THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



23 



concerning Fruit and Fruit Trees in 

 Ontario for the season just passed. 



Arthur's Home Magazine, published 

 by T. S. Arthur & Son, 920 Walnut 

 street, Philadelphia. January number 

 is full of interest and well illustrated. 

 Its high moral tone makes it a desirable 

 visitor to the family circle. 



CATALOGUES. 



Official Catalogue of the Canadian 

 Section of the Colonial and Indian 

 Exhibition, received with the compli- 

 ments of Sir Charles Tupper. 



Greenhouse Heating Apparattis. — 

 Hitchings & Co., 233 Mercer street, 

 New York City. 



Landretlis Seed Catalogue, 1887. — 

 D. Landreth & Sons, Box 1623, Phila- 

 delphia, Penn. 



D. W.Beadle Nursery Co., St. Cath- 

 arines, Ont., neatly got up and contains 

 an interesting descriptive list of trees, 

 shrubs and plants for sale at these 

 nurseries. 



A Boston Dude was making an even- 

 ing call upon a Beacon street young lady 

 last week, and among the many subjects 

 which came up for intelligent discussion 

 was the chrysanthemum show. 



" Have you visited the chrysanthe- 

 mum exhibition yetf asked the young 

 lady. 



" Oh, dear, no," he said, " I find such 

 things very trying, y' know ; I am not 

 what you call a literary man at all, and 

 such performances are a boah, y' know." 



" It doesn't require a very pronounced 

 literaiy taste to appi-eciate a chi-ysan- 

 themum show," said the young woman 

 with a tired glance at the clock. 



"Nol "Well, perhaps not so much 

 a literary taste, y' know, as a fondness 

 for — for — the antique — the ancient — 



the — the classical, y' know," replied 

 the slim, trying to hide his feet. 



" I do not see that the ' antique,' the 

 ' ancient,' or the ' classical,' as you are 

 pleased to call it, has any particular 

 connection with such a display." 



" Well, possibly not very much y' 

 know," he assented, knocking a piece of 

 bric-a-brac off the table ; " it all depends 

 on how one looks at those things, y' 

 know. By the way," he continued, 

 " who is it that plays the part of Chry- 

 santhemum f 



" You seem to be laboring under 

 some mistake," replied the young lady 

 politely. " It is not a play, simply an 

 exhibition of flowers bearing that 

 name." 



" Bah," said the slim, " I had obtained 

 the idea that it was something of the 

 nature of a Greek tragedy, y' know." 



A little later he bade her good even- 

 ing, and while on his way home a gust 

 of wind blew him against a lamp-post 

 and killed him. — Philadelphia Call. 



Indefinite Quantities. — A barrel of ap- 

 ples, a quai't of strawberi-ies, a basket 

 of peaches, a box of cranberries, a box 

 of huckleberries, a quarter's worth of 

 eggs, a dozen oggs. — R. N. Y. 



Not Exactly Tobacco. — A young lady 

 from the city was visiting a farmer who 

 had a very extensive tobacco plantation. 

 The farmer had gotten out the buggy 

 and was showing her over the place. 



" Oh," she said as they turned into 

 the lane, "that is another field of to- 

 bacco, isn't it ? " 



The farmer looked in the direction in- 

 dicated and replied : " That there ? No, 

 marm — er — that — is — not exactly. " 



" ' Not exactly.' What do you mean 

 by that 1 " 



" Why, ye see," said the farmer, with 

 a significant grin : " That there's a 

 cabbage patch."- — -Ohio Farmer. 



To Be Shaken Before Taken. — The apple 

 on a lofty bough. — New Age. 



