War in the Air. There Is a strong demand for coat nnd this, coupled with the dispatching of heavy tonnage to the lnko ports, Jibs stiffened prices nmterlnlly. While " there has nut been imy decided ml vanco In prees Hlnre last week, II Is intimated Hint within n fortnight there will be another rise. The nmrket Is firm and sulfa mo most encouraging. There Is, iliowover, (ho contingency thut a cur nhortngo In most likely. Indeed, nt several mines of one or the lending Independent Interests of the Pittsburg district work was us pended for two days this week, ow lug to the limhlllty of the mine to se cure Biil'llelent curs to entry nwny the output. TIip railroad officials, It must 1)0 sulci, nie doing nil in their power to avert n repetition or the ciir short ape of several years ago. This will be, lntide possible by the iitlllzatk'ii : Kteel curs of larger currying captu'itv thnn the o'd woollen cars, expansion of locomotive capacity and also the adoption of better methods of train movements. This, It la believed, will do the business. Keports from all ol the mines In the l'lltsbnrg district In dlcate that they are working on full time and n little over the normal ea (paelty. From central Pennsylvania comes the news that the mines are active on about "5 per cent of output capacity. From the Hotncirsol-Miey-ersdalo, Cumberland, Fairmont and Ulklns fields comes the news that the mines thereabouts are on about 70 per cent of the output capacity. This, coupled with the activity now on In this district, nngurs well for the coal trade for the Immediate future. Prices now quoted are: PHUJilil-ir P n II Mlnnu Mine-run $t.2rffii.:!5 Vlncli lump 1.3r.ffii.4.r 114-Inch lump 1.45ifil.i!0 3-Inch lump 1.70?il.!0 1'i-lnch nut 1.2rrl.4i -Inch slack ' Silfio .'JO llltick Diamond. The Amerlcnn Sheet and Tin I'late Co. Inst Friday advanced the price of blue annealed sheets $1 a ton. Inde pendent concerns linve also advanced selling prices $t a ton on black and $2 a ton on the galvanized product. The new scale of the American Sheet and Tin Plato Co. on blue annealed sheets is: Nos. 3 to 8, $1.0." ; Nos, 9 and 10, C1-T0; Nos. 11 nnd 12, $l"; Nos. Hi und II, $1.80; Nos. 15 and Hi, fl.HO. The schodulo of tho Independent companies on nnnealed nnd galvan ized Is: Nos. 17 to 21, $2.05; Nos. 22 to 24, $2.10: Nos. 2,r. and 20, $2.1.".: No. 27, $2.25; No. 2S, $2.30; No. 30, $2.40. Galvanized: Nos. 12 to II, $2.3,"; Nos. 15 and Hi. $2.45; Nos. 17 to 21, $2.(;.r; Nos. 22 to 24, $2.,70; Nos. 25 and 211, $2.90; No. 27, $3.10; No. 2S, $3.25; No. 29, $3.35; No. 30, $3.C0. Tho Monongnhcln River Consolidat ed Coal and Coke Company last from '$000,000 to $700,000 as a result or the storm In the lower Mississippi Valley, although tho exact amount cannot be determined, according to George V. Theiss president of the conimny. Tho loss In coal was ap proximately 8,325,000 bushels. Mr. Theiss said: ' - "Our loss Included practically all the.ro:-' atlpaf nt .New jprloans, Union Rouge, IJayou Sara, aH., anili Natches, Miss., amounting , to 33J ' eoulhonts. money loss, of wr.lch, after making reasonable allowance for salvage, will probnbly-reach from $eiOi0 to $700, 00.M Most of the coal will be recovered by digging, and water diggers, bulges nnd boats will le rushed to the scone: Mr. Theiss received tho following re port from R. V. Wllmot, manager of ihe comiKiny, In New Orleans: !eorge V. Theiss, President, Pitta burg, Pa.: Dear Sir Your company's losses here by the storm nre appalling. All wires are down and we have not yet received full reports. A3 nearly as we can make out everything at Wil low Grove wa3 lost; everything at Coalport but two dumpboaU and one l;oat of coal sank. At Algiers Schnci dau lost one full boat and part of a boat of coal. We lost part of a boat pt coal nnd the tug Carrie H. wuf torn loose, capsized and went down In deep water, becoming a total loss. We sent a man to Baton Rouge to net news of the fleet there, but he has not returned. We fear, however, that there must have been great loss there. Everything possible was done to Titep your property afloat, but It was humanly impossible to resist the great waves which rolled over the fleets and submerged them. Never has' the writer seen Buch a hurricane. Of course, a large part of the coal can be recovered, and we suggest that j-ou send us a lot of empty