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For the home garden, besides those named, the Frauendorf and Grape are worthy 

 of mention. The lover of Black Currants will be pleased with the Black Naples. 

 Of the new varieties, the Heterophylla (ant-leaved) makes a very ornamental bush, 

 and a new kind, without seeds, lately received, will, if productive, prove valuable. 



Currants, to do well, require about the same treatment as gooseberries, but look 

 out for the worm, and dose him with hellebore, or cut the shoots he has attacked oflF 

 during the winter; they can be easily distinguished. 



It may not be out of place here, to remind you that in many parts of Ohio there 

 is land well adapted to the growth of Whortleberries and Cranberries, which is now 

 lying waste ; experiments in this direction would probably lead to profitable result, 

 and should be encouraged by this Society and our State Board of Agriculture. 



And now, in conclusion, a few words about manure. A liberal supply of it is, for 

 all kinds of small fruits, not only a blessing, but a necessity. Animal manures range 

 in value as follows : Cow, hog, sheep, horse's manure, and all should be well decom- 

 posed ; ashes as an additional top-dressing in the fall or early spring, is very bene- 

 ficial. Blood and horn shavings are the best for raspberries ; salt scattered annually 

 at the rate of one or two bushels per acre, over strawberry beds, will interfere mate- 

 rially with the grub worm, and assist the soil in retaining moisture ; night dirt and 

 hen manure should be applied sparingly, either in a liquid state during the fruiting 

 season, or as a top-dressing after the frost has left the ground. Concentrated fertil- 

 izers, phosphates, guano, etc., applied as a liquid during the fruiting season, will 

 materially increase the crop. I would, however, not advise their use, except where 

 animal manures are given to the same land. They stimulate the soil to great exer- 

 tions; and will naturally impoverish it, if the deficiency is not made up in some 

 other way. 



Flowers for Ornament and Decoration. 



BY ANNE G. HALE. 



[CONCLUDED.] 



A TABLE or stand bouquet should be somewhat of a pyramid in shape, to form 

 which, any flowers of medium size are proper — accompanied by their comple- 

 mentary colors in the racemes and spikes of finer florescence. But little verdure is 

 needed — sufiicient to outline the several groups that make up the assemblage, and to 

 give a handsome base — unless the floral colors contrast well with the tinting of the 

 vase. Though colorless, crystal vases are preferable for flowers, always. The opaque 

 Parian, and the grays and neutral tints of ordinary biscuit-ware can be used advan- 

 tageously as table or window vases, if the receptacle be nearly hidden by foliage and 

 drooping flowers, or vines- Saxifrage, money-wort, ground or coliseum ivy, and Ger- 

 man ivy, make a fine veil-hanging over and about a vase, and lend dignity and grace 

 to the bouquet. The garden and orchard, from their flourishing plants, blooming 

 shrubs, and blossoming trees, can send many species and varieties to make 



