an.
™ Blue and Goid,
Well, since you mention it yourself,
“¥al, 1 will confess that I was surprised
0 find you engaged to Miss Brookfield,”
asaid Ned Chester, to his life-long chum,
fHal Elmendorf (the two young men
“were leisurely strolling through Maple
avenue), “for when I went abroad, you
were most emphatically denouncing the
heartlessness and selfishness and ex-
travagance and a few other amiable
«<haracteristics—according to your way
~of thinking at the time—of society girls,
and apparently sincere in your deter-
~mination to remain a bachelor rather
‘than marry one of them. And your
Jetbers have given no hint of a change
in your sentiments, Quite the con-
‘drary. Your last, by-the-by, was most
perplexing. No woman’s letter could
have been more so. In it you suddenly
Jumped from the Clauson Mine to ‘a
‘sweet, wild rose,” of whom you had
previously told me nothing, If 1
remember aright, the sentence intro-
«ducing ber ran thus: ‘And the divi-
+ dends this year are much larger than
this sweet, wild rose that I have found
in this lonely place, and am almost
. persuaded to court and marry, after the
ananner of Tennyson's landscape
.painter.’
Elmendorf threw away his cigarette,
“Jooked thoughtfully into space a mo-
«ment, dropped into a still slower walk,
and asked, ‘‘Should you like to hear all
about it, old fellow ?”’
“Of course I should,’ replied Chester.
“Lives there a man with soul so dead,
who ever to himself has said, ‘I take no
interest in sweet, wild roses? And
beside that, havn’t I been the confidant
«of all our ove affairs since you were
“Swelve, and awfully smitten with the
pretty girl in Wild's confectionery ?
- Drive ahead! I’m all attention.”
“As you remarked a few moments
ago,” began Elmendorf, *‘just before
you crossed ‘the briny,’ I became dis-
gusted with fashionable young ladies
in general, and, as you did not remark,
for fear of hurting my feelings, with
Eudora Brookfield, in particular. It
‘was rather hard on a romantic sort of
fellow, who was awful spoons on a girl,
to be told by that girl that his fortune
considerably enhanced his attractions
in her eyes, and that for her own part,
- she thought love in a cottage, less than
“five thousand a year must be the
dreariest of existences. We quarreled,
as you know, and parted. She went
shortly after to Newport, and I filled
“with scorn of managing mammas and
‘fortune-hunting daughters, donned a
Blue flannel suit and coarse, broad-
brimmed hat, and carrying with me
only a small valise, started for any-
swhere—anywhere out of the world.
‘At noon of my second day's travel,
“the train stopped at a quiet, tree-em-
dowered station, and following the im-
Pulse of the moment, I jumped off, a: d
struck into a lonely, shady road, re
solving to keep on, on foot, until Fate
= dhould say, ‘Thus far, and no farther. ’
Ned, that road was certainly the lone-
liest road I ever saw. Not a person did
I meet, not a house did I see, in an
# hour’s brisk tramp. But I trudged on ;
and “the more Eudora’s beauty and
grace flit'ed before me, the more her
+ sweet voice rang out in the song of the
“Yirds, the more my heart yearned for
her smile, the more [ was determined
to put miles between us. I would not
“be married lor my fortune. I would
"be loved for myself, or not at all
Aad growing stronger in resolution, at
every step, I suddenly found myself in
front of a small, gray cottage—I re-
anembered instantly that Eudora had a
silk dress of the same shade of gray—
half covered with woodbines and rose
wines, that stood just at the entrance of
‘a dense wood, were grew oaks, maples,
willows, eldér bushes, blackberry
bushes, and heaven only knows how
‘many other things planted there by the
winds and the birds. A cow with a
* young calf beside her, was lowing in a
dield opposite, and a brook was spark-
ding in the sunshine a short distance
- “AWAY,
“On the porch of this cottage sata
“ sniddle-aged woman, sewing, To her,
{ast In band I advanced, and humbly
referred a request for a drink of water,
4nd she, rising with hospitable quick-
macs, bade me take the seat she left,
while she went to the well. I sank
#ato the chair, for I was aweary, and
zsoon she returned with a glass of water
and a glass of milk. 1 drank them
~both—not at once, of course, but dur.
