. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. uced. Peas, like all other seed-bearingplants, will, so long as life remains, strive to per-petuate themselves, and it is interesling to watchthe struggles which a plant will make pushingforth crop after crop of blossoms in order to ful-fil its destiny; hence the importance of gatheringthe pods early before they got too old for same principal should be acted on in thecase of ail kinds of legumes. A Japanese Plant from Our Swamps. Thehumbug plant agent doubtless finds his dupesm
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. uced. Peas, like all other seed-bearingplants, will, so long as life remains, strive to per-petuate themselves, and it is interesling to watchthe struggles which a plant will make pushingforth crop after crop of blossoms in order to ful-fil its destiny; hence the importance of gatheringthe pods early before they got too old for same principal should be acted on in thecase of ail kinds of legumes. A Japanese Plant from Our Swamps. Thehumbug plant agent doubtless finds his dupesmost easily among town people. He takes ad-vantage of the absence of garden articles aboutthe surroundings of such and their craving fora touch of plant beauty. Usually thereforewhen he prates about wonderfal plants with un-heard of qualities to city people, his words fallin ready soil. An illustration of this was latelymet by the writer in New York city. In passingup a side street he found a vender of a wonder-ful Japanese Water plant standing on a streetcomer, with a liberal display of certain roots and. The Eaaily-fllled Water Pot. some samples in glass jars filled with water, on astand before him. He was handing out circularslike the one here illustrated, and usually had anattentive crowd around, listening to his plausi-ble sounding statements. The bulbs sold quitefreely at 20 cents each. Particular stress waslaid by the salesman on his warranty that theywould giow. He would have been equally safein wari-anting Dandelion roots to grow. The curious root he sold so far from being a Japwas that common swamp weed known as theArrow head, (Saoiltaria variabilw) whichabounds in swamps and muddy shores by themillion in all parts of our country. iSpi. POPULAR GARDENING. 175 How to Baise Good Seed. Doat make tbecommon mistake of waitiug until the end ofsummer and then letting the exhausted plants goto seed at will. Select vigorous plants justcoming into bloom that have yet borne but v
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