barges to put it in. We are writing this hastily to .get word to you as soon as possible, nnd hope to send yon a telegram from some point in the interior. R. W. WILMOT, Manager. Almost the entire supply of winter oal for New Orleans was lost. The company carries an insurance fund o: its own, and whatever amount is in the fund at the present time will bo available to apply toward the los3. The amount In the fund at the close of business for the last fiscal year, ending November, 1908, was $200,000. The miners in the Charlerol mines have settled the controversy over the use of carhonito by agreeing to have a test of the explosive to determine whether it is more expensive 'than Mack powder.. III After a four days' conference In tho Hotel Sthonley, the Glass Uotlle mowers' Association representatives ami the manufacturers reached an agreement last Friday which, with a few modifications, was practically the 1908 wage scale. Tho manufacturers will open their plants at once, and It is expected that most of the 10,000 men out of work in this Industry will resume work within the next three .vreks, nnd that all will 'bo at work by November 1. At the conference In July tho maim Torturers demanded what was prnetlc illy n 50 per cent reduction, which the blowers declined to accept, with the result that all factories have been closed down since that time, although iiMiny of them were closed previously owing to the depression in business .(iiiclitloiis. One of tho representative!! who attended the conference stated ;hat. by November 1 conditions would be better than nt any time since l!.'07. Ho claimed that tho victories won throughout the West and South by oral optlonlsta and rrohlbllloulslH mil done much to hurt tho 'hntlle iiade, as there were 3,000 blowers eni idtiyod In the beer bottle Industry i lone, but that many of these men would engage In making other kinds f ware, ami that eventually they did lot expect the damage done would bo 'lollcenble. President William E. Corey of tho United States Steel Corporation, in nil Interview to be published In the Manufacturers' Record, discussing tho outlook for the Iron and steel trade, takes an exceedingly optimistic view :f business conditions and railroad expansion, lie says: 1 "We aro right now in the midst of the greatest development In the his tory of tho stool nnd Iron business. Substantially all of our plants urn now "mining, mid pructlcnlly on full time, and there Is no branch In tho nteol industry Hint Is backward. The Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Hallway Com pany has rail orders abend to run four or live months, nnd the Carneglo ami Illinois companies can make no prom ises under tio days. There Is n good deiennd for nil similes or finished steel. "Next year will witness a record breaking production of steel In every line. One of tho greatest will be in railroad supplies, rails und cars. Next year will bo the great est In railroad buying and building ever known In the history of the coun try." Official circulars were soul out last week by President T. J. McArdlo of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, invfling the blast furnace workers to meet with representatives of other organizations and discuss the reorganization of the amalgamation along tho lines Intend ed to incorporate all men employed In the industry The circular states that the associa tion Is being conducted along lines not In accord with the Improvements of the Iron and steel business, ami a com plete reorganisation under a new name is contemplated. YOUNUSTOWN, Sept. 28. Tho Amalgamated Association Is making .in effort to organize tho furnace em ployes of tho Mahoning and Shenango Valleys. National oflleors are - here arousing Interest in the movement. The furnace employes have not had m organization for several years. The movement will bo strongly op pohod by the operators. Plans for a mnmmot-li, steel plant to bo built at Ouluth. by the United States Steel Corporation are noaring completion. A big dock Is also con templated there. The constantly In creasing demand for finished 'utoel products Is taxing the capacity of the "hints of the coi'iKiratlon throughout the country. The dock will be constructed of Heel and concrete. It will be 2,305 feet long and will contain 384 pockets. The dock of the dock, upon which the ire will bo dumped from