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for these foes, and that their fecundity is so great that the fly is 

 well nigh exterminated for a season. Burning the fields destroys 

 many of the enemy it is true, but the greater portion of them are 

 said at this time to be carrying from one to twenty of our friends 

 in their bodies, who will not only destroy the foe, but when fully 

 developed will continue the good work. 



Rolling of the land after the wheat is up, the application of 

 lime, soot, salt, etc., are recommended, but the methods most 

 effectual are late sowing, thorough culture, recuperating by close 

 cropping and by fertilizers, and turning under and reseeding in- 

 fested fields. 



CULTIVATION OF FLO WEES.* 



Read by Mrs. C. A. Willakd, before the Brown County Horticultural 



(Society. 



The husbandman, in his labor, finds but little poetry or ro- 

 mance in the routine of his life ; hard, practical methods are his, 

 and the stern realities of hard manual labor, amid sunshine and 

 ram, are to determine the result, whether it be recompense or dis- 

 appointment. There is a satisfaction, if not overburdened with 

 work or care, in having a keen relish for whatever of food, rest 

 or recreation he may have, and a still greater satisfaction, as he 

 toils, in knowing that of all men he is the most independent and 

 farthest removed from the ills that so often wreck and beset men 

 in occupations that seem much more pleasant and profitable. 



But you will say, What has all this to do with flowers and 

 their cultivation? In the words of another, we would say, 

 ''Much, every way." As they are a* part of nature upon which 

 the Creator has expended such wonders in design of structure and 

 coloring, we can but feel that they have, as have all the lower or- 

 ders of life, an important relation to man. 



To the husbandman, is it not possible for flowers, in all their 

 beauty of expression and delicacy of dress, to add something of 

 poetry and art, to brighten and color the sombre of his daily toil ? 



* This paper was not received in season to be incorporated with the regular 

 Report from the Brown County Horticultural Society, of which it form a part. 



