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Tomato Culture.
iron the Agriculturist.
B Xhe growing of tomatoes for mar
B.-t and for private use is of far
■icater extent and importance than
t iny people imagine, when it is a
■ell known fact that of all the truek
R’s crops the tomato is one of his
Best stand-bys. We can readily see
Re importance of giving this crop
■ie very best care and attention, and
ft. the end that a good crop may be
■ad. we must take care to make
■vervthing at the beginning as per
l-i-t as possible, for the crop almost
Ritirely depends upon the start the
■ ants get. v
■ in our latitude here we are teadv
■> set out the plants early in April
nny time before then they run the
Rsk of being caught with a slight
Rost). In that case we must sow
Rir seed in the latter part of Janu
By: it should not be any later in any
Rse than the fourteenth of Febru
By. To prepare a bed for the seed,
Re must choose a location of a warm
Rture, having a southern exposure.
R is not necessary to provide any
Rittom heat, but on cool nights the
Hi should be covered with sacks or
Hte to prevent the young plants
Him getting chilled. In making this
Hat-bed, a slight sprinkling of eot
R seed meal should be mixed in the
Hi a week before planting. In sow
H the seed it should be sprinkled
K evenly as possible on the top of
H soil and covered with soil by the
Hud. instead of raking in the seed
His usually done. The former plan
■glnre.s HR a more even distribution of
seed than by raking. When the
Hb’ is covered about a quarter of an.
Sj|h, Rp> the bed should be well tramped
the feet and left as even as
|Hsible, RR to prevent any water stand
on the bed during a rain; this
best be wearing
without heels on that occasion.
M the beginning of March the
ffng ^Lsplant plants should be expressly ready to
to another bed
^■pared Bond for them. The soil of this
bed should be made as rich
Hit fertilizing as the soil will be in
Hich ■p. they are to grow and make a
This bed should lie laid off in
^Bares Kl about two inches each way
in every check a young plant
Hmld be set. A small smooth piece
Hstick of the size of a lead pencil
Hmld be used and a hole made in
Hli of these checks and a plant
Hck in. A little water dropped in
Hthis hole after the plant is iusert
H w ill be sufficient to cause it to
|fke root and grow. After the plants
ire well started and showing signs of
Jjukiug good growth, we must begin
At prepare the ground for the crop,
f we ha»* land that had a crop of
Potatoes or some other root crop last
year, it will suit our purpose; if not,
we have got to do the best we can,
BKntoes hut on no account must we plant to
after a cabbage crop. The
^Round ^forougliiy should be well plowed and
worked in every way to
Bonier it smooth and put it in good
Milth, and at the last working our fer
IHlizer should be applied. I prefer to
^R>rk ^feans the fertilizer in the soil by
of an ordinary one-horse eul
RBvator. The quantity of this fertili¬
ser must be determined by the na
■Rire of the soil; on poor thin soil
jgifeout one thousand pounds per acre
fonld be, about all it could take care
liif, whereas on good stiff soil, fifteen
I u mired pounds would be none too
Hiueh. Now as to the quality of this
fertilizer, we must consult the re¬
quirements of the tomato plant. 1
'should recommend a fertilizer for
crop to analyze somewhat as un
about three per cent nitrogen,
per cent phosphoric acid, and
to teu per cent potash, and the
of the pntaah should be sul
if at all powtffite*. I have been
experimenting for the last eight
years in this tomato fertilization, and
“very year I get more and more oon
vlneed that if we use plenty of pot
ash and a reasonable quantity of phos
phorie acid in our fertilizers, we will
have less blight and fungous disease
in our tomato crop. Last year I used
excessively heavy on my crop
and I was free of blight that causes
such havoc among our tomatoes ev
ery year. The rot is also reduced to
a minimum when plenty of potash is
used. The reason of this is easily
‘keen by any one who takes the trou¬
ble to examine into the matter. The
average run of fertilizers used on
tomatoes contains more nitrogeu
than either potash or phosphoric
acid. The consequence is a plant of
a succulent, soft nature, an easy prey
to all diseases. A plant again that is
fertilized with twice as much phos
phorie acid as nitrogen, and half as
much agatn • of t potash . . - ofphos
phone ae,d. is a thrifty plant, able to
i ombat all diseases, an gives ar su
pel .or rint in appearance
qna l y. - ppearante goes a ong way
fertilizerT'insures "tl ° m Ttent U v of 1 ’ ThiTdavs *tash in |
our both.
