social cup that truly
cheers. The broad lawn slopes north to the driveway. To the east,
separating the lawn from the walk, which is west of the canna beds, is a
border of dusty miller next the grass and one row each of blue anchusa
and red snapdragon. The silver leaved poplars in the distance give a
soft sheen to the whole picture.

Away to the west is a spruce hedge and inside the hedge red hollyhocks
and phlox with a great row of crimson poppies. A simple garden made of
simple things, and yet as we go through it to our peony bed, that
gorgeous flower, standing alone in its regal, queenly beauty, we do not
wonder that when one of old walked with God it was in the cool of the
evening and in a garden.

"Where in all the dim resplendent spaces,
The mazy stars drift through
To my garden lying whitely in
The moonlight and the dew."

My Experience in Grape Culture.

JOSEPH TUCKER, AUSTIN. SO. MINN. HORT. SOCIETY

During fifteen years I have had in my garden several varieties of
grapes, namely, the Concord, Worden, Moore's Early and a green grape
(not certain of its name). All have done remarkably well whenever the
season was reasonably favorable. I mean by that the absence of the late
spring and the early fall frosts, which are the greatest drawbacks to
grape culture. For that reason I would not advise anyone to undertake it
as a business venture on a large scale. On the other hand, where it is
desired to supply the family table with fresh fruit as long as it will
keep, also to add a variety of jellies and preserves for the winter, a
dozen of vines will supply an ordinary family with grapes whose flavor I
have never seen surpassed.

You who do not always expect money to grow on everything you touch, you
who admire and love a plant or vine and feel well repaid for your labor
to see it grow and bear fruit, you who have a vacant corner in your
garden well adapted to that purpose, I urge you most earnestly to plant
some grape vines, and I assure you that with some knowledge of their
care and a determination not to fail you will succeed, and you will
eventually be able to see a pretty sight--for, to my mind, nothing is
handsomer than a well trimmed grape row with the ripening fruit. The
soil that will grow corn will produce good grapes. My advice is to
select early ripening varieties, for then you will only have the
possible spring frost to contend with, and that is easy to guard
against.

D