Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 6, December 1898

<h2><SPAN name="GOLDEN_ROD" id="GOLDEN_ROD"></SPAN>GOLDEN ROD.</h2> <p>A lady who has lately been making a visit in the West was telling the other day about the forlorn aspect of the country out that way to her. "Even the Golden-rod," she said; "you can't imagine how scraggly and poor it looks, compared with our magnificent flowers along the road here. I wonder what makes the Western Golden-rod so inferior." The very next day there arrived at her house a relative whom she had been visiting when she was in the West. He sat on the veranda, and looked indulgently&mdash;even admiringly&mdash;at the landscape, and praised its elements of beauty. But as his eye ran along the roadside near by, he said: "But there is one thing that we are ahead of you in&mdash;you have no such splendid Golden-rod here as we have out West! The Golden-rod growing along that road, now, is tame and poor compared with ours." What a blessed thing it is that the gold of our own waysides is richer than the gold of all other waysides!</p> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</SPAN></span></p> <table class="sp2 mc w50 p2" title="SKUNK." summary="SKUNK."> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3"><span class="ac w100 figcenter"> <SPAN name="i_066.jpg" id="i_066.jpg"> <ANTIMG style="width:100%" src="images/i_066.jpg" width="600" height="448" alt="" /></SPAN></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">From coll. Mr. F. Kaempfer.</td> <td class="x-smaller ac w40">SKUNK.<br/> &#8534; Life-size.</td> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Copyright by<br/> Nature Study Pub. Co., 1898, Chicago.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />