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morning. We dare not extend our invita¬ 
tion to young men. Young men now-a-days 
are so very manly. They seem oppressed 
with so many worlds upon their shoulders— 
they are so enveloped with stately business 
complications and diplomacy. We who bask 
m the quietude and .rusticity of rural life 
cannot understand how it is that the distrait 
cacy. It is four or five inches high, with but 
two narrow leaves growing half way up the 
stem. The bulb, deep in the ground, is the 
size and shape of a Lima bean and of the 
color and consistency of a Madeira root. 
There are two or three racemes to each 
bearing from eight to ten flowers. The two 
ovate sepals, each with a little scallop in the 
top (emarginate), half envelop the rounc? 
seed capsule so that it resembles a bud an/l 
CHILDREN'S GARDENS, 
I wish 
every mother in the country knew 
the great satisfaction to be derived from the 
little plots of land the children cultivate as 
their own. No matter how small, ft. Whs a 
peculiar charm, and, its mixed and, incon¬ 
gruous plantings often yield astonishing re¬ 
sults. No radishes so crisp as those your 
little son will lay beside your plate, the 
reward for his toil and care.’ No flowers so 
beautiful as thoso your loving daughter 
brings in some bright spring morning, nur- 
| tured and tended by her own hands. The 
j earliest liepatica of the woods grows serenely 
in the shadow of “May’s tree," and wild 
violets flourish in Annie's gentle care. 
In on r home each child has a plot of ground 
and an apple tree, the fruit Of which, always 
fair and beautiful, is shared generously, and 
the surplus sold for pocket money. Some¬ 
times an early melon finds its way to our 
table from the garden of one of onr industri¬ 
ous boys, and is praised and appreciated as a 
reward for his labor. Little two year old 
has a garden too, and while we try to teach 
him not to pull an the happy family of 
flowers and vegetables that thrive there, we 
delight in his glad murmur as he roams like 
a true Bohemian in the summer sunshine, 
saying, “ My gardee, My gardee,” and taking 
a whole potatu from the cellar where his 
restless feet often wander he plants it just 
deep enough for the hens to pick out, and 
nothing daunted sows a handful of peas over 
it. But as ho grows older he will learn 
that this is not the road to success, and try 
to copy the care and vigilance displayed by 
his elders. Even “Bahy Hope” has a little 
circle filled with sweet wild flowers, brought 
from the woods this spring, “to be ready 
when she can gather them,” the children 
say—and our eager young botanists are ever 
ready to search for a new flower to trans¬ 
plant into “ Hope’s garden. ” By such inno¬ 
cent pleasures is home made happy and 
beautified. Annie L. Jack. 
manner, the obliviousness to trifles, the high 
head anil the “corrugated brow” are the 
of the French. But if we trace the Dutch 
name back two or three centuries we find it 
called “Gheldersche Roose,” which the En¬ 
glish people changed to “Gelders Rose,” or 
“Rose Elder.” The parent of the rose of 
Guelderland, however, is a native of our 
swamps, and is pretty well known as High- 
bush Cranberry, a handsome shrub, bearing 
mostly small, inconspicuous flowers, suc¬ 
ceeded by juicy, acid fruit of a bright red 
color, which are quite ornamental, in addi¬ 
tion to being edible. On the wild plants we 
may frequently find a few flowers in each 
cyme which have become changed into en¬ 
larged corollas, like those of the snowball, 
showing the natural tendency of the species 
to produce floral monstrosities. 
The change of habitat, and the effect, of 
climate and cultivation upon the first plant, 
or plants, taken to Europe only stimulated 
this inherent tendency to produce abortive 
flowers ; hence the early appearance of the 
Guelder Rose, or Snowball, in the gurdens 
of Holland, as well as In other parts of Eu¬ 
rope. It is certainly a grand old plant, 
which has held its own in the estimation of 
the lovers of beautiful shrubs for more than 
three centuries, and Is likely to continue to 
do so for all time, although it has some very 
worthy rivals, like the Lauristinc and the 
lately introduced Viburnum plica turn. The 
latter ig the old snowball in miniature and a 
valuable addition to our list of hardy shrubs. 
There are also several other species and 
varieties possessing considerable merit which 
are seldom seen, even among good collec¬ 
tions of ornamental shrubs. The early- 
blooming Lantana -leaved Viburnum (V- 
ior mat ie w nat its specific name means in 
English (i. e., V-macrocephalum), produces 
very large heads, or cymes, of white flow¬ 
ers. Then there ia a half-dozen or more 
common wild species that are quite orna¬ 
mental, especially when the plants are given 
good cultivation and are properly pruned. 
