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HOW FRONT AND BACK YA~.CS MAY
BE MADE ATTRACTIVE.
Some Good SuRKMtlon* For PUntinR
Trrea utid Shrub* by Harvard'*
IIvuil Gardener?The Ileal Varletlea
lpor Small Grounds.
Unattractive front and iwick yards
can bo beautified at so little expense
und trouble tlmt there is no excuse for
(hem in any community, and if u few
residents on u block would start the
good work others would follow, the
movement would extend to other
streets, and fiuaily the entire town
would be made attractive. ltobert
Camerou, head gardener of the liar-I
vard botanic gardens, says there are u
few simple principles which, if follow- j
ed consistently, will enable any one
who is willing to take a little pains in
the adornment of his place to get
favorable results.
"The smallest lot of land attached
to a house," says Mr. Cameron, "may,
If given thought niul consideration, he
made into a landscape picture. The
grout trouble with most owners of
small lots of ground is that they do
uot understand how to plant in order
to get the most pleasing effects. The
area is usually covered all over with
frees and shrubs, and hence the work
is meaningless. In making up his
landscape picture the amateur artist
must have a canvas to work upon.
The canvas in this case Is the green
lawn. The lawn is the first requisite,
and it should ordinarily present a lit
tie unbroken stretch in the center of
the lot. The beds and borders should
be thoroughly prepared before planting
begins. If the soil is poor or lacking
humus a liberal quantity of well
rotted barnyard manure should be
worked Into It.
"The plantation of trees and shrubs
should he confined to the outer edges
and margins of the lot. and, as a general
rule, ull shrubbery should he in irregular
masses. The eye is not pleased
with the sight of two clumps of
hushes of exactly the same size. Above
all, openings should he kit wherever
'.iere is an especially pleasing vista.
Many people make the mistake of eni'
"jy shutting their gardens in. Vines
.nJ dwurf shrubbery ought to be
planted ucar the house aad the piazza
so us 10 ormg them into close union
with the green lawn.
"A fjoof! list of nil rubs for small
grounds, graceful* growth, handsome
' i foliage and moderate In size, Is the
following: For the background of tall
shrubs, mock oranges, I'hiludelphuH
gruiulltlora and Pyrus corouaria, lilacs
of banly sorts, tall dent/las, shrubby
allJscuses, viburnums, cornels or dog*
oods, snowballs, turtarlan honey uckle,
plvets and tall barberries.
"Pur the center of the beds, which
Ua/o been prepared within t
grounds, use medium sized shrub
suck as Japanese quinces, we'gelius
berberls, Thuubergll forsytblas, hydrangeas,
syinphorocarpos or snowberry,
Ithodotypos kerrlodica and Itosa
rugosa.
"in front of tko borders, making a
transition from the smooth lawns to
the tall shrubs, plant some of tbo very
iow Huruufj, among wuicu tuu snicst
arc Deutzla gracilis, Kcrrla japonica,
Kibes aureaum and spiraeas.
"For very cool, shady spots, as under
a clump of trees, tho best varieties are
rhododendrons, azaleas and kahnlas.
?.T?'od shrubby climbers for the piazza
and house arc tho wistaria, Dutchman's
pipe, Arltoioclilu slphoakebia,
qtnuata, Clematis panlcuiata, Farqubar
rose, Sweetheart white climbing
i .so and Crimson Uambler rose.
"Any of the foregoing varieties,
which are very useful in the northern
a id central portions of tho United^
States, may bo obtained from good
nurserymen." ^
So much for the shubbery fr jtk
which tho amateur landscape architect
will do well to soleet the leafy
adornments of his hack yard. But it's
u weak enthusiast who will not also
demand flowers. A long series of
beautiful blooms to keep his garden
brllliunt from the first days of spring
to late autumn Is what is wanted.
To be wholly satisfied with our efforts
we must make such a selection that
when one set of blossoms goes to seed
another takes its place. And there is
almost no limit, us Mr. Cameron states,
to the number of hardy plants that tho
amateur can profitably use in his garden?In
fact, the greatest danger is
that he will select too many and choke
the open spaces of his central lawn.
Flowers should be of the nature of
fringes or employed in small masses;
the garden picture must have plain,
unadorned tracts where the eye will
rest upon nothing but smooth green.
A good sized list of these hardy plants
has been prepared, and, since it emACl
ill A U A f I All rv AV * 1 All! All OA
V'JXAl Uiu ll'nllll n yjL iUllf, VAi?UI|l*;ULU
and experimentation ut the Harvard
botanical garden, It Is likely to be of
considerable valuo to the amateur
gardener.
