THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



The Illinois Blackberry. 



This variety was discovered growing wild near Alton, 

 111., more than twenty years ago, by Mr. E. A. Riehl, director 

 of the Alton (111.) Experiment Station. The history of the 

 fruit as given by Mr. Riehl to the present nursery people 

 who are selling the plants, is as follows: 



He noticed a clump of blackberries growing in a fence 

 corner along a road, which were ripe at an earlier date than 

 those grown at the Experiment Station, and were larger and 

 much better. Mr. Riehl watched the behavior of this clump 

 of berries for several seasons and then took up two plants for 

 a trial under cultivation. They bore so well, were so large 

 and of such excellent quality that he replaced a patch of 

 Kittatinny, where the latter had died from rust. Later the 

 Kittatinny variety had nearly all perished from rust and as 

 fast as they died out they were replaced by the Illinois until 

 the whole patch was of this variety. The Illinois was found 

 to be so superior to all others that none excepting it were 

 grown further than to test new sorts as they were introduced, 

 and up to the present time Mr. Riehl has never found an 

 equal to the Illinois in all of its desirable points. It ripens 

 shortly after the variety known as Early Harvest, but ma- 

 tures its whole crop more quickly. Later in his experience 

 Mr. Riehl reports that it has never been winter injured. 



The Worden Grape. 



If you have failed to plant Worden Grape you will make 

 a mistake. It resembles the Concord in many respects and 

 when first introduced was claimed to be nothing more than 

 the Concord. It is, however, much earlier in ripening, and 

 larger in size of bearing. The fact that it ripens earlier is 

 a strong point over the Concord. Its one weakness is tfiat it 

 will not ship to good advantage, being tender in skin, but 

 for home use there is none of greater value. Worden is ripe 

 and gone before Concord comes in. The clusters are very 

 large and handsome. 



Pineapple Strawberry. 



A novelty in this fruit is the Pineapple Flavored Straw- 

 berry. It was* introduced by Charles A. Green. The fruit is 

 large and beautiful and its individuality in flavor should 

 please any lover of the strawberry. 



The Home 



X 



When Honor Walks Abroad. 



One evening at dusk, as Mayor Jones and I were going 

 home, a negro tramp, unkempt and sinister, asked him for 

 the price of a lodging. He had no change, but he handed 

 the tramp a five-dollar bill, telling him to get it changed 

 and he could have his alms. We waited ; the mayor talked 

 of other things; I, with far less faith than he, in some 

 dubious expectation. But after a while the tramp came 

 back, and into the mayor's hand poured out the change in 

 silver. The mayor, humanly complaining of the heavy silver 

 which the Treasury Department sends to us in the West 

 so that New York may have all the crisp dollar bills, dropped 

 the money in his pocket. 



"Ain't you going to count it?" asked the tramp. 



"Did you count it?" asked the mayor. 



"Yes." 



"Was it all right?" 



"Yes." 



"Well, then, there's no need for my counting it, is 

 there? Did you take out what you wanted?" 



"No." 



"Here then." 



The mayor gave the tramp a coin and we went on. 



There was no possible ostentation about this ; Mayor 

 Jones had no need, in the dark, to do anything to impress 

 me, his friend. I should not, indeed, stoop even to explain 

 so much. But how much good did such confidence do that 

 wandering outcast? How much good did it do me or others 

 with whom he might come in contact? By the same law. 

 possibly, my own lack of faith in the tramp would have led 

 him to treat me differently. 



When one understands this higher law as Mayor Jones 



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