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AN ENGLISH PRIZE STORY. out west," and he once more con:nnenced his Fennel could not." restless walk to and fro . "I little thought how matters really stoocl, PARCHMENT ROLL. THE "I have my own two hundred a year that my nor that the old place was so heavily mort- BY MRS, GEOFFRY GRAHAM. father ms1sted upon tying down to me," ob- gaged," and following his glance, Alice looked served Mrs. Trevarne. at the stately, th,ough dilapidated, many-gabled I'm thankful he did," muttered her son. and chnnmed grey house looming before them. "It's a cruel shame, mother, that it is," cried Could you not take a small farm with your Is there no way of keeping it?" Alice Bernard Trevarne hotly. five hundred, and we might manage, perhaps, asked, anxiously. - Father ought"-- . to live upon my money with care," Mrs. Tre- "None," and a dark cloud spread over his He is dead, dear; don't say a word against varne said, her face brigtening; she could not usually bright face. him now," said his mother, a hot flush spread- bear the idea of parting with her son. "And I do love it so," he said. ing over her delicate wan-looking face. Bernard laughed, as stooping over his mother's The sun was setting amidst purple and crim- Mr. Trevarne had been thrown from his horse chair, he kissed her delicate cheek. son clouds like a dying king gathering his rai- a month before, and brought home in an uncon- '' l'm afraid your plan is not feasible, mother ment around him, and fitful golden rays glanc- scious state, only to linger a few days before be- dear," he said. ing upon the gables, tinted them gold, and ing laid in the musty vault of his ancestors in But you might, perhaps, be able to live com- rosey red, slanting gleams fell upon the Virginia Trevarne Church. Some hundred of years be- fortably on your own money in Ivy Cottage, creeper covering the front of the house, and fore the Trevarnes had been important people whilst I try and make a fortune out west. Who burnished it a mass of gold. in Cornwall, owning most of the country around; knows," he continued more cheerfully, "in a "Yes, it is hard, very hard," he said, to but for some generations they had become few years I may return and buy back all the give you up Alice, darling, too." poorer and poorer, and now, at his father's land round and once more be Trevarne of Tre- She uttered a low cry of surprise and pain, death, Bernard Trevarne, the only child, dis- varne." grasping his arm firmly, her eyes dilated and covered, greatly to his surprise and sore grief, "Oh! I wish you might," his mother cried. her nostrils quivering. that the dilapidated old Manor House and its " It would take a pile of money to restore this "Give 1ne up," she gasped. nine hundred acres were mortgaged far beyond "Yes. I must go abroad-and I can't keep their value. The lawyer had just left after tell- l~ouse to its former grandeur. It will be a long t1me, I tlnnk, before we entertain a queen as a you to your promise, I thought I had a home ing mother and son that the mortgagees had to give you-and I've none." finally decided to foreclose, and that they must Trevarne did Elizabeth," he said, laughingly, as he left the room, telling his mother he would ''But I won't be given up. You did startle leave within three months. There were long me," she cried, with a sob in her voice. "I'll accumulations of interest clue. take a stroll before their earlv dinner "Perhaps fresh air may clear. my brain, wait for you, dear, or go out with, you, poyerty I had not the remotest idea mother that shall not divide us, if you really love me as you there was a mortgage on the house and the little and I may think of some better plan of getting nch than gmng to America," he cried, turning said you did," and she nestled to him lovingly. land that's left, had you?" Bernard asked after ''Do you still, dear, love me as you vowed a few seconds pause. back when he reached the hall. Mrs. Trevarne smiled as she exclaimed, I you did three months ago," Alice asked, her "No clear, I had not. When I married your eyes piercing his face. poor father it was unencumbered," she said pray heav_en you may." She. loved her only chtld dearly. The thought of his going abroad Love you-yes-better than I did then--a tearfully. was even more intensely bitter to her than that thousand times," he whispered. It was bitter grief to her to know that her "Then I'll not give you up," she declarerl husband, during his long absences in London, of leaving her home. I wish his father had sent him to college or firmly. had gambled away Bernard's inheritance. And he caught her in his arms, and · kissed "Of course, I've known we were poor, miser- let him have a profession," she moaned, sorely troubled; often and often she had begged her her passionately, saying, "After all, Alice, I've ably ·poor," said Bernard, glancing round the got health and you. I might be worse off." faded shabby room, but I thought that if father husband to do so, but he always vowed that he had uo money and refused to listen to her. And forgetting all about Alice's intended could be persuaded to give up the management "And he must have known we should be visit to Mrs. Trevarne, intent on Bernard's of the land to me, I could make it pay." plans, the two sat under the arbonr seat, talking "Poor Bernard," murmured his mother-in a homeless and penniless at his death- poor Bernard, poor, poor boy," she cried between. together until the last gleam of red disappeared soft low voice. her sobs. For now that Bernard had left the in the heavens. Poor mother," echoed her son. I'm a While above them, not regarding their . sor- selfish brute. I'm thinking only of myself and room she now no longer tried to restrain them. Bernard had just reached the end of the drive row, a nightingale joyously burst forth into a Alice, and you must feel leaving this old home jubilant vesper hymn. as much or more than I do." He was a tall, and was passing into what had once been the park, and now was pasture land for cattle wheh broad shouldered, manly-looking fellow of CHAPTER II. twenty-four, fair and blue eyed, with a frank his pulse quickened and his face brighte1;ed. open expression. "Oh, Bernard, have you come to meet me?" Two months passed away, and Ivy Cottage The windows were wide open, and the room cried a fresh young voice. "I'm just calling to was nearly ready for Mrs. Trevarne. Bernard faced · west, while the setting sun gleamed see your mother," and a mischievous light was busily making arrangements to sail for through them, revealing all its threadbare shab- gleamed in her dark brown eyes. Alice Pen- America. biness. wick, the youngest of the Vicar of Trevarne's "Yes Alice, we have only three more days The garden beyond was very neglected, but three daughters, was a pretty bright girl of nine· to stay here," said Mrs. Trevarne to Alice, who the wide borders were filled with a wealth of teen. had called with her father, the vicar. "It is old-fashioned sweet-smelling flowers, sweet And not to see me, Alice, dear. I don't ' very good of you and your sister to have worked peas, mignonette, old man's love, and a host of believe that," and Bernard gazed down upon so hard to get my cottage ready for me." others all mingled together, which wafted their her, his face lightened with love, as he pressed I really think you will be very comfortable; odor into the room. her hand arid held it within his own. it's a snug little place," remarked the vicar. "I can go out west. There's plenty of scope "You must give me a few minut@s before yon "I do wish Bernard had not to leave England, always for a fellow ii1 America," Bernard said, go in," he pleaded, and she, nothing loath, let I can't bear the idea of his going," observed throwing himself into a chintz-covered wicker hun lead her to a seat, half-arbour, covered with his mother. He is busily occupied turning chair opposite his mother. trailing honeysuckle and roses. out his father's drawers. They are full of pa- "Oh, Bernard," she cried. It was a lovely old place Alice thought, as pers which have accumulated seemingly for "But I don't like leaving you mother. You she listened, full of sympathy, to Bernard's story centuries." would not like to come too, I suppose," of the lawyer's visit, and the crushing news he "Ah! there he is." , Mrs. Trevarne burst into tears. had brought. Bernard entered the room. He was too ex- "0h, my dear, I could not go out there." "Alice, dear, I never dreamt three months cited to greet Alice and her father . . No, I suppose not, You are not fit to rough ago when I asked you to be my wife, that I was Look," he cried, holding up for their in- it, mother," he said, a cloud overshadowing his practically a beggar. I thought that if I could spection a sheet of parchment and a white hand- face. "I have five hundred pounds my god- persuade father to give up the management of kerchief, lace edged and yellow with age. mother left me. I could make a start with that the land to me, I could make it pay though "I've found this rolled right up atth e bback of 50 Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. II a drawer, half wedged under it." Then with- times, greatly impoverished, and need money wringing her hands in despair. out waiting for them to speak, he continued sadly. hurriedly and breathlessly, "It's a cipher, re- ' Methinks I shall never see you grow up, Yes,* there *are clearly* four words I *should ferring to a treasure a Trevarne of King James's for alas, I suffer from a dire malady, ·which hath say," remarked Alice's brothet:, Jack Penwick reign hid." no cure. the next day. "Father has been up half the "A treasure," the three listeners all exclaimed "'Praying, dear grandson, you may discover night puzzlii1g over it." together. your father's treasure brought from dtstant seas, "And so have we," said Mrs. Trevarne. " What has the handkerchief to do with it," which I am sure is hidden somewhere about, I "I wonder what the Roman figure IV. has queried the vicar, taking it from Bernard's hand. commend you to God's protection and favour, to do with it," Bernard remarked. See," said Bernard, pointing to some faint havii1g hourly beseeched Him that He would Alice uttered an exclamatiqn of wonder, look- red marks on it. "This is the cipher ·which protect you, who are by His providence, both ing up from the cipher. my great, great, great grandmother copied on fatherless and motherless, and all your posterity. "The cross means plus, I _do believe, add this parcLment. I don't know how many greats "'The cipher I .have copied with. much four letters to F, that makes B, and four_to S, I ought to say," and Bernard laughed. pains, fearing the colour of the blood might makes O, and four to X, makes T. Why, I "I don't understand," said his mother be- wax faint and dim on the kerchief. have it, I'm sure I have. The first word is bot- wildered. "'Here it doth follow:- tom," cried Alice, joyfully. "What I can make out is this, that the Ber- IV-1-FSXXSR GIPPEV Eagerly they all set to work counting four nard Trevarne who took part in Monmouth's WXITW HMK. letters of the alphabet beyond, and the cypher rising hid a treasure somewhere, and it's never "At the botton1 another hand writes,' Ber- read "Bottom cellar steps dig." ·been found," said Bernard. Father could nard says. The treasure is hidden at the bottom of the :not have known it." I, Walter Trevarne can make 11othing of cellar steps." "No, indeed," said Mrs. Trevarne, "I've the cypher, and methinks there is no treasure What dolts we have been to puzzle over it l1eard him say there were heaps of papers that hidden. I would pray heaven there were, for so long," said Bernard. he had patience to wade through." I, with my four sons ai1d seven daughters need The utmost excitement prevailed, everyone "Do yon think there really is a treasure hid- money sadly, talked together. den here," asked Alice eagerly. "Written byrne, Walter Trevarne, the-grand- "Let us search at once," said Jack Penwick. " I feel sure of it," cried Bernard, his face son of Mistress Anne Trevarne, in the year of "Come, Jack, with me, we'll soon get picl<- white with excitement. " I'll read you what is our Lord, 1750." axes and spade," cried Bernard, and away they on the parchment. I found the handkerchief "And I, Bernard Trevarrte, who do now ran, followed by Alice and her sister Norah. folded inside of it." speak in the year of our Lord, r882, do need Speedily the tools were found. They all listened full of wonder, as, unrolling also money sorely, in as much as my ancestral "I wonder which cellar steps is meant," ob- the parchment, he read aloud, his voice trem- home is, in a few days, to be brought to the served Bernard, as they all stood in the hall. bling with excitement. hammer, and I wish to take to myself a wife, "I should imagine the old beer-cellar, the I, Mistress Anne Trevarne, a most unhappy Alice Penwick to wit,'' ·ob served Bernard in the one we have never used," said ,Mrs. Trevarne. gentlewoman,. in that I am bereaved of husband same tone as he had read the parchment. And together they all trooped down the stone and only child, do in this year of our Lord,· All laughed heartily at his ending, then after steps leading to the large disused cellar with an r6go, write down for the eyes of my grandson the mirth had subsided Alice said Poor Mis- earthen floor. Walter, the sad story on this handkerchief. tr.ess Anne Trevarne, she was much to be pitied." "We'll try here, at all events,". cried Bern- "And I pray the Almighty that my clear son's ·"I'm sure I am,'' said Mrs. Trevarne. ard, and he and Jack were soon hard at work, child, named after him, whom my son emulate, "And I too, mother," cried Bernard. whilst the others looked on with eager curiosity. Sir Walter Raleigh to wit, may not walk in the "Let me see the cipher, will you," said the The ground was hard, but Bernard and Jack steps of- either, but be content to play only the vicar, and he gazed earnestly at it, comparing worked with a will. part of a simple country gentleman, which, alas ! it with the faded characters·on the· handkerchief "The axe has struck something," Bernard if his ·grandfather and sire had done, I should through a little magnifying glass which was ly- cried joyfully. not with. scalding tears be writing this. ing on the table. Mrs. Trevarne and the girls pressed forward ' Be it ·known to you, my dear grandson Alice leaned over her father's shoulder. to look over. the pile of upturned earth. In a Walter, that my late lamented husband, your "Oh, how I wish I could decipher it," she few minutes an iron cased box was revealed. · grandsire, did take part in that ill-fated rising said, puckering her brows in her vain efforts. "It's the treasure," Bernard cried. Mrs. Tre- of the Duke of Monmouth, and sorely wounded "I wonder if there really was a treasure varne burst int() tears, Bernard and Jack pulled after the battle of Seclgemoor, was taken prisoner brought by Walter's father home," said Mrs. it up frmn the hole with intense difficulty, for and cruelly butchered by Colonel Kirke, whom Trevarne. the weight was great. may God forgive that foul deed, I cannot ever. "I believe there was, and that we ·are des- Tied round a handle was a rusty key, after "'My poor husband begged in vain for pen tined in our great need to find it mother," said oiling it well it turned in the lock. Bernard and paper, but both were denied him. her son. lifted the lid amidst breathless excitement So he took his white laced kerchief and "That must be the same Anne Trevarne the others looked on. piercing his arm inscribed with a twig, in blood,. whose tablet is in the chancel," observed Alice. "Oh," cried Alice, and her exclamation was some letters on it, and begged a young officer "Yes, of course, she is described as being echoed by the others. who stood by to see it was conveyed to his son, doubly bereaved, heartbroken, and the monu- Displayed before them were a layer of large your sire, sending his dear love to him, and to ment is erected by her grateful grandson Wal- rubies, and under that large nuggets of gold. me, his loving wife. ter," the Vicar said. "Thank God," cried Mrs. Trevarne devoutly. "'Alas alack, the handkerchief reached "The church seems full of Trevarne monu- "To think that this should have lain for two me; his most disconsolate widow. But a few ments, I've never read half of them," said hundred years, to be found by me," said Bern- days after your grandfather was foully done to Bernard. ard with wonder in his voice. death, the vessel conveying your father was It looks to me as if there were four words ·"And if you, Alice dear, had not discovered wrecked off this coast. in the cipher," observed the Vicar, returning to the cipher," Bernard said, looking at her fond- "'. The characters on the kerchief are, without his scrutiny of it. ly, "it might have lain forever." doubt, a cipher to which your father had a clue, "Yes, so it does," cried Alice, "and the first Jack clapped Bernard heartily on the shoul- and I have none, alas, that it should be so. word has its two centre letters the same." der. ''The old house and lands-need not go to ' But I feel assured they refer to a treasure If you will permit me, I will copy it, and the hammer now, old fellow." brought home by your father, who was ever of try to puzzle it out at home," said the Vicar. "No, indeed," cried Bernard joy{ully. an adventurous turn, and sailed in quest of the "I think we must be going Alice," he said to her. "No wonder Mistress Anne Trevarne 'said treasure your namesake, Sir Walter Raleigh "Oh no, I can't spare her, let her stay Vicar," the treasure was worth ·a king's ransom," ob- knew of. Mrs. Trevarne said, "and return home tomor- served Norah, looking at the stones admiringly ' Your father's last voyage was ended three row evening, as she passed them through her fingers. months before the Duke of Monmouth's fated And so it was ari·anged, and the Vicar de- " They must be worth hundreds and thou- rising, and he brought some great treasures of pre- parted, leaving the three to puzzle vainly over sands of pounds," Jack delared, regarding cious stones and gold beyond a king's ransom. the cipher. them reflectively. "'Now, your grandsire was deemed a rebel "To think that perhaps this cipher could tell "To quote your ancestress, Bernard, you will and so his house and lands were likely to be us of untold riches, and we can't read it," cried now be ahle to play the part of a simple coun- confiscated to the king, and would have been Bernard. "I'll take it to a man who makes a try gentleman," said Alice laughing. but my cousin's powerful influence at court. study of that sort of thing," he said, when I "And ns she said on the parchment, Bern- So my woman's wit tells me your grand- go to town in a few days." ard, may God protect you and all your posteri- .father, feeling that his possessions might be "And then perhaps the treasure will have ty," said his mother, her tears of joy and relief seized, was anxious for the treasure to be saved, passed into other hands," said Alice. The overflowing. and the cipher tells its whereabouts. But alas, sale is to take place in five days." Bernard was too much moved to speak, as no one has a clue to the interpretation of it. Bernard groaned aloud at the thought. with bright and happy face he took Alice's hand Perchance, the Almighty may reveal it to you. "We must get it postponed," he cried, pac- in his, joyfully regarding Trevarne's treasure, I pray that in His good pleasure He may, for ing the long room excitedly. now his own, and realized that the old house the estates have been, since the martyr Charles's I fear you cannot," remarked his mother, need not he sold, III Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. sr

