen it in. It is odd J that though so closely resembling the Asclepias Lanceolata and both with the . same habitat one never finds them in the J , same bog. The Rue swept over the Cotton Grass ^ Meadow in an almost "engulfing tide" earlier in July, but its white felicity is J broken .now by flaring splashes of the red, of the Turks Cap Lily and the Wild Yam t with its deeply veifled leaves, and clusters of three-sided gold-green pods, is twin- 1 j itself around many of its stalks. The Joe"Pye Weed and the Iron Weed are growing tall and the Asclepias Pulcra 1 is showing its pink in many places. In the dryer part of the meadow was a large bush of the Swamp Azalea, with a few raggedy blooms left of all the sweetness that had gone before. Across the road from the Cotton Grass 1 Meadow a -tiny strgpm forces itself nar- | rowly between two cornfields, there cranberries were growing. They are now pale ' 1 balls, and waving above everything else that grows in the run were the oddly shaped blossoms of the Gama Grass. The j Gama Grass is "one of the largest and most remarkable grasses in the Eastern ■ States." The leaves resemble Indian Corn J and the plant has grace of growth that is all its own, growing in tufts, the bios- , ' sofa waving in all directions. It is a i grass that does not carry well. i At the head of the iittle run I found • a superb specimen of the Turk's Cap 1 Lily. It was nearly five feet high, and crowned with many lilies. I loved it, and left it on its stalk, as Emerson tells us to do. There is a ruthless picking of wild flowers around Cape May, ■ by thoughtless people who pick for the pleasure of the moment and then throw ■ ' away. The Cardinal Flower has been • 1 almost exterminated and the Butterfly Pea'entirely so. It is a pity that some ' of the places where the rarer wild flowers grow could not be reserved, esf pceially the bogs where the Snowy Orchis ' and the Lance Leaved Centaury grow. Over at Wild wood, too, it seems as if ■ ■ one marsh at least might be reserved of ' the Rose Mallow, for it grows with unequaled richness there. The Trumpet Flower giows wild here. ! It has a happy habit of not "being a bit ' paricular as to where it shall fling its I luxuriant growth. One sees its tawncji 1 red corollas on the sand dunes climbing the trees around Lake Lily, or as I saw it E this morning, entirely prostrate on the '' cindery ways of the railroad track. The Trumpet Flower has two common > names which are singularly different. '• It is sometimes called the Devil's shoe " String and . again the Humming Bird Vine. And that reminds me of what Dr. John McFarlane, in a lecture to the Botanical Society of the University of e Pennsylvania told us about the Humming Bird. .. * Dr. McFarlane \ said that on a I single vine of the Trumpet Flower at e Cape May Point one day, he had counted 1 seven Humming Birds. "I have never seen e that number before, nor is it on record that any one else ever has on one plant." s- Right here I will mention a flower l' which I forgot to prtt in its proper place b among the plants growing on the salt '* meadows. It is too important a flower to be left out, -one that is a distinctive 'r feature of the flora of the Cape May district, the Mist Flower, o It is quite low in the grass at present, y but grows rapidly with a atrong sturdy