of hap-hazard 1 work in this line are
gone forever, , and , the ,. successful , ,
grower has got to kno^ everything
pei taming to as ‘ ro l’- 18 ean
-
be cone y consuttng t e ana
tabies o t e constituent par s ° ^
< rop in const era ion, an
riirimi^time studies°thoioughiy ^
the
nature of his *oil he may reasonably
expect to be well repaid for his time
- d outlay in other ways I would
have liked to have said something on
the further care of this very import
ant crop, but space forbids just now.
C. K. McQuarrie.
iJe Puniak Springs, Fia.
St. Cloud Farm Sold.
The Kissimmee correspondent of
the Timos-Lniori says;
The sale of the St. Cloud Sugar
teams and apparatus, to a syndicate
of Cuban sugar planters has been
definitely arranged. The terms have
!>een accepted, and the titles and
abstracts have been ordered deliver
mi to a bank at Tampa. This sale
lias been made through the efforts
of Oaptaiu R. E. Ross, of this place,
and Captain John B. Walton, of
Tampa, and will give an immense
impulse to the growing of sugar in
Florida. The purchasers are practi¬
cal sugar planters of large means
and long experience. They believe
that the growing of sugar in Florida
can be made more profitable than in
Cuba. The export, and import du¬
ties on Cuban sugar alone would be
a fair profit. With the prospect of
a fair duty on sugar, which is con¬
fidently hoped for, Florida should
soon produce a large part of the
sugar consumed in the United
States, if not all of it.
Captain Ross established the St.
Cloud Mills in 1886 atferward selling
the plantation to the Disston Com¬
pany. He has always contended that
the Kissimmee Valley was pre-em¬
inently a sugar growing region, and
this purchase by men who have ac¬
quired a full knowledge of the busi¬
ness in all of its details confirms the
believer.
Kissimmee is elated over the
transaction, and hopes, with mueh
good reason, to see soon a number
of mills similar to those at St. Cloud
established on the vast area of rich
muck land in this valley.
The exact consideration given for
the estate is not positively known,
but it, must be in the neighborhood
of $250,000. The purchasers will take
charge as soon as the former own¬
ers ean remove the products of the
present crop.
The property consists of 2,250
acres of rich reclaimed land lying
between East Lake and Lake To
hopekaligo, with mills having a ca¬
pacity for 200 tons of eane a day.
The property is approached by the
Sugar Belt railway of the Plant Sys¬
tem. The Cuban purchasers will
treble the capacity of the mills at an
estimated outlay of $50,000, and 600
tons of eane will be handled every
day of the grinding seasou; and
they intend to begin at once prepa¬
rations to put in 2,000 acres of eane.
They propose to bring skilled la¬
bor front Cuba, adepts at cultiva¬
tion, milling, find all branches of
sugar-making and refining. The buy¬
ers are acquainted with all the eco¬
nomies of the business, and are
quick to perceive the employment
of useless labor. As an instance, on
their recent visit they found sixteen
men employed in doing what two or
three men do in Cuba. On their es¬
tates in that country the slightest
expense is a matter of the greatest
consideration, for the growers hate
to compete with the whole world.
In the operation of this great
plantation these men will have a
number of associates, all practical
sugar-producers. Captain Rose will
very likely be associated with them
in the management.
Potash on Deciduous Fruit Trees.
Near Bellemonte, Pa., a few yeai#
ago was an immense pear tree with
a trunk nearly two feet in diameter.
The tree had been set seventy years,
and for sixty years it had not failed
to produce a crop of fruit, while
other trees of the same variety,
planted at the same time, had all
died of old age several years before.
