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[A few extracts from a good horticultural magazine giving some items of informa- 

 tion in a nutshell.] 



Among the July magazines that are heavily laden with light stories 

 for the beach, the hammock and the mountain cottage, comes one of 

 another sort, "American Gardening," which is very welcome to lovers 

 of nature everywhere, both those who find recreation in the flower and 

 vegetable garden and in laying out and caring for the home grounds, 

 and those who best enjoy the field, the forest and the stream. The 

 July number offers something that appeals to each of these varied 

 tastes. In one article it tells of the old-fashioned flowers "all along 

 the banks of Kittery and the Piscataqua ; " in another is continued an 

 elaborate serial describing the Economic Plants of Japan — the Kudzu 

 and the Daikon, the Ki-karasuri and the Agi-nashi, and all the rest, 

 you know. Another serial, whose alliterative title states its well-served 

 purpose, is "Taste and Tact in Arranging Home and Other Grounds," 

 written by the editor, Elias A. Long. On one page we are told how to 

 raise green peas, and on another how to keep down the green-fly. The 

 pathology of plants is practically discussed in a long article, and notes 

 from thrifty English gardens are given in a short one. The Missouri 

 Botanical Garden is described, with a portrait of its philanthropic* 

 founder, Henry Shaw, and other excellent illustrations. The depart- 

 ments headed " Buds, Blossoms, Fruits," " Current Garden Lore," 

 " Questions Asked and Answered," and " Dictionary of Seasonable 

 Garden Work," fulfill their end by giving brief items of information, 

 which together cover a wide range of topics. The illustrations through- 

 out are excellent, as usual. — Rural Publishing Co., New York. 



All along the banks of Kittery and the Piscataqua one will see a 

 blaze of roses through the months of June and July, and the bushes 

 are more than a century old. 



In the old gardens around the Wentworth house, in Portsmouth — 

 the same grand mansion that Longfellow called 



" Baronial and colonial In its style" — 

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