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diff --git a/23681.txt b/23681.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49cb4ad --- /dev/null +++ b/23681.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1286 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cupid's Almanac and Guide to Hearticulture +for This Year and Next, by John Cecil Clay and Oliver Herford + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Cupid's Almanac and Guide to Hearticulture for This Year and Next + +Author: John Cecil Clay + Oliver Herford + +Release Date: December 2, 2007 [EBook #23681] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUPID'S ALMANAC *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + +CUPID'S ALMANAC + +[Illustration] + +THE PROPOSAL PLANT + +_Heartis Throbolae_ + +LOVEYOULIA Family. + +This must not be confused with the Wild Popper weed, _Paterfamilias +Furiosis_, which if not kept in its bed, often chokes off the Proposal +Plant and prevents its blooming. + + + + +CUPID'S + +ALMANAC + +_and GUIDE to_ + +_HEARTICULTURE_ + +for + +_This Year and Next_ + + Compiled for D. Cupid + by John Cecil Clay + and Oliver Herford + +[Illustration] + +_Published by_ + +HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY + +Boston and New York + +COPYRIGHT 1908 BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY + +ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + +_Published September 1908_ + + +THIRD IMPRESSION + +[Illustration] + + + * * * * * + + + TO + LOVERS + AND + LOVERS + OF + LOVERS + + + * * * * * + + +[Illustration] + +WEATHER: SPRING TIDES: PLANETS' MOTIONS: SUN AND MOON'S RISING AND +SETTING: LENGTH OF DAYS: TIME OF HIGH WATER: FAIRS: COURTS AND HOLIDAYS. + + +_Tides_ + +[Illustration] + +In most of the coastwise states the tides will keep coming in as usual, +but the wonderful changes in the flow of the Gulp stream will have a +canny effect on some of the interior states. + + +_Rains_ + +[Illustration] + +This will be a dry year. + + +_Length of Days_ + +[Illustration] + +The days will be longer this year for those not in love than they will +be for us. + + +_The Golden Number_ + +[Illustration] + +The Golden Number this year is only 2. + + +_Fairs_ + +[Illustration] + +The Fairs will be just as fair this year as last--if anything, a little +fairer. + + +_Courts_ + +[Illustration] + +The Spring Courts will be continued on into the summer, maybe longer. As +heretofore, cases having been appealed and receiving a satisfactory +decision from the Supreme Court should also receive the sanction of the +church. + + +_Cupid's Legal Holidays_ + +Cupid's Birthday, January 1: St. Valentine's: The First Day of Spring: +Midsummer Day: Proposal Day, September 17: Followed by Mourner's Morn (a +half-hearted holiday) for the other fellow, September 18: Hallowe'en. + +_Every Student of Hearticulture is allowed three Legal Holidays to be +their very own._ + + 1-------------------------------- + + 2-------------------------------- + + 3-------------------------------- + + + + +Artists' Note + + +_To the lovers of Beauty no branch of science offers such varied +delights as that of Hearticulture; at the same time no pursuit is so +full of disappointments for the inexperienced and pitfalls for the +unwary. It is the study of a lifetime; no one can say he is a master of +Hearticulture. Many of the most successful gardeners give it up as they +become older: some from disappointment over a trifling failure, others +from sheer weariness; still more take up a branch of nursery-gardening +called Matrimony, which demands such close attention and care that it +has come to be regarded as a profession in itself._ + +_It has even been asserted that Matrimony is no branch of Hearticulture +at all--a statement so far from the truth that it can only come from a +disappointed or unsuccessful Heart Gardener. Be warned, dear reader; if +you should take up this highest and most beautiful of all the branches +of Hearticulture with such an erroneous idea, you are foredoomed to +failure._ + +_If this little book be the means of showing to even the least of these +the error of his ways, we shall not feel that it has been made in vain._ + +[Illustration: Oliver Herford] [Illustration: John Cecil Clay] + + + + +ENGAGEMENTS + + +[Illustration] + + _Master Cupid he made a plan + For a garden of Hearts on the first of_ JAN + +[Illustration] + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +January + + +One cannot begin too early, and January is the time for looking over the +ground and planning the arrangement of the Heart Garden. + +Outside of the Hothouse few flowers are to be seen in January. The most +noticeable of these is the Common Turnleaf or Resolution Plant, a sort +of Neverlasting Flower. The Turnleaf abounds during the early days of +January, but disappears as the month progresses. + +It is a showy plant, with its curiously marked leaves, but is seldom +known to blossom. The Flower, which is said to be of the purest white, +with an odor somewhat resembling Sanctity, is entirely concealed by the +leaves, which begin to turn as soon as the plant is full-grown. + +When the new leaves have completely turned over, the flower will be seen +in all its snowy beauty. This, however, rarely happens, as most of the +plants die long before the turning process is accomplished. + +Another winter-blooming flower is the Valentine Plant (_Lovelornia +Desperatia_), one of the _Epistolaria_ Family. This should be set out +towards the end of the month, as it flowers in the middle of February. + + _NOTE._ Recent investigations have shown that this destructive + Blight, of which the Turnleaf is the victim, is caused by a deadly + germ known as _Jus Twunsmoria_. + +[Illustration] + +THE PUFF BLOSSOM + +_Powderminosia Delicatea_ + +FRIVOLIA Family. + +Shy. Blooms in out-of-the-way corners and on dressing-tables. + +[Illustration] + +THE CHECK WEED + +An uncertain plant. Don't try to raise them unless you have had +experience. + +[Illustration: NOTES _on_ EXPERIMENTAL WORK] + + _He stole some cord from the spider's web + To make a fence on the first of_ FEB + +[Illustration] + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +February + + +The Valentine Plants are now fully grown, but the flowers do not appear +until the middle of the month, when they are ready to be packed, and +sent by the male to all parts of the world. + +The Valentine Plants are very sensitive to environment and temperature, +and occasionally produce a flower, remarkably like that of the Poppia or +Proposal Plant, to which it is said by some to be allied. + +There is another variety of the Valentine Plant, much dreaded by +Hearticulturists, and unfortunately only too common, known as _Valentina +Vulgaria_. In well-kept gardens it is regarded as a weed and destroyed +whenever it appears. The flower is gaudy in color and emits a most +offensive odor. A powerful irritant to all the senses, it is to some +people quite poisonous, though rarely fatal in its effects. + +The Social Climber (_Aspira Socialis_) or Push Vine, which blooms in the +most inclement weather and in the most Uninviting Places, is often seen +during this month. By fastidious gardeners it is considered an +undesirable visitor, and though impossible to exclude it altogether, if +kept well in check during the winter it will be less troublesome in the +summer months. The Push Vine is the toughest of all the Aspiration +Vines, and under favorable circumstances attains a great height. + +[Illustration] + +THE VALENTINE FLOWER + +_Lovelornia Desperatia_ + +EPISTOLARIA Family. + +Blooms only one day in the year, but if the blossoms are tenderly kept +they will retain their sweetness for a long time. + +[Illustration] + +THE ASPIRA POETICA + +This plant speaks for itself. + +ENGAGEMENTS + +[Illustration] + + _From seeds he'd stored in an acorn jar + He selected with care on the first of_ MAR + +[Illustration] + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +March + + +It is still too cold to set out the young Hope Plants. Hope poles for +their support should be out in readiness and stuck in the ground at +proper intervals. For this purpose the best poles are Spruce, or Heart +of Oak, or if the Hope Plants live till midsummer, the Sea Beach. +Weeping Willow, and Pine, of course, should be avoided. + +Weeding must now begin in earnest, though it is as yet too early for the +Gossip Weed and the poisonous Scandalwood. + +Antipathy, another noxious weed, in its early stages often resembles +Reciprocation, the very sweetest of all the early spring flowers. Even +the Seeds of these two plants are so alike that one sometimes sows +Antipathy when he thinks he is sowing Reciprocation. + +Another pretty flower that blows chiefly in March is the Lingerie Plant +(_Frillia Fluffylacea_), which makes a pretty display at exposed corners +during the month. The snowy petals, with their lacelike edges, closely +resemble those of the white carnation. + +In Formal Gardens, the Frillia is not encouraged. There is, however, a +variety known as the _Washia_, or Monday Plant (_Laundria Familiensis_), +a weekly bloomer, common in Kitchen and Roof gardens. It is best started +in tubs; but when ready to put out requires strong poles, supported by +which it makes a brave show; but unlike the Hope Vine, it lasts only for +a day or two before drying up. + +[Illustration] + +THE WIND FLOWER + +_Brezia Varia_ + +AMORIA Family. + +[Illustration] + +THE OVERDUE BILLBERRY PLANT + +_Creditoria Hauntia_ + +EPISTOLARIA Family + +A persistent and knoxious weed which should be stamped out as soon as it +makes its appearance. Thrives in the vicinity of doorways and +letterboxes. + +[Illustration: NOTES _on_ EXPERIMENTAL WORK] + + _In garden beds of every shape_ + _He planted the seeds on the first of_ AP + +[Illustration] + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +April + + +This is a very treacherous month for the Gardener. Perhaps the most +characteristic April flower is the April Hope Plant (_Anchoria +Sanguinia_), whose delicate leaves begin to show early in the month. +Though one of the most fragile of plants in appearance, it is possessed +of extraordinary vitality. Were it not for this, it would soon fall a +prey to a capricious but rapacious weed known as the +_April-foolia-Flirtatia Mittifolia_, so called from its mitten-shaped +leaves. This curious plant when in full bloom shows a heart-shaped +flower, so inviting in appearance that unwary people are seized with an +irresistible desire to pluck it. Instead of the anticipated pleasure, +however, they receive a sharp, stinging sensation, not unlike that of a +nettle. As with the Nettle, too, if the flower be firmly grasped and +crushed in the hand, the sting will be deadened. This plant should be +avoided by inexperienced gardeners. It is believed by some that the +sting caused by the _Flirtatia Mittifolia_ may be cured by crushing +another flower of the species and applying it to the wound as a counter +irritant. Another and more reliable cure is a plant called _Newflamea_, +which blooms in May. The seed of this beautiful flower may be sown in +the middle of April, in sheltered places. The constant care and +attention which it requires will be amply rewarded by the beauty and +fragrance of its blossom, which appears with the first May sunshine. The +seed should be kept always on hand, as it can, with attention, be grown +at any time, and has a wonderfully stimulating effect upon its +admirers. + +[Illustration] + +APRILFOOLIA + +_Jiltia Mittifolia_ + +SKIDOO Family. + +Some of the failures with this plant have been heartbreaking. + +[Illustration] + +NOTINTHEMONEY + +_Dopia Tipfoolia_ + +JONAH Family + +A trailer. Considered unlucky to pick them. Of all the blooming things, +these are the most discouraging. From the many descriptions of this +plant it seems a sort of Horse Chestnut. Its color and form are bad. +Enthusiasts have been known to watch for results for years without one +plant showing. Related to the Hope Plant.] + +[Illustration] + +ENGAGEMENTS + + "_'Tis spring!" he cried, as a tender spray + Put out its buds on the first of_ MAY + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +May + + +The Gardener now begins to reap the reward of his toil of the past few +weeks. With the bright blossoms of the Hope Vines and the Newflamea +Plant, the Garden already presents a lively appearance. + +A Spring variety of the Aspiration Vine (_Aspira Poetica_) is also in +bloom, and fills the air with an indescribable fragrance. It is not in +any way related to the common or garden Asparagus, as the name might +suggest. The _Aspira Poetica_ is a capricious plant, however, and few +can bring it to perfection; for those who are unsuccessful in its +cultivation a substitute may be found in the familiar Quotation Plant +(_Bartlettia Familiaris_). This, while lacking the freshness of its +Sister Plant, is a showy and reliable Bloomer all the year round. It is +a hardy flower; any one can raise it, care only being required in +selection from many varieties. + +Young gardeners should be cautioned against a too great display of these +plants, as some varieties contain a powerful narcotic, which often +causes people to lose consciousness, while in the very act of admiring +their beauty. + +[Illustration] + +NEWFLAMEA + +Requires a good deal of attention, but is usually a very satisfactory +plant to cultivate. + +[Illustration: SPAGETTMENOT + +The national flower of Italy. + +[Illustration: NOTES _on_ EXPERIMENTAL WORK] + + _A host of flowers of every hue + Began to bloom on the first of_ JU + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +June + + +June is called the month of roses. Quite the commonest variety known to +Hearticulturists is the Blush Rose. This most delicate and sensitive of +all the flowers in Love's Garden has the astonishing power of changing +color. The faintest whisper of a Spring Zephyr, the hum of a bee, or the +note of a bird will cause it to turn from an ivory pink to the deepest +crimson. Care should be taken in the selection of this variety of roses +as unscrupulous nurserymen often palm off on inexperienced customers a +rank imitation, little better than a weed, known as the Common Rouge or +Make-up Plant (_Pigmentia Artificialis_), a variety of the Puff Blossom. +The imposture may be easily detected, however, by the application of the +water test, a spray of water from a watering can or hose causing the +false rose to turn a chalky white color with red streaks. + +Matrimony is a flower much cultivated in June, but it is difficult to +raise, and many gardeners refuse to have anything to do with it. Though +the catalogues advertise highly, we do not recommend it to very young +gardeners. + +[Illustration] + +THE