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Do not give out your order for Nursery Stock until you come and see my stock and get
prices Hundreds of men told me last winter they were very sorry they gave their order be¬
fore soolng'viv stock and getting my prices. So don’t get caught foot again. for I will $15.00 sell you No.
1 lune Uuddsfl Peaoh Trees for *35 .00 per thousand, and 3 to 4 trees per 1000. I
will have stock in my yard on Sontli Main Street about the middle of October; so do not give
out vourordor until you see me and my stock and get prices.
y,.‘ M WINSLOW,Manager. F'ltzgerald Nursery Co-
POMOLOGICAL ART.
TRYING TO PRODUCE SEEDLESS AND
THORNLESS FRUIT.
Methods by Which Fruit Scientists Suc¬
ceed In Improving Upon Nature—Re¬
sults Have Shown That They Are on the
Right Hasis—Slight Success With Apples.
One of tho most important objects po-
mologists thorniesH are striving for is to produce
aud seedless fruits, aud from
the results already obtained it is not
nnlikely that the end will soon be real¬
ized. Seeds are not relished by the con¬
sumers of fruits, and if they could be
removed we would enjoy our grapes
without experiencing a dread of appeu-
dioitis aud kir*irod complaints.
Thorns are not in good standing
among fruit growers, because they are
constantly puncturing the beHt fruits
and, what is equally important, the
skin of the pickers. The thorns and
prickles of plants and trees were un¬
doubtedly intended by nature to protect
them from animals, but. that is no rea¬
son why they should be continued for
generation after generation on the cul¬
tivated varieties. The gardener has no
need for them, aud, for that matter, the
trees and shrubs have none either.
Our domesticated pears and apples
were all derived from the thorny, wild
varieties, and pomologists have succeed¬
ed in ridding them of these spikes and
prickles by careful culture and selec¬
tion. Oranges aud lemons have not
been cultivated in this country as suc¬
cessfully as pears and apples, and many
of them are very thorny. The wild and
sour orange trees of Florida are bris¬
tling with thorns, as is also the high
priced king orange, one of the best of
the mandarins. The wild lemon trees of
Florida are so thorny that growers ques¬
tion the advisability of grafting the fine
La France lemons on them.
In Florida, however, the thorns of
the orange and lemon trees have been
greatly reduced by selecting buds from
branches with the fewest thorns, and
by continuing this process year after
year tbe sharp spikes disappear. In Cal¬
ifornia nearly all of the orange trees arc
thornless—not naturally, but as the re¬
sult of cultivation and selection.
The thorns on blackberries, raspber¬
ries and rosebushes givo the greatest
bother to floriculturists iu the north,
and thero is a determined effort to get
rid of them. The thorns give endless
trouble to the pickers, and their remov¬
al might save many a puncture to deli¬
cate hands. There is an improved varie¬
ty of raspberry placed on the market to¬
day which is entirely thornless, but the
trouble is that quality aud quantity of
fruit have been sacrificed to the gain
made in destroying tho thorns.
Thero is little doubt that perfect
thornless blackberries and raspberries
will soon be obtained, for thero is a
widespread move’ment among gardeners
and seedsmen to accomplish this. The
man who is fortunate enough to produce
a variety that gives perfect fruit with¬
out the thorns will receive a pretty stiff
price for his plants.
Seeds are also unnecessary plant prod¬
ucts in these advanced days of horticul¬
ture, when gardeners propagate half
their stock by cuttings, grafts and slips.
Nature need no longer trouble herself
about the fear of losing any of her types.
The modern horticulturist is sure to
preserve every ono of any value without
gathering a seed.
The California navel orange repre¬
sents the best type of fruit grown with¬
out seeds. Nature produced this orange
as a freak at first, and man has taken
advantage of it to propagate fruit of a
high order. Half the oranges of Cali¬
fornia are grafted with tbe navel, and
it is the most important fruit of the
Pacific coast. Nature tried to produce
twins in the navel orange, and one sur¬
vived only as a protuberance in the
blossom end, while the other expanded
into a well shaped fruit without seeds.
These oranges are occasionally found
with small seeds; but, as a rule^they
are perfectly seedless.
Several varitiesof seedless apples aud
pears have already been produced, but
tbe quality of the fruit is generally poor
aud nearly worthless. They are called
“bloomless” pears and apples and are
exhibited more as curiosities than as the
triumphs of pomological art. Neverthe¬
less, they are the beginning of a new era
of apple growing, aud they represent the
primary stock of seedless fruits which
may produce in time the finest flavored
apples and pears.
The grape industry would be benefit¬
ed more than any other by the produc¬
tion of new varieties without seeds, and
toward this end scores of fruit growers
are working, especially in California.
The idea is to produce not only table
grapes, but grapes that will make fine
raisins. Seedless raisins would prove
such a boon to the whole civilized world
that any other variety would be quickly
run out of the market.
There is a seedless grape of Corinth,
which commonly passes as a currant,
and the Sultana raisins of southeastern
Europe are also seedless. But these
fruits are so small that they cau never
answer the purpose. What the trade
wants is a large, seedless grape, with
perfect aolor and flavor,-and to get,that
it is necessary to experiment for years.