This remarkable tree always had by
its side an ash leach, from which a
considerable quantity of potash in
the form of lye had escaped and
found its way to the root* of the
tree. Thus the potash kept the tree
alive.
story told , , of printers . . , ap
A is a
prentice in Tallahassee whose moth
er imd a peach tree that was sickly
and appeared to be dying. T e
young man conceived the idea that
the tree was suffering from the ef
fects of borers. He stripped the
earth away from the roots, which he
erroniouslv thought was the seat of
the borer, for a considerable dis
tance out, and applied to them sev
era! times a liberal drenching of a
solution of caustic potash, which
was used in cleaning type, and when
» became saturated with printer’s
„ guaIIj . thrown away . Whether
he kU , ed borer8 u doubtful, but
^ accomplished his purpose, for the
tree speedily recovered its vigor and
^ years afterward bore heavy an
n,iaI crops of fruit. It was doubt
less the result of the potash appli
nation.
potaKj) is frequently not only the
medh . ilie for lack of which the tree
is sickly and dying, but also its
meat and drink. The quantity °f
unleached ashes that a tree will re
ceive without injury is astonishing,
" l,e " the is 8 P read we ”
around over the ground and not
heaped against the tree. An ac
qnaintance used to tell of a farmer
near Griffin. Ga., who carefully aav
ed up all of his ashes, made from
hardwood, and gave a barrel of
them, unleached, to each peach
tree once a year. He had only a
choice trees, and they yielded Mm
enormouB crops of the moat excel
lent fruit* free from blemishes and
rot. large, brilliant-colored, and of
I delicious flavor.--Florida Citizen.
SUPPORT OF A THEOR Y.
The house party at Westwood were
dawdling over their coffee on the
moon-lit piazza. It was a meny
crowd; everybody knew everybody
else, and there was much laughter
and talk, but suddenly a silence fell.
Then it became patent to all that the
couple seated on the steps leading to
the lawn were engaged in a quiet but
bitter altercation. The girl’s listless
air was in striking contrast to the
man’s eagerness.
“Your idea is an absurd one!” he
exclaimed.
“Oh, fie!” she said, “to speak so
rudely to a Woman.”
“It is not rudeness, but truth.”
“Then you are apparently synony¬
mous.”
“1 can’t help it; it exasperates me
to hear an intelligent girl like you—”
“Now where,” she broke in, “did
you pick that up? I am not the least
bit intelligent! If 1 were I would
know better than to argue with you;
it is perfectly hopeless”—sighing—
“and you do get so excited.”
“And who wouldn’t?—listening to
such impossible theories!”
“You don’t have to! 1 never asked
you to talk to me. I came out here to
be by myself, and you deliberately
followed me. Why didn’t you stay
with the others? They are all pleas¬
anter than I am?”
“Humility,” he said, “is a cloak
that fits badly on your shoulders.”
“My sheeves are too large, per¬
haps! but really you misunderstand
—I have an excellent opinion of my¬
self. I can be quite agreeable, when
I choose, but 1 am not in the mood
tonight.”
“Then according to your theory
.you ought to be most attractive.”
“What is your theory, Kate?” call¬
ed out her cousin.
“One you have heard me express
thousands of times before.”
“Shall I tell him. Miss Doane?"
“Certainly.”
“She says that a man doesn’t like
to feel too confident of a woman’s af¬
fection; that it is the element of un¬
certainty in love affairs that makes
them interesting; that he enjoys be¬
ing puzzled and played with, and
that a clever woman has only to ap¬
pear indifferent to first pique and
then attract him.”
“Heresy!” exclaimed a chorus of
manly voices.
“Mr. Stewart, has omitted a very
important clause.” said Miss Doane.
“I added that to do this the woman
must necessarily be good to look at
and not lacking in this world’s
goods.”
“Oh, Kate, Kate!” sighed her tjous
in, “would you insinuate that the
masculine fancy is influenced by
worldly advantages?”
She shrugged her shoulders.
“I have stated the ease; you can
make it what you choose.”
The hostess, who had been listen¬
ing idly, now put in a word,—
“The trouble with you all is that
you analyze too much,” she said.
“Why not take things as they come,
without worrying over their possible
causes? It is so .much simpler and
healthier.”
“Isn’t Madge charming?” she said,
amiably. “To hear her, you would
suppose that she had never seen the
inside of a drawing-room. She al¬
ways gets like that when she comes
to the country; something in the air
probably.”
“And you?” said Stewart, when the
laughter following her speech had
died away; “has it no effect on you?”
“The country? Oh, yes, it makes
me—if that is possible—more indo¬
lent than usual,” and she leaned her
head against the pillar and looked,
not at him, but past Mm to the
stretch of rosy sky.
