JO 
Passing through the flower garden late 
in September my attention was drawn to 
what seemed to be a weed in a flower bed. 
On examination I found it was a vigorous 
seedling tomato plant. I lifted and planted 
it in one of the houses on the edge of a bed 
of smilax. It was trained up during the 
winter and grew rapidly, but did not set 
fruit early like the plants grown from cut¬ 
tings. It is now (March 9th) over eight 
feet high and has about fifty tomatoes on 
it, which will probably ripen from April 1st 
on. It is still growing with remarkable vig¬ 
or and sets a cluster of fruit for about every 
six or eight inches of growth. I have no 
doubt if it is cared for and protected from 
spiders it will continue to fruit all summer. 
This plant has been grown in a bed with¬ 
out bottom heat, and, until it attained its 
present height, was a good distance from 
the glass in a temperature at night of not 
more than fifty degrees. If it had been 
planted close to the front of a house and 
trained up under the glass in a night tem¬ 
perature of sixty degrees it would perhaps 
have come in as early as the pot plants, 
which never were subject to a lower heat 
than sixty degrees. The plants grown in 
pots were Acme; the plant grown in the 
bed was a volunteer seedling and may be a 
later sort than Acme, but the green fruit 
resembles Canada Victor. 
Another winter I propose to grow enough 
tomatoes in pots to keep a supply of the 
fruit from January to March, when the 
necessities of our flower garden require 
every inch of our space for bedding plants. 
I believe the time is not far distant when 
tomato houses will drive the poor watery 
tomatoes from Bermuda out of our mar¬ 
kets, as any one who eats a fine Acme 
grown under glass will hardly want the 
Bermuda and Southern stuff at one-fourth 
the price.— W. F. Massey, in Am. Farmer. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
If there is any one question which is 
more rapidly engrossing the minds of the 
great public to day than all others it is cer- 
the subject of Temperance. We believe 
the time is rapidly approaching when the 
American People will see the dire necessi¬ 
ty of acting in their own best interest and 
as a whole arise and free themselves 
from the greatest curse that God ever per¬ 
mitted a people to fetter themselves with— 
the curse of lawful damnation—the curse 
of intemperence. We are glad to see that 
many of our exchanges make frequent al¬ 
lusions to this all important subject. The 
American Rural Home fitly says :-‘*The time 
may be riper than men suppose for launch¬ 
ing a People’s Temperance or Anti-mon¬ 
opoly Ticket, and floating it into popular 
favor. A great mass of voters are sick of 
crimination and recrimination, factional 
abuse, accusations with or without cause, 
the endless endeavor of one party to build 
itself up by pulling another down. They 
demand, this large number of voters do. 
an issue that can be seen and measured. 
That there is no such issue between Repub¬ 
licans and Democrats in this state, they 
know full well, and if some other party of¬ 
fers a live, vital question of difference, 
whereon they can array themselves, they 
will accept it, and step outside the old lines- 
without so much as saying farewell. The 
season of political revolution is close at 
hand, or our discernment can not be trust¬ 
ed. Said a reverend Chicago editor to a 
politician the other day,—‘There is a Tem¬ 
perance tidal wave coming, over a mile 
high, and it is only a mile off : can you 
swim ?’ 1 he flood of popular assertion will 
soon sweep up and down this country, with 
a furore very unfortunate for those place¬ 
men and trimmers who have not learned 
to swim. There is a good chance, now, for 
such to take to their boats.” 
There is a money value to an attractive 
home to say nothing of its influence in 
molding the minds of those who are fortu¬ 
nate enough to be possessors of them. 
The faculty of making a desolate and worn 
out place a really attractive one is an art 
possessed by few. It may be called tact, 
for such this natural faculty seems to be. 
We have seen old farms so transformed 
by the re-building of crooked fences, a little 
underdrainage here and there, the buildings 
repaired, painted or whitewashed, trees 
properly planted about the. house, that it 
would seem that hundreds of dollars liad ‘ 
