Page Six CATSKILL MOUNTAIN NlSWS Margaretville, N. Y., Friday April 15, 1960

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MOUNTAIN DEW

A w ater lily purfies her ItMig rubber-hose stem up through the w ater of shallow lake or pond out of a iiasty aK>earing blade mess on the bottom.

* * *When w ater and atmosphere

tu rn warm, there develc^ on toe surface the queen of floating flowers. The roots in the bla(* mess are the andior, the s^em is long enough to give the lily op­portunity to move to and fro on the top of the w ater as the wind blows. The leaves are p<Mito<ms which keep s to n and flower float­ing on top.

Before all the snowbanks are gone, trailing arbutus, th a t sweet­est nectar-bearing flower of the Spring, will blOMn a t the e ^ e of hemlock woodlands em itting a fragrance never to be forgotten.

* * *

B ut while these two take sweetness and beauty from muck and from acid woodlands, a skunk cabbage sudcs from the soil the stend i of putrid flesh or a smell liifp a cranbination of m ustard plaster and chopped onions. The plant grows in swamps, beside brooks and shallow ponds.

« « •The question w hidi arises is

why are the two plants, first men- tkmed, able to take from the earth sweetness and beauty while the third appeals neither to the eye or the nostrils.

• • •I am led to wonder which part

of a plant decides w hat to take from the soil. Is the sweetness of aibutus made in the stem or do the tiny hair-like rootlets down in the soil have sweet thoughts which they send upstairs on their capillary esculators to m ake ar­butus <*arm.

* • *There m ust be as much or even

more activity down in the earth when Spring listens to a song sparrow and calls for activity in lootland. Roots are everywhere in the groimd. Roots of grasses, of thousands of different varieties of plants, trees, shrubs, wild flow­ers, w e e ^ trees young and old. ■n iere are live rootlets two cen­turies old, others bom yesterday from a sprouting seed. The roots go down before the stems-, go up.

• * •Elacfa hair-tiny root, by the mil­

lions and millions, seeks to fur­nish its top soil partner aU w hidi is needed to add girth, to build leaves and to add, more length to m ain stem and litqbs.

• • •Ilie re m ust be a great turmoil

as millions of root^, like c o ( ^ in a great kitdien, s e ^ to prepare tiie food needed by the plants whom they serve. Root? have enormous strength. They can split great rocks, m ake their way ddwn in the earth where a strong man and his crowbar cannot find a way. They not only feed and w ater the id w t or tree, they fur­nish guy wires to hold i t up righ t W atch a great tree swing to and fro in a h i ^ wind, held fast by its roots. H ie pull is enormous.

• • •H iis job the roots m ust have all

12 months. A tree may be frozen s(did in a December cold. B ut the roots m ust hold fast, tie them ­selves around w hatever solid ob­ject they find to give strength to the m ain roots and so to the trad es up stairs.

• • •Roots grow all summer. \ ^ e n

leaves fall from the trees in the autumn, the roots live <hi, the stalks of many vegetables freeze, the roots of'4he annuals die. But even in death they hold weed- stalks u p r i^ t until a w inter snow comes to bury.

« « •To a person not reared in wood­

land surroundings, I would say th a t the first at the forestwould be to learn the nan»s of the trees. Once ead i species is recognized they are encountered like cdd fri^ids. Unless <»e knows the trees he is in a foreign land.

• * •A maple tiee means syrup, an

oak brings acom s to mind, a beech makes Mie recall a sweet little beechnut w^iidi falls with the first frost, black cherry q u i^ - ly turns ones th o u ^ t to a luscious b it of wild summer fruit, a blade b ird i recalls boyhood days when the bark on sm all limbs tasted like wintergreen.

* * •Scarce a tree in the forest but

can be remembered by some Char­acteristics like the <mes above. 1

would suggest to one who would like to recognize forest friends th a t he s ta rt with two or three, leam them, the other names will come quickly.

• • •Bo(^ stores carry tex t bocdts.

