r HEFUNOF 

 SEEjNGTfflNIB, 



I FOR YDUNG FOLKS j 



EDITED BY 



\ Edward FQigelow / 



V/VVMOT YOU WPiNT 

 TO know. 



v5<?C/A>( 



icn, , Conn. 



An Elfin Table. 

 We almost caught the fairy folk 



In upland walk to-day, 

 When we came across their festive board, 



The elves had run away. 



The lichen doilies were in place; 



And with a yellow flame, 

 St. John's wort candles burned serene, 



As on the scene we came. 



We lingered, cherishing the hope 

 That they might soon return; 



But only heard the wandering wind, 

 Through fronds of eagle fern. 



— Emma Peirce. 



A Fasciated Cactus! 



The cactus is about the last plant 

 that one would ever think would be- 

 come fasciated, but it appears that 

 even this plant is not exempt from 

 "tying itself up in a knot." 



Professor George W. Carver, Direc- 

 tor of the Department of Research and 

 Experiment Station of The Tuskegee 

 Normal and Industrial Institute, Ala- 

 bama, sends the accompanying photo- 

 graph of an Opuntia ficus-inrica that 

 made such a peculiar growth in one 

 summer. He writes: 



"I found it growing out of doors and 

 cut it off just below this peculiar 



growth and potted it. It has now 

 been potted for about three years and 

 does not seem to change in any way. 



THE FUNNY CACTUS. 



It throws out young growths from 

 time to time, and I let them grow a 

 little while and then cut them off." 



A Belated Blossom. 



BY H. E. ZIMMERMAN, MT. MORRIS, ILL. 



The pear and blossom shown in the 

 illustration were found growing on the 

 same limb three inches apart on a tree 

 at Sand Fork, West Virginia. It is not 

 often that a tree is full of ripe fruit, as 

 this one was, and blossoming at the 

 same time. 



PEAR BLOOM AND FRUIT TOGETHER. 