* img the conversation about the weather
© dhat ensued-—and had risen to depart
when the prettiest girl in blue and gold
~ “that I ever beheld came tripping up the
“garden path, a pail of water in each
and. ‘A sweet, wild rose,’ I said to
smyself, and sat down again, convinced
«iby a single glance at that lovely face
and form that this cottage was ‘Fate's
no farther,’
‘Accordingly, I told mine hostess that
+ 1 was a poor story-writer (you will admit
hat that was no lie, for all the editors
@o whom 1 have spbmitted my manu-
wseripts have sald the same thing), with
a book to finish, and that of all places
in the world to finish it, her beautiful,
wguiet home seemed the best, and I
begged her to let me stay a few weeks,
promising to make her as little trouble
as possible, **Well, I don’t see nothin’
agin it, if father and daughter don’t,”
said she, and away she went again, and
from the murmur of voices in the hall,
I knew the matter was being discussed
by the family. And in a few moments
a shrewd-looking old man appeared,
looked at me sharply, and asked
brusquely, ‘Kin you ’ford to pay four
dollars a week ?”’ I told him I thought
I could, and he seized my valise and
carried it into the cottage, I following.
Ned, old chap, it was a lovely spot,
and no mistake, Every morning the
birds awakened me with their songs,
and they were so fearless, never having
learned how cruel men can be, that
they flew in at my window and perched
upon the frame of the old looking-glass
—such & rum old glass (crooked my
nose and crossed my eyes)—and watch
me dress ; and fragrance enough from
the rose vines floated into that attic
room in one day to have perfumed
Eudora’s handkerchiefs for a whole
year.
“As for Alice—the sweet wild rose
—N0 poet ever dreamed of maid more
beautiful. Large, innocent dark-blue
eyes, with lashes so long that they cast
a faint shadow on her rounded cheeks ;
mouth, nose, chin, ears, hands, feet,
simply perfection ; and a voice, not as
musical as Eudora’s it is true, but with
a childish ring and sweetness; and
when she spoke, which was seldom, it
was with pretty modest hesitancy that
made you longto catch her in your arms
and kiss the words from her full red
lips, I had only seen her three times,
when I was madly in love with her, and
thought the plain, calico gowns she
wore the prettiest gowns in the world.
Her father and mother watched us close-
ly, but that blessed (as I thought then)
drouth had set in a week or so before my
arrival, and in two or three weeks more
our rain-water cask—we hadn’t attained
to the dignity of a cistern—was empty,
and our well ran low, and much water
had to be brought from the brook, and
of course I helped the sweet wild rose
to carry the pails, and (again, as I
thought then) the brook was a blessed
quarter of a mile from the house; and
one day, after traversing this quarter of
a mile with the pails and bonnie Alice,
I wrote you a very long letter, in which
among many other things, I reviewed
my Eudora experience, and told you of
the treasure I had found in the cottage
by the wood. And a few days after
posting this letter, I asked the sweet
wild rose to be my wife. She raised
those glorious, innocent blue eyes to
my face for an instant, and then
hid them upon my breast, while
she whispered — the shy darling—
*“‘Don’t ask father and mother just
yet, until I get used to the thought my-
self, It seems so very strange.’
‘And are you sure you love me?
And will you be willing to wear calico
gowns, and live In a cottage all your
life 7’ said I.
“ “I'ry me,’
glowing cheeks
smile,
*“‘Nowam I really loved,’ said I to
the birds, next morning—not having
you, Ned, I made confidants of them,
and, like you, they never betrayed ioe.
‘It is Hal Elmendorf wins the heart of
Alice, not his fortune—no sighing for
gems and gold, no longing for silks and
velvets and satins, knows this simple
country maid. She is even unaware of
her own marvelous gruce and beauty,
and she is also unaware, it cannot be
denied, of many of the rules of gram-
mer and pronunciation. But these I’
can soon teach her, Heaven bless her!’
And then I theught what delight it
would be to see those guileless blue
eyes open wide in pleasure and aston-
ishment when after gaining her parents’
consent to our marriage, I placed a
diamond ring upen the little hand.
And I made up my mind to start for
the nearest city immediately and obtain
the ring.
** So, pleading urgent business to my
darling, as soon as breakfast was over,
I bade her goody-by for a day or two.
“¢Oh! if you should never come
back,’ she sobbed, clinging around my
neck.
“‘But I will, dearest,’ I said, un-
loosing her lovely arms, and kissing the
tears from her eyes. ‘I shall be back
again before you have time to miss me.’
