42 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



Dr. Droune established several squares bordered by box- 

 wood in double lines which formed verdant paths about the 

 garden. While large numbers of herbaceous plants have 

 totally disappeared others still linger like "the sweet remem- 

 brance of the just." Tawny lilies (Hemerocallis fidva) sur- 

 vive, while every where black cohosh (Ciinicifuga raceinosa) 

 lifts its spires often exceeding a man's height. The little 

 money {Lysimachia numularia) "goes a long ways" and 

 spreads all over the grounds gay with its yellow pointed stars. 

 Here violets, now mostly wild natives, run riot in the spring 

 and here one notes the pretty Coronilla varia, beds of mallow, 

 and whole umbrella-tented armies of mandrake {Podophyl- 

 lum). The familiar periwinkle, wrongly called myrtle, 

 spreads even into the woods and one notes two or three speci- 

 mens of dragon arum {Arisaema dracontiitm) . 



But what one sees in the garden here is not so interesting 

 as what he finds in the woods. A friend of the writer, has 

 said she is ever impressively affected at Mt. Hygeia by "the 

 resistless onrush of Nature." A hundred years have undone 

 about all that twenty years produced. The forest has re- 

 claimed its own. One feels as if he stood upon an island some 

 acres in extent against which beats, not ocean's surge, but a 

 tumultuous crested tide of all embracing plant waves. 



One's genial guide, the grandson of the founder who 

 sleeps on yonder hillside, points out that there, perhaps, stood 

 the orchard. Within a low fence one is shown where stood 

 until within a very few years the original and parent "Rhode 

 Island greening." Though it is gone the ground is still held 

 sacred. You detect some scattered apple, pear and plum trees 

 but the actual possessors of the ground are the forest mon- 

 archs, a giant sassafras, an old hollow chestnut, within whose 

 hollowed bole eleven persons have gathered, noble hemlocks, 

 and spruce, lindens, oaks, maples and hickories. Even now, 



