LITTLE GARDENS 



July. All the tender things we house during the 

 cold season are In bearing out of doors. The 

 locust and catalpa have dropped their blossoms, 

 the rhododendrons are passing, but the syrlnga 

 exhales Its luscious odor, If It Is one of those 

 years when It deigns to do so, the chestnut Is 

 putting out Its belated, rusty looking clusters; In 

 the fields are seen the golden stars of the St. 

 Johnswort, the button-bush, pepper-bush, and In 

 wild ground In the South the yucca has thrown 

 up Its candelabrum of wax-white blossoms; while 

 the beds are aflame with zinnia, crinum, splrea, 

 pansy, pink, bachelor's-button, salplglossis, the 

 red and yellow lilies, coreopsis, calceolaria, ge- 

 ranium, painted daisy, balsam, cockscomb, love- 

 lies-bleeding, four-o'clock, galllardia, phlox, 

 nicotlana, portulaca, (this seeds Itself, and will 

 grow next year,) alyssum, fuchsia, scablosa, 

 white and pink yarrow, sweet-william, and on 

 our arbors, the coboea, honeysuckle, moonflower, 

 passion-flower and Dutchman's-pipe are span- 

 gled with bloom. 



The fierce heat and sultriness of August are 

 tempered by a continuance of most of these blos- 

 soms, and the showering of the garden with a 



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