IN MEMORIAM, MISS SARA M. MANNING. 2438 
ment of Science at about the same time and for many years was a faithful 
attendant at the annual meetings, devoting most of her time to the botanical 
section. It was there that she made the acquaintance of Prof. Underwood, 
Thomas Meehan and other botanists. 
She was with Dr. Gray at the time he discovered the rare fern, Schizaea 
pusilla, in the pine barrens of New Jersey. 
Miss Manning became a member of the Congregational church at Lake 
City in 1872 and was for many years a faithful worker, teaching in the Sun- 
day school until her health failed. She was a charter member of the 
Christian Endeavor Society and for three terms its president. Theological 
controversy had no attractions for her, but she believed in exemplifying 
the will of the Master in her daily life. She saw the good, the true and the 
beautiful in the world and recognized in it the handwriting of God. She 
often quoted with approval these lines of Horace Smith: 
“Were |, O God! in churchless lands remaining, 
Far from the voice of teachers and divines, 
My soul would find, in flowers of thy ordaining, 
Priests, sermons, shrines!”’ 
Her cousin Warren H. Manning, who knew her well, says: “My cousin 
was a student always, a lover of art and of nature, always more thoughtiul 
of others than of herself, never strong but always at work.” 
Her herbarium was a very complete one of the plants of her region, 
and she discovered a number of rare ferns and plants out of their natural 
range.” 
There has passed on a pure and beautiful soul; one whose life touched, 
helped and strengthened other lives. This is a better and more beautiful 
world because she lived in it; yet the good she did was done as most good 
is done, unconsciously. 
LE. R. MOYER. 
Shallow Planting for Sweet Peas——The sweet peas were planted near the 
top of the ground, not in a deep trench as formerly. Then after they began 
to run, I sifted the ashes from the kitchen stove (part coal and part wood) 
by the side of the row every morning until the ashes were about 6 in. deep, 
from the row of sweet peas to the row of potatoes on each side. These kept 
the roots cool and damp, and we never saw such thrifty sweet pea vines and 
large blossoms. The row was 16 ft. long, and a Jarge bunch was picked 
nearly every day from July 4 to Oct. 1. The vines got about 18 in. above 
the 6 ft. wire and then fell back. For the last five weeks it was necessary to 
use a chair to stand on to pick. ; 
The Wooden Tree Wrapper is the Best.—I have used many thousands of 
them, and the more I use the better I like them. They cost about $2.50 to $3 
per thousand. They are put on when the tree is planted and left there dur- 
ing summer and winter. They are removed once a year so that the tree can 
be whitewashed. 
