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by Ralph Miller
So I have to boast to my
friends about my weeds
and I do have two beauties
in particular. On either
side of the wineberry
bushes (courtesy of an
unknown distributor) grow-
ing in and out of the front
branches of a hemlock as
one approaches the rear or
west side of the yard are 2
magnificent specimens of
Sonchus oleraceous other-
wise known as the common
Sow-Thistle. There is
nothing common about
these. One is 8 feet 7
inches tall, and the other 8
feet 10 inches. - I measured
them with the help of a
stepladder and a 10 foot
tape measure, - One of the
leaves measured 17 inches
long and 12 1/4 inches
wide, a fair size I must say.
These specimens reflect the
advantage of not being a
gardener, otherwise they
might have been yanked
out long ago. If you are
wondering whether per-
chance you might have
such a variety, look for a
medium tall plant with
stouth smooth stalk, light
green leaves sharply in-
cised and cleft somewhat
like a dandelion leaf with
sharp pointed lobes clasp-
ing the stem and a cluster
of small yellow dandelion-
like flowers at the top.
Purslane also comes to
mind, the almost prostrate
potherb with fat reddish or
greenish, juicy stems, thick
fleshy green leaves and
inconspicuous yellow
flowers, of which I have
pulled at least a peach
basket full. Icouldn’t bring
myself to cook them but
threw them on the compost
pile to help in another way.
As you probably know,
treacle mustard, Canada
thistle, and the common
sow-thistle are naturalized
from Europe and so also
reportedly was purslane.
However a recent issue of
Smithsonian magazine
notes that recently two
scientists had found pollen
and seeds of Portulaca
oleracea (our purslane) in
precisely datable sediment
layers (before the time of
Columbus) of Crawford
Lake near Toronto and
purslane was apparently

say is cursed with an inapt
name. It is true the catbird
occasionally emits a short
grating alarm note, remind-
ing one somewhat of the cry
of a cat, if one approaches.
R t0o closely. But it is one of
used by agricultural Indi-
ans as a potherb just as in
Europe. Which does not
prove much except that
there is always something
new to be learned and that
even botany is not always
precise.
But enough of weeds.
Our re.’ ‘ent birds have
continue. . “e a pleasure
as weed seed, grub and
insect eaters, as well as for
their songs and grace of
flight (some). I don’t know
how much the weather was
responsible but we had a
noticeable number of
casualties throughout this
spring in the bird world as
evidenced by numerous
cracked or unhatched eggs
lying about the grounds
and at least 7 dead
nestlings or immature birds
which we saw. But this
hasn’t seemed to affect the
numbers about here appre-
ciably. Among the resident
birds are a pair of son,
sparrows and a pair of
Carolina wrens who appear
to be nesting in the yard
area, although we haven't
spotted their nests as yet,
and who have especially
graced our place with song.
There is another songster
whose song many hear. but
little suspect from whence
it comes. I am speaking of
the catbird whom one could

the most accomplished
singers we have. Its melody
is rich and varied and at
times even seems to ex-
press moods. There are at
least two pair currently
nesting here, one in the
rose hedge where it can be
seen slipping in to feed its
§ young.
For some time there was
entertainment out one of
the corner bedroom win-
dows where a purple
grackle had built its nest 5
feet out and slightly down-
ward from the window in
the top of a viburnum bush.
As the adults approached
the nest with food, a series
of small cries would go up
and, as if at the push of a
button, three small yellow-
billed, gaping mouths lined
inside with bright red
would automatically rear
up and out of the nest.
Some time after a storm
one week we happened to
notice both nest and nest-
lings gone but we hadn’t
kept tabs closely enough to
hazard a guess as to
whether they had grown
enough to escape the nest
or whether the nest had
been blown down and them
with it, although we never
did spot any trace of the
nest blown.
As an odd note I might
point out that the small
white egrets you see flying
overhead toward the river
in small flocks in late
afternoon or evening are
usually egrets apparently
headed for the islands in
the Susquehanna for the
night.
There have not béen any
great number or variety of
butterflies about the yard,
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DOLLAR DAYS [t's easy to raise a good crop of weeds
mostly white cabbage
butterflies and several var-
ieties of small blues. But
last week. one of the
so-called thistle butterflies,
a red admiral, fluttered
across the lawn, through
the shrubbery and out of
sight. If you see a butterfly
about 2 inches across with a
dark ground color, with
bright orange red bands
across the forewing and at
the other margins of the
hindwing, and with prom-
inent white spots on a black
area at the apex of the
forewing, you can be pretty
sure it is the Red Admiral
(Vanessa atalanta).
For the last, I have been
saving one of my discover-
ies relative to one of the
reasons my flower borders
have turned into the jungle
they are. I wrote on an
earlier day how I had been
pulling goatsbeard plants
by the handsfull out of the
flower borders. 1left a very
few as curiosities. One
attained a fair size. Since
those large seed ball heads
seem to contain quite a few
seeds and are so well-
equipped to float like a
parachute, I theorized that
perhaps nature herself had
had a hand in the wide
distribution of plants in my
garden. So I counted the
seed balls and flower heads
on that goatsbeard plant
and came up with a count of
97 on the first try and 10S
on the second. Then I
counted the number of
seeds on two different seed
balls and came up with a
count of 94 and 115 seeds
respectively. Therefor I
figure (averaging out) that
100 seed balls with 100
seeds each would come to
about 10,000 seeds for one
goatsbeard plant. 1 am
beginning to understand
why I am such a prolific
weed grower.

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