comm -- - . .- 
1,0 ^yn tauTfc of our grape growers), and by 
-^ftg fertilizers. My last shipment of Iona 
griipes this fall to Chicago sold for 15 to 20 
cents per pound, when good Catawbas 
brought only 10 to 13. I am Ann in the be- 
eate hands. So, health and fashion being on 
our side, we kept secretly at work till the 
pleasant task was done; and returned to the 
realm of kettles and stew-pans, resolved, in 
some future leisure hour, to urge such of our 
Rural sisters as are not already the happy 
owners of (lower gardens to devote a part of 
their time to the cultivation of such (lowers 
us require hut little extra cure. 
Don’t say you have no time. Leave off a 
ruffle on Susie’s apron, or the rows of braid 
on Tommy’s jacket. If the kitchen floor be 
not daily polished to whiteness, your husband 
SUCCESS WITH THE IONA GR* 
In the Rural New-York*- 
an article by Mr. Ellio- of Feb. 8, is 
Cleveland Herald, r *'C copied from the 
cess of Mr. Bat- commenting on the suc- 
Herald. -juHAK’s reply as given in the 
In the 
tun*’ ' “ era *d of last week, the horticul- 
m contributor, Addl, Mr. Elliott, speaks 
GRASS AMONG GRAPES 
Pennsylvania is partial to grass. Thomas 
Meehan advocates grass for peal's, and now 
we have a Mr. Meuckkon of Catawissa, Pa., 
asserting that a seven years’ oxporienceiu not 
stirring the ground, but. growing grass be¬ 
tween his grape vinca, had proved it to be the 
best plan. He does not inform us whether 
he mulches, or manures his vines in any way. 
Doubtless he does. 
GRAPES FOR KANSAS. 
Dr. J. Steoman of Kansas, a close observer 
and practical man, recommends but two 
grapes for general cultivation in that State— 
the Concord and Ives. 
AN EFFECTIVE FUMIGATOR 
We notice that the Board of Health of 
Chelsa are using free chlorine, or rather hypo- 
chlorous acid, as a disinfectant for bedding, 
furniture, and apartments,. They use about 
ono pound of chloride of lime to two ounces 
of muriatic acid. This is an excellent disin 
foctant, but requires to be used with great 
caution, as tho chlorine and hypochiorous 
acid set free will attack powerfully any veg¬ 
etable colors that may be exposed to them. 
They will also destroy any fabric that may 
be submitted to thoir fumes, and will cause 
all iron articles to rust rapidly, A much 
•safer, and more pleasant article for the pur¬ 
pose, is a little carbolic acid volatilized by be¬ 
ing poured upon a bob shovel. This, with a 
plentiful use of carbolate of lime about the 
premises, will be all-sufflcient. Carbolic acid 
stands at the head of the list of known disin¬ 
fectants, being superior to every other article 
that lias been tried, with the single exception 
of hyponitrous acid, which is produced by 
pouring nitric acid upon copper, ami heating 
the solution. This, however, is not available 
for most purposes, on account of its c xtremely 
corrosive action. - Boston Journal of Churn. 
SELF PURIFICATION OF FLOWING 
WATER. 
Concerning the rapidity with which con¬ 
taminations are got rid of by flowing water, 
Dr. Letueby asserts that sewage impurities 
will entirely disappear in a flow of a dozen 
miles. If, ho says, ordinary sewage, contain¬ 
ing say one hundred grains of solid matter to 
the gallon, of which solid matter probably 
something like fourteen or fifteen grains will 
he organic, be m ixed with twenty times its 
bulk of ordinary river water, it will not con¬ 
tain, after a flow of ten or twelve miles, a 
particle of that sewage discoverable by any 
chemical process. Dr. Parkbk also behoves 
that flowing water thus purifies itself, but he 
does not undertake to say how far it must 
run to make the process of purification com¬ 
plete. 
derful plants, 
nepenthes 
and his troop of hungry men will not mind 
it ; so, just get things in train for dinner, and 
steal tho time for some pleasant work in the 
garden every day. Pay no regard to John’s 
sly hint that a lively race with him down 
through the potato patch, hoc in hand, would 
do just as well; but coax or hire somebody 
to spade a little plot of ground, and the work 
of planting and weeding will be a panacea for 
numerous physical ills. A sun bath in your 
own door yard might be just as potent, and 
certainly, less costly than if prescribed by a 
physician to be taken on fho hillside, at some 
fashionable water cure. Try it, ye worn and 
exhausted toilers, who, in the never-ending 
round of household labor, are fast losing that 
buoyancy of spirit which is such a powerful 
lever In lifting heavy burdens. 
Ruth Dana. 
hafflesiana. 
I of my success with the Iona 
WOMAN’S WORK IN THE GARDEN 
i WOULD not dig like that if I never had a 
flower,” came floating in no very goiitlo tones 
across the garden to our cars ; and the lady, 
in silken array, leaned back in her carriage, 
to cast another contemptuous glance on us 
and our hoe, just as we wore making vigorous 
assaults on a few weeds among the flower 
beds ; and then, the showy equipage with its 
city-bred occupants dashed out of sight. 
Were we disturbed by this comment ? Not 
i whit. That Summer morning, we had gone 
out of the stifling an-of our kitchen into tho 
blessed sunshine, weary and discouraged with 
the mountain of indoor work before us, know¬ 
ing full well, that wc should go back in an 
hour, refreshed in body and light of heart 
from inhaling the breath of the soil, and the 
sight of our floral treasures ; so, one little 
whiff of ridicule should not rob us of this 
HOW TO PRESERVE FUNGI 
It is sometimes desirable to preserve speci¬ 
mens of fungi for future or more convenient 
examination. For such purpose the follow¬ 
ing mixture has been recommended: sul¬ 
phuric acid, 2 pints ; water, 8 pints ; mix and 
add creosote, 1 pint. Bottle the fungi in this 
and cork tightly, it is said to preserve them 
perfectly, without change of color. Fungi 
may be preserved by drying, by bedding 
them in silver sand, gills upward, in tin box¬ 
es, and placing them in a slow oven for two 
or three hours. 
THE BEST TWELVE TEA ROSES. 
The editor of the London, Eng., Garden, 
having been requested to name the best 12 
tea roses names the following :—Devoniensis, 
Marechal Kiel, Gloire de Dijon, Souvenir d’un 
Ami, Souvenir d’Elisc, Madame VVOlermoz, 
Triomphe dc Rennes, Niphetos, Celine Forcs- 
tior, Madame Margottin, Belle Lyonnaiso 
Adam. 
THE CENT OF 1799 
WillD. P,, Bergen Point, N. J., explain 
more fully, in Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
in relation to the manufacture of the Ameri¬ 
can cent in the year 1799, as to design and 
other particulars, the subscriber having a 
cent with date somewhat defaced, but thinks 
it to be of that date. p 
A CALLA LILY 