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FLAGS FOR SCHOOLS. chorus. The memorable events in the life of Wash- what firm resolves were then begotten, what growing A patriotic movement of great influence originated ington were read by Gen. Reynolds, and·afterwards thoughts of patriotism and love of country were then stimulated into active existence? Beyond question in this city in 1889, when the George H. Thomas Post, was sung in chorus by the pupils Columbia, the the Jesson at that time inculcated will nev;er be for- of the Grand Army of the Republic, decided to make Gem of the Ocean." Then followed recitations by gotten by any participant, and its effects will be a presentation of a fl ag to each of the public schools the school r·epresentatives relating to Washington showu in increasing veneration for the flag, in better of Rochester. The time selected for the purpose and various patriotic subjects, interspersed with mu- citizenship, in more ardent loyalty to the American idea of loyalty." A presentation address was then was the 22d day of February, Washington's birthday. sic and patriotic songs. The selected standard-bear- made by one of the members of the Post. immedi- Representative delegates were appointed from all of ers of the schools then marched to the front of the ately following the address Commander Reynolds the schools, and the afternoon of the ·day men- platform, and the members of the Post, bearing the ordered, "Post, attention! Carry Flags! Present Flags! Transfer Flags!" . At the last com.mand the tioned assembled in the City Hall, where they were flags moved down from ' the platform and took members oft he Post, steppmg fol'ward, delivered the met by the members of the George H. Thomas Post, posifion facing the standard-bearers. The sight was precious emblems into the hands eagerly outstretch- G. A. R., together with the Mayor of the City, mem- intensely interesting, even dramatic. On the one ed to receive them. A response was then made by bers of the Board of Education, and many of the hand were men whose memories carried them back the President of the Board of Education, and ''The Star Spangled Banner" was sung by audien,ce in prominent citizens. General John A. Reynolds call- to scenes of a quarter of century ago, when defense chorus, while the standard-bearers retired to their re- ed the meeting to order and the President of the of the flag meant suffering, danger and possible death; whose thoughts reverted to the days of their spective delegations, Board of Education was made the chairman of the boyhood, when they looked forward to a quiet future, Each vear since, by a regulation of the School meeting. After music by the band and prayer by the when suggestions of possible trouble and conflict Board, Washington's Birthday been patriotically Chaplain of the Post, an introductor y address was were laughed at as the wild predictions of extrem- observed with appropnate exercises by the schools of this city. The influence of these celebrations IS made by the Hon. C. R. Parsons, Mayor of the City. ists. Fronting them was a line of youthful faces aglow with excitement and anticipation. Each one far reaching, and the love of country and of good Then followed singing "My Country, 'tis of Thee," seemed conscious of the honor conferred upon him government would be generally promoted by the to the tune of America, by the whole· audience in : as the representative of his school. Who shall say adoption of the movement throughout the whole land. 52 Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. IV

A Boy's Composition. In a . public school in New England the.· teacher thought she would give out natural his- tory subjects as subjects for compositions. In_ this way she teaches them English orthography and natural history all at once. The common- place subject of" Ants" was given to a bright boy who said he knew all about it. This is the: result of ·his efforts : ANTS There is many kii1ds of Ants My ant Mary· Jane is one of these kind. ·. She is genlly good natured and when she comes to see My Mother she brings me five cents worth of penuts and tells me Why James how you've growed but when I go and see her and dont only.justwawlk on the Carpit without Cleening my boots she is. orfly mad. Ants like to give you Advice and scold at you like everything but their Hart is in the Wright Plaice_.and once I found a Ants nest in the :woods I poked it with a stick and a Million Ants run out ·after me and Crawled np Inside- my Pants and Bit me like Sixty. Ants nests are good Things not to Poke with a stick Ants are very Industryous in Steeling Shugar. I forgot to say that niy Ant Martha lives in. Main she has a boy 'of Just about my Aige and H can stand on his Hed Five minits and how· Do you suppose he can Do it. I Do . not think of Annything more about Ants at present ..

