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AMERICA AGRICULTURIST, 
209 
Our Puzzle Box. 
PLACES IK ASIA, CONCEALED. 
1. I am hurrying to catch the noon train. 
2. If you want to try your luck, now is the time. 
3. I tried to borrow a little cash, merely for fun. 
4. Lemonade never disagreed with me. 
5. Don’t he hypocritical; cant only disgusts one. 
6. Well, then, I will sing an anthem. 
ANSWER TO THE SIXTEEN POINT PUZZLE. 
CROSS-WORD. 
My first is country but not in state, 
My next is in captain but not in mate, 
My third is in whisper but not in speak, 
My fourth is in dimple but not in cheek. 
My fifth is in crumpet but not in bun, 
My sixth is in abbess but not in nun. 
My seventh is in lather but not in soap, 
My eighth is in patience but not in hope, 
My ninth is in chapter but not in verse, 
My tenth is in patient but not in nurse, 
My eleventh is in Hebrew but not in Greek, 
My twelfth is in lowly but not in meek, 
My thirteenth is in cellar but not in vault, 
My whole is quite blameless and free from fault. 
CONUNDRUMS BASED ON “ "WORD-MAKING.” 
( Example: Into what fabulous monster could 
you turn a certain vehicle, with the letter H ? Dray 
into hydra.) 
1. Into what animals could you turn some others 
with the letter Z ? 
2. How could you make a lad dutiful with the 
letter E ? 
EAST NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
1. I am composed of 9 letters : 
My 1, 7, 9, is a bituminous carbon. 
My 5, 9, 2, 7, 8, is precipitous. 
My 3, 4, 7, is to prosecute. 
My 5, 9, 2, 6, is to seethe. 
My whole is a verse in the Bible. 
Marie Barber. 
anagrams. 
1. O Sid gains, 
2. I hurt sermon. 
3. A cat’s titles. 
4. Only a duel. 
5. The big end. 
6. Ned, I bear it. 
7. A keen Sam. 
8. Visit lions. 
9. I souse garlic. 
10. Beans under a cup. 
curtailments. 
1. Curtail a rover, and leave a bolting sieve for 
meal. 
2. Curtail rank, and leave an animal. 
3. Curtail the prevailing fashion, and leave a 
stone of coarse texture. 
4. Curtail a dweller on the wild mountains, and 
leave the friend of your bosom. 
5. Curtail an article of food, and leave a large 
number. Henry Alice Donogh. 
SQUARE WORD. 
1. A room or building. 3. Open. 
2. A blessed sentiment. 4. Shut up. Rush S. 
CHANGED HEADS. 
Change my head several times and make 
(1) an unpleasant sensation, (2) a term of 
endearment, (3) a boundary, (4) a character 
in Shakspeare, (5) a fruit, (6) a period of 
time, (7) an animal, (8) left, (9) dry, (10) to 
give audience to, (11) a drop of fluid, (12) 
ornaments, (13), the fashion, and (14) the 
last class. 
CHARADE. 
My first is what each Englishman 
Will sometimes say he is, 
Unless he may be deaf and dumb, 
Or something be amiss. 
My next is found in every land 
Where tree or herbage grows, 
It sometimes may conceal a thief, 
It sometimes bears a rose. 
Ah ! traveller, beware my whole 1 
Use well your ears and eyes, 
Lest, all at once, your enemy 
Should take you by surprise. 
SCATTERED SQUARE. 
(The letters for the first word must be 
taken from the first line of the stanza, the 
second word from the second line, the third word 
from the third line, and the fourth word from the 
fourth line.) 
Swift upon its downy wing 
The swallow skims the evening air, 
And all the birds together sing 
A pean to the day so fair. 
DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
The initials, read upwards, give the transcendent 
name of certain foreigners. 
The finals, read upwards, give the name of a 
railroad manager. 
1. Intellectual constitution. 
2. A plant dedicated to Apollo. 
3. People who live on different sides of the 
equator. 
4. To deposit sacredly. 
5. One who rejoices for a victory. 
6. Province. 
7. Made eternal. 
8. The puff-ball. 
9. A Hebrew measure. 
10. The first four letters of a word (of five) 
meaning a key. Hera Olea Pharos. 
pi. 
