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Current Issue of The Fringed Gentian™
Fall 2018
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The next issue will be published in Spring 2019.
Garden Plant of the Week
Selected from the many species in, or historical to, the Garden.
Common Milkweed
Asclepias syriaca L.
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Birding in Martha Crone's Time
Read Martha's notes about various birds in the Garden; about those who came for birding, like Thomas S. Roberts; about unusual bird events such as the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, the Western Tanager and the Cooper's Hawk. Article.
A Seasonal Poem
He comes, - he comes, - the Frost Spirit comes!
And the quiet lake shall feel
The torpid touch of his glazing breath,
And ring to the skater's heel;
And the streams which danced on the broken rocks,
Or sang to the leaning grass,
Shall bow again to their winter chain,
And in mournful silence pass.
He comes, - he comes, - the Frost Spirit comes!
Let us meet him as we may,
And turn with the light of the parlor-fire
His evil power away;
And gather closer the circle 'round,
When the firelight dances high,
And laugh at the shriek of the baffled Fiend
As his sounding wing goes by!
Taken from The Frost Spirit by
John Greenleaf Whittier (American 1807-1892)
Reflections
“Nature study is an all-the-year round pursuit. Several birds, among them the snow bunting and the evening grosbeak, sporting a yellow vest, are with us only in the winter. Lichens, also, are then potent to charm, when the attention is not diverted by the more spectacular features of other seasons. Some tree trunks are gardens in miniature, when encrusted by these symbionts of fungus and imprisoned alga, forming yellow patches, or ashy gray, or grayish green rosettes, pitted here and there with dark brown fruit-disks.” Eloise Butler, 1914 from, Annals of the Wildlife Reserve.
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Downloadable PDF format books.
1907-1933. Companion book to The Wild Gardener
Martha Crone and the Wild Flower Garden
1933-1958. Companion book to the Crone History
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