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Be it known that I, Abraham Woodbury of Hudson in the county of Hillsborough and state of New Hampshire, in the consideration of the regard I have for the Presbyterian Reli- gious Society of Windham and the church connected there- with, do this day donate to said society and church the sum of five hundred dollars, to be kept and preserved as a perma- nent fund by said society and church, also by them or their agents to be judiciously invested, and all income accruing from said fund shall be used for the support of the Gospel by and within the Presbyterian church of said Windham.
Hudson, May 2nd, 1892.
ABRAHAM WOODBURY.
This fund was accepted by the society and received on June 25, 1892.
CHAPTER III.
CELEBRATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEDICATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN WINDHAM, N. H., JAN. 14TH, 1885.
Bright was the winter morning of that anniversary day, and it continued clear and cold to its close. It had been looked forward to with strong anticipations of pleasure and delight by many, and especially by some of our most aged people, who had aided in erecting that house of worship. In goodly numbers the citizens gathered, with many former resi- dents, and long-absent sons and daughters of the church and town. They came to spend the day in the familiar place and renew the acquaintances of years gone by ; to revive memo- ries of the long ago ; to speak of and to listen to the recital of the events of half a century. The church was filled thoroughly. Two hundred and forty invitations had been sent out, and fully 300 people were there. Dea. Samuel Campbell acted as chairman, and the order of exercises was successfully carried out. The day was one of great interest, profit, and enjoyment to all who were present : one of the most important events occurring in the town for many years.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
10 A. M.
1. Organ Voluntary.
2. Invocation,
Rev. Joseph S. Cogswell. Dea. Samuel Campbell.
3. Words of Welcome,
4. Scripture reading, Psalm lxxxiv,
Rev. H. H. Colburn, Salem, N. H.
5. Rev. Charles Cutler, Lexington, Ohio.
6. Anthem, " When the Lord shall build up Zion," The Church Choir.
7. Rev. Joseph S. Cogswell.
8. Anniversary Hymn,
Mrs. Margaret M. (Park) Dinsmoor, of Windham, N. H.
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Anniversary Hymn.
9. Address, Rev. Charles Cutler, Lexington, Ohio.
10. Prayer and Benediction, Rev. A. Watson, Hampstead, N. H. 12 M. Dinner.
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1:30 P. M.
1. Letters from absent friends.
2. Account of the erection of the house and the changes in it. Dea. William D. Cochran.
3. Donations to the society and church, Joseph P. Crowell.
4. Anthem, " The Lord is King,"
5. Ministerial changes, The Church Choir.
Rev. Augustus Berry, Pelham.
6. Revivals, Dea. Rei Hills, Pelham.
7. Changes in church-membership and session,
8. Sabbath school,
Dea. Horace Anderson. Dea. William C. Harris. Benjamin E. Blanchard.
9. The church choir,
10. Hymn, No. 73.
11. Addresses by former residents and others.
12. Doxology and Benediction.
This programme was mostly carried out. The anthems were the same as were sung at the dedication of the house fifty years before. They, who then sang them, had the most of them at the time of this celebration fallen asleep, and their voices long been silent. The choir was under the leadership of Benjamin Edwin Blanchard, and the singing was excel- lent.
ANNIVERSARY HYMN. BY
MRS. MARGARET M. (PARK) DINSMOOR.
O Thou, before whose sight the years Are but as dropping grains of sand Who holds the blessings of our lives Within Thy loving, generous hand :
Held by Thy grace in days long gone, These walls to Thee our fathers raised ; Here worshipped Thee with humble hearts, Thy holy name adored and praised.
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The Anniversary Exercises.
And here we come to seek Thy face ; A meed of praise we bring to-day, For blessings given and grace bestowed, And guidance in each doubtful way.
Dear Lord, oh, let Thy presence rest Within this house and keep it Thine, Through future years as in the past ; Abide with us in love divine.
And with the shadow of thy wing Still cover, shield Thy people here ; Still in Thy strong pavilion hide, And keep them safe in every fear.
Rev. Joseph S. Cogswell preached from the text,-" The church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth" (I Tim. iii, 15) and the sermon was forcible and pertinent.
