THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[January, 



and de chilFn miss de poo' fellow ! Eberybody 

 miss de poo' fellow! Goddemighty, bress us 

 all !" 



After gently patting his dead friend for the last 

 time, and throwing some leaves and grass over 

 him, he looked steadfastly at the most ignoble 

 Festus, and pointed at the blood-stained grass, 

 but never a word said he. Festus only laughed, 

 which stirred up the hot blood of the tamed sav- 

 age, and ended in a passage of arms, or rather 

 heads, or more correctly, butt and counterbutt. 

 Quick as thought, Bogus ran his head butt into 

 the stomach of Festus, and sent him sprawling in 

 the grass, who, on gaining his feet, returned the 

 compliment, and staggered Bogus. Then step- 

 ping in between, as seconds are supposed to. Long 

 John supported Bogus, while Soger did the like 

 service for Festus; when it was decided, according 

 to the code duello, their wounded honors had been 

 redressed in a chivalric and noble manner, be- 



State, New Jereey, she remembers when a girl, 

 in the neighborhood of Mount Holly, seeing 

 quantities of the Garland Crab Apple. So it is 

 probably nearer Philadelphia than you are 

 aware. 



EDITORIAL NOTES, 



Waterproof Packing Paper. — Dissolve 1.82 

 lbs. white soap in 1 quart water. In another 

 quart water dissolve 1.82 ozs. troy of gum arabic 

 and 5.5 ozs. glue. Mix the two solutions, warm 

 them, and soak the paper in the liquid, and pass 

 it between rollers, or simply hang it up to drip. — 

 Scientific American. 



Beecroft's Wheel Hoe. — Man is a pretty smart 

 sort of a creature, and has managed in various 

 ways to evade the primeval curse with tolerable 

 success. The old-ffishioned hoe we have, how- 



coming to gentlemanly combatants, they shook 

 hands, feeling assured their fair fame was untar- 

 nished. 



After all, it was a more sensible manner of de- 

 ciding nothing than white fools usually take, 

 when they run a muck at each with knives or 

 swords, or try to shoot bullets or buckshot into 

 each other's hides. 



The raccoons had stampeded, as might be ex- 

 pected, while "the moon with her sober counte- 

 nance " placidly looked down at the scene where 

 the jasmines and crab apples bloomed profusely. 



In conclusion, it only remains for me to say 

 that my better half informs me that in her native 



ever, regarded as just about the same as it was in 

 the days of Adam, and we have an absolute 

 surety that when he went out to fight the thorns, 

 thistles, and noxious weeds with one of these 

 back-achers, he must, more than at any other 

 time, have felt that his rank disobedience, or 

 giving way to feminine persuasion, which ever it 

 was, did not pay at all. 



We have watched continually for some good 

 thing to supersede this abominable implement, 

 and have from time to time given sketches of 

 wheel hoes of various kinds. The present one 

 (see illustration) is certainly the best of all we 

 have seen. It indeed reduces hoeing to an amuse- 



