THE AQUARIUM, APRIL, 1893. 



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purplish leaves, and a golden-leaved 

 variety. The foliage alone, of these 

 two, would have made that corner love- 

 ly all winter; and combined with the 

 varied blossoms, the effect was grand. 

 The large, bright yellow flowers of the 

 Golden King, the Pearl — delicate 

 cream, nearly pure white, King of 

 Tom Thumbs, beautiful, brilliant, vel- 

 vety scarlet, and many variegated, spot- 

 ted and striped. Handsome, all of 

 them! And if you could have seen 

 them you would not wonder at my en- 

 thusiasm. These remained in bloom in 

 the conservatory until those outside 

 were blooming, and as soon as they 

 began to fade, another can of seedlings 

 took the place of the exhausted plants, 

 and that vase of Nasturtiums is often 

 more admired than the most expensive 

 plants in the conservatory, although 

 they were grown from a few seeds in a 

 five cent packet. — Phebe R., in The 

 Mayfloioer. 



It is with much pleasure that we call 

 attention to the World's Fair Edition 

 of Vaughan's Gardening, illustrated. It 

 is the handsomest catalogue we have 

 seen yet. We have been dealing with 

 this firm since it first started, years 

 ago, in Chicago. Mr.Vaughan has met 

 with continued success and now has 

 established an elegant large, completely 

 stocked store for the convenience of 

 his Eastern customers at No. 26 Barclay 

 street, New York. The catalogue is 

 sent free to applicants, who mention 

 the Aquarium. 



OVER THE WIRE. 



The voice from the telephone : " I 

 wish you'd cut off the heads of one 

 Mrs. Hobson Hobbs, one Sarah Jones, 

 two Alpheus Hardys and a Peter Pink- 



erton, and send them to my house this 

 evening in time for dinner." 



The voice at the transmitter : 

 " Great guns ! what ? " 



The voice at the telephone : " Oh, 

 excuse me, I've got the wrong number. 

 Thought you were Grubby, the chrys- 

 anthemum-grower." — Exchange. 



POET-TREE. 



" Oak Caroline fir yew I pine. 

 Willow, will you not be mine ? 

 Thy hazel eyes, thy tulips red. 

 Thy ways oh larch have turned my head. 



"■ All lindens shadow by thy grate, 

 I cypress on my heart and wait. 

 Gum; beach chosen Caroline, 

 We fly for elms of bliss divine. 



" Oh ! Spruce young man, I cedar plan, 

 Catalpa's money if yew can ; 

 Yew sumach ash but not my heart, 

 You're evergreen and may depart. 



"You'd like to poplar, that I see, 

 Birch yew walnut propose to me ; 

 Here's pa— you'll see hemlock the gate. 

 He maple-lightly say ' its late.'" 



Locust that lovyer while he flew 

 Before that angry parent's shoe ; 

 He little thought a dogwood bite, 

 And make him balsam much that night, 

 Hawthorny path he traveled o'er. 

 Till he was sick and sycamore. 



— Exchange. 



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OVERFEEDING FISH. 



Mr. F. C. — The cause of the water in 

 your aquarium having a milky appear- 

 ance, is, overfeeding your fish with 

 wafers. Never put in more food than 

 the fish will immediataly consume. 

 Add a pinch of table salt to the water 

 in your aquarium and stop feeding for 

 three or four days altogether; this will 

 clear the water again. 