growth, and will soon rise above it floral I affinities. Sometimes it looks blue and again lavender, and is the wild cousin of . the Ageratum of the garden. It is listed to grow hi New Jersey, the Carolines and Virginia only. I have found it in Virginia, but never growing with the . same luxuriance that it does here. The Mist Flower and the purple Gerardia are among the flowers that are cut down when the meadows are cut for 1 hay. The White Fringed Orchis is beginning ( to show its plumes in bog^y places. 1 found a colony of them to-day in the . corner of a field, where evidently the | plough could not go, in close touch with ' potatoes and squashes. Growing there as if they Were tlie ; commonest of weeds, instead of being one of the most exquisite of wild flower*. I always remember the first time I saw- it, I was much impressed, by its delicate beauty and the next day I met Henry ' C. Lea in the meadows of South Cape May. I hastened to tell him about my find, and 1 said, "Oh, Mr. Lea did you ; ever see it growing? Did you ever walk back that far?" , He looked at me a minute and then said: "Yon are young but I am old, and my walks are bounded by just what we see," swinging as he Spoke his cane out over the meadows and bowing gravely. ■ left me. It was the last time I ever sawi him, for it was the last summer the fam- . ous historian ever spent in Cape May. | The Yellow Fringed Orchis is almo«t ! a-kin to the White, but, as its name implies is yellow, a yellow of a rather unusual tone, but charming. I have not found it, nor will 1 to-day, as my walk is over. One of the last treasures of my gain*-- 1 (Continued on page three.) NOTICE OF ADJOURNMENT. Notice is hereby given that the sale | of properties in the Borough of W<-*t [ Cape May, for assessments levied for the construction of curbs and sidewa'kin the said Borough, was adjourned for j two weeks and that the said sale wi!l , be held on Thursday, September 23rd. ; at 2 o'clock p. m., in Borough Hall, j Fourth Avenue, as heretofore adver- j tised. HARRY T. LUDLAM, 593— 9-11 -2t Collector, j 1915 j THE pennsylvania fire INSURANCE COMPANY Incorporated 1825. CHARTER PERPETUAL OFFICE, 508-510 WALNUT ST Philadelphia, Pa. Capital - $750,000.00 Assets - - $8,002,962.21 Surplus - $2,326,053 39 DIRECTORS. Charles H. Barry John L. Thomson R. Dale Benson W. Gardner Crowell j J. Tatnall Lea Edward T. Stotesbury ' Richard M. Cadwalader Edwin N. Benson, Jr. ' Henry L Brown CHARLES H BARRY, President ' JOHN L. THOMSON, Vice President • GARDNER CROWELL, 2d Vice Pres. and Sec'y. HAMPTON L. WARNER, Asst. See'y. J. DAWSON, Sec. Agency. Dept. SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE LOCAL AGENT Merchants National Bank Building, i Oor. Washington and Decatur streets, Cape May, New Jersey. f , W. L. Ewing Jr. WAGON BUILDER AUTOMOBILE PAINTER i • — ; | Large »nd Small Work Carefttll Executed Estimate* Cheerfully Furnished W. L. EWING, JR. Wert Perry SU„ I Keystone Phone

i ' Professional Garde J. SPICEfi BEAMING COUNSELOB-AT-Lt W Solicitor, Master and Examiner in Chancery Offi?e : Hughes and Franklin Sts., Cape May, New Jersey. - SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Merchants National Bank Building ' Washington and Decatur Sta., Cape May, New Jersey ; NOTARY PUBLIC . Solicitor and Master in Chancery. Keystone Phone 35A. 1 HENRY H. ELDREDGE : ATTORNEY-AT-LAW . Solicitor in Chancery for New I i Jersey i Member of Pennsylvania Bar. Cape May, New Jeney. i I JAMES M. E. HILDRETH | COUNSELOR- AT-LAW : Solicitor, Master and Examiner in i Chancery NOTARY PUBLIC Offices at 214 Ocean Street Cape May New Jersey. Keystone Phone 39 A. : 1 iHstaw I Counsellor-at-Law 1 Special Master in Chancery t ■ Supreme Court Commissioner r Notary Public *518 Washington Street, CaDe May, N. J. i, j MORGAN HAND, JR. CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR 1 I Cape May Court House, N. J. 1 Bell Phone 5. s j ' 819 Wesley avenue, Ocean City, N. J. ; Bell Phone 56X. DR. J. H. OLIVER DENTIST 1120 Chestnut Stieet , I Philadelphia,- Pa. (One door above Keith's Theatre) Filling a specialty— from one dollar up. Bridge work, live dollars a tooth. My special plates never rock. No one ) has this method but myself. Wi'l allow you caYfare when you order th» . best teeth. j Bell Phone — Walnut 1JSZ. y j Don't Frown] You do this because you can't see well. Let me test your eyes and give you 6 °f glasses jHvMJIP^g^that will smooth C. A. LONCSTRETH Specialist In Ejt Teetlnj 222 Market Street, Philadelphia r CAPE MAY OPTICAL 513 Washington Street Cape May, N. J. Everything for the Eye. Prescription Lenses a Specialty Keystone Phone 44D. Ware'* Drug Shop (THE REX ALL STORE) Patent Medicines, Drug Sundries, Toilet Goods at Lowest Prioes; Ask to see the Blu. Linjf Rubber Goods, 2 year guarantee; also fresh stock of Pirika, Samoset ar.d Huyler Candies; All Writing Paper and Holiday Goods reduoed Washington and Decatur Street, Decatur and Washington Streets Cape May.

CAPE MAY COAL & ICE CO. I UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT 1 Best quality Coal as all times. .Careful preparation. Guaranteed weight Pure Ice, manufactured from distilled r water. Prompt and courteous service. ; Main Office -5 12 WASHINGTON STREET r v , READING COAL YARDS and < Yard#~PERRY AND JACKSON STRE TS THOMAS S. STEVENS. Bell aid Keystone Telepkties Manager

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