There are none of them difllcuit to make 
grow when transplanted, and the greater 
part grow freely from cuttings. 
New species and varieties are being dis¬ 
covered or produced from seed almost every 
season ; consequently those looking for nov¬ 
elties in this genus of plants need not be 
disappointed. Among the newer species of 
\ ibumums, “Keteleeri Guelder P™.-. >> t rr 
deep as tne ground was plowed. I then put 
a large shovelful of good barnyard manure 
where each hill is wanted, say four feet 
apart, and then thoroughly mix with the 
soil, making the hills about two inches higher 
than the general surface of the ground. I 
plant about the middle of June. 
As soon as the plants get large enough to 
he out of the way of the striped bug, I thin 
out to four plants to each hill. I cultivate 
them frequently, and hand hoe them two hi- 
three times before the vines commence to 
run. Iu this vicinity the price ranges from 
fifty cents to $1 per hundred, and the product 
of an acre sells from $100 to $800. 
On the same subject a correspondent of 
the Portland Transcript says :—In my opinion 
there is nothing that a farmer can realize so 
much money from as he can from raising 
cucumbers. If they arc pickled the right 
size and well preserved in strong salt pickle 
there is always a market for them. Some 
largest and most abundant. It vies with the 
Violets in forming masses of contrasting 
white. The plant is six inches high, with 
whorls of three deeply-cut leaves and a single 
flower of an inch in diameter. 
Mujanthemum bifolium, or two-leaved 
Solomon’s Seal, is distinguished by its two 
leaves of an ovate-cordate shape, tlio upper 
sessile, or joined to the stem, the lower one 
petiolate, or having a foot-stalk. The raceme 
is an inch long, consisting of twenty mites of 
white flowers. Small, pale berries succeed 
with purple specks. 
The root of Pancut trifolium is as round 
as a bullet and the size of a Marrowfat pea. 
Tlie stem rises six inches, slender and smooth, 
with a whorl of three compound leaves from 
winch a peduncle terminates in a little umbel 
of white flowers. The male and female or- 
about. The woods ? Ah yes, they recall— 
they have seen them in the distance. They 
were there during boyhood, ’ere they had 
dreamed of the mercantile greatness that 
awaited their majority. They gathered a 
chestnut and pricked their fingers and went 
home, immensely tired, to their anxious 
mammas. But, young ladies, you will come 
to the woods—you have no excuse. You are 
not smothered with the centrifugal and cen¬ 
tripetal forces of the world mercantile. You, 
can descend to trifles and forget your bonnet 
and the study of the new spring corabi na¬ 
tion of colors that consorts .with your com¬ 
plexions. 
The woods nearest to our home grow upon 
the eastern slope of considerable hills. 
Springs moisten the surface here and there 
or occasionally break out into tiny stream- , 
lets. Those poor souls imprisoned in cities 
who have never visited woods thus cireum- 
TOMATO TRELLISES. 
The cheapest and most convenient trellis 
for tomatoes is to make a four square frame 
for every hill, of four pieces of hard wood, 
two feet long and one inch square, for the 
lour corner posts. Let three pieces of lath 
each one foot long, be nailed on each side • 
such trellises will cost only a few cents each’ 
and they will save four times their cost in 
tomatoes. Let such a trellis be placed over 
each hill before the plant has begun to bend 
sideways, Mien the fruit will be kept off the 
ground. If made of durable timber, and 
carefully stored during winter In a pile on 
one side of the field, this kind of a trellis will 
last half a score of years or more, especially 
it they are dipped in a kettle of coal tar 
uh tne beautiful woods ! That first thrill- 
defiJ? P . ale ’ freshesfc g^cen is just well 
of its n7 ? e U1SpisSati0n ° f S P ri °e that tells 
“ , nea J J y finished labors and the near ap- 
r thW S " m " er «• >*viX 
° t f r e f du :; e “0 lowers. Young Me,, 
your sbr t0 t ^, WOod -’ nor fear to damper. 
ImttT th a litt,e morniu e <fevv I It 
You will ?? Cileek and y° ur heart, 
dreams I n? ? er f ° r ifc at ni ^ ht and your 
you a m L happy dreams that will give 
7 0 a bright eye grid a smiline- 
