Rambling Rivers 



SALT FORK 



In some of the river valleys of Oklahoma, and in Paul's 

 Valley of that country, the green leaves and snow-white 

 waxen beads of the mistletoe show their beauty in mid- 

 winter. In that country the cottonwood seems to be a fa- 

 vorite tree for this lovely parasite. That reminds me that 

 Mr. James Russell Lowell, in writing about the hymn, says it 

 is like the mistletoe, which seldom grows on any tree save the 

 oak. In Oklahoma it grows abundantly on the cottonwood. 



Strolling along the Walnut River in Kansas you will 

 see in the "falling of the year" the beautiful bitter-sweet 

 and the wonderful wahooberry, or burning bush. With the 

 bitter-sweet you are familiar, but the wahooberry is not so 



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