Children and gardens . to doit. But some day, when some pretty annual has shedits seed and come up by itself—some Poppy or Love-in-a-Mist, or whatever it may be, and you had left it atweeding-time, seeing that it was not one of the familiarweed seedlings, you will see what I mean about its un-usual strength. This is the way plants sow are three troublesome weeds, one annual, theothers perennial, that show quite early in spring. Theyare up in February, though, if you dont want to domuch gardening in February, it will not matter if youdont look out for them till March. They are
Children and gardens . to doit. But some day, when some pretty annual has shedits seed and come up by itself—some Poppy or Love-in-a-Mist, or whatever it may be, and you had left it atweeding-time, seeing that it was not one of the familiarweed seedlings, you will see what I mean about its un-usual strength. This is the way plants sow are three troublesome weeds, one annual, theothers perennial, that show quite early in spring. Theyare up in February, though, if you dont want to domuch gardening in February, it will not matter if youdont look out for them till March. They are a littleCress, Dock, and Dandelion ; we will take the Cressfirst. The little plantscome up early and lookneat and harmless. It isthe Hairy Bitter botanical name is Car-damine hirsuta — hirsutameans hairy. You thinkthe plant is quite smooth ;but if you look at the full- HAIRY BITTER CRESS. grown leaf quite close you will see tiny hairs upon the surface and at the edges. When it is young it looks like 26 CHILDREN AND GARDENS
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