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make such pretty flowers bloom in their garden? Why should God gr 
make all the flowers bloom in Mrs. Crane’s yard? The mother re- 
plied, “If you plant the seed, God will give you all the flowers you 
want.” 
Encourage your children to beautify your homes, to be in close 
fellowship with nature, with all that is good and beautiful and 
true. No influence is more refining or impression’ more lasting. 
“The mystery of the feeding root, the structure of the breathing leaf, 
the delicate tint of the bursting bud, the perfume of the fragrant 
blossom, the forming of the healthful fruit, its luscious maturity, 
are subjectof deepest thought to them.” 
The memory ofa childhood home where fruits and flowers abound 
will always be fresh in the minds as the yearsroll by. The busy 
person, full of cares and burdened with repairs and responsibilities, 
finds a rest and satisfaction in recurring to his childish efforts at 
planting trees or shrubs, and when he makes his yearly visit to the 
old homestead, he truly enjoys the fruits of his early labors, for he 
did the best he could, and the results are a pleasure to him now. It 
is recorded that Thomas Jefferson sat down one day and made a list 
of things he had done which seemed to him to be valuable to his 
country. He noted among other things the establishment of a 
church, his attempt toward the abolition of slavery oragainst the 
importation of slaves, that he had written the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, and side by side with these, as if entitled to equal credit 
and equal honor, he mentioned the fact that he had introduced two 
plants into the American nation, and he said that the man who had 
introduced a new plant for cultivation did the greatest service to 
this country. 
Whittier says:— 
“Give fools their gold, and knaves their power, 
Let fortunes bubble, rise and fall, 
Who sows a field or plants a flower 
Or plants a tree is more than all. 
“Ror he who blesses most is blessed, 
And God and man shall own his worth. 
Who toils to leave as his bequest 
An added beauty to the earth.” 
THE BLACKBERRY. 
JENS A. JENSEN, ROSE CREEK. 
For a blackberry patch the ground should bein good condition. 
Lay out your ground with a corn marker; plant one row of potatoes 
and one of blackberries; plant four feet apartin the row. I prefer 
rows running north and south. Cultivate and keep free from weeds. 
About middle of July mulch well with straw and loose litter. When 
the canes are two feet high pinch off the leaders. The second spring 
throw the mulch out of the space between the rows and cultivate a 
strip three or four feet wide early in the season; later mulch again. 
When the new canes has grown three feet, pinch off the top black- 
berry, which should not be allowed to grow over three feet. The 
third spring cut out the old canes; cut off all dead points. This is 
best done with pruning shears. All suckers outside the row should 
be treated like weeds. In this way I have raised a good crop, and I 
have also failed. I bought mine for Ancient Briton. 
