. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. ound stems, which are verybrittle, and most tenacious oflife. The stems NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. are long and wiry, and support themselves byturning round any plants that may happen togrow near them, not only hiding them fromsight, but strangling them. So mischievousare they, that if they have been suffered toestablish themselves in a shrubbery, they willquickly injure or even kill strong and vigorousshrubs. This and couchgrass, or stroil, arethe greatest enemies, as weeds, that the gar-dener has to contend a
. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. ound stems, which are verybrittle, and most tenacious oflife. The stems NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. are long and wiry, and support themselves byturning round any plants that may happen togrow near them, not only hiding them fromsight, but strangling them. So mischievousare they, that if they have been suffered toestablish themselves in a shrubbery, they willquickly injure or even kill strong and vigorousshrubs. This and couchgrass, or stroil, arethe greatest enemies, as weeds, that the gar-dener has to contend against ; for they willentangle themselves among the roots of other plants, in which case they can only be eradi-cated by clearing the roots of the plants towhich they have attached themselves. Theyshould therefore be picked up as soon as theirleaves appear above the ground,—care beingat the same time taken to remove every par-ticle of root, or they will grow again. THE FIELD CONVOLVULUS Is another very mischievous weed, which canscarcely be eradicated after it has once esta-. Field Convolouhis blished itself in a garden. The roots are toughand creep widely ; the flowers are very pretty,light pink striped with red, and fragrant. These directions will enable you to distin-guish some of the worst kinds of weeds, but longexperience will alone enable you to detect themall. You will sometimes, perhaps, discoverthat you have been expending your pains innursing an unsightly weed, for which youhave rooted up a favourite plant, the habit ofwhich, in its young state, was unknown toyou. This will teach you the necessity ofaccurately observing the characters not only of full-grown plants, but of the tenderest seed-lings : you must learn also to distinguishweeds by their first leaves, and master thembefore they have mastered you. The gar-dener who does not begin to clear away weedsuntil they have thoroughly established them-selves, may be compared to a medical manwho does not prescribe rem
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