Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — The Penstamon. [ARTICLE]

The Penstamon.

As attractive and decorative plants, either for flower beds or borders, the modern varieties of our garden penstamon have scarcely anjuxiyal. -Their large and showy flowers are given with a remarkable profusion. September, and display a numerous variety <of shades from white to (scarlet and purple. It is a plant emblematical of “high-bred” beauty, and well does it deserve the honor. One of the lower limbs on one of, the big elm trees that stand on the common in Ainoldfowhi, Woodstock, Conn., has fallen. This was probably owing to the weight of the leaves upon the limb, as it extended further in a horizontal direction than the other branches. The place where the limb gave way is not far from forty feet in the air. This is one of the trees set out on the day of the battle of Lexington by the grandmother of Gen. Gebrge B. McClellan. If you don’t believe that “three is a crowd,” just ask the young man whose sweetheart’s sma er brother infests the parlor Sunday evenings. J .