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ishes, cabbage, lettuce and mustard.
My earliest vegetable is spring tur
nip salad, which is now large enough
for table use. The greedy English
sparrows are a great niusance in the
garden. I had to cover up all my
early corn with hay, to prevent their
devouring it. I have some experienced
lady gardeners as neighbors, and they
have excited in me a little ambition to
excel in the vegetable business. It
seems to me that we should have one
word to describe the cultivation of a
vegetable garden, as we use only one
word to describe the cultivation of
fruit. Hortus, in Latin, means an
enclosed space for raising fruits.
Hence, our horticulture; garden, is
from the German garten, and I think
garticulture would do as a word to
describe the raising of vegetables. We
have floriculture, as applied to the
cultivation of flowers. The garden, I
think, is the oldest place spoken of
in history. The garden of Eden must
have been a most beautiful and per
fect place, also the wonderful gar
dens of Jericho and the hanging gar
dens of the Assyrians and Babylo
nians. Water adds greatly to the
beauty of a garden. Eden was trav
ersed by the Euphrates river and its
branches; the Italian gardens, the
loveliest in the world, have fountains
and rivulets, to keep green the foliage.
How old is this world? is a ques
tion none can answer. There are
constantly curious things being un
earthed to prove this earth’s antiquity
—bones of tropical animals discovered
under the ice of polar regions, and
skeletons of huge animals found deep
under the earth, their teeth proving
that they browsed on the immense
forests that covered the earth, before
the breaking of the thin crust hurled
them into the heated mass beneath, to
be charred into coal, for the use of
man many centuries later.
Recently, one of our negro tenants,
while digging a well, found, at a dis
tance of fourteen feet, a triangular
shaped piece of polished oak wood
embedded in pure clay. How it got
there is a mystery, as there was no
sign of any ancient excavation. Jeff,
the negro well-digger, was of the opin
ion that it was a bit of Noah’s ark.
We have an artesian well, bored to
the depth of seven hundred feet. From
the bottom of it was pumped up a
small fish, shaped like a perch of a
lovely golden color. It died as soon
as it was brought to the top and the
cold air struck it. The fish was the
occupant of one of those underground
streams, which flow everywhere be
neath the earth’s surfa.ce at various
depths. Some of these, as we know,
are large rivers, and others are the
water veins that feed springs and
wells.
I will no longer trespass on the
Household’s limited space, but would
like to say, in conclusion, that I am
in need of a horticultural assistant.
If I should ever succeed in making
my garden a miniature Eden, and
it should still lack an Eve, its fairest
roses would want fragrance, its juic
iest melons and strawberries lack
flavor.
BEN R. IVY.
Ivy, Alabama.
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QUERIES AND ANSWERS.
Shirley says: “Last evening I heard
a lecture on poetry, in which the
speaker quoted the old Greek saying,
‘Whom the gods love die young,’ and
instanced Shelley, Kirks, White, Keats
and Byron. The week before I had
read a sketch of Byron, in which it
was said he had gray hair. Was he
really young”?
Byron was only thirty-six when he
died, but he had lived so intensely that
his dark, wavy locks were streaked
with gray. He wrote of himself
And now, at thirty years, my hair is
gray,
I wonder what it will be like at forty ?
My heart is not much greener, and,
in short, I
Have wasted my whole summer while
’twas May.
Warren asks: “Please give me the
shortest sentence that contains all the
letters of the alphabet.”
The best of the shortest sentences
that contain ail the letters is this:
“J. Gray, pack with my box five dozen
quills.” This, however, failed to get
a prize offered for the best sentence
comprising the alphabet, because a
proper name was used. Another sen
tence, “Fritz, quick! land, hew gypsum
box,” was open to the same objection.
The prize sentence was “The brown
fox jumps quickly over a lazy dog.”
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QUERIES.
Julius Sothern asks: “How old is
the golden rule, ‘Do unto others as you
would have them do to you,’ which
Christ said was the law and the
prophets”? It is the oldest of all ethi
cal injunctions. The earliest written
manuscript is by the Egyptian, Ptah
Hoteb, five thousand, five hundred
years before Christ. In this, we are
enjoined, “If thou be among people,
let love for them be the beginning and
end of thy heart.” The Greeks, one
thousand and seventy years before
Christ, had this mandate, “Do not
that to your neighbor which he would
take ill from thee.” Fifteen hundred
years before the birth of Christ, when
the Hindu kingdoms were being estab
lished along the Ganges, it was writ
ten, “The true rule of business is this:
Guard and do by the affairs of others
as you do by your own.” In China,
six hundred years before Christ, Lao
Tzu said, “Requite injury with kind
ness; be good to men that do evil, in
order that they may learn good from
you.” Confucius also advised, “What
you would not have done to yourself,
do not to others.” By these examples
it will be seen that all intelligent re
ligions have made this great rule their
foundation, and that Christ was im
pressing this on his hearers when he
said to do to others as you would
have them do to you, which embraced
the entire law and the edicts of the
prophets.
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Stuffed Eggplant.—Stuffed eggplant
is made by cutting it lengthwise, re
moving the center, pressing it till dry,
crushing it and mixing with an equal
measure of soft bread crumbs; sea
son well, add a lump of butter as large
as an English walnut to each half, and
bake half an hour, basting with but
ter and water. Serve the two shells
on a platter.
Cheesed Tomatoes.—Cut stem end
from well-shaped tomatoes and scoop
out the heart of each. To two table
spoonfuls of tomato pulp add one tea
spoonful of bread crumbs and one
teaspoonful of crumbled cheese. Sea
son to taste and fill tomato shells
with the mixture. Replace stem ends,
bake in roasting pan for twenty min
utes, transfer to hot platter and serve.
Green Corn Pudding.—Take twelve
medium-sized ears of corn, score the
kernels and take out the pulp, being
careful not to take out any of the
husK. Mix with the pulp three cupfuls
of flour, four well-beaten eggs, two
tablespoonfuls of sugar and a little
salt. Put into a well-buttered baking
dish and bake two hours in a mod
erate oven.
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