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lately been cultivated for purposes of garden adorn- 

 ment. 



Mountain Laurel. The mountain laurel is not strictly 

 Kahma laUfoUa. confined to mountain districts; on 

 the contrary, if my experience is like that of others, 

 the most beautiful specimens are oftenest gathered 

 from flat land 

 like that of Long 

 Island and the 

 "Pines" of New 

 Jersey. There 

 does not seem to 

 be any in the 

 PemigewassetYal- 

 ley in the White 

 Mountains ; and 

 the supply on the 

 shores of Squam 

 Lake in the south- 

 ern district of the 

 hills is very lim- 

 ited. Certainly 

 Kalmia latifoUa is the most conventionally beauti- 

 ful wild flower we possess, yet it is rarely if ever 

 a success transplanted to cultivated grounds. Un- 

 less its natural environment is exactly repeated in 

 its new quarters, it invariably pines away and dies. 



Mountain Laurel. 



