
{"id":28218,"date":"2012-10-26T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=28218"},"modified":"2013-03-02T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T14:30:23","slug":"flora-a-november-bouquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/10\/26\/flora-a-november-bouquet\/","title":{"rendered":"FLORA: A November bouquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_28219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28219\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-November-bouquet.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spencer November bouquet\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-November-bouquet.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-November-bouquet-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-November-bouquet-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-November-bouquet-74x100.jpg 74w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-November-bouquet-344x460.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A November bouquet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d depicts Cornelia Phillips Spencer&#039;s revered goldenrod with blue asters, black berries of catbrier, fruit of chokeberry and turning leaves of strawberry bush and sweetgum. Photo of original painting by Ken Moore <\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>By Ken Moore<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Flora Columnist<\/em><br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m returning to the words and paintings of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, who took a closer look at our local flora 139 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A November bouquet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an appropriate accompaniment for Mrs. Spencer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s description. This particular fall wildflower bouquet, initialed J.J. S., is the work of Mrs. Spencer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daughter, June James Spencer, who later married James Lee Love, assistant professor of mathematics at UNC. <\/p>\n<p>A note by James Love in the Spencer papers of the Southern Historical Collection tells that, at her mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s encouragement, June had become a fine botanical artist and in turn encouraged her mother, who is credited with most of the flower portraits in the collection. <\/p>\n<p>In \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Late summer woods,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <em>N.C. Presbyterian<\/em>, Oct. 8, 1873, Cornelia Phillips Spencer extols the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153weeds.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If one should delight in weeds, now is the time. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is often a little painful to find that in the late summer we must class among weeds many a plant, whose pretty flower early in the season seemed a paragon of delicacy; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c now, the coarse and rampant growth is undeniably plebian and weed-sy. I fear that my summer favorite, the goldenrod, runs some risk of such deterioration. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The Vernonias, \u00e2\u20ac\u201ccommonly called ironweeds, \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are a beautiful companion to goldenrods, their clear and brilliant purple being in the best possible contrast \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the flowers, taken singly, or the heads with their singularly pretty involucres, would be ranked among our very daintiest darlings.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A coarse leaf and a coarse stem and a way or growing along the road side has given these beauties the name of weed. The asters are very conspicuous now, from pure white through all the shades of lavender and purple. They too look charmingly with the goldenrods. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The sunflowers and their cousins the Rudbeckias are a little flaunting, and should make the back-ground of a bouquet. Most of our fall flowers are rather strong growers and high colored.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<figure id=\"attachment_28221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28221\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-va-creeper-and-aster.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spencer va creeper and aster\" width=\"350\" height=\"536\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-va-creeper-and-aster.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-va-creeper-and-aster-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-va-creeper-and-aster-73x113.jpg 73w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-va-creeper-and-aster-65x100.jpg 65w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-va-creeper-and-aster-300x460.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the late fall Cornelia Phillips Spencer found blue asters still in flower with the crimson foliage of Virginia creeper. Photo of original painting by Ken Moore <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Later that same year Cornelia Spencer wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A journey in October\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the <em>N.C. Presbyterian<\/em>, Oct. 29, 1873.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153With all possible, all due admiration for the gorgeous assemblage of colors in later October, I must own to a great love for our landscapes while the greens are yet predominant, and the crimsons and yellows and browns are only the touches, \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAutumn laying here and there, A fiery finger on the trees.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is more leisure for observation and for enjoyment and full appreciation of the effects of color then, than when the whole forest is a mass of glowing hues. But what splendor of changing beauty the Creator has ordered to be shed around our daily life from the first of October to the close of November, when the last rich shades of brown are lost in the purple haze of Indian summer. People ought to be much abroad these days, and should take their children out and be never tired of calling their attention to the glories of the scene.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_28222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28222\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-sumac.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spencer sumac\" width=\"350\" height=\"452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-sumac.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-sumac-113x145.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-sumac-87x113.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Spencer-sumac-77x100.jpg 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Spencer extolled the colors of sumac leaves here depicted with stem of deciduous holly. Photo of original painting by Ken Moore <\/figcaption><\/figure>Cornelia Phillips Spencer advises us well!<\/p>\n<p><em>Email Ken Moore at flora@carrborocitizen.com. Find previous Ken Moore Citizen columns at <a href=\"http:\/\/carrborocitizen.com\/flora\">The Annotated Flora<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ken Moore<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Flora Columnist<\/em><br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m returning to the words and paintings of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, who took a closer look at our local flora 139 years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-flora","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28218"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28372,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218\/revisions\/28372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}