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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1910 



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A Home for Garden Tramps and 

 Waifs 



LAY out your border carefully; trench it, spading 

 1 in old, well-rotted manure; prepare your plans 

 carefully and accurately; plant it; and you have pre- 

 pared a home for all the upstarts, waifs, intruders 

 and tramps of the vegetable world, who will take 

 possession so quickly it will make your head swim 

 if you don't keep after them and serve ejection 

 papers and use force when necessary. 



New plants from the nurserymen, loads of manure, 

 loads of leaf mold brought from the woods, birds 

 and the winds, bring to this favored soil myriads 

 of plant life all struggling to use the store of nour- 

 ishment laid up for their betters. There are some 

 interesting and entirely unexpected and inexplicable 

 visitors that will appear without warning. The 

 better the work of preparing the border is done, 

 the more frequent and numerous the unbidden 

 guests. The more the soil is stirred the more little 

 tramp weeds appear. 



Sometimes something worth while appears. At 

 other times some noxious weed gets a foothold 

 before you know it. Highly bred plants from the 

 nurseries show strange fungus diseases and blight; 

 new varieties of bugs and worms come with new 

 plants, and there is really "something doing" every 

 day! 



A load of woods earth has great possibilities of 

 welcome as well as unwelcome visitors when its 

 myriads of seeds begin to sprout in a cultivated 

 garden. One load of dirt had a few of the pretty 

 little "Boys and Girls" (Collinsia), which I hadn't 

 seen in a number of years. This same load of 

 "leaf mold" also had more yellow dock in it than 

 I believed there was in the whole world — hun- 

 dreds and hundreds of little docks sprung up where 

 this soil was spread. It is a mean weed to get out of 

 the way when once its tap root gets sunk well 

 into the soil. 



There are plenty of indigenous pests, but it has 

 been my ill luck to import more than a plenty. I 

 now know that new plants will bear a close scrutiny 

 for insects, for fungus pests, and new and strange 

 weeds. I have one weed that I can't quite lose; 

 I don't know what it is except that it is pestiferous 

 and umbelliferous. It came with an order of spireas 

 from the nurseryman, and, the foliage closely 

 resembling one of the varieties, it was allowed to 

 grow and cover a nice space under the mistaken idea 

 that it was a spirea. The spireas blossomed but 

 the umbelliferous interloper made only a fine crop 

 of leaves so nearly like the spirea that it got by 

 safely. Last spring I was much surprised and 

 pleased at the alarming increase of the white, fluffy 

 spireas. When blooming time came, these spireas 

 seemed to change their nature. The real ones 

 sent up their spikes, but the large colony of near- 

 spireas sent up their characteristic flat top umbels, 

 and I realized I had secured another prize package. 



Having called this interloper so many names 

 myself, I decided it didn't make much difference 

 what the botanies called it, so I have never taken 

 the trouble to run it through a key. It has been 

 pulled up and dug up, but its long, wiry underground 

 root -stocks seem to ramble all over and, killed in one 

 place, reappear in another. 



But all the waifs from the greenhouses and nur- 

 series are not undesirables. I have a little patch 

 of a feathery fumitory, with spikes of yellow blos- 

 soms resembling in shape half of a Dutchman's 

 breeches, that is well worth a corner. It was a 

 chance seedling in .some woods earth. My first 

 snowdrop was an accidental bulb in an order of 



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