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An  Evergreen  Tree  Farm. 
’Twas  Decoration  Day,  the  good  citi¬ 
zens  were  honoring  the  memory  of  our 
soldier  heroes  amid  the  sounds  of  martial 
music  and  boom  of  cannon,  and  borne  on 
the  waves  of  sound,  fancy  takes  a  flight, 
till  in  imagination  we  hear  the  well- 
known  tune  of 
Come  fill  up  my  cup,  come  fill  up  my  can, 
Come  saddle  my  horses  and  call  out  my  men, 
Come  ope  tbe  West  Port  and  let  us  go  free. 
For  It’s  up  wl’  the  bonnets  o’  Bonnie  Dundee. 
Yes,  here  we  are  in  Dundee,  not  the 
city  of  that  name  celebrated  in  Scottish 
song  and  story,  but  Dundee,  Ill.,  justly 
celebrated  for  her  dairy  products  and  the 
large  hardy  evergreen  nurseries. 
You  do  not  see  30  acres  of  hardy  ever¬ 
green  trees  decking  themselves  out  in 
their  new  spring  eostumes  every  day, 
and  a  brief  description  may  not  be  out  of 
plaee  to  The  Rural  New-Yorker  readers. 
There  is  a  gang  of  workmen,  let  us  see 
what  they  are  doing !  A  bed  has  been 
newly  plowed  and  evergreen  tree  seed  is 
being  sown.  The  tiny  tree  will  appear 
bye  and  bye  above  the  surface  and  must 
be  protected.  Hordes  of  birds  are  ready 
to  devour  it,  sparrows,  pigeons,  etc.,  the 
plantlet  seeming  to  be  the  natural  food 
of  the  birds.  Poisoned  grain  is  scattered 
around,  and  the  boy  and  his  shot  gun  are 
employed  to  guard  the  beds  from  the 
ravages  of  the  feathered  tribes.  Later 
lath  screens  raised  six  inches  above  the 
surface  are  put  over  the  beds  (much  in 
the  manner  described  in  the  Nursery 
Book). 
Here  is  another  gang  of  workmen 
transplanting  the  trees  in  another  part 
of  the  nursery.  Ten  men  and  six  girls 
with  plowing  team  and  plowiaan  are 
hard  at  work.  Two  or  three  furrows  are 
thrown  up  by  the  plow.  These  are  hand- 
raked,  a  line  is  stretched  and  the  work 
begins.  Two  men  with  spades  fix  the 
soil  so  that  the  trees  can  be  placed  erect 
in  their  proper  position  against  the  line 
by  the  six  girls,  and  six  men  are  kept 
busy  fixing  the  trees  in  position  by  throw¬ 
ing  soil  around  them.  The  plow  follows 
them  up  throwing  the  soil  to  the  trees 
and  it  in  turn  is  followed  by  the  foreman 
of  the  gang  who  firms  the  earth  around 
the  trees,  and  behind  him  again  comes  a 
man  with  a  hand  rake  who  levels  and 
fines  off  the  surface  soil.  In  this  way 
are  set  out  about  50,000  trees  per  day,  of 
Scotch  or  Austrian  Pine,  Hemlock, 
Norway,  White  or  Blue  Spruce,  Arbor- 
Vita),  etc. 
Our  progressive  farmers  East  and  West 
are  beginning  to  appreciate  the  value  of 
hardy  evergreens,  economically  as  a  wind 
break,  and  also  as  enhancing  the  value 
of  their  farms,  being  ornamental  improve¬ 
ments  lending  character  and  beauty  to 
the  home  and  landscape.  I  can’t  give  a 
finer  description  of  an  evergreen  tree 
than  the  following  from  the  Lady  of  the 
Lake. 
Ilall  to  the  chief  who  In  triumph  advances! 
Honored  and  bless'd  be  the  evergreen  pine! 
Long  mav  the  tree,  in  his  banner  that  glances, 
Flourish,  the  shelter  and  grace  of  our  line. 
Heaven  send  it  happy  dew, 
Earth  lend  It  sap  anew, 
Gaily  to  bourgeon,  and  broadly  to  grow, 
While  every  Highland  glen 
Sends  our  shout  back  agen. 
“Roderigh  Vich  Alpine  dhu,  ho!  isroe!” 
Ours  is  no  sapling,  chance  sown  by  the  fountain, 
Blooming  at  beltane,  in  winter  to  fade, 
When  the  whirlwind  has  stripped  every  leaf  on  the 
mountain 
The  more  shall  Clan-Alpine  exult  in  her  shade, 
Moor’d  in  the  rifted  rock 
Proof  to  the  tempest'shock, 
Firmer  he  roots  him  the  ruder  it  blows. 