BLUSH ROSE + +_Delicatia Varia_ + +MOSTANY Family. + +[Illustration] + +COMMUTATION + +OR + +BUNDLE BEARER WEED + +_Ruralia Suburbae_ + +OWN-YOUR-OWN-HOME Family + +In appearance this plant is a sort of combination between the Hayseedia +and the Storeclothesia. A quick growing running vine. Trains everywhere. +To be found all along the railroads. Very plentiful about New York. +Seems to flourish wonderfully in little hot houses. + +[Illustration] + +ENGAGEMENTS + + _The poor little flowers looked so dry + He watered them well on the first of_ JY + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +July + + +The Falling-Star Flowers and the Rocket Climbers, two well-known +varieties of the Firewort family, make a beautiful show this month; the +latter especially, which rapidly attains a great height. The Firewort +family are all night bloomers, and related to the _Patriotica +Americana_. Great care must be taken in their raising and plenty of room +allowed for their expansion; for if checked at the time of blooming, +they are very dangerous and sometimes even fatal in their effect. +Children especially should never be allowed to handle them. + +The Evening Chaperon is fashionable and useful, but like the Wallflower +should be planted in out-of-the-way places, such as the other side of +the wall or gate. + +Perhaps there is no more familiar or popular summer annual than the +common or Garden Hammock plant or _Swingia_ (_Embracia Pendulosa_). It +is seen at its best in the evening, often blooming late; sometimes it is +called the Night-Blooming Serious. Though a composite flower, when at +the full the two heads are often so close as to be mistaken for a single +one. + +Another night-blooming plant is the Serenade vine (_Mandolina +Nightbawlia_),--a climber encouraged by some, but regarded by others as +a nuisance. Unlike other vines, it cannot stand wet weather. A sudden +rain, the spray of a hose, even a pitcher of water, will choke it off +altogether. + +[Illustration] + +THE HAMMOCK VINE + +_Sitclosia Pendulosa_ + +MOONBEAMIA Family. + +For best results should not be planted very close together. + +[Illustration] + +THE PITCHER PLANT + +_Mittifolia Curvia_ + +This must not be mistaken for the + +ICE PITCHER PLANT + +_Magnicranium_ + +A morning glory. + +[Illustration: NOTES _on_ EXPERIMENTAL WORK] + + _With a knife made out of a beetle's claw + He trimmed his plants on the first of_ AU + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +August + + +There is little work for the Hearticulturist in August. If the Gossip +Weed and Scandalwood have been kept in check, the young Heart Gardener +will have ample time to enjoy the feast of color and sweetness that his +labor and devotion have earned for him. + +The gayest note in the color harmony of August is the _Parasolia_. This +beautiful plant, which blooms in every color of the rainbow, abounds in +the hottest weather, and like its sister Sunworshipper, the Sunflower +(whom the poet Moore has immortalized),-- + + "Turns to her God when he sets + The same glance that she turned when he rose." + +So faithful, indeed, is the _Parasolia_ in this respect that a +distinguished scientist, formerly superintendent of the National Weather +Bureau, once confessed (in a private interview printed confidentially in +the Evening _Post_) that his success in telling whether or no the sun +were shining was entirely due to his watching the flowers of the +_Parasolia_. + +At sunset the _Parasolia_ folds its gayly tinted petals for the night, +giving place to that delicious variety of Night-Blooming Serious, the +Hammock Plant, which may be seen swaying gently in the moonlight often +far into the night. + +[Illustration] + +PARASOLIA + +_Preservia Complexionis_ + +FRIVOLIA Family. + +Opens only when the sun is shining. + +[Illustration] + +THE HONK-WEED + +NOISESOME + +One of those strange noisesome car-nervious plants. Makes a weird sound +when game is in sight. Glows at night. A great worry to farmers, as +chickens, pigs, and other animals have been known to die from contact +with this plant. + +[Illustration] + +ENGAGEMENTS + + _To reach his fruit he had to step + On a fern-leaf ladder the first of_ SEP + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +September + + +A slight falling off will be noticed this month, especially in the +leaves, and the garden will need the most careful attention. The +Engagement Vines often become very much entangled, so that it is hard to +tell which is which. Straightening them out is a delicate operation, and +in some cases the shears are necessary. + +The Heart Trees especially should be watched this month, to guard +against blight. + +The Golf Plant (CRAWLIA BRAGADOSIA) a dull though persistent creeper, +related to the Gillieflower, thrives well in September, and indeed in +all the Autumn months. It is much fancied by up-to-date gardeners. Like +the poison ivy, it is quite innocuous to many