GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



JANUARY. 



Pines, ef you're blue, are the best friends I know, 

 They mope an' sigh an' sheer your feelin's so. 



— Lozuell, 



I THINK it is not 

 common to choose 

 this month for a visit 

 to Fairyland. Yet, as 

 you never do thor- 

 oughly know people <^^ 

 unless you have lived 

 with them, so neither ^ 

 do you well appre- yj^ 

 ciate Fairyland, unless 

 you have dwelt there ^^ 

 all the year. All parts ^^^ ^ 

 of it indeed are not s3^ <^^ ^A^ 

 open at all times ; and J "^ 



just now an explorer ^^^''^^■^-'"^^^''^^"^"^^■^^^ 



J ^wx^i SHELL, WITH KENILWORTII IVY. 



must be content to tarry for awhile at the 

 I* (5) 



^ 



