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Trek  Guards. — It  was  rather  Into  last 
Fall  before  I  had  time  to  pot  my  Winter 
bulbs.  We  had  a  large  bunch  of  four- 
year-old  McIntosh  and  Baldwin  to  put 
into  Winter  protection.  I  use  wire 
guards,  three  to  four  mesh  to  the  inch. 
It  is  the  kind  that  is  commonly  used  for 
cellar  window  screens.  I  generally  buy 
it  by  the  roll,  100  feet  long  and  36  feet 
wide.  I  run  a  pair  of  tinsmith’s  snips 
through  the  middle  lengthwise.  This 
gives  a  height  of  1ft  inches.  The  width 
is  from  10  to  12  inches.  This  will  allow 
a  tree  growth  for  many  years.  I  push 
this  guard  down  into  the  ground  two  inches 
and  pull  the  earth  firmly  around  it.  This 
will  close  the  overlap  tightly,  and  prevent 
till  mice  from  doing  damage. 
Tulips  and  Nakcissus, — But  back  to 
my  potted  bulbs.  Every  year  I  gener¬ 
ally  pot  about  500  bulbs,  200  tulips,  and 
300  yellow  daffodils,  the  latter  divided 
again  into  single  and  double.  I  like  the 
single  clear  yellow  Von  Sion.  They  are 
so  easy  to  grow.  The  tulips  cost  me  one 
cent  apiece,  $2,  and  the  daffodils  two 
cents,  .$0,  and  the  pots  are  the  income  of 
voluntary  contributions  from  the  neigh¬ 
bors.  They  can  be  bought,  6-inch  pots 
for  ft  ft  per  1,000,  a  little  less  than  one 
cent  apiece,  such  as  you  pay  10  cents 
apiece  for  at  a  bargain  Counter  in  a  10- 
eont  store.  Club  together  and  buy. 
Pott  rx  O'.’- — Soak  the  pots  ia  water, 
clean  them  if  old.  Drop  a  piece  of 
broken  pot  over  the  hole  in  the  bottom, 
fill  with  a  good  sandy  loam  up  to  where 
the  earth  will  allow  the  tip  of  bulb  to 
bo  even  Avitii  edge  of  pot.  riace  bulbs 
in,  fill  full  with  earth,  and  rock  pot  gently 
to  settle.  Don’t  press  bulbs. 
Starting  Gbowtii. — Sometimes  T  put 
these  pots  on  the  sheltered  side  of  house 
and  mulch  with  leaves,  sometimes  right 
into  dark  corner  of  cellar.  All  are 
brought  into  the  cellar  eventually.  Then, 
when  they  have  made  a  good  root  growth, 
they  are  brought  up  as  needed.  You  can 
put  your  fiat  hand  over  a  pot,  turn  it 
upside  down,  tap  it  on  the  edge  of  some- 
tiling,  and  the  whole  inside  will  come 
out  in  a  perfect  mold,  just  like  t.he  chil¬ 
dren’s  mud  pie.  If  the  mold  shows  a 
good  mass  of  white  roots  it  is  ready  tp 
come  upstairs.  Place  them  low  in  the 
kitchen  near  the  window.  I  have  a  shelf 
under  an  open  table — open  on  the  sides. 
This  gives  the  tops  time  to  come  slowly 
and  well,  especially  the  tulips.  If  the 
tops  are  forced  in  too  rapid  a  light,  the 
flower  buds  blast.  When  buds  are  well 
up,  put  into  full  light  anywhere.  Water 
well.  Well,  my  bulbs  were  late  planted 
this  year.  Generally  I  have  a  fine  lot 
for  Christmas,  but  none  for  Christmas 
this  year.  It.  is  now  tail  end  of  March 
and  the  daffodils  and  tulips  are  in  full 
glory  indoors.  I  was  regretful  for  not 
having  them  earlier,  but  I  am  quite  re¬ 
conciled  now.  Why?  Because  most  of 
our  Winter  has  been  bunched  into  Fcb- 
iiuiry  and  March — TS  inches  of  snow! 
Drifts  .and  drifts  and  no  cars  running, 
personally,  down  in  bed  with  the  grippe, 
can’t  go  about.  Cellar  chuck  full  of 
roots  for  grafting  my  special  type  of 
Baldwin,  and  a  lot  of  outside  work.  Yet 
everywhere,  in  every  room — kitchen,  din¬ 
ing  room,  sitting  room,  at  the  foot  of  the 
stairs — tulips,  white,  yellow,  pink  and 
combinations  of  this  trio  of  colors. 
Everywhere  daffodils  with  their  splendid 
trumpeting  of  yellow.  Do  I  imagine  it 
because  the  sense  of  taste  and  smell  is 
so  closely  combined?  Imagine  what? 
That  the  sound  of  odor  these  yellow 
trumpeters  are  blowing  copies  to  my 
tongue  like  the  taste  of  a  fresh  carrot? 
T/IE  Pleasuke  of  Feowers. — What  a 
cheer  these  flowers  flocks  have  been  to  us 
all !  My  income  is  scanty,  just  enough  by 
stretching  things  here  and  there  for  an 
extra  length,  do  we  get  through  the  year. 
But  always,  the  daffies.  Why?  They 
help  me.  and  all  of  the  family  to  turn  the 
sharp  corners  of  our  New  England  life. 
