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Harry’s Horse.
The baby lies in her motber's ar.mti,
Quiet and pale and thin ;
But the little head is once more raised
As Harry comes bounding in.
A wooden horse in his hand he holds.
Dark gray, with a long black mane;
And an eager, longing look lights up .
The pale little face again.
“No, baby deaf, I will bold it close,
But I cannot give it to you ;
I’m afraid you would let it fall, and break
My horse, so pretty and new.”
Bat the pale little eager face still pleads,
Outstretched is the small hand still;
He stands for a moment, theu holds it out,
“I’ll lend it baby, I will!” ....
That day is past, and he finds it again
Where the baby had thrown it aside;
Her coral red, with its silver bells,
Still fast to the bridle tied.
There’s a touch of paint off the bright green stick,
And a chip off the horse’s ear;
But, oh! not that to the boy’s blue eye
Brings the quickly gathering tear;
And while Harry lives he will still be glad
That he lent her his horse that day;
For the baby has gone where never again
Can she ask with his toys to play.
God Greater than Onr Fears.
“Mamma, is the Bible afraid of anything?”
“The Bible, dear! What do you mean?”
Little Harry Cowles, who had just begun
to join in the devotional exercises, was atten
tively regarding a verse he had read that
morning, and was puzzled to understand the
meaning of it; and now, standing by his
mother’s side, he read slowly
“ I mean this mamma. It says here: ‘What
time lam afraid 1 will trust in Thee and it’s
the Bible.”
“That is, the one who wrote it would trust
in God when he was afraid,” answered the
mother.
“ But the Bible is God’s book, you said;
didn’t yon mamma? Is God afraid?”
“ No, dear. God inspired holy men to
write his book, and these are the words of
David. He trusted in God, and God took his
fear away.”
“ Does God care as much for little boys as
he did for David ?” asked Harry anxiously.
“Yes dear; just as much. He will take
your fear all away, if you trust him as David
did. Remember, God is greater than our
fears.”
His mother saw that the words were deeply
impressed upon his heart; and hoping they
would have an undying influence upon his
character, she often spoke of them to him,
telling him that “ he must never fear to do
right, for God would uphold him in it; never
fear the consequences of a noble, truthful act;”
saying often, <ra she closed her motherly coun
sel, “ Never forget, Harry, that God is greater
than our fears.” Hisearrt«»t reply. “I Lope I
never shall, mamma,” strengthened her con
fidence in him, and she hardly thought he
could go astray.
A few years passed, and one autumn twi
light, Harry, with a few others, had been
playing ball in the Outskirts of the village,
near a rich orchard, the ripe, fruit of which
had not been gathered. Most of the boys
had left their play and gone home; only Harry
and two others remained—one younger, the
other older and much larger than either.
As they picked up the ball, the large boy,
whose name I will not give, said in a low
tone—
“ Boys, I’m bound to have some of those
pears; they’re dead ripe, and Mr. Fields is
off to the village. Who’ll climb the wall and
get them ?”
No one answered. Harry looked the pic
ture of indignation, as he started for home.
The large boy saw the look, and it angered
him. Seizing H%rry by the shoulder, he
said—
“ Stop, Hal ! none of that; youre no better
than lat heart. You can’t go till you get us
some pears. You shall have the largest
share.”
“ I never stole in my life ; I don’t intend to
begin now,” said the noble boy, with an in
tense scorn in his tones.
“ Indeed, my lord Harry ! You shall get
those pears, or I’ll give you the biggest whip
ping you ever got; I can do it.”
To Harry’s eyes, the form before him seemed
to swell into huge proportions; but he an
swered firmly, though his cheeks grew pale.
“Yes, you can do it; you are larger and
stronger than lam ; and you may. do it before
I’ll steal.”
“You won’t do as I tell you?” exclaimed the
cowardly fellovr, more threateningly.
“No, I will not. Let me go home.”