Forsythia and Colden-Leaved Elder. The old fashioned Forsythia or golden bell,. which has been known and valued so many- To a Rose-A Valentine. years, seems to be a general favorite. Bloom- I sit like one entranced, and muse, and gaze ing as it does in the early spring, in April and Upon thy beauties, on thy lovely form May, and sometimes even in March, it seems. Thy_ subtle fragrance all my senses daze: that there are very few shrubs so desirable. It A living, glowing Circe, thou art born. grows to be about four feet high, and blooms. With sparkling sunshine in thy petals stored, In regal beauty thou doth proudly stand, No fairer emblem nature doth afford, easier to pick them," said my wife. I don't To take a message to my dear one's hand. have to gather my skirts up about my waist, and Go., tell my love that she is wondrous Jair, every ripe tomato shows itself." Go, softly breathe my vows into her ear, It is as easy to pick toinatoes trained in this Go, kiss her lips, and leave thy sweetness there, way as it is to pick grapes, and you have no And say that thus she doth to me appear. JAMES H. BANCROFT. idea how pretty they look, particularly after a rain, In fail it was easy to cover the vines Wire for Tomato Vines. with old· quilts and shawls by throwing them I am done with old barrel hoops ahd wooden over the trellis on frosty nights. When the vines frames and stakes and everything of that sort as were all dead I cut them away, dug up the posts, a support for tomato vines, for I have found rolled up the wire without loosening it from the something so much better in the wire netting, posts and put it all away in an out-building for that can now be hought so cheaply. I tried it use the next year. It will last for years to come last year with such gratifying results that I shall and it has already paid for itself. never use anything else. I trained sweet peas in the same way to net- I had twelve tomato plants set in a single row ting about three feet wide and was greatly about thirty-six feet in length, the plants .,being pleased with the, result. I tell this as a hint to three feet apart and all were of the "Livingstone flower growers living in cities who cannot get brush for this purpose.and who have found it Perfection" variety raised from seed sowed in little wooden boxes in the house the first week very difficult to train sweet peas to cords of any in March. I set five stout stakes in the ground kind. J. L. H. about seven feet apart in the row of tomato Under the Snow. FORSYTHIA OR GOLDRN BRLL, plants. To these stakes, about a foot from the Under the snow the grass is. green, before the leaves appear, each branch being cov- ground, I nailed wire netting four and a half Tender and bright, with a hint of spring: ered with beautiful yellow bells, making the feet wide. This made a trellis five and a half Wondrous-the power at work beneath whole bush a mass of brilliant color. While feet high. As the plants grew and sent out The dampened earth where mosses cling. admiring it last spring and wishing for a shrub . branches I tied them to the wire with strips of Under the snow, with buds complete that would retain its bright yellow color all old cotton cloth which is better than cord for it The trillium pleads for leave to bloom: summer, a friend mentioned the golden-leaved And the golden cups of daffodils elder, saying that the bright golden leaves of does not cut into the vines. About once a week Are filling fast with a rich per(ume. this shrub make it quite as beautiful and light I tied the vines up in this way and by the end Under the snow, in mossy woods, up the lawn the same as the blossoms of the of July they had completely covered the trellis By frozen marsh or drowsy stream, Forsythia. I therefore ordered it among other and were hanging full of tomatoes, every one The downy coils of plumy ferns . hardy shmbs, and have found it all that could of which got a touch of sunshine some time in Are waking from their winter dream. be desired, All through the season its leaves the day and none of which were on the ground. Under the snow. Ah, fair indeed retain their pure brilliant yellow, and as the bush grows rapidly it will soon form a striking The yield was surprising and they 'ripened fully Are the countless forms, which haste to greet With a loving smile the rested earth background for the smaller shrubs with green ten days earlier than on the previous summer Coming to life beneath our feet. foliage. PHEBE R. when in wooden frames. And it is so much SUSIE E. KENNEDY, Philadelphia, Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 53

Tomorrow? The following bit of fugitive verse has been pasted in my pocketbook for several years, It has given so much pleasure that I want others to share it. H. P. H. Strength for today is all that we need, As there never will be a tomorrow; For tomorrow will prove but another today With its measures of joy and sorrow. Then why forecast the trials of life With such sad and grave persistence; And wait and watch for a crowd of ills That as yet have no existence? Strength for today; what a precious boon For earnest souls who labor, For the will ing hands that minister To the needy friend or neighbor. Strength for today, that the weary hearts In the battle for right may quail not, And the eyes bedimmed by bitter tears In their search for light may fail not. Strength for today on the down-hill track For the travelers uear the valley, That up, far up on the other side, Ere long they may safely rally. Strength for today, that ou r precious y'outh May happily shun temptation, Aud build from the rise to the set of the sun On a strong and sure found ation, Strength for today in house and home, To practice forbearance sweetly ; To scatter kind words and loving deeds, Still trusting in God completely."

Window Plants. The mimulus, or monkey flower, is said to be very satisfactory as a ·window plant. It cer- tainly is very bright and showy with its bright yellow flowers spotted with bro·wn a1id deep red. One variety has a strong musky odor and is often called the musk plant. In these as in A Pure White Fuchsia. all other plants great improvements have been A 11ew and very distinct variety of fuchsia is fever. Many a family has been thinned out by made, the new French varieties taking the lead. the disease-laden air from damp cellar, with s een in Couutess of Aberdeen, which has its a They grow easily from seeds but the seeds are· half-rotten vegetables filling the corners and de- tube, sepals and corolla all white. The plant cayed fruits resting unmolested upon shelves or very small and require care in sowing them. is of erect habit, a fine grower attaining a good in barrels in out-of-the-way places. The mimulus is a thirsty plant and requires :size, handsome foliage and bears its flowers The care of the cellar is more important plenty of water. Some of them grow in a freely and at the ends of its shoots and in such than that of a11y other part of the house. The drooping form and make good plants for hang- :a manner that they stand out all over the sur- natural .dampness of the atmosphere is favorable ing baskets. After bloommg all ·winter the the development of disease germs, and many plants may be pruned quite severely in the spring face, none of them being hidden beneath the a life is sacrificed to carelessness in this respect. leaves. Flowers of good size, finely formed, "The heat of furnaces, steam pipes and other and set out in the beds for the summer. Seed pure white, very beautiful. Countess of Aber- like appliances is alm.ost certain to hasten the should be sown in August for winter bloom; deen is sure to become a great favorite among decay of all sorts of vegetables, and the poi- seeds sown in November or December will plant growers. soned atmosphere arising from a cellar contain- bloom the latter half of :winter and all through ing such articles cannot fail to produce unpleas- A moist atmosphere, .a steady warm tempera- the spring. ant if not positively dangerous results." ture and sufficient water are the special needs Water Chinese primroses carefully, as wetting ·Of the fuchsia. No plant is more satisfactory In the School of Life. the foliage will injure it, often causing it to rot, attractive than a well grown fuchsia in bloom. "Oh that I were"- and If I had Give heliotropes an abundance of root room, Are both ·prayers of the iool, And are unknown to those who take warm sunny location, sufficient water and once Sanitary Precautions. The prizes in Life's school. in a while a dose of weak liquid manure. The use of common sense in advance about Have You a Cricket? GRETA. the household, will in a majority of cases save One of the curiosities of the Anderson Hotel .much sickness and many dollars in doctor's is the cricket that chirps in the elevator, says rMarvelous Mechanics. bills. The following, from the New York the Pittsburgh Dispatch. During the flood last Sheet iron is rolled so thin at the Pittsburgh Ledger, will at once commend itself: winter the little fellow was washed out of his iron mills that twelve thousand sheets are re- "Have you cleared out your cellar this fall?" home, but he turned up after several days in quired to make a single inch in thickness. :asked a physician of a lady to whose house he another part of the house. Then he slowly Light shines through one of these sheets as was called professionally. moved his house from point to point until he readily as it does through ord.inary tissue paper. The lady's face flushed a little as she replied: reached his old home in the elevator, He has -Southern Teacher. "Why yes, of course ; that is, ·we clean the been there now for several months, and evident- cellar every week. I-I don't understand you, ly was glad to get back, as his song has been The Progressive Japanese. doctor!" sharper and merrier ever since. The little fel- The Empress of Japan takes a keen interest I mean no offense, madam," replied the low is well fed, but nobody in the house has in the advancement of woman's education in physician, nor do I intend any reflection upon seen him. His music is the only thing that re- her country, and devotes co.nsiderable time and your housekeeping. I merely wished to know veals his presence. money to this object. The J apanese girl stu- if you had removed from the cellar all remains For several years the writer was fortunate to dents, while eager to copy the erudition, have of vegetables, fruit or meats, which might affect capture some crickets late in the fall. and put copied neither the dress nor habits of the Eng- the health of the family. Many people do not them in his greenhouse, and all winter long they lish-speaking student. They are still the quaint, know, and many who know do not realize, that made merry song, so much that the neighbors shy, gentle musmees of Japan, in flowing, gayly half-decayed vegetables are full of genns of would come to hear the "cricket on the hearth." colored robes: 54 Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. VII

