Vol. 1. — No. 7. 
OCTOBER, 
New, Rare and Beautiful 
GROWN AND TOR SALE AT HIS 
Fig. 54. — Polygonum Sieboldi. 
AUTUMN WORK. 
, ITH the return of cool, invigorating Autumn weather, we really commence 
a new year, — at least from an agricultural and horticultural point of view 
— for nature seems to separate the vegetable year at the close of the hot, 
dry summer. All our grain, fruit and nuts are then ripe or ripening, 
and the seed of nearly all the hardy perennials, (including some of the 
grains), and all the seed of the stone-fruit, as well as hardy bulbs, are far 
better oil' in the ground than otherwise; indeed, many things will never 
germinate unless planted in the fall. But as all successful cultivators are 
taught by experience this important fact, we will now briefly notice a few things 
that after a fair trial under cultivation have proved themselves worthy a place in 
the flower garden. 
A bountiful giver has spread broadcast over the face of the earth an almost endless 
variety of vegetable forms adapted to the wants and requirements of the human 
family, particularly in the tropical and temperate zones; and from these free gifts 
we are all privileged to select and gather such as our wants may require or our 
fancy dictate, if we will only be to the trouble and expense of going where they are 