“Not till you get the pears, or take a whip
ping. Aint you afraid of me, Hal Cowles?”
he hissed, as he shook the slight form.
“No, not of you ; only of sin.”
“Not afraid of me? Why not? I could
kill you just as easy!” The youngest boy
began to cry ; but Harry answered boldly :
“God is greater than my fears; he will not
let you hurt me.”
At this point Mr. Fields, who had heard all
from his barn near the road, stepped into
view ; and, taking the larger boy in the same
firm grasp which had been placed upon Harry,
he touched him rather sharply with his whip,
saying,
“I’ve had my eye on you for some days,
sir. Let this thing go no further, unless you
want to be log Jed in the county jail! Go
home!”
It is needless to say that he went with rapid
steps, and a face of abject shame..
Mr. Fields turned to Harry.
“ Were you not afraid of that great boy,
Harry?” 3
“A little, when I saw he was in earnest,”
answered the truthful boy.
“ Well, my son, you see that God is greater
than your fears. Always act upon that prin
ciple, and you will succeed.”
That night Harry made his mother’s heart
sing for joy in telling her of his victory.
“Did you want the pears, my son ?” she
asked.
“No, mamma,” he answered; “I never want
what I can’t have.”
There was a knock at the door, and Mr.
Fields’ man left a bushel basket of a variety
of the nicest fruit upon his place, with a note
to Mrs. Cowles, congratulating her upon hav
ing a son whose only fear was of sin.
Harry’s purest joy was in the knowledge
that came to him a few days afterward—that
his courage at that time had influenced the
youngest lad to determine, with Christ’s help,
to follow the same honest. God-fearing walk
that Harry had pursued. They are firm
friends now, and Mr. Fields is the beloved
friend of both.— Christian Banner.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA., TH URSDAY, MAY 14. 1868.
The Peaches.
A countryman brought from the city five
peaches, the finest that ever were seen. But
his children saw this fruit for the first time.
Therefore they wondered and rejoiced in the
pretty peaches with their red cheeks and del
icate down. The father then divided them
among his four boys and gave one to their
mother.
In the evening, when the children went to
their sleeping chamber, the father asked:
“Well, and ho)j did the pretty peaches
taste ?’”
“Finely, dear father,” said the oldest. “It
is a beautiful frilit —so tartish and delicate in
taste. I have carefully kept the stone, and I
will raise a tree from it.”
“Bravo,” said the father ; “ that is provid
ing economically for the future as becomes a
landsman.”
“ I ate mine at once,” the youngest cried,
“and threw away the stone, and mother gave
me half of her’s. Oh, it tasted so sweet, and
melted in my mouth.”
“Well,” said the father, “you have not acted
very wisely, but naturally, and in a child’s
manner. For wisdom there is? yet room in
the course of your life.” #*
Then the second son began : “ I hunted up
the stone which rtiy tittle brother threw away,
and cracked it. There was a seed in it that
tasted as a nut. But my peach I sold for
enough, when I go to the city, that I can
probably buy twelve.”
The father shook his head and said :
“That is wise enough, but child like and
natural it was not. Heaven guard you that
you do not become a merchant.”
“And you, Edmund?” asked the father.
Self-possessed and frank, Edmund replied :
“ Learned my peach to our neighbor George,
who was sick of a fever. He would not take
! it; then I laid it upon his bed, and came
away.”
“ Well,” said the father who has made the
best use of his peach ?”
All three exclaimed, “ Brother Edmund !”
But Edmund was silent, and his mother em
braced him with tears in her eyes.
A Child’s Argument.
