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7ht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 4, 1922 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
A Hyacinth Bulb 
Roots are unsightly things to most of eyes, 
And so to mine, till something turned 
m.v thought, 
Upon a day of: wonder and surprise. 
When home some bulbs of hyacinth I 
brought. 
A pot of earth was ready at my hand; 
“A few weeks’ sleep',” 1 thought, "and 
they will spring 
Between me and this wintry death to 
stand. 
And their sweet bells of rose or azure 
fling.” 
But. as implanted, they before me lay, 
My glance fell on one bulb of ivory 
tone, 
That, storing beauty for a future day. 
Still had a present beauty all its own. 
For like a small, stout amphora, close 
sealed. 
It seemed, as it might hold a ripening 
wine; 
And all around its mellow ivory field 
Concentric ran a faintly crimson line. 
Believe or not! But in that instant’s 
time 
The bulb was quickened, ere it touched 
the mould! 
While I stood gazing, up its flower did 
climb— 
No second bloom like that shall I be¬ 
hold. 
For it was rosy—with a rosy flame, 
And living sweetness shed upon the 
air— 
And all went swiftly, as it swiftly came, 
Till but the bulb of hyacinth was there. 
Oh. let the initiate of Buddha hold 
The power of thought the Secret Force 
can see, 
Before its date, the hidden flower un¬ 
fold— 
I only know this thing that chanced 
to me. 
EDTTIt M. THOMAS 
In the New York Herald. 
Texas Notes 
We have been having a taste of real 
Winter for over a mouth. The Fall and 
early Winter months were so warm that 
for days at a time we had no fires in the 
nit, se. only for cooking. But the rains 
the farmers are hoping for are still de¬ 
layed. The plowing can only be done 
with dry land plows, therefore most of the 
land remains uuplowed. The moisture was 
not 6iiflieient in October to seed wheat. 
The farmers now are planning to sow a 
large acreage in oats, and are hoping for 
better prices for the coming harvest than 
they received last year, which was only 
25c. not enough to pay expenses of plant¬ 
ing and harvesting, However, the farm¬ 
ers do uot seem discouraged, but are pre¬ 
paring to plant as usual, and all are hop¬ 
ing for a good year. The price of land 
has come down in the last 18 months to 
about normal. But iu its fall it has taken 
some who bought at the high price, and 
they have had to lose the farms they paid 
for with part cash and uotes with a high 
rate of interest. They just gave them up, 
knowing they could never pay for them, 
ami now are renting again. It seems as 
though farmers suffer from injustice, 
They receive so little for what they have 
to sell, and have to pay too much for 
what they are compelled to buy. We 
cannot help but ask why. when wheat is 
so low. we still have to pay $2.25 for 
50 lbs. of flour, and it is the same with 
other produce we have to sell. No mar¬ 
ket at all for butter, and cream so low 
that it hardly pays to milk. We are all 
hoping that the movement for the better¬ 
ment of farmers will soon become a 
reality. mbs. m. h. m. 
Porch and Window Boxes 
Xo home should be without flowers and 
plants any more than a room without 
pictures on the walls. Yet so many of 
our farm homes .are almost bare of such 
adornment one wonders if the dwellers 
therein do not love flowers and green 
growing things. But there are good rea¬ 
sons why this condition exists. We 
haven't the time to cultivate flower gar¬ 
dens. and have met with unfortunate re¬ 
sults so frequently in our attempts with 
a few beds about the house that we feel 
almost ready to give up trying to beau¬ 
tify our homes with flowers and shrub¬ 
bery. Perhaps chickens have access to 
our yards—one persistent old ben is all 
that is necessary to ruin the most, prom¬ 
ising outlook, or we are ton tired to do 
the necessary digging and enriching the 
soil; weeds crowd in while we must work 
elsewhere, or dry weather comes to stunt 
the growth of our plants, until we feel 
that it is hardly worth the effort it costs. 
But many of us have found that we can 
produce very satisfying results with 
porch and window boxes. 
The box can be made of rough or 
smooth lumber, even old weathered boards 
if they are not decayed. It ought to he 
at least f> in. deep, and its length and 
width depend upon thp place it is to 
stand. The prettiest boxes are. made, of 
rather heavy, rough material, with a sim¬ 
ple design of construction and stained a 
dark color. These are easily made and 
inexpensive. 
The color of the box is an important 
item to consider in getting good effects 
with the plants. Nature’s colors, as 
shown in the woods, are a good guide, the 
browns of decaying wood or dead leaves, 
the gray-black of bark and some shades 
of green bambinize with the foliage and 
flowers of the plants. Stain gives these 
soft dull shades much better than paint. 
The gloss and mixed color effect of paint 
is almost sure to produce unsatisfactory 
results. If paint is to be used, it should 
be the flat finish kind. 
There is a long list of plants to choose 
from which arc suitable for growing in 
boxes. Many boxes and urns seen on city 
porches are filled with greenhouse plants. 
Geraniums. Asparagus Sprengeri, Coleus. 
Vinca. Tradescantia. German ivy and 
ferns are favorites for this use. These 
are more or less expensive to buy, and 
the variation iu effects to be gained is 
quite limited. There are a great many 
easily grown annuals which will adapt 
themselves to this purpose. In making 
the selection several points should be 
considered: the size of your box. its loca¬ 
tion. whether in sou or shade, the color 
combination you desire, etc. In general 
it is best to choose plants of compact, low 
growing or trailing habits, plants that 
are reasonably hardy, so that your box 
will not be ruined by the first cool nights. 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
0818. Mouse with or without panels, 
34 to 42 bust. 
2112. Skirt with yoke and panels in 
one. 20 to 34 waist, 
The medium size blouse will require 3% 
yds. of material 27 in. wide, 2% yds. 3U, 
2*L> yds. 44. The medium size skirt will 
require 44s yds. of material 30 in. wide, 
3Vi yds. 40. 2% yds. el. Width at lower 
edge 1% yds. Each, 20 cents. 
although a box is not hard to protect 
from frost, and plants having a long 
blooming period. There should be an 
abundance of graceful foliage. Borne 
plants will give the foliage effects, while 
others produce flowers freely. Both are 
desirable. 
Nearly everybody is attracted by red 
flowers. Hark red snapdragons with 
Kenilworth ivy will produce a display of 
red and green all Summer and until after 
quite hard frosts. Or scarlet snapdragons 
and the little white Alyssum would make 
a brilliant showing, Indeed, the dwarf 
snapdragons have special merits for box 
culture. They arc free bloomers, stand 
both heat and cool weather, have many 
beautiful colors, and combine well with 
trailing plants. Blue and white Agora- 
turns. dwarf marigolds, blue Lobelia, nas¬ 
turtiums. both dwarf and trailing, Petu¬ 
nias. Verbenas. Heliotrope and Fortulnca 
are all very adaptable for this purpose. 
It is usually best to combine several 
kinds of plants for continuous display, 
and if the box becomes too crowded some 
can be taken out. 
For a shaded porch a box of pansies or 
of shade-loving woods plants is very fresh 
and attractive. One box of last Summer, 
made of slabs with the bark on. was 
ahopt 2 ft. square, and stood on a rustic 
block in the yard near some shrubbery. 
In it were a couple of thrifty red geran- 
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Ordinary Salt 
The above illustrates how 
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Remember, salt is not salt’un- 
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“Colonial” is the most eco¬ 
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