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Old Time Gardens 
I have picked both Ladies’ Delights and Dandelions 
every month in the year. 
I suppose the common Crocus would not be 
deemed a very great garden ornament in midsum- 
mer, in its lowly growth ; but in its spring blossom- 
Sun-dial in Garden of Hon. William H. Seward, Auburn, New York. 
ing it is — to use another’s words — “ most gladsome 
of the early flowers.” A bed of Crocuses is certainly 
a keen pleasure, glowing in the sun, almost as grate- 
ful to the human eye as to the honey-gathering bees 
that come unerringly, from somewhere, to hover 
over the golden cups. How welcome after winter 
is the sound of that humming. 