There is beauty in simplicity. There is aho
power. In illustration of this, here is a child’s
argument on baptism. Mr. F ,of my
own acquaintance, was a Baptist. His wife
was a Presbyterian. She was shrewed, intel
ligent, and pious. For years she had main
tained her side of the controversy on baptism,
if not fully and conclusively, at least to her
own mind satisfactorily. They had two
daughters. The eldest at the time referred
to, was about fourteen years old, the other
perhaps twelve. A Baptist minister came
into their neighborhood, and began special
meetings. God visited them in mercy, and
the anxious were multiplied. Among the in
quirers were these two girls. The parents
became deeply interested for their salvation,
and entered actively into the meeting. One
day the eldest, after a silent and thoughtful
reading of the third chapter iff Matthew, in
the pressence of her mother, said :
“ Mother ! were you ever baptized ?” Yes,
daughter, I surely was.” “Well, mother, I
did not know that. When were you baptiz
ed?” “Oh, it was a long time ago, when I
was a little child.” “Mother, how were you
baptized?” “Well the minister baptized me
out of a bowl; he sprinkled the water upon
me, and 1 was baptized.”
“Why! mother; I read in this chapter,
that John baptized Jesus ‘ in the river' and,
mother, it seems to me if I were going to be
baptized, 1 should want to be baptized ‘in the
river,' the way Jesus was. Wouldn’t you,
mother ?” This was a view of truth from a
new stand-point. It startled her. It came
with power, for she loved the Saviour. She
made no reply. She could make none. She
left the room, and tried to dismiss the subjeet,
buy qouJg * The words rang in her ears—
“lrd were going to be baptized, I should want
to be baptized in the river, the way Jesus
was, wouldn’t you, mother?” She prayed
and wept over it, and gave up her opposition
to the truth. The example of Jesus prevail
ed. And in a few days that mother and both
daughters were baptized “in the river," the
way Jesus was.— Nat. Baptist.
Thoughtlessness.
“ 1 didn’t think,” said a smart looking boy,
one day, as he stood with downcast eyes in
the presence of a grave-looking gentleman.
“You didn’t think, eh ? Then I’m ruined,
because you are a thoughtless boy. You may
go, sir,” replied the gentleman, in a tone of
voice which expressed both sorrow and stern
ness.
The boy silently left the room. He too,
seemed sad, and a tear glistened in the corner
of his eye.
What is the matter? What has he done ?
I will tell you.
He was an apprentice. His trade was that
of a carpenter. It had been part of his duty
to light the fire in the shop half an hour before
the men came to work. One cold, windy
morning, he lighted the fire as usual, but in
doing so he left a shaving burning outside the
stove. It was only one shaving. He didn’t
think it would do any harm, because it was
only a little shaving ; but a puff of wind from
beneath the-door of the shop blew the shav
ing on the floor. There it set fire to another
shaving; the fire spread, unperceived by the
boy, until it reached a pile of shavings, and
blazed up into the room. Then he started
and tried to put it out. But he was too late.
It was beyond his control. He rushed out,
shotued “ Fire!” and alarmed the people.
They came but could not save the shop. It
was burned down, and its owner not being in
sured, was ruined.
He was ruined, because that boy didn’t
think.
Little Heunie.
When our friends die we always call up
the good traits of their character. Sometimes
when I see little boys or girls behave very
naughty I wonder wbat their parents will have
to remember them by if they should be taken
away. And lam sure it gives very deep pain
to the fond parent to remember any naughty
thing their little one did, even if they do not
speak of it. But little Hennie’s mother had
this beautiful thing to say about her darling
after he was gone: “He never* disobeyed bis
parents. He would suffer anything from the
bad boys at school rather than do that which
would displease them.”
Little reader could your parents say that
about you? What sort of memories are you
laying up for your parents to .think of in com
ing years? Suppose now you try to add
some pleasant memories for every day—things
that will make you happy to look back upon
> long as you live ; kindness to your parents
that will comfort you if they should be taken
away, and which they will be glad to remem
ber that these loving words and kindly deeds
are well pleasing in the sight of God.
A Little Boy’s Faith.— Last winter a
little boy of six or eight years of age begged
a lady to allow him to clean away the snow
from her steps. He had no father or mother,
but worked his way by such jobs.
“Do you get much to do, my little boy ?”
said the lady.
“Sometimes I do,” said the boy, but often
I get vWy little.”