Early among the bloomers that the
amateur Is likely to be successful with
are the Alyasum saxatyle, popularly
known ns golden tuft or gold dust; the
m Idlng colfnnblno, a particularly protty
j pocles of which Is the Rocky mounto
n columbine, with Its blue and whito
b!>*soms fitting well Into the marglu
of a fixed border; the rock cress; the
dwarf phlox, whose profuso pinkish
purple and white blossoms como out in
April and May; Jacob's ladder; Sweet
William, belonging to the same family
of carnations and lifting dark purple
and white flowers a good two feet
above the soil; the bluo harebell; the
ohowy larkspur; bleeding heart?Dlcentra
spectabllls? one of the mast grace*
hardy plants of tho early summer;
th< bitter vetch, or orobus, revealing
berutlful purples and blues, with red
veins and green tinted keel; the scarlet
If can's, or catchfly; primroses and cowall;
s; the'brllllant popples, peonies and
pi069t In imrtteuftr the German Irta,
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WOMEN MUST KNEELTOMEN
1 la tb? Law Arauai Manx Trlla* of
ICaal Central Afrlra.
Men in Africa, and especially In (vast
central Africa, believe that their vouien
are their Inferiors, and many ecu
turles ago, says the Chicago Tribune,
they inado a law that has worn it*
self into a custom that women must
acknowledge this by always kneeling
when they meet a manDull
Macdonakl, who spent many
years as a missionary in that country,
says that Africuu women hold n most
degraded position and ar4 looked upon
pretty generally as beasts of burden
ca(>able of doing all the hard work.
When a woman meets any man, be it
her husband or a stranger, at home 01
on the road she la exported to "taidiwala"?that
is, to kueel and clop hei
hands to the lord of creation as ho
passes. Although a woman may huve
slaves of hor own, she observes this
J custom whenever she meets thorn on
j the highway.
Mucdonald adds: "Whenever we saw
a woman go out of her way with the
j Intention of kneeling before us, though
she carried a hundredweight on her
| head, knowing that she would have to !
.let up with it, we shouted, 'You are
; losing your way; this Is the path,' and (
she took It, glad that she might (lis- |
; pense with this custom."
Certain it Is that if the African wo- \
; man kneels before a stranger or slave |
I '.lit; prostrates herself most humbly be- ;
fore lior husband, her lord and master,
lie i3 her father, ami she Is his child;
he commands, and she obeys; he may
iiifll t punishment, and she accepts it.
The title of "father" Is given tc all
Id people. A man of thirty will say.
| "I dmi only a child; ask the old man."
The woman must submit, of course.
She I? her husband's chattel; he has
bought her for two skins of bucks,
and till * Is a fair price for one wife,
lie often gets them In payment for
debts.
If a girl is not a first wife she counts
for little, as the4? Africans usually
have one chief wife and three or four
minor wives. A man who is married a
fe-.r years i? expected to have Junior
wives. The chief wife has the super
I intendeuee of the others and looks
( after the household. The punishment
he Inflicts for laziness is to banish the
> junior wife from her meals until hunger
brings her to her souses. If n
j junior wife Is obstreperous she is put
in m. slave stock.
The authority of a chief wife Is not
a mutter to Jest with. If a Junior wife
gels unruly the whipping post is made
use of. This does not annoy her lord,
for African men have little sentiment
for their wives and t'eel none for their
Junior wives. They are Ids chattels,
having the same value as his cattle,
perhaps less. When a man Is pressed
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1 WI Iiium i m_- II.MI.III/ s?ciiy Ills Will! UIUI
not Ills cattle. IIo expects them to cultivate
the soil nial cut down the trees,
ind when lie thids time or lavs the in linatlon
he helps them.
Why Mctnln Hunt.
Cold does not tarnish like other metm
been use it is not acted upon by oxygen
or water. It Is the moisture in the atmosphere
which causes other metals to
tarnish, owing to ihelr oxidation. Water
contains a largo proportion of oxygen,
and it Is the oxygon, of course.
In the moist air combining with the
surface of the metals that covers thorn
with tarnish. Platinum, like gold, resists
the Influence of oxygon and moisture
and when pure neither rusts nor
tarnishes. Aluminium also does not
rust, neither hot nor cold water having
any action upon '.t. The sulphuretod
hydrogen of the atmosphere, which so
readily tarnishes silver, has no effect
upon aluminium, which under ordinary
^jlreun.stances preserves its appearance
perfectly as gold does. Silver tarnishes
011 exposure to the air, the agent
^producing this effect being the sulphur
Iron Is the metal which tarnishes and
rusts most easily, Its oxidization proceeding
until the metal is completely
eaten or burnt away with the rust.
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"In most cases umbrellas are nm
fairly worn out; they are ruined
through carelessness of their owners,"
snkl an unihrclla and cane man.
"When I se.e a man walking with an
umbrella tightly grasped in his hot
hand I smile to myself, because I know
that very soon that man will bo wanting
a new umbrella. There is no surer
way of making an umbrella wear out
quickly than this habit of carrying It
about by its middle. Again, after being
out In the rain you should turn
your umbrella upside down and let
the water drain off as It stands with
the handle downward. By doing this
you prevent the water from getting in
at the framework and thereby protect
the ribs from rusting. Rome men open
their umbrellas before they stand them
up to dry, but this is a bad plan, because
the umbrella may stretch when
it is wet. Another thing, too?never
roll vonr umbrella up, as to do so euts
the silk."?Detroit Tribune.
