. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. es bud, and the grass blades are safe In the kindly earth, and warm-In the upper world there Is sleet and wait for the robins true, clear note,For the sound of a drifting wing afloat;For the laughter bright of an April showerTo call and wake you sweet Crocus brave-heart Crocus said never a paused to listen for note of laugh of rain-drop ... In rough green vestAnd golden bonnet, herself she dressedBy the light of a glow-worms friendly spark
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. es bud, and the grass blades are safe In the kindly earth, and warm-In the upper world there Is sleet and wait for the robins true, clear note,For the sound of a drifting wing afloat;For the laughter bright of an April showerTo call and wake you sweet Crocus brave-heart Crocus said never a paused to listen for note of laugh of rain-drop ... In rough green vestAnd golden bonnet, herself she dressedBy the light of a glow-worms friendly softly crept up the stairway through the portal of frozen moldInto the wide world, bleak and somehow, a sunbeam found the placeWhere the snow made room for her lifted face.—Madeline S. Bridges in Ladies Home Journal. Spring, sang the poet, budding Spring. Alas! the boughs were bare:He was himself the one green thing, For Ice lay everywhere. Hail, Spring, with breezes soft and sweet! The spring returned his hall;There came a shower of snow and sleet Upon a wintry gale. — Plenty of air is what plants want are house and yard cleaning an insect destroyer in the hot-bed, the toadis ahead. April gardening with us is mostly hot-bedgardening. A good Idea—to use rubber bands for bunchingAsparagus. Layering hard-wooded plants may now be pro-ceeded with. For Hollyhock plants that will bloom this year,sow seed in the house now. The good gardeners test—testing all gardenseeds before planting them. Fhloz Drummondi varieties usually come trueto name when raised from seed. Average Crops Unprofiiable. The productionof average or poor truit is easily overdone. For earth worms slake a pound of fresh limein two gallons of water, and water the soil occa-sionally With it. Bhnbarb stalks contain much water. The ad-vice to use them only alter they have wiltedlooks reasonable. Annnal flowers we want just as early as possi-ble. So we sow the hard
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