—New York Journal.
The Austrian Dynasty.
The present emperor of Austria is
Francis Joseph, who asaended the
throne Dec. 2, 1848. He is of the royal
house of Hapsburg, which has held the
throne since 1282. Twenty-six sover¬
eigns of this house have ruled over Aus¬
tria. Rudolph I, tbe nobleman who
founded this royal family, built a castle
on the Habichtsbur^, or Hawk’s moun¬
tain, whenoe the name of the family.
An authority on deaf mutes says that
the ratio of deaf mutes to hearing is
about 1 to each 1,600, according to
which there are about 40,000 such per¬
sons in tbe United States and about
1,000,000 in the world’s entire popula¬
tion.
JUST A BOY.
Lawrence llutton’. Kcikiini.ccnce. of III.
Juvenile Life lu New York.
He was not a very prood boy or a very
bad boy or a very bright boy or an un¬
usual boy in a»iy way. He was just a
boy, and very often bo forgets that he
is not a boy now. Whatever there may
be about the boy that is commendable
he owes to his father and to his mother,
and he feels that he should not be held
responsible for it.
His mother was the most generous
and the most unselfish of human beings.
She was always thiuking of somebody
else—always doing for others. To her
it was blessed to give, aud it was not
very pleasant to receive. When she
bought anything, the boy’s stereotyped
query was,“Who is to have it?” When
anything was bought for her, her own
invariable remark was,“What on earth
shall I do with it?’’ When the boy came
to her one summer morning, she looked
upon him as a gift from heaven, and
when she was told that it was a boy,
and not a bad looking or a bad condi¬
tioned boy, her first words were, “Wbat
on earth shall I do with it?”
She found plenty “to do with it” be¬
fore she got through with it, more than
40 years afterward, and the boy lias ev¬
ery reason to believe that she never re¬
gretted thn gift. Indeed, she once told
him, late in her life,that he had never
made her cry. What better benediction
can a boy have than that?
The boy was redheaded and long
nosed even from the beginning—a shy,
dreaming, self conscious little boy,
made peculiarly familiar with his per¬
sonal defects by theconstaut remarks to
the effect that his hair was red and that
his nose was long. At school for years
ho was known familiarly as “Rufus, ”
“Redhead,” "Carrot Top” or “Nosy.”
His mother, married at 10, was the
eldest of a family of nine children, aud
many of the boy’s aunts and uncles were
but a few years his senior aud were bis
daily aud familiar companions. He was
the only member of his own generation
for a long tirno, and there was a con¬
stant fear upon the part of the elders
that lie was likely to be spoiled, and
consequently be was never praised nor
petted nor coddled. He was always fall¬
ing down or dropping things. He was al¬
ways getting into the way, and he could
not learn to spell correctly nor to cipher
at all. He was never in his mother’s
way, however, aud bo was never mads
to feel so.
But nobody except tho boy knows of
the agony which the rest of the family,
unconsciously and with no thought of
hurting his feelings, caused him by
the fun they poked at his nose, at his
fiery locks and at his unhandiness. He
fancied that passersby pitied him as he
walked or played in the streets, and he
sincerely pitied himself as a youth des¬
tined to grow up into an awkward, tact¬
less, stupid man, at whom the world
would laugh so long as his life lasted.
—“A Boy I Knew,” by Laurence Hut¬
ton, in St. Nicholas.
A TRIBUTE TO ART.
The Staid of Blllesia and the Beautiful
Venus de Medici.
Somewhere in Washington — just
where is not necessary to the main point
at issue in this short article on the de¬
velopment and undevelopmeut of art in
the national capital—is a mansion pre¬
sided over by a woman of wealth and
refinement. She is a most artistic wom¬
an, too, and in her house are some un¬
usually fine pieces of painting and stat¬
uary. There is also a Milesian maid, by
name Maggie, who knows a deal more
about housecieaniug than she does about
sculpture, and Muggio has been trying
for a long time to cultivate her taste up
to the point of properly appreciating the
painted and carved beauty with which
she daily comes iu contact.
Not many days ago the mistress aud
the maid were going over the house with
brush and broom, putting it in especial
order for a musicale that was to be given
to a few artists and fashionables, and
the mistress observed that the maid on
three several occasions passed by with
cold neglect of cloth and brush a beau¬
tiful figure of the “Venus de Medici,”
in an alcove just off the hall.
“Here, Maggio!” she called. “Why
don’t you brush the dust off this figure?’ ’
“Which wan, mem?” inquired Mag¬
gie with great innocence.
“The ‘Venus’ there in the alcove, of
course. See”—and the lady touched it
with her finger—“you have left dust all
over it. ”
“Yis, mom,” confessed Maggie, “but
I do be thinking for a long time, mem,
that there aht to be something on it,
mem. ”
It was a delightful and logical excuse,
perhaps, but the lady could scarcely ac
cept it, and Maggie’s brush removed
even the dusty. drapery she wished to
leave.—Washington Star.
His Grandmother.
