Tuere was a knock at the front door, and the little evacuee hastened to open it.
"It's all right," she told her foster-mother, a few minutes later. "It was only one of those canvassers, but he's gone now!"
"Why, what did you say to him?" inquired the lady of the house.
"The same as mummy always says to canvassers: No thank you! We're in the same trade ourselves" was the reply.
"I see," said the lady. "And what was this man selling?"
"Oh he wasn't selling anything! He was just collecting money for the blind." suitable for use as a specimen lawn tr hope to again refer to this tree when it is in flower. It is a native of China and Japan. Our local coir palm Trachycarpus excel sus is now coming into flower; this palm is very attractive in its young state but cannot be considered so when it has grown tall and leggy. The fibre produced by the tree is used for making door mats, brushes and rope, and it is also sold as palm "string': the whole fibrous bark covering is often stripped off the tree and made into coats which are generally used by labourers. We notice that the mulberry trees are not being left behind by the strawberries; the fruit of both are showing colour, We had a nice "flat tyre" on Hungjao road today, and while sitting by the roadside we identified several weeds and wild flowers, Only two of these were attractive, these were Duchesnea indica and Geranium maculatum. The first-named wild strawberry has very highly-coloured fruits while the last-named crane's bill looks quite nice in a group. The swine cress Coronopus didymus has attractive foliage and a place may be found for this in a wild corner of the garden. Plenty of the common sow thistle Sonchus oleraceus was seen as also was a weed with foliage somewhat like the wild carrot, known as Selinum Monnieri,
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