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The rose said to the Hly: "'Thou must Iiow 

 Thyself in holj" reverence to me; 

 For it is I. ahout whose scented brow 

 The purest love is twined so Ki'ii<-*i'>"sly" 

 The lily said: " To nie is beauty given - 

 Love is thine alter, iiinueenee my shrint-- 

 Death stole my blush, and addiiiic it to thine. 

 Hath fitted thee for earth, and me for heaven." 

 The poet said: ■■' Sweet sisters, oh, be still: 

 To eaeh of ye was given a separate birth. 

 To each a separate and an envied worth. 

 Then bloom both rose and lily: bloom and till 

 The air with all your purity and love: 

 Earth's harmony, oh, rose, fair lily, life above." 



—Tapley. 

 Carnations are staple. 

 The fringy sweet Stevia is in. 

 Flowers blush without crime. 

 Violets signify modesty in floral language. 

 The broken wheel as a funeral design is in use. 

 The florists, dream of Holiday orders and fat 

 imrses. 



Look out famous old ''.lack " Ritse: yomig Wni. 

 Bennett means to push you bard! 



Now that flower's are scarce, take a lesson in not 

 crowding lliem, till their beauty is largely gone. 



For trimming' the casket of au aged person, gar- 

 lands of Ivy leaves around the outside, are appro- 

 jiriate. 



An autumn effect in tluwers recently made, con- 

 sisted of a liasket of White C'hi*ysanthemums edged 

 with autuuui leaves. 



The " Oh's !" and " Ah's !" drawn from admiring 

 dames and misses at the C'hrysanthenuim shows, 

 ai-e only equale<l in numlier and sincerity, by those 

 vdiced at the Rose shows of early summer. 



Winter flowers are the cheapest of all forced 

 vegetable products; compare prices of these, for ex- 

 aniple. with those of forced Strawberries and Mnsh- 

 r(.»oms. and the same all around, in smiimer. 



At a state meeting of the la\vyers of Illinois, at 

 Sju-ingtleld. some time ago, a wind mill wasthe lead- 

 ing floral design at the bantiuet. Enough " wind " 

 is said to have beeu raised, to turn the wheel several 

 times around. 



The commercial florists are now a large and in- 

 fluential body of men. .'^ince tlowei-s are considered 

 so nuicb a uecessity. More fiowers are grown for 

 l^iu'ely commercial demands, than for all other pur- 

 poses combined. 



Advanced style in table decorations, calls for all 

 tlie fli>wei-s in high vases, so that the guests can look 

 underneath the flowers. The Carlsbad beer glasses 

 called "■schooners'* are favorite holdei"s f<)r these 

 high-waving bouquets. 



If flowers are to be carried througli the street 

 pi'otect with paper, even if it is not freezing at the 

 time. Air and sunshine are needed when growing 

 tlow'ers. it is tnie, but once flowers are cut. the less 

 exposed to these elements the longer will they last. 



At a recent show of the Massachusetts Hoi-ticid- 

 tui-al Society, an attractive display of Water Lilies 

 in a large tank was niade by Mr. Stini/evant of Bor- 

 dertown, N. J. Ten varieties of Nymphteas both 

 liai'dy and tender were shown, one the blue Devo- 

 niensis. w itli tltpwers a foot across. 



Packing cut flowers. On this point a writer in 

 the Aiitenian Fhnist says; Dining thirty > ears ex- 

 perience I have never found flowers, particularly 

 Roses, travel well when cut and packed immediately; 

 on the contrary, where they have been cut and 

 placed in a vase of clean water for a few hours and 

 carefully packed. I have never had a complaint that 

 they did not reach their destination in good order. 



The true lover of flowers seldom orders a made 

 bouquet foi- his or her own pleasure, but wants the 

 blooms louse and with long stems. How sensible. 

 AVe wouhl rather see three flowers with liberal stems 

 to them as they are cut from the plants, placed with- 

 out a thought of arrangement, in a glass on 

 the table, than a score of blooms crowded closely 

 into a bouquet or basket. Let us remember that 

 nature arranges flowers quite uncrowded,and always 

 with fine effect. 



Four-leaved Clover designs, so called, belong to a 

 class we iirvi-r cfuld appreciate. As usually made 

 \i\t there is a base of four Hat baskets, each T-epre- 

 sentiug a clover-leaf. From the point where these 



I come f<>getber at the center, three long stems i)ro- 

 I ject upward, each one surmounted by a ball which 

 i is to be worked into a "clover head." Usually these 

 ' heads are made up stiffly of Violets,— as if clover of 



such a color ever grew. Tbr whole idea is alwurd. 



and like tbt- Imtcbniairs "(iates A.iar" needs a 



label, to tell what if is. 