“What an actress you are!” he said.
“You are not the least bit indifferent,
really, but it has amused you to pose
as such so long now it has almost be¬
come second nature.”
“To pose as anything involves a
certain amount of exertion.”
“Doubtless you find it worth while,
if your audience is appreciative, as it
*
* j 1miwine ..
IJotjeed those two
c , ou(Jg? „ ghe ^ “ It ta curioug
n<ytp how theJr fl oa1/ fi r(rt toward and
then awgy fjx>m each otheri a « do
people w j,o are playing a t cross pur
]K)sf!S ”
“You were evidently not listening
1/0 a won j \ aaid.”
yes, I was. You were scold
j n g. roe> but you generally are, you
know, and you said something about
my posing. You have told me that
often, and so—”
“And so, apparently, there was no
need of listening to me. I had no
wag 81lch a Uore “
She smiied ^
“Vow, you see, you are angry
Don’t you think,” leaning to
war d him confidentially, “you ought
w do something for your temper? It
may get you into serious trouble
N<* everybody m as am.a
ble as I!
“»«]] wrangling?” asked Carl
Jje IoI(n?in#r ( , own the “ M y
j dear young friends, it grieves me to
j the heart to see sin-bt a display of nn
■ Christian feelings. ‘Let dogs delight
tl0 b ark and bite.’”
; “Blame Mr. Stewart, and not me,”
j „ aid the gj r |. “You know, Carl, that
, j haven’t the ene.igv to quarrel with
any cue, especially in this weather.”
^, h , of course not. Miss Doane
j only says the things that make
people want to row.”
> charming character you have
jrjven me! After that I think I w*il
| abandon the field to you.
j Car3 f ” with a quick change the lake off for
ner, “Let’s go down to a
row.”
*tswart watched tiiem with
J
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' 1
Fifty Years Ago.
No theory of germs to chill j *
Adectiou’s buildiu^ blisses;,;
When ardent lovet took tb<*fr fill,
No microbes on their kistxi.
How h.ipp*, they were not ijk&ov
T he gci m»i;td— go years ago.l
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
is the standard family remedy
of the world for colds, coughs
and lung diseases. It it not a
pall'utive, and is not therefore
put tip in small cheap b Jttles.
It is put up in large 1 ottles
for the household. They cost
more but cure more.
Fads come and go but no
theory or fad can overthrow
the fact, that the greatest cure
for all colds, coughs and fliroat
and lung Pectoral. diseases, is Avar's
Cherry
SO Nears of Cures.
in her heart—the girl was talking
gavly, her soft laugh floating back to
him.
“There goes a living denial of her
theory,” he thought. "She is kind
uess itself to Ainslie and he is devot
ed -to her. Indifference, indeed! Yd
like to see the woman who could at¬
tract me by that. As for Miss Doane,
she is a heartless little flirt, and I
don’t intend to fret myself about
her.” And he climbed the steps and
stalked away to the smoking-room.
“Kate,” said young Ainslie, resting
on his oars, “I’m your cousin and
have a right to tell you when I think
you are doing wrong, so I say—do
leave old Stewart alone.”
“Leave old Stewart alone!” indig
nantly. “I think you had tielter sug¬
gest his leuving me alone.”
“Of course, now, you know very
well what 1 mean. It’s all right for
you to trample upon Herbert, Reade,
and myself; we’re used to it—been
broken in too long to protest—but
Stewart is another sort; he cares
awfully about things.”
“Oh, indeed, so he ‘cares awfully,’
and the rest of you are only amusing
yourselves, I suppose.”
“How you tease a fellow! No—
what I mean is that he is terribly
‘all there,’ that If he lets himself be
hard hit it would knock him out com¬
pletely if you threw him over."
“So terribly ‘all there’—what u
graphic expression. Yet undeniably
true in this case; but why do you
take it for granted that I will throw
him over?” fttefrlxpressed
Mr. Ainslie’s the ut
most consternation.
' “Well, really, I don’t know, but i
thought, I somehow concluded—”
“What?”
“Why,” a brilliant idea striking
him, “that you didn’t care for any¬
body, and wouldn’t until you had
seen more of the world, for you are
very young, Kate, in spite of your
experiences.”
"Carl,” said Miss Doane, solemnly,
“the liar lias lost a shining murk in
you, but I am proud to claim you as
u relative.”