And I was; for I had only gone a mile
or two when I discovered 1 had left my
pocket-book behind, and full of anger
against myself for my carelessness, I
hastened back. As neared the cot-
tage, I heard loud voices—the voices of
Mrs. Burdock, my prospective mother-
in-law, and—could it be? Yes, it was
my sweet wild rose,
“‘Well it’s a regular mess, and I
don’t know what to gay to Bill Tryon
when he comes back from sea,’ the
elder lady was saying. ‘He'll raise the
ruff off the house.’ :
“ilet him.’ replied Alice. ‘I'll
build you a better house-near to folks;
for I'm sure I never want to come
back to this lonely hole, after I onst
leave it.’
“‘ Bat s’pose this man shouldn't be
with
an arch
she replied
and
dent mamma.
‘He's as rich as Screechus,’ an-
swered the daughter, in anything but a
sweet voice. And oh! how dreadful
the grammer and pronunciations sound-
ed in it. ‘Do you think I'd give up
Bill, if I wasn’t sureof it? He writ
a long rigmarole to some friend of his
one day, and he lost a plece, and I found
it—?
“The page almost ending with the
Clauson Mine, and nearly beginning
with the sweet wild rose,” interrupted
Chester.
* Just 80,” assented his friend, “But
to go on with the conversation, to which
I boldly confess I deliberately listened.
‘1 found it, he never missed it, and I
read it,’ said the simple country maid.
‘Some fash’nable girl wanted him for
his fortune, and he got mad and cleared
out, and walked round till he found me:
A sweet, wild rose he calls me, and he
ain't so far out, neither,’
** You'd better let your pa inquire
about him some, before you promise
sure to marry him,’ advised Mrs. Bur-
dock,
*“* Rubbish I’ exclaimed the rose. ‘ Pa
goin’ snoopin’ round might spoil every-
thing. I know he’s got lots of money
and I bet he’s gone off to buy me some-
thing elegaut now. Calico gowns, in-
deed | I'll wear silk every day of my
life. But come along, ma, let’s go up
stairs, P’r’haps he’s left his satchel
unlocked, and we can rummage through
it.’
“!No, he hasn't, said I, coming
forward ; ‘but don’t let that prevent
your enjoying yourselves, ladies ; here
is the key, at your service.’
“With a shrill scream, the sweet
wild rose fled. I reached my room un-
der the eaves in three bounds, gathered
together my belongings, left some bank-
bills on the table, and fled, too.
“And I am to marry Eu ora Brook-
field a month from to-day.''— Harper's
Weekly.
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Opening Oysters With Prayer.
There is a certain class of people who
take a very gloomy view of religion and
declare that we ought to do everything
as though we were todie the next min-
ute. What a long-faced community
we should be if that rule were carried
out. A man couldn't laugh at a joke;
indeed, no one would dare to make a
Joke for people to laugh at, and life
would become a slow march to the
grave, If to-day were (0 be our last
we should not lay in a stock of provisions
for to-morrow, we should not want to
go over the Brooklyn Bridge, and we
should not pay the note that becomes
due to-day because our creditor
won't need it. The best way, in spite of
sowe gloomy souls, is to live gladly,
honestly and happily as long as you can,
to cry at the things that ought to br,
cried over and to laugh at things that
oughtto be laughed at, There is no good
reason why a man should havecrow’s feet
before his time simply because he is reli-
gious and wants to do the right thing
We are reminded of a story in this con-
nection. “*You ought to engage in
nothing,” said a solemn saint, whose
soul was like a squeezed lemon, *‘that
You can't open with prayer.” The wag
to whom he addressed himself replied
irreverently, “Well, suppose I want a
dozen of oysters, can I consistently open
them with prayer?"
Habits of California Ostriches.
The editor of the Anaheim (Cal)
Gazette has been viewing the ostriches
oa a ranch near Costa Station. He says;
“The female lays an egg on alternate
days to the number of fifteen, when, if
permitted to sit, she considers her work
done. If, however, her eggs are taken
from her she will lay thirty before she
discovers the deception. And such eggs!
The one showed us weighs three and a
half pounds, and contains food sufficient
to furnish a plentiful breakfast for four
men. One would suppose that the
flavor of such eggs would be unpleasant
ly pronounced. Such is not the case,
however, the flavor not being as decided
as that of duck eggs. What school-boy
bas not read of the ostrich egg, and of its
being hatched in the hot sun of Afriea’s
sunny shore ? But this pretty legend,
like many other cherished stories of the
past, is all gammon. The chicks are
brought forth in the good old way.
