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Weeds Tomatos Tritomas Night-scented Flowers Tuberoses 

 Magnolia Asters Indian Corn. 



September At. "The rain it raineth everyday." 

 It finds its way through the old timbers of my 

 first vinery, and the Grapes have to be cut out by 

 dozens. It drenches the Pelargoniums and Ver- 

 benas, till their blossoms are half washed away. 

 It soaks the petals of the great Lilies, and turns 

 them into a sickly brown. The slugs, I suppose, 

 like it, for they crawl out from the thick Box 

 hedges and do all the harm they can. Weeds, too, 

 of every kind flourish luxuriantly, and we find it 

 no easy work to keep ahead of them. The author 

 of My Summer in a Garden the most humorous 

 little book about gardening ever written never 

 had such trouble with " pusley " (what is 

 " pusley " ?) as I have with Groundsel. I have 

 enough to feed all the canary birds in the parish. 

 Then, besides the more ordinary and vulgar weeds, 

 1 have two varieties of Willow-herb, which have 



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