THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
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— A tidy that will prove both handsome 
and durable is made of three stripes of 
zephyr Java canvas, two cardinal and one 
of drab. Each stripe is worked with a 
pretty vine and the ends cut in points. 
The red pieces are crocheted around with 
drab and the drab with red. Sew the 
stripes together, having the drab in the 
middle, and tip each point with a tassel 
of wool of the color of the stripe. 
— For mantle valances the pleasantest 
work is done on the coarse linen canvas 
called "Aida canvas," and wrought in 
double cross-stitches with single zephyr 
wool. This work grows rapidly, and is 
simple and easily done. The fringe is 
knotted when bought, and the worker 
ties in wools of different colors in each 
strand of the fringe; a border of drawn 
work is placed above the fringe. 
— Eastern inlaid applique, used for 
covers, carpets, and liousiDgs, is chiefly 
made at Kesht. It may be briefly summed 
up as patchwork made with embroidery. 
The colors used are among the most bril- 
liant, and the patches, which are of cloth, 
are cut so small, and into such intricate 
patterns that it is marvelous how they 
can be joined together. Flowers, birds, 
and animals are freely used, besides geo- 
metric and other patterns. The pieces 
are stitched together, and every seam 
afterward concealed with lines of chain- 
stitch worked over them with colored 
silks. Not content with a single line of 
chain-stitch, two or three lines upon each 
petal of a flower or feather of a bird are 
embroidered, and each line is worked in a 
different colored silk, while in many 
places the entire patch is concealed with 
embroidery either of gold thread or silk, 
worked so as to make a shaded design. 
Frequently, instead of chain-stitches, 
lines are made with fine gold threads, not 
laid on flat, but twisted into very small 
circles, laid so as to form a broad com- 
pact line. Gold and silver foil is used in- 
stead of gold or silk ; it is cut very narrow 
and folded so as to form zigzag lines, 
which are then sewed to the foundation, 
either as lines or to fill certain spaces. 
FLORICULTURE FOR JUNE. 
" And now the earth prolifie swells 
With leafy bads and flowery bells ; 
And all along the branches creeping. 
And through the velvet foliage peeping,. 
Little infant frviits we see 
Nursing into maturity." 
From tli.e Greek. 
The flower harvest has begun. We have 
come with a stride into summer. But 
Nature has been at work while our short 
spring lasted, and the garden bears wit- 
ness to her bountiful preparations for 
summer's reception. We must get up 
early now to keep pace with the daily 
growth of even our little piece of the 
world. 
Now is the time to make a bargain with 
summer, to this effect: "If I will give 
an hoar or so before breakfast to making- 
my garden a credit to you, will you give 
me a little insight into your ways of doing 
things, and in the end a pretty garden to 
show for my pains?" I think summer 
will come to terms with you; she is by 
nature generous. Your part of the bar- 
gain means that you put on a shade hat 
and garden gloves (though I never could 
work in gloves), and weed, water, and 
rake every morning, making the toilet of 
' your garden as conscientiously as you do 
; your own. 
Your early-planted seeds, etc., should 
be growing well and beginning to blos- 
|som. If you are not tired of planting^ 
|3^ou can provide flowers for the dreary 
I days of late autumn by planting seeds of 
aster and zinnia now, and some strongs 
gladiolus bulbs, l^ou certainly should 
have a few of the last, and also a plant or 
more of scarlet salvia; nothing makes a 
more brilliant display or is more certain 
to do well. 
Don't be chary of i;)icking your early 
blossoms. The saying "There is that 
scattereth and yet increaseth " is beanti- 
fally exemplified in the flow^er-garden ; 
I you will have more flowers and finer if 
you keep them well picked off at first. 
1 Verbenas and pansies are notable in- 
I stances of this. Leave a pansy bed alone 
I for awhile, and it will be covered with 
long-stemmed seedpods, and what flowers- 
I there are will be small and poor, and 
