_Editor Mayflower:_
I believe the main trouble in growing Verbenas is in not getting them
started early enough. They grow very slowly at first and if they are not
good strong plants when set out are almost sure to die. If you get them
started late do not think to hurry them by putting them out with the
others that grow faster. Wait patiently until they are at least an inch
and a half high and their quick growth will surprise you. And I will say
to comfort some one who can not have flowers because the pigs sometimes
get out, that I have never seen a pig touch a Verbena though I have lost
Pinks and other flowers growing beside them. There is another flower
that grows wild here that covered a quarter of our pasture last fail yet
was not touched. The leaves resemble a Verbena some but are wider and
not so thick; the main stalk is about two feet high when full grown and
the branches run like a Verbena. The flowers are red and yellow mixed
and about the size and shape of Rose Moss. They last one day and a
hollow sphere-shaped seedpod takes their place. Can anyone tell me what
the name is?--_Mrs. Nellie Fitzgerald, So. Dak._