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THE ILLmOIS FAEMEE. 



Feb. 



is yet in his body. He is now in partnership 

 with Horace Greeley in a farming operation in 

 Iowa, whom he has engnged for twenty years to 

 manage a farm of five hundred acres. He has 

 directed us to ship Horace a thousand choice 

 fruit trees. These stories he has repeated 

 at both visits. 



Where his relatives are, or whether he has 

 any, is cot known, a stray waif upon the river of 

 life, a genius who has become wrecked in his 

 private pursuit, and who may soon go down to 

 his long home, far away from friends, away from 

 kindred, unknown, ungympathised, unhonored 

 and unsung. Such is the fate of genius when 

 she grasps beyond the reach of human ken, and 

 the overtasked mind totters to its fall. 



Lake Yiew Flower Garden!— Edgar Sanders, 

 the proprietor of these gardens, has sent us liis 

 catalogue for the spring of 1861. We are glad to 

 see these establishments starling up throughout 

 the country. It shows that the demand for the 

 beautiful is on the increase, and that our yards 

 and gardens are to be cared for. Heretofore 

 the express charges added to the cost of plants 

 has been a serious drawback to the purchase of 

 budding out plants that have to be renewed an 

 nually. But this is no longer in the way, plants 

 can now be purchased at our nurseries and 

 greenhouses even cheaper than at the East, and 

 we hope to see them liberally patronized. Mr. 

 Sanders was the first in Chicago to grow plants 

 at wholesale so as to sell at reduced prices. He 

 led the way, and others follow. The list below 

 will make a good assortment for a flower garden, 

 nearly all of which can be wintered over in the 

 house or cellar. Phloxes, Harly Perennials, 

 Pansies and Hollyhocks can be left out doors. 



18 Verbenas, 

 4 Heliotropes, 

 6 Dahlias 

 2 Fuchias, 

 6 Petunias, 



12 Pans'es, 

 4 Scented Geraniums, 

 2 Salvia?, 

 2 Feverfew, 

 6 Holyhocks, 



6 Scarlet Geraniums, 12 English Daisies, 

 12 Hardy Perennials, 4 Gladiolus, 



4 Tube Roses, 4 Maderia Vines. 



Those who cannot aiFord to invest ten dollars 

 can divide the lot and invest a V. No one should 

 have less than a |dozen Verbenas, half a dozen 

 Dahlias and the same of Phloxes. These will add 

 much to a small yard. You can grow Verbenas 

 from seed, but they come on so late that we 

 "Would not recommend the practice, better get 

 a few strong plants early in the season and have 

 ■a succession of bloom through the summer, than 

 (to wait T :.Il fall for an uncertainty. 



DdPage County Nueseries. — These nurseries 

 have become so well known that it is hardly worth 

 while to say more in their favor. Next month 

 Messrs. L. Ellsworth & Co. will present the read- 

 ers of the Farmer with a synopsis of the im- 

 mense stock of staples in their line. With large 

 greea-houses and the best of propagation they 

 have been enabled to get up the largest stock of 

 ornamentals in the west. Send for a catalogue. 

 Address Messrs. L. Ellsworth & Co., Napierville, 

 IlUnois. 



Commercial and Manufacturing Want cp 

 St. Louis, by L. G. Chase. — We have received 

 from the author a well printed pamphlet of sev- 

 entyone pages devoted to a consideration of the 

 above subject. Mr. C. takes the bull by the 

 horns and advocates cheap lands, manufactures 

 and an improved mode of farming. Great cities 

 are built up from the products of the soil. They 

 need the raw material from the country, without 

 which no city can long prosper. Commerce is 

 well in its place, but when combined with exten- 

 sive manufactures they are doub'y stored with 

 the elements of progress. Mr. Chase will please 

 accept our thanks for his kind remembrance of an 

 old friend, and may he live to enjoy some of the 

 advantages which he so ably advocates. 



Hardy Native Grapes. — Bissell & Salter, of 

 Rochester, have sent us their illustrated cata- 

 logue of native grapes. With such grapes as the 

 Delaware, the Diana, Concord and Clinton we 

 may well be satisfied. They all do well here, but 

 the Concord, frorj its vigorous growth a, id great 

 productiveness, should be in every garden in the 

 State. We look upon it as the farmer's grape. 

 Tlie Delaware is slow grown, but is very superior. 

 The Clinton has been overlooked, and we are glad 

 to see it brought forward to the attention of the 

 public, it is probably one of the best early hardy" 

 grapes 



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A Moth Trap. — A young mechanic at Spring- 

 field, Illirois, has invented a moth trap that he 

 thinks will prove effectual in protecting the bee 

 from this destructive enemy. He destroys the 

 miller, thus preventing the laying of eggs. There 

 are now several patents of this kind, some of 

 them of no particular value, and others compli- 

 cated and expensive. We are assured by a friend 

 of the inventor that it is very simple and cheap, 

 certainly two desirable qualities providing it is 

 effectual. We hope he has succeeded, for the 

 moth is the great drawback to bee keeping at the 

 presect time. 



