IN A NEGLECTED GARDEN. 
The he • 'h 
The siur.iv iiur(i<K-k choketi its slender neighbor 
The spicv pink. All tokens were eifac'd 
Of human eare and labor." 
Asters have tow ert-i i over ^golden-rods, only to be throttled 
in turn by the eonM i ietin.y: bind-weed. They die, Laocoon- 
like.stran.iiled in >cipenune folds. The prehensile balsam- 
apple {Echinocystis lohata) has laid hold of everythini^ 
w ithin reach. Long trails of it hang on the clothes-lines ; 
testoons droop from the fences; and high aloft on a peach 
tree are swinging ropes and cables. It is easy to see how, 
in a tropical forest, the lianes pla_v so jjrominent a part. 
In another corner of the 3'ard the star-cucumber 
(Sicvos), cousin of the balsam-apple, and even more of a 
gypsy, has scaled the ash-bin. It has generous, heart- 
shaped, lobed leaves, and a prickly, uncanm-, star-shaped 