One of the long-absent sons of Windham, Rev. Charles Cutler, came from Ohio, in response to an urgent invitation to deliver the principal address. It was more in the nature of a familiar talk, as he recounted the scenes of fifty years before, the changes that had taken place, and things as they then existed. Many pleasant reminiscences of the past were given. In former days the stalwart citizens teamed their wood to Lowell and Haverhill, Mass., with " three cattle," i. e., a yoke of oxen and a horse. The long talk of Mr. Cut- ler awakened many memories of the past.
About one hundred and fifty persons sat down to dinner which adorned well-spread tables in the upper and lower halls of the town hall, which was trimmed with evergreen, hem- lock, flags and mottoes.
In the afternoon letters were read from Rev. Samuel Mor- rison, of Hatchville, Mass .; from his brothers, Rufus and John Morrison, of Washington, D. C .; Jonathan L. Noyes, Fari- bault, Minn .; Nathaniel Hills, Ipswich, Mass .; Rev. William House, Barrington, R. I .; Rev. William Clark, D. D., Amherst, N. H .; Rev. C. M. Dinsmoor, South Newmarket, N. H .; President Bartlett, of Dartmouth College, and others.
The house was entirely changed in the interior in 1874.
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Different Funds.
The bell was raised in 1847, and the present pulpit added in 1854. The beautiful shade-trees in front of the church were set out by Dea. Rei Hills. Various donations have been given the church and society. These liberal benefactions from residents, or from former members of the church who were abiding in other towns, have greatly aided in the sup- port of the gospel ministry. They have also served to show the deep interest felt by the givers in the prosperity and maintenance of the church and religious institutions in this town.
Rev. Mr. Berry very fittingly alluded to the ministers of the town and their families. Dea. Rei Hills alluded to the revivals of religion which had taken place in town. Dea. Horace Anderson gave a list of the ruling elders of fifty years since, those who had since been chosen, and the present ones. Dea. William C. Harris gave an interesting history of the Sabbath school. Evarts Cutler of New Haven, Conn., gave amusing episodes of his youth, and George Marshall of Ever- ett, Mass., spoke of his earlier years in town. The decora- tions of the church were various and in excellent taste. Flowers and trailing vines of beauty adorned the pulpit and organ, with a century plant in front. "The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers," "But Thou art the same, and Thy years shall have no end," were some of the texts of scripture which appeared upon the walls.
The members of the choir on this occasion were,-
Benjamin E. Blanchard, Conductor.
Edwin O. Dinsmoor, Organist.
Miss Ellen Cochran,
Miss Martha Hills,
Mrs. Lizzie M. (Dow) Alexander,
Miss Ella M. Harris,
Mrs. Horace Anderson,
Albert A. Morrison, William D. Cochran, James Cochran, John W. M. Worledge, Horace Anderson,
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Members of the Church, Sept. 15, 1892.
Hiram S. Reynolds,
Joseph P. Crowell,
Alphonso F. Campbell,
Mrs. Katie (Hughes) Plummer, of Londonderry, N. H., Isaac A. Cochran, of Melrose, Mass.
The services closed soon after four o'clock P. M., with the doxology, and Rev. Charles Cutler pronounced the benedic- tion.1
MEMBERS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN WINDHAM, N. H., · SEPT. 15, 1892.
Samuel Campbell,
Mrs. Isaac P. Cochran,
Benjamin E. Blanchard,
Mrs. Charles E. Mead,
Miss Martha Hills,
Miss Mary Ellen Park,
Mrs. William D. Cochran,
Mrs. Ellen Hildreth,
Mrs. John B. Pike,
Miss Louisa Hills,
Mrs. Rufina M. Harris,
Miss Ellen Cochran,
Mrs. Sarah F. Worthen,
Mrs. William C. Harris, Isaac P. Cochran,2
Mrs. Mary J. Bartley,
Mrs. Margaret Smith,
Lewis Ripley, Mrs. Charles E. Fegan,
John Martin,
Thomas Leach,
Mrs. Hiram S. Reynolds,
Mrs. Gardner G. Robinson,
Mrs. John Palmer,
Miss Louise Park,
Mrs. James Emerson,
Miss Lorana O. Armstrong, Miss Mary E. Armstrong,
Miss Clara B. Dinsmoor,
William C. Harris, Giles S. Merrill, Mrs. Giles S. Merrill, George E. Anderson, Joseph C. Armstrong, Alphonso F. Campbell, Albert W. Campbell, John S. Brown,
