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WAYFARERS 



excellent keeping quality of its fragrant branches 

 when used to fill the great jars in Summer fire- 

 places, comes from its adhesive gray berries. From 

 these a waxy substance is obtained 

 that in Colonial times was much 

 prized for candle - making 

 and such uses, the plants 

 being one of the few shrubs 

 of sand dunes, growing 

 profusely along the eastern 

 seacoast, where it is still 

 called Candleberry. 



Presently the roadside 

 became shady on the left, 

 while on the right a rocky 

 ledge dropped abruptly to the river. 

 The wooded bank, sloping upward 

 to a crest of Hemlocks and Cotton 

 Poplars, was green with Ground Pine, 

 Laurels, and Christmas Ferns, while 

 at the other side was an irregular 

 line of low shrubs with downy leaves, 

 suggesting both those of the Sugar Maple and 

 Wild Grape, among which were panicles of purple - 

 pink flowers, having the fringed stamens, shape, and 

 quality of small Wild Roses, that named them as 



