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return plenty of handsome yellow flowers. 

 Sweet day-lilies bloom too, in these short- 

 ening August days ; and grasses come into 

 flower; and locusts and grasshoppers sing 

 of the time of year. 



As fast as your gladiolus spikes pass out 

 of bloom, cut them off, leaving the foliage 

 untouched to ripen the roots. Happily for 

 us, we need not sigh for the '' novelties" at 

 two and five dollars apiece. Twenty, and 

 thirty, and thirty-five cents, will give what 

 ought to content reasonable people. Can- 

 ary — a grand bloomer, early ; with a fine 

 spike of large flowers of a beautiful huffish 

 yellow. John Bull — very large, creamy 

 white. Mons. VincJion, of a fine pale salmon 

 tint. Berenice, another first-class, — spike 

 rather open, flowers very large, colour a 

 rosy salmon. The new Isabella (it was quite 

 new when Mr. Vick sent it to me) is more 

 wonderful for its spike than for the indivi- 

 dual flowers which it bears so grandly, 

 though they are very fine too, — clear white, 

 blazed with purple. Then there is Don 



