A Window in Arcady 
here is another vegetable bug-catcher, like the sundew 
and the huntsman’s cup; but, while those plants con¬ 
sume the insects caught, this one, which is known as the 
catch-fly, has apparently no use for its victim after catch¬ 
ing it. It has been suggested that the object of these 
gummy bands is to prevent crawling insects of the ground 
from reaching and perhaps injuring the flowers, which 
Nature may have designed shall be visited only by insects 
that fly. 
June 28.—Mulberries are ripe, and what with them 
and the cherries it has been flush times lately with the 
birds. Our native American mulberry tree is neither the 
white of silk-worm fame nor the black of Europe and 
literature, but the red. It is a moderate-sized tree, which 
in our neighborhood loves to grow in rich woodlands and 
along fence rows, and, while its fruit is not popularly 
esteemed in this country as the black mulberry is in the 
Old World, it is nevertheless by no means to be despised. 
The berries are in shape like an elongated blackberry, deep 
red in color and juicy and sweet to the taste, but rather 
prosy withal when one thinks of the lively lusciousness of 
such contemporary fruits as the strawberry and the cherry. 
Mulberries rarely find their way to our markets, but the 
country dweller sometimes indulges in a feast of them. 
Since they drop to the ground as fast as they ripen, they 
are best gathered by spreading cloths beneath the trees 
and then shaking the branches, which readily part with 
the ruddy harvest. 
If I were a farmer, I suppose I should not see any 
beauty in the wild carrot, which, originally a visitant here 
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