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The dogwood's blossoms this
Easter stood out in contrast to the
light green of the sprint; woods,
and turned the forests of North
Carolina into flower gardens. The
leaves on large trees are still young
and small, and for a si.ort while
the beauty of the dogwood '-cigns
supreme, but at no other time of
the year could the large white
blossoms be visible to man, who
now must see the forest from a
distance. For 11 months the doj
wood is only a tree, but during one
bright spring month at Easter time
it is king.
Small, unfit for use in great
sawmills and pulp mills that gulp
down and chew up the giants of
the forest, the American dogwood
is fast becoming the magiiilicient
flower of springtime.
"At the time of the crucifixion."
a legent has it. "the dogwood at
tained the size of t tie oak and other
forest trees. So strong and firm
was the wood of it that it was
chosen for the timber lor the cross.
"To be thus used for such a
cruel purpose greatly destressed
the tree, and Jesus sensed this, and
smiled upon it and in His gentle
pity for sorrow said to it: Because
of your regret and pity for my
suffering I make you this promise:
Never again shall the dogwood tret
grow large enough to be used for
a cross. Henceforth it shall be
slender and bent and twisted, and
its blossom shall be in the form of
a cross two long petals and two
short petals, and in the center of
the outer edge of each petal there
will be nail prints, brown with
rust and stained with blood.
"And in the center of the flower
there will be an image of the crown
of thorns and all who see it will
remember that it was upon a dog
wood tree that I was crucified, and
this tree shall not be mutilated or
destroyed, but cherished as a re
minder of my death upon the
cross'."
The story lias been told and re
told, as are all legends, but the
thought is beautiful for this Easter
season more than 1900 years after
the death and resurrection of
Jesus. The tree has long been
used as a poetic term for the cross,
for in the weary, dark days before
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Christ a tree was often used for a
cross in the haste of putting to
death criminals.
The connection of the cross and
a tree is explained by this legend:
"As Adam lay djing. he sent his
son Seth to the ancl that guarded
Paradise, to carve a bough from
the tree of life. The angel gave it,
and Seth carried it to his father,
but found him dead. He planted
the bough upon his grave. In the
course of time, when Solomon was
building the Temple, the tree was
cut down, but it refused to be fitted
into any part of the Temple, and
was placed over a stream to serve
as a bridge.
11;. and b the Queen of Sheba
came with her gilts and offerings.
Seeing the tree, she would not walk
over it. since she recognized that
the Redeemer ol the world would
suffer on it.
"Long afterwards the Jews took
it and cast it into a stagnant pool,
which derived a miraculous virtue
from its presence: an angel des
cended from time to time and
troubled the water, and the first
that steppeil in after the troubling
was healed. There it remained un
til the time of our Lord's Passion,
when it was taken out of the pool
and fashioned into the cross on
which he suffered."
But even after we leave the
shadowy sweetness of legends and
half-forgotten tales and emerge in
to the struggling, sinful, and rea
listic world of the twentieth cen
tury, we still find the dogwood
now the official flower of North
Carolina a thing of beauty for the
lovers of nature. It climbs through
the maze of underbrush to add its
bit of loveliness to springtime and
the Easter season.
However, those who put Jesus
on the Cross so many centuries ago
have virtually destroyed civiliza
tion in Europe, and the dogwood
there has been cut down and used
in the killing and maiming of mil
lions of men, women and children.
Its wood made into charcoal for
powder to be used in shells to kill.
Men of war describe it as "the best
charcoal for gunpowder."
But throughout North Carolina
this spring the dogwood has risen
again out of the swamps, out of
the mountains, craigs and thickets,
blooming, brightening the darken
ing forests bringing white flloat
ing beauty to the trees and a cer
tain quiet peace into the hearts
of men.
NOTES If all signs hold and !
frnl tlnlit; n1T this U-'iM likolv h I
the best fruit year in N. C. in five
years, or so those who are supposed
to know are saying. . . This column
appreciates the nice comment
which the Greensboro Daily News,
the Charlotte News, the Asheville
Citizen and Grady Cole have car
ried anent rural highway compari
sons carried here. However, S. C.
has conti acted for 500 miles of
secondary roads since January . . .
not IN JANUARY . . . Sorry . . . 1
A new ag magazine will be started
in Greensboro in June. . . Strange
to say, Progressive Farmer Editor
Clarence Poe helped select the edi
tor, whose name is not expected
to he carried in the mag for some
tune yet. . .
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