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drawn the soil awaj. By that means 

 the hirvaa is drawn from tlie plant, and 

 if only two inches away, when hatched, 

 unless they have something to feed on 

 immediately, they will not have vitality 

 enough feo reach the plants. — ■( '. A. Lee. 

 in Micliigiui Farmnr. 



THE WHITE LILY. 

 By common consent the white lily is 

 one of the most universally beloved of 

 all flowers. Indeed, a lai-ge number of 

 plant lovers would not hesitate to 

 place it above the rose — perhaps the 

 only flower which could dispute its 

 sovereignty — as the queen of flowers. 

 In the rude old times it was largely 

 grown, and it has always played an 

 important part both in an artistic and 

 in a symbolical sense. The Rev. Canon 

 EUacombe, in " Plant Lore of Shakes 

 peare " sums up the merits of the white 

 lily in a few eloquent sentences. He 

 says, " It was certainly largely grown 

 in Europe in the Middle Ages, and was 

 universally acknowledged by artists, 

 scidptors and arcliitects as the emblem 

 of female elegance and purity, and none 

 of us would dispute its claim to such a 

 position. There is no other lily which 

 can surpass it when well gi-own, in 

 stateliness and elegance, with flowers of 

 the purest white and most graceful 

 shape, and sweet-scented, and crowning 

 the top of the long, leafy stem with 

 such a coronal as no other plant can 

 show." But it is not intended here to 

 discourse on the rare beauties and ex- 

 cellences of this lily, as a volume would 

 not suflice to give even a fair selection 

 of abstracts that might be made con- 

 cerning it from ancient and modern 

 writers. Since the bedding-out craze 

 has to a very considerable extent abated 

 the gardening ]>ublic has i-eturned to a 

 better sense of the fitnesss of things, 

 and the white lily has been restored to 

 a position which it should never even 

 have partially lost. — The Garden. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Rural Record, a journal for the 

 farm, plantation and fireside, published 

 at Chattanooga, Tennessee, at $1.00 a 

 year. 



Random Notes ox Natural His- 

 tory, is a monthly of twelve pages, 

 including title ])age and advertisements, 

 devoted to Zoology, Mineralogy and 

 Botany ; published by South wick & 

 Jencks, Providence, Rhode Island, at 50 

 cents a year. 



Report of the Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation of Nova Scotia, 1881, in which 

 is a paper by the Rev. Robert Buinet 

 on apple growing in Nova Scotia, in 

 relation to the money que.stion, from 

 which it appears that he carries to his 

 new home his interest in fruit culture. 

 A paper on the apple trade with Great 

 Britain, page 29, states that a company 

 has been starterl in Annapolis for the 

 purpose of exporting apples to Great 

 Britain. 



The School Suppleme.vt for June 

 contains interesting notes of the life of 

 Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot, with 

 likeness of each. It is natural that the 

 writer of such notices should fall into 

 the popular channel of indiscriminating 

 praise, but for ourselves we object that 

 the writings of George Eliot are on the 

 whole, not to be placed in the hands of 

 the young as fit models of thought or 

 diction. 



Proceedixgs of the American 

 PoMOLOGiCAL SociETY at its nineteenth 

 session, held in Pliiladdphia, Sept. 1 2th, 

 14th, I 883, with an excellent portrait of 

 its venerable president, the Hon. M. P. 

 Wilder. This document, of some 150 

 pages, is filled with matter of interest 

 to every intelligent horticulturist. The 

 paper by Prof. J. L. Budd, on fruits for 

 the North West, will be wortliy of the 

 attention of planters in Manitoba and 

 Quebec. 



