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Entered as Second-Class Matter June 12, 1909, at Sound Beach Post Office, under Act of March 3, 1897. 



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JUNE, 1917 



Number 1 



In the June Woods. 



BY WILLIAM B. HOOT, ROCHESTER, X. Y. 



This is the time of the year when one 

 loves to get out into the open, to steal 

 away into the fields and woods, to re- 

 lax from the strain of a busy career, to 

 get down among the wild flowers, the 

 blossoming shrubs or to listen to the 

 smig of a wild bird, all of which is 

 healthful, restful and invigorating, but, 

 if we do not know those wild flowers, 

 those blossoming shrubs or that bird 

 that is furnishing us entertainment 

 with its sweet song we are still missing 

 much that might contribute to our en- 

 joyment. 



Last June a friend of mine and 1 

 went to what is known as the Zurich 

 swamp. It is located in Wayne county 

 in the state of New York. It is one of 

 those secluded haunts where Nature 

 loves to display many of her most pre- 

 cious jewels, for in these days of ruth- 

 less hunting, when many a person will 

 pull up every flower of a species, often 

 taking roots and all, as so many of them 

 do, even with the trailing arbutus, and 

 then, if they begin to wilt before they 

 <jet home, throw them away, indeed. 

 Nature must, if she wishes to preserve 

 some of her most precious gems, hide 

 them away in secret places where only 

 the few are able to penetrate. 



We had a young lad with us who 



acted as our guide. He said he was 

 going to take us to the island first. 

 Here we were charmed by those famil- 

 iar notes of the sweetest and dearest 

 of all our birds, the black capped chick- 



CLUSTERS OF THE PINK LADY'S-SLIPPER. 



adee, while farther away the island 

 was musical with the flute-like song of 

 the wood thrush. Under foot we trod 

 upon the vines of the partridge berry 

 loaded with their beautiful red fruit, 

 fairly making rugs of red and green 



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