THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Common name, botan¬ 
ical name, and dura¬ 
tion of life. 
Color, size and arrange¬ 
ment of flowers. 
Sections where in¬ 
jurious. 
Method of seed distri¬ 
bution; vegetative 
propagation of the 
perennials. 
Place of growth and 
products injured. 
Smartweed (Polygonum 
Light rose; 1-16 inch; 
Maine to Minnesota, 
Wind carrying matured 
Moist, rich soils; hoed 
yennsylcanicum) , A. 
racemes. 
Florida, and Texas. 
plants. 
crops and young 
grass seedings. 
Smartweed, marsh 
smartweed, devil’s 
shoestring (Polygonum 
Rose color; 1-16 inch; 
spikes. 
Indiana to Iowa. 
Wind and farm ma¬ 
chinery; rootstocks. 
Wet land, prairie, and 
muck soils; hoed 
crops, hay, pasture. 
muhlenbergii) , A. 
Sorrel, sheep sorrel, 
horse sorrel (Rumex 
Red; y 8 inch; panicles. 
Entire United States. 
In clover seed; creep¬ 
ing roots. 
Meadows and pastures. 
acetosella), P. 
Sow thistle, perennial 
sow thistle, field sow 
Yellow; % inch; heads. 
Maine to Minnesota. 
Wind; running root¬ 
stocks. 
Grain fields and hoed 
crops. 
thistle (Sonchus arven- 
sis ), P. 
Squirreltail grass, 
squirrel grass, foxtail, 
wild barley (Hordeum 
Green; spike with long 
bristly glumes. 
Minnesota to Texas and 
California. 
Hay, animals, wind. 
Meadows and pastures; 
barbed seeds produce 
sores on live stock. 
jubatum), A. 
Thistle, Canada thistle 
(Cirslum arvense), P. 
Purple; % inch; heads. 
Maine to Pennsylvania 
and Washington. 
Wind, in hay and straw 
and in clover and 
grass seed; creeping 
roots. 
All crops. 
Thistle, common this- 
Reddish purple; 1 
Maine to Virginia and 
Wind, in alfalfa, clover, 
Pastures, meadows, and 
tie, bull thistle (Gir- 
inch; heads. 
Washington. 
and rass seeds. 
winter wheat. 
sium lanceolatum) , B. 
Wild ~arrot (Daucus 
carota), B. 
White; very small; 
umbels. 
Maine and Virginia to 
the Mississippi. 
In foreign clover and 
Alfalfa seed; carried 
by animals and wind. 
Meadows and pastures. 
Wild oats (Arena fa- 
tuat, A. 
Green; panicles; sim¬ 
ilar to oats. 
Wisconsin to Washing¬ 
ton. 
In seed oats. 
Oat fields; lawns in¬ 
jurious to stock. 
Wild omon, garlic (Al- 
Flowers rare; umbels 
Rhode Island to 
Seeds rare; bulblets 
Everywhere; wheat 
lium vineale), P. 
with bulblets. 
Georgia and west to 
Missouri. 
carried in wheat; un¬ 
derground bulbs. 
and dairy products. 
Winter cress, yellow 
Yellow; % inch; ra- 
Maine to Virginia and 
In grain, clover, and 
Grain fields, pastures, 
rocket (Barbarea vul¬ 
garis), P. 
cemes. 
westward. 
grass seeds. 
ani meadows. 
EFFECTS OF THE PAST WINTER ON EVERGREENS 
Considering what an exceptionally mild winter the 
one just passed has been, the damage done to evergreens 
in the vicinity of Philadelphia, is rather unusual. In 
numerous instances, well established plants of Retin- 
ispora plmnosa and varieties, Thuya occidentalis were 
entirely killed out. 
Rhododendrons suffered very much, where they were 
exposed, and of course all the tenderer kinds of ever¬ 
greens. but after observing the effects of last winter, one 
begins to wonder if it is not time to revise opinions as to 
the hardiness of the different kinds, for instance Retin- 
ispora squarrosa seems to have stood better than some 
supposedly hardier. 
The Junipers all stood the winter well, as did Retin- 
ispora obtasa varieties. 
From observations, it does seem, however, as if winter 
injury was from wind rather than cold, as it was notice¬ 
able those plants suffered most that were most exposed 
to it. The outside plants often being seared and brown 
while another of the same variety, only a few feet away, 
would be uninjured. 
Then again the least damage was done to those kinds 
that are native to the dryer regions, and the most damage 
to those that thrive best under humid conditions. 
The conclusion the writer came to after observing the 
damage in many localities and exposures, is that it w as 
done in a very short period when the conditions of sun, 
frost and wind were just right, or rather “just wrong” 
from the horticulturist’s point of view. 
GARDENING 
I do not like to dig and till the garden—it’s too hard a 
chore; I'd rather take a dollar bill and buy my onions at 
the store. When first the vernal breezes blow, men feel 
desire to hew the soil, and with their spades and rakes 
they go, and sing and chortle as they toil. Rut vernal 
breezes soon expire; the sizzling w ind of summer blows, 
and sets the toiler's beard afire, and tans his neck and 
bakes his nose. And as he sweats 'neath burning skies, 
and gives the noxious weeds a w hack, a million ants and 
bugs and flies craw 1 up his legs and bite his hack. And 
tlien he hates his sawed-off farm, he growls enough for 
seven gents; his cauliflowers lose all their charm, his 
string beans look like twenty cents. Oh, I have gar¬ 
dened in the past, and know the fervor born of spring 
glows bright a while, but does not last; it is an evan¬ 
escent thing. I do not like the rake and hoe, I will not 
ply them any more; when I want turnips I will go and 
buy the blamed things at the store. Walt Mason. 
