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TFIE CA.N'ADIA.N HORTICULTURIST. 



THE MILKING HOUR. 



You good old Boss, stand quiutly now, 



And don't be turniiig youi- head this way ; 

 You're looking for Donald, it's jilain to see. 



But he won't he here to-day. 

 Nobody came with me, dear old Boss, 



Not even to carry my jiail ; for, ycju see, 

 Donald's gone whistling dowu the lane, 



And Donald is vexed with me. 



And all because of a trifling thing : 



He asked me a question, and I said " Nay." 

 I never dreamed that he would not guess 



It was only a woman's way. 

 I wonder if Donald has ever learned 



The motto of " Try and try again." 

 I think, if he had, it might have been 



He had not learned in vain. 



And there needn't have stretched between us two. 



On this fair evening, the meadow wide. 

 And / needn't have milked alone to-night, 



VVith nobody at my side. 

 What was it he said to me yester eve, 



Something about— abcmt my eyes 1 

 It's strange how clever that Donald can be ; 



That is, whenever he tries. 



Now, Bossy, old cow, you miisn't tell 



That I've cried a little while milking you ; 

 For, don't you see? it is nothing to me 



What Donald may choose to do. 

 If he choose to go whistling down the lane, 



/ chose to sing gayly coming hei-e. 

 But it'i lonely witliout him, after all ; 



Now isn't it, Bossy dear? 



I — hark ! who's that? Oh, Donald, it'.s you ! 



Did you sjjeak ?— excu.se me— wliatdi<l you say? 

 " May you carry luy pail? " Well, yes : at least, 



1 sujipose, if you try, you may. 

 But, Donald, if I had answered No, 



Do you think it would have occurred to you 

 Not to be Vexed at a woman's way. 



But to try what coaxing would do? 



M. D. Brin::, in Harper's Weekly. 



LiGUSTRUM FijKTUNEi. — This Privet is 

 really grand when in a thriving condition ; 

 and a.s to soil or situation, it seems, like 

 the conmion kind, to be one of the most 

 acconunodating of shrubs. Its leaves are 

 an-anged more regularly along the shoots 

 than in the other species, while the small- 

 er branches push forth almost horizontally 

 from the main stems The white, feathery 

 flowers are very sweet scented — too much i 

 S(j, ill fact, for use in a cut state. Another 

 name by which this Privet is often known 

 is Ligustruni sinense. — The Garden. 



The Flowkks of Burns. — No evidence 

 is needed to show that Burns was fond of 

 flowers ; his jiathetic lament for tlie Dai.sy 

 which fell under his ploughshare is ami)le 

 proof of tfiat. Carlyle, however, in his 

 essay on tlie peasant poet, quotes one of 



his letters in which he thus sjieaks of his 

 favorite blossoms : ''I have some favorite 

 flowers, in spring," he says, " among 

 which are the mountain Daisy, the Hare- 

 bell, the Foxglove, the wild Brier Rose, 

 the budding Birch, and the hoary Haw- 

 thorn, tliat I view and hang over with 

 particular delight " Tell me, my friend, 

 to what can this be owing ; are we a piece 

 of machinery, which, like the -^olian harp, 

 passive takes the impression of the pass- 

 ing accident I or do these workings argue 

 something within us above the trodden 

 clod I Burns' respect and love of the 

 " wee crimson tipit flower" was, indeed, 

 oidy exceeded by the devotion which 

 Chaucer paid to it, as to all that was 

 bright and sparkling among field blossoms. 



Imports of Foreign Fruit. — The Jour- 

 nal of Commerce has published a full report 

 of the imports of foreign fruits into the 

 port of New- York. By it we learn that 

 there were brought 953,837 cases and 

 boxes of oranges from Sicily, Italy and 

 Spain, containing 244,270,290 oranges ; 

 from the West Indies, Central and South 

 America, 31,100,584 oranges, and from 

 Florida 200,000 barrels and boxes The 

 total value was $3,853,007. Of those 

 coming from the Mediterranean, 33 per 

 cent, were spoiled, and of those froui the 

 West Indies, 30 per cent, were lost. From 

 tlie Mediterranean come 1,052,874 boxes 

 containing 347,448,420 lemons, in which 

 there was a loss of 20 per cent. ; also 108, 

 797 barrels, and 10,007 half-barrels of 

 gvapes, valued at $380,392. The loss was 

 25 per cent. , on the passage. From the 

 West Indies, Central and {South America, 

 there were received 2,555,320 pine apples, 

 the loss on which Avas 20 per cent ; 1,416, 

 492 bunches of bananas, loss was 16 per 

 cent., and 15,041,507 cocoanuts, of which 

 the loss was 8 per cent. Beside these 

 fruits, there were received 1,987 barrels of 

 limes, with a loss of 35 per cent. ; 1,270 

 barrels of shaddocks, loss 10 per cent.,; 

 74,150 mangoes, loss 50 per cent. ; 25,600 

 grajjc fruits, loss 10 per cent., and 15,115 

 plantains, loss 15 per cent. Cocoanuts 

 and Florida fruits came in duty free ; the 

 total value of dutiable fruits was $5,530, 

 704, and the total duties received were 

 $951,924 45. 



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