the cars into tho pockets, will be 74 ',4 feet above water. The corporation will have Its three wocden docks at Duluth overhauled. A revival or an old story of the United States Steel Corporation's in dention of entering the steel business 'n China brought out a denial from fudge Elbert H. Gary, who suld: "The itory is utterly without the slightest .'oundatlon In fact." When the idea of the Steel Corpora tion building plants in the Orient was first put forward about a year ico the etory was adorned with spe cific details of where the corporation .vas to get its ore and coal and labor, md It wsb shown how, with a reduced nri.t and cheap materials and work men, it would be able not only to aionopolize the eastern and African narkets, but undersell Us rivals in his country also. It Is reported that the United States !teel Corporation has purchased the ?okeville property, near Greensburg, for a plant and that the town will be ebullt. Nine years ago Jt was eud lenly abandoned. There was a popu atlon of 2,000 then with 700 miners. good ouantlty and quality of coal Is o be had near the town. . Reports from Somerset county say bat all the mines are working to ca laclty, but that there is a severe hortage of men and production could le made heavier If there were more lingers. Difficulty arises also on the "omerset branch of the U. & o. on i-coount of it being a slngJe line road u the George's Creek field in Mary ' nd the great full movement of coal s on, while. in the West Virginia 'cctlon nearly capacity tonnage is :elng shipped. mriTir I mm miW I It Is the iiillltnry aspect of the air ship that Just now commands the most attention. Since Germany's aim In the development of the science is primarily supremacy In warfare, nnd because (iermany is (be most warlike Power In the world to-day, the ex cited concern of England about the progress of tho Zeppelin type of fly ing machine Is well justified. A valuable study of the achieve ments looking to the "command of the nlr," so to say, by Germnny comes appropriately with the centen ary of that poet who predicted a bat tle between "nlry navies grappling in the central blue." We are bo near the realization of tho prophecy that It Is almost n certainty tho next war bo twoen Old World Powers will have ns Its features, If not a fight between hutllcRlilpB in the clouds, nt least a demand on the modern army to vindi cate Its right to existence in the face of a new and terrible engine, which ran prey on Us ranks with llttlo dan ger to lis own efficiency. Tho facts marshaled In McClure's Magazine by Carl Dlenstbach nnd T. 11. MacMcchnn make tho conjecture anything but wild. A flight by the latest Zeppelin ship, which would have taken it from German soil to London nnd back. Is one of these facts. Another Is that from the deck of a Zeppelin airship a rnpld-ftiing gun, throwing sixty shells a minute, was fired successfully. Other facts are that Germnny lins finished an air ship plant on Lake Constance costing $1,500,000; Zeppelin I. has been sta tioned nt the military fortress of Metz, Zeppelin II. at the fortress of Cologne nnd the next nerlal battleship will leave Its station at Mainz. Further Blgns that Germany menns business is that by a yenr from now plans already laid will provide the Germans with a fleet of from ten to twenty of theso vessels of war. The Aerial Navy Iicaguo of Germany blazes with enthusiasm over the Zep pelin project, the Government Is financing It nlBn, and there Is noth ing but time between that nation and the possession of a big battle fleet with which It hopes to put armies to rout and change tho whole com plexion of warfare more radically than anything Blnce the first use of gunpowder. A now mnchlne of war has arrived. It will be a ship as large as and eventually much larger than present ocean battleships. It will fight from a height of a milo above the earth, and will manoeuvre, during bnttle, nt a into of Blxty or sixty-five miles an hour. The wlndB at this eleva tion averago twenty-five miles nn hour, and on brisk days often reach thirty. The aerial battleships will movo to windward and sweep down thoso winds when passing over the enemy. In this way they can direct nn absolutely certain fire upon tho earth, while they are themselves prac tically out of danger. Ordinary rifle fire will not reach them. Rig guns have not yet