CHARTER It.
It was a fortnight later; the house
party would disperse, on the morrow,
and Miss Doane, to whom Westwood
was dear, was talking a farewell
stroll through the gardens. She was
idling down a path, when, catching
sight of Stewart over the tops of the
rose bushes, she ostentatiously pot
up Iter parasol and turned in the oth¬
er direction.
But he was not to be so easily
thrown off; with a cur] < th Up
(for he had recognized V f‘ Ml**
oeuvre) he hurried to her.
“Miss Doane,” he cried,
spare me a few moments?” ,
She turned her head.
“1 am not in a pleasant franc
mind. Uncle forwarded me my dross
maker’s bill this morning, with i ci¬
tato pungent comments of his i mi
appended, and my best mamw pt
returned to me as 1 m
has just been
available,’ so the atmosphere Is not
rosy.”
“Never mind about that. I will not
detain you long,” and he pulled up a
bench.
p or a f e w moment* there was si
tence for now that he had gained he
,
coveted interview Steward did te
seem to know what to say, and
J Doane, with the point of her panpoi,
gketched triangles, and circles, and
I a jj sorts of impossible devices in toe
sar idy path. While looking the pie
t|jre careless inattention, site
iu reality curious to know ho# h>ug
her companion intended to eontii ue
staring ahead of him. When he fi^J
ly did speak, his remark was so «»*
j ferent from what she expected tiiat
| she almost started to her feet,
J beautiful,” “I suppose he you said. know “Doubtless you are your very
| mirror has told you that already, so
j I need not worry you with r«p« >
tiorus, but I feel sure that youi do 1 /t
1 realize bow absolutely charming you
j are.”
Sb® looked at him wonderingly; it
■ wa* a favorit® method of hers, agd
usually" worked well, but now it fail¬
ed to produce the effect she intended.
“Don’t look like that,” lie said, “or
1 shall think you are not sincere, and
I don’t want to think that. I want
to carry away the kindest thoughts
of you.”
"You have changed.” she said. “Ten
days ago you told Mary Fair I was
thoroughly heartless.”
"Did I? Well, that only shows I
was a fool. I know you better now;
and what is more, I understand you.”
A ^iglvt pause.
“I beard up at the house that you
were engaged to your cousin, and
while the news could not but hurt
me, it was in one sense a relief, for I
knew at once why you had avoided
and almost ignored me. You wanted
to save me pain. Experience taught
me that if a man saw much of you he
generally cared for you, and you tri¬
ed to ward me off. But you cannot
keep the moth from the candle, and
l loved you in spite of your coldness.
It almost looks as if there was some¬
thing in your theory, doesn’t it?”
Miss Doane gathered herself to¬
gether. Stewart did not know it, but
she was summoning courage to tell
him the truth about herself. She lov
Add In Support of a Theory,
ed to be well thought of, and it was a
genuine sacrifice to speak, but she
could not, in common honesty, allow
him to remain under his delusion.
“You must not think too well of
me,” she began.
“I could not,” he cried. “One rare¬
ly sees so much youth and beauty
and simple goodness united as I find
in you.”
‘ Simple goodness! The words
scorched her.
“You are all wrong!” she cried,
with burning cheeks. "I am not the
least bit like that. Don’t you see?
Can’t you understand? It vexed me
to have you laugh at my theory, so I
determined to make you an example
of its truth. It was from no good mo
taive- not to 'ward you off,’ or ‘to save
you pain,' but with the distinct in
tent ion of making you care for me,
that l pretended to be indifferent."
Stewart got slowly to his feet.
“And so,” he says, “in support of a
theory, iii for the sake of proving your¬
self the right, you could play with
a man’s heart and make havoc of his
life? Fool, fool that 1 was, not to
understand!” and he’struck one palm
sharply against the other, "Well,”
with sarcastic courtesy, “the point 1 b
gained, the poor dupe at your feet, !
hope you are content,?”
“Content!” she cried. “I was never
so sorry in my life. It seems strange
1 should care, doesn’t it? As you say,
I huve gained my point—and yet—"
“Yes,” he said, he suid, "and yet?”
Instead of replying she turned her
head swiftly away, but not before be
luid seen that her eyes were lull of
tears. lie stood irresolute, overcome
by surprise; then he approached her.