The female sits on the eggs in the day-
time, and the male assumes the duty
at night, allowing the female to seek
rest and recreation while he attends to
the household duties, It must be
noted here that the male is much more
solicitous for his household than is
the female, It not unfrequently happens
that the latter prefers to gad about
rather than take her turn at sitting, and
on such occasions her lord and master
administers to her a deserved chastise-
ment by kicking her heartily around the
trition, and signifies her willingness to
settle down on the eggs. There isa
moral somewhere about this incident
which, when found, make a note of."
Parliamentary Manners.
There was a time when manners were
very bad in the English Parliament, but
this was when Parliament had not yet
established its supremacy, and it is
worth remarking that manners im-
proved from the time when Parliament
grew supreme, and when it eame to be
recognized that this supremacy could
only be maintained if on many great
questions both parties acted in concert,
Pepys, writing on the 19th of December,
1066, describes a queer scene which he
witnessed in the House of Lords : “My
Lord Buckingham leaning rudely over
my Lord Marquis Dorchester, my Lord
Dorchester removed his elbow. The
Duke asked whether he was uneasy,
Dorchester replied yes, and that the
Duke durst not do this if he were any-
where else. Buckingham replied yes he
would, and that he were a better man
than himself, Dorchester said that he
lyed. With this Buckingham struck off
his hat, took him by his periwigg, and
pulled it aside and held him,” There is
nothing so bad as this in the Parlia-
mentary annals of the Georgian era,
Chatham issaid to have been more feared
than any orator of his time, but his in-
vective was carefully measured. Speak-
ing of Newcastle, then Prime Minister,
he once asked whether Parliament sat
only to register the edicts of one too
powerful subject ? Hereupon Newcastle
is reported to have been frightened
almost out of his wits. But this was
fair fighting. There was no imputa-
tion on Chatham's part of ignoble
motives; he simply accused his adver-
esary of the spiendid sin of ambition.
Our Parliamentary history abounds
with encounters of this sort, in which
the thrusts delivered, whether in earn-
est or in jest, were often hard, but
always bestowed according to fuir
rules, and with an absence of that im-
placable animus which leaves cambat-
tants enemies when the fight is over.
Everybody knows the story of Sir
lobert Walpole having a dispute with
Pulteney about a quotation from Here
race. The Minister bet a guinea that
his own version wasright ; a ** Horace"
was sent for ; and Sir Robert, proving
to be in the wrong, threw down a
guinea, which Pulteney pocketed with
the remark that it was the only money
ever paid by the Minister which a
member could accept without shame.
The words were not in the best taste,
perhaps ; but how English the whole
scene was and how suggestive of good-
humored sparring with the gloves on!
Mingling with the chronicles of P r-
liamentary jousts, however, are many
stories of downright kindliness and
chivalry in debate, upon which stu-
dents of Parliamentary history must
always dwell with a sincere pleasure,
Coming to recent times, nothing could
have been better than Mr. Disraeli's
panegyric on Cobden after the latter's
death, or than Mr. Gladstone's refer-
ences in Parliament to the death of
Lady Beaconsfield. On this occasion
the Liberal leader quoted the words,
‘sunt lacryms rerum, et mentem mor-
talia tangunt,”” which Fox had also
quoted in 1806 during Pitt's lasi illness,
refusing at the same time (though un-
aware that his great rival was actually
dying) to support an amendment to the
Address which was going to be moved
by Lord Henry Petty, Mr, Disraeli
was pot long in repaying Mr. Glad-
stone's generous tribute of respect, for
he alluded to him as ‘‘the most emi-
nent member of this House; and the
same compliment was paid on another
occasion lo the present Premier by the
present Lord Derby, then Lord Stanley,
who said that, “on whatever points
they might differ, everyone would ac-
knowledge the right honorable gentle.
man of the greatest orators
England had produced.’ — London
Times,
Flirtation Among Andaman
Islanders.