been perfected which can be fired at the distance to which an airship will have to drop to work its machlno rlllo fire.' Yet when this problem of training the gun is solved there re mains tho matter of the range. The target, It Is true, mny be a Bhip nny wlicro from 446 feet long nnd 4 4 feet beam (dimensions of Zeppelin II.) to one of greater size than the Maura tnnla. This would be easy to hit, one would suppose. But getting the range on a rapidly moving object like this gives tho artillerists something new to work on. Against nn enemy on land the range la found with trial shots, marked on the ground. There Is nothing to go by when balloons are the targets. Ex periments are said to have shown that It takes from five to twenty minutes for artillery to hit low-hanging bal loons at battle ranges. On the other hand, the marksmen high in the air can pick off their men with relative ease. Our writers tell us what may ibe expected of the new ships In whose construction money will not be stint ed, as It was with tho first two Zep pelins: i "Count Zeppelin announced some time ago that he could easily build an airship with a displacement of 30,000 cubic meters just twice that of Zeppelin If,, and two and a half times that of Zeppelin I. It has also been announced that the ships now building at Germany's aerial ship yards in Fredrlchshafen are consid erably larger than those now afloat, And it is more than probable that the new craft will approach a 30,009 meter displacement An airship of that size would only be 610 feet long that Is, but fifteen per cent, longer than the two crafts now afloat." ." But Just beyond the 450-foot length the lifting power of an airship grows by leaps. . . "Now, an aerial ship 510 feet long and 51 feet wide could carry a dozen men a mile high in the air over a radius of 500 miles and back; that Is, It could reach every principal capi tal of Europe from .the borders of German territory and return. It could, In addition, devote at least five tons of cargo weight to arms and am munition. This could include ten ma chine rifles, each equipped with am munition enough for a full hour's work, end two machine guns of the type built for the Zeppelin I., with 200 shells for each weapon. Two and a -half tons of dynamite torpedoes could be substituted for half of the machine guns and their ammunition If it were desired to attack fortifi cations or cities. Forty craft of this kind could be built and armed at the cost of one Dreadnought battleship. Anil such a fleet, without opposition from oilier airships, could conquer Wwtern Europe. The moment it. hi launched, the standing armies of En ropo becomo nn niuiironlsm." In the faeo of tho present showing of tho airship, and of the possibilities of tho aeroplane as a kind of torpedo bont in nerlal warfare, It will be ob served that Germnny takes no step to lessen her land forces or to Interrupt her naval programme. It the Ger mans believed from tho experiments they have tnnde that armies certainly could be scattered In panic by ma chine guns from Zeppelins nnd bat tleships blown out of water by tor pedoes dropped from balloons, there would be effected nt once nn enor mous gnvlng In the old fashioned mil itary establishment nnd tho waste would bo diverted to tho manufacture of n flock of the new nnd overpower ing engines of war. Hut like England, which Is now laying down four super-Dreadnoughts, Germnny nwnlts tho test of the nerlnl bntleshlp In net mil battle. Grent things were expected from the Biili-niaiiiio torpedo boat, but It Is of smiill practical vnlun bo far, Whlln there can be no question that the Zeppelins will cut a large figure In the next European war, nnd may be of such efficiency ns to decide the turn of battles, no less ns fighting ma chines thnn ns scouts, those who hope for tho most from them consider them still In the experimental rtnge, so far ns war Is concerned, nnd regard tho command of tho sen as rIIII of far more vital Importance In military strategy than tho command of the air. If tho nerinl battleship does take the Bcene of armed contention off the face of the earth and the waters thereof, as pos-albly it will In the course of time, there need bo no fenr on the one hnnd that It will ninke wnr more horrible or on the other that It will put nn end to wnr. If the nlry navy becomes biicIi a terrible en gine