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r LITTLE TWIGS. 

 Cactuses need so little care. 

 A DRY PL.\cE for the winter onions. 

 Damp destroys more celery than frost. 

 Sash-bars of aluminium are anticipated. 

 The Shirley poppies have pleased us much. 

 Freoue.^t re-potting may be actually harmful. 

 Prepare your ballot on name at once. See page 682. 

 No DOUBT every tree stands firmest on its own roots. 



Common glai^iolus bulbs are not far from being 

 hardy. 



Meaningless curves or "wriggles" in a walk are 

 absurd. 



Some persons express surprise that the Japan quince 

 fruits. Why should they ? 



Cranberry' gatherers at Cape Cod receive ten cents 

 for a measure of six quarts. 



Even bulbs, ravenous feeders as they are, must not 

 have rank manure in too close contact. 



Have you a cellar? Do you keep a horse ? Then 

 why not make a trial in mushroom growing ? 



California green fruit, shipped east over the 

 Southern Pacific up to September 8, amounted to about 

 2,000 car loads. 



A Perennial Truth. — "I only need visit the grave- 

 yard of a community to know the character of the peo- 

 ple. " — Benjamin Franklin . 



If window gardeners only would learn that market 

 plant growers avoid over-potting as they do frost, less 

 complaints of bad luck would be heard. 



Old English gardeners used to boast of the crop of 

 peas sown in open ground in November, in England. 

 That practice is now largely abandoned. 



It is not a graft but a union from the root up, and 

 therefore solid and reliable — we mean the combination 

 of The American Garden and Popular Gardening. 



Acorn coffee, though quite popular in some dis- 

 tricts of Germany, is not at all pleasing to our taste. 

 Yet it is considered strengthening for consumptives and 

 delicate children. 



The perfumery used in England every year would 

 make a respectable miniature lake holding about two 

 million gallons, and every gallon of it worth not less 

 than five dollars. 



"He that uuestioneth much shall learn much," 

 saith the philosopher. If you do not find the exact in- 

 formation you need in your work you are referred to 

 the Question department. 



Let but enthusiasts, though strangers, start oft talk- 

 ing about their flowers, lawns, fruits and vegetables and 

 they get acquainted in no time. That's the spirit to have 

 prevail in this great family. 



We like to turn everything to good account, even 

 frost. On beds and fields newly spaded or plowed and 

 left rough, frost acts as a thorough pulverizer, and in a 

 measure as a fertilizer also. 



The three tallest trees in the world are said to be 

 a sequoia, near Stockton, California, 325 feet high, and 

 two eucalyptuses in Victoria, Australia, estimated to be 

 435 and 450 feet high respectively. 



Two new fansies, one snow white, having instead 

 of the usual yellow eye, two smaller petals of pure 

 white, and a good red to be called cardinal, are an- 

 nounced as novelties for next season. 



Your gooseberry bushes will bear all the better next 

 season for timely severe pruning. By removing branches 

 where too thick, especially of old wood, and heading 

 straggling branches back, you will not go far astray. 



All matter and samples for the editorial staff should 

 be addressed to Elias A. I,ong, La Salle-on-Niagara, 

 N. Y. All subscriptions and other business matters to 

 The Rural Publishing Co., Times Building, New Y'ork. 



The largest mushroom on record, probably, is the 

 one picked up by a workman in Londesborough park, 

 England. It was 42 inches in circumference, stem six 

 inches in circumference, and weighed over two pounds. 



