; . . BACKYARD BOTANY 



It the week/ end ia iiTSposslblc, turn 

 I naturalist In your own bacltyai-d. And 

 If you have no backyard, search the 

 patch of grass in the square or tlie 

 vacant lot behind the factory. Even In 

 the shadow of Bi-ooklyn Bridge it is 

 possible to botanize and, unfortunately, 

 there is all too much material for the 

 entomologist in and about New Tork 

 houses. 



Wherever grass seed scatters, weeds 

 fly with It, There are, first 

 dellonjs; and any backya 

 knows how a dandelion, respj 

 little cultivation ancW'eijlmzirtbn. Thcr 

 alw.^ys is plantain, WitliJre1r»arse, 

 I leaves and the stM^t. I 

 [which do its servieSJjCor fit 

 l is Ukely to be knotwpod, 

 taste, but its insignificant, pViljilWi floW' 

 I ers come later. And IhercMi? almost 

 1 sure to be tliat tiny pom'fP tlie lawn 

 for lot, the thyme-leaVwi speedwell, with 

 1 flowerlets (already in bloom, even in the 

 grass of Union Scfuarc), le.<is 

 sixteenth of 



soft, V)luish-whitR,J[Mth piirnlish stripes. 

 They would ttg^mou.s tlowi-rs if ten 

 times U^ciiAwle. In ,Hpot.s along tliat 

 desolaiL<#r<i\t:-h which murks Iho route 

 or slicpherd's 

 lodgment 

 lis. Soon 



and pr 



if thci-p arc not ton jiiMny cave-ins or 

 nil-iri.«, the little seed ijods. which have 

 iiaiiip lor two thou- 

 ilt' a dozen iang-uag-es, 

 tlie riKins concrete 

 is, bourse de bergers, 

 Hirtcnta.schel, .sliepliei'd'f; purse — what 

 could be more incongrimus than to find 

 al plant so named in the lieart of the 

 srimy cltjcj [New: Xork Herald ECribum 



given the platit it 

 .sand years and in I 

 will Ijo nodding- t 



