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2 HE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



These, I believe, were from seeds sown in 

 early winter. These and common wild 

 English ones, as well as the primrose of that 

 country, will survive ordinary winters here 

 if a slight covering of forest leaves be 

 placed over them. 



Another old favorite rarely met with 

 now-a-days is the lavender. It stands both 

 summer and winter well, and as a reward 

 for the space occupied, blooms profusely 

 through the midsummer months. 



A large-growing but beautiful perennial 



is the Cassia marilandica, a species of the 

 native sensitive plants. There are three 

 natives of these plants, but this is the best. 

 The plant grows so bush like that some nur- 

 series catalogue it among their shrubs. It 

 makes a height of three or four feet, bear- 

 ing clusters of yellow flowers at the end of 

 the shoots. On account of reported medi- 

 cinal qualities, these plants are called Wild 

 Senna. — Joseph Meehan in Country Gen- 

 tleman. 



FLOWERS FOR INVALIDS. 



IN our endeavors to make our sick rooms 

 as cheery and attractive as possible, 

 we surely must not leave out the growing 

 plants. The old erroneous idea that they 

 were unhealthful in a sleeping room appears 



Fig. 2611. 



to have faded into the background, much to 

 the good fortune of the sick folks, whose 

 eyes weary for the sight of something green 

 and growing and alive. It is pleasant to 



watch the new leaves coming out, and the 

 pleasure partakes of gentle excitement when 

 a flower bud is discovered and watched to 

 maturity. The whole room, too, is so much 

 cosier and more homelike for the .presence 

 of a few plants in it. They may be scat- 

 tered about the room, at the windows or on 

 brackets, but a few at least, should be close 

 to the bed — real neighbors to the sick one. 

 The illustration given here suggests a sim- 

 ple, oblong table to hold four or five pots of 

 them. It is very easily manufactured at 

 the home work-bench, and when filled with 

 plants and set at the bed's foot, it cannot 

 fail to give great pleasure and comfort. 

 There should be no ugly pots and jars upon 

 it, but a few choice flowers in choice dishes. 

 Artistic pots are as much a part of the kind- 

 ly little scheme as the dainty posies them- 

 selves. — American Gardening. 



Nature's Calendar. — ^June's delicate 

 robe of green falls upon July a mantle al- 

 ready travel worn. The tender freshness 

 of the leaves is gone. The trees of the road- 

 side are dusty and dejected, dropping now 

 and again a sickly yellow leaf which has suc- 



cumbed to the heat and drought. Too hot 

 for flowers, say you? Mark yon bee and 

 the business-like way in which he hums to- 

 ward the meadow. Full well he knows how 

 many newcomers July brings into the world 

 of flowers. — Country Life in America. 