Mrs. George J. Hazeltine, James Cochran,
Mrs. James Cochran,
Mrs. George W. Snelling,
William P. Simpson,
Mrs. George F. Armstrong,
John A. Park,
Miss Marietta Clark,
Mrs. Albert O. Alexander, Mrs. Augustus L. Barker,
1 This account is drawn largely from a well-written article of William S. Harris, which appeared in public prints.
2 Mr. Cochran died Oct. 14, 1892.
Mrs. Joseph P. Crowell, Albro A. Osgood,
Miss Sarah A. Armstrong, Mrs. Benj. E. Blanchard, Horace Anderson,
Mrs. Charles H. Barker,
Miss Aurelia J. Dinsmoor,
Miss Clarissa Hills,
James Emerson,
Mrs. John H. Oburg, William D. Cochran, George F. Armstrong,
Joseph P. Crowell,
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Members of the Church, Sept. 15, 1892.
Frederic A. Varnum,
Mrs. Frederic A. Varnum, Harlan E. Campbell, William S. Harris, John E. Cochran, John F. Thayer, Mrs. E. A. Gross, Mrs. Margaret M. P. Dinsmoor, Dalton J. Warren,
Mrs. Pierce S. Call,
Miss Sarah R. Burnham,'
Mrs. Lucinda P. Davidson, Caleb B. Clark,
Mrs. Caleb B. Clark,
Mrs. Albion T. Simpson,
Mrs. Charles Steele,
Mrs. Albert W. Farmer,
Miss Annie J. Blanchard,
Mrs. Ella A. Winn, Mrs. Ambrose Richardson, Miss Mary U. Cogswell,
David C. Anderson, Mrs. David C. Anderson, John W. M. Worledge, John W. Hanson,
Mrs. John W. Hanson,
Mrs. Dalton J. Warren,
William A. Dinsmoor,
Mrs. William A. Dinsmoor,
Elmer H. Cochran,
Mrs. Mary L. Jackson, Miss Grace R. Call,
Mrs. John W. M. Worledge,
Mrs. George H. Simpson,
Mrs. Alphonso F. Campbell,
Mrs. Horace Anderson,
Mrs. James E. Emerson.
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CHAPTER IV.
HOMES OF EARLY AND LATER SETTLERS OF WINDHAM AND LONDON- DERRY, N. H., IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND, AND OF ANCESTORS OF THE SAME .- ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF WINDHAM AND OF POLICY POND.
Richard and Henry Kimball, ancestors of the Kimballs of Windham and most of those in the United States, came from Rattlesden, county of Suffolk, England, in 1634. The Kim- balls, from 1500 even to the present day, have lived there and in Hitchims, Buxhall, and other adjacent parishes.
The author, while on a visit to England in 1889, discov- ered the date of baptism of a child of Richard and Ursula Kimball upon the Parish Records of the Episcopal Church in the first mentioned parish in 1615.
ADAM TEMPLETON'S BIRTHPLACE AND THAT OF HIS WIFE, MARGARET LENDSEY.
Adam Templeton was an original, quaint character, who figured in the early history of Windham, and, later, in the towns of Peterborough and Antrim. He died in Antrim, N. H., in 1795, aged 84 years. The following was discovered in Portsmouth, N. H .:
"Adam Templeton of ye County Antrim and Parish of Bellawille and Margaret Lendsey in ye County of Derry both in ye Kingdom of Ireland, was marryd 12th of April 1739." From List of New Hampshire Marriages, pub. in N. E. Hist. Reg., p. 38, 1872.
Janet Templeton, a sister of Adam Templeton, was, with- out doubt, of the same parish. She was a resident of Wind- ham, having married Alexander Simpson, ancestor of the Simpson family.
