. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. ANNUALS. coaxing along the Trumpet Flower as it clambered, was altogether unique. I was informed that the American Ivy was unfit for a tree garniture, its embrace being too tenacious—like our evils. Therefore an English bishop once wrote : " The Ivy, fairest plant to seize. And promptest on the neighb'ring trees. O'er bole and branch, with leaves that shine All glossy, bright, tenacious twine ; And the else naked woodland scene Clothe with a raiment fresh and green. Fair is that Ivy twine to see ! But as
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. ANNUALS. coaxing along the Trumpet Flower as it clambered, was altogether unique. I was informed that the American Ivy was unfit for a tree garniture, its embrace being too tenacious—like our evils. Therefore an English bishop once wrote : " The Ivy, fairest plant to seize. And promptest on the neighb'ring trees. O'er bole and branch, with leaves that shine All glossy, bright, tenacious twine ; And the else naked woodland scene Clothe with a raiment fresh and green. Fair is that Ivy twine to see ! But as ye love the goodly tree, O rend away the clasping wreath, 'Twill pay the kind support with death ; Ah, that beneath such semblance fair. Should lurk, conceal'd, such deadly snare!" The shrubbery of this garden was old-fashioned, but arranged with finest taste. In front of the large bay window, Hollyhocks and Dahlias flourished in a bed six feet wide. .1 had never seen Fuchsias at their best, and their nook under three Birches grown near toge- ther was a charming sight. Roses in borders and in beds, and annuals of every kind, I thought, greeted us along the walks. I greatly wondered how he could achieve so much beauty ; but his small greenhouse—where his Hoyas clambered—which held about three hundred plants, solved the prob- lem, and I thought how infinitely greater the satisfaction of this garden than the delusive vanities of the outside world. M. Agatha Hoskins. Newport^ Vt. ANNUALS. THE inexpensive annual, like children, so trouble- some and yet so lovely, are not to be neglected or despised. Most of them grow with little or no care, and these correspond to the natural good innate in mankind, while others, far lovelier and consequently more prized, require minute attention. These, like the higher qualities of the soul, are often considered too much trouble, and are left to the painstaking few. The garden teaches us "it is more blessed to give than to receive.'
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