JLhc 



anabian 



IDorticulturiet 



Published at Toi\onto and Gi^imsby, Qnt. 

 OFFICE ADDRESS— GRIMSBY, ONT. 



VOL. X.] 



OCTOBER, 1887. 



[No. 10. 



OCTOBER. 



How time is flyin^^ I We October meet 



Flinging around briglit leaves of gold and red ; 



Pausing to make a crown of bitter-sweet 

 And immortelles, to place upon her head I 



AVhile nuts from opening burrs fall thick and fast, 



As gay October brushes swiftly past I 



The gardens still look splen'lid. Dahlias rear 

 Their stately heads around, while sahnas spread 



Their scarlet petals, and while often near 

 AVe mark the queenly cardinal's bright red. 



All blossoms, now, look gorgeous in the sun, 



Earth's "melancholy days " have not j-et come. 



The very skies are glowing 1 Cloud on cloud 



Piles up, of silver shot with rays of gold. 

 Then crimson veils fall o'er them, veils to shroud 



Scenes brighter far than earth-eyes could behold. 

 We look around, above, below, then sigh 

 Alas I October, too, must soon pass by. 



Sophie L. Schenck, in Brooklyn Magazine. 



THE JA 



fANADIAN scenery is at its very 

 height of beauty in the month 

 of October. The foreign tourist 

 could not visit our country at a more 

 favorable time. No one, who has any 

 eye for the charms of nature, can look 

 upon the varied hues and gorgeous 

 tints of our shrubs and trees in autumn, 

 without exclamations of admiration. 

 The endless variety of shades assumed 

 by the Maple, the Oak, the Sumach, the 



PAN IVY. 



Virginia Creeper, and the numerous 

 wild shrubs, afford a constant succes- 

 sion of surprises. 



It seems therefore quite appropi-iate, 

 at this time, to present our readers 

 with a painting of the Japan Ivy, one 

 of the most ornamental of climbers, 

 on account of the brilliance of its 

 foliage. Neither this, nor the American 

 Ivy, as the Virginia Creeper is some- 

 times called, belongs to the Ivy genus, 