— R.  SYDE. 
Odds  and  Ends. 
Some  Curious  People. — Many  of  our 
people  have  thought  of  Lieut.  Peary  and 
his  party  frozen  in  at  the  north  of  Green¬ 
land,  and  are  interested  in  reading  the 
stray  notes  that  have  come  from  him. 
In  Lippincott’s  we  are  told  about  a  curi¬ 
ous  tribe  of  Eskimo  found  on  the  shores 
of  Cape  Y  ork  : 
Short  in  stature,  the  men  do  not  aver¬ 
age  much  more  than  five  feet  in  height, 
with  complexions  about  as  dark  as  a 
mulatto.  Well  built  and  muscular,  they 
are  capable  of  enduring  any  extremity  of 
cold  and  fatigue.  It  is  related  that  once 
a  hunter,  driven  to  despair  by  famine, 
sat  for  three  whole  days  motionless  and 
sleepless  beside  a  seal-hole  ;  then  the  sud¬ 
den  whiff  of  the  breathing  seal,  a  plunge 
of  the  harpoon,  and  starvation  was 
averted.  Though  they  eat  their  food  for 
the  most  part  raw,  and  often  far  from 
fresh,  yet,  were  they  skillful  cooks,  they 
could  have  plenty  of  material  at  hand, 
for  seal  meat  would  delight  the  palate  of 
an  epicure,  though  it  might  not  please 
his  eye,  for  it  is  almost  black. 
Dreary  beyond  expression  are  their 
winter  huts  of  stone,  lighted  and  heated 
only  by  oil  burned  in  flat  dishes  of  stone. 
To  the  lot  of  the  women  the  preparation 
of  this  oil  falls.  It  is  accomplished  by 
chewing  the  blubber  and  spitting  out  the 
extracted  oil.  Teeth  make  for  them  a 
second  pair  of  hands,  and  are  used  uni¬ 
versally  except  on  the  food,  which  they 
swallow  whole ;  they  chew  everything 
from  boots  to  blubber,  and  as  a  conse¬ 
quence  in  the  older  ones  the  teeth  are 
worn  down  almost  to  the  level  of  the 
gums.  They  are  overgrown  children, 
careless,  inquisitive,  pleased  with  any¬ 
thing  new  ;  show  them  something  useful, 
for  they  do  not  care  for  ornaments,  and 
they  want  it ;  show  them  another  article 
which  they  have  never  before  seen,  and 
the  first  loses  its  valne  and  they  will  have 
none  of  it.  With  all  their  happiness, 
they  are  a  dying  race,  and  their  end  is 
not  far  distant. 
Perfume  Farms. — For  the  past  1 0  years 
our  imports  of  perfumes,  pomades,  etc., 
have  averaged  nearly  $500, 000  per  year. 
Southern  France  and  Germany  sent  us 
most  of  this  perfume.  This  is  one  of  the 
products  that  should  be  produced  here. 
The  French  perfume  farms  are  very  in¬ 
teresting.  They  are  usually  on  hill¬ 
sides,  terraced  so  as  to  give  level  beds, 
and  irrigated  from  springs  at  the  top. 
Roses,  jasmines  and  violets  are  the  flowers 
usually  grown.  In  the  blooming  season 
wagons  run  all  about  collecting  the 
flowers  and  bringing  them  to  the  central 
factory.  Pomades,  “  bear’s  grease  ”  and 
other  fatty  mixtures  are  made  by  spread¬ 
ing  layers  of  a  mixture  containing  two 
parts  lard  and  one  part  mutton  tallow 
on  glass  trays.  These  trays  are  then 
filled  with  rose  leaves  or  leaves  of  other 
flowers,  and  packed  away  in  a  cool  plaee 
for  several  days.  The  “grease”  absorbs 
the  odor  from  the  flowers.  Sometimes 
clean  linen  cloths  are  soaked  in  melted 
lard  and  packed  full  of  flowers.  The  lard 
is  then  gently  melted  out  of  the  cloths, 
retaining  the  odor.  The  water  perfumes 
are  made  by  distilling  the  flowers — boil¬ 
ing  them  in  water  and  conducting  the 
vapor  into  alcohol.  This,  mixed  with 
water,  gives  the  perfumery  of  commerce. 