A gentleman once asked Uncle Daniel,
a droll character in a New England vil¬
lage, if he could remember his grand¬
mother. “I guess I can,” said Uncle
Daniel, “but only as I saw her once.
Father had been away all 'day, aud
when he came home he found I had failed
to do something he expected of me. He
oanght mp a rough apple tree limb and
walked qp to me with it. Grandmother
appeared on the doorstep with a small,
straight stick in her hand, and instantly
handed it to my father. ‘Here, Joe,’
said she, ‘lick Daniel with a smooth
stick. ’ Aud he did. Who wouldn’t re¬
member such a grandmother as that?”
Saw Through It.
“Paokage, sir,” said the agent as Mr.
Sharp came to the door. “There is $2
express oharges on it.”
“Be kind enough to wait a momeut,”
said Mr. Sharp as he disappeared in¬
doors. Presently he returned. “Just al¬
low me to throw this X ray on that pack¬
age, please.”
The telltale light revealed three
bricks carefully done up in raw cotton,
and, unopened, they were returned to
the would be joker marked “Refused.”
—Washington Times.
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our low prices and im-
mense stock to select
from. We have no
competition that can
duplicate our Prices.
Remember we are the
Pioneer and here-to-
stay Hardware dealers
of Fitzgerald, Ga. Our
interests are identical
with yours. We are
here to assist in devel-
oping this Garden spot
of Wiregrass Georgia.
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Iron and Brass Castings, Engine and Boiler Fittings,
Inspirators, injectors. Lubricators, Jet Pumps, Steam Gages; Globe, Anglo and Chq
Valves; Pipe and Fittings; General Machinery f.ace-Loathor and Mill Supplies; Pulleys, Oils. t®“Kepair Shaftings-a
Couplings: Leather and Rubber Belt; and Lubricating Wo
a Specialty. AGents for all kinds of Machinery. NOTICE.—Iron and brass melted six da
ineveryVeek. a second-hand 50-horse power Engine for sale. Call on or address, for
prticulars. R. S. KELL, Manager, Tifton, Ga.
Notice of Special Election.
'VfOTICE of is the hereby city given of Fitzgerald, to the qualified Georgia, vo-
ters
that on Saturday the 24th dav of July, 1897, at
the herinaf ter named polling places, a special
election of the voters of said city of Fitzger¬
ald, will be held for the purpose of determin¬
city ing the council following be question, to to-wit: ‘’Shall the
period empowered make a contract
for a not exceeding twenty years, with
such person, firm or corporation as it sees lit,
for the use of water and light, or either by the
city?” The polls will open at 9 o’clock in the
forenoon and remain open until 4 o’clock in
the afternoon. The polling places will be as
follows: First Ward—Colony Headquarters.
Second Ward—Whitchard’s store, corner Oco¬
nee and Thomas streets. Third Ward— Fitz¬
gerald Leader office. Fourth Ward—Store
room on southeast corner of Lee and Pine
streets. No person will be allowed to vote at
said election who has not registered for the
same. city Any election person otherwise for qualified said to special vote
at may register clerk the
election, with the mayor or city at
city hall at any time between this date and 5
o’clock in the afternoon of July 19,1897.
Dated at Fitzgerald, C. this C. GoodnOW, June 2’i, 1897. Mayo*
For Tailor
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All garments cut and made on premises.
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We are located on thel
corner of Central Avl
and Grant St., \n ourl
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Our Mammoth Stock
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Is full and Complete,
and embraces *
Tinware,
Builders’ Material,
Farm Machinery,
Stoves, - Crockery,
Mixed Paints,
Slielf - Hardware,
Wire Screens, Etc.
In fact we keep in stock
everything known to
the Hardware trade:
MILL ■ SUPPLIES
A Specialty.
Bicycles .
Of the Best and Latest
make.
Court House Removal Petitions.
The attention of all male residen
of the 1537th district (the district 1
which Fitzgerald is located) is invite
to the fact that petitions asking tl
ordinary of Irwin county to call a
election of the voters of Irwin count
to vote on the question of the removs
of the court house from Irwiuville t
Fitzgerald, are now ready for signr
tures and can be found at variou
places in the city, where every one i
earnestly requested to call and sign a,
tnce. Don’t wait for a member o
obe committee to call on you, but ste
in and contribute your mite by voluu
tarily signing the petition. Petition;
can be found at the following places
First Ward: Colony headquarters
Clare & Co. and L. O. Tisdels. Sec
ond Ward: S. M. Whitchard. J. II
Stalker and M. H, Plopper’s, also Col
ony bank. Third Ward: City hall
Rymau & Kennedy, Sam Fleming!
Cheney & Burch, Way & Jay, Peiper’s
grocery, Rew’s stand, Leader office,
II. G. Taylors, Denniston’s drug storey
T. S. Price & Co.’s, Smith & Whit;
man’s real estate office. Clark’s furnl
iture store, Savannah Shoe stove and
Wilson’s real estate office. Com.
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Wanted— Horse and cattle hide,
Apply Lascelles Grocery Co., Renard
block, Fitzgerald, Ga. 22-tf
