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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
By JOE H. BEES//.
DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST GEORGIA.
TERMS 1.00 Per Year.
VOL. V.
CLEVELAND, WHITE CO., GA„ FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1896.
NO. 29.
THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
tfewB Notes from the Empire State
of the South.
Improvement!, ■•velopmenta ul Tror-
rew. Heme About Thing* Transpiring la
Wnr Own Great Itnte, frew Exchanges
and ether Source!.
Columbus will soon have a new and
independent steamer plying on the Chat
tahoochee in conjunction with the
steamer J. F. C. GriggB. The company
operating both boats will he known ns
the Queen and Crescent Navigation Com
pany.
Information was received at Atlanta
that George A. Ellis, formerly of Jeffer
son street, of that city, was one of the
victims killed in the recent St. Louis
cyclone. Ellis left here three months ago,
leaving behind him a wife and several
small cuildron in destit ute circumstances.
He was a carpenter, and told his wife ho
was going to Chattanooga to get work,
but she never heard from him until his
death was reported to her by the keeper
of the boarding liouso where ho was
stopping in St. Louis. Hehad evidently
intended to desert his wife and children.
Dishnndonment now threatens the At
lanta Zouaves, because of their inability
to muster the necessary number of men.
The zouaves have a large membership,
THE HOUSEHOLD.
For Our Housekeepers and Lady
Reader*.
Atlanta will in ah probability be made | moro thau twice as many men in the
a provisional headquarters of the Salva
tion Army, embracing a territory ex
tending from Virginia to Louisiana, and
from Kentucky to Key West. Com-
mauder Booth-Tucker will ho in Atlanta
in the fall, and tho matter will he carried
into effect during his stay.
At Atlanta, Tuesday, the jury in the
case of W. T. Walker and others aguinat
J. T. and C. W. l’opo to recover fifty
acres of land in Fulton countv, that was
the property of the father of the plaintiffs,
brought in a verdict for the defendants.
The plaintiffs alleged that It. F. Walker,
as trustee, sold tho land to the Po| os
and teat ho had no right to do so and
sued to recover it.
The Georgia Weekly Press Association
will bold its tenth annual meeting in
Elbertou, July IT and 15, The Georgia
Woman's Press Club will meet in that
city tho same date. Wednesday after
noon, July 15, at 4 o’clock, the editors
and ladiCB will leavo for Atlanta, whence
the party will go on an excursion to the
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, stopping
at other points of interest en route.
An important order, in the Broad will
contest, was taken before Judge Lump
kin in the superior court at Atlanta
Tuesday, the judge overruling the excep
tions to the auditor's report and dismiss
ing the names of Maynard Broad and
Sumate from tho bill, naming E. S. Me-
Candless permanent administrator and
directing a verdict for $10,750 principal
and $17,625 interest against John Con
ley. John Broad was a wealthy but
eccentric old Englishman, who lived in
Near Echols' mill,in Chattanooga county,
a day or two ago, the wife of Dr. James
Ballenger gave birth to a child that had
four legs, four arms, four eyes und three
ears. It lived a couple of houis.
Savannah’s public building will he
finished in Georgia marble. After a
bard fight in the House to-day,Represen
tative Lester persuaded a majority of
his associates to vote with him to over-
tide the decision of the House conferees
and accept the Senate amendment to
the sundry civil bill,which allows Savan
nah an additional $100,000 to complete
her federal bnilding in marble.
A serious accident happened on 1 lie
Miliedgoville road neur tho two-mile
crossing of the Georgia railroad in Rich
mond county Tuesday. Mrs. William
Sample was driving along in a buggy
when her vehicle waB run into by a run
away horse with a wagon attached. Mrs.
Sample had her baby with her. The
vehicle was overturaed aud both thrown
ont. Mrs. Semple’s collar hone was
broken and the baby painfully bruised,
but it is believed that neither is seriously
injured.