Alexander Simpson and wife and Adam Templeton, his brother-in-law, came together from Ireland, and settled in Windham. It is not unreasonable to suppose that Alexan-
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der Simpson was, like Mr. Templeton, a resident of Bella- wille, county of Antrim, Ireland.
John Dinsmoor and the Dinsmoor family were from Bally- wattick, one of the town lands of Ballymoney, county of An- trim, Ireland, and two miles from that town. (See account of visit to that place in " Among the Scotch-Irish: A Tour in Seven Countries : With History of the Dinsmoor Family," pages 38-40 of the latter part of the work.)
Matthew Bell, ancestor of the Bells of Londonderry, N. H., and of most of those in New Hampshire, was from Kirk Con- nell, in Scotland. There are seven places of this name in Scotland, and the native place of Mr. Bell has not been identified.
John Bell, son of Matthew, was born in Ballymoney, county of Antrim, Ireland, and settled in Londonderry, N. H., in 1720.
Rev. James McGregor, who, with several families, settled in Londonderry, N. H., in 1719, came from parish of Agha- dowey, county of Londonderry, Ireland, as did some or most of the families of the first sixteen settlers of Londonderry.
Capt. James Gregg, one of the first sixteen settlers of Londonderry, N. H., was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and, with his parents, emigrated to Ireland, and came later to New Hampshire in 1719. He married "Janet Cargil, of Car- gil, Scotland, who was a sister of Marion Cargil, wife of Rev. James McGregor, and of Annis Cargil, wife of Justice James McKien. All married Cargils. All emigrated from Ireland together, and, probably, all had emigrated to Ireland together from the home place in Scotland." (Letter of Mr. L. L. Gregg, 122 Front street, New York city, July 29, 1892.)
John Gregg, of Londonderry, son of Capt. James Gregg, was born, as stated in his ancient family Bible, "In the Kingdom of Ireland, in the Parish of Meeaski, in the county of Londonderry, in the year 1702."
Meeaski is, without doubt, Macasky, otherwise termed Macosquin, three miles from Coleraine, and the same from Aghadowey, where Mr. McGregor preached from 1701 to 1718.
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Origin of Name of Policy Pond.
Lieut. Samuel Morrison, ancestor of the Morrisons of Windham, was born, undoubtedly, in Aghadowey, county of Londonderry, Ireland, and came among the early settlers to Londonderry, N. H., together with his parents, and uncle, and other relatives. His grandfather, John Morrison, came later and died in 1636. He was from Scotland, then from Ireland.
ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF WINDHAM.
Rev. E. E. Parker, in his History of Londonderry, N. H., page 95, says this town took its name from Windham, a place in Ireland, near Londonderry.
ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF POLICY POND.
This name is said to have come from a Mr. Poliss, or Pol- liss, who in early times owned land bordering upon it. The pond was then called Polliss's pond, which in time degener- ated into the corrupted and sickly name of Policy pond. The author received this information of Hon. Joseph S. Howe, of Methuen, Mass., who discovered some such record in Salem, Mass. This name is now happily superseded by the appropriate and sententious Scotch name of Canobie, making it Canobie Lake. 6
CHAPTER V.
CANOBIE LAKE, N. H .- MEN, BUILDINGS, ENTERPRISES.
Canobie Lake is applied to a beautiful sheet of water, partly in Windham and partly in Salem, N. H. It is also the eupho- nious name of a railroad station and post-office, situated in Salem, N. H., and some fifteen rods from the East Windham line, in that portion of Salem which was taken from Wind- ham, in 1752, and annexed to Salem. The latter town was a great gainer by the operation, as it received a large tract of Windham soil and a portion of the old historic Scotch settie- ment of Londonderry. It also secured quite a number of Windham's stalwart Scotch-blooded citizens, which was a sore loss to Windham, and a great acquisition to Salem.