Owing to a singular practice of adop-
tion, it is rare to see a child above six
or seven years residing with its
parents, It is considered a compliment
for a married man after a visit, to ask
his host for one of his children. Indeel,
the soi disant father may, on a similar
occasion, pass the child on further
without referring to the real parents,
To prevent improper flirtations among
the lads and lasses, they paint the sus-
pected parties, one red, the other white;
of course they cannot mutually embrace
without partially exchanging color,
Marriage is forbidden among near rela-
tives. Relationship are traced in both
lines, and the system with reference to
either sex is identical ; but the record
fails after three generaticns, Children
are named before they are born
after some friend of the parent; there
being no distinction of sex in these
titles,
Much ceremony is practised In the
burial of the dead ; infants being deposit
od under the hearth of the hut where
they died, and adults upon a ‘‘machan,’’
or platform, in the jungle or ina grave,
follow death, in order to allow the spirit
of the deceased full range around the old
haunts,
Items,
‘The strength of iron in boilers is not
much affected by the working temper-
atures up to considerably over 400°, nor
by low temperatures down to the freez
ing point. But when the temperature
of the plates, through the absence of
water or any other cause, rises much
above 500°, then a change commences,
Above 750° the tenacity diminishes
very rapidly, and when the plates be-
come red hot they have lost fully half of
their usual strentgh,
For a fire-proof paint MM. Vilde and
Schimbeck madea varnish described by a
French paper as of twenty parts of very
finely-powered glass, twenty parts por-
celian, twenty parts stone of any kind,
ten parts calcined lime, thirty parts
soluble-soda glass, Silicate of potash
may be substituted for the silicate of
soda. The first coat soon hardens and
a second coat may be applied from six
to twelve hours afterward, Two coats
are sufficient, The varnish may be em-
ployed as a preservative against rust,
The term “opium joint” appears so
often in print that an explanation seems
appropriate. The heathen Chinee, being
naturally an imitator, borrows an idea
from the ‘‘Melica man.” It did not
take long to learn the advantage of club
life, “‘Melica man join—John China-
man join too.” “Joint is, therefore,
only another term for “club,” but it is
now applied to every place where
opium is used for intoxicating pur-
poses,
The Cincinnati Enquirer tells that a
young lady was receiving a surprise
party, The girls entered first, and she
kissed them; but some young men
allowed, and the hastess, all smiles
and blushes, in the dim, religious light,
made a mistake, The first young man
that stepped in to surprise was himself
surprised by a warm hug and a most
decided osculatory salute square in the
middle of his mouth. With courage
bordering on the sublime the hostess
did not faint, She saw she had made
a miscalculation that was simply awful.
Nothing remained to her but to rest ever
after under the suspicion of partiality or
to treat the boys all alike. She chose the
latter course.
It was found by M. Burt that an-
wsthesia could be produced with a mix-
ture of nitric protoxide (85 vol.) and
oxygen (15 vol. }, if the application were
made in a metallic inclosure with a
certain pressure above the atmospheric
M. de St. Martin has obiained the same
effect at ordina -y pressure by adding a
small quantity of chlorofrom to the
mixture (6 or 7 drams per hectoliter).
The physiological effects seem to be in-
termediate between those of mitrie pro-
toxide and of chloroform. Anmsthesia
is very rapidly produced, and the period
of excitation which occurs with chiloro-
form is avoided. The superiority of
nitric protoxide is taken advantage of
but without pressure being necessary.
The protoxide alone, it may be mention.
ed, produces anmsthesia rapidly, but
also gradually asphyxia,
baste
Rapacity of the Raven.
The raven is as easily tamed as the
hooded crow ; but he does not make so
interesting and amusing a pet, being
rather of a sulky and solita y disposition.
In his wild state he is excessively sus-
picivus and wary, and he needs to be,
for no mercy is ever shown him. He is
a terrible robber of the poultry-yard,
destroys a great number of young lambs,
and will never hesitate if he gets the
chance to attack a weak or sick pony.
The poor ponies, even in the most iu-
clement weather, never know the luxury
of a sheltering roof, and during the long
winter seldom get any food out of the
scauty pickings of a barren common,
varied with an occasional breakfast of
reaweed, Consequently they become
very lean and weak in spring ; and after
lying down on the cold, damp ground,
which they never do in winter, they often
get so stiff as to be unable to rise with.
out assistance. They are then said to
be “inlifting.”” This is the cruel faven's
opportunity. In the cold gray dawn
of the moming he spies his victim
making unavailing efforts to rise, swoops
down upon him, and with a fierce dab
of his powerful bill destroys one eye; a
second thrust and the pony is blinded ;
and in a few hours his cartass furnishes
a rich repast to his murderer and a
score Of his kind. No wonder, then,
that this *‘bird of ill-omen" is persecuted
and slaughtered without mercy, and
that sometimes a price is set upon his
head. But in spite of gun and poi
the wary and sagacious ravens are
100 numerous, They build their nests
in the loftiest and most inaccessibl
get a young raven for a pet; and the
universal detestation in which they are
ones, — Chambers’ Journal. .
