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handiwork; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to ci- 

 vility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to gar- 

 den finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold 

 it, in the royal order of gardens there ought to be gardens for all 

 the months in the year in which, severally, things of beauty may be 

 then in season. — Lord Bacon. 



APPLES FOR SLEEPLESSNESS. 



That apples are healthful and wholesome and have many 

 medicinal properties, we know, but we find a new quality reported 

 which we had not before heard of. An expert says : 



"Every one ought to know the very best thing they can do is 

 to eat apples just before retiring for the night. Persons uniniti- 

 ated in the mysteries of the fruits are liable to throw up their 

 hands at the visions of dyspepsia which such a suggestion may 

 summon up, but no harm can come even to a delicate system by the 

 eating of a ripe apple before going to bed. The apple is an excel- 

 lent brain food because it has more phosphoric acid in easily digest- 

 ed shape than any other fruit." — Fruit Trade Journal. 



TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP. 



"You think I'm dead," 



The apple tree said, 

 "Because I have never a leaf to show. 



Because I stoop 



And my branches droop, 

 And the dull, gray mosses over me grow; 

 But I'm alive in trunk and shoot. 



The buds of next May 



I fold away 

 But I pity the withered grass at my root. " 



' 'You think I'm dead, " 



The quick grass said, 

 "Because I have parted with stem and blade. 



But under the ground 



I'm safe and sound, 

 With the snow's thick blanket over me laid. 

 I'm alive and ready to shoot 



Should the Spring of the year 



Oome dancing here. 

 But I pity the flower without branch or root." 



