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NEW ENGLAM) FARJUER. 



Nov. 



and differently marked from the other kinds, j 

 They are both curious an'! picturesque. 



The late-blooming Tulips are divided into 

 three cUmscs. Rose or Violets, having white 

 grounds, feathered or striped with scarlet, 

 rose, violet or crimson. Byblcemens, having 

 white grounds flecked with purple, lilac or 

 black, and Bizarres, with yellow groufcds, 

 feathered with white, crimson or purple. 

 These can be purchased cheaply in mixtures, 

 while named varieties command a much higher 

 price ; the former answer very well for plant- 

 ing en masse. They should be taken up and 

 divided every two or three years, but not until 

 the leaf stalks are entirely dry. 



The Narcissus is divided into several 

 classes ; the Narcissus poeticus, and the 

 double variety of it, are often seen in old 

 country gardens, and should be cultivated in 

 every garden, on account of their fragrance 

 and b^auty. The Polyamthus Narcissus hears 

 several flowers on one head, and is very at- 

 tractive. These bulbs should be planted some- 

 what deeper than the Hyacinth; cover them 

 from i'mr to five inches, according to the size 

 of the bulb. 



Jonquils belong to the Narcissus family, 

 but the bulbs are much smaller, and should not 

 be planted more than three inches in depth. 

 Crocuses, brightest and earliest of all spring 

 flowers, always excepting their pale sisters, 

 the Snowdrops, should be plant-^.d in a shel- 

 tered location, where they will not be injured 

 by the late spring frosts. They look finely 

 in clusters of ten or a dozen bulbs, scattered 

 about a green lawn. Th-^y can be purchased 

 in purple, yellow, white, blue, violet and 

 fetriped. 



Snowdrops should be planted about two 

 inches in depth, (and the same rule applies to 

 the crocus ) They should be set out in 

 clumps or circles. 



Scillas, in all thtir varieties, are very 

 beautiful, and grow from six to eight inches 

 high, bearing spikes of bell-shaped flowers of 

 a lovely blue color ; in planting cover two or 

 three ioches. Anemones and Ranunculuses 

 are a very attractive class of bulbs, but success 

 in their cultivation is rather uncertain in our 

 climate, and it requires an experienced florist 

 to bring them to perfection. We beg all our 

 lady readers ^to cultivate a few bulbs both out 

 doors and in ; and in another article we will 

 tell tbem how to treat them in ^'Window Gar- 

 dens,'''' where they are a decided addition, and 

 are within the reach of all. 



All our house plants have been carefully 

 potted ; it was done early in the season, and 

 they have had six weeks to rest, so that some 

 of them are now in full bloom, deliguting all 

 the senses. Monthly Carnations are most 

 desirable tor winter flowering — we have a pink 

 and whice species which are now in great 

 beauny. We added one tablespoonful of 

 '•Grafton Fertilizer,'''' to every good sized 

 pot ; it is death on all vermin, we have killed 



all the red spiders which the intense drought 

 of the summer had bred in legions. We 

 scattered it over the leaves of Fuchsias and 

 Carnations which were terribly infested with 

 them, and nearly ruined ; it, in its turn, scat- 

 tered its forces, and the plants are now filled 

 with buds and blossoms. We number ninety- 

 five pots of all kinds of plants ; more than we 

 intended to attempt to winter, but a kind 

 friend sent us by mail fr m the ^-Innisf alien 

 Greenhouses,'''' eighteen most lovely plants. 

 Geraniums, Variegated-leaved, etc., etc., and 

 we were charmed to receive them ; and now 

 fill five windows with plants in a most flourish- 

 ing condition. We potted them all in the 

 richest loam, with one-quarter silver sand, 

 and the all-powerful fertilizer, which contains 

 Carbonic acid solidified. Prof. Faraday tells 

 us that in the coldest temperature and under 

 the most heavy pressure, this article is pro- 

 duced, and this is mined whei'e the mercury 

 falls to 30° below zero, and under the tremen- 

 dous weight of quartz rock. Savants, who 

 declare that Carbonic acid exists only as a 

 gas, had better test this "■Fertilizer."''' At 

 any rate, it does make plants grow with greas 

 rapidity, and for '' Window Gardening'''' is 

 unequalled. As yet there is none in the New 

 England market for sale, but another season 

 all can obtain it. 



We must give our plants all the air, in these 

 autumn months, that is not too chilly for 

 their tender leaves. Light, air, and water are 

 three essentials, without which no plant-life 

 can flourish, — without them they are not prop- 

 erly colored nor vigorous. Very much may 

 be done towards stimulating the growth of 

 weakly plants, and assisting the flowering rf 

 healthier ones, by frequent waterings of liquid 

 manure. It is an expeditious and immediately 

 successful method of increasing the fertility of 

 the soil, and forcing the plants. s. o j. 



Woman''s Sphere — Suppose it were possi- 

 ble to convert all the men in a single place, 

 and leave the women just as they were '; I be- 

 lieve that in the second generation you would 

 find little or no improvement — the great wave 

 of conversion would have passed over that 

 place and left but little trace. But suppose 

 the reverse of this. Suppose all the women 

 were converted, and men left untouched. I 

 think 1 should be found right in saying that a 

 large portion of the second generation would 

 be christian men and women, and an immense 

 and permanent improvement would be found 

 to have taken place. How is this ? bimply 

 because God has entrusted into the hands of 

 us women the nursery, the house, the moral 

 influence on, and the formation of, the charac- 

 ter of the rising generation. 



—Edwin G. Saunders of Brewer, Me., a wide 

 awake young farmer, lias a pullet only 4 months 

 old, which has laid sixteen good sized eggs. 



