Thursday, August 24, 2023

August Flowers, Aug. 24, 1923

Item in Our Town Column from The Southern Pines Newspaper It is the passing of the year for our wildflowers surviving the blazing suns of a long summer, but the road sides still are bright with blossoms in isolated patches of running vines or clusters of upstanding stalks. The large white, purple-center flowers of the Wild Potato Vines (Man of the Earth) not unlike giant morning glories; the smaller Morning Glory, in blue or purple; the sturdy Thistle with its purple crown: trailing Passion Flowers of pure pale beauty; fragrant Honeysuckle in white or pale yellow; Wild Milk Peas (Galactia) with flowers of delicate blue-purple; tall golden petaled “Brown Eyed Susans” swaying in the breeze still delight the eye.

From item is from a column on the front page of The Sandhill Citizen, Southern Pines, N.C., Aug. 24, 1923, and the illustration of the blond-haired girl tending her flower garden, called August, was something I found on the internet.

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