Butterfly Weed, with a root like the dock, is hard to establish, 
and now after three years I never get the glowing mass of color that I 
see on the roadside choked with dust and dried by droughts. But it is 
so artistic in a warm, grey-brown bowl and lasts so well in water that 
I am hoping for the best, regardless that it is much too intense for the 
other flowers in the garden. I tuck the blossom out of sight or cut it 
freely for the house rather than move it. 
Succory, a deep lavender in color, is so beautiful with Queen 
Ann's lace that, in spite of its raggedness, I am trying to establish it 
in the blue bed as well as Viper's Bugloss, which is a souvenir of the 
May Anchusa and wonderful for Japanese effects in flat bowls. No 
better yellow for the hardy aster bed can be planted than the Golden- 
rod, the feathery variety, color buttercup yellow, French chart, and, 
as hardy Asters need yellow to bring out their purples or violet blues, 
I find it more effective than using marigolds or zinnias from the seed 
bed. The variety called "seaside" Goldenrod has a heavy stalk 
and does not bloom in my garden until late September, but fills in a 
gap until the chrysanthemums come along, full and strong. 
Taken as a fist for an informal garden planting, these so-called 
weeds are very satisfactory, for, as I say, the enemies of plant life 
leave them alone, they demand very little attention and are so grate- 
ful for the garden soil and moisture after their struggle with oiled 
roads that I sympathize with them and let them flourish in peace, 
taking in return their color and desire to make themselves worthy 
to grow beside the fairer and frailer cousins. 
Charlotte Cowdrey Brown, 
(Mrs. S. A. Brown) Rumson Garden Club. 
Self-Control in the Small Garden 
The following advice is offered to those beginners who will have 
little, if any, assistance in their gardens. It is the outgrowth of 
experience. 
Make the size of your garden, to start with, smaller than you are 
sure you can care for. 
Weeding and cultivating, which should be done after every rain, 
are only two of the many things to be attended to. The beginner is 
apt to think that they will constitute most of the care of her garden, 
but there are many things besides: pruning, hard for the beginner; 
thinning out ; division of plants, some needing attention in the spring, 
like chrysanthemum, some in mid-summer, like iris and pyrethrum, 
some in the fall, like delphinium. There is spraying, too (the writer 
