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much wonder and admiration, deserve men¬ 
tion as satisfactory. Both are easily grown 
from seed, which should be planted early, 
in order to get them to blooming by mid¬ 
summer, or soon after. I refer to Cobsea 
scandens and the Canary Flower. Both 
are covered with bloom until frost; the 
Canary Flower is fine and dainty both in 
foliage and flower; while the Cobcea is 
a handsome vine, and will cover almost 
“the side of a barn,” in good, loose soil 
and with good culture. 
Perhaps as great a hit as I ever made 
in exhibiting flowers was with a combina¬ 
tion of the Flesh colored Phlox (carnea), and 
the feathery Gypsophila muralis, studded 
with its multitude of tiny pink star 
flowers. Both are satisfactory in the ex¬ 
treme. The latter does not do its best, it 
is said, unless there is some lime in the soil. 
The true Moonflower—the white one—is 
all that is claimed for it, if one gets it 
early. Otherwise it has just begun to 
bloom when Jack Frost puts in his final 
word. It grows from cuttings as well as 
from seeds. Two good flowers, both old 
and cheap, the first golden yellow, the sec¬ 
ond blue, are Helipterum—an everlasting— 
and Phacelia. Both bloom in fine clusters. 
Phacelia will bloom to the top of its close- 
clustered racemes if placed in water. 
Neither is often seen, yet both are so good 
that they ought to be better known. 
I tried Torenia Fournieri last year; but 
not to my satisfaction. The difficulty was 
possibly with the seed. I had but one sick¬ 
ly plant from half a package of seed, and 
the green aphis luxuriated on it. The flow- 
1 ers were not “traeblue” either, but lav¬ 
ender blue. They were pretty and numer¬ 
ous, but I do not think I shall raise it 
again. Asparagus plumosus is the dainti¬ 
est of decorative plants. Its name of 
asparagus prejudiced me against it; but it 
had no need to do so. The statement that 
it surpasses even the Maiden-hair Ferns in 
feathery gracefulness is not too strong. 
MYRA. V. NORYS. 
AN OPEN LETTER TO PARNY ANN. 
Y OU and I are kindred spirits, dear 
Parny-Ann. I felt sure of it when 
reading the story of your “ garden sass.” I 
knew how to sympathize with you particu¬ 
larly about setting bean poles. But per¬ 
severance wins the victory every time, and 
there is so much enjoyment in raising and 
eating one’s own “ garden sass ” that, per¬ 
haps, other women may ba encouraged to 
try gardening if they read our experiences. 
But, dear Parny-Ann, do you not think 
that it makes work easier to have more sys¬ 
tem about it ? Let me tell you briefly how 
I did. During the winter I sent for several 
reliable catalogues, and after careful study 
selected the one I deemed most satisfactory 
from which to choose my seeds, and in time 
the order was made out and sent. I did 
not want quite so great a variety as you 
got, Parny-Ann, but there were two kinds 
that I intended to have in plenty : string 
beans and summer squashes. When indue 
time those seeds came they were more 
eagerly examined than the latest fashion 
plate. 
Spring came apace and I hired a man to 
dress, plow and harrow the land to my 
liking. But where should I begin with 
the seeds ? I looked over that garden 
patch in dismay 1 Was the southwest cor¬ 
ner the proper place, or should I begin in 
the northeast ? Ought the early corn to 
be planted next to the potatoes, or the 
string beans there and the corn next to the 
currant bushes ? 
How did men folks ever know where to 
begin or which way to have the rows run ? 
and how did they manage to come out even 
at last, with none of the seeds left out and 
no land left over ? 
I felt helpless and almost discouraged, 
when an inspiration seized me and I rushed 
into the house, took pencil and paper and 
drew a map of that garden (I knew nothing 
of map-drawing, but that did not matter), 
portioning it off into rows and beds and 
hills, adding a little here and taking from 
there until there was a space for each vege- 
Please mention The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
■OTi-en she had Children she gave them Castoria. 
table and nothing left over. Then I calmly 
returned to the work before me, feeling 
myself mistress of the situation. 
