EGliterieil. 
All who love nature can but deplore the vast ignor- 
ance of the decorative features of our native flora, that 
characterizes those in charge of our avenues of travel, the 
wagon roads and railways. Alan has no sooner laid out 
a road through a countrv district than nature begins to 
decorate it with a multitude of vines and flowers. The 
ugly scars left bvplow and scraper are covered with lilies, 
boneset, J(K>-pyc-wee(l, clematis, gentian, milkweed and 
many another that add a hundred fold to the beautv ot 
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