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vidually, or as an organized association. In these latter days, as 

 of yore, it is not always sufficient to spread the tables and issue 

 invitations to the feast. Yon must now, also, go out into the 

 highways and lanes and compel them to come in ! There are 

 thousands in this very City : — how many more throughout the 

 County and State ! whose knowledge and appreciation of Flowers 

 and Fruits is restricted to the very primer of Horticulture ; and 

 who, in the tendency townward of every population, bid fair to 

 grow up in total ignorance of the most primitive agriculture and 

 its commonest fauna. The Annual Holiday holds out a bright 

 promise to all such, at the close of a year of monotonous toil. 

 Its charms may be perhaps of the earth, — earthy : but w(! are 

 not all angels, nor would it pay to masquerade in celestial tulle. 

 As the poet describes his actual Woman. — 



" A creature not too briglit, or good 

 For human nature's daily food," 



SO those who purvey wisely for mortal cravings, and wants, will 

 take heed to supply amusement and relaxation. As it were, 

 injecting instruction insidiously, and in manner and measure as 

 it can best be borne. " All work and no play, makes Jack a 

 dull boy !" Nor is Jonathan an exception. Swings and flying- 

 horses ; electric lights and novel fireworks ; may be but lures, it 

 is true. Yet they are harmless, only as such ; and become 

 downright useful, when they induce the heedless, or ignorant, to 

 bestow so much as a casual glance upon objects of greater merit 

 and of intrinsic excellence. 



In the issue of the " Gardeners' Chronicle'''' (London) for 

 Kov. 26, A. D. 1881 ; referring to those who " are largely 

 planting fruit-trees at the instance of Mr. Gladstone, and of 

 well-stocked nurserymen " (*) a "Victim to Pomona" complains 

 bitterly that they may read " with all the profit they will ever 

 get " his account of last Saturday's (I9th) sales in Covent Garden : 



£ s. d. 



7 Bushels Josephine (?) pears 1 7 6 



9 " Glout Morceau " 2 6 



\ " late (Gansel's) ( " Bergatnot '"? ) 3 



5 " Glout Morceau (small) 10 



4 " ■ Strikes Knight's Monarch 7 



Apples. 



\\ Bushels Ribston Pippin 10 



* "iCan such things be " ? E. W. L. 