“And,Mq you never afraid that you will
not to live on ?*’ t v / ’ f; ' j
The child looked up with a perplexed and
inquiring eye, as if uncertain of her meaning,
and with anew doubt.
“Why,” said he, “don’t you think God will
take care of a boy if he puts his trust in Him,
and does the best he can ?”
fke a»4 Jam.
Munchausenisms.
The relation of ingenious and preposterous
stories may not be the most profitable occu
pation in which one could be engaged ; but it
is one of those exercises of grotesque fancy
which may serve for an hour’s entertainment.
The most famous and systematic originator
of this sort of stories is supposed to be an
individual called the Baron Munchausen, and
his name has become a synonym for literary
efforts of this character. The term canard,
from the French, is often used to signify an
improbable story, and its origin, which may
be new to some of our readers, excellently
illustrates the meaning of the word. A French
man once sent to a newspaper a statement of
an experiment which be had lately made,
proving the wonderful voracity of ducks. He
had a flock, he. said, of twenty of these fowls.
One day he killed one of them, and cutting it
into very small pieces, fed it, feathers and all,
to the other nineteen, which ate it all up in a
few minutes. He then killed another, and
cutting it into small pieces, fed it to the other
eighteen, and it was quickly devoured. He
killed another, and fed it to the seventeen
remaining ducks, and still another, which he
fed to the sixteen ; and so continued until
finally there was but one duck left, which duck
had, of course, eaten all the other nineteen.
Canard being the French word for duck, any
exaggerated story was subsequently called a
“canard,” or* “duck story ;” as in this coun
try we speak of a “ fish story,” or a “snake
story.”
It is sometimes very well to exaggerate a
little for the sake of bringing ridicule upon
those who relate “ tough yarns,” and imagine
that the listeners will believe them. Some
one gives the advice:
“ Whene’er you hear a tale that is a ‘ thumper,’
Show no surprise, but aim at something higher,
And match it with a bolder fib and plumper—
’Tis the best method to confound a liar.”
The people of Gascony, France, it is known,
have a world wide for boasting,
from whence comes the word gasconade. A
Gascon was once vaunting his eyesight to a
citizen of Paris in the Rue Notre Dame.
“ Zounds,” said he “ from this very place I
see a mouse running at the top of the tower.”
“ I do not see it yet,” said the citizen, quietly,
“ but I hear it trot.”
A traveller was relating some improbable
stories of feats performed by Chinese jug
glers, and spoke of one who set a ladder on
end in an open space and walked the rounds
to the top. “ I have seen a greater feat than
that,” remarked a bystander; “ I have seen a
juggler go to the top of a ladder in the same
way, and then pull the ladder up after-him.”
An Englishman was once making some ex
traordinary statements as to the speed of a
horse which he owned. “My dear sir,” said
an American, “that is rather less than the
average speed of our roadsters. I live at my
country seat near Philadelphia, and when I
ride to town in a hurry in the morning, my
shadow doesn’t keep up with me, but gene
rally comes into the store a minute or two
after my arrival. One morning my horse
was restless, and I rode him as hard as I could
several times around a large factory, to sober
him. Well, sir, he went so fast that 1 saw
my back before me the whole time, and I was
twice in danger of riding over myself.”
Another Englishman, it is said, having
heard a great deal about the Yankee propen
sity of “ bragging,” thought he would make
an experiment in that art himself. He walked
up to a market woman’s stand, and pointing
to some large watermelons, said: “What!
don’t you raise any bigger apples than these
in America?” “Apples!” said the woman,
disdainfully; “anybody might know you was
an Englishman. Thepi’s huckleberries.”
The above will be sufficient to illustrate the
use of Munchausenisms as a method of repair
tee. But another purpose to which some glib
talker has professed to put such stories is of
quite a different character. He says he finds
them very effective in opening oysters. He
places the oysters in a circle, and, seating
himself in the centre, commences some very
surprising narrative. One by one they begin
to gape with astonishment, and as they open
their mouths, he has his knife ready, whips,
them out, salts, peppers, and swallows them..