I dug and hoed, marked and planted, 
being obliged frequently to consult the 
map to see what came next. I found, too, 
that I knew but little about the proper dis 
tances apart to mark the rows or to what 
depth to cover the seeds. Here my cata¬ 
logues were helpful, for each one contained 
some directions for planting and cultivat¬ 
ing, and altogether they formed quite a 
treatise on gardening. 
It took more than a week to plant that 
garden; it was new and therefore slow 
work, but at last it was finished, and what 
a thrill of pleasure it gave me when I saw 
the first little green shoots of corn show¬ 
ing themselves above the brown mold, and 
the various other plants each in its own 
time and way breaking one by one through 
the mellow earth, where the dry seed had 
been buried. 
But how the weeds grew! There were 
more than the “forty kinds.” I had to 
fight them unceasingly, often repeating 
with a slight variation the oft-quoted 
statement, “Eternal vigilance is the price 
of”—“ Garden Sass.” 
At la9t came a day when the plants shot 
ahead of the weeds—just crowded them to 
the wall, and after that the work was com¬ 
paratively easy. There were no men hang¬ 
ing ’round watching me in planting time, 
not even when I set those bean poles, but 
they did stop once in a while to see those 
plants grow and to remark: “Well, you 
have got the best garden I have seen in 
town.” And to their credit be it said they 
did not add, “ You have done pretty well 
for a woman.” 
Meanwhile I rejoiced in the fact that I 
had all the string beans and summer 
squashes I wanted and plenty for the neigh¬ 
bors besides. 
Yours sympathizingly, 
DOROTHY. 
Curry Powder.— One of the recipes sent 
by a contributor to a recent number calls for 
curry powder, and this is true of many 
present-day recipes. Many of our readers 
may not be aware that this can be prepared 
at home. An excellent authority gives the 
following formula : Ginger, mustard and 
pepper, of each one ounce ; coriander seed 
and turmeric, each three ounces; cinnamon, 
cardamon seed, Cayenne pepper and cumin 
seed, each one-fourth ounce. Pound fine, 
sift and place in a tightly corked bottle for 
use. 
Bre4.d Sauce.— Small game that is not 
stuffed is often served with a dressing of 
bread sauce. The ingredients for such 
sauce are one cup of stale bread crumbs, 
one onion, pepper and salt, two ounces of 
butter, a little mace and milk. To prepare 
the sauce, boil the onion in milk until quite 
soft; strain the milk on the bread crumbs, 
and let it stand an hour or so. Then place 
it in a saucepan with the butter, pepper, 
salt and mace. Let it boil up, and serve in 
a sauce boat. Partridges are sometimes 
served with bread crumbs browned in but¬ 
ter, and with cranberry or currant jelly laid 
with them in the platter. 
Don’t grieve, fret or repine. Do not be 
too hungry for wealth, or for anything 
else regarded as desirable. Be cheerful and 
hopeful, and say a helpful word or do a 
helpful deed for your neighbor. If you are 
overburdened, put your shoulder the more 
firmly under the load, and then consider 
how you may make it lighter, or make 
yourself stronger. Do not pity yourself, or 
seek the sympathy of others. Sympathy is 
a soothing thing if it comes spontaneously, 
but sympathy sought for is not worth 
finding. Above all say nothing nor do 
anything that will add to the hardship of 
this life to any one else. If you can help, 
help; if not you can at least encourage.— 
Interior. 
Marriage With Drunkards.— The 
efforts to raise the poor and degenerate 
drunkard and his family are practically of 
no value so long as marriage with in¬ 
ebriates is permitted. Recently the Legis¬ 
lature of the State of Victoria, in Australia, 
has passed a law which gives the wife the 
right of divorce if the husband is found to 
be a habitual drunkard. If, after mar¬ 
riage, she discovers that he is an inebriate, 
she can also get a divorce. The husband 
can do the same with the wife, if she is 
proved to be an inebriate. This is a clear 
anticipation of the higher sentiment which 
demands relief from the barbarous laws 
which would hold marriage with an in¬ 
ebriate as fixed and permanent .—Journal 
of Inebriety. 
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