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THE Gl IDE T< > \ VTURE 



eggs ''ii the cabbage to Furnish the 

 larva an abundance of food easily at- 

 tainable. 



1 feared that the old-time hollyhock 

 would become a flower of the past as 

 something was eating the leaves, leav- 

 ing nothing" but the large veins. Some 

 Pari:- green mixed with wood ashes, 

 sprinkled over the plant when the dew 

 was on, settled the case and now the 

 hi '11 \ hi ick is blooming. 



Last summer something attacked a 

 young plum tree; at points only a few 

 niches apart along the stem the gum 

 oozed out. I tried different remedies 

 and failed. This summer 1 had an- 

 other plum tree affected in the same 

 manner only not so severely. I was 

 told that an "old woman's remedy" 

 was to wash the tree with boiling soap- 

 suds. 1 followed the advice and saved 

 its life. The leaves of a young pear 

 tree were curled and full of black in- 

 sects, probably lice. It received its 

 share of soapsuds. 



Now it is a young peach tree turn- 

 ing yellow that must be doctored. 



Here is a table full of common-look- 

 ing specimens mostly flint, or of quartz 

 waiting for me to test them for gold. 

 There is a soft one, with a hardness 

 of one in the scale of hardness ; it may 

 be scratched with the finger nail. The 

 quartz family is large and this is a 

 variety of opal. It is tripolite or sili- 

 ceous tufa, and was found on the sur- 

 face of the ground. There is a vein 

 of it in the lower Silurian limestone 

 of the Trenton period. A small boy 

 collected some calcite while the stone 

 crusher was at work. He observed the 

 white and blue stones, as he called 

 them, and gave them to me. 



Through my negligence I mourn the 

 loss of my honeybees. Some unprin- 

 cipled person robbed them late last 

 fall, and I neglected to feed them a 

 syrup of sugar and water. They were 

 flying in great numbers in front of the 

 hive in March, the last time that I saw 

 any of them alive. I should have 

 known, when they came out in such 

 numbers at that time of the year, that 

 something was wrong. 



I have profited greatly in the bloom 

 of dahlias from reading "Up-to-Date 

 Dahlias and Their Culture" in The 

 Guide to Nature. 



The Wise Mother and Foolish One. 



When <1<k1 gives us a child it is not 

 that we may teach him, but that he 

 ma\ teach us. The wise mother seeks 

 to develop her child's personality; the 

 foolish mother would change it. The 

 wise mother plays with her child and 

 lets strangers instruct her; the foolish 

 mother instructs her child and lets 

 strangers play with him. The wise 

 mother is good for her child's sake; the 

 foolish mother wants her child to be 

 good for her sake. — The Reverend 

 Frank Crane in "The Ladies' Home 

 Journal." 



Literary Notices. 



The Lens Part of Photography. By R. D. 



Gray. Price 25 cents. Ridgewood, N. J. : 

 Gray-Lloyd Manufacturing Company. 



This' is a small pamphlet containing sev- 

 eral good suggestions and convenient tables 

 relating to the value and use of photo- 

 graphic lenses. 



How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds. By 



Martin Hiesemann. London : Witherby 

 & Company, 326 High Holborn. 



This is' an admirable treatise on bird pro- 

 tection and preservation, and contains good 

 plans for nesting and feeding devices. It 

 can be obtained from the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies, New York City. 



The Face of The Fields. By Dallas Lore 

 Sharp. Boston and New York: Hough- 

 ton Mifflin Company. 



These papers by one of ifte leading na- 

 ture-writers include such attractive topics 

 as "Turtle-Eggs for Agassiz," "The 

 Scarcity of Skunks," "The Commuter's 

 Thanksgiving," etc. Mr. Sharp has a vein 

 of mingled tenderness and humor such as is 

 not to be found in any other American na- 

 ture-writer. 



The Religion of Beauty and The Impersonal 

 Estate. By Ralcy Husted Bell. New York 

 City: Hinds, Noble & Eldredge. 



The author's purpose is well summed up 

 by the following quotation from the preface: 



"Finally, the golden threads of content- 

 ment, of joy in things that are — the pictures 

 that surround us, the ecstasy of life within 

 us and all about us, the everyday poetry 

 and gladsomeness of earth, the beauty 

 everywhere — will unify the whole with 

 sweetness, simplicity and peace — a kind of 

 religion — that shall be good for the soul and 

 refreshing to the body." 



