The Penn's Grove record., 1891-09-04
.ooD-srn TO SUMMER

sI am the Virgin and M veetal flame
Burns loss intently than the LIONS rage
sbeaves are my only eariauds, and claim
The Golden Haryests my heritage"
The Poe.s Ca,snddr, Auget-
The harvest month OF summer has
glided swiftly by, and the dry earth,
the dropping flowers, the fast-forming
seed pods, the shrill chirp Of the grass
hopper, warn us that summer Is over.
We yet have the long September In
which to watch our garde 8. Asters
and dahlias and royal chrysanthemums
are the typical flowers Of autumn, but
sweet peas, pansies, carnations n
peoples still breathe Of the golden sum
mer.
Hedges are thick with the lush. dark
fruit of elderberries, buckwheat fields
are white with bloom and sweet as
summer clover; blue gentians and
chlcory blossom by the roadside and
the pale, pink, purple Of the milk reed
or wild cotton are heavy with their too
sweet perfume. Thistles are begin
ming TO fade and Soon their ghostly
messengers will float on the air, Lent
on fulfilling their mission. The
orchards are laden with fruit: yellow
pipplns, red checked Baldwins and
Spies and tawny ru, sets. Velvet
peaches and golden FEARS tempt the
passer-by to pick their rich fru while
youder grape-trellis begins to show the
the deep purple Of Concords and Isa-
bellas. the amber globes of tho Della
ware grape and all the rich shades OF
rare n luscious seedlings.
September is the best Of all the
months in which TO remember the joys
and changes of the year, while it brings
its own beauty and fruition. 30 we
say, "Good-bye. Summer" with a tear
and a smile and turn to greet the fair
herald Of Autumn in hearty apprec a.
ton of all her gifts and graces. To the
fowers-lovers we express the hope
that their summer has been q happy one,
that their gardens have been thriving
and their flowers fair and fragrant, and
that autumn may bring to them a rich
harvest Of blossoms, Of hopes fulfilled
and labor rewarded.
FLORAL PAPERS AND DEPARTMENTS.
The vslue OF floral departments in
our magazines and newspapers, GIN
hardly De estimated in developing q
love for flowers among tine people and
making th. m ambitious to have refined
and beautiful homes.
Factsand information are brought be-
fore the people, new plants are de-
scribed and new uses and combinations
for the old ones. by this means We
may exchange with each other u ex-
~periences and bring forward our pet
me hods of cultivation.
All items on this subject are useful to
Us and we would be glad to. hear from
all the flower lovers, to become familiar
with the pretty hooks in their gar
dens, to know Of the wild flowers that
grow in every locality, and any expert
ments made in transpl nting then.
For these expressions of good will
we shall be extremely grateful, while
We extend onr thanks to those who
have already favored us.
CAN pLASTs sEEP
All who have watched the growth OF
plants must have had this question sug-
gested to them by some peculiar habit
Of growth. An exchange gives an in
teresting anecdote in support OF this
theory:
The candid observer must admit that
many plants act as If they had the
faculty of seeing. At any rate, they
manage to ind food and support by
some special sense, which the unscien-
tifc mind cannot name any better than
to call it sight. Mrs. King describes a
very curious instance of this habit of
looking out for support on the part of
n creeuinp plapt IN India:
"My husband has broached a theory
that I cannot remember to have met
with before, namely, that creeping
plants can see, or at any rate have some
faculty equalling sight. He was sit
ting in the veranda with one foot up
against a large pillar, BAL to which
grows o kind Of convolvulus. Its ten
drills we're leaning over into the YER
and and to Roberts surprise he pres
emily noticed that they were visibly
turning toward his leg. he remained
in the same position, and in less than
an hour the tendrils had laid them
selves over his leg.
'.This was in the early morning,
and when at breakfast he told me of
this discovery, we determined to make
further experiments. When we went
out into the veranda the tendrils had
turned their heads back to the railing
in disgust We got o pole and leaned
1t up against the pillar, quite twelve
inches from the nearest sprays of con-
v~olvulus.
s.In ten minutes they had begun to
curve themselves in that direction, and
acted exactly as you might fancy a very
slow snake would doifhe wished to reach
anything. The upper tendrils bent
down and the side les curved them
until they touched the pole, and
n few hours were twisted quite round
t.
SIT was on the side away from the
light, and excepting the faculty of
we can think OF no other lea
by which tie tendrils could be aware
the pole had been placed there.
They had to turn away from the light
to reach it, and they set themselves In
motion visibly within o few minutes of
the poles beng there"