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than one foot across can pretty well 

 dispense with side porousness. Tight 

 boxes, therefore, answer better for large 

 plants than for small ones. 



The Potting Stick, is of use in doing 

 a good job of potting, for firming the 

 soil about the roots. It may be whit- 

 tled from a lath, and should be about 

 six inches long. — From Popular Gar- 

 dening (with cut). 



GRANDMOTHER'S HOLLYHOCKS. 



Hollyhocks by the garden wall, 

 Quaint old-fashioned flowers ; 

 White and crimson, yellow and pink, 

 Grandmother loves you best, I think. 

 Of any in her bowers. 



Stately and tall, yet graceful, too. 



Swaying with the breezes ; 

 Grandmother loves and cares for you 

 Out in the pearly morning dew, 



And plucks you when she pleases. 



Roses and peonoies royal red. 



Glowing in summer weather. 

 Have drooped and died near by your side. 

 While you are standing in your pride. 



Clustering close together. 



Grandmother's flowers, old and true — 



Hollyhocks by the wall- 

 Sweeter to her than pansies blue. 

 Dearer to her than orchids new. 



She loves you best of all. 

 Farm and Home. 



THE WINDOW GARDEN. 



BEGIN EARLY. 



Success in window gardening, as in 

 other kinds of gardening, depends in a 

 great measure upon beginning at the 

 pro[)er time, and with the proper ma- 

 terials. If one waits until cold weather, 

 and then purchases [)lants at a green- 

 house, he makes a bad beginning. The 

 plants had already been in a much 

 higher temperature than that of the 

 window, and the change to a cooler 

 place, and to a much drier atmosphere, 

 gives them a check, from which they 

 do not recover in a long time, and 

 some remain in an unliealthy condition 

 all winter. Some depend \x\ion plants 



taken up from the borders and potted, 

 to furnish the window. These are apt 

 to delay taking them up until the cool 

 nights have checked their growth, and 

 when they are taken to a warm room 

 the change is too sudden, and the plants 

 rarely do well. If they are to be taken 

 up from the open ground and potted, 

 it should be done so early that they 

 may recover from the shock of removal, 

 and become established in the pots be- 

 fore cool weather makes it necessary to 

 take them into the house. — American 

 Agriculturist. 



GRAPES AS FOOD AND MEDICINE. 



The quantity of grapes, says Dr. 

 Irving 0. Cross, of Washington, D.C., 

 that one may eat with impunity is 

 something astonishing. Persons at 

 European Grape Cure Institutes con- 

 sume from 3 to 6 Kilos (6 to 12 lbs.) 

 daily. Grapes constitute a perfect nu- 

 triment, which includes in remarkable 

 proportions the nitrogenous Albume- 

 noid and Respiratory principals indis- 

 pensable to a good alimentation. Ac- 

 cording to the analysis of a French 

 chemist, a striking analogy exists be- 

 tween the juice of the grape and human 

 milk. This chemist finds in 100 parts 

 of each substance as follows : 



Milk. Grape. 

 Albumenoid and nitrogenous matter ..14 17 



Sugar, Gum, etc 11 16 



Mineral Substance, Water, etc. 



Some of the affections which the 

 grape may be used for, as a respirative 

 medicinal agent of great value are those 

 arising from troubles in the digestive 

 functions, diseases of the liver and 

 spleen, female derangements, catarrh of 

 the air passages, and that state of general 

 exhaustion that keeps up all troubles of 

 the respiratory aparatus. The doctor 

 also says : " Over worked j)ersons may 



