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agement, may be had in bloom from 

 dclober to March. Many pei'sons try 

 to grow Crotons, Azaleas, and Camellias 

 in rooms, but as a general thing the 

 result is failure and destruction of the 

 plants, as these require an abundance 

 of syringing and moisture. — Farm and 

 Garden. 



HISTORICAL ITEM. 

 In the last century a vessel came 

 into London docks with yellow fever, 

 and the captain was suffering severely 

 from it, and no one would go near the 

 suff"ei-ers. Dr. Fothergill, however, 

 went on board, partly out of compas- 

 sion and partly from his desire to study 

 a disease which was new to him, and 

 he removed the captain to his own 

 house, and finally succeeded in getting 

 him through the fever. When the 

 captain recovered he inquired from the 

 doctor what he was in his debt, but 

 Fothergill refused to receive any pay- 

 ment. The captain then wished to 

 know how he could compensate him 

 for such kindness, upon which the doc- 

 tor replied that there was one thing he 

 could do for him if he were making a 

 voyage to the East, and would pass 

 through the Straits of Macassar by 

 Borneo, he should be glad if he would 

 ])ring him back two barrels full of the 

 earth of Borneo, which the captain 

 promised to do. However, when he 

 reached the spot on his voyage out, he 

 thought of the ridicule he must expe- 

 rience from his crew in sa strange an 

 undertaking, and his heai"t failed him, 

 and he sailed through tlie Straits with- 

 out fulfilling his intention. On his re- 

 turn by the same route the same thing 

 hap|)ened again through his fear of the 

 scoffs of his crew. However, aftei- he 

 had left the Straits two hundred or 

 possibly three hundred miles behind 

 him, his conscience smote him witli his 

 ingratitude and the non-fulfilment of 

 his promise, and he put the ship's head 



about, returned to the spot, and filled 

 the barrels with the eai'th. On his re- 

 turn he sent it to Dr. Fothergill, who 

 had the surface of a piece of ground 

 thoroughly burned, and he then 

 sprinkled the Borneo earth on it, when 

 it is a known fact that there came iip 

 •all kinds of new and curious plants, 

 said to be one hundred different sorts, 

 some geraniums, and new flowers which 

 have subsequently spread throughout 

 the gardens of England. 



AN EVERBEARING BLACK-CAP RASP- 

 BERRY—THE EAUHART 

 EVERBEARER. 



This is a new black-cap raspberry. 

 It differs from all other raspberries by 

 its fruiting qualities. It continues to 

 bear till frost. The old canes com- 

 mence ripening their berries by the 

 1 5th of June ; by the 4th of July they 

 are all ripe ; then the young canes com- 

 mence ripening their berries. They 

 bear in clusters from G to 1 8 inches 

 long, Avhich all ripen at one time. It 

 bears as many berries on the old canea 

 as any other berry, and ripens as many 

 berries in July as any other in twelve 

 months. It ripens more berries in 

 August than any other in twelve 

 months, and as many in September as 

 July, August being the best month. 

 They will bear the same season they 

 are set. Hard winters have no effect 

 on the July, August and September 

 crop, because the canes are not there. 

 Dry weather has no effect on them, 

 because they are on the young, sappy 

 cane. New canes continue to come 

 from the ground for a new supply of 

 berries. We have picked as high as 

 200 ripe berries off one cluster at one 

 time, which made about a pint. This 

 wonderful berry was discovered by Mrs. 

 J. Earhart, in Mason County, Illinois. 



[We received the above description 

 from Mr. J. Earhart.— Ed.] 