Joe Jenkins, a negro boy about 15
years old, wub instantly killed by an j
electric Bhock at Atlanta Monday night.
Jenkins, together with several other
boys, was playing with an electric light
wire on the corner of Mitchell aud
Haynes streets. Two of Jenkins com
panions were knocked senseless, but re
covered in a short time. Every iffort
was made to resuscitate the boy by
physicians, who were hastily summoned,
but with no effect.
At the end of this month the United
StateB marshal of the southern district
of Georgia will receive a regular annual
salary instead of being allowed fees. By
recent action of congress the fee system
company as must go into encampment,
hut the trouble is tho men are unable
to got leave of absence from their em
ployers lor tlie week. The most strenu
ous effortp on the part of the company
have secured only 21. men for the encamp
ment and,should an additional quartette
not ho secured tho company will surely
he disbanded.
A verdict for tho plaintiff was rendered
in the superior court at Atlanta Thurs
day in the ease of Boone, administrator,
against the American Trust aud Bank
ing Company in the sum of $2,000 prin
cipal, and $400 interest. Mr. Boone
was appointed administrator of tho es
tate of B. F. Cooper at the time that
James Cooper, a former administrator
on tho estate, went insane, and when he
applied to the American Trust and Bank
ing Company for tho funds they were
$2,000 short and the bank claimed that
.lames Cooper had overdrawn his ac
count and owed the bank $2,000 which
had been taken from his account and
credited to tho amount due. Air. Boone
claimed that the money did not belong
to James Cooper, but belonged to the
estuto of B. F. Cooper, and sued to re
cover it, the jury bringing in a verdict
i s above stated.
The now gold chlorination plant
erected at Tallapoosa under the super-
vison of A. Theis, was put into full oper
ation Tuesday, Juno 2, and proved a
success. The first charge of sulphuretted
gold ores that was run through the
ehlorinalioh plant showed that practi
cally all the gold was extracted from
the ore, leaving hardly a trace of gold in
the tailings. This demonstrates the
fact beyond any question of doubt that
the chorination process will work the
gold ore in this district. The Royul
gold mine is now in full operation and
crushing forty tons of ore per day. The
company lias been developing its
property since last September, and has
enough ore in sight for two years’ run at
present crushing capacity. The general
run of the quartz has averaged in rich
ness far beyond what was originally an
ticipated by tfie best known expert.
B. I. Hughes lias returned to Romo
from New York with the necessary papers
ratifying tho sale ol $160,000 new city
bonds of Rome, recently negotiated at 4%
per cent. Tuesday council met and passed
resolutions formally accepting the terms
and tho New York Life Insurance Com
pany, t he purchaser, was notified of the
ratification of tho sale. Mr. Hughes has
been congratulated on liis success in
aecuring such advantageous terms. Tho
engraver will proceed with his work at
once, so that the bonds may be ready to
take the place of those maturing Jan. 1.
flatters FtrUIulnJl tn Ike Homs—Help,
snd Hints (or Housswlvss and Others.
From Kitchen to Part or.
To Preserve Pineapples.
The piles of luscious-looking pineapples
displayed on the fruit stalls at present may
tempt many young house-keepers to try
their skill with that most delicious of all con
serves, a preserve of pineapples. The Sugar
Loaf, Is one of the sweetest and best pine-
upples for preserving. The season for this
pineapple is at its height about the Fourth
of July, when these delicious "pines” may
often bo purchased at $1 a dozen. The best
Sugar Loaf pineapples come from Havana.
The choice ltipley and the Queen • Anno
pineapples come from Jamaica. They are
both favorite varieties. They are exceed
ingly rich in flavor and sweet. Tnese fancy
pines are quite small and never very cheap,
selling on an average at 30 cents apieco.
IIouso wives consider them superior to any
other variety for (lie table because of their
rich flavor.