of destruction as It is pictured In prophecy, nrmles and battleships of courso will no longer bo main tained. Nations will go up In the nlr to arbitrate their quarrels when di plomacy falls. Yet the notion that frightful havoc, including tho de scription of cities and the slaughter of non-combatants, will follow the perfection of tho balloon battleship and the neroplnno is not warranted. Public opinion, whoso forco ns a world power is gaining every year, will order this matter. Just as dum dum bullets aro forbidden by the civilized nations, nnd as mnny other rules aro rigidly adhered to by pro gressive peoples, so will the scope of operations by tho now battleship be prescribed and limited. Cities will be Immune, and so will be all surfaces of the earth nnd sea that do not con tain belligerents. The warships of tho air will fight it out between them selves, nnd tho victory, ns now, will go to the commanders who show the most nklll nnd valor In the struggle. War will be confined more than ever to professional fighting men. Edi torial' in tho Now. York Tress. Tho Oldest Mvlng Triplets. According to Congressman Charles II. Cowles, of North Carolina, tho old est living triplets in tho world nre the Gibbs triplets, born in Wllkcsboro, N. C, May 2, 1833nnd now in their seventy-seventh year. One of the triplets, William Washington Glbbs, resides In Atlanta, Co., nnd tho other two, Robert Jackson Glbbs and Thos. Lafayette Glbbs, live nt Roomer, N. C, within a few miles of the place of their birth. The thrco brothers nre hale, hearty, industrious, sober nnd splendid citizens, In spite of the fact that they endured the hardships and privations of four years of tho Civil War and years of struggle with pov erty. All three of them volunteered early in the war, and fought In the same company of tho samo regiment In many battles. Bethel was tho first real battle of the war between the States, Gettysburg tho crest of Con federate aggression and Appomattox the last of that struggle. The Gibbs triplets, in common with all North Carolinians, are proud of the inscrip tion on the State's battlefield monu ments, which reads: "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and last at Ap pomattox." Leslie's Weekly. The Helpful Bellboy. For four consecutive nights the ho tel man had watched his fair, timid guest fill her pitcher at the water cooler. "Madam," he said on the fifth nlgbt, "it you would ring this would be done for you." "But where 13 my bell?" asked the ladyr "The bell is beside your bed," re plied the proprietor. "That the bell!" she exclaimed. "Why, the boy told me that was the fire alarm, and that I wasn't to touch it on any account." Success Maga zine. 1 Take a Chance. Mr. Reed, Senator" Wolcott and Joseph H. Choate were having a lit tle dinner at the Waldorf. When wine was offered Mr. Choate turned bis glass down. "Gentlemen," he said proudly, "I have arrived at the age of fifty-flvo and never yet have I tasted wine or tobacco, nqr plaed any game of chance for money." Wolcott heaved a very audible sigh. "My, how I wish I could say that!" "Why don't you?" drawled Reed; "Choate did!" Success Magazine, f Farm Topics IHHMMI INSECTS ON CUCUMDEll VINES. If the cucumber vines look dry and yellow and tho blossoms are dropping off pepper them copiously with red pepper, especially the under sides of the leaves, nnd the blight will bp stopped. It Is caused by a small elu sive, insect which, however, the red pepper seems to find and destroy. FEEDING llOflS. Ono farmer, who raises about a thousand hogs a year and who, In ono year, sold $11,200 worth, makes a practlco of growing his hogs on al falfa pnsture until about eight months old, feeding one ear of corn per head daily. Ho then feeds heavily on corn for a mouth or two nnd Rolls at an average weight of 200 to 225 pounds. Farmers' Homo Journal. LIMIT OF PRODUCTION. Tho limit of production of nn acre of land Is measured ns much by the capacity of tho man who tills It as by fho capacity of tho Boll Itself .to pro duce a Inrge crop. Thero aro few farmers who till one-half acre of soli In a manner that will produce the best and most profitable returns. As a rulb the average farmer has a vague Idea of tho value of tillage and jiropor fertilization. Through the feedings of the plnnts a soil may be rich or poor, just ns Dm farmer plans his rotation