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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



WILD FLOWERS, 



BY AUGUSTUS WATTERS. 



Oil I rlainty baby foresters 



Tliat hide in silent nooks, 

 That liui,'ur by the cowpaths 



And iieep into the brooks ; 

 Your dimples bring me back again 



The merry days of old, 

 When every wood was fairy-land 



And buttercups were gold. 



By mossy rocks and nodding ferns 



You lift your timid eyes. 

 And by the wounded maple trees 



III smiling groups arise. 

 No more the shrieking winter winds 



Affright the naked woods. 

 But all the scented aisles are gay 



With Flora's dappled hoods. 



Again the daisy's snowy sails 



O'erspread the grassy seas, 

 Again a thousand tiny masts 



Bend low before the breeze ; 

 And daffodils, in scented robes, 



On sunny knolls are seen. 

 And dandelions, like little suns. 



Shine out amid the green. 



Though years have sped since first for me 



You made the meadows bright. 

 And many a suuset-tinted dreaiu 



Has faded into night. 

 Still do I hail with boyish love 



The violet's balmy breath — 

 Still joy to see the crocus burst 



From winter's icy death. 



I trace the tints of deathless Hope 



In all your tender beauty, 

 Yi( tiny bards that sing to man 



^\lid stony paths of duty, 

 Th\it whisper of a paradise 



'l^he toiling years shall give, 

 When grief, aud hate, and death shall die, 



And only love shall live I 



Hydranga Paniculata Grandiflora. 

 — This shrub deserves much more atten- 

 tion than has been usually bestowed upon 

 it. It's an easy growing plant, very profuse 

 bloomer, bearing extra large showy 

 panicles of pure white flowers — some- 

 times tinged with pink as it ages — holds 

 its blossoms an exceedingly long period, 

 blossoms in fall when no other shrubs are 

 in flower, and its blossoms make nice dried 

 parlor ornaments in winter. We con- 

 sider it one of the best, and too long 

 neglected. It deserves a place every- 

 where. -r-P aimer' s Monthly. 



Thk Dahlia in the Gakden. — The 

 Dahlia is, no doubt, destined to be more 

 prominent in good gardens than it ever 

 yet has been. The tall, handsome plants 

 with large double flowers will occupy con- 



spicuous places where they will show to 

 advantage. The bedding or dwarf varie- 

 ties will be raised in masses in beds and 

 on the borders of shrubberies ; the bou- 

 quet and single varieties will be valued as 

 cut flowers. Thus there is a special 

 value to each class, and blooming, as they 

 all do, in the autumn, they are without 

 rivals in their season. — Vick's Magazine. 



Most Profitable Strawberries. — 

 This season's experience will teach our 

 strawberry growers the advantage of 

 planting late ripening varieties. To 

 secure good paying prices those sorts 

 shoidd be grown which ripen after the 

 main crop from the South has been mar- 

 keted. So long as the South continues to 

 ship this fruit in large quantities the earlier 

 varieties should be left to that section and 

 only grown here for home market. Among 

 the late ripening sorts are Sucker State, 

 Sharpless, Crescent, Cornelia, Jumbo, 

 Windsor Chief, Mt. Vernon and Cumber- 

 land. — Farmer and Fruit Grotver. 



CoDLiN Moth. — Mr. Moody, of Lock- 

 port, states that farmers of Niagara 

 County spray their apple trees with water 

 containing a very little Paris green in 

 suspension, with marked success in pre- 

 venting injury from this insect. He uses 

 a force pump with the liquid for spraying, 

 placed upon a farm waggon. An attach- 

 ment ccmnected with the rear wheel of 

 the waggon, operates the pump and keeps 

 the liquid stirred, so that a single man is 

 enabled to drive the team and syringe the 

 trees. Upon trees sprayed with the mix- 

 ture two or more years in succession, the 

 codlin moth is almost unknown. 



Advice TO Fruit Growers for Hard 

 Times. — " It will certainly do no good to 

 grumble and complain of hard times, 

 trying to make ourselves believe that 

 times are worse than they really are. Let 

 us rather bring to bear on our respective 

 pursuits increased skill, energy and per- 

 severance. We must be prepared for 

 these periods of depression, * hard times,' 

 for they are sure to come sooner or later, 

 and generally sooner. The preparation 

 we need to make is to become first-class 

 cultivators. Poor farming, poor fruit- 

 growing and gardening, will always fare 

 badly in hard times. — Vick's Magazine. 



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