288 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA 
THINGS AND THOUGHTS 
(Continued from page 266.) 
learns about the wildings is regarded somewhat askance ; 
is looked upon somewhat as a high brow. More's the 
pity. We onlv know halt the game who confine ourselves 
to the studies of cultivated plants. That is making of 
gardening and plant lore a merely artificial thing. It 
seems like learning words without a knowledge of the 
alphabet — which is possible, of course, to a certain point. 
And all our garden plants are wildings somewhere on 
the globe — except those that have been bred up by man's 
agency or selected by him under domestication. 
There are many handsome native plants in the fields, 
woods, by the roadside, and by the lakes at this time. Get 
a simple book like Miss Lounsbury's "Wild Flowers," or 
the pocket hand book of Doubleday Page, or Asa Gray's 
"Field, Forest and Garden Botany," the latter being a 
book that everybody who lives much among the flowers 
should have. Collect a few of the more conspicuous 
flowers — you will know near enough what they are be- 
cause of their likeness to the shower garden types. Lit- 
tle by little the names can be learned and at the same time 
their relationship to other plants. Summer is the best of 
all times for this kind of work. The most ubiquitous 
plant in New England fields now is the oxeye Daisy, 
which is not a native actually, but was brought over by 
our English fore-fathers. In half shady, cooler places the 
shrubby Rubus Odoratus, with big pink blooms is the 
chief gem. It is a lovely plant at its best and is thought 
well of in European gardens. The little Blue-eyed Grass, 
the Yellow star Grass, the bright Yellow Baptisia tinc- 
toria, or false indigo ; the Tall Fleabane ( Erigeron Phila- 
delphicus) the beautiful blue Chicory, one of the loveliest 
and most widespread of the wild -plants, which is another 
of the Old World plants that have made their home here, 
are each and all delightful. The big Reed like water 
plants, such as the Reed Mace (Typha latifolia), the Bur 
Reed ( Sparganium ) in three species, the Bulrush ( Scir- 
pus lacustris ) and many other handsome Sedges afford 
abundant material for note taking. Linaria vulgaris or 
Butter and Eggs, Bladder Campion, Feverfew, Queen 
Anne's Lace, Jewel Weed, Pleurisy Root, Milk Weed, 
Bitter Sweet, Arrow Root, Purple Loosestrife, Evening 
Primrose, Cudweed, Meadow Rue, Valerian, and many 
other is conspicuous at this time. Down in the damp 
woods the skunk cabbage grows and in the glades the 
White Swamp Honeysuckle, or in high open places the 
Mountain Laurel. Everywhere there are plants of the 
rarest interest. 
A BARGAIN 
A PRETTY girl at one of the tables in a charity 
bazaar offered a bunch of roses t(i a gentleman. 
"How much?" said the gentleman. 
"Five dollars." 
"Preposterous ! However, maybe you'll sell me half 
of it?" 
"Why, certainly," said the lady ; with a clip of the 
scissors she cut the roses in two and handed him the 
stems. 
"Two dollars and a half, if you please." 
He paid without another word. 
X 
ANCHOR POST FENCES 
t';- 
FOR twenty-tive years Anchor Past Fences 
have been selected by discriminating 
purchasers because of their excellence 
in all mechanical details. 
We build fences for lawn and garden in a 
large variety of designs. Also arbors, trel- 
lises, espaliers, garden arches, tree- guards 
flower-bed guards, etc. Tennis enclosures 
and back stops, chicken-run and dog-kennel 
enclosures, aviaries, farm and pasture fences, 
stock paddock. 
We have separate catalogues 
describing our various products. 
Write for the one you need. 
ANCHOR POST IRON WORKS 
Builders of Wrought Iron Railings and Entrance Gates 
17 Cortlandt Street South (13th floor) New York 
A Bundle of 
Greenhouse Suggestions 
IF you are thinking of building a greenhouse 
and want to see a goodly collection of houses, 
both small and large, then our new catalog will 
exactly meet your requirements. It is entirely dif- 
ferent from any published 
Different, because Hitcliings' 
different. 
Send for a copy. 
S HitcKingfs ^ Cpntpany^ 
((1)1 c-jsiyiiiigx 
on tlie subject, 
greenhouses are 
K^|M General Offices and Factory: Elizabeth, N. J. 
^' \ KW VOI^K r.OSTON PHILADELPHIA 
iioa'lway 
r.OSTON 
4fl I'cilerai .Street 
i 
((Hi 
m 
m 
m 
