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with tlicni — and set them in a dish doe[) cni)Ui;li to hold a 

 little water. Keep water around the roots all the time and let 

 the plants stand in the sunshine. Within a few weeks vou will 

 he rewarded hy a mass of blossoms. Ik'ar in mind, how'ever, 

 that they will not amount to mueli unless they have been well 

 frozen. — Mrs I 'tola I'. Richards. 



AnoThkr Lawn Pi:st . — Any one who has vainly con- 

 tended with the moneywort in an attempt to extir[)ate it from 

 a law 11 where it has decided to take up its residence, w'ill not 

 he inclined to dispute your contenion that it is the "Worst 

 pest one can get into his lawn". But it has a worthy rival in 

 a plant that has recently appeared in one of our handsomest 

 lawns here in Salem, and that has every evidence of becoming 

 a \ery tough customer to get rid of. It is the "mouse-ear" 

 ( Hicracium Pilosella), a small perennial with long stolons that 

 lie prostrate in such a way as to escape the lawn-mower, and 

 are covered with small leaves that much resemble those of 

 Antennaria. Within 24 hours after the mower has gone over 

 the lawn, our [)lant sends up a slender scape some 10 cm. high, 

 bearing a solitary pale-yellow dandelion-like head at the sum- 

 mit, which matures. seed before the next trip of the mower, 

 and continues this game of hide-and-seek all summer. It 

 spreads very rapidly, and apparently nothing but a complete 

 plowing and sifting of the soil will eradicate it. The plant 

 seems to be well knowm in the East, but I can find no record of 

 its previous appearance in Oregon. — /. C. Nelson, Salem, 

 Oregon. [In the third volume of this magizine a form of 

 Prunella {P. vulgaris var. nana) was described which differs 

 from the type by lying flat on the ground and rooting at every 

 joint. This is a good example of a machine-made species for 

 it is only common in lawns and appears to have taken on the 