Tho most delicious wny cf preserving
pineapples is in its own juice, without using
one drop of water to make the syrup. I’eel
carefully the requisite number of pineap
ples, weigh them after they are peeled, and
allow three-quarters of a pound of sugar to
every pound of pineapple. Put the pine
apples in a huge yellow earthern bowl or in
a stone crock and scatter the sugar thickly
over them till it is all used. Cover them
and let them stand in the sugar twenty-lour
hours; a dear juice will nearly cover thorn
then. Now take each pineapple and tear
tho nulp oil the core, using a silver fork.
Drain cl! all tire juice and sugar in the dish
in which the pineapples were put, tc soak in
sugar; put all this juice into u preserving
kettle. Let it como to the boiling point end
boil for live minutes, then skim it and
strain it through a gravy strainer over the
piueapplo pulp. Let tho pulp boil ud in the
syrup once, then oan it immediately, ss
longer boiling darkens the preserves. If
you wish the syrup enn be clarified.
The moat delicious way of serving a pine
apple on the table is to peel It, cover it
thickly with sugar, and set it away in a
cool plaeo In as pretty n glass frnit dish as
you possess for at least two hours. When-
you are ready to serve it tear the fruit from
the core with a silver fork. Housekeepers
need to be reminded that picserved nine-
apple is especially delicious served “vith
whipped cream. A pineapple bavarian
cream is one of Hie best desserts Wb have,
and there is no heller water-ice or sherbet,
as our New England oousins prefer to call
it, than one of pineapple. There is, how
ever, very little sutlsfactio i to be obtained
from coarse-grained, flavorless fruit of any
kind, and no Iruit depends more on culture
and stock for Us quality than a pincapple.--
Honolulu Monthly.
While her father languished behind
j the bars of Fulton county jail with ten
years’ sentence for nerjury staring him
in the Isce,1 he life of a little girl went out
Saturday morning and each was denied
the privilege of taking a final farewell
of the other. The child was Mattie
Rowe, two years old,and the father was
J. J. Rowe, convicted of perjury in con
uection with the Myers case. For a
day or two the little girl had been ill
and it was apparent that she coulu not
live long. Saturday morning.her death
occurred aud yesterday the father was
taken to the home to see his baby once
more before its little body was interred.
any number ot bulletins on (he suhjeot of
feed for cattle, horses, and bogs, and It cer
tainly seems that the stomach and digestion
ot the human family is of at least as much
importance, even from the dollar-snd-cents
point of view. Lit us have the Bureau ol
Domestic Science, and let us begin the study
of better liviug for less money.—Woman
kind.
The Art of Conversation
t. Remember that when yon convcree
others like to hear their own voices as well
as yours.
2. Be careful, however much you may
feol moved to talk—and.vou may talk much
if you have much lo say—lo give others | They have fan-shaped leaves and stems
space for reply. After exacting attention, seldom exceeding threo Indies in dlam-
Raro Florida Palms.
Prof. A. II. Curtiss relumed recently
from his seventh cruise amoug the Flor
ida keys, and reports a number of inter
esting botanical discoveries, including
two additions to his list of two hundred
trees. It was his special object tostudythe
palms peculiar to these coral islands,
and in this he succeeded beyond ills ex
pectation,determining the range of each
and semiring the material that has been
needed for their aoourate Identification
There arc three kinds of palms on tho
keys that oan hardly be distinguished
from one another at a little distance.
as to all United States marshals is abol-1 sheriff Barnes and a deputy carried the
ished after June 30. United States Mar
shal Harrell has made the maximum
fees of his office $6,000 per annum since
he has been holdiag tho position. Com
mencing on July 1 his regular salary
will be $3,500 per annum.
As an outcome of the recent failure of
the late Chattahoochee National Bauk of
Columbus the stockholders of the insti
tution have been assessed $61 for each
share of stock in their possession, the ob
ject teing to meet the obligations oi the
prisoner to the house on Bernhardt
6treet. hut the cheap little coffin had
been placed in the undertaker’s wagon
aud it was abont to move off to give it
a pauper burial when the officers arrived
and il wes taken back to the house.
