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ter, stir in three well-beaten eggs, one cup of milk, threa 

 cups of flour with two large teaspoonf uls baking-powder, and 

 lastly two cups of any kind of nut kernels and one of stoned 

 and chopped raisins. 



Nut Cake, No 2.— Cream three-fourths of a pint of sugar 

 and half a cup of butter, add three-fourths of a cup of milk, 

 the beaten whites of four eggs, and two cupfuls of flour sift- 

 ed with two teaspoonf uls of baking-powder. Stir in one cup 

 of walnut mf ats and a little salt. The nuts should be broken 

 in small pieces and floured. Ice the cake and decorate the 

 top in fanciful figures made with walnut halves laid in the 

 icing before it has hardened. 



THE ORANGE. 



" Oranges that glow 

 Like globes of Are, inclose a heart of snow 

 Which thaw not in their flame, — " 



This delicious fruitage of one variety of the genus Cit- 

 rus is justly esteemed all over the world. Associated 

 with all the splendor and coloring of the tropics it holds in 

 its golden globes a wealth of attractiveness beginning with 

 the colorless buds and blossoms which adorn the bride of 

 every country and race. Its juicy and delicious fruitage, 

 appearing simultaneously with its pnre whits blossoms and 

 its fragrant evergreen foliage are the delight of every trav- 

 eler in the southern clime. 



Botanists are undecided whether the orange is a native 

 of India or of China. Veiy likely it is indigenous to both 

 countries. It does not matter since all warm regions now 

 claim it as their own. 



Its cultivation is greatly on the increase in our own 

 country, so that Florida and California are now sending to 

 the markets of the Bast some pf tbe finest oranges ever 



