9O ESCAPED FROM GARDENS 



sure to spread like the Live -forever we saw to-day; 

 besides, these seeding tufts of Columbine are likely 

 to become settlers. They bore white flowers in 

 May; I saw them once in passing, and that day, 

 too, the old man Keeler was fussing about the 

 garden. This bunch of Prince's Feather, which 

 droops its coarse red plumes over the wickets, is 

 already common in places all up the road, as far as 

 Georgetown and the Ridge. It is a sort of big 

 cousin of the pink Knotweed, that edges the road 

 at home, between the marshes, the beach and Sun- 

 flower Lane. Then here are Bachelor's Buttons and 

 Catchfly, that has strayed both up and down the 

 road, followed by that white and purple Phlox. As 

 for the common garden Sunflower, it has escaped 

 everywhere. I think this very place has long since 

 sent a colony down stream to locate by the cross- 

 road bridge, where a different soil has somewhat 

 changed its form of growth. Two years ago I saw 

 them there, and, at a little distance, took them for 

 Earth Apples or Jerusalem Artichokes, but they were 

 only plain Sunflowers escaped from gardens. 



"This same Artichoke, now so often seen by 

 waysides and in modern gardens, escaped far back 

 in the dim past from a cultivation of which no 

 record even remains; it was planted and tended by 



