WAYFARERS 



color in a paler tone into the distance, completing 

 the color harmony of the picture. 



Such vistas are to be looked at and remembered, 

 but they cannot be counterfeited by the hand of 

 man. The Magician only can combine the detail 

 and broad effect that makes them what they are. 



In September the purple stalks and odd green 

 leaves of the White Wild Lettuce will have replaced 

 the Flowering Raspberry in the Glen, and along 

 the rocky side of the highway, 

 when the Sumacs will become 

 prominent as wayfarers. These 

 are more or less conspicuous all 

 the year, four types being locally 

 plentiful the Poison Sumac of 



moist grounds, with the 



--^^. 



white, drooping berries, and 



the Staghorn, Smooth Upland and 

 Scarlet Sumacs of light wood 

 edges and dry hillsides. 



These three last are also at- 

 tractive in early Summer, from 

 the brightness of their foliage and 

 the feathery yellow -green of the 

 flower - spikes ; but when the 

 berry -cones redden they seem to step 



