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seedlings into thumb pots, which we place in pans 
of water up to the rim of the pot, and then about 
the beginning of June they are transferred to the 
bed. The bed in which I grow them is 25 feet by 
5 feet, and as by that time I generally have plenty 
of sashes not in use ' I place them over the tank 
loose, and the plants soon come into bloom. From 
this bed last summer one could cut almost every 
day about 100 blossoms. 
The Nymphaea chromatella is easily propagated 
by dividing the roots. It is a free bloomer of bright ca- 
nary yellow. Rosea and alba are propagated in the 
same way. The Nelumbiums are frequently troubled 
wiih plant lice, or aphides, a simple remedy for 
which we found was blowing Hellebore or tobacco 
dust on them with a bellows early in the morning, 
when the dew was on them. Of course if one has a 
greenhouse a greater variety can be raised, but for 
general purposes and for something that almost 
anyone can succeed in the above varieties will be 
found the most desirable. 
MEMORIAL GATEWAY, MONSON, MASS. 
The accompanying illustration represents a mem- 
orial stone arch gateway, in course of erection at 
the North Main street entrance of No. 1 Cemetery, 
Monson, Mass. 
This and other improvements in connection with 
the cemetery and town are the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harlan Page, of Philadelphia, in memory of Mrs. 
N. M. Field, Mrs. Page’s mother. The entire struct- 
ure will be build in granite, and a bronze memorial 
tablet will be set at the base of the main turret. 
The contract is in the hands of the W. N. Flynt 
Granite Company. 
The town is very dear to the donors and their 
family as is evinced by the following: 
Within a very short distance stands the beauti- 
ful soldiers’ monument, presented to the town by 
Mrs. Field’s father, C. W. Holmes, and the Aca- 
demy, in which Mrs. Field’s brother, C. W. Holmes, 
Jr., was so deeply interested, and in the interest of 
which he spared neither time nor money to put it 
upon its present excellent footing. Within a stone’s 
MEMORIAL ARCH ENTRANCE TO NO. 1 CEMETERY, MONSON, MASS. 
The laughing plant of Arabia produces small, bean- 
like seeds, small doses of which, when dried and pow- 
dered, intoxicate like laughing gas. The person indulg- 
ing in the drug dances, laughs and shouts like a madman 
for about an hour, when he becomes exhausted and falls 
into a death-like sleep, which often lasts several hours. 
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A remarkable rose tree grows in the garden of the 
Chateau Eleonore, in Cannes, the sum- 
mer residence of Lord Brougham, a 
nephew of the famous chancellor. The 
plant is a variety of the tea rose known 
as “Marie van Houtte.” Though only 
six years old, it already measures sixty- 
seven feet in circumference, and will, 
if permitted, grow very much larger. 
Lord Brougham attributes its extraor- 
dinary dimensions principally to the 
soil, which consists of rich loam of great 
depth, and also to the liberal way in 
which its appetite for manure is satis- 
fied. This tree is planted on the slope 
which descends from the house to the 
main road. It is of interest to recall 
the fact that the Chateau Eleonore was 
the first winter residence built at 
Cannes, which, it may indeed be said 
was literally “discovered” by Chancel- 
lor Brougham, uncle of the present 
owner, while in the beautiful garden, 
not far from this gigantic rosebush, is 
still to be seen the tree beneath the 
shadow of which the great chancellor 
used to sit toward the evening of his busy life. The 
gardens are now famous in Europe for tea roses, of 
which 150 varieties are grown .— New York Herald. 
throw of the soldiers’ monument and the Academy 
is the Congregational church and its beautiful 
grounds, so dear to Mrs. Field and Mr. Holmes. 
