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Q. Please tell us how to prepare the tobacco water? 



A. Just put into water and sprinkled on, a little weak water 

 will do it. 



O. Will you tell us of some varieties that will stand the cold 

 winter with no snow? 



A. All these varieties that I have named are supposed to be 

 hardy in this State. 



O. You spoke of applying narcotic stimulant. In the way 

 of a decoction or fumigation. The easier way. for me is to 

 fumigate. 



A. Yoa can't do that very well out of doors unless }OU are 

 a better smoker than the most of folks. I think the plants 

 would stand it all rioht but I can't sav about the green flies. 



PLANT STUDY. 

 By Prof. L. M. Felch, Houlton. 



Some knowledge of plants should be possessed by everyone. 

 This necessity has been recognized ever since man appeared 

 upon the earth. The study of plants is probably the oldest of 

 the sciences, authorities to the contrary, for before man began 

 the study of the heavenly bodies, he had turned his attention, 

 through necessity, to the study of plants, and had investigated 

 their properties and applied them to his needs. 



Botany has had a place among the natural sciences about one 

 hundred years and wherever it has been well taught, it has been 

 a favorite study. The first writings on botany contained a 

 description of about eight hundred plants, at the revival of 

 learning not more than one thousand four hundred were 

 known. The immortal Linnaeus was acquainted with only 

 eight thousand, while at the present day, more than 150,000 are 

 known and additions are being constantly made. The student 

 need have no fear that he can exhaust the subject, and that his 

 desire to learn will ever lack material, for a long life given to any 

 one of its departments would still leave it unfinished. 



