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Sally: How soon is soon? We hope it will be very 
soon. Will see ii we can gain Maude’s consent to 
your request and inform you. Thanks for paper. 
As to furnishing the puzzles, please have patience, 
as no Summer has seen us so busy with literary 
work as this one.— Byrnehc: One of j our Charades 
in September number and we think it is one of your 
best. Should like to have your name in our list of 
solvers every month. You are a very faithful worker 
in puzzledom’s cause .—Lead Pencil: Numerical 
Enigmas are now in order and we should like a num¬ 
ber of yours to use through the year.— Cassbet: Will 
bear you • request in mind, and if thought advisable 
will act upon your suggestion.— Ruthven: Hope the 
little puzzler will Cc.use you much joy and happiness. 
You must feel quite paternal by this time. Glad that 
health has returned to you and all j r our household 
band. F. S. F 
New Rose, ‘Baroness Rothschild.* 
SEE FRONTISPIECE. 
The rose is a flower universally prized for 
its beauty and fragrance. From time im¬ 
memorial it has been used to ornament the 
garders of nobleman and peasant, and to 
decorate the banqueting board of kings and 
princes. The dusky savage has admired its 
beauty and poets have sung its praises in 
every tongue. From the earliest times, flo¬ 
rists have vied with each other in producing 
new colors for their favorite flower, until 
almost every shade, from the purest white 
through the brightest yellow to the darkest 
crimson, may be found. In size, too, great 
improvements have been made, and it is not 
an uncommon thing to find specimens that 
measure five or six inches across. 
One would hardly suppose that with the 
numberless named roses that adorn the 
gardens of rich and poor in this country, 
there would be those whose flowers would 
bring a dollar each, and yet so fashionable 
was the - ‘Baroness Rothschild,” represented 
in our frontispiece, that single buds sold for 
that price in New York last winter. The 
flowers of this elegant rose are very large 
and showy and yet of such a delicate shade 
of color as to make it a great favorite, it 
being a lovely shade of satiny pink. It be¬ 
longs to the hardy roses and once planted 
will continue to bloom for years and be a 
source of delight to all beholders. 
Our cut is the work of Mr. A. Blanc, of 
Philadelphia, whose card has appeared in 
our columns for some time, and whose skill 
as an engraver is attested by the many cat¬ 
alogues in which his work is found. 
Literary Mention. 
The efforts of Editors, Publishers and Printers at 
the present day must certainly be appreciated, 
(although from the wanton destruction of beautiful 
specimens of their labor it would seem otherwise), or 
they would not be able to prepare and publish so 
many elegant and costty volumes as are sent out into 
the w r orld each month. 
The attractive aupearance of the Bee-Keepers’ 
Convention Note Book is a sufficient recommenda¬ 
tion to any Bee-Keeper desiring to secure a nice 
pocket companion. Beautifully printed and bound 
in cloth. It contains a copy of a model “Constitu¬ 
tion and By-Laws’’ for the formation of Societies for 
Bee-Keepers—a simplified manual of Parliamentary 
Law and Rules of Order for the guidance of officers 
as well as members, a blank form for making sta¬ 
tistical reports—a Programme of questions for dis¬ 
cussion at such meetings—model Premium Lists for 
Fairs which may be contracted or enlarged, and then 
recommended to the managers of adjacent Count}' 
or District Fairs—32 blank leaves for jotting down 
interesting facts, etc Mailed for 50 cents by the 
publisher. Thomas G. Newman, 925 West Madison 
Street, Chicago, Illinois, or from this office at same 
price. 
Our Country Home is the title of a new farm paper 
published at Greenfield, Mass., of wffiich the fourth 
number has appeared. In size and make-up it resem¬ 
bles the Farm and Home, contains sixteen well filled 
pages and is a very sprightly, w r ide-awake infant. We 
wish it success, Monthly, 50 cents a year 
The Church Union published by E. B. Grannis, 
Tribune Buildinig, N. Y., has been much improved 
of late in its typographical appearance, while in its 
editorial and contributed matter its usual high stand¬ 
ard is maintained. ..he fact that the names of such 
eminent divines as Revs. Joseph T. Duryea, Howard 
Crosby, J. P. Newman, J. Hyatt Smith and others of 
equal prominence are among its contributors, war¬ 
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ion will be benefited thereby. $1.00 a year, weekly. 
EUR CABINET SPECIMENS, Agates, 
lUli Opals, Fossil Woods and Chinese Curiosities, 
Address Mrs. L. M.Moore, North San Juan, Cal. 9* 
CELERY PLANTS 
At your own Post Office for 50 cts. pei 100. Packed 
and delivered to Express, $3.00 per 1000. Lot of 5000 
or over at $2 50 per 1000. All the leading kinds now 
ready. Address J. H. HOLDING, 
7— Box 26. Millville, N. J. 
WHITE POND LILY ROOTS« 
in stamps; 5 for a $1 bill; 100 per Express $5. The 
Side-Saddle Flower or M DQ A ArUll 
at same prices. Order NOW. OAnllAvCmA 
ADDflDlflT/C for Evergreen Hedges, 
AnDUfflV I I tXmu By mail. 1000 plants, 4-inch, 
$1.50; 6-In. $2; 10-In. $4. Plant in Aug. and 
Sept. Geo. Finney, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. 