and cropping systems, Farmers' Homo Journal. SHEEP AND WEEDS. Sprouts and many varieties of nox ious weeds yield palulablo feed to the Industrious sheep that nip them. Whllo .the presence of undesirable vegetation and brush on a farm Is not tho best exciiso for keeping a flock, It must bo admitted that mnny farm ers adopt sheep prlmurily as a means of combating woedfl. Worthier ob jects can be accomplished by the de pendable aid of these animals, but on many farms they pay well as weeders and can be allowed .to work in that capacity without depreciating thorn tor other purposes. Shoop aro peculiarly adapted to rolling or hilly land, though some breeds thrive on low, level areas. Sprouts from stumps and tho under brush of wooded hillsides are com monest whore hillsides aboard, and sheep are particularly fond of the succulence which they afford. Dreed, era' Gazette. KILLING RATS. A method of poisoning rats em ployed by a lumber and grain com pany in Kansas is said to be a suc cess. The method is this: They get nn old smoothing Iron with a hole in tho top, put Id crushed strychnine, pour In rainwater, stir it and place ready for the rats. Tho rata drink it freely and they are killed. Mnny of them go Into their holes and die, where thoy are eaten by tho llv ones which, of course, kills them. Tho heavy Iron Is used, as It will not upset or move about easily. This method of poisoning would bo all right for barns and outbuildings, but where tho rats wero killed around dwelling houses, tho smell of the dead decay ing rodents would bo very offensive, nnd thoy would be whore it would be Impossible to get at them. The plan of sprinkling concentrated lye In the runways appeals .to us as a good one. Tho rat steps on tho lyo with moist feet and he Immediately feels a burn. He licks his feet and there is more burn and he makes himself scarce. Farmers' Guido. FAT HORSES THE DEMAND. The day of .the thln-flcshed horse Is passsd. Strange, yet true, high priced feeds have brought an In creased demand for higher condi tioned animals of nil kinds. The poor, old cow is not much in demand, fresh beef and fat beef Is what the beef cater asks for regardless of price. The canned beef is not the thing with the common peoplo or tho uncommon. The same is true with mutton and pork eaters; everybody wants high conditioned, fleshy animals. The poor old horse and thin young horse Is discriminated against in the market until tho horse dealer has be come a horse conditioner, or more properly speaking, there has been cre ated through this demand for flesh a new middle man whose business is buying up the out-ot-conditlon horze and putting him in the feed lot, where a bunch of bis kind are con gregated to be fed ont, fattened like a lot of steers for the fat market, ex cept the fat horse goes to the city horse market to be sold and put into team work on tho streets. The heavy draft horse made fat is in demand, and if In matched teams brings the top prices in the market. Fine, stylish, big horses, of course, mean much more than merely fat horses, but this excellent quality of horse to sell for the highest price must be in high flesh. A fat horse always looks good, especially to the man who knows little or nothtoig about a horse, no matter what his imperfections may be. This is where the old saying originated, no doubt, "A high condition of flesh covers up many defects." It is now customary among profes sional horse raisers and dealers to grow and put Eesh on the colt just as rapidly as he can stand it. The soon er he attains horse size the sooner he is marketable and the more money he makes his producer. . Tho stock raiser of to-day of any kind of ani mal scek3 early maturity, and ths faster and fatter the animal grows and develops the tetter for the profit side of the oc:ount. Tfintlclii C;a-tifi-jr Farmer WHITE STRAWBERRY. A California horticulturist, It Is claimed, has produced a white straw berry which bears all the year 'round. This berry Is tho result of a long se ries of experiments with crossing va rieties under different conditions. Tho originator claims to have pro duced two distinct varieties of ber ries, which will bear through the full year. One Is white and the other ted, and both are snld to be of excel lent flavor. Farmers' Homo Journal, TWO GOOD MULLEINS. . Two of tho newer Mulleins (Vor liascums) likely