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ILLUSTRATED PERIODICAL 



DEVOTED TO 



Horticulture in all its Branches. 



CONDUCTED BY 



Elias A. Long, Author of "Ornamental Gardening for Americans" 

 "The Home Florist" Etc., Etc. 



Whiat woqdrous life is this I lead! 

 Ripe Apples drop about my l^ead; 

 Ttie luscious clusters of the Vif^e 

 Upon rir\y mouth do crusf\ their wirje. 

 The Nectaririe, thie tootlisome Peachi, 

 Into my harids themselves do reach. 

 Stunribling on Meloqs, as I pass, 

 Erjsriared on flowers, I fall ox\ grass. 



— Marnell. 



Vo 1 \x m e 



3, 



1887 = 88. 



BUFFALO, N, Y.: 

 Popular Gardening Publishing Co. 



