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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_005
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Alternative Title
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1936 Scottsbluff Narratives
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Date
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1936
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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3 Cleome appears in bloom in the early autumn (our species is aerrulata); it is really one of the ornate and beautiful blossoms of this region. Masses fringe the rosesides, and the lavender-to-pink blossoms in loose racemoes are things of beauty; it is one of two local forms which should be utilised to the utmost in decorative planting. And it may be offered, as a sap to the economically-insistent, that turkeys simply love the seeds! In the early autumn appear our only mass formations of flowers. Acres and acres of sunflowers (helianthus), of several species, most of them native, some achieving maturity and full bloom at a height of six inches! Perhaps the opinion is Oscar-Wildeish, but an area of sunflowers in full bloom, turning on their stalks to follow their god and sun, presents a certain aspect of beauty. And later, how the pheasants love these fields, for the fallen seeds! Some of the best pheasant-shooting, after one has studied the schedule of the birds, is in these sunflower patches. And about now, Chrysethamnes comes into flower. It is a bushy thing, from two to seven feet high, and is of the same species as that of New Mexico, where it is called, most obscurely, "rabbit-brush." It is a cousin of the golden-rod, and bears a multitude of golden blossoms, completely dominating and characterising its area and lasting in full beauty until killed by cold weather. - This, and Cleome, are the two native flowers most worthy of extenstive planting, in any program which looks toward beautification. As regards Chrysethsmus, the seeds, having
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Rights
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