SOME FLOWER LEGENDS. 



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(see Fig. 2627; 

 and if you select 

 the plants so that 

 you have early and 

 late flowers, you 

 may by trimming 

 out dead foliage, 

 keep your garden 

 always in bloom ; 

 and don't forget 

 the tall, spear-like 

 plants, such as hol- 

 lyhocks and sun- 

 flowers, and even 

 the despised mul- 

 len of our fields, 

 which in England 

 is grown in great 

 beauty in gardens, 

 its velvety gray-green leaves and spikes of 

 yellow flowers contrasting charmingly \n\.h 

 more showy plants. These plants make a 

 fine background. 



In such a tiny garden it is scarcely prac- 

 ticable to have clipped borders, or any large 

 growing trees; but a clump of shrubbery 

 could be made a feature in place of a flower 

 bed. An unsightly pile of stones may be 



Fig. 2626 

 VineWreathkd Lamp Post 



Fig. 2627. 



transformed into a pretty feature by filling 

 the interstices with earth and planting there- 

 in the mullen and thistle. Ordinary com 

 will give the effect of palms, and will grow 

 fairly well if it receives plenty of sunshine. 

 It needs very little water. Even a brick 

 wall may be made to blossom and fruit as 

 well. It is quite a common sight in Eng- 

 land to find small fruit trees trained flat up 

 against the sunny side of a house, and all 

 bearing well. 



SOME FLOWEE LEGENDS 



BY 



EDWARD TYRRELL, TORONTO. 



RUSKIN writes in one of his books, 

 " The greatest thing a human soul 

 ever does in this world is to see 

 something and tell what it saw in a plain 

 way," I suppose if a person reads some- 

 thing and writes of that which he has read 

 in a plain way, he will also be doing some 

 good. 



' ' There's beauty all around our paths, if but our 



watchful eyes 

 Can trace it midst familiar things, and through their 



lowly guise ; 

 We may find it where a hedgerow showers its bios- . 



soms o'er our way. 

 Or a cottage window sparkles forth in the last re<:l 



light of day. " 



But we do not stop to look. " Hurry 