people, but to some it is +a powerful irritant, causing them to break out in the most violent +manner. From the fruit of this plant is distilled a strong stimulant +called Bogey, highly prized by its cultivators, but looked upon with +contempt by outsiders, who regard the Golf Plant as the greatest pest in +the vegetable kingdom. + +[Illustration] + +THE RUBBER PLANT + +_Snoopia Vulgaris_ + +EYEBULGIA Family. + +Grows wild if planted near a window. + +[Illustration] + +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. + +[Illustration] + +THE DEADLY GOSSIP WEED + +_Whisperia Scandalosia_ + +BACKBITUS Family. + +A knoxious plant. + +[Illustration] + +POLICIA + +ONE OF THE FINEST + +A great grafter. Follows the Porch Climber, but seldom appears until it +has quite gone. + +[Illustration] + +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 (_Epistolaria Amoris_). This vine flourishes more or less all the +year round, but grows to a great length during the late months of the +year. One variety, the _Clandestina Epistolaria_, is especially shy, +being rarely seen above the ground. This is a particularly sweet +variety, but in Formal Gardens it is not encouraged, as its fruit is +believed by many to be bad in taste and often dangerous in its effect. + +[Illustration] + +THE COSEY CORNIA + +_Hot Air Plant_ + +CUDDLE Family. + +A sort of in-door variety of the Hammock Vine. + +[Ilustration] + +ACTORINES + +FRIVOLIA Family + +An artificial plant. Delicious when young. A popular delicacy for late +suppers. Apt to run wild and often can be picked up where one least +expects it. Usually rather expensive to cultivate. Grows in clusters +along the road. + +[Illustration: NOTES _on_ EXPERIMENTAL WORK] + + _When the snow came down like a soft white fleece + He potted his plants on the first of_ DEC + + + + +HEARTICULTURE + +December + + +The Hearticulturist may take his well-earned rest in December, as the +few hardy shrubs that venture out this month are well able to take care +of themselves. + +Most noticeable of these is the Marrygold, a dwarf growth of foreign +importation, and erroneously supposed to be a sport of the original +Heart Tree. The Marrygold has a showy yellow flower resembling the +Dandelion, to which many believe it related, the petals often taking the +form of a crown or coronet. The leaves are covered with sharp stinging +spines like those of the Nettle, and the odor is most pungent. However, +though a disagreeable plant, it has nevertheless a certain vogue, and +serves to enliven an otherwise dull season. + +It is a relief to turn from the pungent Marrygold and the vulgar Push +Vine to the graceful Puff Plant (_Powderminosia Delicatea_). This dainty +flower, though not an out-door bloomer, bears a wintry looking blossom +of snowy white with a rare fragrance. It is an exquisitely feminine +flower, being often seen in ornamental pots in boudoirs or on +dressing-tables, and is eagerly sought after by ladies at fashionable +balls and other gay functions of the jolly month of December. + +[Illustration] + +THE POKER PLANT + +_Cardinea_ + +A showy plant. Great for Hedging. A great deal of time and money have +been spent in perfecting this plant and many a sleepless night in +raising it. Grows very large in pots, but the blossoms are sometimes +slow in opening--sometimes opened by hand--not advisable, however, +unless one has a very sure hand--otherwise it is apt to prove an +expensive experiment. Grows in great variety. In fact, it is seldom a +grower can produce three alike, and if an enthusiast can show four of a +kind it is something to be remembered--sometimes with sorrow. Should be +taken in early or they will freeze out and die. Do not touch with cold +hands. + + + + +A Word at Parting + + +GENTLE READER:-- + +In bringing out this little book we feel that we are doing a great +service. We know it is needed; the world has needed it for a long time. +Adam, even, might have been a better gardener had this book been +available. Who can say? Perhaps he would not have had to give up the old +farm and move away, had he had this Almanac to guide him. And then there +are Hero and Leander, Paris and Helen, Abelard and Heloise, Paolo and +Francesca, and so many, many others--how different it might all have +been had we only published this little book a few thousand years ago! We +are filled with regret. The one consoling thought is that we are better +fitted for the work now. We are older and we think wiser. + +From time to time, as we see the need, we shall issue new volumes of +Cupid's Almanac, thoroughly revised and up to date on all matters +pertaining to Hearticulture and its kindred pursuits. + +We thank you, Generous Reader, for your patience and your patronage. + + And beg to remain, + Faithfully, + Your humble servants, + THE AUTHORS. + + +The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS U. S. 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