. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. etle. The shrilling locust slowly sheaths His dagger-voice, and creeps awayBeneath the brooding leaves where breathes. The zephyr of the dying naked star has waded throughThe purple shallows of the faltering as falls the dewIt drips Its misty garden blooms. On the tides of beetle booms adown the gloomsAnd bumps along the katydid Is rasping at The silence from the tangled broom;On drunken wings the flitting bat Goes staggering athwart the gl
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. etle. The shrilling locust slowly sheaths His dagger-voice, and creeps awayBeneath the brooding leaves where breathes. The zephyr of the dying naked star has waded throughThe purple shallows of the faltering as falls the dewIt drips Its misty garden blooms. On the tides of beetle booms adown the gloomsAnd bumps along the katydid Is rasping at The silence from the tangled broom;On drunken wings the flitting bat Goes staggering athwart the gloom;The toodstool bulges through the weeds, And lavishly to left and rightThe flrefiles, like golden sown about the slumbrous blooms. On floods of beetle booms adown the gloomAnd bumps along the dusk. —J. W. RHeu in Boston Trarisvript. The Orchard. Robin Redbreast, Robin Redbreast, Tell me truly, It you who stole my Cherries From the tree to-day?Such a lot of glossy Blackhearts, Ripe and juicy, too;But, alas! somebody stole them, Robin, was It you? —Farm Pick off the first buds from Dahlias. NasturtiumB increase readily from slips. Canada ThistleB have died out on our lawn- We think better of the Weigelas every year. Ferns require a good deal of water in sumijier. As a preventive of fungous diseases of plantsdrought seems to be in the lead. Several species of Water Lilies are at homealong the water front at Woodbanks. For leaf curl (caused by aphis) on Saowballbush, keep moistened Tobacco stems under thebranches. Sweet Williams are effective and desirable asgarden flowers, but rather bunchy for cutflowers. A manure mulch for Asters. Let the manurebe finely divided. Watering through this willbe all right. Some may not know that Mignonette can bekept as a pot plant for years provided you allowno seeds to develop. The Ivy-leaf Geranium especially the finedouble varieties, are unexcelled for the frontline of window boxes. How to m
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