it appeared by hundreds instead of by tens and bloomed at a 

 very small size. I noted plants only two centimeters long from 

 the base of the stem to the top of the spike. It was impossible 

 to get them all and I predict an epidemic of crab-grass for 1930. 



Wild garlic is unsightly in the spring, when one spares the 

 lawn mower to give the crocus a chance, but my few plants are 

 easily kept in check and each year sees less of it. Orchard grass 

 is another persistent pest and new clumps appear as fast as I 

 dig the old ones out. Timothy and red-top bother but little. 

 Knot-grass and spurge {Euphorbia 7naciilata) grow in a few 

 isolated patches. Bitter Dock appeared in 1928 and tried to 

 bloom in 1929. The latter year also brought black medick for 

 the first time. Four species of rosette plants, the buttercup 

 Ranunculus acris), ox-eye daisy, mullein, and moth mullein 

 appeared with regularity each year, although two of them are 

 biennial and none is allowed to seed. Two creeping species of 

 Veronica were first noted in 1929, and must wait for flowers and 

 fruits before they can be identified. 



My second class is far more interesting than the first. It 

 includes the native woodland plants of the vicinity, which are 

 trying to reclaim what they once possessed. Some of them have 

 to be treated as weeds and ruthlessly exterminated, but most 

 of them are welcomed and encouraged to grow, provided they 

 have selected a reasonable place. 



Of young trees, I have had black oak, hickory, sugar maple, 

 silver maple, tulip tree, black cherry, and sassafras, only the 

 last one being kept. Two kinds of goldenrod (Solidago tieglecta 

 and speciosa), heart-leaved aster, and two or three white asters 

 appear in numbers every year and a few plants of each are kept 

 for autumn bloom. Blue violets invade my flower beds by the 

 hundred and must be hoed out as soon as they have finished 

 blooming. One plant of groundnut has bloomed for eight season 

 and its relative, the hog peanut, appeared under some shrubs in 

 1927. Venus' looking-glass came up under a fir tree in 1924; it 

 does not like the dressing of granulated peat but is still trying 

 to live. Indian tobacco {Lobelia inflata) bloomed for the first 

 time in 1925, and every year since then we have had numerous 

 plants. Certainly some of them must hide away in a corner and 

 ripen seeds, for I have not been able to exterminate it. Black- 

 eyed Susan has appeared and bloomed in three places but re- 



