456 Farmer Eyasopen's Solihqvij. [October, 



and I discover that a few dollars expended four or five years ago, 

 and a little care since, would have supplied me with fruit and orna- 

 mented my home by this time. 



Well, I have ordered half a dozen grape-vines, little creeping 

 things, not larger then Cucumber vines now, but they will grow — 

 they have to be taken down in the fall and protected from the win- 

 ter ; but this is not much, and the thought of an added home comfort 

 is reward enough. I had to buy a book for Charley, on Grape Cul- 

 ture, when coming past the village, but if I can do anything to 

 fasten the affections of my boys to their home, I am resolved to do 

 it. Charley is something like that grape-vine — ^liis affections need 

 support — something for the curling tendrils to cling to. 



The other boys did not pay so much attention to the fruits — but 

 they were all alive to the ornamental, and Lucy — she must have 

 half a dozen rare roses, and Dahlias, etc. I did not care so much 

 for these, but they love them, and I believe I used to. 



I declare, I have made quite a bill to-day with that Nursery man. 

 What with his gooseberries, and currants, and strawberries, and 

 grapes, and other rare fruits, he has made me a profitable customer. 

 Well, may-be good will come of it yet. 



Let me see, now I have them, I must put them somewhere — I 

 overheard Lucy saying the front yard was the place for the Roses. 

 Then my Fruit Trees must not go ther^. Let me see, where is 

 some out-of-the-way place, where, if they come to nothing, they will 

 not be in the way of growing crops. After all they have cost too 

 much to be shirked off into odd corners. How will it do to drain 

 the north garden, and put them all in there, and take first-rate care 

 of them. I '11 do it. My heart begins to enlist in the work, and if 

 these do well that I have now, I believe the garden is as appropriate 

 to fruit as potatoes. I hope I am getting my eyes open. 



G. W. H. 



M. DoYERE, of Paris, has proposed a method of keeping grain sweet 

 and undecomposed for any length of time, by subjecting it to the 

 action of the vapors of a volatile liquid called the bi-sulphide of 

 rarbou. 



