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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
OcToBeER, 1908 
Another View of Roadside 
Gardening 
[The article by Mr. McAdam in the 
July GaRpDEN MacaAZINE-FArRMING entitled 
“Join the Roadside Gardening Club Now” 
has been read with considerable enthu- 
siasm, and a large number of commendatory 
letters have been received. A rather dif- 
ferent view is expressed in the communica- 
tion given below. The moral is obvious 
“Don’t sow seeds of plants that are likely 
to become noxious weeds; rather give 
encouragement to the best of the native 
flora.” The letter follows.—Ep1Tor. | 
While in sympathy with the general ideas 
of Thomas McAdam in his article on road- 
sidegardeningin the July GARDEN MAGAZINE- 
FarminG, I know that the practical agri- 
culturist will take quite a different view. 
In this part of California agriculture is 
carried to its extreme scientific possibilities. 
There are no fences or walls between adjoin- 
ing properties or along the roadsides, every- 
thing being cultivated clean. I have always 
had a liking for goldenrod and finding a 
clump of the California variety near my 
home one autumn, I transplanted two or 
three of the roots to my yard. Under 
cultivation and irrigation they doubled in 
height and were a beautiful mass of gold 
the next season, in spite of the fact that 
the plants had been moved while in blossom. 
The following season, however, the under- 
ground runners had so well done their part 
that the plant was appearing between fence 
boards and along bed borders and if I had 
not utterly cast it out, root and branch, 
just when I did, I should have had trouble 
for years. This is to show that the indis- 
criminate sowing of “weeds” may do a harm 
that will pass beyond remedy. 
Mr. McAdam says: “There is not a single 
weed that any first-class farmer need really 
fear.” I am acquainted with many such 
men, one of whom uttered despairing words 
over the bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), 
one of our most beautiful wild roadside 
covers; I have seen vineyards worth $500 
an acre hopelessly abandoned to Bermuda 
grass and turned into stock pastures, and 
others, despite most desperate efforts, ruined 
by Johnson grass. The latter, originally 
introduced as a supposedly valuable forage 
plant, has become such a detrimental “weed” 
that in this state it is a misdemeanor to per- 
mit it to mature seed on one’s premises. 
In one of the counties in this state the 
beautiful yellow-blossomed Spanish broom 
(Spartium junceum) was planted along the 
roadsides. In a few years it spread like a 
dense willow thicket and I am informed the 
supervisors have spent thousands of dollars 
trying to eradicate it, for it has clogged 
drainage and encroached on road and private 
property. When, in the spring, it is in 
bloom, it gives miles of beauty, but it has 
cost in sweat and pain more than it is prob- 
ably worth. Beware, I say, how you sow 
broadcast unless you know well your plants! 
If Mr. McAdam perhaps thinks the 
California farmer is not energetic enough, let 
him ride through rural New England and 
