84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 12, 2000
On Being a
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Joyce Bupp
Overpowering.
Almost. The aroma hung in
the still, moist air of this mid-Au
gust evening.
A plane droned overhead,
birds twittered late-day gossip in
the fading light, and a bunny
hopped and paused, hopped and
paused down the dirt field road.
But it was that heavy, sweetish
scent that grabbed my nose.
Not a costly concocted blend
of chemical fragrances, nor the
distilled essence of floral oils. Not
a French import or an exotic Ori
ental designer perfume.
What was tickling my olefac
tory senses was Eau de Corn.
Hands-down winner of our Au
gust “scratch and sniff’ selec
tions.
The fragrance of Eau de Corn
whispers a promise of golden
grain pouring into bins and au
gers. Of silage bunkers packed
full and round with winter stocks
of feed. Of forage harvesters
chewing noisily through forests
of stalks to feed chomping cows
and hungry folks.
Eau de Corn’s haunting fra
grance is an organic and all-nat
ural one, noticeable only a fleet
ing week or two in August. Its
aura drifts across the countryside
when corn stalks have almost
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reached their final height and be
gins taking their finals steps to
maturity. You can catch a whiff
as you drive by a pollinating field
on a warm, humid night or 101 l in
it with a walk next to a stand of
stalks.
At pollination, the tassel atop
the stalk, which begins as a nee
dle-like-being tightly wrapped in
thin layers of leaves-to-be at the
bottom heart of a corn seedling,
has flared wide and pushed out
tiny bits of pollen along its edges.
(County extension crops special
ist Mark Goodson recently cut
one of our corn stalks apart dur
ing a field visit, showing me how
those embryonic tassels are
buried deep inside the young
plant.) As ears push out of the
lower part of the plant, each with
a mop-top of pinkish-hued deli
cate silks, the pollen bits fall
from the tassels over a period of
a couple of days, onto the wait
ing silks below.
Viola! The silks are pollinated.
And each pollinated silk begins
to slowly dry, as the embryonic
kernel to which it was attached
swells and matures into a seed
capable of generating another en
tire corn stalk.
Pretty miraculous when you
think about it, huh?
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During that pollinating stage
is when the aroma of com hangs
heavy in the still summer air, es
pecially during warm, moist,
humid weather. Of which we
have not had any shortage this
summer, just in case you hadn’t
noticed.
But pollinating com isn’t the
only feast for the nose during
August.
A batch of Red Haven peaches
carefully laid out in the basement
to ripen enveloped us with the
heady aroma of the favorite late
summer fruit, a perfume even
more enticing than that of the
com. I lay almost-ripe peaches
out in a single layer on a cush
ioning base and cover them until
they ripen enough that the flesh
slightly “gives” under gentle fin
ger pressure. Ditto for fresh
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Mixing with the fruity fra
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the small vase of nasturtiums
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Neon orange in color, these two
inch blossoms carry a sweet,
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have stunning blossoms twice the
size of any we previously grew,
and are vining out in an appar
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bush and strangle the gloriosa
daisies.
In an effort to catch and pre
serve the scents of summer, I’ve
been tossing rose petals, herb
prunings, meadow tea snippings,
and assorted fragrant blossoms
into a basket to dry in the dark
of a storage closet. A handful of
the fragrant drying sage from
near our son’s Idaho desert home
adds a unique touch to the mix.
I’ve always wished it possible
to bottle some summer scents to
save as a balm for the blizzard
season.
This East-N-West Potpourri
might be as close as we can get.
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