of March to have plants in condition for trans- ers which is the common snowball. V. opulis planting by middle of July ; 28,000 to 3o,ooo or high bush cranberry is a hardy shrub native plants is a fair estimate for one acre. We be- of this country. The snowball is a native of lieve the New Golden Self . Blanching Celery is Europe and Great Britain. How the species. the most desirable for first crop, following up and the variety, ages ago, became so separated with Golden Heart, whiCh is more hardy than is one of the questions for very wise heads to· preceding variety. settle-perhaps no more difficult than some others that are supposed to be settled already .. ]AS. VICK, ESQ., SEEDSMAN. Dear Sir-I would like your advice to making Another name for the hornbeam is ironwoocl , a good lawn. The lot faces east· and I have made botanically Carpinus American,a. The common five flower beds. Would you· recommend tuberous species ·of Europe is Carpinus Betulus; begonias as an outside border for one of them? Can has been introduced into this country and em- OUR LETTER BOX. they be raised from seed Will you please tell me how to make rich flower beds out of a stiff clay soil? ployed as ah ornamental hedge plant; for this In this department we wzll be pleased to answer Very respectfully, purpose it is very effective, and possibly C- any questions, relating to Flowers, Vegetables, aud Pikesville, Md. C. M. J. Ame:dcana may be equally as good. It has. Directions for making lawns will be found Plants, or to hear of the experiences of our readers. 1.1ever been given a trial, we think. The hop JAMES VICK. on page 76 of Vick's Floral Guide, 1892. hornbeam, or lever wood, Ostrya Virginica, is. Tuberous begonias do not do well with us in HYDRANGEA-BULBLETS. closely related to the Carpinus. beds, but your location is so much farther south Will it do to divide the pink hydrangea? jAs. V!CK's SoNs. Ought the young bulbs to be always taken off ama- no doubt they would do better. Verbenas, por- Dear Sirs- December MAGAZINE just received. ryllis and calla bulbs? tulacca, phlox, etc., make very attractive beds. would like you to name and discuss two of your best It the roots of the hydrangea support two or Spade up the beds well and mix with well varieties of field corn for this locality. more stems, and they can be separated with rotted manure. We have both seeds and bulbs Yours, etc·., roots attached to each, there is no reason why it of tuberous begonias, but think you would do Wyocena, Wis. S. S. DEv. may not be done, and the propagation of the best with the bulbs. Field Corn, Pride of the North.- This is a plant be thus effected, most desirable variety. It originated in North- To JAMES VICK: When repotting bulbs any bulblets may be westem Iowa and seems well adapted to Dear Sir-l want to tell you how nicely my plants sections of the Middle and Northern latitudes. removed. grew that I had of you last spring. The hardy hy- drangea had eight large trusses of flowers, and the It is a yellow dent 16-rowed. Ears 8 to 10 in- MR, JAMES VICK: rose Vick's Caprice" gr:ew beyond all calculations. ches in length, cob very small, red. A test of I purchased -an India rubber tree,jicus elastica, My dahlias· never did better. Princess and Mrs. 70 pounds of ears, not selected, produced 6oJ( from you about three years ago. It has grown quite Cleveland were admired by everyot1e. I couid not tall, reaches almost to the ceiling. ·Would it be prac- resist the temptation of taking some to your brother pounds of shelled corn and only 9 pounds of ticable to nip the top of it? VV ould it branch out or at the fair-perhaps he will remember them. The cob instead of 14 pounds of cob, the usual· pro- would it spoil it? Please answer and greatly oblige potatoes did splendidly too- in fact I never had any- portion. The kernels are closely set upon the Newmansville, Pa. MRs. I. L. thing from your finn that did not do well. cob, are above the medium size, long, narrow It seems too bad to spoil the plant by cutting Yours respectfully, and thin; of a deep orange yellow color. Stalk back. When cut back it sends out from one to Hillsdale, Mich. V. D. above medium size, from 6 to 8 feet high and three side branches just below where it is cut, Thanks. V es we are always pleased to hear very productive. making it look one-sided. The beauty of rub- good reports of the plants, vegetables and seeds Field corn, Longfellow.-As a yellow flint ber plant is its straight, erect habit. variety this is one of the very best. Ears from MESSRS. ]As. VICK's SoNs: 10 to 15 inches, uniform and well filled at butt Could you find time to tell me what to do with my and tip, cob small, kernel very large, broader · geraniums? They look thrifty, are growing nicely; than deep, bright yellow in color. Stalk me- every one is budded I:iut the buds turn yellow stop growing. I water well twice a week, once in dium, grain flinty and of superior quality. Ex- two weeks add.ing one teaspoon of aqua ammonia to tremely productive and well adapted to North- a quart ofw.ater tepid. · They are in a south window ern and Middle sections. in a room without a stove, but adjoining the living room where fire is kept night and day, and a kettle Will you kindly answer tJ.1e following questions: of water steaming. most of the time; A lover of. What treatment should be given Asparagus tenu- flowers, issimus? W. Richfield, Ohio. MRs. B. K. When should the climbing fern have a resting Stop using aqua ammonia, and only water season? when they-need it, that is, when soil on top be- Is the Apios tuberosa a weed, and is it hard to get comes dry rid of? What are the requirements of the Gingko biloba, ]. VICK, FLORIST: maiden hair tree, if there 'is such a tree? I saw what th.ey called sunflower dahlias. They California. . MRs. A. B. H . were so near. like dahlias you could ·not tell them A soil composed largely of decayed sods, a fifteen feet away. They are very hardy. Do you little leaf mold, and a liberal quantity of well handle them? W. H. B. Colorado Springs, Colo. rotted stable manure, is suitable for the aspara- The flower you saw was Helianthus multi- gus. It will probably do well out of doors in fiorus plenus. This year there is a new variety Contra Costa county in summer. If given called Helianthus Soiiel D'Or which is identi- greenhouse culture, keep it, while growing, in a cal in all respects, except that the petals of the heat of 60° to 70°, and give plenty of air, and flowers are quilled like some of our finest dah- sent out by our house. Of course your friends while growing freely give water plentifully. lias. Next year we hope to bring out another enjoyed and admired the flowers, such treasures Let it rest in autumn and early winter months, new variety, the flowers of which are single with never fail to brighten eyes and hearts. Mr. C. . Give the climbing fern a season of rest in the a grand, large, showy yellow disc. H. Vick well remembers the fine specimens cooler months. shown him. Kind wishes expressed by our Apios tuberosa in a wild state grows only in ]AS. VI G: K, ESQ.: friends are always cheering and helpful. thickets and shady woods. It is not a difficult Dear Sir-Can you tell me when the seed for cel- plant to destroy. We have had no experience ery ought to be sown to be ready for the trenches by HIGH BUSH CRANBERRY. in its cultivation but know it well in its wild middle of July to 1st of August? Also, how many feet Will you give the name of the ornamental shrub state and should rather.think it more difficult to ofbed is required for each ounce of seed sown? cultivate than to destroy. Yours very respectfully, called high bush cranberry? Please tell in a future number of the MAGAZINE The Gingko biloba is a hardy tree with us Northampton, Mass. G. T. D. about the tree called hornbeam. Is there more than One ounce of celery seed, providing it be of here and appears to thrive in most parts of the one variety of it? I oniy know of the hop hornbeam. country, even as far so uth as Louisiana, perhaps, best germinating quality, should produce 10.000 MRS. G. O. ]R. also, in Texas, It is a , native of Japan, and is plants. This amount will fill three ordinary The name of this plant is Viburnum opulus. a handsome, small sized tree with very pecuhar sash beds and should be sown from 1st to 15th It is a variety of this plant having sterile flow- and handsome foliage. VII Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 55

nected with fumigating snuff than evaporating than when pressed, and the maiden hair .fern RIEFS. tobacco juice . and the result is· far more satis- looks almost as well as when it is freshly gath· tory. ered. Waban Rose.- The Waban is work- Mice in Orchards.-An orchardist in Maine, The "New" Onion Culture ·not New.- . ing to the front· as a to prevent the depredations of mice, says he j An experienced. o. nion raiser of California, Mr. valuable rose for flor- goes over his trees, in late·fall before the ground S. J. Murdock, writing on "Onion Culture in ists' cultivation on a freezes up, with a · wash made of lime in the Southern California," in the Rural Californian large scale for cut usual . way of making whitewash, with two ta- of December, in describing his method of rais-. flowers. blespoonsful of Paris green added to each part ing onions says: The method which gives me of wash. This is applied with a brush for fif- the best satisfaction is as follows : Sow the seed. Worlds Fair.- teen or twenty inches in height. It is said to in October or November, quite thick, on a well J. H. Lang & Sons, be a sure preventive. prepared seed bed, and when the plants are London, England, Another farmer paints his trees with coal tar from six to eight inches high pull up and trans- intend to send ten for a distance of two feet from the ground up- plant on a well cultivated and thoroughly clean thousand begonia plants, and men to care for wards. An application is made once in two or plot ground in rows 12 inches apart and them, to the Chicago Exposition. It is also ex- three years, as it may be needed. After ten plants three inches apart in the rows. I always pected that there will be displayed there an im- years of this practice he has never had a tree cut off the tops so as to leave a stub about three mense collection of orchids, which in value will injured by the mice, nor has. the coal tar done inches long, and think it better to trim the fine be worth at least $500,000. any injury. He also considers it a sure pre- roots some also as it makes the transplanting Shelter Belts.-The cattle and other live ventive -of the borer. easier and lets the soil pack closer around the stock feel the benefits during this weather of a Bachelor's Button-What ?-In this part plant. This method is claimed by T. Greiner, shelter belt of evergreen trees around the farm of the country the name Bachelor's button is a very able writer. on various farm .topics and yard. Norway spruce will form a good screen the common one applied to Centaurea cyanus, espec1ally omon culture, as bemg a new in a few years. Take young trees and plant the cornflower of England, and the Kornblume mode of omon culture. No doubt Mr. Gremer them about eight feet apart of Germany, and which acquired a reput.ation is honest his_ opinions,. but this method has Good Seeds.-Don't take any chances on some years since as the late Emperor Wilham's been practtced m California for th.e last 20 years seeds. ,The only way to test seeds is by plant- favorite flower. It would be interesting to hear or more and the wnter has practiced the same ing them, and if they prove to be poor it is too from our readers in different sections,givingthe years before having heard of Mr. Greiner. late to apply any remedy. Procure them of a local names by which the plant is known in the careful seedsman who has gained a reputation various parts of this country. The Botanical Pansies and Pansy Ornaments. by many years of fair dealing. Poor s.eds are Hand-Book of C. E. Hobbs, published in Bos- Last winter I ordered pansy seed from you, very expensive. ton, and which has brought together . a great Potato Rot.-The fungus of the potato rot many of the common names of plants, give.s and at the proper time planted it in a box in a appears first as blackish spots on both sides of four different ones to which the name Bachelor's greenhouse, and in the early spring set my the leaf, and on the under side there is a silky button is applied, but none of them the Centau- plants in my pansy bed. All that was necessa- or woolly appearance · surrounding the spot. rea cyan us; the plants named are as follows : ry to have fine pansies was to keep the weeds The spot increases around the border. Spray- Gomphrena globosa, Lychnis flos-cuculi, Ra- and grass out, which I did. ing with the Bordeaux mixture is the remedy nunculus acris and Strychnos nux-vomica. We for the potato blight. will publish all the names sent in with the Each week I would cut every bloom from the Strawberries for Illinois.-The Warfield; names of the localities where they are used. plants and in this way had choice flowers. Two Bubach and Haverland fertilized with the Jessie Flowers in France.-A friend at Nice in or three hundred would be cut at a time and are named by the experiment stations as best the South of Frarice, under date of December these flowers I would distribute among my varieties of strawberries for Central Illinois, and 14, writes as follows: "The other day I went friends near by. Imagine my surprise today for the same region, the Taylor, the Erie, the ·flower market and spent centimes ( to the 7 5 15 when my wife was presented with about 25 of Minnewaska, and the Ancient Briton ·are con- cents) and brought home about 6o beatitiful sidered the best blackberries. roses, a hice bunch of orange . blossoms, a big these beautiful flowers. Miss Carrie Hall had The World's Fair.-Applications for space bunch of mignonette, another of heliotrope, lots taken them in the· summer, after one of these for horticultural uses are rapidly being made. of carnations and quite a lot of ferns. About general clippings, ·and arranged and pressed The whole space has already been apportioned how much money would that to the different States and countries, and the cost at this time of the year in prospect is that more will be asked for than can Rochester ? l am going to the be allowed. That the horticultural exhibition flower market again today and as a whole will be a grand one, and far exceed- I will not spend more than 15 ing anything of the kind ever before made; is centimes (3 cents) and expect already past question. to come home with at least Mice in Orchards.--The time that mice do forty or fifty roses." Our flo- most mischief by gnawing the bark about apple rists would think their lot a trees is usually when the ground is frozen and hard one if they were obliged coveted with snow, as it is more difficult for to sell flowers at such prices. them to find proper food. If orchard trees have The mildness of climate not been specially protected against these ver- at Nice is greatly in its favor, min, they should be visited after a fall of snow but even in our Southern and the snow tramped hard all around each tree. States, say at Charleston or This is a successful method of saving the trees. Atlanta or even in New Or- Liquid Manure.-Save the liquid manure leans, flowers could not be of the stables. The straw or other material raised and sold at these very used for bedding is an absorbent. and it repays low rates, the cost of employment partly in this way. Peat To Preserve Flowers.- and dried muck are also good absorbents in the A very excellent way of pre- stable and should be used in this manner before serving flowers is described in . applying to the land. Land plaster should al- the .International 'Journal of Microscopy and them on a ptece of cardboard. ways be at hand to be scattered over manure Natural Science. The method is not new, but The arrangement was artistic, forming a beau- and absorbents to fix the ammonia. Saving the the description of it is both brief and good: To tiful picture which, when held off a few feet, manure properly is one of the secrets of success preserve delicate flowers take very fine sand, looked like an oil painting, but better than that wash it perfectly clean, and when dry sift It in the cultivation of crops of all kinds. inasmuch as it was true to -nature and the colors Killing Green Fly.-A new way to ·kill through a fine seive into a pan. When the pan is deep enough to hold the flowers m an upnght well preserved. The idea was new to me, per- green fly is described by Charles Pommert in position take some more sifted sand and care- the American Florist. He has practiced it for haps there are others who have 11ot seen or fully cover them. A spoon is a good thing to five years and always with satisfaction. My tried it. use for this, as it fills in· every chink and cran- method, he says, is to burn Scotch snuff on a When properly framed with these little faces ny without breaking or bending the leaves. piece of red hot iroh at the rate of two ounces When the pan is filled solidly leave the flowers held firmly to the glass so not to allow .disar- for every 500 feet of glass, and It never falls to- rangement, we will have a choice picture. get every fly. This small quantity will not in- to dry for several days. It is a good plan to C. L. GIBBS. jure the tenderest plant, but if anyone doubts warm the sand in the oveh before using it, as the effect let him stay in a house during the the flowers will then: dry more thoroughly. Pan- sies preserved in this way will keep their shape All persons not now subscribers who re- fumigation. He thinks that tobacco dust ground ceive this number, should take immediate ad- equally fine would also prove effective and be and brilliancy of color all winter. Ferns when preserved in this way have a more natural look vantage of one of our premium offers, and induce somewhat cheaper. There is less labor con- friends to join in a club. Only 50 cents per year, Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. VIII

