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me to believe that the seed must be planted while fresh and this 
has been proven by trials. 
From this planting of some fifteen years ago have been taken 
suitable for the growth of the Fringed Gentian. The plants 
have thrived and spread until in the a n of 1921 hundreds 
of plants were to be found. The gentians are now most n- 
t at a distance of about 25 feet from the brook over rather 
moist land part formerly used for gardening purposes. The 
plants have spread down stream fro er 
sown an re also now found over rather dry knolls some 
25 feet above the level of the brook and to some distance 
from it. 
Some of the earlier sowings were made along the brook, 
beyond the “Swimming Pool’ near Pleasantville and after the 
Danbury, Co 
n River, and in many of these places it is now estab- 
The result of one sowing is of particular interest. About 
1914 seed was scattered in a grassy meadow that is mowed each 
e 
carefully in a long, tight, paper box, like a shoe-box, and remove 
the worm that will probably be found among the seed. The 
