Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1882 — The Wild Flowers of Montana. [ARTICLE]

The Wild Flowers of Montana.

The wild flowers of Montana are as abundant as those of the Alps, and more varied. Choicest of them all, because most delicate and fragrant, is a white, star-shaped, wax-like blossom which grows very close to the ground, and the large golden stamens of which give out an odor like mingled hyacinth and lily of the valley. The people call it the mduntain-lily. There is another lily, however, and? a real one—yellow with purple stamen^ —that grows on high slopes in shaded places. *the yellow flowering currant Abounds on the lower levels, and the streams are often bordered with thickets of wild-rose bushes. Dandelions abound, but do not open in full, rounfled perfection. The common blue larkspur, however, ‘is as well developed as in our Eastern gardens, and the little yellow violet which in the States haunts the woods and copses is at home in Montana, alike in the moist valleys and upon the dry hillsides. ' Small sunflowers are plentiful, the bluebell is equally abundant in valleys and on mountain ridges, and in early June there blooms a unique flower called the shooting star, shaped like ■ a shuttlecock. There are a dozen other pretty flowers, but I could not learn their names—among them a low-growing mass, the clumps of which ate starred over with delicate white or purple blooms.—£7. F. Smalley, in the C&foqry. IT is an old saying that charity begins it home; but ,thjfis no reason itshould jot go abroad; a man should live with the w<Md‘as a citizsto of the world; he may have a (preference for a particular quarter or square, or even an alley, in which he lives, but he should have a generous feeling for the welfare of the whole.-}— Cum berlaod. A tbadb journal gives directions for “preserving harness.” Preserved harness may be considered v6ry palatable by those whb likes that sort of thing, but we don’t want a bit in our mouth.— Norristown ' Herald.