The flower holders made of Birch bark, are as 

 handsome as anj' novelty we have seen in this line 

 for many a day. Those made to represent a section 

 of a ti'ce trunk, perhaps nine inches through and a 

 foot or more long, are at once simple and elegant. 

 The bark is left with all its nuirks and loose curling 

 ends, just as it was on the free. ( )ne of these "fnmks'^ 

 filled with a free arrangement of Roses ami other 

 long-stemmed flowers in the top. and then partly en- 

 circled by a garland of bloom, is a charming thing 

 to behold. 



DotanicdlB)\](I^et 



Flowers ai-e but colored leaves. 

 Species is the unit in botanical classiHcatinn, 

 No two individuals or organs of the same kind, 

 are exactly alike. 



The famous Botanic Ganlen at Kew, London, 

 cover an area of 200 acres. 



The Castor-oil plant, an aimual in the United 

 States, is a i>iM'enuial in warm climates. 



The growth of biennials is divided into two stages; 

 first year vegetation, second fructification. 



Dr. Asa Gray asks that botanists who can do so 

 conveniently, will send him seeds of Coreopsis an's- 

 tosff, Bmitisia h'ucojjhcea and B leucantha. Ad- 

 dress him at Cambridge. Mass. 



A German naturalist, finds that the eastern 

 hemisphere affords 2i>'.t plants and fifty-eight ani- 

 mals useful to man, while the western world contri- 

 butes only fifty-two i>lants and thuteen anmials. 



The Common Daisy Bdlis perennis hortciisis is, 

 perhaps, the most divisible plant in the garden. 

 Each separate branehlet may be removed with its 

 modicum of root, au<l every l>it will form a plant. 



Protecting the Edelweiss. The Austrian Cen- 

 tral Tourist Club has addressed a petition to the 

 Assemblies of the Austrian Alpine Provinces, to 

 pass a law jirohibiting the wholesale uprooting of 

 this plant now carried on. The petitioners point out 

 that hundreds of thousands of the plants are dug 

 up and sent abroad, even to America, so that there 

 is a fear that the favorite plant of the Alps will be 

 totally wiped out. except in n few remote places. 



Modification of Plants by climate. Mr. A. a. 

 Crozier, of the University of Jlichigan, has pubhshed 

 a thesis on this subject. In it he sums up con- 

 cerning the matter as follows: '" It seems to be 

 established that as plants move from the locality of 

 their largest development toward their northei-n 

 limit of growth, they become dwarfed in habit, are 

 rendered more fruitful, and all parts become more 

 highly colored. Their comparative leaf surface is 

 often increased, their form modified, and their com- 

 position changed. Their period of growth is also 

 shortened and they are enabled to develop in all 

 respects at a lower temperature." 



Vegetation at the Equator. "I never was any- 

 where more foi-cibly inq)ressed with the thought 

 that the productive powers of nature on receding 

 from the pole, had collected themselves iu their 

 greatest strength near the equator, spreading their 

 gifts with open hand, and manifesting the abund- 

 ant fertility of the soil, than when I first beheld the 

 famous Water Lily. Victoria Regia, in the river 

 Rupunuri. The wiiole margin of the water was 

 bordered with its gigantic leaves, many of them 

 7 1-3 feet in diameter, interspersed with the magnifi- 

 cent flowers of all shades from white to junk, the 

 largest 14 inches across." Dr. R. SchomhnniU. 



Botany in America. An Englishman wlio at- 

 tended a recent meeting of the Botanical Chib of 

 The American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, was greatly surprised at the interest shown 

 in Botany here. He had never seen anything like 

 if at home he said, and he took it as a sign that bot- 

 any is much more appreciateil as a jtopular study 

 in Atnei'ica. than it is in the l >Id World. These for- 

 eigners begin U^ recognize the fact, that when once 

 Americans awaken to. and take ahold of any matter. 

 we show the same Zealand progressi\eness hei'e, 

 which enabled us to clear up and improve this 

 country as has been (.lone. < )ne o\ these days oiu" 

 conservative friends of Europe will find that we have 

 out-distanced them also in the department of popu- 

 lar gardening, a thing less easy to be done than sonie 

 othei*s. It will yet come, depend upon it. 



