yet I have never known the vines of Ever¬ 
green to be in the least affected by it. 
Judging from several years acquaintance, 
it will stand fhe climate of any of the East¬ 
ern States. It is very hardy. You can 
put it out anywhere you please—in the chip 
yard, along side the slop drain, or behind 
the woodshed. Give it plenty of good, rich 
earth, keep the ground loose and moist, and 
all the weeds hoed away from it, and it 
will bear the second year after planting, 
and by the third or fourth year, and ever 
after it will bear a bushel of berries to the 
single plant per year. One vine is all that 
a family needs for the five or six weeks 
during which its fruit is ripening. 
The berry is about the size of the Lawton 
and Kittatinny, and in shape and color 
could hardly be told from them. For pies 
and puddings, and for all kinds of cooking, 
it would take an expert to tell the differ¬ 
ence, and many relish it as a table desert 
equally with them, although I think it is a 
trifle sweeter, when ripe, and is about like 
them in its abundance of seeds. 
After about the third year, as soon as the 
old vines have ripened their load of fruit 
they should be cut out, and all the strength 
of the root thrown into the growing canes 
which will often make a growth of thirty 
feet, and a third as thick through as a 
man’s wrist. These long canes should be 
cut or pinched back when about ten feet 
high and spread out like a fan, and tied to 
stakes so that you can reach the whole 
body of the berries from eaoh side for con¬ 
venience of picking. 
I think this is the Blackberry, on account 
of its hardiness, for all the Rocky Moun¬ 
tain regions, and for all the dry plains on 
either side. 
Tlie Pansy. 
The pansy is one of the most beautiful 
of flowers, and thongh it is popular and to be 
found in most gardens, comparatively few 
people understand its proper cultivation 
with a view of obtaining the finest flowers. 
They will go into the florist’s, and express 
amazement at the great size and beauty of 
the pansies they see there; will forthwith 
purchase a supply for their own planting 
and will be charmed with them, and be de¬ 
termined to grow the same on their own 
premises, though previous efforts have so 
signally failed. When asked how they had 
been growing them, they reply, “Oh, I got 
some from a neighbor, who has large beds 
of them, but they are so small.” When told 
that they should sow the seed of the finest 
of those obtained from the florist as soon 
as the s*-ed was matured—say some time in 
August—and that that was the only way to 
have fine, large flowers, the idea was-jumped 
at. And yet that is the way to get them. 
Every August the seed of the largest and 
most desirable should be sown and the old 
ones dug up and thrown away. And we 
should say that this was easy enough to do 
when it is once known. In the winter the 
plants should be lightly covered. There are 
new pansies advertised every year, but any 
one growing them carefully and taking, as 
we say, the seed from the best every year, 
will be as likely as anybody to have large, 
new kinds, and will thus save the expense 
of purchasing them, which, at most, last 
only for a single blooming. 
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The following complaints confined Smith 
to his bed for a week: 
W-orms. 
Headache. 
I ndigestion. 
S-tomach ache. 
K-idneys out of order. 
E-rysipelas. 
Y-ellow Jaundice. 
Sower and Spender. If a person knew not from 
whence wheat comes, he would consider it an insan* 
occupation were he to see a farmer scatter the seed 
upon the ground and harrow it in. So it is with the 
spendthrift; he considers it folly to save any money 
to be used when his strength fails, or his means to 
earn. Money saved is like the sown wheat; it brings 
its increase. 
Pleasure. The man that drinks, carouses and 
spends late nights says to himself “I will enjoy my¬ 
self while I may.’ 1 When you see him at the age of 
thirty-five or forty, w-hich are the best days of a tem¬ 
perate man’s life, does it seem to you that he enjoyed 
himself as much and as long as was in his power? 
Learning. None are so ignorant or bad that use¬ 
ful lessons may not be learned from them; therefore, 
that person is indeed not in a progressive mood who 
refuses to be advised by older, more experienced, 
wiser and better men than himself. 
