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dragging up by the roots to which it is ex 

 posed ; but I have found a pair of pocket 

 scissors not inappropriate in gathering it, 

 and would modestly suggest to others the 

 use of such, both for the fringed gentian 

 and the mayflower. 



To my list of plants in blossom must 

 be added the charlock, the common and 

 the French mullein, all found during the 

 past week. But the flowers are rapidly 

 becoming fewer. The asters are scarce and 

 even the wild carrot, which continues so 

 long to adorn the fields and roadsides with 

 its beautiful lace-like blossoms, seems likely 

 ere long to fail us. As the leaves fall, the 

 orange berries of the bitter-sweet, of which 

 we have a profusion, make more and more 

 of a show, especially now that they have 

 opened and exhibit the deeper orange of 

 the ripe seeds within, while the red berries 

 of the black alder gleam in the lowlands 

 with their wonted brilliancy. 



OCTOBER 28, 1893. 



