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grasshoppers that year, and they were continually springing up 
from the path in front of me. Suddenly one of them, a large fe- 
male two-stripe locust, that had not directed her heavy flight cor- 
rectly, sprang against an over-hanging spike of foxtail. Instantly 
her gauzy underwings were grasped by the little barbed bristles, 
and she was abruptly arrested in mid-air. Her weight was suffi- 
cient to bend the grass stalk low enough to allow her to get an 
occasional footing against a spray of weeds, and she continued to 
vibrate up and down like a child playing see saw, until her strug- 
gles detached enough of the bristles to release her, but her wings 
were a sad wreck. 
These few observations all being made in one locality, I have no 
doubt that many other places would afford numerous and more 
curious examples of an analogous nature. — Popular Science 
News. 
THE WILD GARDEN. 
W^ild flowers, w-e are aware, do not appeal w^ith the same inten- 
sity to all, and it follows that a wild garden may prove of little in- 
terest to many who love flowers, but thinking the subject a worthy 
one, I have selected it for consideration this evening. A wild 
garden is not, as many assume, a garden wild, but it is a collection 
of plants native to a district, planted, arranged and taken care of 
just as other garden plants are cared, for. And a wild garden 
wild is even more slovenly and deplorable than an ordinary garden 
wild. I remember an account Prof. ^Meehan told me some years 
ago of a visit he made to Mr. Wm. Robinson's place near London. 
Mr. Robinson was the author of a celebrated book called *'The 
Wild Garden," and the possessor of what was considered an ex- 
ceedmgly fine wild-flower garden. After lunch Prof. ^leehan was 
invited to inspect this garden, and his humorous account of it I 
shall not soon forget. He told me he did not doubt the plants 
were there, and that they were all that was claimed for them, but 
he could not see the flowers for weeds. It is needless to say this is 
not the kind of a garden we have in mind. 
