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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Ai'itiL C, litnt;. 



j>l;int- jHi --irdn;^ fiiuni^h lo stand it, bul 

 it J.-; a >( lidu- iiiislak"' id go lu cxi-t'ss 

 Ml till-- ami tlicii lilaini' llir i iil rnclurrr 

 !<ty Minliiig (Hii a \\()i'llil('ss \aii('ly. As 

 I iiiaiifj' 111' r.ivx xhv Ijlaiiir lifs witli 

 llii li'iviT, win) lias kiilnl tlic iialural 

 •.■\'^ni ,<t' tlie plant I'V ]iiii|iagal iii'^ it {>> 

 'Kaiii. 'J"liis ]iaii|n'iH'(l Jn tmi' i-a.sr in 

 Miv kiMwIid;^" last Mar with .Mis. W'il 

 iiaai I ia<kliani, ami in surh rasr^ llir 

 liJaini' ~!i"iil'l l.r plai-rd wIuti' U |ir- 

 Iuiil:-. 



Flies on Plants. 



.\l iliis season, uiieu plauts are .scfii 

 lo jia\i' llii's on tlifni, one is ai)t to 

 lia\r llnni, as llirv arc nut luinierons 

 inniigli lo (Icniaml J'uniigating, yet more 

 lliaii ihi'ii' >iiouKI be I'ur the liealth of 

 tlir ]ilani. l)nst liieni over witii tlie tu- 

 liai CO I'll parcel cNpressly I'or this piir- 

 poso, wliirli is llir very best thing to 

 !isf. it lakts little time and is very 

 illi(ii\(. A stitch in tinn' sa\i's iiine. 

 <'iiai;li:s U. Totty, 



THE PRODIGAL RETURNS. 



Ii ciiild not I'c said that tlic bo.s-^ 

 •tiivd'' ,JaL'Us--lie peruiilti'd him mere- 

 '\ 111 -it'l lint of tlie adjaci'iit landscape. 

 it may he tiiat the nmral tone of the 

 ■ ■-talili>limcnt was distinctly imprnvcd li> 

 iii^ al'-i'iicc it is ii'iie the night fircaian 

 -hiiwdi a tiiidciicy to lessen the nioiinto- 

 ay nt 111- c\ i.'iiiiig.s |iy going in ic\i\als 

 \\ hell III wav suppo.'^i'd to lie on duty 

 I'lit tlieie i^ no (jiic^tioii that dagg"s de 



paltlire la^t tllonlll il\ir llle l.nlle^ome 

 lllll~t ^ I lelllinll-ev. 



Till" pa^^id slowly Mil : the hmticnl 

 tuial nraduale liad retired to an agri- 

 cidtiiial cnllcgc and l)a\ie had taken 

 I ^-ll|i■ll;ll t'are^wll 'n the ejiiiir e^tali- 

 li^hnieii! and >laited mi Ins threatened 

 vi--it In (iiieiinck. K\iii 'I'nmniv had 

 ■^rowii i'>li\e and lalke.l nmrnvi'ly nt 

 ictiiihL' aci 1-^ the Atlanlic tn the patia'- 

 i,a 1 i-liandlcr '- simp in ( ainlicrvx e|I. 



The placi- wa- ■~lin|t liandeil. n||n nt 

 '111 iinilcl- pi r:-i-.l I'd III >liricll iil: I Inlil 



■^1 ncial di lalii\ c\cr\ inhl nii^ht. and 

 'ill' Im,-.- acipiiied ^ui'h a cniisi il 111 iniia i 



• ;^ |i imh " ' I hat llie '^reell In i|l-i ral Innk 



In diHlLiiii'.^' iiiidd a liclhii al i lie --niin.l 



[■ lli- dl-talll tnni-Ii-p. 



• ' 'I':! !k a I iiiiil idiei'i liillii --. " ' ^ I na ind 



rnllilKN. I, lining hi- Iniiai-cn lin\ llpvidi- 



!n\\ II ;. I . \l ra' 1 t hi |a-i ;^i'ai n nt' i-nii- 

 -m|:i I imi I Ina 1 i II. ' ' I i n ||.\ •■ .a >c.-oi|i I 

 'iiid Mini'jiie wiiiihl Im' |nyiiii-cr tliaii this 

 'c|e iilnninin' nld .■-epiilchre. What dues 

 I di:' p la 1 ak ai! n i Ic Mni i-i Imi-i ne-.~ 

 t'ni . a ii\ w a \ .' ' ' 



'rii. pi n|i:i_;:i>ni iiii.ai-t l\ ad-iiiMid t liat 

 ; I,. h:i i 'I : n I' •■■! 1 1 ii;j I I; I'. I una l~ .'i i la \ 



vv.a-- rc^pniisilije tor his entry into the 

 trade, init 'roininy contimicd to miitti'i' 

 -av.agcly while lie stiapped some loose 

 -crap- fmni :i Iniiidk' of tobacco stems, 

 In eke niit tile ihiltlc smonhleriiig in bis 

 nld briar pipe. 



The wind liov\ led arnund the ]iottiiig 

 -lied. Iihiwing aside the Imriap jxirtiore.s 

 a rr.i iii;ei I tn cii\ er the cracks annuid the 

 wiiidnw-. Suddenly <'indei>, the uiire- 

 L^eiiciate tcjiier .atiadied to Ihe greeu- 

 linii-e I'nice. dn-<cited lli- -pecial i-(.>rner 

 111' til' a-.hpit. and rushed \\ildl\- to the 



dnnr. 