! The Labiata ordei- to which such common plants 



I as Salviii. Rosemary. Monarda, Coleus.Sage. Thyme 



and so on belong, enjoys the distinction of being 



one of the most natural groups of plants. 



I By this is meant, that the character of its several 



I thousand numiber.s. are more distinef and uniform 



than is generally the case in a natural unler. In 



1 fact the variations from one type throughout the 



I family, is no greater than is often found in a single 



I genus of other orders. 



I The chief characteristics of this oriler are stems, 

 hei'baci'ous or sub-wooily. usually squai'e: leaves 

 o]iposite or whorled. exstipulate and usually aro- 

 matic; flowei-s labiate orlip-.shaped mostly irregular. 

 While it requires but a slight fanulitirity with bot- 

 any to determine the order of any Labiate met. the 

 disci'iminalion of the genera is often quite difficult. 



ABOUT THE PLACE, 



Now '(^>y a comjiost heap. 

 Drain away from the well. 

 Manure is the measure of results. 

 Bevise the labels before the winter sets in. 

 Rubbish about fences and trees, draws nuce, to 

 the injury of the latter. 



If you have a wheat field try a light umlch of 

 coarse manure on part of it at least. 



Ladders are needed about every place, and now 

 there ought to be time to get one or more made. 

 Don't forget this. 



Potato tops are well worth carting to the barn 

 yard for increasing the nuinure pile, they are rich 

 in potash. Left where they grow, they dry up or 

 are blown about to waste. 



If a pump freezes, procure a lead pipe or any 

 kind of tube, and lower it to rest on the ice. Into 

 this pour hot water with a funnel. The force of the 

 water on one spot, will cause the ice to melt rapidly. 



Those suffering from depredations of rats will 

 be glad to Unow that the i-odents have so great an 

 aversion to chloride of lime, that they will vacate the 

 premises where it is scattered freely. 



The net proceeds of a bee-keeper in New York 

 State for thirteen years, from an average of forty- 

 six hives, was $]2.800. an average of $04(5 a year. 

 He thoroughly understood the business, however, 

 and gave it his whole time and attention. 



There are now more cattle of the favorite little 

 Jerseys in this country than in tlie Isle of Jei-sey 

 where they orginated. It is doubtful, ti.)o. whether 

 any better animals remain at home than we have, 

 for American money has tempted away the prime 

 animals. 



Most dairy farmers have learned from experi- 

 ence that tm-nips or turnip tops when fed to milch 

 cows should be given du-ectly after they have been 

 milked. When this practice is not obsei-wd. the 

 turnips will cause an unpleasant flavor in the milk, 

 which \f ill also be imparted to the butter. 



Bees retpiire little attention this month, but what 

 is needed should not be withheld. The maintenance 

 of an e(|ual temperature in the hives is essential, 

 as extremes of either heat or cold at this season is 

 ■what tries the swarms. The risk of their suffering 

 from warmth is slight, and yet there may be days 

 when the .sun's heat woidd be felt enough on the 

 hives to .start flying, which is not desirable. At 

 such times a shed of b()ai'ds or straw is a good 

 thing. But protection fn'Ui cold is of more import- 

 ance, and the kind of shelter alluded too iib<»ut will 

 sei've for this also. 



There is some absurd talk in the papei-s against 

 draining to excess, and, that on some land tile draui- 

 ing is outlay lost. Considering the labor and expense 

 ueces,sary to underdraining. it is not likely these 

 cases ever occur. AVhere draining would do m > good, 

 the land is in such a shape, tliat the need of it would 

 never occur, hence no one would be stupid enough 

 to undertake it. But where tile draining is econom- 

 ically done on land that will bear it, tin' gains in im- 

 proved crops will always warrant the cost. In a 

 great majority of cases judicious underdraining has 

 paid for itself in two or three crops. 



Lucky is the man who in connection with- hLs 

 stable has a well filled bin of dry muck or earth, if 

 he cares to have the.se sweet and healthy. Dried 

 earth~-and nmck especially— have a wonderful ca- 

 pacity as absorbents of the Uquid and gaseous 

 substances about stables. A few shovelfuls of earth 

 scattere<l over the floor after cleaning will rentier 

 the air of the apartments imre and wlmlsonie. Then 

 all who liave gardens coimt iq>ou the increase of the 

 manure yield. We have no doubt that the value of 

 the sea.S(m"s manure jtile may be d<inl)hM|. by the 

 free use of such absorbents. The strength of the 

 gases and liquids aiisorbeii are retaini-d. and are the 

 very essence of good manure. 



