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of tlie South Pacific, characterized by the 

 presence of moas, and of which New Zealand 

 and other Pacific Islands are regarded as 

 remnants. 5. French engraver and anti- 

 quary, 1807-183G. 6. A Christian. 



1. One of a breed of domestic cats with 

 long silky hair. 2. The editor of Home and 

 Flowees. 3. The leaves and stems of young 

 plants. 4. Free folds of the peritoneum 

 passing between certain of the viscera. 5. A 

 large beer jug. 6. Auxiliaries. 



Baltimore, Maryland. Primrose. 



KO. J/. LINKADE. 



In the total wild the birds build nests, 

 Nature has left them kind bequests 

 Of quiet, tico, and leafy tree; 

 What more ask they of aught they see? 



A little food, a sip of drink. 

 Found at the brooklet's mossy brink, 

 So live they on from day to day 

 Happy, contented in their way. 



What care the one the worldling's joys 

 As long as naught their home annoys? 

 Merry, guileless, wild and free. 

 Sing ye birds your song of glee. 

 Binghamton, New York. Frantz. 



Xos. 5 and 6. — squares, 



1. Assuming a given hue. 2. The ancient 

 name of Oxford (England). 3. The editor of 

 Home and Flowers. 4. Resident. 5. Sev- 

 eral of a breed of small oxen, produced by 

 a sudden variation in South America (six- 

 teenth and eighteenth centuries). 6. The 

 Hindu god of policy and prudence, and the 

 patron of literature. 



1. Appeased. 2. A mountain of Bolivia, 

 Department of La Paz. 3. Irish archaeologist, 

 died 1862. 4. The editor of Home and Flow- 

 ers. 5. Anglicized form of erratum (obs., 

 Murray). 6. A bird-catcher's net (obs.) 



Baltimore, Maryland. Primrose. 



XO. 7. BEHEADMEXT. 



Back again in the Mystic Oarden, 



How I love to roam! 

 Plucking flowers in the i^-econd 



To adorn my home. 



Bright red Amaryllis blossoms, 



Sturdy Iris, too, 

 Thorny Cactus, wavy Fern leaves, 



Daisies just a few. 



Back again in the Mystic Garden 

 First strange mystic bloom! 



Let us as in days long gone by, 

 Seek its sweet perfume. 

 Hawley, Minnesota. Kappa Kappa. 



Ao.s. S and 9. — squares. 



1. Running or moving sv\'iftly. 2. The prov- 

 ender-keeper of the royal stables. 3. Focal 

 point. 4, Ultimately. 5. The editor of Home 

 AXD Flowers. 6. Yearns. 



1. Ordered. 2. A town of the Philippine 

 Islau'ds. 3. An ironstone concretion abund- 

 ant in the Jurassic of England. 4. A union 

 of two characters representing a single 

 sound. 5. A place at which Judas Maccabaeus 

 encam.ped before the fatal battle with Bac- 

 chides (Smith). 6. The editor of Home and 

 Flowers. Primrose. 



Baltimore, Maryland. 



Answers next month; solvers and prize- 

 winners in three months. 



PRIZES. 



Three yearly subscriptons to Home and 

 Flowers for the first complete list 



Six months' subscription for the second 

 list received. 



Three three-months' subscriptions will be 

 awarded among those sending solutions. 



A book for the best charade. 



PL^ZZLE CHAT. 



In reopening the Mystic Garden, we feel 

 as though we were writing to many old 

 friends, and wish them to consider this an 

 invitation to write us, and at the same time 

 send in their contributions. 



The department is intended to cover a 

 broader field, and we shall try to make it 

 better. than before, and any suggestions from^ 

 our friends toward that end will be carefully 

 considered. The puzzles need not be wholly 

 floral, as before, but all kinds will be used. 



The verse puzzles in this issue are all old 

 kinds, and need no explanation in regard 

 to the manner of solving them, unless it be 

 th^ Linkade, which is a puzzle having for 

 its answer a word like Gold-De:i. The letter 

 D being used in both parts. 



The squares in this issue form a series of 

 which the same word occurs in each, in the 

 several positions. Anyone trying to make 

 such a series will find it rather a difficult 

 task. They are defined from the Standard 

 Dictionary, which will be our authority in all 

 form puzzles. Forms made from any other 

 dictionary should be so labeled. 



We have decided to have the answers ap- 

 pear the following month. This will give 

 the solvers about four weeks in which to 

 solve each issue. Please hurry them along. 



Hoping to hear from all the readers of 

 Home and Flowers, we remain, as of oM. 



AUXT ET'NICE. 