Antlqnlty of flnynr,
The first mention of sugar seems to
have been made by Pliny more than
1,800 years ngo, who traces it to Ara
bla and gives the preference to Indian
sugar, which he speaks of as "honey
found In caues." Statins In his description
of the Saturnalia says that
among the food which the Emperor
Domitlan mads tie people at those
noisy festivals scramble for was a
sweet substance obtained from Arabian
canes. Other classical writers of
about the same period describe it also
as a kind of honey found In canes and
not made by bees. Strabo adds t;>at In
a solid state It resembles salt. The
sugar cane was Introduced ill > Sicily
In 1148 and soon aftc: vut.d Into Spain.
1 Thence sixty years later It was taken
' to the West Indies, and at the end ef
the eighteenth century Jamaica sign
| predated quite 10,069 tone a ynrr.
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POTATO GROWING.
t'repnrinic tin* I. mid, Detail* of Planti
it u uiid Til lave.
I'or potato -3 furrow the ground three
feet apart and fully four luehos deep.
My experience is that when you think
you art? planting four Inches deep you
will lind when the grou;: I Is leveled
and lneasureinents taken it will not
average more than three inches deep
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POTATO PLANTING.
(The potato planted (top), covered (second),
t < mound leveled (lowest).]
Sprinkle the seed with gypsum (land
plaster) and plant soon after it is cut.
Place the seed pieces not more limn
sixteen inches apart in the row and
cover deeply with a double moldboard
or a large single shovel plow. Use two
horses or the potatoes will not be covered
deep enough or middles fully
opened. Ilnve the plow large enough
art<J run It deeply enough so that It
may be run in the middle of the space*
and yet cover the seed to a depth all
told of eight or tee inches?tlint is,
close to the ridges over the seed to a
sharpish edge. If the tools jou have
will not do thl*, plant the rows closer
together. More potatoes can he secured
by close planting, but the implements
of intertillage are not usually
suited to narrow intervals.
in from ten days to two weeks the
seed potatoes will have healed over and
the sprouts have grown to a length of
from one to two inches. However, this
will depend on the oarliness of plant- 1
lug and tho temperature and character
of the land. In any case lev?y< the !
ridges before the sprouts have hoo&mc
so long that they will be injured hy
the leveling process. The best leveling
Implement Is a spike toothed harrow,
with a 2 by 4 scantling placed under
neath it at sin angle of forty-live de- |
grees from the rows, if the harrow is
inclined to clog, make the angle of tho
scantling more acute. First drive
lengthwise of tho rows, taking three al
a time. Sometimes it may he well to
stand on the harrow, hut in sueh a position
as to allow the teeth in the rear
end of it to conic into sharp contact
with the ground. If one harrowing !
does not level the ground satisfactorily, I
cross harrow.
It' those instructions have been followed
the results will he a well prepared
seed hod, even if the fall plowing has
| not boon performed; the seed planted 1
early, four indies deep or a trifle more; j
an extra tillage by reason of furrow- j
lug the ground deeply and then by covering
the seed by a deep, broad furrow
run in the middles, permitting the
ground to dry and warm, which is not
objectionable i:i early spring.
The planing off or leveling destroys j
many incipient weeds, puts the surface
in Hue tilth, prepares for a mulch and
conserves moisture by obliterating all
surface corrugations, sets free plant
food and promotes nitrification.
'Hie first tillage should follow the
smoothing in about two wool's and
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IMi'liKMEN'T FOR FIRST TILLAGE.
would,best be douo with one liorse and
an implement provided with a goodly
number of small teeth, as shown In the
Illustration. The surface of the ground
should be kept free from large ridges .
or corrugations, since an uneven sur- ,
face tends to promote too rapid evaporation
of moisture. Implements liavlug
small teeth enable the operator to ,
till closely to the plants. The rule in
first tillage Is to make every plant
tremble. Then you can hang up the
woe, lur mere win do in no use for It.
There sliouhl bo throe to five subsequent
tillages, If timely?that is, so frequent
as to prevent weeds from getting
anything but a feeble sturt.?J. P. Uob
cjrts lii Country Gentleman.
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Chamber of Agriculture.
Our ambassador to Italy, Hon. Henry
Wliite, and Abort F. Woods of the department
of agriculture represent the
United States in the May International
Agricultural conference at Rome. The
plan for nn International chamber of
agriculture proposed by the king of
Italy Includes two branches, one made
up of two delegates from each nation
and the other of delegates from various I
fanners' organizations of the different 1
countries.
Tomato Snpport.
Try using a slnglo stake for tomato
plants If a trellis or other support l? j
Inconvenient for each plant. Simply
drive a stout stake about four feet
long Into the ground and set out a to- I
mato plant at on oh static. Kip off the
bottom branches and allow the plant
to grow so as to make its branches near
Kka to*, whhA will protect the fruit
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