Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1895 — Wild Flowers in the City. [ARTICLE]

Wild Flowers in the City.

New York Sun. Onb man with a small city yard and a small income to match has had some pleasure in raising wild flowers during the summer. He gathered them in fields arid about the edge of town and tried to give, soil to them like that of their habitat. A moth mullein was kept in bloom for six week by clipping the blossoms as they faded. A small daisy quadrupled in size and was full of flowers. The tritium bore a royal blossom. Several varieties of fern drooped os transplanting, but after a week of watering braced up and pushed ouli a host of fronds. White and blue violets increased and multiplied, and star grass, blue-eyed grass, hawki weeding so on produced blossoms of marked beauty. He believes thaf fine I ©use plants could be made from i many despised weeds.