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After flowering, the tulip, when its leaves are withered, 

 may be lifted and dried and carefully marked and packed 

 away in drawers for another year's planting. 



The time of planting tulips is from October 1st to No- 

 vember 15th, and of this fine floral appendage to every 

 perfect garden we might say much more; but as our inten- 

 tions in landscape, lawn and garden, woodland and moor 

 conversations is not only to make a readable article, but 

 one of real practical value to all our readers, we close this 

 paper without giving a long list of the rare and beautifully 

 named varieties, as a list of one thousand and one may be 

 had of our floral friends, Vanderbilt Brothers, Fulton 

 street, who will let you into many other of the mysteries of 

 Holland. Ollipod Quill. 



—The second day of the Prospect Park extra fall meet- 

 ing took place on October 23d. The attendance was fair 

 and the trotting very spirited. The first race was a match 

 for $250 mile heats, best three in five to wagon. T. H. 

 Phillip's bay team Prince and Mack, and M. Schenck's bay 

 and black geldings Adonis and Listener. Schenck's won in 

 three straight heats. The second race was the Prospect 

 Park Colt Stakes for three year olds, $50 each. Value of 

 the stakes, $1,500. Distance— one mile and repeat. Shep- 

 pard Knapp's Ref orm won in 2 :25f — 2 :40. The next two 

 trots were walk overs, only one horse in each race putting 

 in an appearance. The last race of the day was for a purse 

 of $600 for horses that had never beaten 2 -.30 mile heats, 

 best three in five in harness. There were four heats trotted 

 when darkness put an end to the day's sport. The last clay, 

 October 24, began with the finishing heat of the postponed 

 trot of the day before. Lady Emma won very easily. The 

 second event was the three minute trot. Seven horses 

 started. Sterling, the favorite, won very easily in three 

 straiglit heats. The most interesting race of the meeting 

 was the free to all race. Purse $3,500. The celebrated 

 trotting horses Gazelle, Camors, Judge Fullerton, and 

 American Girl, started. American Girl was the favorite 

 and won in three straight heats. Time— 2 :20— 2 :22— 2 :22£. 



—The second day of the Kingston (N. Y.) Park races 

 came off on October 23d. The first race for a purse of 

 $300, for 2:45 horses, was won by Colonel Roberts in three 

 straight heats. Time— 2 :50£, 2 :52± and 2 :51i. The second 

 race for a purse of $350, for 2:37 horses, was a very excit- 

 ing one. Five heats were trotted and was finished on Oc- 

 tober 24th, Major King winning easily in 2:30^. Mag 

 Tammany won the race for 2:50 horses. The second and 

 last race for a purse of $300, free for all, was won by Joe 

 Brown in three straight heats. 



—The Maryland Jockey Club held the first day of 

 the annual autumn meeting on the Pimlico course, Balti- 

 more, on October 23rd. The weather Avas delightful and 

 the attendance of the elite and beauty of Baltimore was im- 

 mense. The first race was for a purse of $500 for all ages. 

 There were eight horses started. Preakness was the favor- 

 ite and won easily by six lengths. Time — 1:54. The 

 second was a hurdle race. Distance — two miles, over eight 

 hurdles, for all ages, with welter weights. Three horses 

 started, the jumping of the horses "was poor, as none except 

 the favorite Lochiel jumped clean, the others knocking 

 down the hurdles. Lochiel won very easily. Time— 4 :3 1 -I. 

 The third race was for the Dixie stakes, three year olds. 

 Distance — two miles. Four horses only came to the post. 

 Tom Bowling came home the winner by twelve lengths in 

 3:58. The fourth race was two mile heats for all ages. 

 Six horses started. This was a closely contested race be- 

 tween Harry Bassett, Sylock and Warlike. Harry bassett 

 finally won a spirited struggle by a head time — 3:50 The 

 second heat was won by Bassett, the same horses as in the 

 first heat were second and third, the others distanced. 

 Time— 3:57f. 



— The second day of the Maryland Jockey Club meeting 

 on October 24th was well attended, but the track was slow. 

