the weeping mother do? From this to that with eager haste she flew, And kissed her sprouting daughters as they grew.

The whole plantlet in the seed is the embryo or germ, whence the sprouting of seeds is called germination.

In the centre, or in the axils of the scales, the newly-forming bulbs can be seen, in onions that are sprouting.

And for hedges to their property, these Moors have agaves, with great spiky leaves which no man can penetrate, and other strange plants, whereof I will mention only one, they call the fig of Barbary, which is no fig at all, but a thing having large, fleshy leaves, growing one out of the other, with fruit and flower sprouting out of the edges, and all monstrous prickly.

I have cauliflowers sprouting at my heels!

One of the best of the edible species bears fruit as early as five or six months after being planted, suckers in the meantime constantly sprouting from the roots, so that continual fruit-bearing is going on, the labor of the growers merely being confined to the occasional cutting down of the old plants and to gathering in the fruit.

He was a dumpy, good-natured-looking Hanoverian with patchy saffron whiskers sprouting out on him.

Grass was sprouting from between the cobbles of the streets in the populous residential districts through which we passed on the way from the American Ministry to our next stopping place.

It spread beneath him with new, pale-green shoots on the pine trees, new birch leaves in the groves, new green grass in the meadows, and sprouting grain in the fields.

Victorine wore a pink dress too, with horrid bunches of daisies on her shoulders and in her hair; and, as that is dark and greasy, and dragged off her face, and done in the tightest twist at the top, it does not look a suitable place for daisies to be sprouting from.

"Elsley, don't you see the wings sprouting already, under his shooting jacket?" "They are my braces, I suppose, of course," said Scoutbush, who never understood a joke about himself, though he liked one about other people; while Elsley, who hated all jokes, made no answerat least none worth recording.

Your wings must be sprouting already!"

Galaxies of buttercups and daisies ran along the meadows, Rosy flushes of red clover,blossoming shrubs and sprouting vines; Overhead the larks were singing, heeding not the bells a-ringing, Little knew they of the Pasqua, or the proud Saint Peter's shrines.

In general appearance we can best liken it to the split half of a green pea, whilst others have compared it with the green sprouting of a seed.

The potatoes are roasted in a kiln or oven, and are thus prevented from sprouting, (which injures their quality so much at this season of the year,) and are thus preserved for some time in a fit state for consumption.

HORTICULTURE.A New Stove Climber.(Ipomæa thomsoniana) Sprouting of Palm Seeds.

In order to hasten the sprouting of the seeds, some planters soak them in cold water for several days before sowing.

Our conversation drifted on to those times when we both tried our sprouting wings.

What's the matterwhat's the matter? Really, really? "Digging, delving, raking, sowing, Corn is sprouting, corn is growing!

Meantime here was the Wheat sprouting, tender green, a foot high, among a hundred sidings where it had spilled from the cars; there were the high-shouldered, tea-caddy grain-elevators to clean, and the hospitals to doctor the Wheat; here was new, gaily painted machinery going forward to reap and bind and thresh the Wheat, and all those car-loads of workmen had been slapping down more sidings against the year's delivery of the Wheat.

Of the four kinds of propagation which I have discussed, that of graftage is preferred in respect of those trees which, like the fig, are slow in developing: for the natural seeds of the fig are those grains seen in the fruit we eat and are so small as scarcely to be capable of sprouting the slenderest shoots.

It will be well also to assist its sprouting with a little bottom heat, by plunging the pot up to its rim in a hot bed.

Along the shining furrows, The rows of sprouting corn Flash in the sun, and the orchards Are blushing red as morn; And the time o' the year for toil is here, And idle song and play With the jonquils, and the daffodils, Must wait for another May. LATER POEMS.

Only to smell the budding lilac blooms The balmy airs from sprouting brake and wold, Rich with the strange ineffable perfumes Of growing grass and newly furrowed mold!

The vegetation is already in an active state of demonstration, sprouting into lovely pale green and vivid red-brown buds and leaflets, though 'tis yet early in January.