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The ·steamer Rhynland recently carried to The actual edition for this month (February) is Some men belon·g to about every society in Antwerp, from the United States Fish Commis- 250,000. town but the society of their wives. sion, 500 catfish, consigned to the Belgian Gov- Circulation Guaranteed and Proved or No Pay. Kind words. Kind looks. Kind deeds. ernment, whi.ch will attempt to propagate them (Trade Mark.) These are what win. Try and see. in the sluggish waters that abound in that Courage, faith, work, patience-a grai1d quar- country. THE MAGAZINE. tette that will carry you safely through the . Who, then, is unconquerable? He whom Do our readers like the stories in the year. the inevitable cannot overcome. When von do Magazine, or would they prefer more Although this is leap year, young women anything from a clear judgment that it ought to about plants, trees and gardens generally? should look before they leap, or they may be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand Please state preference when writing to us. stumble. Never do anything that you need be ashamed it.-Epictetus. All persons not now subscribers of, and then you never need be ashamed of any- The best thing to give your enemy is forgive- who receive this number, should take im- thing you do. ness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, Try a newspaper over your chest, beneath your heart; to a child, good example; to your mediate advantage of one of our premi- father, deference; to your mother, conduct that um offers, and induce friends to join' in a your coat, as a chest protector, in extremely cold weather. will make her proud of you; to yourself, re- club. spect; and to all men, charity. The man who does the most groaning is the Women are employed on all the leading Lon- EDITORIAL NOTES. one who eats more than is good for him, and that without regularity or system. don papers. The entertaining column. in the Our January edition, 25o,ooo copies, weighed Telegraph, called "London Day by Day," is over seventeen .tons, and reached every State in Thirty-one bushels of corn and four bushels largely the work of a woman. Miss Emily the Union. of potatoes for every man, woman and c11ild in Faithfull was one of the pioneer workers in this the country were grown last year As the December MAGAZlNE was a great im- line, and thirty years ago conducted a magazine provement over November; and January over we have little respect for the man who keeps with a corps of woman printers. December, so we feel that a step forward will his premises cleaL and neat inside the fence by Do not despise the day of small things; in . be the verdict of this, the February number. throwing the litter in the highway. other words, be prepared to study whatever pre- ·We would like just 100 letters of frank expres- Science has succeeded in successfully mend- sents itself, and think nothing in Nature insig- sion in answer to our question How do you ing a man's broken neck. The mending of nificant. At one time it may be no more than like the new VICK'S MAGAZINE?" broken hearts remains still a mystery. a single cloud, at another a fragment of rock or Pure and elevating reading is what we aim For mildew, which is not an uncommon plant the bough of a tree. Let whatever is felt to be to make . VICK's MAGAZINE. Its constituency foe, dust with sulphur or sprinkle with sulphur · worthy of effort, receive all the care and atten- is the best and deserve the best. We give more water. Also dig a little soot into the soil. tion that would be given to a more elaborate in proportion for 50 cents per year than the If butter is kept covered tight when put in subject. high priced magazines. Show this copy among the ice chest it will not absorb the odor of any A wide-awake Yankee boy bought five cents your friends and get them to subscribe. food lying near. There is nothing so sensitive worth of potatoes and raised enough at so cents Is there not some friend you would like to as butter. a bushel to bring him $1.50, and he only got a make happy each month in the year? Sub- Instead of grumbling about the weather, find small lot of seed for his money. He cut it in scribe for VIcK's MAGAZINE to be sent them. something interesting to read or to do. The one-eye pieces, and after making the ground One gentleman has sent in a list of twenty and world boils over with its fulness of ideas, and rich cultivated it carefully, keeping the crop he is right in say!ng they will appreciate it. fat ones too. free from weeds and beetles. Another boy showed his business faculty by carefully raising Did you speak to your neighbors about VICK'S Don't put off selecting what is wanted (needed) garden truck on a small plot he was given the MAGAZINE and get them to subscribe? in nursery stock and sending for it to the near- use of. He sold his produce a little at a time Less than one cent .a week and premium est, best nursery. The earlier it can be received and set the better. for a neat sum. These boys are thinkers. No thrown in is what VICK'S MAGAZI NE costs. danger that they will be poor farmers. Cah we depend on you for one subscriber in The farmer who depends upon the market for the luxuries which should be grown upon the A-subscriber tells The Phi/a. Farm Journal addition to your own? Think it over and act how richly the purchase of two packets of flower at once. Five for $2.00. farm, misses half of the privileges and enjoy- ments of farm life. seed was rewarded the pa.st season. One packet 'Ve don't want and do not mean to take at contained pansy seed. The resulting bloom any price advertisements of prize rebuses, guess Reason is not a piece of furniture that can be was very brilliant, especially in the spring, and games, weak men or any of that class. Its $$ put aside and used again, The man who should was almost incessant the whole summer. The live ten years without reflection would never be out of our pocket every month, but the adver- other packet contained chrysanthemum seed, of capable of it again, tisers that do remain with us are in good com- good stock, but mixed as to sorts. The variety pany. and our readers can feel sure that ,no Remove oil spots from marble by covering and richness of coloring in the October and No- swindlers can crawl into their homes through them with a cream of calcined magnesia and vember flowers were simply glorious. These us. The advertisement of 'Valter J. Raymond benzine, and brushing off the former after the little pleasures, which anybody can have, con- in our December number, we are informed, was dissipation of the latter. stitute what may be termed the real big divi- unreliable. It shall not appear again, Some of these fine days they will buy us all dends of life. 9 JX Vick s Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 57 A Friend Wishes to speak through the Register of the beneficial results he has received from a regular use of Ayer's Pills, He says: "I was feeling sick and tired and my stomach seemed all out of order. I tried a number of remedies, but none seemed to give me relief until I was in- duced to try the old reliable Ayer's Pills. I have taken only one box, but I feel like a new man. I think they are the most pleasant and easy to take of anything I ever used, being so finely sugar-coated that even a child will take them. I urge upon all who are In Ne-ed of a laxative to try Ayer's Pills."- Boothbay (Me.), Register. ''Between the ages of five and .fifteen, I was troubled with a kind of salt- rheum, or eruption, chiefly confined to the legs, and especially to the bend of the knee above the calf. Here, running sores formed which would scab over, but would break immediately on mov- .F. Dree r. ing the leg. My mother tried every- 2.American Flag. thing she could think of, but all was without avail. Although a child, I read 3. Daybreak. in the papers about the beneficial effects 4. Creole. of Ayer's Pills, and persuaded my moth- er to let me try them. With no great 5. Annie Wiegand. faith in the result, she procured 6. Golden Gate. Ayer's Pills Carnations. a bright scarlet and white, while its foliage has and I began to use them, and soon noticed an improvement. Encouraged As a winter blooming plant the carnation a deep blue shade. The shades of color of the by this, I kept on till I took two boxes, will always take a leading place, Its qualifica- foliage of different varieties of carnation is an interesting feature, the tones running from light when the sores disappeared and have tions for it are such that it can have few, if any, to dark green and dark blue. Daybreak is a never troubled mesince."-H. Chipman, competitors. The plant is easily raised, is com- large flower quite double, with broad petals of a Real Estate Agent, Roanoke, Va. paratively hardy, will stand some rough treat- pleasing deep flesh tint. Creole is velvety ma- "I suffered for years from stomach ment and respond readily to good usage. It roon flaked with carmine. Annie Wiegand is and kidney troubles, causing very severe is easily produced from seeds, by layers and by a delicate pink finely fringed. Golden Gate is pains in various parts of the body. None a very double flower of a pure yellow color. of the remedies I tried afforded me any cuttings; it blooms freely and for a long time Altogether they are a fine lot and with a good relief until I began taking Ayer's Pills, during the winter season and without strong white will form the nucleus for a superior col- and was cured."-Wm. Goddard, Notary heat; the flowers are of a size adapting them to lection. Public, Five Lakes, Mich. a great variety of uses, they are of handsome Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. form, of a great range of the most beautiful A Sensible Ide,a. Sold by Druggists Everywhere. The following story comes from over the At- colors, and with a fragrance both delicate and delightful; and, besides, the flowers are borne lantic and shows that they are thoughtful people Every Dose Effective at the extremities of long stems which enables in Germany. The plan could well be adopted in this country and is one which would do a them to be employed to advantage in many RARE AND UNIQUE PLANTS. great deal of good. ways. To extend our list of customers, If one wishes to raise ·his own plants he ·has The ladies of- Elberfeld, Germany, have adopted a practical system for teaching factory Palms, aud Bulbs;· together with ·only to sow the seeds and give the young plants girls how to become good wives. It is well our elegant illustrated catalogue the necessary care, and he is sure to get inter- Tropical Plants, these will be sent known that factory girls are singularly remiss to any one, securely boxed and post- esting results in the way of flowers, differing in in everything pertaining to good housewifery, paid, for only 60c. Our special collections of plants many particulars of form as well in color and and that when they marry they know no more have become very popular, and we trust that this one will meet with other respects. Young plants set out m the gar- about getting up a good dinner than they do about sailing a yacht. The plan of the Elber- the same general favor. den in spring and given a little .attention during feld women is to take these girls into their homes where. the summer will be ready in September to be for a year of service previous to their marriage. lifted and potted to be brought into the house, So now in Elberfeld the plan of teaching fac- THE AMERICAN EXOTIC NURSERIES, R. D. HOYT, Manager, SEVEN OAKS, FLORIDA. either the window garden or the greenhouse. tory girls how to live is something like this: writing to advertisers mention Vick' s Magazine. By December the flowers begin to open and As soon as a factory girl becomes engaged to will be married she gives up her position and takes the plants will continue to give a supply f'or Johnson's Poultry Annual. employment with some woman who pledges All about Poultry for a 2-ct. stamp. three months with ordinary care. Florists are 20 pages. One Full Page Colored Plate. Pri- herself to teach the girl all she knows about ces of Fowls and Eggs, Crush eel Shells, Wire always striving after something new with this cooking, baking, sweeping and all other house- Netting, lncubat.ors, &c. Send stamp. G. _ M. T. JOHNSON, Box 11, Binghamton, N. Y, plant, either the habit of growth, the symmetry, wifely arts. At the end of the year the girl is In writting to advertisers mention Vick' s Magazine. the color, or the fragrance of the flower or some qualified to keep house properly and econorni- other quality appears as an improvement. The cally. And if, by a mischance, there should be MUCH FOR LITTLE. illustration here presented shows six new varie- a slip between _the matrimonial cup and the lip, persons. not now subscribers who receive ties of superior excellence. Wm. F. Dreer is a the young woman has learned so much that she this number, should take immediate advantage carmine pink with the petals deeply fringed. can go right on in domestic service, earning of one of our premium offers, and induce friends American Flag has its petals regularly striped, good wages, if she so desires. to join in a club. Only so cents per year. Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine.- X

