Too Many.


THE SILENT CHARMER.

[Speaking of flowers a contemporary recently remarked:—"These careless-looking creatures filling the air with delight, robbing tired brains of tiredness, are a delicate texture of coloured effort that has prevailed out of a thousand chances, aided in all that effort by man. Without man they would be but weeds—a profusion of Nature's quantity.">[

My dearest Thomas, I would not

Deny the fact that you are clever;

You've taught Dame Nature what is what

At horticultural endeavour

(She has not got that useful thing,

The shilling book of gardening).