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Silk Culture in the South. — Col. M. B. Hill- 

 yard, who did much to aid in the founding of 

 McComb City, in Misisissippi, and has been so 

 closely identified with the introduction of nu- 

 merous Southern industries, has for some time 

 past been successfully engaged in the encourage- 

 ment of silk culture. Few men have labored 

 more earnestly or more successfully in restoring 

 to the South prosperity through industrial enter- 

 prises than Col. Hillyard. 



Testimonial to the Kieffer Pear. — In a 

 prominent catalogue just it^sued we read : 



" ' I have eaten fruit of Kieffer's Hybrid that 

 was equal in luscious richness to any pear I ever 

 ate. 1 have never tasted a bad or indifferent 

 pear of this kind. Every oTie was delicinus. I 

 regard it as the most wonderful production of 

 the age, and the beginning of a new era in pear 

 culture. As yet no case of blight on KiefFer has 

 been known.' Also, 'Jniagine the old Sand 

 pear tree with its vigorous growth and orna- 

 mental foliage, loaded with pears as beautiful as 

 the finest Flemish Beauties, and you can form 

 some faint idea of the wonderful api)earance of 

 this tree.' — Thomas Meehan, Editor Gardener's 

 Monthly." 



If the date had been given to the above, there 

 could be no cause to comment; but our readers 

 know that during the few past years the giver of 

 that opinion then, has since recorded cases of 

 absolutely worthless Kiefier pears, ar.d also in- 

 stances where the tree has suffered severely from 

 the genuine fire-blight. "A^ yet," in that state- 

 ment, was not intended to mean 1882. 



Kenilworth Ivy. — We note by a contempo. 

 rary that this plant "is not an ivy, but the 

 Linaria cymbalaria of botanists," and that "its 

 proper English name is Creeping Sarah." Per- 

 haps it is no more a "Sarah" than an "ivy" 

 — but it seems hardly worth while to dispute 

 about these things. 



Hiram Sibley. — The head of the seed-house of 

 Hiram Sibley & Co., and which is the successor 

 of the former house of Briggs Brothers, is one of 



the representative men of whom America may 

 well be proud He is an example for young men 

 to follow. He early formed the resolution to 

 make himself as useful as possible to those who 

 should engage his services, and he fortunately 

 had the judgment to perceive that the way to be 

 the most useful was to thoroughly understand all 

 about the work he was set to do. It cannot be 

 too often impressed on the youth, that this sort 

 of integrity and ability is worth thousands of 

 dollars and the best university education, as a 

 start in life. Multitudes of successful Americans 

 owe their success to these principles alone, while 

 numbers with the best scholastic and pecuniary 

 advantages have sunk to poverty and useless- 

 ness. Sibley came from North Adams to Western 

 New York when he was but sixteen years of age. 

 He went sawing wood as he traveled, and doing 

 anything that would make an honest living. On 

 the road he offered to mend a shoe, and was so 

 successful that the shoemaker employed him. 

 At twenty-one he was making carding machines. 

 About this time he was what some boys would 

 call "lucky," that is to say, some one let him 

 have what money he needed to start the machine 

 business. But the "luck" only came because 

 the lender saw that the boy's " word was his 

 bond," and that his head and his hands were 

 equal to his word. It is the "luck " that any 

 boy may have. There are hundreds of people 

 with money who are only too glad to help young 

 men along when it is evident they are helping 

 themselves at the same time. From that time to 

 this — now in his seventy-sixth year — his course 

 has been successful. The money he has given 

 away to good purposes may perhaps be counted 

 by millions; of which nearly a quarter of a 

 million went to two institutions alone, namely, 

 the Universities of Rochester and Cornell. 



The Farm Journal — We could not forbear 

 enjoying the little joke which the Farm Journal 

 suggested when referring to a paper by the 

 writer of this to the Germantown Telegraph, "that 

 there were some persons who loved to write in 

 order to hear themselves talk." It was not our 

 funeral, and we thought we might laugh. As, 

 however, our contemporary seems a little hurt 

 at the liberty we took with it. in justice we ap- 

 pend the explanation it offers : 



"Judging from an item in the September 

 number, the Gardener's Monthly harbors the 

 thought that the Farm Journal is unfriendly to 

 it, and to its editor. Such is not the case. We 

 entertain feelings of the highest respect for 



