Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15

and their grace, their delicacy, their su-
can express. They are pure white, they are
! rose pink, they are clear, heavenly blue,
and some are bright scarlet, some crimson,
some lavender, some have dark, rich CEN
tiers, some are white within and pink with
out, some of the lavender flowers have a
ring Of rich red in the center, and they are
| all variegated in endless charming ways.
I hope you have not been impatient If
any of your seeds failed to appear within a
| certain time. The state of the weather
makes all the difference in the world. When
| they do appear you must watch well for the
! weeds between their ranks, and so must all
the gardeners in the other gardens There
| will be clover; that comes up with little
circular leaf and has a root that seems to
reach all round the under world it goes
| everywhere and holds on to the earth with
| grip which is unequaled by anything that
| grows Don't leave an atom of the root in
the ground, for if you do it will send up
shoots, and if not watched fill all the space
in a few weeks.
Then there is chick-weed, a delicate weed
most difficult to manage, because when you
try to pull it up the tender stalk is likely to
break just where it leaves the ground, and
| all the root will send up fresh shoots to
strangle your flowers if you leave it unmo-
Tested. Then there are the pigweeds, rag
weed, shepherds purse, mallow, mustard
and many others; these come first.
The second crop consists largely of quitch
| grass, the very worst of all, and purseley, of
which Charles Dudley Warner discourses
so amusingly in his '.My Summer in Gar
den." He has really made the purseley IA
nous. The roots of the qultch grass are
strong as steel and run rapidly everywhere
beneath the surface, sending up tender
shoots that break off when you touch them.
Get hold of the root and follow it up and
pull out every fiber. Purseley has fiat,
olive-green leaf and red, feshy stems, and
runs over the top of the ground in mat
| But this is easily disposed of. Only it keeps
| coming from time to time all summer.
| You must watch for it and pull it up faith
fully.
Thin out your ranks as soon as the plants
| get their second leaf-leave three inches be-
tween each two plants side by side. Water
| every night, a few weeks, and your whole
garden will soon be covered with its lovely
green.
BY the 1st of July the pretty buds will
begin to rise on the long fine STEMS and in
few days the whole bed will be waving
mass of delicate loom, SO graceful, so
exquisite that you will be enchanted
with it.
The same rule holds good with this as
with other flowers, ''Gather! gather! gatherp'
if you want an endless succession Of bloom.
Don't let your flowers exhaust their strength
in forming seeds. Cut them (and by the
way, every gardener must have common,
cheap pair of scissors for cutting flowers, to
break the stems or pull them is most dis
astrous and cruel fashion) every day; follow
the stalk down as far as you can find it and
cut it as far as possible; few buds and
leaves will go with it, but there is such
wealth of flowers you can spare the buds.
Tall crystal glasses are best for these
flowers, and they are perfectly beautiful
mixed in all their colors 1 have rainbow
tinted she'll in which 1 hang them under
chandelier; they repeat all the colors in the
shell and are vision Of loveliness never to
be forgotten. CELIA THAxTER.