106 SUMMER IN A BOG. 



of tlie vegetables needed on Ms table. Tbe 

 fanner or Ms cMldren may make money on 

 market produce. 



In Stark Coimty and in and around Canton 

 I observed tMs style of farming in successful 

 operation. And tMs brings us back to the 

 reclamation of the bogs and their disappear- 

 ance from the haunts of the botanist. 



Swamps which are irreclaimable by drain- 

 age are, in China, cultivated as "water-gar- 

 dens," producing a succession of valuable food 

 crops from plants especially adapted to aquatic 

 culture. In time the American agriculturist 

 may attain this knowledge, and the useless 

 swamp will become a valuable asset. 



The following extract from a letter from 

 Mrs. Theano W. Case, of Canton, gives insight 

 in a few sentences to a most interesting portion 

 of the State: 



"It is ten years since I went much into the 

 swamps, so it might be misleading to say certain 

 things grow here now, because I do not know that 

 they have escaped the roadways and the vegetable 

 gardens that have nearly annihilated our delightful 

 wild flower gardens. 



"We have the Pitcher-plant; the fringed gentian 

 grew in great quantities on the banks of the stream 

 flowing through Canton; also the closed gentian. 



"We have the Arisaema dracontium (green 



