little shrub, truly. Who has a knife to lend? Its stem is too tough to break readily. There, my dear Emily, it is yours."

"Oh, thank you, dear Papa; but I thought the daphne smelt sweet, and this has no scent at all."

"Not in the daytime, Emily, but wait till evening, and you will find that it does smell sweet. And now who finds the mezereon?"

"I have it," cried Harry; "this is it, I think, with the pretty pink flowers all up the stem."

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'Yes, like flowers tied on a May-pole, and not a leaf to be seen."

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And now, my friend Harry, you must use the knife, too," said Charles Neville, who had watched the little fellow tug at the tough plant in vain. "You will spoil the flowers much sooner than you will break off the branch."

Harry took the knife, and cut off several branches, and then called out, "Where is Miss Elmer? The best branch is for her, because she mended my kite so capitally." And the best Miss Elmer accordingly had, but a branch was also found for such of the others as wished for it. One, he said, he should carry home himself, and fix it up near the beehives, for it smelt so sweet and honied, he had no doubt the bees would think it quite a treat.

Mr. Leslie said the mezereon was rather a rare plant, and added, "I recollect a distinguished

botanist taking a long journey one spring, a few years ago, for the sake of searching for it in these woods, having never seen it flowering wild in this country, though he had botanized long in various parts of the kingdom.'

Reed Sparrow, or Reed Bunting (Emberiza Schaniclus)

Arrived.

Common Linnet (Fringilla Cannabina)

Stone Curlew, or Great Plover (Charadrius

Edicnemus)

Least Willow Wren, or Chiffchaff (Sylvia Hippo

lais).

Wheat-ear (Saxicola Enanthe)

Hens sit. Turkeys, geese, and ducks lay.-Pheasants crow.

Song begins.

Arrived.

do.

do.

Builds.

Jackdaw (Corvus Monedula)

House-pigeons sit.

INSECTS, &c.

Humble Bee (Bombus)

Appears.

Dor-beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius)
March Moth (Anisopteryx Æscularia).
Orange Under-wing (Brepha Parthenias)
Light Orange Under-wing (B. notha).
Blossom Under-wing Moth (Orthosia cruda).
Brimstone Butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni)

do.

do.

do.

do.

do.

do.

Toad (Bufo vulgaris).

Frog (Rana temporaria) .

Pipistrelle Bat (Vespertilio Pipistrellus)

The Lesser Stag-beetle (Dorcus parallelipipedus)
Banded Snail (Helix nemoralis)

Oil Beetle (Proscarabæus vulgaris)

Spawns.
do.
Comes out.

Appears.
Comes out.
Appears.

do.

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly (Vanessa Urtica).
Bees begin to work, and Wasps and Humble-bees appear.

do.

Leaves.

do.

Dovesfoot Cranesbill (Geranium molle)
Whitethorn (Crataegus Oxyacantha).
Privet (Ligustrum vulgare).
Hazel (Corylus Avellana)

Hairy Violet (Viola hirta and V. odorata)
Yellow Star of Bethlehem (Gagea lutea).
Barren Strawberry (Potentilla Fragariastrum)
Sloe, or Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)
Wood Spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides)

do.

Flowers.

do.

do.

do.

do.

Hairy Cardamine (Cardamine hirsuta)

do.

Anemone.-Put in any roots that are left from the autumn planting, and by this means you will secure a succession of flowers late in the season.

Scarlet Lobelias should now be potted, and placed in a sunny window or a moderate hot-bed.

Hardy Annuals.-The seeds may be put into the ground, in light soils, at the end of the month. They should be sown in small patches, and covered with a little dry soil.

Auriculas.-Only the strongest trusses of bloom thrown up by these plants should be allowed to remain; the weaker ones must be pinched off. Guard carefully against frost, but let the plants have air all day when the weather is open, and towards the end of the month expose them occasionally to gentle showers.

Sow Borage, and Canada Clover, for bees. The borage does not require transplanting, and should be sown near the beehives;-the Canada clover, on the contrary, sow in a bed, or in pots, and transplant when of a fit size. This is a fragrant and ornamental plant in autumn, with its racemes of small white hay-scented flowers; but it does not bloom till the second year.

Chinese Chrysanthemums.—Let these be divided, and put into small pots, or placed in a border of rich soil, and potted later in the season for flowering in August.

Carnations.-Transplant last year's layers into beds, or large pots, at the end of the month.

This is a busy month in the kitchen-garden; but juvenile gardeners rarely have space for more than a limited number of such plants as usually find a place there.

Lettuce and carrot seeds may be sown, and, later in the month, radishes.

This is the month for grafting pears, apples, cherries, and plums, about the middle of the month is considered the best time.*

Ploughing and sowing are continued.-Peas, Beans, Oats, and Spring wheat sown.-Barley sowing finished.

"When the oak puts on her gosling grey,

'Tis time to sow barley night and day."

Old Adage.

Grass-seeds sown.-Potatoes planted.-Hedges plashed.-Hop plantations cut and dressed. Osiers cut.

* For many of the horticultural hints the writer is indebted to that cheap and useful little book, Paxton's "Cottager's Calendar of Garden Operations."