ROODED WARBLER. 
Sylvania mitrata NUTTALL. 
Pirate XIV. Fic. 4.- 
Als;HE FORESTS and swamps of the South Atlantic and Middle States and of 
a southern New England are in the months of May and June incomparably 
beautiful. The great variety of trees and shrubs, the many species of ferns, among them 
the delicate form of the ebony-stemmed maiden-hair fern, the remarkable diversity of 
tender flowers, which cover the ground in great luxuriance, are such as to engender 
enthusiasm in any lover of nature. Early in April the trailing arbutus, often hidden 
among the old forest leaves, opens its deliciously sweet-scented rosy flower clusters. 
This floral beauty, dear to every American heart, should be carefully preserved wherever 
it yet grows. There are many other charming shrubs and flowers found in this region. 
The sweet-scented shrub', the purple flowers of which exhale a very delicious 
fragrance, grows in many places in great luxuriance. The rich foliage and the bark of 
this shrub is also very aromatic. The fringe-tree’, the stuartia’, the snow-drop tree‘, 
and many pretty shrubs and vines arrest our attention. The swamp magnolia® which 
grows in profusion wherever the soil consists of a moist and rich black mould, emits 
from its waxy-white flower cups such a delicious fragrance that we can perceive it from 
a considerable distance. Especially charming are the places where azaleas and kalmias 
abound, as is often the case in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, in Virginia, Maryland, 
Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, and in Connecticut. The soil in which these 
beautiful members of the family of Ericacez grow is usually sandy, mixed with peat 
and vegetable mud. They grow in moist localities where the roots will never 
suffer from drouth. The orange-colored flowers of the flamy pinxter or flame-colored 
azalea®, a shrub attaining the height of about ten feet, convert entire mountain-sides 
and swamps into a mass of gorgeous color. This is rather a southern species, occurring 
from Pennsylvania southward. The clammy azalea or white swamp honey-suckle’ and 
the purple azalea or pinxter-flower®, which make up in rich fragrance what they may 
lack in bright hues, are common in swampy localities from Massachusetts southward. 
The beautiful great laurel® also abounds in such places. Andromedas, clethras, and, in 
some places, rhodoras and other members of the heath families grow in the same loca- 
lities. Large areas of the dark ground of the forest are covered with thickets of the 
exceedingly charming kalmia or mountain laurel, popularly known as calico-bush, the 
‘ profuse, large, and very showy flowers of which vary from deep rose-color to nearly 
white and are beautifully frilled. These broad-leaved evergreens are by their foliage alone 
very ornamental, but when they open their rosy flower-bells, the effect is truly enchant- 
ing. Several other azaleas, jungles of rhododendrons and kalmias, different andromedas 
and many other highly interesting shrubs are found from the mountain forests of 
1 Calycanthus floridus. *% Chionanthus Virginica. 2 Stuartia Virginica. 4 Halesia tetraptera. § Magnolia glauca. 
6 Azalea calendulacea. 7 A. viscosa. 8 A. nudiflora. 9 Rhododendron maximum. 