“Don’t cry like that," he suid. “You
never meant to hurt me; it was a
pretty hit of acting to you, and if I
waa stupid and overdid my part yoo
are not to blame. There, look up!
What will your cousin say if he
learns 1 distressed you?”
“What is it to me what my cousin
thinks?”
viv. Stewart stared.
“Pardon me, lint i thought that,
being engaged to him—”
"I am not engaged to him. Noth
ing is further from my intention."
A silence followed. Then Miss
Goaue rose to depart, but Htewari,
whose mind had been adjusting itself
to the changed situation, put out a
detaining hand. ^ »
“Kate, if you are not going to mai
ry your cousin, perhaps tlie.re might
lie a chance for some one else."
“I‘crimp*."
He drew nearer.
“1 know l‘in n perfect fool to rush
on my fate, but what’s worth having
is worth asking for. Kate, will you
marry me?”
She smiled, but her eyes were very
tender.
“I believe you do love me,” she
said.
“Well, a little.”
"And if I many you i know 1 shall
be happy, You are so strong and
true, and have my confidence so ut¬
terly, but J have been horrid to you
so rude and disagreeable that I
don’t see bow you can bear me.”
"Why, you are going back on your
[theory.”
“The girls will certainly laugh, and
Call will never leave me alone about
il. but I don’t care,” lifting her face
resolutely. “I love you, and there’s
no use pretending I don’t.”
A little while Inter she looked up.
“I always said I would never care,
for anybody," she remarked, “What
will this prove?”
“That you are a woman,” be said.—
Waverley Magazine.
All the element* that nature de¬
mands to make the hair abundant
and beautiful, are supplied by Ayer’s
Hair Vigor. It keeps the scalp free
from dandruff, prevents the hair
from becoming dry arid harsh, and
it to tie rich, flexible, arid
Ifloiury.
Functions of time In the Soil.
In the translation from the Uer
man which appeared recently it was
t(jat linie w a* an aoeliiriuiatoi'
of nitrogen. In commenting on this
an exchange say* that this is true in
part only; it certainly iiu-rea*e* the
stock of valuable nitrogen tn the
soils, for when caustic lime is applied
to land it at once decomposes all or
gaiiic matter in it containing nitre
a« graft** manure, muck, etc ,
an{ j jjberati • - nitrogen an ammonia.
Though the soil retains with
gra»p a small quantity of ammonia,
still, if the amount liberated is large,
a corresponding amount will be lost,
so the folly of applying lime in large
applications is seen. No more should
Le applied than will liberate suf¬
ficient ammonia to be taken up by
the glowing mop. The immediate I
effect Ikorti an application of lime on
laud which contains a considerable
aniobut of organic matter is to great¬
ly increase the crop; if no plant food
is added, after a few years have
elapsed the soil will be left poorer
than before. This will be readily un¬
derstood when we consider that lime
is not really a plant food, but more
of the nature of a stimulant; and if
large crops are token off and noth¬
ing added, the land, is sure to be¬
come exhausted. These facts have
given rise to the common idea that
large applications of lime impoverish
the soil. Lime also tends to the un¬
locking of inorganic food supplies,
and this is especially true of potash
and soda. It also has a good effect
upon soils which are known as sour,
ns it will, to a certain extent, neut¬
ralize the acid in the soil. Other ad¬
vantages gained by an application of
lime will be the rendering of stiff
soils more pliable and destroying the
various forms of insect life and fun¬
gus growth.
New Creations in Fruits and Flow
• ers.
A scientific farm has been started
In California, and Its founder Is al¬
ready spoken of as the Edison of
plant life. He works for purely sci¬
entific cause, and has produced re¬
sults startling to horticulturists and
farmers. He plants the seed of a
known specimen of plant life. Sup¬
pose it is that of a common quince,
witli which lie has made vast expe¬
riments. It. grows and puts forth its
fruit. Science Is then called upon.
