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VICK ON POETRY. 



James Vick, the great florist and seedsman, of 

 Rochester, gets off some good things in his Floral 

 Guide, and the following on corresjiondence, poetry 

 and poets is one of his best.* Its point ■will be better 

 appreciated when we state that Vick is an old printer, 

 although no longer "too poor to indulge in such 

 luxuries as letter paper :'^ 



OuK CoKRESPONiJENCE : We like to look over a 

 basket of letters from correspondents in all parts of 

 the world — from the missionary in India or Palestine, 

 the merchant in China, and the wife of a California 

 miner. It is a pleasure and not a task, and we can 

 occasionally cull a useful fact, valuable to us and 

 our readers. It is only the poetry that troubles us. 

 In the first place, we are not much of a judge of 

 IX)etry ; in the aeco^id place, we have no taste for com- 

 mon poetry, and what we get is very common. Ouce, 

 in a lit of desperation, we thought we would publish 

 one of the worst pieces we had on hand, just to show 

 how we were afflicted, and to deter any one from 

 sending us more poetry. Imagine our feelings, when, 

 a few days after the issue of the number, we received 

 a letter from a lady, stating that we might as well 

 put our name to our poems, as we could not disguise 

 our style. 



We thought then we had done with poetry forever. 

 But we have relented. We have a poem now that is 

 not common by any means. It came to us without 

 name, except what is seen below, and that possibly 

 is fictitious. It was composed by some editor, be- 

 cause it was written on printing paper, with a pencil, 

 just as editors do, for they are generally too poor to 

 indulge in such luxuries as letter paper. So we con- 

 cluded to give it to our readers. It will be seen that 

 the author possesses considerable historical knowl- 

 edge : 



MEDITATIONS IN A GARDEN. 



BY CAUL I. FLOWER. 



Of all the men within this wick- 

 ed world (and, Goodness sakes, they're thick !) 



There's none who knows a flowerier trick 

 Than Mister James (Rochester) Vick. 



His parterres are with blooms so thick 

 That Babylon's gardens, built on brick, 



Could never have looked one-half so slick 

 As Rochester Nurseries owned by Vick. 



And that's the reason why the Dic- 

 tionary we spelled, in times classic, 

 Says Nebuchadnezzar oft did lick 

 And kick 

 His men, and swear he'd send for Vick. 



Those kings, you know, are terr-i-fic, 



And oft with whips and cowhides flick 

 Their folks; and thrash with walking-slick 



Their gardeners, 'cause they ain't like Vick. 



When Adam said to Eve, " My chick ! 



The flowers in Eden are none too thick," 

 She softly sighed in Hebraic, 



" Dear Addy, let us send for Vick !" 



And if they had, just in the nick 



Of time— ('tis best to do things quick.) 

 Poor Eve had had no need to pick 



That apple, 'stead of flowers from Vick. 



All this is gospel, sound as hick- 

 ory. But as my muse is sick, 



And time runs on with ceaseless tick 

 And click. 

 I think I'll send these Unea to Vick. 



A PATRON of a certain newspaper once said to the 

 publisher : "Mr. Printer, how is it you never call on me 

 for pay for your paper?" "Oh !"said the man of types, 

 "we never ask agentleman lor money." "Indeed," 

 replied the patron, " how do you manage to get along 

 when they don't pay?" "Why," said the editor, 

 " after a certain time we conclude that he is not a 

 gentleman, and we ask him." "O ! — ah !— yes ! — I see ! 

 Mr. Editor please give me a receipt," and hands him 

 the cash. " Make my name all right on your books." 



Nursery Rhyme for the Chemical Child. 



Sing a Bong of acids. 



Base and alkali, 

 Four and twanty gases. 



Baked into a pie ; 

 'When the pie was opened, 



Wonderful to say. 

 Oxygen and Nitrogen 



Both flew away. 



Horace Walpole said this was the worst, that is, 

 the best bull he ever read: "I hate that woman," 

 said a gentleman, looking at a person who had been 

 his nurse, "I hate her, for when I was a child she 

 changed me at nurse. This was indeed a perplexing 

 assertion ; but we have a similar instance recorded 

 in the autobiography of an Irishman, who gravely 

 informs us that he " ran away early in life from his 

 father on discovering he was only his uncle." 



A MAN from Chicago, when asked by a Saratoga 

 waiter what he would have for tireakfast, replied, 

 "Well, I rather guess I'll just flop my lip over a 

 chicken." 



is the most beautiful work of the kind in the world. It con- 

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 four Chromn Plates of Flowers, beautifully drawn and col- 

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 bound in elegant cloth. 

 ■yick's Floral Guide, Quarterly, 25 cents a year. 



Address, JAMES VICK. Rochester, N. Y. 



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