We call to mind several stories which we
imagine would be of great service to the gen
tleman above mentioned, and perhaps a brief
statement of some of them might not be in
appropriate here. The first will refer to a
very heavy fog which once visited,-the State of
Massachusetts, which probably somewhat sur
passed the fogs of the city of London. A
young man was sent out to the meadow to
nail on a few courses of shingles on a barn,
the roof of which was nearly finished. “At
dinner time,” continues the farmer, who is
responsible for the story, “ the fellow came
up, and sez he: ‘That’s a mighty long barn
of yours.’ Sez I, ‘Not very long.’ ‘Well,’
sez he, ‘ I’ve been to work all this forenoon
and hav’nt got one course laid yet.’ ‘Well,’
sez I, ‘you're a lazy fellow, that’s all I’ve got
to say.’ So after dinner 1 went down to see
what he’d been about, and sure enough, if he
hadn’t shingled more than a hundred feet right
out on to the fog.!”
The next story shall be of a very large
tree in the State of California. A man went
to the woods to cut it down. He. had been
chopping about ten days when he thought He
would take a walk about the tree, just to see
how much he had cut. What was his sur
prise-, when he got on the other side, to,find
another man cutting on the same tree. “ I
say,” said the Californian, “ how long have
you been cutting?” “Just three weeks,”
said the stranger. The tree was so big
around that they had not heard the sound of
eaeh other’s axes!
Finally, we may mention the adventure of
a sailor boy who, for some mischievous freak,
was headed up in a water-cask, with only the
bung-hole to breathe through. The following
night a squall came up, and the ship went
down with all on board, except himself in
the cask. Fortunately, it kept “bung up,”
and after thirty hours floating about, he was
cast on the shore, where, after making many
unsuccessful attempts to release himself, he
gave himself jup to die. But some cattle
strolling along the beach were attracted to
the cask, and in switching around it, one of
them accidentally slipped his tail into the
bung-hole. The boy grasped it and held on
tightly. The animal started off, but after
running about three hundred yards, the cask
struck against a rock and broke to pieces, and
the boy regained his liberty.
An old Norwegian fable tells how the orig
inal bear lost his caudal appendage by getting
it into a hole. He met a fox who had some
fish, and asked how he might also catch some.
“ Drop your tail into a hole in the ice,” said
Reynard, “and let it be in the water a long
while —never mind the pangs of pain—they
are bites—then pull it out suddenly, and you
will have a large haul of fish.” Bruin did so,
and the hole froze up ; by and by he gave a
leap, and —instead of getting any fish—lost
his own tail.
The man with the wonderful mechanical
leg, which would never stop walking, was a
very queer invention; but was hardly equal
to the person of whom there is a German
legend, who, having lost his legs in the war,
was furnished with two India rubber ones.
On putting them on he felt so happy that he
sprung into the air; but when he came down
he bounded back higher than before; and so
every time he came down he rebounded into
the air with greater velocity, until as days
and weeks and months passed on, and he re
turned from his aerial trips at longer inter
vals, be bounded above the clouds and came
down upon all parts of the earth. It is sup
posed that h« is still bounding and rebound
ing among t|e orbs of the universe, carried
now to one and then to another planet by
different currents of gravitation. Public
Spirit.
Absent-Mindedness.
A correspondent of the Presbyterian Ban
ner, in reminiscences of Dr. Elisha P. Swift,
relates the following incidents :
“ His habits of study, the very comprehen
siveness of his ideas, rendered him unfit to
manage the minor details of business. When
he was the Secretary of the Board of Mis
sions, none better than he could stir the hearts
of vast assemblies; but once a meeting in
New York was disappointed by his non-ap
pearancer The missionaries were embarked,
ship ready to weigh anchor, but he is entirely
oblivious! An Elder once laid hold of bis
horse’s bridle and led him two miles back.
