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are of a deltcate creamy white^- slightly tinged — as seen in tlie glare of 

 sun-light — with green ; but in the moon-light look like frosted silver. 

 It must be seen in the moon-light to be seen'in its beauty ; then the 

 plant looks stately, and the silver bells glisten and shine in the soft 

 rays of the moon With a most bewitching loveliness. Yet it is not true 

 that it blooms only at the full of the moon. It is too bad to break the 

 charm that Margaret Fuller has thrown over this flower, holding it 

 spell-bound by the moon, unable or unwilling to open, its flowers until 

 she shines forth upon it in full orbed brightness ; yet we have seen a 

 bed of them that bloomed and faded before the moon came to the fulb 

 only here and there a flower upon the almost naked stalks to reflect 

 her light ; yet it is none the less true that its beauty can be seen in 

 its perfection only if it be in full bloom when the moon is at the full 

 shining upon it from a cloudless sky, in the soft air of a July night. 

 One stands and looks at it with wondering eye, amazed at the purity of 

 its whiteness, as tliough some fairy's wand had touched it since the 

 evening hour, transforming its greenish petals to a frost-work of silver, 

 and turuing its dull grey filaments into silver threads. 



This plant tlirives best in a rich sandy soil, and if planted in a bed 

 large enough to hold half a dozen plants two feet apart each way, and 

 allowed to remain without being disturbed,^ the plants will increase in 

 size and strength, flowering more and more abundantly. A bed planted 

 with ten of them for four years, produced fifteen flower stems, fully 

 six feet high, upon which the flowers could be numbered by thousands. 

 We hope many of our readers will plant a bed of them, and enjoy the 

 pleasure they will most assuredly give. 



THE EAELY .CANADA PEACH. 



It is quite refreshing in these days of shams to find now and then 

 a genuine article; to find that a fruit, for instance, which has been put 

 forth under certain claims and pretentions turns out to possess all the 

 good qualities claimed for it — that all is not mere pretence, but reality. 

 Three or four years ago we were shown a peach by one of our members, 

 Mr. Allen Moyer, which was then ripe, it was July,' and informed by 

 him that he had taken it from a tree growing in a fence corner on the 

 farm of Mr. High, not far from Jordan Station. "We were not then 