Cross pollination, hybridization fol¬
lows, and by constant and faithful
work the experimenter is rewarded
by a new and valuable creation. An¬
other change wrought by this plant
wizard is in the prunes, which h«
)m ft developed to a giant size, six
times as large as those in geueral
use, and from which they were de¬
rived. A plum twelve times the size
of the parent, species has , Iso been
created, and prououne.ed by good
judges to be the handsomest In ex¬
istence. Hut it is in the flower king¬
dom that the creations which most
amaze the world have been produc¬
ed. Among those are over eighty
thousand unnamed types of lilies
which alone represent a value of a
quarter of a million of dollars. Yet
the greater number of them will he
destroyed, for destrvietiou follows
where the created type is not con¬
sidered superior to the parent stock.
In tills veritable Garden of Eden
nothing is impossible; the science of
the masterly gardener has been able
to make nature produce any sort, of
tree or shrub, plant or fruit, almost
at, will. Working on the theory that
tlie relation between the species is
intimate that by constant arti
ficial selection, which is one of the
many steps in the production of new
types, the lines of life forces can be
changed, he has broken up the old
habits of plants, and by a constant
struggle inculcated new traits.— Ex.
A stimulant if often needed to
nourish and strengthen the roots and
to keep the hair in a natural color.
Hall’s Hair Renewer Is the best tonic
for the hair.
Th® Nicotiana.
A really lovely flower, both for
the garden and the window, or the
greenhouse, is the night-blooming
tobacco, Nicotiana aftlnis. While it#
foliage somewhat resemble® that of
the tobacco plant, it ha* not that
coarseness which .characterizes it*
better known relative. It i# of bushy
habit of growth. It* white flowers
are produced in loose bunches at the
ends of the branches, and in shape
are something like the Bermuda lily,
though much smaller. They have a
peculiar and delightful fragrance
which fills a room with ft* penetrat¬
ing odor at evening. The plant is a
persistent bloomer. Left to take care
of itself, in the garden, It will yield
flowers until frost come* and puts
nn end to It. In the house it can be
kept in flower the entire season by
simply cutting it back sharply from
time to time. Remove the old
branches when their crops of flow
ers become small, and In a short
time a new and vigorous growth
will take their place. Like all mem-
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hors of the tobacco family, it is a
gross feeder, and in order to suc¬
ceed with it it must be given a
strong, rich soil. If grown iu pots,
apply some good commercial fertili¬
zer for flowers once a week. Give it
a sunny place in the window and
keep the red spider from working
on it. This you can prevent if you
are careful to shower the plant
daily, being. sure that the water
used gets to the underside of the fo¬
liage.—American Agriculturist.
From the Agriculturist.
The Substitution Fraud.
1 notice in the Philadelphia Press
that California has appointed a com¬
mittee. to urge upon congress the
necessity of imposing a tariff upon
all foreign oranges. What’s Florida
doing? Better sound the key note
in your paper. A tariff on oranges
is just what the country needs.
Then there is another matter that
requires attention, and its impoi
tance demands it.
A few days ago I went to a fruit
stand in Easton, Pa., to buy some
fruit. Jokingly 1 asked the dealer
for Florida oranges. He replied:
“i have some pretty fair oranges.
Here is the box, you see. they are
marked Florida oranges. They are
not Florida’s, they are Jamaica or¬
anges.” Yes, they were Jamaica’s
for l we.ll knew, so did the dealer,
tiial there was not a Florida orange
In town. There ought to he some
way to stop such rascals from such
nefarious conduct. It really brings
the Florida orange into bad repute.
The unthinking and unknowing are
thus deliberately cheated, and the
Florida orange put on a level with
common foreign fruit. This is only
a hint. «T. C. Prichard.
I’hillipsburg, N. J.
A young man in Lowell, Mass.,
troubled for years with a constant
succession of boils on his neck, was
completely cured by taking only
three bottles of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
Another result of the treatment was
greatly improved digestion with in¬
creased avoirdupois.
Birds and monkeys will often warn
the jungler of the approach of a tiger
the latter especially take every ap
port unity to express by loud hoot
lugs the Intensity of their feelings at
the hated presence of either of the
dreaded beluga of the jungle#. I have
heard too that peculiar bark of the
sainbar stag sound again and again
in the night-air from out the dark
jungles on the banks of the Nerbud
da, as he sends out a warning to his
kind that murderous “stripes” Is
stalking near.
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Will sell some few varieties #t f* P** f*
pinch In the Btate -the Freestone Veenux
time to plant. BOONE. ______
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Orlando, Fla.
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