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GLEANINGS IN BBk CtlLf UHE. 



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disappointment, dear friends, was in us. He 

 came liere to this world to save us ; and he 

 thought that, by pleading with us personal- 

 ly, and giving his life for our poor unworthy 

 selves, we certainlv could be induced to turn 

 from darkness to light. He found us, per- 

 haps, harder-hearted than he had anticipat- 

 ed, for he was human as we are. In some 

 respects he was disappointed and discour- 

 aged. In that last verse of the prayer he 

 says, "And I have declared unto them thy 

 name, and will declare it ; that the love 

 wherewith thou hast loved me may be in 

 them, and— I— in— them." 



GETTING GOOD CROPS I'ROM GROUND 

 NOT W^ORTH OVER A DOL- 

 LAR AN ACRE. 



WHAT A VISITOR SAW TO INTEREST HIM ON OUR 

 GROUNDS. 



■^r OW^please commence my Gleanings again. 

 IB|* and do not stop until 1 tell you to. I can't do 

 ^1^ without it, as I keep bees, and raise vegeta- 

 ^ * bles for a living. I have a greenhouse, 

 18x30, built on the plan of yours. A year 

 ago last summer I made a trip to Medina on purpose 

 to see your greenhouse, after looking in vain to find 

 something that suited my fancy, and I was not long 

 in deciding yours was what I wanted. You were 

 away from home, but Ernest showed me the build- 

 ings, then we yisited the apiary, the carp-pond, and 

 so on, over to where the White Plume celery grew; 

 and such celery I had never seen before. Although 

 It was not later than the first of August, its beauti- 

 ful white leaves were almost fit for market; and 

 the sight of those vegetables growing then was a 

 wonder to me. 



I have been a gardener for a number of years, 

 and always thought that light sandy soil was nec- 

 essary to grow good vegetables; but here were all 

 kinds of vegetables, and it seemed to me they were 

 just jumping, and every plant looked as though it 

 were trying to outgrow the one next to it, and all 

 this on soil that I would not pay one dollar per acre 

 for, for gardening purposes. Well, it proved to me 

 that " eternal vigilance " would accomplish any 

 thing, fori could see what had been done to bring 

 that hard soil to the right condition. 



T felt well paid for that trip to Medina, and have 

 always felt that I was under obligations to you for 

 what I learned that day. My greenhouse was a 

 perfect success. I raise two crops of lettuce each 

 wiater, besides starting plants for early vegetables. 

 Last year we carried the first home-grown tomatoes 

 to the Elyria market, and they brought overdue dol- 

 lars per bushel. I raise the Grand Rapids lettuce, 

 and have had the seed two years. I think it is the 

 only lettuce that will grow perfectly healthy under 

 glass. The description j'ou give of it in December 

 Gleanings is perfect, and I do not wonder you 

 were clear carried away with the sight of it. I have 

 raised single stalks in the greenhouse this winter, 

 weighing 13 ounces. Out of doors the heads will 

 weigh a pound and over before running up to seed. 

 If you want me to, Twill tell you how I raised S10.80 

 worth of this lettuce on a piece of ground 12 feet 

 square last summer, out of 6or<r&, without glass or 

 other covering, and this was the wholesale price at 

 Elyria in Octobfr, when the dealers laughed at me 

 for bringing lettuce to market. 



I inclose two packages of the seed of this 

 wonderful lettuce — one is the original seed I 

 got at Grand Kapids last winter, and was grown on 

 the Eugene Davis place that he sold to Mr. Coyken- 

 dal a year ago last summer. The other, I grew last 

 summer from this seed. I obtained this seed in an 

 honorable way, without any restrictions whatever, 

 and I make none to you. Do not doubt the seed I 

 send you, as it is genuine. I was at Grand Rapids 

 last winter, saw the lettuce growing. I saw it on 

 the market, and ate of it. 1 have raised one crop 

 this winter, and have another growing now, which 

 will be ready in March. O. J. Terrell. 



No. Ridgeville, Lorain Co., O., Jan. 37, 1888. 



Friend T., in your communication above 

 you pay me one of the finest compliments I 

 have ever received in my life, when you say 

 that the ground naturally is so poor, where 

 you saw these fine crops, you would not give 

 a dollar an acre for it. I knew I was work- 

 ing under disadvantages when I commenced 

 —that is, so far as soil is concerned ; and if 

 I have proven that others, under like cir- 

 cumstances, may, by energy and persever- 

 ance, do well, I shall think it greater success 

 than the crops I have raised ; that is, if I 

 can succeed in making others who are, per- 

 liaps, unfortunately situated, feel encour- 

 aged, and by this means tell them " what to 

 do and how to be happy while doing it," I 

 shall have accomplished something more 

 than the mere making of dollars and cents. 

 Market- gardeners tell us that a hundred 

 loads of manure to the acre is not too much ; 

 but I have never used half that amount. I 

 am glad you were pleased with our little 

 greenhouses ; for these very greenhouses are 

 a large factor in enabling one who loves to 

 work at gardening to get to work before he 

 could otherwise do any thing ; in fact, the 

 success of the crop, and especially the mat- 

 ter of getting large prices, very much de- 

 pends upon the plants being started and 

 well rooted before we could take them out of 

 doors. I am very glad to hear you give so 

 good a report from the Grand Rapids lettuce. 



0aR 0WN ^Pi^RY. 



CONDUCTED BY ERNEST R. ROOT. 



ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT IN FOUNDATION- 

 MAKING. 



f?1HOSE who have had experience in 

 ^ foundation-making will doubtless re- 

 ? member that it is a difiicult matter to 

 make the sheets of wax roll out uni- 

 formly without there being dark 

 streaks here and there, as a result of a 

 little wrinkle, just before it passed between 

 the rolls. These " dark spots " reveal them- 

 selves more plainly when the foundation is 

 held up to the light. A careful examination 

 shows that these shaded portions have high- 

 er side walls, in consequence of a larger 

 amount of wax, as the result of a partial 

 fold from the wrinkle. 



This can be remedied somewhat if the one 

 feeding the sheets of wax into the rolls takes 

 great pains to see they are fed straight, and 

 that the sheets do not come in contact with 

 both rolls at a time before they should. The 



