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are long and wiry, and support themselves by 
turning round any plants that may happen to 
grow near them, not only hiding them from 
sight, but strangling them. So mischievous 
are they, that if they have been suffered to 
establish themselves in a shrubbery, they will 
quickly injure or even kill strong and vigorous 
shrubs. This and couchgrass, or stroll, are 
the greatest enemies, as weeds, that the gar- 
dener has to contend against ; for they will 
entangle themselves among the roots of other 
plants, in which case they can only be eradi- 
cated by clearing the roots of the plants to 
which they have attached themselves. They 
should therefore be picked up as soon as their 
leaves appear above the ground, — care being 
at the same time taken to remove every par- 
ticle of root, or they will grow again. 
THE FIELD CONVOLVULUS 
Is another very mischievous weed, which can 
scarcely be eradicated after it has once esta- 
Field Convolouhis 
blished itself in a garden. The roots are tough 
and creep widely ; the flowers are very pretty, 
light pink striped with red, and fragrant. 
These directions will enable you to distin- 
guish some of the worst kinds of weeds, but long 
experience will alone enable you to detect them 
all. You will sometimes, perhaps, discover 
that you have been expending your pains in 
nursing an unsightly weed, for which you 
have rooted up a favourite plant, the habit of 
which, in its young state, was unknown to 
you. This will teach you the necessity of 
accurately observing the characters not only 
of full-grown plants, but of the tenderest seed- 
lings : you must learn also to distinguish 
weeds by their first leaves, and master them 
before they have mastered you. The gar- 
dener who does not begin to clear away weeds 
until they have thoroughly established them- 
selves, may be compared to a medical man 
who does not prescribe remedies for a disease 
until it has assumed its most virulent 
characters. 
In its present form, the little volume,. 
" Gardening for Children," has our warmest 
commendations. 
NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
• MiMULUS TRICOLOR, Hartweg (three-co- 
loured Monkey-flower).' — Scrophulariacese § 
AntirrhinideEe-G-ratiolese. — A very pretty little 
annual plant, growing erect about a foot high, 
soft, and covered with delicate glandular hairs. 
The leaves are opposite, pale green, oblong- 
lanceolate, tapering to the base, slightly 
toothed on the margin ; the leaves are an 
inch or more in length. The flowers are 
numerous and pretty, not very large, but 
about two inches long, having a long and very 
slender tube, which above the calyx widens 
into a funnel-shaped limb, with an oblique 
border, cut into five nearly equal rounded 
lobes ; these flowers grow singly and nearly 
sessile in the axils of the leaves ; the general 
colour is bright pink, with a deep crimson 
spot at the base of each lobe, and a bright 
yellow stain on the lower lip. Native of 
California, in the plains of the Sacramento 