All unconsciously he had ridden past the
church, was riding on, when the Elder met
him. The laughter of his co-Presbyters did
not disturb him. “Ah!” he said, innocently,
“ really the horse might have stopped when
he came to his companions.” “So he tried
to do,” exclaimed a youth, laughing, “but you
spurred him on.” “Indeed !” said the Doctor;
“ what could I have been thinking about!”
A lady drew him aside from Presbytery, and
invited him to partake of a lunch in the Ses
sion room. “Well, thank you madam,believe
I will. I really cannot account for my unusal
hunger.” She was biting her lips; the other
ladies were tittering. He had left her house
that morning for a walk, sauntered on towards
the church, forgeting his breakfast.
At Dr. Perron’s house one morning he left
his basket in the hall 'and entered into conver
sation. Callers arrived and dinner was serv
ed. “Did I not,” he said, “have something
which I have forgotten ?” “Your basket,”
observed one of the daughters. “Oh 1 true
enough. Mrs. Swift sent me for marketing,”
said he, evidently vexed.
One day he went round and round the
Pittsburgh market, walking solemnly, basket
on arm, in a muse. At last, beplessly hold
ing out his basket to an Elder, he said : “ I
wish you would take this money and fill my
basket.” “What shall I buy ?” This was a
poser. Studying a moment, “Oh ! anything ;
just as though you were buying for yourself.”
“But how much do you want?” exclaimed his
matter-of-fact friend. This was too much.
“ Really,” he pleaded, “would it not be an
easy thing for you to fill my basket?”
A Scotch Parson’s Ingenuity.
In 1668, King James published his “ Book
of Sports,” and thinking to render the Pres
byterian form of worship less rigid, ordered
that of the certain sports therein commended
should be played in the churchyards ever Sun
day, at the close of divine service. John Ross,
a minister of Blairgowrie, adopted a novel
method of withstanding the royal ordinance.
He was a strong, athletic man, and seemed
much interested in the recreations enjoined
by the monarch. Foot-ball was selected by
the parishioners of Blairgowrie from the list
of “Sunday games.” When the services of
the church were complete, Mr. Ross appeared
among his people in the fehurchyard, and pro
ceeded to join them in their sport. None of
the assemblage kicked more eagerly at the
foot-ball than did the reverend incumbent. But
constant misfortune seemecj to attend him, for
every kick missed the ball and fell heavily on
the ankles of those who stood near. Apolo
gies were promptly tendered, and of course
readily received, though every Sunday many
of the players returned homo halting. At
length it was agreed that, on account of the
minister’s awkwardness, the game should be
abandoned, and thus (he ingenious divine
gained his end and prevented compliance with
the obnoxious order..
Life. —Life, according $o an Arabic pro
'verb, is composed of two parts: that which
is past, a dream—and that which is to come,
a wish. This is exceedingly'well exemplified
in the lives of all of us. We regard past
experience as byt a dream, and worth no
more consideration. Our future life a wish,
is in no measure regulated by the past, till we
grow so old as to look to no future, this side
the grave. Then we say, “If we could but
live over again !”
How to Raise Fruit Every Year.
If rightly understood, few trees, unless ab
solutely dead or rotten, need occupy ground
without yielding a plenteous crop. After a
long and varied series of experiments, I grad
ually adopted the following modes: As soon
as the winter had sufficiently disappeared,
and before the sap ascends, I examine my
trees; every dead bough is lopped off; when
sap has risen sufficiently to show where the
blossoms will be, I cut away all the other
branches having none on, and also the extrem
ity of every limb, the lower part of which
bears a considerable number of buds, thus
concentrating the sap of the tree upon the
maturbation of its fruits, and saving that
which would be a useless expenditure of
strength. In the quince, apricot and peach
trees, this is very important, as these are
very apt to be too luxuriant in leaves, and
destitute of fruit. You may think this in
jures the trees, but it does not; for you will
find trees laden with fruit, which formerly
yielded nothing. Os course all other well
known precautions must be attended to; such
as cutting out worms from the roots, placing
old iron on the limbs, which acts as a tonic
to the sap, etc. Try it, ye who have failed
in raising fruit. —Rural Gentleman.
