. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . and singWhere rosy-bellied pippins cling,.d golden russets glint and gleamAs in the old .Xrabian dream—The fruits of that enchanted treeThat glad Aladdin robbed for me!.d drowsy winds, awake an<l fanMy blood as when it overranA heart ripe as tlie apples growIn orchard lands of long ago! —James llhilciimh Riley. years of experiment a Colorado fruit spe-cialist. John F. Spencer, produced fivetrees that bore this new woniler. Fromthese 2,000 young trees have been de-veloped, and in
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . and singWhere rosy-bellied pippins cling,.d golden russets glint and gleamAs in the old .Xrabian dream—The fruits of that enchanted treeThat glad Aladdin robbed for me!.d drowsy winds, awake an<l fanMy blood as when it overranA heart ripe as tlie apples growIn orchard lands of long ago! —James llhilciimh Riley. years of experiment a Colorado fruit spe-cialist. John F. Spencer, produced fivetrees that bore this new woniler. Fromthese 2,000 young trees have been de-veloped, and in i<)o6, it is said, there willbe two and a half millit)n seedless appletrees to su|)ply the world. This is eminently the month to readthat classic of Thoreaus, Wild .\ the classic lore of the apple is there,from Homers mention of the fruit in the()dvssey clenr back to the Edenic ap-ple that .set the human race awry. Awithered crabapple h a s bee n foundamong the relics of the Swiss lake-chvcl-lers. and geologists believe the order oftrees that produce the fruit was intro- THE SUBURBANITE. Salem Brook,Elizabeth, N. J. THE SUBURBANITE duced a short time previous to the ap-pearance of man himself upon our globe. Thoreau quotes an amusing accountfrom an old-time natinalist of the hedge-hogs habit in collecting and carryinghome apples: His meat is apples, worms or grapes,avers this quaint authorit\; when hefindeth apples or grapes on the earth, herolleth himself upon them, until he havefilled all his prickles, and then carrieththem home to his den, never bearingabove one in his mouth; and if it for-tune that one of them fall ofT by theway, he likewise shaketh off all the resi-due, and wallovveth upon them afresh,until they be all settled upon his backagain. So, forth he goeth. making a noiselike a cart-wheel; and if he have anyvoung ones in his nest, they pull off hisload wherewithal he is loaded, eatingthereof what they please, and laying u]5the residue for the time
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