This place was known when the turnpike was in successful operation as the " Toll-Gate," for a toll-house was situated there and toll was collected. Later it was known as "Mary Campbell's crossing," for a well-educated, quaint, eccentric woman of that name, a member of the family of Campbells in Salem, who lived there, and cared well for the lives of such people as crossed the railway. It was afterward known as " Policy Pond," taking the name of the beautiful lake near at hand. In 1885, it received the name of Canobie Lake. The name of Canobie is taken from Cannobie in Scotland, near the English border, and that with adjacent localities was once the home of the famous border clans of Armstrong, Chisholm, Little, Johnston, Scott, Kerr, Douglass, Elliot, and others. The name, pronounced Can-o-bie, with accent upon the first syllable, was suggested by Leonard A. Morrison, as particularly appropriate for a station and post-office, which was established largely by the descendants of the first Scotch
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Canobie Lake, N. H.
settlers of Windham, and as it is situated in a part of the original Scotch settlement of Londonderry.
Efforts for a station at this point had been made for some time but were unavailing. In 1885, an appeal in the form of a petition was made to the railroad commissioners of the state, who on February 4th, came with officers of the Con- cord railroad and viewed the premises and locality and heard the evidence of fifteen witnesses, who were introduced. The commissioners recommended that a station be built, which decision was readily acquiesced in by the railroad company. The present neat and commodious station was built in the summer of 1885, and soon became a regular station. It was first occupied Nov. 9, 1885, with Albert Onslow Alexander as station agent. The latter commenced a building for a store in 1885, finished it in the winter of 1886, and opened it as a dry goods, grocery, and general country store, April 12, 1886. The post-office, kept in the same building, was estab- lished about Feb. 26, 1886 ; the postmaster was commissioned by February 8th. Telephone and telegraph offices, and an office of the American Express Co., have since been estab- lished. More than a fourth of a mile of side track has been laid, which necessitated a large amount of grading. The private residence of Abel Dow, in Windham, proprietor of the "Granite State Grove," on the shore of Canobie Lake, a favorite watering-place, was built in 1883.
Albert O. Alexander's house was built in 1888, and occu- pied May 1, 1889. The house occupied by William McElhin- ney was built by Leverett P. Richards, in 1890, occupied by him, and sold in the fall of 1891.
Edwin O. Dinsmoor's house was built in the summer of 1891. William O. Meserve, of Wakefield, N. H., came to town and purchased a mill of John S. Brown, on the turn- pike in East Windham. The mill was new, having been built about 1887. It is now a well-equipped saw and grist, cider, and planing mill, and box factory. His large house, opposite, was commenced in 1890, and completed and occu- pied in 1892.
The " Avondale Conservatory " of Horace P. Dinsmoor
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New Houses.
was established in 1887. Three houses are, in 1892, under glass, and the business is constantly increasing. Joseph W. Dinsmoor's attractive house in the Range, was built in 1884, and the ancient house on the opposite side of the highway, occupied by his son, Joseph W. Dinsmoor, Jr., was "restored" in 1891.
The summer house of the late David M. Bachelder was built in 1886.
The blacksmith shop at the Centre was built in 1887, by George L. Bugbee.
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CHAPTER VI.
THE FLORA OF WINDHAM, N. H.
BY WILLIAM S. HARRIS.
Our small state of New Hampshire, stretching as it does 180 miles from north to south, and including every variety of surface from sea-coast to alpine summits more than a mile high, is a more interesting field for the botanist than any other equal area in the eastern half of the country. About 1,300 varieties of flowering and higher flowerless plants are found growing wild in the state.
The difference in climate, consequent upon differences in latitude and altitude, between the northern or mountain region, and the southern or especially southeastern section of the state, produces a corresponding change in the vegeta- tion, and the state is divided botanically into two districts, named the Canadian and the Alleghanian. The line of divi- sion corresponds approximately with the line of 600 feet elevation above the sea, and that of forty-five degrees mean annual temperature, running from Lake Winnipesaukee southwest to Mt. Monadnock, thence northwest to Clare- mont. The Alleghanian district thus includes the southern part of the Connecticut valley, the valley of the Merrimack proper, and the region east of it to the sea. Some of the characteristic wild plants of this district, not found in the Canadian, are the white oak, white birch, chestnut, mountain laurel, sweet pepperbush, wild grape, fall dandelion, and lupine.
The township of Windham lies far within the limits of the Alleghanian district and thirty miles from the ocean ; its sur- face varies only between 150 and 500 feet in elevation above sea-level ; hence its flora could not be expected to be so
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extensive and diversified as that of towns where the condi- tions are less uniform.
