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One of the most satisfactorj' flowers we 

 found in the double hybrid delphiniums, 

 flowering the first year from seed until 

 stopped by hard frost. I should say it is 

 of the first importance to get a g od 

 strain of seed; I had two, of which one 

 was so inferior in its flowers as to be" 

 almost worthless, the other was hardly 

 less than magnificent. E. R. 



Plainfield, N. J. 



Rabbits, to Protect Fkuit TitEES 

 KROM THEM IN WINTER. — In hard wint- 

 ers and in localities where the winters 

 are severe rabbits are often very destruct- 

 ive to young fruit trees, especially in 

 orchards, by gnawing the bark near the 

 ground, often girdhng the tree, to its 

 great injury if not its death. The follow- 

 ing preventives are given by Prof. J. L. 

 Hudd of Ames, Iowa, in Rural Life: "We 

 have used successfully a wash of fresh 

 lime thickened with flowers of sulphur, 

 with an ounce of carbolic acid to a pail 

 full of wash. This is put on the stems 

 and main branches in the early part of 

 November and again on a pleasant day 

 early in January if the autumn wash has 

 scaled or partially washed oft" by heavy 

 rains. 



But where the jack rabbits run the fol- 

 lowing wash has been found most 

 ertectual: Slack one quart of fresh lime 

 in one gallon of stale urine. Then pour 

 in one pint of pine tar boiling hot. 

 Thicken with cow dung until it makes 

 ([uite a thick wash. This stays on over 

 winter and is the most effectual and 

 harmless wash we know of." 



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