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season to flower, its blossoms not expand¬ 
ing until October, the Hamamelis Vir- 
giniana, or witch-hazel, is interesting 
because of its habit of throwing its seeds 
such a distance when its pods burst 
open, often as far as twenty-five feet 
from the shrub. 
A boundary line of the red twigged 
dogwood, Cornus alba, is an interesting 
object in the winter season. The red of 
the twigs is more intense in winter than 
at any other time, and the line of color, 
often when snow is on the ground, 
attracts much attention. 
THE SERPENT SYMBOL ON THIS 
CONTINENT 
npHE serpent symbol is prevalent all 
over this continent. It appears 
in effigies in Canada, Ohio, Illinois, 
and Minnesota. There are many 
serpent myths among the Iroquois and 
Algonquins. These represent the ser¬ 
pent as coming out of the water and 
fascinating men and turning them into 
serpents, taking them below the water, 
thus reminding us of the temptation. 
The serpent also is a water-god who 
antagonizes the chief god and produces 
a great flood. The story of the flood is 
always associated with the serpent as the 
cause. The serpent, in fact, is the 
source of evil. In Nicaragua and Cen¬ 
tral America the serpent is, on the other 
hand, a source of good. He is in reality 
the symbol of the rain cloud, and the 
crops and the seasons are dependent 
upon his appearance. Instead of antag¬ 
onizing the chief divinity, he seems to 
be sailing through the air bearing the 
chief divinity on his back. Sometimes 
there are vases held in the folds of the 
serpent that are emptying water or rain 
upon the fields. In Nicaragua the ser¬ 
pent appears in the architecture highly 
wrought and sculptured with great force. 
There are serpents guarding the balus¬ 
trades to the pyramids and other serpents 
covered with feathers which form the 
piers by the sides of the doorways to the 
temples. The idea is that they are com¬ 
ing down from the clouds, along the 
fronts of the temple to the ground, sym¬ 
bolizing rain clouds. The sacred books 
of the Mayas have many serpents coiled 
up with coils on the oases and heaps of 
corn in the latter. Even the hieroglyphs 
of the Mayas have serpents upon them, 
the serpent forming one part of the 
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