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place ; but they grow everywhere, and are 

 very beautiful. 



Orchard Profits. 



It was stated at a late meeting of the fruit- 

 growers of Western New York, that an or- 

 chard of Baldwin apple trees, 140 in number, 

 yielded, last year, 1,000 barrels. As the 

 ground covered was about two acres, the net 

 profits were $800 per acre. The orchard had 

 been planted fifteen years, and the average 

 yield during all this time was over fifty dol- 

 lars per acre per year. Another orchard, 

 which was planted thicker, yielded an average 

 for each year, from the time of planting, of 

 $270. 



Aiiiioi/itif/ <in Actress, 



Madame Theo, one of the most popular ac- 

 tresses in Paris, who is married, and whose 

 reputation is above reproach, has for some 

 time been subjected to a peculiar kind of per- 

 secution which threatens to deprive her of a 

 favorite addition to her toilette. Shortly after 

 her debut she wore a garland of magnificent 

 white roses around her waist, and the next 

 day a bouquet of these flowers was sent to her 

 with the request that they might be worn that 

 evening. Not wishing to encourage her un- 

 known admirer, she appeared with red roses 

 for ornament, and the following day a hand- 

 some bunch of red roses was left at her lodg- 

 ings, with a note similar to that received by 

 her on the previous day. That night she 

 wore yellow roses, and yellow roses were sent 

 to her on the succeeding morning. Then she 

 adopted violets, then gardenias, and then 

 chrysanthemums ; but her still anonymous ad- 

 mirer kept up his disagreeable attentions, and 

 as she is determined not to wear any flower 

 that has been sent to her, she is driving the 

 florists distracted by her demands for wreaths 

 that can be properly worn about the waist. 

 The correspondent who narrates this incident, 

 says that Madame Theo is very much exer- 

 cised over the identity of her persecutor, but 

 can obtain no clue to him. May it not be possi- 

 ble that her husband, in order to test her faith- 

 fulness, even in so little a matter, is the sender 

 of these annoying bouquets ? If he is, he 

 certainly ought to have stopped with the chry- 



santhemums, and congratulated himself on 

 the possession of his conjugal treasure. 



Jiojcwood ill India. 



A writer, in CasselVs Illustrated Travels, 

 says : " When staying for a day or two with 

 the owner of the lately established Gwaldung 

 plantation, I remarked that a great quantity 

 of the commonest wooden utensils, and the 

 ordinary furniture, troughs, bowls, etc., were 

 made of boxwood ! My host told me that 

 within two hours walk of his dwelling there 

 was another box forest, with trees almost as 

 large as those I noticed at Seni Kurruck, but 

 the size of this latter forest was much larger 

 than the one near his house. This wood, so 

 expensive in England, could be cut without 

 let or hindi-ancc in any quantity, and by any 

 one who required it. At present, with a few 

 exceptions, the natives only used the wood for 

 hair-combs ; but it is sometimes, though not 

 frequently, cut for making the best articles of 

 furniture. Blocks of sixty pounds weight, or 

 the load for one man, can be obtained for the 

 cost of cutting and the carriage to and down 

 the Ganges. There is no competition, and a 

 man of energy and small capital could rapidly 

 make a for time there." 



Ciii-ioii.t l<'act.s in Ui.story of the Potato. 



Almost every one knows the fact of the in- 

 troduction of the potato into England, yet 

 very few know the odd accident which pre- 

 vented it from being totally lost to sight. 

 It was not, as popularly supposed, first intro- 

 duced by Sir Walter Raleigh. John Hawk- 

 ins first introduced them into England in 

 1565 ; next, Walter Raleigh, in 1584, finally. 

 Admiral Drake, in 1586. It is a little curious 

 that the potato was introduced into Germany 

 just one hundred years ago ; and the year 

 1874 is to the Germans their great potato 

 centennial, which they propose to honor with 

 befitting celebrity. 



When the Spaniards conquered Peru, in the 

 sixteenth century, they carried some potatoes 

 to Europe and sent them to the Pope. The 

 raw plant was cultivated a little in Spain, 

 Italy, Burgundy and the Netherlands, and 

 from a certain resemblance to the truflie, an 

 esculent fungus growing in the earth, the Ital- 