The township extends about six miles in extreme length and breadth, and covers perhaps thirty square miles ; its cen- ter lies in latitude 42° 48' north. Its surface is diversified by rocky hills, sandy plains, cultivated fields, swamps, ponds, and forests. Although far from the Canadian floral district, a few of the characteristic species of that district are found here, as the sandwort, red currant, strawberry bush, and broad-leaved golden-rod. The astragene, found elsewhere in the state only at Lyme and North Conway, was discovered here by the late P. S. Call; and the walking-leaf fern, pre- viously reported in New Hampshire only from Lebanon, was found here by the writer in 1878.
The flora of Windham has been studied by the writer more or less every summer since 1875, and some of the results of this study are here presented. Further investigation will, doubtless, modify some of the statements and lengthen the list of species. Especially is the list of the sedges-the spe- cies of which are very numerous and hard to identify-far from complete. The subjoined catalogue contains the names of 570 kinds of flowering plants, and 36 of the highest divi- sion of flowerless-the pteridophytes or fern-like plants- making 606 in all.
TREES.
Including several species which vary in size and form from shrubs to small trees, like the alder and witch-hazel, we have fifty kinds of trees. Our most abundant and characteristic tree is the white pine. The pitch pine is common on sandy soil; while the red pine, red cedar, larch, and spruce are local and scarce. The last named is hardly found except around Spruce pond, in the northeast part of the town.
The most common oaks are the white, red, scarlet, yellow, and scrub oak, the latter a worthless shrub, which, with its less abundant companion, the dwarf chestnut-oak, is found in sandy soil. The swamp white oak is scarce. The white birch is very abundant on sandy soil and in swamps; the
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paper and yellow birches are less common ; the black birch is rare. The red maple is abundant, the sugar maple scarce. The white ash and round-leaved poplar are more common, respectively, than the black ash and downy-leaved poplar.
The walnut, chestnut, basswood, sassafras, tupelo, butternut, hemlock, elm, hornbeam, and hop-hornbeam occur, but not in abundance; the beech is very rare, a few trees near the old Bahan place being all that are known. A solitary clump of slippery-elm trees was, many years ago, destroyed by the devotion of school-boys to its mucilaginous inner bark, and none are known here at present. The Juneberry, red cherry, and black cherry are well known small trees and are con- spicuous when in blossom. -
In addition to our native trees, the balm-of-gilead and Lombardy poplar seem to have become thoroughly natural- ized in a few spots ; the locust and white willow have become well established in some places, and the apple occurs as seed- lings chance-sown in pastures and thickets.
SHRUBS.
Of shrubs whose flowers are conspicuous, we have many. The cornels, viburnums, elder, thorn, choke-cherry, and choke-berry all have white flowers. The shrubby cinquefoil, found in swamps, is our only shrub with showy yellow flow- ers. There are three species of wild rose besides the sweet- brier; the mountain laurel and white azalea are rare, the sheep laurel and rhodora common. The hardhack and the nearly-related meadow-sweet abound in pastures, and the " white-spiked clethra flower " grows along the borders of the ponds, filling the August air with sweetness. The flowering- dogwood, which is very handsome when in flower or fruit, is rare and local.
The poison-dogwood and poison-ivy are too common, the former found in swamps chiefly. These two are the only plants we have which are poisonous to the touch, although several herbs, the Indian poke, water-hemlock, wild-parsnip, and bittersweet, are poisonous if eaten. The Virginian
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creeper is a handsome and harmless vine, distinguished from the poison-ivy by its five leaflets. The climbing bittersweet, black-alder, and mountain-holly are made ornamental by their bright red fruits.
Of useful berries and fruits, the most valuable are the dwarf, low, and high blueberries, blue and black huckleber- ries, low and high blackberries, red and black raspberries, fox-grape, cranberry, barberry, and strawberry. The red-cur- rant, seen occasionally, the purple-flowering raspberry, known only near J. W. Hanson's, and the cranberry-bush, found only in a swamp east of E. K. Gross's, are all plants which belong farther north.
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