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weed, which we call the daisy, I likewise culti- 

 vated with success, and an unexpected triumph 

 was in the blooming of a pink lady's-sllpper, or 

 moccasin-flower, that I had dug on the edge of 

 a ditch in the suburbs and replanted in poor soil, 

 but watered generously. Of two buttercups, one 

 flowered numerously, carrying hundreds of blos- 

 soms, while the other had fewer flowers and 

 larger, because I had disbudded it, throwing its 

 strength Into the flowers that remained. I have 

 a notion that the common wayside aster would 

 act In the same way and produce blossoms nearly 

 as large as the cultivated variety, if the buds were 

 all pinched off, except half a dozen. 



The yarrow is slowly getting its deserts by 

 acceptance in gardens. It has an exquisite soft- 

 ness and fineness of leaf, which yields a pleasant 

 nutty odor when crushed in the fingers, and it 

 would be greatly esteemed were it not that it 

 grows wild by dusty highways. One can not 

 say so much for its flowers, for they are dull, 

 grayish and inconspicuous, although the pink 

 variety is as yet sufiiclent of a rarity to entitle it 

 to garden use. The tansy, also, is a fresh and 

 wholesome looking plant, with bunches of yellow 



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