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thing new. A mere simpleton may advance an idea that will set 

 wiser heads thinking. 



A kind Providence has placed many useful and loving things 

 within our reach, and given us abundant leisure to admire and 

 enjoy them. And, among them all, none are more welcome and 

 attractive than fruits and flowers. Yet, how little are they appre- 

 ciated by the <: toiling millions." God's freest and richest gifts 

 are wantonly thrown aside just because men are too lazy, or too 

 stupid, to appreciate or properly enjoy them. The love of the 

 beautiful in nature is, or ought to be, implanted in every human 

 breast. Its proper cultivation tends to widen the distance between 

 Intellect and Instinct, and brings us just so much nearer heaven. 



A neighbor remarked the other day that he had so much work 

 to do that he had no time to fool away in setting out fruit trees, 

 and making flower beds, and such things. "Work!" Is work 

 the " chief end of man ? ' : Are we doomed to such slavish lives 

 that we can find no time to admire and enjoy a few of the beauties 

 and blessings which a kind Providence has so lavishly scattered 

 along our paths? Perhaps; but it is not in the Christian's creed. 



At our September exhibition we had the finest show of fruit 

 ever seen in Waupaca county. The tables were literally loaded 

 down with apples, and such grapes ! Many of the apples were our 

 county seedlings, that are being so highly praised, and which 

 merit all the good things said of them. Ooe, the Wolf Eiver, ex- 

 hibited by W. A. Springer, of Fremont, was the biggest apple we 

 ever saw. It measured fifteen and three-fourths inches around 

 the waist and weighed twenty-one ounces. We challenge the best 

 to beat that. 



Our show of grapes was splendid, many excellent varieties being 

 in the collection, and nearly all so nice and of such fine flavor. 

 Grapes do remarkably well in this county. Mr. Jacob Suhs, of 

 Ogdensburg, has a small vineyard of one acre and a half. He has 

 thirty different kinds, nearly all seedlings of his own raising; some 

 of fine promise. He has raised six tons of fruit to the acre, yield- 

 ing eight hundred gallons of excellent wine. He is proving grape- 

 raising a success, even in this latitude. But few plums and pears 

 were shown, neither being a very certain crop with us. 



