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restrained from picking the flowers and especially from digging 
out these plants every spring, it is very probable that in a short 
time this lovely Japanese species will have spread even farther 
up and down the valley. It makes a very handsome addition to 
our naturalized flora. 
In one place a considerable colony of Dame’s Rocket (Hes- 
peris matronalis) was discovered, apparently escaped and natural- 
ized from a garden which had existed near there many years ago, 
but of which hardly any other traces are at present discernible. 
Phlox paniculata has been found in a great many localities both 
in the valley itself and along the edges of the woods on both 
mountains. Half way up the eastern slope of the Second Moun- 
tain where the old tumble-down remains of a stone wall are prac- 
tically the only relics of what used to be an isolated hermitage in 
the woods, that good old-fashioned favorite, the Periwinkle (Vinca 
minor), has spread and is flourishing, attempting to hide with its 
dark shiny-green leaves and handsome blue flowers the desolation 
which lies about it. The Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium) and 
Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) are, of course, abun- 
dant everywhere. 
A strange, typically southern form of Coreopsis grandiflora 
is rapidly spreading through the fields in a number of localities, 
and a near relative, C. tinctoria, is occasionally found escaped on 
waste ground and trash piles. Polygonum zuccarinii has estab- 
lished itself firmly in several spots and is spreading. Its ex 
tremely dense and abundant masses of white flowers every sum- 
mer make it a gorgeous sight. Spiraea billiardii, though nowhere 
in all the valley to be found in cultivation, as far as I am aware, 
has been discovered along a ditch in one locality, probably as the 
persistent escape of a very old garden somewhere near by. It's 
not, however, thriving and the indications seem to be that it 
will soon be choked out of existence by the coarser native vegeta- 
tion all around it. The differences in stems, leaves, and flower- 
clusters between this species and the native S. tomentosa, which 
every year makes a grand display in the moist meadows close by, 
are very noticeable to the close observer and extremely interesting. 
Anot er very interesting discovery was that of a colony of 
Achillea asplenifolia growing in a moist field alongside of Valley 
Road. Itis quite abundant in this one particular spot and is grow- 
ing in company with a large colony of A. millefolium. No one in 
