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THE CANADIAN HOETICULTUEIST. 



CODLIN MOTH. 



A fruit was kindly given to me, 



'Twas fair as that which had upon it, 

 " Da pulcharissima mihi," 

 And perfumed like all Araby, 



An ap])le worthy of a sonnet ; 

 But faugh ! all thought of song inditing 

 Was banished by the act of biting. 

 O fulsome worm ! art thou some breed 



Which was engendered at the eating 

 Of that first fruit of which we read? 

 Is thence thy treachery — thy greed ? 



Thy gift, to give repellant greeting 

 To sharp desire ? and teach us mortals 

 Disgust will haunt e'en pleasure's portals? 

 Alas ! dear Eve, appearance caught her ; 



Had she but guessed a worm was in it. 

 She, like her wiser modern daughter, 

 Discreet, by what her nature taught her, 



Had spurned that apple in a minute. 

 Or, eyed it with a dainty pout. 

 Then, deftly cut the traitor out. 

 How wonderful ! tliat bite particular 



Of tliat one typic, wormy apple, 

 Should make humanity vermicular — 

 Destroy man's moral perpendicular — 



And place a knob upon the " thrapple" 

 Of all his masculine jiusterity — 

 'Twould seem a very mythy verity. 

 But that the thesis is well backfd — 



" Man's but a worm," aflRrmsthe preacher. 

 If otlicr evidence he lacked — 

 His intiorn and fruit-fustive nack. 



Corroborates the ort/io-teacher ; 

 Judged by his tricks, the human wriggler 

 Is but a true gigantic wiggler. 

 O turn-coat moth I alas, to wit. 



What else is man ! Butli seek disguise ; 

 Both in some seeming harmless flit 

 Can drop a miscliief-working nit, 



T<j hatch into an enterjjrise, 

 That shall despoil a brother-neighbour's, 

 Api)ropriate his fruit and labor. 

 They name you in mellifluous Latin, 



Rar])o-cai)sa ])omonella I 

 They say y >u sleep in finest satin. 

 As soft as millionaires grow fat in. 



And yt't you're but a felon fellow. 

 That theft of fruit - tliat slimy train, 

 Decide you of tlie meanest strain. 

 This muddling kinship of a worm 



1 fain must leave to Willie Saunders, 

 Who, just by .squinting at your squirm, 

 Can trace you back to proJo-germ, 



Unvail your transmutative wonders. 

 That scientist, when on his mettle. 

 Can ev'ry doubt about you settle. 



8. P. Morse, Lowille, Ont 



Pelargoniums Duke and Duchess of 

 Albany.— These two new varieties belong 

 to the regal class, distinguished by the 

 crisped appearance of the petals, at first 

 sight giving the flower the appearance of 

 being semi-double, though in reality it is 

 not so. Duke of Albany has large flowers 

 of a deep crimson-maroon colour, with a 

 narrow margin of rosy lake and a lighter 

 coloured centre. Duchess of Albany has 

 purplish violet coloured blooms, with the 

 upper petals marked with maroon. Both 

 are very fine sorts, and will no doubt be- 

 come popular as they become better known. 

 — The Garden. 



Peaches in a Cold Climate. — A gen- 

 tleman who has resided in Dakota, where 

 the thermometer usually goes twenty 

 below zero in winter, and last year sunk 

 to thirty-eight below, informs us tliat he 

 raises annually good crops of peaches. 

 The trees are planted in a line at the foot 

 of a steep sloping bank and inclined 

 towards it. On tlie approach of winter, 

 a slight bending l>rings tliem into contact 

 witli the ground, to which they are held 

 by a weight, or by a forked stake 

 driven into the ground They tlien re- 

 ceive a thick covering of hay, straw or 

 cornstalks, whicli enables theui to obtain 

 warmth from the ground. In the spring 

 the covering is removed, and a few short 

 stakes serve as props to raise the tree and 

 its principal branches to its original posi- 

 tion. — dmntry (ieidlnman. 



The Lf)MBARD Plum — Is more j)lanted 

 than any other plum, as it is supposed to 

 be hardy and partly proof against the cur- 

 cnlio. This is owing to its great bearing ; 

 as if tlie ciircidio took half, there would in 

 general be more left than the tree i;o,uld 

 properly ripen. This habit of overlieaiing 

 causes it to be a very short-lived tree, as 

 it gets so weakened after l)earing two or 

 three large crops that the first severe win- 

 ter kills it, or injures it so that it will die 

 in a few years. The only i-eniedy for this 

 is heavy manuring and thinning out tlie 

 fruit when small fully one-half or two- 

 tliirds. What is left, owing to increased 

 size, will give a heavier yield and bring a 

 higheriirice than if all were left on. The 

 fruit is purple, of only medium size and 

 ([uality, and will only bring about half as 

 much per busliel as Bradshaw, Pond's 

 Seedling, wliite or yellow Egg, and other 

 large varieties. — New York Witness. 



Prmtcd at the Steam Press Establishment of Copp, Clark & Co., Colborne Street, Toronto. 



