Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1892 — Moss Covered Trees. [ARTICLE]

Moss Covered Trees.

St. Louis Globe Democrat. “Few things possess greater interest to Northern people making the r first pilgrimage through the South than the moss covered trees of the lowlands near the Gulf coast," said H. C. Henry, at the Laclede. “ In the moist warm air of the coast country the moss takes possession of tho trees, and from every banner trails down the line a mighty banner of green silk, giving to the forest a picturesque beauty, but one suggestive of cemeteries and elegies. In the,winter when the green of the moss has faded into a dirty gray and been torn and whipped by tne winds until it resembles the ragged locks of some ancient Sycorax, the effect is particularly uncanny. Add to a leaden sky, a drizzling rain and here and there a pool of slackwater half hidden by impenetrable canebrakes, and you get a scene of dreary desolation that would have made even the witches of Macbeth want wings with which to get out of the country. There Is to-day enough moss' clinging to the trees on the Gulf coast to furnish every man, woman and child in Europe and America with a mattress. " ,