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Old Time Gardens 



I have picked both Ladies' Delights and Dandelions 

 every month in the year. 



I suppose the common Crocus would not be 

 deemed a very great garden ornament in midsum- 

 mer, in its lowly growth ; but in its spring blossom- 



Sun-dial in Garden of Hon. William H. Seward, Auburn, New York. 



ing it is — to use another's words — " most gladsome 

 of the early flowers." A bed of Crocuses is certainly 

 a keen pleasure, glowing in the sun, almost as grate- 

 ful to the human eye as to the honey-gathering bees 

 that come unerringly, from somewhere, to hover 

 over the golden cups. How welcome after winter 

 is the sound of that humming. 