AA Ape
bE a
“It may
ix
engagement ; but
i blestone in a free fight.”
Effect of Sunshine.
From an acorn, weighing a few
grains, a tree will grow for a hundred
years or more, not only throwing off
many pounds of leaves every year, but
itself weighing several tons, If an
orange twig is put in a large box of
egrth, and that earth is weighed when
the twig becomes a tree, bearing luscious
fruit, there will be very nearly the same
amount of earth, From careful experi
ments made by different scientific men,
it is an ascertained fact that a very
large part of the growth of the tree is
derived from the sun, from the air, and
from the water, and a very little from
the earth ; and notably all vegetation
becomes sickly unless it is freely ex-
posed to sunshine, Wood and coal are
but condensed sunshine, which eon-
tains three important elements equally
essential to both vegetation and animal
life—magnesia, lie and iron, Itistie
iron in the blood which gives it its
sparkling red color and its strength,
It is the lime in the bones which gives
them the durability necessary to bodily
vigor, while the magnesia is important
to all of the tissues. Thus it is, that
the more persons are out of doors the
more healthy and vigorous they are,
anl the longer they will live. Every
human being ought to have an hour or
two of sunshine at noon in winter, and
in the early forenoon in summer,
mss
Who Owns It 7
A sailor who thought he had been
cheated by a second-hand clothier in
Buffalo, returned with the garment
and demanded his money. When this
was refused he shouted out :—
“I'll raise a row with some of you
here I”
*‘ Vhell, who shall it be ?*?
*“1 want to see the party who owns
this store I"?
“So do LL
*‘ Where is he I”
** Dot's what I'd like to know myself
You see, my frent, my uncle Isaac first
opened dis sthore, und he failed und
assigned. Den my fadder-law he runs
it und burns oudt, und shlips off to New
York. Den my Brudder Moses runs
it und pays ten cents on der dollar.
Den my vife goes into peesness und
makes me agent, und shust vhen I feels
dot I haf scooped her oudt of eafery
shilling along comes ber cousin mit a
shattel-mortgage on der last old coat.
If you can tell me who owns dis blace
I like to gif you such a suit of clothes
ash would make a king feel stuck up all
ofer.”— Wall Street News,
———— ————.
A Magninicsnt prigade.
The Mettopolitan Fire Brigade, of
London, controls 124 fire-escape sta-
tons, four floating stations, three large
land steam fire engines, thirty-eight
small land steam fire engines, seventy-
eight six-inch manual fire engines,
thirty-seven under six-inch manual
fire engines, 144 fire-escapes and long
scaling ladders, three floating steam fire
engines, two steam tugs, four barges,
fifty-two hose carts, fourteen VANS,
thirteen wagons for street stations, two
trollies, two ladder trucks, forty-nine
telegraph lines, seventeen telephone
seventy-seven call points; 576 firemen,
including chief officer, second officer,
superintendents, and all ranks. The
number of fire alarms during 1882 in
London was 2341, but of these 254 were
false alarms, and 161 were mere ** chim-
ney alarms.” One hundred and sixty-
our fires resulted in serious damage
and 1762 in slight damage. The num-
ber of persons seriously endangered
by fire during 1882 was 175; of these
139 were saved and thirty-six were lost,
twenty-two of whom were taken out
alive, but died afterward, and fourteen
were suffocated or burned to death.
During the year th: re were 121 injuries
to firemen, of which many were serious
and three were fatal.
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Horticulture.
The narcissus makes a beautiful
border plant, and does much better if
not disturbed for many years after
planting, It makes an excellent edging
to a bed of geraninms, petunias, or in
fact any plant that is grown in Masses ;
as its leaves can be cut away soon after
flowering, it does not mar the beauty of
the summer flowering plants,
The soil for the culture of the tulip is
Arich, rather light loam. A bed of
sufficient size for planting the bulbs
should be dug at least twelve inches