Clover.
Clover differs entirely from the cereal crops
in this : it sends its main roots perpendicu
larly downwards, when no obstacle stands in
the way, to a depth which the fibrous roots
of wheat and barley fail to reach; the prin
cipal roots of clover branch off into creeping
shoots, which again send forth fresh shoots
downwards.
Thus clover, like the pea plant, derives its
principal food from layers below the surface
soils, and the difference between the two con
sists mainly in this: that the clover, from its
larger and more extensive root surface, can
still find a sufficiency of food in fields where
peas will no longer thrive; the natural con
sequence is, that the subsoil is left propor
tionately much poorer by clover than by the
pea. Clover seed, on account- of its small
size, can furnish from its own mass but few
formative elements for the young plant, and
requires a rich, arable surface for its develop
ment; but the plant takes but comparatively
little food from the surface soil. When the
roots have pierced through this, the upper
parts are soon covered with a eorky coating,
and only the fine, root fibres ramifying through
the subsoil, conveying food to the plant.—
Liebig.
A Hint. —By enclosing the north side of
your vegetable garden with a close plank
fence, and keeping it well white-washed, you
may enjoy vegetables much earlier than with
out such a fence or some other artificial means
for accelerating their growth. The earliest
varieties should be planted along such a fence,
which will not only screen them from cold
winds, but by reflecting the gun’s rays upon
them, hasten their growth.
A gentleman in Western New York ma
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the carcasses of dead cats. A decided Cat
awba flavor, he thinks, is thus imparted to
the grapes.
Cabbage in a Bag. —Cabbage cut up and
boiled in a bag like a pudding is superior to
that prepared in the customary way. It is
tenderer and of better flavor.
•Mounding peach Trees-Boimar raiem.
The Gardner’s Monthly, in Notes of Wes
tern Travel, mentions having seen for the first
time, near Cincinnati,the “Boimar Patent for
making peaehtrees healthy and productive.
TTie editor says : “The trees are planted on
the surface.of the ground and a few loads of
earth piled up, cone like, completely envelop
ing the stem. The branches come out about
four feet from the ground, and the soil was
piled up to these branches. Alongside were
trees planted the usual way. The trees on
the Boimar plan were at least double the size
of the others, and in every wgv superior.
The patentee claims fifteen cents per tree.
We do not know that there is anything so
new in this idea as to entitle the patentee to
exclusive rights, but this experiment shows
what the Gardner’s Monthly has so repeated*.
ly contended for in fruit culture, and yet what
some few cultivators affected to ridicule,
that the system which best encourages the
roots of a tree to keep on the surface of the
soil, is the best system for the cultivator.”
The Ramie Plant. —The Ramie plant is
exciting considerable interest in Louisiana.
Originally a native of Java, it was introduced
into Mexico some dozen years ago, and in
1866 into Louisiana, and is now successfully
grown, though not to a great extent as yet.
An examination of the fiber shows it to be as
fine as the finest cotton, and the cloth made
of it resembles the better qualities of linen.
Various eloths of China, Japan and Java are
made of an admixture of the ramie with other
substances. Seersucker is one of the species
of ramie cloth. It can be planted in any
growing time of the year, and can be cut two
or three times a season. The young plants
resemble a blackberry bush. A machine
(patented in September, 1867) has been in
vented by Benito Roezl for cleansing this tex
tile—the previous want of which had retarded
its progress in public favor—and it is claimed
that the fiber can be made ready for market
within twenty-four hours after the stalks are
cut. Taking it altogether, and considering
the ease with which it can be propagated, and
the fact that it does not need replanting, its
extended culture may be expected. — St. Louis
Journal of Commerce.
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