 The first race was for the Central Stakes for two-year old 

 horses; one mile; $50 subscription, play or pay; club to 

 add $500. Three horses started. Weathercock won the 

 race, beating Saxon, second, and Visgoth, third. Time, 

 1 :5G. The second was the selling race for horses of all 

 ages; two miles; purse $500, $400 to first and $100 to sec- 

 ond. Eight horses started. Cora Linn w r on the race, beat- 

 ing Artist, second; Wheatley, third; and Village Black- 

 smith, fourth. Time, 3:52. The third race was for the 

 Gentlemen's Post Stakes; one and a quarter miles; for 

 horses of all ages; w r elter weights; $25 subscription, play 

 or pay; club to add $500; $100 to second. Four horses 

 started. StoJ&wood won the race, beating Coronet, sec- 

 ond; Tabitha, third; and Lochiel, fourth. Time, 2:29|. 

 The fourth race was mile heats, best three in five, for 

 horses of all ages; purse $700, $600 to first and $100 to 

 second. Two horses started. Mate won the race in three 

 straight heats, beating Bessie Lee. Time— 1:56, 1:56, 1:58. 



— The third day of the Maryland Jockey Club took place 

 October 25th. The number of persons present was unu- 

 sually large. The first race was the Handicap Stakes, one 

 and a half miles, open to all ages; $20 each if not declared 

 out. Lizzie Lucas won easily, Shylock, second; Cariboo 

 third. Preakness, the favorite, was the eighth horse. 

 Time, 2:48. The second race was mile heats, for three- 

 year-olds; purse $600, $100 to second horse. The first heat 

 was won by Katie Pease; time, 1:56; the second by Artist, 

 time 1 :56, and the third by Katie Pease, time 1 :50$. The 

 third race, four mile heats, for all ages; purse $1,700, 



$1,200 to the first horse, $400 to the second, and $100 to 

 the third. True Blue and Harry Bassett were the only 

 starters, True Blue being the favorite at 2 to 1. Harry 

 Bassett was distanced in the first heat by nearly two hun- 

 dred yards. Time, 7:49. 



—The Trotting Horse Breeders' Association of Lexington, 

 Kentucky, held the third day of the meeting on October 

 23d. The track was very heavy and time made by the 

 horses was quite slow. The first race was a purse of $250 

 for three year olds, which had never beaten 2:50— one mile 

 and repeat in harness. There were eight horses started. 

 The first heat was won by Ike Marvel, the second was a 

 dead heat between Marvel and Alley, when the third and 

 fourth heats were won by Alley. Turpin was distanced in 

 the first heat. Time— 2:59— 2:59— 2:561— 3:06^. The 

 second race was a purse of $300 for four year olds and 

 under, mile heats, best three in five in harness. The con- 

 test was between Lady Turpin and Hylas. The former 

 scored the first, second and fifth heats, winning the race. 

 The third event was a purse o' $800 for horses that had 

 never beaten 2:34— mile heats, best three in five in harness. 

 Jamison won the race in three straight heats, Lady Alice 

 taking second money and Josie the third premium. The 

 fourth day of the meeting was well attended, but the track 

 was still heavy. The first race Avas for four year olds. 

 Ella Clay walked over. The second race was the Woodford 

 County Stakes for three year olds. This race resulted in a 

 match between Albrina and J. W. Combs; the former won. 

 The last race closed with a purse of $500 for three minutes 

 horses. leven started, and it was w r on by Bill Spencer. 



—The fifth and last day of the Kentucky Horse Breed- 

 er's Association took place October 25th. The weather 

 was flue, but the track was not in good order for fast time. 

 The first race was a walk-over, by Tracy, in 2:53. The 

 second race was Avon by Doble. Time— 2:47, 2:51, 2 :46f, 

 2:49k The third race was won by Dick Jamison, beating 

 Red Cloud, Ira H, and Billy Haskins in five heats. Best 

 time, 2:34k The driver of Ira H was suspended for sixty 

 days and the horse distanced, for foul driving. 



— There was some interesting driving and trotting at 

 Dexter Park, Chicago, on October 25th. In the free-for- 

 all race, $3,500, Bashaw, Jr. Mila C, Lady Mac, Ella 

 Wright, H. Collie, Morris, and Bro. Jonathan started; the lat- 

 ter took the first heat in 2 :87£, Bashaw, Jr. , the second in 

 2:26f, and Mila C. the third in2:26£. The race was then 

 postponed until Monday on account of the darkness. The 

 judges put Budd Doble up to drive Mila C. in the third 

 heat, as her former driver was evidently pulling her. Lady 

 Mac was distanced in the third heat. During the afternoon 

 Goldsmith Maid was run round the track, doing her mile in 

 2:18 each time. The running race was won by Lady Fair- 

 field in two straight heats. Time — 1:50, 1:51. James 

 Stinson, of Chicago, then drove his four-in-hand around 

 the track in 2:50, which is said to be the fastest time on 

 record for a four-in-hand. 