Rowe was permitted to see the baby's
face again. He wept bitterly above the
silent form while the officers used to
scents of.soriow, were visibly affected.
The Sheriff gave up the cab in which he
Government Oooking-School
We are told every Bay that we are hut a
nation of profligates, that the average Amer
ican family wastes enough food to feed the
average family of almost any other nation
ality.
And it is too true. Yet when we consider
that upon the statistics of the census bureau,
it is estimated that nearly one-third of the
families of the United Stales have an an
nual income of less Ilian $400 each, and that
more than half the families of "this greut
and glorious country” live upon less tnan
$000 each per year, it is not easy to under
stand where the great extravagance is.
But it Is in these very homes where the
most sinful waste occurs—Binful, because the
poor man can less afford to waste a dollar
than his rich employer can a hundred.
We see with hot indignation the occa
sional wild and reckless expenditure of tome
rich man of thousands for a single supper,
while we ourselveH perhaps are wasting iD
the family kitchen n larger percentage of
the family income, rhe rich man’s extrav
agance lies at ieast the one good point ol
putting back into legitimate channels I lie-
money that he Iijs drawn from it, but the
poor man’s extravagance robs him and his
family of pleasures, of comforts, of necessi
ties.
Fafortunately there Is a growing tendency
to resent much teaching on tbi? important
snbject, partly due, perhaps, to a feeling
that the food reformer has too oftan dined
on a choice roast of beef, before taking the
platform to dilate upon tiie advantages of a
diet of beans and hominy for the working
man’s family. But whatever the reformer
may eat himself, the fact remains lliat some
foods are better, more nutritive, and cost
less than others, and it is to our advantage
to learn just what foods and what propor
tions are the best for our purses and per
sons.
The cooking school, despite the fact that
it lias been rather a fashionable fad , lias,
in addition to teaching impossible desserts,
given womankind a bint of the possibilities
of Scientific Economy. Bat now Spnator
Kyle proposes the establishment of a gov
do not forget to he patient and receptive in
your turn
3. People are never happy when lab'cd
second best, nor will you ever be personal y
liked if y u rivet upon them a sense of their
own Inferiority, or prevent them from shin
ing or doing themselves justice.
4. Encourage people to talk on what In
terests them. A man may ha dull on all
topics but one; find lint one out, and he
will take you to ids lieurl—aye, to his heart
ofliearts You may also learn something.
5. Don't be too eager to shine. Ifyou
can’t shine without tffor, better not shine
at nil; it won’t he a success.
(I. Don't sneer at trade or commerce in
the presence of self nindo men. Don’t tulk
of gentlefolks and gentlemen over much, or
brag ot birth or connection, especially in the
presence of those who have neither.
7. Don't fear or resent overmuch peo
ple’s bad opinion, hut take care not to de
serve it.
8. Self consciousness paralyzes sponlHite
ity. Self-effacement conquers more infal
libly than anything else, and lie lliat lium-
blath himself shall he exulted.
0. In company you must take the tone
before you give the tone, or you will have
no hasepf operations.
10. if you are willing to he a pig my among
giants, you will never be a giant among pig
mies.
11. ifyou must be cock of the walk, and
feel vonekolf irresistibly impelled to crow, try
to cron on something better than n dunghill
and.o\*r something better tlinn bantams.
12 ®iere may be deep sympathy without
InlMt hut no good talk without sympathy.
Exc tj5a.11 ge.
■ ~avA«Ohampion of Sugar.
