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flowering plants from the woods and young plants from the field and 

 wayside, all of which may be candidates for the "Catchall corner." \\'hen 

 the plants become matured they may be a medley of thistles, — golden- 

 rod, poke berry and brambles, — in fact all the weeds of the neighborhood. 

 When the "catchall" has become permanently established let it be 

 separated from the rest of the laboratory garden and watch the battle 

 for supremacy go on for a few years and note the victorious plants. 



To the person who worships tidiness and cares nothing for a fight for 

 supremacy, such a corner would be considered an eyesore. To me such 



Bulbs grozving in a place zvliich zuill be very shady later in the season. 



a contest rouses m_y sporting blood and T watch it with keen delight. T 

 once saw in June a deligthful combination — accidental of course — of 

 white daisies and bachelor's buttons. 



The laboratory garden may be be a place of many resources. Some 

 permanent planting of a few — A^ery few — trees, some flowering shrubs 

 and perennial herbaceous plants and also of fall planted bulbs. 



It is an axiom that two things cannot occupy the same place at the 

 same time but in planting there is such a thing as two plants occupying 

 the same ground and one succeeding the other with the changing 

 seasons. 



