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THE CANADIAN H0BTICULTUKI8T. 



■ AUTUMN LEAVES. 



(For the Canadian Horticulturist. J 



And hast thou tlius been cast away. 



Poor sear and yellow leaves ; 

 Sliort has been thy happy day. 



Ah ! how my lone heart grieves. 



I've watched thee dancing in the sun, 



"Trees have tongues "; I've heard thee say, 



" In oblivion's gulf we'll soon be flung. 

 Let us be merry while we may." 



Poor cashiered leaves, you've done your duty, 

 And played your little part so well ; 



Living your S]>an, m I'aultlcss beauty 

 Within this flowery dell. 



Oft when o)iprcsscd by anxious care, 



Thy sweet Elysian shade 

 Of fluttering leaves, and balmy air, 



A sanctuary made'. 



Sweet autumn leaves, I too, like thee, 



Have had my joyful day ; 

 But it is nature's firm decree 



That we should fade, fall, and decay. 



But, blessed is the hope to me. 



All who till- " Truth " receives. 

 The glorious " Tree of Life " shall see. 



And kiss the " healing leaves." 

 Montreal. Grandma Gowax. 



The Eumelan Gkape. — From my ex- 

 perience I would give up a good many 

 fancy grapes before I would spare the Eu- 

 melan. It has one fault — it is shy of 

 starting and I have not been successful 

 in raising new plants. But the fruit was 

 worth 20 cents a pound in Montreal when 

 Concords were selling for nine cents. It 

 is a good bearer with me, never drops its 

 berries. So, like doctors, grape growers 

 differ in opinion. — Annie L. Jack, in 

 Rural New- Yorker. 



The Salome Apple seems to be growing 

 in favor in Illinois, being very hardy, pro- 

 ductive, and a long keeper. The apple is 

 of very good quality, size only medium, 

 color from a light to a dark red or nearly 

 so. Bears well annually, but more 

 heavily alternate years. Keeps well until 

 May or even June. The Western Rural 

 says in the issue of June 13th, that sam- 

 ples received at that office from Mr. A. 

 Bryant, were then as soiuid as bullets, and 

 gave evidence of being good keepers — 

 Farm and Garden. 



The Jessica Grape.— -This new variety 

 of white Grape, sent out a few years since 

 by D. W. Beadle, of St. Catherines, Ont- 

 ario, we found ripe on the 22d of August, 



at Vine Valley, on Canandaigua Lake, ten 

 days earlier than Champion, in the same 

 locality, was fit to gather. At that time 

 it was quite ripe, and liad been so, appar- 

 ently, for several days, as the birds had 

 discovered its condition, and eaten quite 

 a number of the berries. The fruit is of 

 medium size in bunch and berry, has a 

 pleasant, but not a high, flavor, somewhat 

 acid, without foxiness, and no hard pulp, 

 birt juicy. Altogether, it is a fair Grajie, 

 and the earliest we know. It is a strong 

 grower, with thick, healthy foliage. — 

 Vick^s Magazine. 



About Callas. — Every one knows that 

 the Calla requires rich soil and frequent 

 watering, but very few amateurs give 

 enough heed to this so as to have the earth 

 sufficiently rich or the wvder supply 

 sufficiently abundant. Nothing but the 

 most severe perseverance in having the 

 earth as much as half manure will insure 

 success ; then the plants when growing 

 vigorously must not only be kept as wet 

 as possible, but tliey delight in warm, and 

 even moderately hot water. As ordinary 

 saucers are shallow, we have placed a pot 

 of Calla in a large earthern wash-basin, 

 which we keep filled with warm water. 

 It is also requisite to cut off each flower as 

 soon as it shows any signs of withering ; 

 the result will be that a new bud will very 

 soon make its appearance, often before the 

 old stem is wilted. — American Garden. 



Newly Planted Trees — Importance 

 of Cidtivating. — The soil will dry very 

 rapidl}^ and to a great depth if allowed 

 to get hard and compact. There is but a 

 small si>ace left for air in solid soils, and 

 from this fact they become hot and dry to 

 a great depth in the summer. VVhile if 

 air is present, as it is in loose soils, being 

 such a poor conductor of heat, it will 

 allow only a small portion of soil to be- 

 come hot, which soon cools at night and 

 is filled with a copious dew, not only re- 

 taining the moisture already in the soil, 

 but adding to it at a season when moisture 

 is especially desirable. Newly-set trees 

 are always benefitted by cultivation, be- 

 cause all their roots are surface-roots, and 

 cannot thrive in a hot, dry, compact soil. 

 Hence the necessity of summer surface- 

 cultivation of newly-set trees. — Farm and 

 Garden. 



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