To lhow persons who nre "very fond of
sweets,” but do not dare to ent them, even
in moderation, through fear of the harmful
results supposed to follow such an indulg -
ence, will find comfort in the words ol a
champion of ”»ve3t things,” who writes in
this earnest manner in the Helper: Tho
general public lias a wrong impression us to
the actual advantages ol sugar in tho human
frame. Harm may bo done by eating sugrr
in excess, just as the excess of anything else
is pernicious lo health. In (lie stomach it
is in part changed to lactic acid; and the
latter acts upon calcic phosphates and per
mits their ossimilation. How frequently a
mild case of indigestion could be relieved,
if not cored, by an occasional drink of sugar
and waler. D> our readers reallzs the im
portance of a few bonbons after a healllilul
meal? The fatty substances that otherwise
overload the stomach then become harm
less. Those who enjoy coffee and ten at
night, yet hesitate drinking these beverages,
can pnrtake of the same, in moderation,
without fear of a sleepless night, by the. lib
eral use of sugar. Recent experiments,
showing that sugur increases the muscular
power possible to develop during a given
period, are only a scientific determination of
what is already known. One need only
visit a sugar cane plantation In the West
Indies to appreciate that tho “nigger” can
develop more work in a given time ti nt-
lowed to eat the cane freely, than during
any other period of the year. H tui.r inis I's
disadvantages for stout people, a fac known
to most of us, but the advantage lo h de
rived from a moderateintroductioo ■ sugar
as a means of retaining health, is to < ire-
quently overlooked.
had taken the prisoner lo the house to ernmenlal Bureau of Djmesfic Science to
hank to depositors, etc., not concealed I the friends ol the family, who were pre- work in connection wnh the Agricultural
1 ’ 1 1 department. Doubtless ihe United Blu es
by the money raised from other sources, j paring lo go to cemetery on a street car t of Domestic Scier;ce
Recently 20 per cent of their deposits aud soon the big wagon with the little | , „ _
was paid to the depositors, the sum cuflin moved eff a second time, followed
amounting to neatly $30,000. The no- by tin- single vehicle from which the
tice to the stockholders of the above as- faces of sympathetic women peeped out,
sessment of $61 per share has just been Mrs. Rowe beiug detained at home by
iBBUed. The bank was capitalized at the serious sickness of another child —
$100,000. Atlanta Journal.
will inf! ct upon kn,> suffering woman
many poorly printed pamphlets written in
such a manner lliat no one but n past mas
ter in organic chemistry can glean the least
ray of intelligence Irotn them, but ior all
thut. Womankind is heartily in favor ot
such a bureau. Tue government bat issued
Strawberry Dainties
SHORT CAKE.
Alakc .i ‘nD ugh of one quart, of flour,
three rahlt'Spo .Got baking powder, four
inbieepoonfuis • l butter, three tablespoon
fuls of white sugar. Roll on I and bake in
three jelly cake pans. Mash two quarts of
berries and sweeten them well. When the
c> k-s are done, let the first and third ones
li ■ whole, split the middle one and put the
., r j,.o u,. ■> een each layer after it has neen
o • no Hist white sugar over it. To
mi e it mi l richer, before mashing the
beirici reserve a drz*n or more ot the hug
est. Then between rlie layets cover with
whipped cream, sweetened. A'so cover ihe
t< p with a thick coaling of cream,and place
the. berries on it in clusters.
STBAWDKI1RY WATER.
Bruise two pints of fresli, ripe strawher
ries with six outlets of loaf sugir, and Ihe
juios of three lemons add to tins one pint
of cold wider; mix thoroughly, hut do net
KjuefZ) the mixture Then add another
pint of co il water and put ill a cool place.
8TKAWUKRBIE8 WITH WHIPPED CREAM
Take one plot of small, ripe straw berries;
place in a jug and sprinkle with one tublr-
sponilul of powdered sugar and pour the
juice of one lemon over .hem Shake well;
cover and let s'and i re ten intitules Whip
half a pint of cream to a stiff froth, lurn o -
a hair sisve, bo ihat the mi k can drain off.
Give tho strawberries another shake, torn
them in the form ot a pyramid on a glass
dish, pour the juice over, and ervertbrm
with the whipped cream. Serve at once.—
Food, HSrae and Garden.
cter, though sometimes attaining a
height of nearly four feet. They furnish
the inhabitants with "crawl poles” and
inatrolals fc* hats and baskets.