— How to The at Run Down Horses. — When horses 

 become worn out and run doAvn by hard work, sometimes 

 liberal feeding alone will not bring them up again to their 

 proper state of health. A writer in the Agriculturist says 

 his animals were in that condition of lassitude and Aveak- 

 ness, and he sawed a barrel in two and placed the ends 

 upon the platform of the pump, to be used in watering the 

 horses. Into one of them he put a pailful of corn meal and 

 mixed it with the Avater. The horses at first did not like it, 

 and would only drink a little when very thirsty. After 

 they had drank Avhat they would, they w T ere allowed pure 

 water. In a few days, however, they drank this corn meal 

 soup With a relish, and in less than a Aveek there was a 

 decided change for the better in the appearance of all the 

 horses. He did not let them eat the meal, but merely let 

 them drink the milky water. There is no doubt but it is as 

 good for them as a plate of good soup is for a tired and 

 hungry man before dinner. It seems to stimulate the ap- 

 petite and aid digestion. 



A Hunting Incident. — Henry IV, Avhen hunting, became 

 separated from his company, having lost his way. In the 

 forest he met a peasant. 



"Did'st see the hunt passing this way?" asked the king. 



"No, but I heard them riding down yonder slope," said 

 the man. 



"A gold piece, if thou wiil take me the way they went," 

 said the king. 



" I will do it for nothing if thou wilt show me the king," 

 said the peasant. 



"Willingly," replied the merry monarch. "And do thou 

 jump up behind me and tell me which way they went. I 

 Avid certainly sIioav thee the king." 



The peasant nothing loth mounted benincl Henry, and 

 presently they approached the hunt. 



"How shall I know, good sir," asked the peasant, " who 

 is the king? They are all so smartly dressed." 



"Thou canst easily distinguish him," said Henry. "Peo- 

 ple always take off hats to the king." Very soon they were 

 in the midst of the hunt, and hats were doffed. 



" See here," said the peasant, "I do not exactly under- 

 stand this; for very surely if you are not king, I must be 

 king of France and Navarre. So, if thou art king, I will 

 get doAvn; but shouldst thou owe me allegiance, dismount." 



The best beloved of French kings hesitated a moment 

 what to do, Avhen the peasant, having enjoyed the joke, 

 deftly slipped off the horse. 



"Give this man a cup of Avine," cried the king, "aud a 

 hundred crowns, for of all contestants to my crown of 

 France he has been the most easily deposed." 



— « — 



'more about the manatee. 



INCE the publication of Mr. Conklin's most interest- 

 ing article on the Manatee, Ave have been in receipt of a 

 number of letters in regard to this strange creature, and 

 some of the questions asked us Ave can reply to. The man- 

 atee atMralie, of the Amazon, an engraving of which can 

 be found in Wood's Natural History, if taken as a model 

 or outline of the M. Latirostns, of Florida, differs materially 

 from Gus, the unique specimen of the Central Park. Our 

 Gus, who comes to you in his shallow bath Avhen you call 

 him, has no bottle nose like the one in the picture. His 

 snout tapers down gradually ; w hen he opens his mouth to 

 get his food, his nose wrinkles up a little, but never in the 

 coarse way as shown in Wood's picture. Whether his po- 

 sition on the bank, as in the picture, would incline him to 

 be high shouldered, we cannot state, but there is no marked 

 prominence in the fore part of the Floridian manatee. The 

 fore flippers are not placed so far forward, and the tail is 

 much broader than jn the Wood picture. Altogether there 

 is a puffy appearance to the illustration which does not be- 

 long to Gus, who is rather flat-backed. One beautiful 

 thing about Gus is the construction of the valves in his 

 nose, the working of which can be distinctly seen. As 

 soon as his cleft snout gets above Avater, open goes the 

 valves, the instant he is submerged he shuts them. They 

 are about as big as a waistcoat button, and are neatly hinged. 