this time on. An efficient remedy for all insect pests will be found in the Tobacco Insectide Soap which can be obtained of any seedsman, and wluch should be used according to the di- rections which accompany it. Lantanas should be started into growth, and cuttings rooted as soon as they can be obtained. Repot all that require it. Seed may also be sown now. Oranges and lemons should be repotted if they require it. Liquid manure should be given occasionally to all plants in a state of growth. Pelargoniums should be watered more liber- ally and air given freely. Young stock should The Window Garden. Fuchsias may now be cut back and started . be shifted as soon as they require it. Pay due· attention to training. As the sun is now acquiring more power, and into growth. As soon as growth commences, tum them out of the old pots, reduce the ball Solanum cuttings of the climbing varieties; the days are lengthening, a marked improve- should be rooted. Seeds of those sorts that are of earth and repot in good, fresh soil, using as - ment will soon be apparent in all window gar- grown for their berries should be sown immedi- den plants, and the greenhouse or conservatory small pots as possible_ ately. Old plants should be treated as advised will soon come into its greatest beauty as far as Geraniums that have been grown for winter for fuchsias. Violets, pansies, and all other plants in cold a display of foliage and flowers will permit, and blooming should be given liquid manure at times. Carefully avoid crowding the plants. frames should be aired freely whenever the it should be kept clean and well arranged at all weather will permit and in pleasant weather the Cuttings should be put in to secure plants for times. Rearrange the plants in both the win- sashes should be removed entirely. summer blooming. Plants rooted in the fall dow garden and greenhouse occasionally, set- All plants should be neatly and accurately ting aside all those which are going out of bloom, may be shifted on into larger pots if one can labeled. All empty pots should be washed ancl or at least removing them to a less prominent give them the necessary space for their proper stored in readiness for future use; sashes and development. frames repaired, new ones made if necessary position, and bring forward others to occupy Insects of all kinds should be guarded against, vases and hanging baskets cleaned, repaired and their places. As the season advances all plants especially the red spider which, if allowed to painted, and everythmg put in readiness before will require more water, both overhead and at obtain a foothold, will increase rapidly Jrom the rush of spring work is upon us. the roots, ancl an increase of air should be given whenever the weather will permit, so that a healthy and stocky growth may be maintained. Plants for winter and spring decoration, such as sweet alyssum, cinerarias, calceolarias, mig- nonette, and ten-weeks stock, should be given an abundance -of pot room, air and light and they will grow rapidly now and bloom profuse- ly. Roses, deutzias and dicentras may also be brought forward and started into bloom, and the collection of Dutch bulbs that were potted in the fall should be examined occasionally and the most forward started into growth. All plants as they approach their period of bloom will be greatly benefited by occasional waterings of liquid manure. Towards the end of the month seeds of abu- tilon, pansy, verbena, ten-weeks stock, salvias, dianthus, cobcea, maurandya, lophospermum, and others may be sown to secure strong plants for spring and early summer bloom. Cuttings of geraniums, heliotropes, lantanas, :verbenas and other soft wooded plants should be put in whenever they can be obtained. All cuttings should be potted off as soon rooted, and after they become well established, grown on in as cool a temperature as possible to ensure a compact or sturdy growth. Seeds of centaurea candidissima and the other varieties which are grown for their foliage, and also Cineraria mari- tima should be sown as early in the month as ACRYDIUM PEREGRINUM-% NATURAL SIZE. possible, if not already done. Curious Travelers. great sometimes is the number in a swarm that Cacti should be sparingly watered. Now is Strange creatures indeed are these travelers they have been said to darken the sun as would a good time to graft rhipsalis, epiphyllum, Cereus (Acrydium peregnnum) called locusts, and this a cloud, and their wings produce a humming, flagelliformis and other weak growing sorts on particular varlety is found in Asia and Africa. n1shing sound as if a heavy wind were blowing. Cereus triangularis if large specimens or stand- They travel from one part of a country to the They are exceedingly destructive and will ard plants are desired. other, or from country to country. Their flight devour every atom of vegetation that comes Carnation cuttings should be put in as early is from forty to two hundred feet in height and their way, leaving trees which have been cov- in the month as possible. Plants in · bloom is sometimes even as high as five hundred, ered with abundant foliage, or a field of grass should be given liquid manure at times. while the distance in length often exceeds one completely stripped of verdure as if blighted l1y Chrysanthemums should be started into growth thousand miles, more or less, as the case may heavy frost or burnt with fir:e. in order to furnish a snpply of cuttings, which be, as the distance traveled by the swarms va- The Caloptenus spretus, or Rocky Mountain should be rooted as soon as they can be pro- ries according to the food they can procure locust, almost exactly resembles the Acrydium cured. along the journey, or the temperature they may peregrinum, so much so that it seems scarcely Cyclamens which have filled their pots with have to encounter. Strange as it may seem, distinct from it, although its habits are not migra- tory for it is principally found .in the arid plains roots may be given liquid manure occasionally. they cross mountains and even seas in their east of the Rocky Mountains, and although not Young plants may shifted if they require it, flight, and have been known to swarm about a of very large size, also is very destructive, and seed may be sown to increase the stock, vessel that may have chanced in their way. So M.E.B. XI Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 59

Interior trim, white pine. Stairs, ash. Chair rail in kitchen. Interior woodwork . finished with hard oil. . Colors: clapboards and body of .panels m ped1ment, hght brown. trim fran1- ing of panels in pediment, maroon. Outside doors, sashes, and rain: conductors, olive, Ve- randa floor, tan. Veranda ceiling, Tuscan yel- low. All shingles dipped and brush coated Will we Build us a Home? with slate-colored stain. . Many of our readers have asked that we give ·cottages; that part of your income or wages that Acco?Jimodations: The principal rooms ai1d plans of a sensible low priced house, suitable you might save for such a purpose must be their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the floor for a moderate income. So here is an $I8oo spent for the pleasure of the society I afford you. cottage with feasible modifications. It is a I will build cottages and rent them to you so landinq. practical suggestion for a grand crusade against long as you pay regularly and patronize the bar all who destroy thrifty habits and make it im- liberally. But remember business is business; Bed Room Bed

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN. plans. Cellar under kitchen only. Loft over second story floored for storage purposes. Fire- place and mantel in dining room and in recep- tion hall included in estimate. Large veranda. Cost: $I ,8oo, not including heater and r:ange. The estimate is based on N ew York prices for materials and labor. In m.any sections of the country the cost should be less: Feasible Modifications: Heights of stories, sizes of rooms, materials and colors may be changed. Cellar may be enlarged. Fireplaces and mantels may be omitted. One chimney will_serve if heating apparatus be used. Stair- case hall may be partitioned from the reception· hall, and the stairway re-arranged. Bathroom. may be introduced in second story. Veranda PERSPECTIVE, may be extended, possible for workmen to acquire homes. By you can't play any out-of-employment or sick- R. W. Shoppell, Architect. ness fakes on me; when you can't pay the rent, What is a Kiss? Fair wages and thrifty habits enable thousands out you go ljke a pack of dogs." of mechanics and laboring men to build pretty If the people of this generation are growing Some time since London Tid-Bits offered a wiser and stronger, as acute observers declare, two guinea prize for the best definition of a kiss. it must follow that many of these victims will Seven thousand answers were received, and the fron1 Porch, extricate themselves the toils, but how are prize awarded to the following: we to help the rest of them ? One rof the best An insipid and tasteless morsel, which be- suggestions is to arouse the powerful laboring comes delicious and delectable in proportion as organizations. It is understood that Mr. Pow- it is flavored with love. Room; derly has already given the subject much con- These definitions were also submitted : .! sideration. If the Knights of Labor and other organizations enforced temperance principles they The baby's right, the lover's privilege, the would have a fight on hand that would give parent's benison, and the hypocrite's mask. them all of their old-time importance. Tem· The sweetest labial of the world's language. porarily their ranks would be decimated, but Contraction of the mouth due to enlargement better men would take the places of seceders of the heart. and the best of the seceders would return. The acme of agony to a bashful man. Reception Room.. Their old antagonist-capit~.l-would join hands Nature's Volapuk-the universal language of x in such a fight, the whole world would applaud love. and rumsellers would be doomed. A woman's trump card in the game of love. Following will be found a brief description of the quaint and attractive cottage design that Not enough for one, just enough for two, too much for three. illustrates this article General Dimensions: Width, 33 ft.; depth, The only really agreeable two-faced action including veranda and porch, 40 ft. 6 inches. under the sun, or on the moon either Heights of stories: cellar, 6ft. 6 in.; first story, The lover's privilege and the pug dog's right. 9 ft.; second story, 8ft. Bearing on the same question the following, Exterior Materials: Foundations, stone ; from the University Magazine, shows what a first story, clapboards; second story, clapboards Vassar girl thought of the subject: FIRST FLOOR PLAN, mitred at corners to produce shingling effect; cottages, and other thousands might ·be equally gables, clapboards; roofs and dormer; shingles. Teacher-" Now, Miss Mildred, you may de- fortunate except for the rumseller. Interior Finish : Two coat plaster tmted to cline a kiss." Every rumseller lays· his heavy hand on a suit owner. Maple floor in first story, with di- Miss Mildred (slowly)--" Excuse me, but I crowd of victims and addresses them substan- agonal under floor of hemlock covered with don't think a kiss can be declined. I never tially in this fashion No, you shall not build .tarred paper. Second story floor, white pine. could decline one." 6o Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. XII