The  process  is  very  simple  and  the  ap¬ 
paratus  required  so  cheap  that  little  ex¬ 
pense  is  required  for  starting  the  busi¬ 
ness.  The  florists  in  this  country  might 
easily  use  up  their  surplus  flowers  in 
making  perfumeries.  Why  not  let  grease 
and  alcohol  hold  the  odors  that  must 
otherwise  be  “  wasted  on  the  desert  air  ?” 
Diet  for  Children. — If  parents  should 
deliberately  break  a  child’s  arm  and  send 
it  out  to  its  life  work  with  its  strength  so 
crippled  that  it  never  could  do  more  than 
half  work,  the  law  could  step  in  and 
punish  them.  When  they  cripple  and 
spoil  the  child’s  stomach  and  send  it  into 
active  life  to  suffer  all  the  ills  of  dyspep¬ 
sia,  they  seem  to  have  the  approval  of  the 
majority  of  their  fellow-citizens.  The 
Chautauquan  has  this  : 
The  m6nu  in  this  family  one  August 
day  for  breakfast  was  as  follows  :  Break¬ 
fast  bacon,  fried  eggs,  fried  potatoes, 
soda  biscuit  (hot  and  soggy),  hot  griddle 
cakes  and  grocery  syrup,  strong  coffee. 
At  luncheon,  the  men  never  coming  home, 
about  the  same  articles  were  served,  only 
cold  and  with  the  addition  of  pie.  Dinner 
at  six  consisted  of  ham  and  eggs,  beets, 
beans,  cabbage  (fried),  potatoes,  pickles, 
catsup,  jelly,  biscuit  (hot),  cake,  pie, 
coffee.  This  was  generously  served  to 
the  little  four-year-old  maid,  whose 
mother  afterwards  wondered,  when  she 
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ill. 
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Fruit  Culture, 
and  the  Laying  Out  and 
Management  of  a  Country 
Home.— By  W.  C.  Strong,  Ex- 
President  of  the  Massachusetts  Hor¬ 
ticultural  Society,  and  Vice-Presi¬ 
dent  of  the  American  Pomolog’ical 
Society.  Illustrated.  New  revised 
edition,  with  many  additions,  mak¬ 
ing  it  the  latest  and  freshest  book 
on  the  subject. 
CONTENTS. 
I.  Rural  Homes-Choice  of  Locality— Treat¬ 
ment— A  Good  Lawn— The  Approach. 
II.  Fruits— Location  of  the  Fruit-Garden— Suc¬ 
cess  in  Fruit-Culture— Profit  in  Fruit  Cul¬ 
ture. 
III.  How  to  Procure  Trees— Quality— How  to 
Plant— Time  to  Plant— Preparing  the  Land 
— Fertilizers— Cutting  Back— Distances  for 
Planting. 
IV.  Care  of  the  Fruit-Garden— Irrigation— Ap¬ 
plication  of  Fertilizers— Thinning  the  Fruit 
—Labels. 
V.  The  Apple— Insects  Injurious  to  the  Apple. 
VI.  The  Pear— Dwarf  Pears — Situation  and  Soil — 
Pruning— Ripening  the  Fruit— Insects  In¬ 
jurious  to  the  Pear— Diseases. 
VII.  The  Peach— Injurious  Insects  and  Diseases  of 
the  Peach— Nectarines. 
VIII.  The  Plum— Insects  and  Diseases  of  the  Plum 
—Apricots. 
IX.  The  Cherry— Insects  Injurious  to  the  Cherry. 
X.  The  Quince— Insects  Injurious  to  the  Quince. 
XI.  The  Grape  — Grape-Houses  —  Varieties— In¬ 
sects  Injurious  to  the  Grape— Mildew. 
XII.  The  Currant— Insects  Attacking  the  Currant 
—The  Gooseberry. 
XIII.  The  Raspberry— The  Blackberry. 
XIV.  The  Strawberry. 
XV.  The  Mulberry— The  Fig— Rhubarb— Aspar¬ 
agus. 
XVI.  Propagating  Fruit  Trees— From  the  Seed— By 
Division— By  Cuttings— By  Layers— By  Bud¬ 
ding— By  Grafting. 
XVII.  Insecticides— Fungicides— Recipes. 
“Mr.  Strong  gives  evidence  of  that  thorough  grasp  of 
the  subject  which  he  has  gained  from  30  years’  experi¬ 
ence  as  an  orchardist.  His  book  is  a  simple,  clear 
well-condensed  manual  of  practical  information  on 
the  fundamental  principles  involved  in  the  success¬ 
ful  cultivation  of  each  species  of  fruit.”— Boston 
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