 They have a perfect mechanical movement, and their mo- 

 tion is due to some involuntary action. The tail itself re- 

 sembles very much the single flange of a propeller placed 

 parallel with the water. It has an undulatory motion, and 

 can, we think, be made convex or concave at pleasure. 

 The rudimentary nails on the flippers are whitish, and not 

 very marked. As to the question the power the manatee 

 would have when in iis natural element to inflict injury, 

 Ave are somewhat doubtful about. Certainly the muscular 

 power of our manatee's tail would be immense, as it is 

 joined closely to the main body, but we think his want of 

 activity would render the use of his only means of inflict- 

 ing injury useless at times, though Mr. Conklin informed 

 us that his manatee would strike a stranger with its tail, 

 and inflict quite a powerful blow. 



In feeding on the, leaf of the canna, the manatee gener- 

 ally takes the leaf lengthways across his mouth, and bites it 

 off bit by bit, the hold being always retained something like 

 a boy without good table manners eating a slice of bread 

 and butter, and commencing at one end of the slice and 

 munching it from end to end. Mr. Conklin told us, when 

 Ave examined Gus, that he Avould consume from twelve to 

 fourteen pounds Of canna leaf and sea weed together per 

 diem, and that although he broAvsed a little from time to 

 time, his feeding hours w r tere late at night and early in the 

 morning. 



This most intelligent director of the Central Park col- 

 lection of animals deserves great credit for the care he has 

 taken of this strange creature. Specimens of the manatee 

 from Florida have been sent north before, but have never 

 lived any time. Some five years ago, some shoAvman had a 

 fair specimen of the Manatee in Savannah, but it lived for 

 only a short time. Gus is quite tame, and will come to the 

 surface and approach his keeper Avhen called. To our 

 eyes he presented somewhat the appearance of a monstrous 

 gorged leech Avith a tail and flippers, and seemed in dispo- 

 sition to be particularly harmless and peaceful. 



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THE PEREGRINE FALCON. 

 (Falco anatum.) 



— What is the difference between a manatee and a man 

 at sea for the first time ? One is a sea cow, and the other 

 a sick coward. 



— Worse than a tempest in the tea-pot — a war in Ashan- 

 tee; (a)shanty. 



You remember, Mr. Editor, the huge mass of red sand- 

 stone, <Bhot up six hundred feet above the Connecticut river 

 at South Deerfield, called Mt. ' ' Sugar Loaf. " 



You probably can recall the lovely view of the little 

 valley spread out before you from the summit. 



I doubt not you have sat in "King Philip's seat," scooped 

 out of the cliff, Avhere 'tis said he planned the massacre of 

 Bloody Brook, when Capt. Lathrop and his Beverly Volun- 

 teers were slain so many yearns ago. 



One day in April I climbed the steep path on the south- 

 ern side, and wearied and heated, threw myself upon the 

 grass at the summit to gaze upon the scene below. 



The spires and towers of Amherst glistened in the sun, 

 thrown out in bright relief against the dark green of the 

 Holyoke Mountains. 



Hadley and Northampton presented pictures worth re- 

 membering, and the Connecticut reflected the last rays of 

 the sun as it sank behind the Hoosac hills. 



I was awakened from a reverie by a sharp, chattering 

 cry, unlike any I had ever heard, and looking in the direc- 

 tion whence it came, saw coming towards the eastern cliff 

 a sharp-winged hawk. It sw r ooped beneath the shelving 

 rock and disappeared. Climbing out upon a projecting 

 tree-trunk I threw a stone over the cliff and took a quick 

 shot as the hawk appeared; owing to the insecurity of my 

 seat I missed. Examining the brow of the precipice I 

 fo.md that I could descend some twenty feet, and by care- 

 fully steadying myself by the small stinted cedars cou'd 

 reach a point opposite a projecting stick, Avhere from the 

 whitened appearance of the rocks, I conjectured the hawk 

 had his eyrie. But by this time the sun had set, and so 

 descending the mountain and craving a supper and bed, I 

 deferred my attempt upon the life of the bird. Before it wa8 

 fairly light next morning, I had ensconced myself behind 

 the lowest cedar on the cliff, just where the rock began to 

 shelve in. Though so early, the hawk was seeking his 



