160 AUTUMN NOTES IN IOWA 



maple branches, with tall cattails, served as dining-room 

 decorations in a Hood River hotel. Two days later, 

 from our Pullman window we saw lines of bright colored 

 shrubbery running up the ravines in the bleak hills of 

 southern Idaho, and the next day looked out upon snow- 

 covered hills in southern Wyoming. 



4. Anderson says the western meadowlark never sings 

 in Iowa after the first of September, and that the eastern 

 remains into November — some occasionally throughout 

 the \^dnter. There is poetic propriety in the fact that 

 the autumnal song, that of the ''melancholy days," is 

 the thin-voiced, pathetic melody of the eastern variety. 



5. A note for the campus at Lawrence records golden- 

 rod bloom on November seventeenth, in 1910. The fol- 

 lowing Thanksgiving Day, the writer picked a bouquet 

 of bright, fresh, violet-tinted asters at Excelsior Springs, 

 Missouri. 



6. Toward the end of September, 1910, a friend re- 

 ported seeing the monarch host at Lawrence, Kansas, 

 and about the same time the Kansas City Star contained 

 an article on the migration. 



7. The cicadas can be heard at Lawrence, some years, 

 well into October, and occasionally into November. 



8. I have found Grindelia in bloom at Leavenworth 

 in mid-September, at Topeka, on the Washburn College 

 campus, October fifth, and at Manhattan on October 

 twentieth. Miss Cooper's Rural Hours contains an in- 

 teresting passage of some half dozen pages on the Latin 

 and English names of our American flowers. She 



