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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



THE SEAT OX THE HILL TOP, 



BKNEATH THE OLD TREE. 



What man hath not found on this changeable earth, 

 Si»tne shelter'd retreat to emotion give birth ; 

 Where memory, pointing to things that once were, 

 Imprints on our faces a smile and a tear ? 

 To pride give her follies, to pomp her display. 

 Give to beauty her charms, give wealth what you may; 

 Give to each of them all, but spare, spare for me. 

 The seat on the hill top, beneath the old tree. 



How can I but love thee, thou sacred spot ! 

 And think of tlie loved ones, who were, but are not ; 

 When I view thy old trunk, draped o'er with the vine,. 

 The Woodbine and Pipevine, tliy branches entwine. 

 And could but those dear ones who planted them 



there, 

 Sit again by my side, these blessings to share. 

 There's naught in this wide world I'd barter for thee. 

 My seat on the hill top, beneath the old tree. 



Since thou wert a sapling, tliou noble old tree. 

 Thy youthful companions have long ceased to be ; 

 And oft have I wished thou would'st whisper and tell 

 What shrubs and sweet flowers did then with thee 



dwell. 

 Did Hepatica's buds uivite thee to spring? 

 And little blue Harebell, the old year's knell ring? 

 Or cuild of the forest, all brimful of glee. 

 Flee away to hill top, Vieneath the old tree? 



Did brave Indian warrior (ind rest in thy shade ? 

 Or thy branches e'er shelter forlorn Indian maid ? 

 And some betrayed mother, with babe at her breast, 

 For surely t'was here that the weai-y might rest. 

 For the woes of mankind do wc watch and weep ; 

 And then, in our weariness, slumber and sleej) ; 

 The spot on this green earth best suited must be 

 The seat on the hill top, beneath the old tree. 



Charles Arnold. 



A correspondent wants to know why 

 an ear of corn seldom if ever has an odd 

 number of rows, and where do the red 

 and speckled grains come from when 

 nothing but white is planted. Perhaps 

 some of the intelligent readers of the 

 Rural Record can tell, through our 

 columns. 



The Puoet Sound Fir. — One of the 

 wonders of the American forests is the fir 

 tree of Puget Sound. The trees average 

 200 feet high, and some specimens have 

 been cut that measured 320 feet in length 

 and twelve feet in diameter at the base, 

 with a straight and well proportioned log 

 length of ninety feet to the first limb. 



The Conkling Peach. — From a year- 

 ling tree of this variety, obtained of Ell- 

 wanger and Barry, in the spring of 1880, 

 we picked a number of ripe peaches 

 of uncommon excellence. It is a beauti- 

 ful yellow peach, smaller than the 

 Early Crawford, of a fine, juicy, rich, ex- 

 quisite flavor, and very desirable in a 



family collection. It may prove a desir- 

 able market variety for aught we know, 

 as the first product of a three-year-old 

 tree is no test of productiveness. 



To Publishers and Editors. — Many 

 Newspapers and Magazines have been 

 established in the United States and Can- 

 ada within the last two years, the names 

 of which do not appear in any Newspaper 

 Directory or Catalogue. The publishers 

 and editors of such are invited to send 

 copies and a full description of their res- 

 pective publications to the Editor of Hub- 

 bard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of 

 the World, New Haven, Conn., U. S. A!, 

 that they may be properly catalogued and 

 described in the forthcoming edition of 

 that work for 1883. Editors who kindly 

 give this notice an insertion in their col- 

 umns will confer a favor upon the Press 

 of America. 



Large Celery. — Probably the largest 

 root of celery ever taken to Boston market, 

 measuring 38 inches in length, 24 inches 

 round, and weighing 7 pounds, was raised 

 on the market farm of G. D. Moore, of 

 Arlington, who is one of the largest 

 growers of early produce for Boston 

 market. He has this season about six 

 acres of celery, nearly all of this mammoth 

 variety. He began to market it Sept. 

 14th, receiving $8 a box of 2| dozen. 

 This variety is said to be the best flavored 

 and most tender of any known, and brings 

 the highest price. 



Wood Ashes For Pears. — The pear 

 seems to be especially fond of wood ashes, 

 and we ascribe much of our success in past 

 years with pears to a liberal and annual 

 use of it in our pear orchards. All that 

 we could make or buy was thus used, by 

 scattering aroimd the trees, the cultivator 

 working it into the soil. Only the fresh, 

 unleached ashes were used, and not only 

 did our trees produce heavy crops and 

 fine fruit, and present in their foliage that 

 dark green coloring of leaf which indicates 

 vigor and healthfulness, but the hoed and 

 cultivated crops which wore raised be- 

 tween the trees each year did not fail to 

 appreciate the food they gathered in from 

 that not appropriated by the fruit trees. — 

 Farm and Garden. 



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