FLOWERS ON RAILWAYS. Newark three times as many flowers as it had besides hydrangeas and shrubs at equal distances ever done before. from each other. The garden is probably not REST FOR TRAVELERS' EVES. Being of natural and not of forced growth this more than one third as long as the lawn, but it gardening system is in a very healthy state. is wider and is filled with lovely ornamental Nothing so pleasant and attractive When the company found that they would have beds. The center bed is twenty-two feet in di- as flowers around stations. to provide means for supplying themselves with ameter. In the middle this year was the Musa large quantities of plants without being depend- ensete, a species of Al:iyssinian banana. Around The Pennsylvania R. R. leads the van in using 150,000 plants in one season. ent upon the whims and charges of professional this was a thick row of caladiums, these being horticulturists, they set about looking for a suit- of the sort that have a polished and erect leaf. Ruskin'·s celebrated objection to railroads as able place to establish greenhouses of their own. Next came a ring of abutilons, while the outside defilers of nature has less and less to commend it every year, thanks to the efforts of the railroad ·Companies to make their lines beautiful and at- tractive to travelers in other ways than by fur- nishing elegant ana rapid means of transit. New and prettier, as well as more comfortable station buildings, have been erected by the great trunk lines, but in no way is the aesthetic sense so pleased as by the adaptation·of gardening to the grounds surrounding many of the depots. The idea of adorning the immediate vicinity of. railway stations with flowers, plants, trees and cliinbing vines, as well as grass,, is of En- glish origin, though a number of the stations on roads· in other European countries have long been ·noted for their beauty. The guard or switch houses, as well as the stations, being sur- rounded with flowers in great profusion. The Philadelphia Times says that in the United States the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. was the first to take up railway gardening. They went into business in that· line twelve years ago, in a very small way, and for three A DECORATIVE BED AT WAYNE, years purchased all the plants that .were needed Their attention was drawn to Newark. Mr. J. band was of the acalypha tricolor. Next was for the comparative.ly few stations-which seemed C. Sh1vler, who has been the station agent there a bed twelve feet across and filled with gerani- to demand beautifying to attract suburban local for many years, smce the days when the loco- ums, brilliant enough to dazzle the eyes. An- travelers. The feature has grown every year,. motives burned wood mstead of coal, was an other twelve-foot bed was of coleus with an extending to all classes of station.s, until the earnest gardener and had a good hot house. outside ring of light green and white euphorbias. Pennsylvania.nowhas a staff of gardeners regu- Th1s was a convenient place, so they made him Close at hand was a smaller bed, only eight larly employed the whole year caring for the offer, wh1ch he accepted, they bought feet in diameter, filled with thriving, but dan- lawns and flower beds about their stations, local him out. gerous-looking, specimens of cactus. Another as well as terminal, while at Newark, Del., they This was the nucleus of the company's gar- bed, more striking, perhaps, than the others, have a large plant of greenhouses and out-of- demng plant, they have added to it tmtil was in the shape of a big butterfly. It was door beds for the purpose of furnishing all sorts now there are srx greenhouses and sashes made of three varieties of alternanthera-red, of horticultural specimens for all the other sta- of hotbeds. There are two greenhouses of 65 bronze and yellow, ·and of the familiar, bluish- tions on their various lines . by zo feet each, two of 65 by 12, one of 48 by green echeveria, a species of house-leek. . But the most attractive bed of all was that on the sloping garden lawn adjacent to the plat- form, which we illustrate from a photograph loaned us by the superintendent Mr. D. C. Rose. It spelled the name of the station Newark in letters of red and yellow alternanthera, each character being four feet in height and the whole extending thirty-five feet along the bank. It was quite an artistic piece of work, the two col- ors being skillfully handled so as to represent the letters as if each was shaded. Other de- signs were of scrolls, crescents, stars and shields; in fact almost any imaginable figure was repro- duced in flowers at one or another of the sta- tions. Carpet beds, as they are called, of the different sorts of alternanthera, were also famil- iar objects at various places. Conspicuous at Newark are the experimental beds, for in them can be seen some of the love- liest of flowers. One of the most beautiful and stately is the swamp mallow, It is a large white flower of five leaves, with a small red center. It is of the hollyhock family. The veronica is another pretty thing. It is a rather small, star- shaped, purple flower with .a yellow center. It grows upon a bush three or four ·feet in height PENNSYLVANIA R. R'S DEPOT GROUNDS AT NEWARK STATION, DEL. and is very useful in decorating. The herba- Each year the gardens have shown a steady 20 and one of 20 by 12. Another will be erect- ceous sunflower is also a beauty. It is of a deep, improvement, and an understanding of how the ed soon. Twenty or twenty-five men are em- rich yellow. The hibiscus, of the same family business has grown is afforded in the truthful played during the summer to go up and down as the swamp mallow, is of a beautiful pink statement that at the beginning there were pur- the road and visit each station once or twice a hue, with a long pink style and yellow stamens. chased for the whole system only as many plants week and keep the gardens in order. This is The flowering beet is another ornamental plant, and flowers as are now necessary for the proper on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore but they have not proved satisfactory to Mr. adornment of a single station. At the opening Railroad and the Baltimore ·and Potomac, but Rose in charge of the greenhouses, to whom the last summer I 28,ooo plants of various the main line and the West Chester branch also the attractiveness of the Newark garden is kinds were shipped from the hot houses at New- have similar sets of employes. chiefly due. ark to supply the stations of the company wher- The station_garden at Newark is probably the The work of preparing for next season has ever flowers were used in the gardens. The handsomest of any on the lines of the company. already begun. It commences annually about main line, west of Philadelphia, went into the It is on the north side of the road, while on the the I sth or 20th of September. Propagation business of decorath1g its gardens only four years south is a strip of lawn I 50 feet long and 30 of the various plants then begins and is worked ago and this year ordered from the foreman at feet wide, set out in small trees, forty feet apart, .at all winter. Shipments commenceabout May XIII Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 6r

VICK'S. VICK' s REE Contest of Intellect. Fun and Profit for all. I, and are finished about July I, when every and is dear and delightful, and Address M. V. BEECHER, 834 Broadway, N; Y. statiori has its full supply of flowers. As re- homey and practical, after the same fashion as F marked -above, Mr. Rose, whose name by the Mayflower. Get up clubs for them, send them way is a very appropriate one for a gardener, bits of useful flower gossip, recommend them sent out this past season 128,ooo plants of all and -read them well. As with magazines so kinds, yet he had IO,ooo left over. This great with books. "Home Floriculture," by Eben total included 30,000 coleus, 30,000 alternan- Rexford, is a book of great value to floricultur- thera, 1o,ooo canna, 10,000 stevia (variegated), ists, either on a large or small scale. Mr. Io,qoo echeveria, Io,ooo vinca, 8,000 dusty Childs' Popular Bulbs and their Culture," has miller, 7,000 geraniums, Ampelopsis brightened many a cottage window garden and veitchii,or Boston ivy,and S,ooo miscellaneous Peter Henderson's "Gardening for Pleasure" plants, such as honeysuckles, begonias, trailing is a standard help for any flower grower. vines, veronicas, petunias, etc. Yet with all these of their own production Farmers the company sometim_es runs short of general and consumers of fertilizers would consult their ,bedding plants, and last year they bought near- own interest by forming clubs and buying high ly 6,000 to supply a deficiency. Their plant is graded amoniated Bone Phosphate at wholesale being enlarged to enable their own staff of hot- from $1s.oo to $zo,oo per ton. Send six cents house men to meet the demand. to C. E. RICK, General Agent, Fairview, Pa., Newark station is forty miles from Philadel- for samples, circulars, wholesale prices, etc. phia and fifty-five from Baltimore. It is one mile from the town of Newark. a number As THE BEETHoVEN ORGAN Co., of Washing- 1 of express trains between New York and Wash- M ore ton, N. J., whose advertisement appears on our Money is Made ington stop here the beautiful garden and pic- last cover page, is a thoroughly reliable firm. every year by Agents turesque station building are remembered by working for us than by any many travelers. The end of the station showri other company. Why don't in the picture is completely covered with Bos- BestNewandal!Standardvari- you make some of it? Our ES eties. Free distribution of a new ton ivy except the windows and the sign board POTATOextra early variety.E Beautiful illustrated catalogue circulars which we send Free bearing the name of the station in gilt letters. FREE. Address E. H. VICK will tell you how. we-will pay Back of to the east of the garden runs a 131 Park Ave., Rochester, N.Y. salary or commission and furnish handsome osage orange hedge, which screens outfit and team free to every the experimental beds and gives the lawn a agent We want you now, Address finish that could not be afforded by the neatest of fences. West of the station there is a pretty - Standard SilverWare Co. slope covered with fine grass and along the top is a row of handsome Carolina poplars. These trees are frequent objects in the railway gardens. When the row of trees recently planted on the south side of the tracks are grown they will af- We will send you a fringed ilnen Tidy or''An Owl Maid," Flosstoworkit, SEEDS AREHAVE THENO OTHERS. ford more than ample shade. . They are, how- Send ten cents for Floral ever, of a different variety. all for six 2c. stamps ( Address VICKS' Guide, 1892, at once. J. F. lNGALLS, Lynn, Mass. Box H 2 JAMES VICK'S SONS, Rochester, N.Y. Floral Magazines. TIDY Kate Ellicott, of North Carolina, contributes a bright, sensible article on Floral Magazines to Mayflower for January. The essential portions of which we append. Such kind words about VICK's, as "dear and delightful, homey and practicable," are evidence that at least one lady is pleased with our efforts to make a good magazine for a reasonable price. Every woman who takes pleasure and pride in her little, or large collection of plants, should take a Floral magazine The theoretical hit- or-miss instructions given in the "horticultural columns" of many miscellaneous weekly and monthly journals, always reminded me of Mark Twain's attempt at editing an agricultural pa- per, when he started off with "The Guano is a fine bird." A paper that is edited by a practical flower grower is better than any other, you feel then as if the editor's well-known success were an insurance of your own if you follow his direc- tions, and the many practical little ·hints and homely helps which come in from all sides from other women gardeners, are many of them adaptable to your own use. Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine FREE! The* best magazines* *are not always * the * high- We have made arrangements with the publishers to send this Magazine for one year FREE. est priced. For instance, Popular Gardening, American Garden, Horticultural Journal and to each person sending us an order before next May. London Garden, will not be so much help to the average amateur gardener as The Mayflower, VICK'S MAGAZINE, Orchard and Garden, and Park's Magazine, for the simple reason that they . Vick's Floral Guide for 18~92. sail over most gardener's heads. They can tell you in hieroglyphic technical One writer says : Of all the charming Seed Catalogues issued this year this one stands at terms, that are Greek to you, how to board up the head." Over and elevate benches to start plants and cutting, etc., in a greenhouse, which kind of boiler is NEW NOVELTIES! best for 40x20 greenhouse and how many feet of real merit, both Flowers and Vegetables, Don't fail to send ten cents for Floral.Guide. This. of pipe it will take, how many raspberry and strawberry plants to set in a square acre, etc_, amount may be deducted £rom first order. and what do you care for all that? Why, noth- Every person desiring' can have a package of New 40-lb. Oat FREE when ordering seeds. ing! let these field cultivators have their jour- nal all to themselves and take The Mayflower JAMES VICK'S SONS, Rochester, N. Y. Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. XIV

