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paratively worthless fruit grown from the seed, 

 is like the natural man. The wild nature is 

 very apt to get the best of the most approved 

 foreign importation. Thus in the matter of 

 fruit-trees alone there is much to be done before 

 winter, and there is no time for such labors in 

 the rush of spring work 



As we pass on, we observe that weeds and 

 bushes, not content with long possession of the 

 fences, are ever encroaching on the open 

 ground. Around the house the hardy peren- 

 nials and annual bulbs are nearly all past their 

 prime, and withering stalks and sprawling 

 bushes take the place of their early bloom. It 

 is indeed now too late to do much toward en- 

 livening this melancholy domain of flowers 

 with bright and varied annuals or perpetual 

 blooming bedding plants, but it is just the time 

 to see their need, and to commence preparing 

 for its supply another year. At once there 



