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ULY, I 913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
57 
A Weedy Garden 
(Continued from page 7) 
any up. Who knows but he might pull up 
a bit of sod where a sabbatia was hiding, 
and who would spare a sabbatia, even if he 
had many? There never was a fairer 
pink and never will be, than that which 
has sprung up from amid our untamed 
grasses. The pretty pink Seduin spectatis 
lives close by the sabbatias and can afford 
to, being of corresponding shade, and the 
violet flowers of the monkey-weeds, the 
dwelling-places of wild roses. 
Then there are the false dragon-heads, 
with violet-pink, purple-veined flowers in 
spikes held erectly two or more feet from 
the ground, and willing to be happy if 
finding themselves on an arid border, or 
down beside the lily tubs. The great wil¬ 
low herb, to whom we feed crumbled mor¬ 
tar, is not so exquisite as the former in 
color, but is indeed a flower-decked wand 
of beauty, its violet-pink blooms being 
flung four or five feet in the air above 
the slender willow-like leaves, in them¬ 
selves affairs of beauty. 
When we think of the yellow there are 
lilies for the different seasons, five or six 
of them, maybe more; the tall Burr Mari¬ 
gold and other children of the sunflower 
family; the St. John’s worts from the 
“shrubby” bush downward; the loose¬ 
strifes, tansey, the richly tinted butterfly 
weeds and various little friends who come 
to the surface at-blooming time. 
The thoughts of the reds flood us with 
memories of columbine and bee balm, of 
scarlet field lily, and that crowned-one 
among flowers the Lobelia cardinalis, 
whose spike of blooms is dyed in nature’s 
richest crimson. 
But there are rougher weeds than these 
in this untamed garden, for here you may 
find a bit of purple of the iron-weeds, the 
crushed strawberry of the Joe-Pye weeds, 
the white of the boneset and Queen Anne’s 
Lace, the yellow of Brown-eyed Susans 
and of the army of goldenrods, the parti¬ 
colored dangling blooms of the milkweeds, 
and before the winds of autumn sweep 
among the brown-white grasses, there will 
come the asters — purple, blue and white—- 
in many a starry cluster, the farewell gift 
from our garden weeds. 
To us there is satisfaction in seeing one 
little friend after another lift itself where 
it would be and conduct its spinning, un¬ 
trammeled by the rules of landscape gar¬ 
deners or trimmed borders, where even the 
butterflies seem to know that the place is 
nature’s own. Geo. Klingle 
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