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breezes. The flowers are fragrant and the fruit is relished by 
birds, which fact, again, probably accounts for its rapid naturaliza- 
tion. 
Along the peaceful little brooklet which flows through Wash- 
ington Valley and later joins the Green Brook which divides 
Somerset from Union County, were found several large bushes of 
Deutzia scabra. This species is extensively cultivated in the valley 
and very often persists a long time after cultivation. But the two 
bushes to which reference is here made were completely wild. 
They bloom profusely every year, although the stems are not quite 
as densely flowered nor the bushes as well shaped as in the cul- 
tivated plants from which they originated. The same species was 
observed many years ago by the writer growing in a wild state 
ina very desolate portion of Center County, Pennsylvania. 
Three species of privet were found as escapes. Ligustrum 
vulgare and L. ovalifolium were found abundantly persistent after 
cultivation, with a marked tendency to spread, especially in hedges 
and along old tumble-down fences and roadsides. L. ibota, a very 
recent addition to the cultivated flora of this region, was found 
a number of times as a waif along the roadside, often half a mile 
or more removed from the nearest cultivated plant of the same 
species. Several plants were likewise found in the woods on the 
First Mountain. Again, the distribution of this species can be 
directly traced to winter birds which feed on its fleshy fruits. 
One of the most interesting of all these finds, however, was the 
discovery of the very extensive naturalization of Azalea japonica 
in one section of the valley. Arising apparently from a dozen 
Plants of this species set out twenty years ago in a nearby garden, 
the species has spread with prodigious rapidity. It is now to be 
found throughout the fields and meadows, pastures and evergreen 
woods on both the eastern slope of the Second Mountain and the 
Western slope of the First Mountain, and even in some places ex- 
tends up into the woods a slight distance on both sides of the 
Valley. It seems to have found its most suitable location, however, 
Dae dry, open, sunny fields and at the very edge of the woods 
here . stem Slope of the First Mountain. In May the fields 
© are resplendent with the gorgeous blooms of this species, 
Which vary from yellow and orange to pink, salmon, and red. 
a Pinis do not grow more than about 24 or 30 inches tall and 
Owering stems are practically leafless. If vandals can be 