Secure one w ith pictures <rf bark £md leaves and you will soon be able to m eet thousands of friMids. ever true, who will not ta lk back, curse or praise, but point a way to the sunny sky. Even the tallest in all the forest will not boast its height.

* * *“I think th a t I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree PoMns are made by fools like nie. B ut only God can m ake a tree!”

—Joyce Kilmer

John Randoli^, w riting in the New York Times, says:

“The last time a survey was conducted it was discovered tha t there were 21,000,000 anglers and 12,000,000 hunters. This added up to only 25,000,000 head.

"This time there will be more. Pressure on hunting ground and fishing w ater has been growing steadily since 1955. "nie total could go to 35,000,000 or more.

" It will be found also th a t botti classes are spending more money. In 1955, hunters and fishermen spent $3,000,000,000 — the fisher­men $2,000,000,000 and the hunt­ers a measly billicm. Even a child can figure out' th a t they spent $114 apiece.”

• * *Pollsters, who probably never

went fishing, set up figures of how much money a few million fisiier- men will spend for equipment, licenses, automobiles and the like. They do not mention the pleasure, the out of doors, the pure fun of an April day along a running brook when trout are hungry.

If song birds had a social column it m ight read like this. Mr. and Mrs. R. Redbreast of Palm Beach, Fla., took the first flight to the Catskills Friday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Sparrow, who have w intered in Virginia, left by a ir a week ago for a new home in Delaware county where they will build and spend the warm months.

Mr. and Mrs. Blue Heron, fam iliarly known as Long Legs, have left a Gulf of Mexico home on a flight to the Catskills. The only baggage they had to pack was long waders which they folded up underside soon a fte r they were airborne.

Mr. Red-Winged blackbird, who w itii his Mrs., spent the w inter in MississipiH, left two w e ^ ago for New York state . Mrs. R. will w ait a while tiie men folks go north, then follow to their sum­m er home in a bush alongside a swamp.

Mr. and Mrs. Bluebird of the Gulf sta tes departed two weeks ago for the Hudson river valley where they have made their sum­m er home for several years in an old apple tree full of knot­holes. They are known in Apple Tree neighborhood as desirable dtizens where the vivid blue of the m ale rivals a northern sum­m er sky.

Yours truly.The IV b^taineer

Up and Down Main Street

Mrs. Ivan Rosa left her 1959 sedan parked on Main s tree t <q>- posite'-the theater last week Wed­nesday evening. When she a t­tem pted to sta rt, the car would not move forward; its tires spun and howled when she tried to bade. She got out and locked around, astonished to find the right back wheel sitting in a two-foot hole in the pavem rat ' A recMit sewer excavation had collapsed under the running w ater and the vireight of the car.

There was a crow convention in the back yard tree-tops of either side <rf lower Main stree t Monday morning. THe delegates were in n<Msy disagreement over a m atter of business. A month hence, they will unanimously agree th a t tiie com in our garden should be re­moved w ithout fu rther delay.

S eat belts will save many a headache g c^ g over mountain roads in their present condition in a low-roofed car.

Women W ill H ear Janet Hill Gordon

Senator Janet H ill GcHxlon will be the guest speaker a t the Dela­ware County Women’s Republican du b spring luncheon a t 1 p. m. April 30 a t Delaware Inn, Stam ­ford.

Senator Gord(»i, who r^ re se n ts the 46th senatorial district con­sisting of Madison, Otsego, Cort­land and Chenango counties, is the second wcnnan to serve as a mem­ber of the S tate Senate. She has been active in Republican politics and in 1946 was elected Member of Ass^nbly from Chenango coun­ty and continued to serve in th a t capacity until her electiMi to the S ta te Senate in 1958.

Mr. Gordon is a form er New (York sta te aunm ander of the Veterans of Foreign W ars.

This meeting is expected to a t­trac t Republican wcnnen from all parts of the county. Women in­terested should contact their near­est Women’s Republican club.

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