Volume XIII. SEPTEMBER, 1884. No. 9. 
THE GARDEN IN SEPTEMBER 
Amply repays in beauty all the labor of the year. It is 
now, for should be, in a most satisfactory condition, 
everything glowing with beauty. Dazzling colors are 
to be met in spring and summer flowers; but the rich¬ 
est colors come with the ripeness of autumn, bringing 
with„them notes of warning that summer is ended, and 
do its work. The garden teaches us plainly that another 
life must be commenced in this, that while there is, in 
reality, no death, that higher and more beautiful lives 
result from the preparations made in this. This life 
principle is the same in all created forms that are 
capable of development and reproduction. Therefore 
Lakge-Flowered Yellow-Throated Petunia. (See Notes, Page 301.) 
that frost, like the pale horse and its rider, will 
soon make our 'gardens desolate. These cool nights 
that succeed our most lovely autumn days, tenderly 
suggest to us that the richness of the flower, and the 
gorgeous coloring of tile leaf that gives garden, field 
and wood such a magnificent appearance, are but the 
signs of ripening, and that, when ripe, the sickle must 
our gardens will be next year what we make them this, 
as we must now make all the necessary preparations for 
the coming year. Each and every day in the year is a 
“ new year ” to some plant, as there is not a day but 
brings forth some of thejnany forms of vegetable life. 
The future of our gardens depends upon the unceasing 
care and watchfulness of to-day. Let us then commence 