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This excellent variety distinguished from all

tre mel y early and entirely free from rot; the leaves are very curly and of a. very dark green, almost black, making the plant. very ornamental as well as useful. FINCH'S EVERGREEN CUCUMBER

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the bulbs will produce Beautihil Vinee exactly the same in every respect as I have. been selling for One Dollar. Address plainly . . . FRANK FINCH (Box 75) CLYDE, N.Y. --Every person sending SILVER for this collec- tion will receive extra a packet of the .Mansfield Tomato (also known as the Prize) which has been good MANSFIELDTREE TOMATO GIVEN AWAY . Mr. Finch is perfectly reliable and trustworthy. TREES.. PLANTS, Etc. PRICE We mean by this that upon our 250 acres of we have every family of TREES and PLANTS hardy in a northern climate, whether Fruit, Ornamental, Nut or Flowering, of Bind which are accurately described in our cata- Your Magazines Iogue LOVETT'S GUIDE. TO HORTICULTURE, at ONE the PRICE given by The following are a few of our choice . novelties: Lovett's. Best Blackberry, Beebe and Lovett's Early Strawberry, AT HOME. Lovett Raspberry, Japan Wineberry, Green Mt. Grape, Lincoln Plum, Hardy Orange, Japan Walnuts, Ice Having had many calls for Binders for VrcK's MAGA ZINE King Primrose, Turkey's Beard, Red . Flowering _Cornel, Ever- blooming Spinaeas and Weigelas. under the new style and management, we have had a quantity Lovett s Guide to Horticulture is the most c.omplete and elabor- manufactured that are light, strong and handsome, and wi1 ate catalogue ever published 1 by any nursery establish- ment in the world. It hold twelve numbers in the convenient form of a book, which is richly illustrated, and replete with notes on purchas- ·can be kept lying on the reading-table. These are made like a ing, planting, run- ing, care and cul- regular book cover of the finest material and are embossed with ture. Mailed free ; With colored plates the name of the magazine in gold letters similar to the title on Shipments to distant points a the cover. They make a very attractive appearance. We will send one of these BINDERS specialty. J. T. LOVETT CO., by mail postpaid for 65 cents, and thus you can bind together in convenient shape a full year's Little Silver, N. J, numbers'. Address all orders

16 p VICK'S MAGAZINE, Rochester, N. Y. of CARDS GLOBE CO., Box Centerbrook:, Conn. Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. xvr

CENTS Thousands of firms want addresses of persons to whom they can mail papers, magazines, pictures, ca rds, &c., FREE as samples, and our patrons receive bushels of mail. Try it; you - will be WELL PLEASED with the small invest- $5 tO $l5 per day, at 1ment. A dress T. D. CAMPBELL, D.680, Boyleston, Indiana. home, selling LIGHTNING PLATER plu.tingjewe1ry, watches tableware, &c. Plates the finest jewelry good new, on all kinds of metal -with gold, silver or nickel. No experience. No capital. house has goods need· Wholesale to

LAST & :BEAR like WHOLE\ In writ to advertisers mention Vick' s Magazine· Trees; see" Fruits and~ Fruit Trees "-Free. .Am; Garden says: Novel, USEFUL, to the point. Orange Judd' JEWELRY---WE MAKE IT. Farmer: .Ably written; gives trusty INFORMATION. Cal.~ Latest styles, lowest prices, satisfaction guaranteed. Fruit Grower: Surprising LOW prices! Apple, Pear, Cher- Write fot prices. Send soc. for sterling s ilver b rooch. ry, Plum, PR.UNE, Peach, Ap't, Qnince, Nut, or Trees, Stocks, No stamps. Address H. E. GOFF. N. Attleboro, Mass. Mo.-Founded 1835; OLDEST .1000 Acres; LARGEST. Freight Paid WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., CHICAGO

AN ASTONISHING OFFER NATURE'S CURE FOR NATURE'S SURE CURE for ASTHMA .No Pay until Cured, and Positive Cures Guaranteed, Importing Office, No. 1164 Broadway, New York. For Book and Large FREE A STH M A Trial Case, sent by Mail, address, Central Office Kola FREE ON TRIAL. also Christian Observer a.nd Medical Journal, April 9, 1890. The Christian Evangelist, May 30, 1890, says editorially ' "The Kola Plant is a gift direct of God, to sufferers from Asthma, and His blessing will rest npon Stanley and associates, explorers of the Dark Continent. It is an unfailing cure for Asthma." Remember, No Pay Until Cured.

·This beautiful miniature UPHOLSTERED PAR- LOR SET of three pieces (for the next 60 days) will be sent to anyaddresson receipt of cents to pay PRAY YOUR FRUIT TREES·~ VINES expenses, boxing, packing, advertising, etc. This is done Wormy Fruit and Leaf Blight of A ples, Pears, Cherries, SPRAYING as an ad vertisement and we shall expect every one get· Curculia. prevented by using EXCELSIOR OUTFITS. PERFECT FRUIT ALWAYS SELLS AT GOOD PRICES. Catalogue show. consists of one sofaa and two rs. They are made ing all injnrions insects to Fruits mailed free. Large stock of Fruit Trees, Vines, and Berry Plants At Bottom Prices. A4dress W. M. STAHL, Quincy. Ills. beautiful .Plush {which we furnish in any color desired.) To advertise our house, for 60 days, we propose to furnisb these sets on receipt of 95 cents, Postage stamps taken. S No additional charge for boxing or sbipping; order immediately. No attention Paid to letters unless they 5 & 7 Murray Street. Y. Ari elegant dressing exquisitely perfumed, removes all impurities from the scalp, prevents baldness and gray hair, THOSE ANSWERING AN ADVERTISEMENT WILL and causes the hair to grow Thick, Soft and Beautiful. In- CONFER A FAVOR - UPON THE ADVERTISER AND fallible for curingeruptions,diseases ofthe skin, glands and I muscles, and quickly healing cuts, bu111s, bruises, sprains, THE PUBLISHER BY STATING THAT THEY SAW THE &c. All Druggists or by Mail, cts, ADVERTISEMENT IN ' VICI{'S MAGAZINE; BARCLAY & Co., 44 StoneSt., New York. Owners of Greenhouses~Hot-Beds,

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A Cackling Chorus. From Farm-Poultry. If you want some winter eggs, heed our bumble rhyme: Feed us first, feed us last , feed us all the time. Leave us not in squalid pens to a filthy feast; Clean the perch and premises, thrice a week at least. Should younger pullets fail, 'tis no fault,-but fate: If they were not hatched in ·March they born Pears' Soap were too late.

What Young Men Have Done. Cromwell left the University of Cambridge at eighteen. 'Gladstone was in Parliament at twenty-two, What virtue there is in bare cleanliness! N oth- and at twenty-four was Lord of the Treasury. Lord Bacon graduated at Cambridge at six- teen, and was called to the bar at twenty-one. ing ought to be sought of a soap but cleanliness! vVebster was in college at fifteen, gave evi- dence of his great future before he has twenty- five. It has its results; let it work them out; give Washington w as a colonel in the army at twenty-two, commander of the forces at forty- Lwo, President at fifty-seven. it time. Judge Story was at Hartford at fifteen, in Congress at twenty-nine, and Judge of the Su- preme Court of the United States at thirty-two. Pears' Soap does nothing but-cleanse; it brings Marti.n Luther had become largely distin- guished at twenty-four, and at fifty-six had reached the topmost round of his world-wide back health and the color of health to many a sal- fame. Napoleott at twenty-five commanded the army 1 of Italy. At thirty he was not only one of the OW .S kin. Give it time. But has no medical most illustrious generals of the time, but one of it the great law-givers of the world. At forty-six he saw 'Waterloo. properties. Read the "Little Gem" one-horse garden, flower bed and lawn sprinkler adv, A Popular Fence. Medical soaps are wrong; too strong and too The Buck-Thorn Fencing advertised in all- other column, has been manufactured in Tren- ton, N.J., for or 12 years, and in many sec- weak; too strong for a soap and too weak for a tions of the country very popular. It claimed to make the. most substantial and sa(est barbed fence known. Being flat, with a single medicine. longitudinal rib, the largest possible surface is presented to view. It is plain to be seen. No part of it is made of wire. The barbs are l(eep your medicine out of your bath. You short, broad at the basc, only one quarter inch apart at the point. One of its chief that every part of the strand is perfect- coated with zinc, the process of galvanizing rnight as well "pepper" your steak with rhubarb. - final one. Therefore it never rusts. readers who are interested in the fence ould do well lo write to THE BucK- Soap itself is the best of medicine; put no medi- Co., Trenton, N. J., for their ctne in it. Nothing but soap; pure soap; Pears' Soap, because there is neither fat nor alkali in it--

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They cut Wa.rm Bread as easily as wann butter. Thick slices or thin. Makes no crumbs. Guide for 1892, can obtain

A-THREE-TIMES-A-DAY BLESSING. a copy FREE by sending Everybody praises it as soon as used. Handle hangs knife hangs up. · Three sizes . Bread, Cake and Paring--all for The edge, it is observed, consists of a serie.s of reflex curves, ground on US ord one side only, in such a manner that the e,ntire edge, and not tl1e teeth only, is uniformly sharpened. This form of the edge ·possesses many advantages, among which, its unequaled cutting edge for purpose intended, and the facility with which it may be · sharpe11ed, ·are of great JAMES VICK'S SONS, We have .sole control of these knives as premiums and they are 11ot for sale in any store in country. The set of three sent by express on receipt of priee, or by mail for I 5 cents additional for postage, or Rochester' N. y. given as premium for four subscribers to our Magazine. for one year

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