HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1913 
land beyond, and they are a joy in the 
winter landscape. 
It is along the side of the weedy car¬ 
riage-way, where the stones hold in place 
the banks of earth, that most of our 
wild growths triumph over circumstance, 
and weave their fabrics into flowers. 
The ground ivy, the Speedwell, the heal- 
all trail over the stones, here and there, 
and the lover of the blue flower finds a 
bit of azure in some waving, airy harebells, 
always vibrating with a breath of air. For 
blue there is also the chicory, than which 
there is no purer bit of azure under the 
sun — just a few roots. Though chicory 
has had its uses since the ancient Egyp¬ 
tians cultivated it for food, and though 
today it has its market value, it is a 
condemned name among farmers who 
would banish it from their fields. But in 
the locality of our weedy garden there has 
been no chicory until one day when the 
writer and an aid dug a bit, by devotion 
to the cause, from a macadamized roadway 
— -just one little shaft with a bud of blue — - 
and transplanted it. Some day the rash 
act will be repented? No matter; the time 
is not yet. 
Of course, Canterbury bells have found 
a place, and somewhere a bit of Innocence 
lies sleeping until it is time to weave at 
its buds of blue. The linarias, too, have 
their own time for looking out among the 
grasses, blue as the sky, while the little 
lobelias cluster around them for company, 
on their long wands, decorated with paler 
coloring. 
Later the great lobelia keeps up the blue 
in the pageant, lingering sometimes pretty 
close to the pools in the buried tubs where 
the pickerel weeds and the arrow-heads 
are at home — a stately, thrifty growth, 
usually, with its wreath of foliage and 
its spike of flowers worthy of notice in 
any garden. Then there is the sea holly 
with blue stems as well as blue tinted 
flowers; and also the fringes of the gen¬ 
tians. 
In white among the weeds and grasses, 
we find the Star of Bethlehem, the pearly 
everlasting, the yarrow which, with us, 
from one root sends blooms of clear sab- 
batia pink, as well as those of white. The 
starry campion has its weaving-place, giv¬ 
ing us in season its airy white fringed 
bells, on stems stirring with every breeze. 
A little later come representatives of the 
white snakeroots with their clustered white 
tubular blossoms, and the culver-roots in 
tall, graceful companies with their many 
spikes of minute white flowers that vibrate 
with every breath of passing air. Then 
there are the sweet-pepper bushes with 
spikes of flowers and freight of bees, and 
by the lily tubs in due time, come the buds 
of the turtle heads and the gentians, both 
closed and fringed. 
These all come up to meet us as the 
months call their names, come up from the 
medley of weeds inconsistent with any re¬ 
spectable garden, but there would be no 
thanks awaiting friend or disheartened 
gardener who did a turn toward pulling 
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