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some interesting studies in form, and reveal new 

 possibilities of color. Many of the covers seem 

 Koula rugs transformed into card-board ; and 

 the hideous greens, saffrons, and magentas that 

 gape from the Anatolias in the carpet-store win- 

 dows appear to have been lavishly borrowed to 

 heighten the effect of the foliage and fruit of 

 some new strain of gourd, ruta-baga, or colossal 

 onion. The most powerful appeal of the season 

 is a full-page plate of liver-colored tomatoes and 

 zinnias in combination. In another distinctly 

 aesthetic overture, a plant of the Ipomcea tribe, 

 sent out under the name of moon-flower, has 

 embowered an entire cottage ; while the moon 

 itself, represented as rising in the horizon, shines 

 only with a borrowed splendor in the presence 

 of this high-class luminary. When the cata- 

 logue informs one, in addition, that " the flowers, 

 when unfolding, expand so rapidly as to be 

 plainly seen, affording amusement and instruc- 

 tion, and that, being a free bloomer, the effect 

 on a moonlight night is charming," the reader 

 need no longer doubt the advent of the floral 

 millennium. 



Surely it is the weather that the crows have 

 been denouncing so vehemently for several even- 

 ings from their roost in the immediate vicinity. 

 If we have not the rook, I am glad we have his 



