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GARDENING. 



July 15^ 



forest" in every sense, and prefers grow- 

 ing in "vi-gin" soil, still it will thrive in 

 almost any rich garden soil, if given shade 

 and moisture and constant cultivatinn. 



Cultivated ginseng, properly cured, is 

 always classed finest grade, which means 

 large smooth clean and sun-dried roots, 

 and should an acre produce but a thou- 

 sand pounds in five years, this would pay 

 bet er than almost any known form of 

 gardening, and it would not be unreason- 

 able to expect double this "ield 



The Botanical Division' of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture has recently 

 issued quite an interesting report on the 

 History of Ginseng and its culture, which 

 may be had free on request to Prof. 

 Freder ck V. Coville, Botanist. 



Kawana, N. C. Harlan P. Kelsey. 



AN ICE HOUSE. 



A. \V. C, Kansas City, Mo , writes: 

 "Please tell me how to build a small pri- 

 vate ice house, say about 15x20 feet in 

 size, and pack the ice in it " 



Select a cool somewhat shady— if prac- 

 ticable— spot, on a slope or where the 

 drainage in the house will be perfect. The 

 house may be all above ground, or partly 

 under it; we prefer the latter, and would 

 run it 6 feet below the grouhd level were 

 we sure of perfect drainage. A ton of ice 

 measures about 50 cubic feet; therefore a 

 house 15x20 feet inside, will hold about 

 six tons 'o the foot in depth; this will 

 suggest the size you may decide upon. 

 Have the walls of stone or brick, and 

 lined with boards with a 4- or 6inch air 

 space between them and the masonry. 

 Many fiU this space with saw dust. Let 

 the floor be brick, cement; or boards, or 

 even a thick layer of saw dust. Form 

 square, roof shingled, span roof, double, 

 sli.arp pitch and having a lantern-ventila- 

 tor. In cutting the ice plow itboth ways 

 to have the cakes square, then cross-cut 

 saw them. In storing, lay theeakes down 

 flat and run up as closely and evenly to- 

 gether as to form a perfect floor; and do 

 this with layer after layer till the house 

 is full. We always break upsome icequite 

 fine and run it compactly into the chinks 

 between the layers. Instead of laying the 

 cakes flat some prefer to stand them on 

 end close together and even, but after we 

 get up a layer or two it's pretty hard to 

 make a perfect floor. When you have ice 

 enough packed into the house spread a 

 heavy layer of dry sawdust over it to ex- 

 clude' air and preserve it. Indeed, it is a 

 good plan to have a layer of sawdust be- 

 tween the wall and the ice. After a while 

 the ice will melt away from the wall and 

 the covering of sawdust from the top will 

 fall down into the aperture thus made, 

 and this is as it ought to be. Keep theice 

 well covered above and around in sum- 

 mer, and never let the door be open any 

 lon;.;crthan is strictly necessary. 



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This IS what the editor of GARDENING 

 says about it. 

 Child's "Rain-Maker" Nozzle is soraelhing: that 

 we hail with delight. The manufacturers sent us 

 a couple for trial some weeks aRO, and not only 

 have we tried ihem. but our young men never do 

 any hosing now without using them They are 

 strong, handsomely finished and made to fit a ,^4- 

 inch hose, or with couoUng. any other size. At 

 the end running out from the hole is a spoon- 

 shaped blade that di-tributes the flow of water 

 into an even broad spreading spray and that too 

 without in the least stoppinpthe full flow of wattr 

 or arresting it so as to lash the plants It is clean 

 to n-^e, very handy, and being supolied with a 

 leather or rubb^-r washer, it doesn't leak a drop 

 at the j jint. We unqualifiedly rt-c >mraend this 

 nozzle as being the be-t thing of the kind we have 

 iverused;it is just what we netd. and now we 

 have got it we use it daily, and cannot afford to 

 be without it. 



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