For the first timo Prof. Curtiss suc
ceeded iu finding the grove of Pseudo-
plui-nix'Siirgentli, on Long Key. A few
young trees of this remarkable palm
were found Ity him on Elliott’s Key in
1881, but were mistaken for young royal
palms. Five years later he accompanied
Prof. C. S. Sargent on a cruise in tho
steamer Laurel, and in exploring the
same key Professor Sargent was first lo
catch sight of a mature and well fruited
tree of the same paint, and tho fruit wits
found to be wholly different from that
of the royal or any other known palm.
Drawings were made for Professors
Sargent’s “Trees of North America,”
and material for study was sent to
Wendlandt, the leading authority on
palms, who found it to be both speci
fically and gencrloally distinct from
either known species.
This discovery led to the detection of
quite a grove of the same palm on Long
Key, which was then being converted
into CQCoanut plantations,and the owner
ordered its preservation, which was
most fortunate, as otherwise this rem
arkable tree might have been extermin
ated before being brought into cultiva
tion.
Long Key is situated about sixty
miles northeastward form Key West,
and is oi very irregular from, consisting
of three arms or prongs, each about two
miles long. Last summer Professor
Curtiss landed on this key with a dia
gram furnished him by Commodore
Monroe, who had succeeded in finding
the palms and also in successfully trans
planting one of them to Coooanut Grove;
but varying a little from the right
course,he failed lo find anything besides
oocoanuts and mangroves. Now that
he has suceed in reaching the palms,
he finds that Commodore Monroe’s in
structions were pretty near correot but
not as simple as they might have been.
If one will laud a few hundred yards
oast of the southern point of Long Key,
at a lirge black mangrove standing
along at the water’s edge, and will then
proceeded directly Inland across a nar
row skirt of swamp, he will see, on
emerging from the mangroves, the
Pseudophmnlx directly before him, and
he will behold the rarest and most un
ique of North American trees, and one
which as to beauiy of fruitage is per
haps not excelled by any tree in the
world. The trunk is short and thick,
smooth and curiously variegated with
alternate bands of brown and greenish
gray. The crown of leaves resembles
that of the date palm, and, at its base
are borne gorgeous clusters of red ber
ries, many of them so large that a man
could hardly encirole one with his arms.
The berries are about as large as average
grapes, ar.d a large proportion of them
are united in twos and threes. The
fleshy covering of the nut is very bitter,
the kernel almost as hard as Ivory.
Professor Curtiss secured enough of
the fruit to (111 two barrels, which he
shipped from Planter, on Key Largo,
to Professor Sargent, who will doubtless
distribute them to ail the botanic gar
dens and palm nuserics in the world.
Thus the existence of the Pseudopho--
nlx is likely to be prolonged indefinitely
independently of Its existence in a wild
state, which is evidently preoarlous.—
Times Union.
In March they are in their glory, and
convert Bermuda into a fairy-land of
sweet odors and qucen-llke, nodding
lilies. To right and to loft of you, be
fore aud behind, field after field spreads
its wealth of blossoms; and frequently
the fields are surrounded by oleander
hedges, which add tho beauty of their
masses of wax-like pink blossoms. A
moonlight view of these • lily-fields is a
positively uncanny, unr«*4 sight, like
ghosts of flowers they ijem, * n Gielr
dazzling, ethereal whiteness, and the
experience is one never to be forgotten.
The lilies are exported In Immense
quantities, and for this purpose are cut
while still In bud; each bell is wrapped
in moss or oolton, and then they are
paoked with great care,sixty er a hund
red in a box. Several thousand boxes
are shipped annually, and they sell in
Bermuda for two dollars a box; with a
guarantee, however, that they shall ar
rive in England, Canada, or the United
Slates in good condition. The average
stalk produces from six to eight buds;
but occasionally a proud grower obtains
a marvel like the one illustrated, whtoh
bears seventy-two blossoms.—From
“Bermuda the Beautiful,” in Demorest’a
Magazine for April.