They  feed  the  spirit.  “If  I  had  two  loaves 
of  bread,  I  would  sell  one  and  buy  a 
Narcissus,”  said  Mohammed.  This  deep 
insight  into  life  and  spirit  came  from  a 
man  who  was  brought  up  in  the  desert, 
where  the  dreary  waste  of  sand  was  the 
common  thing,  and  the  green  oasis,  the 
rare  thing.  But  life  moved  from  one  to 
the  other,  not  only  by  bread,  but  by  pow¬ 
er  of  the  Narcissus.  Is  it  not  so  with 
us  all  in  the  long  Winter  wherever  we 
are?  Y'es,  even  for  the  wider  circle  in 
which  our  associate  life  is  lived?  Net 
knowing  what  to  give  for  Christmas? 
Puzzled  and  fretted  about  gifts?  We 
sent  out  the  potted  bulbs  just  breaking 
ground  with  Christmas  greetings.  They 
were  accepted  with  a  living  interest  that 
watched  their  growth  into  coming  bud 
and  flower.  And  likewise  bow  fine  and 
helpful  to  the  sick  and  old,  or  even  at 
the  far  end  of  life's  walk,  where  the  bur¬ 
dens  drop,  and  artificially  fade.  I  believe 
my  daffies,  with  their  own  blue-green 
leaves,  fit  in  better  with  the  rugged  sim¬ 
plicity  of  my  neighbor’s  character,  than 
the  set  pieces  that  have  come  from  the 
city.  God  bless  the  daffies! 
LOUIS  A.  BUCKSHORX. 
A  Sensible  Farm  Boarding-House 
Keeping  boarders  is  a  business,  the 
same  as  keeping  store  or  running  a  shop. 
Your  best  advertisement  is  satisfied  board¬ 
ers.  They  go  home,  tell  people  wlmt  a 
good  table  Mrs.  A.  sets,  what  a  splendid 
time  they  had,  and  the  next  season  all 
their  cousins,  aunts  and  some  of  their 
friends  want  to  come  to  you.  When  peo¬ 
ple  arrive  between  meals  if  they  have 
come  quite  a  distance  a  glass  of  milk  or 
cup  of  tea  with  bread  and  butter  doesn’t 
cost  much,  but  goes  a  long  way  toward 
making  the  new  arrival  feel  at  home. 
Have  your  rooms  spotless ;  a  few  books 
or  a  fresh  magazine  for  their  free  use  is 
appreciated.  In  answering  applications 
tell  things  just  as  they  are;  then  if  they 
come  they  are  not  disappointed,  and  feel 
are  not  treated  square.  If  there  are  chil¬ 
dren  don’t  be  afraid  to  be  generous  with 
apples.  We  country  people  too  often 
don’t  realize  what  it  means  to  bo  shut  up 
in  a  city  with  only  what  can  be  bought. 
We  let  the  boarders  go  to  the  orchards 
and  help  themselves ;  they  have  never  yet 
abused  the  privilege,  and  the  joy  of  the 
children  is  worth  seeing. 
We  charge  for  taking  people  to  church, 
but  where  there  are  only  two  or  three 
people  and  we  are  going  to  town  often, 
ask  them  to  go  along ;  a  few  rides  of  that 
sort  don’t  put  us  out  and  keeps  them 
from  getting  lonesome.  When  we  have  a 
houseful  a  hay  ride  to  a  local  dance  or 
concert  is  much  enjoyed,  that  we  never 
charge  for. 
If  one  of  the  children  has  a  birthday 
the  regular  cake  baked  in  a  huge  loaf  iced, 
and  the  given  number  of  candles  gives 
pleasure  to  all  and  ln-lps  make  your  house 
popular.  One  of  my  little  girls  has  a 
birthday  in  the  middle  of  the  season,  and 
they  all  take  a  lot  of  interest  in  it.  The 
littlest  I  can  do  is  to  have  a  large,  freezer 
of  cream  and  plenty  of  cake  for  supper. 
We  all  have  a  good  time.  City  people  are 
folks  like  ns,  you  know,  and  although  you 
may  find  once  in  a  while  one  who  doesn’t 
appreciate  what  you  may  do  for  them  I 
have  found  them  very  scarce.  Music 
helps  a  lot,  especially  in  a  lonesome  place. 
A  piailo,  or  better  yet,  a  cheap  victrola 
aud  a  few  records  takes  away  the  gloom 
of  a  rainy  day. 
MRS.  a.  n.  c. 
We  had  the  same  experience  in  taking 
boarders  last  year  as  did  Mrs.  II.  M.  D., 
Orange  Co.,  on  page  4S5.  In  fact  she 
(seems  to  be  situated  just  like  ourselves. 
As  to  "reasonable  charges”  my  butcher 
said:  "Don’t  give  them  meat  but  every 
Other  d.ay,  or  you  won’t  have  anything 
for  your  trouble.”  We  have  a  bedfitiful 
garden  every  year,  and  live  out  of  it; 
eggs  once  and  sometimes  twice  a  day, 
transportation  from  and  to  the  station 
free,  ditto  to  church.  Toll  me  where  do 
I  fall  down  on  it?  Each  one  who  came 
has  been  satisfied,  but  they  were  lonely 
souls.  I  would  like  a  congenial  group 
of  six  women  who  can  have  three  large 
rooms  on  one  floor,  and  no  men,  and  no 
one  to  molest  them.  How  will  I  do? 
MRS.  IT.  E.  V.  T. 
It.  N.-Y. — Here  is  a  good  chance  for 
practical  advice.  Most  of  the  articles  on 
Summer  boarders  assume  that  the  farm 
woman  knows  just  where  the  boarders 
are  to  come  from.  How  is  one  to  start 
and  get  the  boarders?  Very  few,  some¬ 
how,  have  thought  to  tell  us  about  that. 