■' Il I didn't kimw as i).a\ie was 

 uniie. '■ remarked Tninniy doulit fully, 

 •'and , I ; I ;^ i; s - " ' 



The dnnr npeiieii with .a jerk and the 

 ii nil I licn;in In jump witii ,\elps (d' jov 



at tWn -UnW .-piinkled lilillle^. 



• • Well, nt' all the 1 ia\ ic, ynn old 



iiillian. "a\e vnu bein gettin' .JagL;s out 

 1 1 ' jail.''' 



'•Idlis l.-laiid."' remarked .laggs, iin- 



;iba-hid. ''Wanted tn Keep me nut o' 



ihi; llnnniiii' cniuiiry. alonti ol' .a lot ri' 

 {•.allies and Sknuagian-. wiieii I've been 



n\e| here I n II :^ ennUuh In \nte I'lilll' tilllCS 

 .■I 1 nlje elect ii ill. ' ' 



■• "l'\\a>< a lad nn the Alichnria,"' r'X- 

 plaiii'd 1 »a\ il . • " tell "t nie ilicre 's a bid 

 1 knnw that '- in a I'aii' \\ay tn be sent 

 hack. ^11 1 jii-t got him aw a '. ' ' 



•'And vdiat*- the nnitter with your 

 nnin' back \ ninsilf .' ' ' .•isked the prnpa- 

 g.ali-i , 



''Will.'' ieni.ukcd |)a\ie. phibisophi- 



cal!\-. • • ( i I .-. nii'k 'I I keep a W heell Killg- 

 el . ' ■ 



With that Davie began to draw a suit 

 of frayed overalls over his decent Sun- 

 day blacks, and passing around a plump 

 tobacco jKiiieh, settled tlown in his old 

 corner, .laggs looked alfeetioinitely at 

 the ilusty rafters, uheuce the young owl 

 Tommy was educating loidied down sus- 

 piidously, 



"Weil," said he, "there ain't no 

 place like 'onio after all. Many 's the 

 time I've thought o' this 'ere i)ottin' 

 shed, while i was dodgiu' wolves and 

 snow leopards, and savages, over there 

 t'other side of the Himalayas." 



''Them Himalayas down around Snake 

 Hill.'" asked Tommy, pletisantly. 



".Mauy's the time I've said to my- 



<eh,' 



mtinued .laggs, alfeetionatoly 



shying a lump of eotil at Tommy, "when 

 1 ',vas tryin ' to hold on to my hair while 

 I was slidin' down a pre(dpi('e 14,000 

 feet high, 'well, it's .Jersey for mine if 

 1 ever get out o' this!' beaky boilers 

 and busted hose ain't ne:ir as mussy as 

 fallin' into e.xtinet volcanoes, and say, 

 I'll bet even money that all the plagues 

 of Kgypt drifted out to Tibet, ineludin' 

 the chilblains." 



•T.ut how did you get to Tibet?"' 

 asked the new fireman. 



"Walkeil, o' course," responded Tom- 

 my. ''Drive ahead, Jaggs, old boy, and 

 tell us all about it." 



"It were this way, ye see," explained 

 Jaggs ; ' ' when they was sendin ' that 

 chap out from London to hunt up new 

 plants in the Forbidden Land, as them 

 Chinks call it, 1 just naturally went 

 ;dong. I reckon I 've told you about tak- 

 in' a little jaunt up there once before, 

 huntin' rhododendrons; there's a blue 

 rhododendron u[» there that ain't never 

 been brought to blurope yet — don't sup- 

 ])ose it ever will, unless 1 take a notion 

 to go tmd get it. That's where 1 learned 

 to talk their lingo that sounds like 

 clioppin' hash in a wooden bowl. A 

 scientific gent as I met in Kashmir once 

 telLs me as 1 speaks them foreign dia- 

 lects ])retty near as grammatical as 1 

 sjteaks my own; we'd have been in a 

 fight place now ami then if it wasn't 

 for that. 



' •' 'Course, most o' the chiips that goes 

 to Tibet makes i'or Lassa and they ain't 

 runnin' ai^y Cook '.s t(Miis arcuuid them 

 diggin's yet, either, but we imide for 

 the open country where we'd hetird about 

 some kind o" tree snnllower \vith tlow- 

 ei's two feet .across. ()' course, them na- 

 1i\(>s is sinli hoiiid liars as you can't 

 believe the lialf o' what they tells you. 

 I'ivty. ton; snail' o' them looked like they 

 hadn't been washeil for 400 years. 



''We 'adii't gone far before .lohnson 

 au'l nil' decideil that wliili^ we ili<ln'l 

 want to cause any 'anl t'eclin's, we just 

 'ad tn wa-h the cook. So 1 nuule some 

 o' the lii-ai'i- undress him and start to 

 sciiili liini with a bii'idi besom. And. 

 >\'y know, it'tei they'd been scniblijn' 

 aw.-iy i'or fifteen minutes they come 

 diwn tn aiinther suit o' tdothes' 



■ ■ .liilin.'-nii seenied to ha\'e a nnt'nn il 

 v\a-n"l iiiikx In wash that cook, and 

 niavb" lie was right, for blessed il' that 

 thiie arti-l didn't liglit out that night. 

 ■I tier irvin' lo vaccin.afe nie with a 

 llll^\il knife. Still, as I says to Johii- 

 -nii, iie 'd have killed lis with his cookin ' 

 aiiy\\;i\. it he'd ^ laved. 



'•.\s tilings turned out. we didn't "ave 

 anythink to cook most o' the time, :is we 

 -pent ,a month or two jilayin ' tag ovei' 

 the !iioiintains with a lot n' whiskerv 

 ■jent leiiieii that Inoked like .siiems and 

 .b'ipitet- niii o' some tii\ Nn.ah's ark. 