A Box of Nasturtiums.
Nasturtiums often do better in boxes
than when planted in the border or
flower-bed; and though I do not re
member having seen them reoommended
for winter blooming. I have tested
them myself.
A box oi mixed varieties wins the ad
miration of all beholders; the great
round lobes of leaves of a peculiar green,
growing on thin, long slender stems,
make it very ornamental, even without
the blossoms. But now (February) buds
and flowers by the dozen, scaMet and
yellow predominating—large, handsome
blossoms they are, too—make a study in
color worthy the brush of an artist.
Eaoh flower has its own graoeful stem,
some eight or ten inches long; and the
way they bend toward the sunlight,
both foliage and bloom, is interesting
and instructive, as well. Do they not
say in their beautiful language, "To the
light, to the light, turn ye, oh, turn ye
from the darkness to the light of
heaven?”
More than one lesson might be learned
from asimple boxof nasturtiums. There
were a few old roots that showed a dis
position lo sprout after the plants had
helped to make the garden gay last sum
mer. The foliage had died down; but
instead of pulling them up and throw
ing all away (as usual), I determined to
see for once what a change of habitation
would accomplish. They have shown
themselves equal to the work set for
them—ornamenting with their grace and
beauty the well-worn doorway, and with
a few other floral gems, giving a (oheer-
ful inlook as well as outlook.—Minnie G.
Mills In Womankind.
Easter Lilies in Bermuda.
Us. ally the first drive taken by the
stranger in Bermuda is to St. George.
Old stone walls, covered with flaming
blossoms in the spring,separate the road
from t'ny patches of Beimuda onions,
and the Helds of Eister lilies for which
Bermuda is becoming famous. In
blnnkeis of white the lilies stretch out,
too pure, too delicate, too beautiful, for
adequate description The luxuriance
and perfection of the lilies Is all the
more surprising when it is known that
not much more than ten years ago there
were no Easter lilies in Bermuda worthy
of mention. Usneral Hastings, whose
wife is a niece of the late ex-President
Hayes, began to plant them extensively
about a decade ago; now they cover the
island with a white robe at Eister time;
and their oultiva.ion constitute* one of
the principal industries of the islands.
The Dahlia-
The first Dahlia of which we have any
authentic knowledge (Dahlia Buperflua)
was discovered In Mexico by Baron
Humboldt In 1789, and sent by him to
the Botanical Garden at Madrid, Spain,
where it was named Dahlia in honor of
Andrew Dahl, a noted Swedish botanist
and pupil oi the great botanist, Lin
naeus.
The Dahlia belongs to the natural or-
derComposet.
Since its discovery, the skill of florists
in hybridizing has brought us many new
and beautiful varieties, both single and
double. All are pretty and are very
useful in making up out-flower work and
bouquets.
They ought to be more extensively
grown than they are, as they are of the
easiest oulture, and there are many
rich, sandy gardens lliat would make a
splendid home for them; rich, sandy
soil and plenty of water are the essentials
to sucoess with the Dahlia. The roots
are very much like sweet potato roots
and should be planted here the middle
or latter part of February. The tops be
ing rather tender, they can be oovered
up on cold frosty nights. By planting
early we can have them in bloom In
May,and from then till frost they should
be full of blooms. It they get too tall
and straggling they may be cut back
rather severely. There are both tall and
dwarf varieties and they can be used iu
various ways, either in beds by them
selves or the tall ones as center plants or
background for beds and borders of
smaller plants.
At the north they cannot enjoy them
so leng as we do, as the early frosts gen
erally get them when just reaohlngtheir
best.
They grow very readily from cdttlDg,
also increasing rapidly by division of the
roots. Some grow them from seed, but
it is belter to get good strong roots to
start with.—A. J. Seiders, Austin, Tex
as, in Horticultural Gleaner.
