ILLUSTRATED PERIODICAL 



DEVOTED TO 



Horticulture in all its Branches. 



CONDUCTED BY 



Elias A. Long, Atii/ior of " Ornamenial Gardening for Americatis,' 

 "The Home Florist" Etc., Etc. 



The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned 

 To hiew t.^ie, shaft, aqd lay the archiitrave. 

 Aqd spread tlie roof above tl^en^ — ere he framed 

 The lofty vault, to gather aqd roll back 

 The sound of antherT|s, iq thie darkling wood, 

 Amidst tt^e cool aqd sileqce, hie knelt dowq 

 And offered to thie Migfitiest solenriq thaqks and supplicatioq. 



— Bryant. 



Volume 2, 1886 = 87. 



BUFFALO, N. Y.: 

 Popular Gardening Publishing Co. 