to come to the front are called A. M. Burnlo nnd Caledo nia, and will be welcomed by those who like these effective border flow ers. A. M. Burnle Is a plant of good nnd effective growth, while Caledonia lias sulphur yellow blooms, suffused with lake color. Roth flower from, June to August. Theso hybrid Mul leins nre fine things In tho border, and grow In any common soil. In dianapolis News. FIIILADELPHUS LEMOINEL. Every hortlculturnllHl knows the old sweet scented mock orange, Phll adelphus coronnrlus, renowned every where for the delightful odor of Its flowers. This species Is of European origin. There are several species na tlves of our Southwestern States, but these are not sweet scented, or but slightly, neither nre the varieties raised from thorn. They are fast growers and have large flowcVs, which is deslrablo for mnny situations,1 such as where a showy shrub is required which will grow to a good size quick ly. The sweet scented one reforredt to, coronnrlus, Ig a rather low grow er, more Inclined to bushlness than height, but everywhere planted for Its perfume. There Is a newer one In collections, railed Phlladclphus Lemoinel, the fragrance of which Is delicious, more powerful thnn that of tho old sort; It reminds one of the fragrance of grapes when In flower. Its growth in tall and slender, yet stout enough to bear the weight of the numerous flowers It produces, blooming at the same time as tho other mock or an gee do with us, viz., the first week in June. Its fragrance will Insure It a place In every garden as soon as its character In this respect Is known. It Is of tho European type, and equal ly as hardy as the old sweet scented one, coronarius. Florists' Exchange, BRUSSELS SPROUTS. This vegetablo is a valuablo addi tion to tho kinds usually grown in the home garden. It Is a close rela tive of the cabbage and cauliflower, but instead of producing a single bead the plant forms a number of smnll heads In tho axles of the leaves and these beads are called sprouts and are the edlblo part of the vege table. Tho sprouts averago one or two inches in diameter. The seed should be sown In the open ground as early as the weather permits In April. When the plants are three inches high they should be transplanted or thinned out into rows twenty-four to thirty inches apart and about two feet apart In the row. The plants must bo well wa tered after they have been moved. As the small sprouts begin to crowd the leaves should be broken from the stem to give the small heads more room. A few leaves should be left at the top of the stem where the new beads are to be formed. In warm climates tho plants may be left In open ground all winter, the heads lining removed as desired. In more northern latitudes plants that are well laden with heads are takes up when the frost comes and set close together in a pit or cellar or "cold frame,", where, with a little soil packed around their roots, they may be kept all winter. Indianapolis News. WISTARIAS. It Is a disappointment to many to wait so many years for their wis tarias to flower, but it is useless to look for young plants to bloom. Wis tarias, of all vines, must attain to the height of whatever they are trained to before flowers appear. When in bush shape, with no support at all, or but little, they flower much ear lier than when they are set to climb to a great height. Of the several species and varie ties now in cultivation the good old Chinese still leads all in general worth. It is thought that multljuga, the Japanese one, would supersede it, because of the representations as to Its lengthy racemes. These racemes are lengthy, it is true, two or three feet on vigorous plants, but as the flowers are much more ccattercd along them than they are on the Chinese, the effect is not as pleasing, hence the Chinese is still the leading one. As is well known, the Chinese has light purple flowers, but it has a white variety, an admirable sort, making a beautiful display when in Hower. Mentioning varieties, quite a differ ence in color from the usual form of tho Chinese has been observed on plants raised from seed, many of them being much lighter than the type. Of course, locality and soil affect the colors of flowers, but in the ase of the3e wistaria tielr colors seem permanent. Florists' Exchange.
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