protection or care, but planted the following 
season, it grew and gave a generous bloom. 
Of the scarlet pimpernel I have written you. 
This charming little plant does not grow away 
from the seashore, and, it is said, only on the 
New England coast. This is a mistake, for it 
grows about here from Seabright to Long Branch 
profusely. If the so-called false pimpernel is 
not a duplicate of the little scarlet-queen of the 
coast it is a near relative, and grows all about 
Pine Hills in the moist meadows where sport the 
meadow lark and bobolink. It has a pale lilac 
biossom, and is a large but more delicately 
growing plant. 
Growing in the Debris. 
On the corner of Cottage street and Ocean 
avenue here at Monmouth are the ruins of a 
pretty cottage burned to the ground a little more 
than a year ago. The fallen chimney and other 
debris lie scattered over a large part of the half- 
acre lot. From Whitney Park it is but a short 
walk, and I frequently visit it, being interested 
in the numerous wild plants I find there. The 
marvelous growth of some of these so-called 
weeds and the beauty of their minute flowers it 
would be impossible to describe. There are two 
plants, false pimpernel and spurge, prostrate 
plants growing out of the sand and grit of the 
fallen chimney, that specially interest me. They 
have a very small tap root and great spread of 
top, with a wonderful amount of delicate foliage 
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