Fi a nam anc eb paphy dan tednocent ni ish won 
nompacy eh liwl leglenray eb dogo paymonc rof 
throes. 
“ IIow Does Coffee Grow? ** 
The youngster who asks this question need not 
apologize for it, as it is a very proper one. Don’t- 
be afraid to ask, for your questions are always wel¬ 
come, and if we do not give an answer at once, 
there is a good reason for not doing so. Before 
answering how Coffee grows, let us see where it 
grows. If you were to visit one of the immense 
stores in New York where only coffee and tea are 
sold, you would see a great display of bags with 
large labels showing that they contain Java, Mocha,, 
Fig. 1.- 
Answers to Puzzles iu the March Number. 
Definitions. —1. Bower. 
2. Deacon 3. Elegant. 4. 
Gyral. 5. Grip. 6. Indict. 
7. Parole. 8. Skill. 9. Ta¬ 
blet. 10. Flag. 
Numerical Enigma.—A 
boil in the kettle is worth 
two on the nose. 
-LEAVES AND FLOWERS OF COFFEE (REDUCED). 
Rio, Porto-Rico, Jamaica, Liberian, and other cof¬ 
fees. If you were to look up these countries on 
the map, you would find that they are all in the 
warmer parts of the globe. Indeed coffee cannot 
be cultivated where the average temperature is be¬ 
low 64 or 70 degrees. Left to itself the Coffee tree 
grows to the liight of 20 or 25 feet, but in cultiva¬ 
tion it is kept less than 10 feet high, for the con¬ 
venience of gathering the crop. It forms a hand¬ 
some pyramid, with branches nearly reaching the 
ground. The leaves are evergreen and the flowers 
pure white, the shape of both being 6hown in figure 
1, while figure 2 shows a flower of the real size, d. 
The flower is deliciously fragrant, and when it drops 
it is followed by a fruit the size of a small cherry, 
which becomes red as it matures, and when quite 
ripe is of a rich reddish brown color. On 
account of the fragrance of its flowers and its 
beauty when in fruit, the Coffee tree is often 
cultivated in our greenhouses, where it is always 
b 
Fig. 2.— FLOWER AND FRUIT OF COFFEE (REAL SIZE). 
an object of interest to those who, like our young 
friend, would like to know how coffee grows. Fig¬ 
ure 2 gives a fruit, b, and the same at c cut open, 
showing the two 6eeds it contains. These seeds, a, 
are what we use as coffee, and in the trade are 
known as “ coffee beans ” and by the still more 
incorrect name of “coffee berries,” for as we have 
seen they are not berries at all, but seeds. The 
fruits of the Coffee tree are gathered by hand and 
spread in the sun, and when the pulp is quite dry, 
they are run between rollers, to free the seeds from 
all adhering matters, after which they are passed 
Decapitations. —1. Sash, 
ash. 2. Scream, cream. 3. 
Shatter, hatter. 4. Shoe, 
hoe. 5. Soil, oil. 6. Skin, 
kin. 7. Brook, rook. 
Anagrams.— 1. Sustained. 
2. Territorial. 3. Entwined. 
4. Producers. 5. Correspond¬ 
ed. 6. Congratulate. 7. In¬ 
stances. 8. Altercations. 9. 
Foregone. 10. Geometrical. 
Cross-word. —Toadstool. 
Alphabetical Arithme¬ 
tic. — 2071)94685073(45719. 
{Key. One milk-pan). 
Pi.—It is a great mistake 
to set up our own standard 
of right and wrong, and 
judge people accordingly. 
Positives and Compa¬ 
ratives. —1. Sow, sour. 2. 
Coarse, courser. 3. Quote, 
quota. 4. Let, letter. 5. 
Mad, madder. 6. Wand, 
wander. 
Illustrated Rebus, N». ASS. —This is worthy of careful study by 
our friends, both for the amusement and for the good instruction it contains. 
Illustrated Rebus, 483: 
Curtail your expenses and 
increase your income. 
