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Garden Work About the Home 
(Continued from page xiv) 
Experiments have shown that flies carry the 
germs of typhoid, among other diseases, on 
their feet, and it is quite possible that cases 
may originate by eating food which has not 
been protected from flies. 
Besides actual disease, the flies also carry 
the various bacterias of fermentation and 
putrefaction. 
The horse stables should, if possible, be 
screened (this will be a comfort to the horses 
also), and dishes of poisoned water put about 
to kill the stray flies, but the most important 
thing is to have the stables cleaned three times 
a day, and to have the manure spread on the 
land at once, or put in an underground pit 
which the flies can not reach. 
A weekly dose of carbon bisulphid put in 
the pit will kill any larve or eggs which may 
be there. This practice should materially re- 
duce the number of flies in your own stable, 
but it will be hard to induce your neighbors 
to do likewise, especially if they are farmers. 
CHILDREN'S GARDENS 
It is easy to get children interested in 
gardening, but, as F. G. says, it is hard to 
keep them so, unless they can be made to forsee 
the ultimate results of care and attention. 
They should have a small plot which is to 
be all their own, to plant and cultivate and 
care for, and they should be given things 
which germinate and mature quickly. 
Radishes and lettuce are good, and a hill or 
two of potatoes, a few string beans and a to- 
mato plant might be tried. 
Of the annual flowers, poppies, portulacca, 
Drummond’s phlox, pinks and nasturtiums 
are probably the best, because they grow so 
quickly and bloom so profusely. 
The child’s garden should be laid out with 
some care, as a sort of miniature of the real 
gardens of the place, and the few flowers it 
may produce should be used in the house, and 
the vegetables on the table, lest the children 
lose interest in unappreciated labor. 
As discipline the child’s garden might be 
made almost as effective as the old onion 
patch. 
THE SUMACS 
The native sumacs are among the most 
interesting and characteristic of our plants. 
They grow everywhere in open fields, and 
their unique beauties embellish every scene. 
They look best, perhaps, when among tall 
red cedars, which set them off in a very fetch- 
ing way. 
The stag-horn sumac (Rhus hirta) some- 
times reaches a height of forty feet, but it is 
ordinarily less than half as high. 
It is a picturesque tree or shrub with the 
large pinnate leaves borne well out on the 
branches, which are covered with small hairs 
like the velvet of a stag’s horns. ‘The large 
bunches of crimson berries, which last 
throughout the winter, are very striking. 
The dwarf sumac (R. copallina) is quite 
different, having leaves of a deeper green, and 
so shiny that they seem varnished. 
The smooth sumac (R. glabra) is much 
like the stag-horn, but has smooth glaucous 
branches and leaves of a peculiar silvery 
green. 
The large flower head is a yellowish white, 
deliciously scented and very attractive to the 
bees. 
The chief glory of all the sumacs is their 
brilliant autumn foliage. With the first days 
of October they begin to turn, and they flame 
