upon with
contempt by outsiders, who regard the Golf Plant as the greatest pest in
the vegetable kingdom.

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THE RUBBER PLANT

_Snoopia Vulgaris_

EYEBULGIA Family.

Grows wild if planted near a window.

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THE PORCH CLIMBER

OR

SECOND STORY VINE

(Note the large size of the Pistils.)

[Illustration: NOTES _on_ EXPERIMENTAL WORK]

_The garden paths were completely blocked
With engagement vines on the first of_ OCT

HEARTICULTURE

October

The Hearticulturist must bestir himself in October if he desires his
garden to present a bright appearance at the end of the season. He will
find plenty to do, raking up the rapidly falling leaves of the Date
Plant.

The withered Date Leaves present a mournful appearance, and all traces
of them should be cleaned away as fast as possible, as they impede the
growth of the Fall Engagement Vine. These should be well covered, and
together with the more tender of the Heart Trees taken into the Hot
House at the first sign of a Frost.

Old-fashioned flowers like Yearning and Aufweedersehen or Absence, with
their pensive autumn fragrance and soft colors, add much to the beauty
of the October garden. Yearning, however, though a beautiful flower,
should be well trimmed and kept within bounds, as it has a tendency to
become wild when left to itself, in which state it is a most troublesome
weed.

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THE DEADLY GOSSIP WEED

_Whisperia Scandalosia_

BACKBITUS Family.

A knoxious plant.

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POLICIA

ONE OF THE FINEST

A great grafter. Follows the Porch Climber, but seldom appears until it
has quite gone.

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ENGAGEMENTS

_For fear of frosts he made a stove
Of glow-worm coals on the first of_ NOV

HEARTICULTURE

November

The Heart Garden would be a dull spectacle in the month of November were
it not for the brave show of the Thanksgiving Bush (_Overeatia
Nationalia_), with its bright turkey-red flower. This together with the
Reunion Plant (_Gatheringea Familiensis_), a species of _Arborvitae_, of
which the _Smithensis_ and _Jonesia_ are the commonest varieties, forms
the color scheme of the November garden. The Reunion Plant especially,
with its wonderfully intricate and multitudinous branches, shows so many
varieties of color, form, and scent as almost to be a garden in itself.

A much-prized though unobtrusive November flower is the Correspondence
Vine (_E