so long ! nearly all of the foreign and native species brid Perp 
were growing in the greatest luxuriance, pended ru 
Newly imported bulbs are the first to fail, own roots 
the long rest and drying to which they are far too lik 
subjected during the voyage appears to protected, 
weaken their vitality to such an extent that insure sue 
restoration is out of the question. If the in your eli 
bulbs are large and apparently healthy when hood of t 
received, they will usually bloom the first Perpetual 
season then decay, leaving probably only a count of 
few small bulblets around the base of the those wliii 
dowering stem.* When this disease first ap- and be pa 
peared in my grounds I thought it might be own root*. 
caused by the soil not being well adapted to . richest soi 
the growth end health of these bulbs, but I bend dowi 
soon learned that others who had quite a dif- j coarse rm 
ferent soil were also losing their Lilies in the within a t 
same mysterious manner. Of course, the cover wit 
FROM EEATRICE, NEBRASKA 
they fixed upon the present site of this city; 
came here and founded a colony; named it 
Beatrice, after the daughter of Jude Kinney, 
016 of their number, After u few years of 
prosperity, the little town came to a stand¬ 
still, and for years all hopes of a prosperous 
city were given up. But with i he building 
of the Union Pacific Railroad came brighter 
days, more enterprise and finally a flourish¬ 
ing city of 1,300 inhabitants, with a railroad | 
and bright prospects of others soon. The 
important line of railway so nearly com¬ 
pleted, connecting Galveston, Texas, with 
theU. P. R, R., must necessarily pass t hrough 
here. Beatrice continues to grow and pros¬ 
per, and is decidedly a lively, thriving West-- 
ern town. Of course, being in a prairie conn 
try, lumber is high, but two brick kilns and 
a quarry of most excellent building Stone, a 
few miles out, furnish cheap building ma¬ 
terial—and handsome, too, as some of our 
flue blocks testify. We have a handsome 
court-house and a school house, built of brick, 
while the new bank building, just finished, 
iso tiled the finest block in the State. We 
have five religious denominations, and good 
society — moBt of the people being from the 
older States, 
We are the county-seat of Gage County, 
and the county paper—The Beatrice Express 
—is printed hero. It is conceded to he one 
TROUBLE WITH LILIEB AND R0SE8, 
I wish to ask a few questions through 
your paper, if you please, and if they are 
FRUITS FOR THE SOUTHWEST 
ji Ml Society at its recent meeting in Boston. The 
jj j J With the object of adding in a slight de- 
' ’/ groeto the valuable lists already published 
k J in our Transactions, and of aiding new 
J (i settlors and beginners in making a proper 
[ | V selection of fruits for our section, wo respect- 
I fully present for the consideration of the 
U Society, the following list for the Southwest, 
and for all that portion of the Gulf Coast be- 
f tween Mobile Bay and Eastern Texas : 
A pples .—Early Harvest, lied Astrachan, 
r;..* Carolina Red June, Primate, Garrctson’s 
Early, Yellow June, Early Strawberry, Bev- 
<111 tin, Golden Sweet, American Summer Pear¬ 
'll main, Rhodes’s Orange, Bruce’s Summer, 
jliii Yellow Horse, Cane Creek Sweet, Batchelor, 
lll/L Taunton, Hoover, Carter. 
|(| Pear*.— Doyenne d’Ete, Julienne, Osbaad’s 
LM Summer, Beurre Goubault, Doyenne Bous 
nock, Bartlott, Beurre Superfln, Howell, 
fjE Seckle, St. Michael ’Archangel, Ducliesse 
d’Augouleme, Gray Doyenne, Beurre d’An- 
| | I jnu, Lawrence, Winter Nells. 
Peach r.s. —Early TiUotson, Yellow St. 
j John, Tuskena, Amelia, Yellow Rareripe, 
Mountain Ro . . Chinese Cling, Early Craw- 
jg ford, Stump the World, Susquehanna, Old- 
mixon free, Oldini.ym cling, Columbia, Ray- 
= moud cling, Ficquet’s Lull-, Laxly Parham. 
Plum*. —Temple, Lombard, Brill, German 
Prime, Wild Goose, Indian Chief. 
Grapes. —Hartford Prolific., Ives, Concord, 
< linton, Maxatawney, Souppernong. 
Figs .—Lemon or “ Angelique,” Celeste, 
;lut Greeu Isehiea, Brown Turkey, White Genoa, 
red Black Genoa, Brunswick, White Smyrna, 
ery Orange *.—Louisiana “ Creole,” Mandarin. 
-M, Brazilian. 
Strawberries .—Long worth’s Prolific, Wil- 
-ou’s Albany, Mary Stewart, President Wil- 
ive der, diaries Downing, Kentucky, 
led Iiagpb&rrie*. —Davison’s Thornless, Mum- 
Jbs moth Cluster, Golden Thornless, Clark, 
len Herstine. 
Blackberries .-—Early’ Wilson, Lawton. 
om Respectfully, 
the ( H. A. Swasey, M. D. 
jod D. Redmond. 
ier | M. B. Hillyard. 
' Delegates. 
I NOTICED some remarks in your Land De¬ 
partment which lead me to say a few words 
for this part, of the “Sunny South,” T wish 
you could leave your “ice-bound North” 
and spend one week among us at this season. 
I read of your snow storms and frozen rivers, 
while the weather here is uncomfortably 
warm ; yet in summer you suffer more from 
heat than we do. Lost flight T dispensed 
with vest and hoots and sat till one o’clock 
between two open doors. 
Our soil is splendid, and we are giving eon- I 
siderable attention to stock growing. We 
can grow easily one to three tons of hay per 
acre, worth $15 to $35 per ton, or if shipped 
to any Southern city it is worth MAO to $3.50 
per hundred. Labor is very cheap—men $10 
to $13 a month, women $1 to $5, And. by- 
the-way, this is why we are “lazy.” Did 
you ever see a person who really liked 
manual labor '{ If we labor here, it must be 
from choice. Our labor is very unreliable, : 
however, and few out succeed with out- 
darkies who do not understand- them, i 
have heard my father, who was familiar 
with every section of the United States, say 
that for a home he preferred Middle Ten¬ 
nessee to any section he ever visited. 
1 have no land to sell and no interest in 
selling any, nor do T advise any one to im¬ 
migrate who is already comfortably settled. 
White labor cannot compete with black, 
unless it is skilled, and Northern immigrants 
are looked upon with suspicion at first till 
they prove themselves not to be of the class 
The Lucy Grieve Pear is a new English 
seedling, and is desorbed as being three inch¬ 
es long and two and a half inches wide. It 
is rather uneven in outline, and is bossed 
round the waist and about the eye, and its 
shape i*H combination of the Glout Morceau 
and Swan’s Egg, the appearance about the 
crown being particularly like the former. 
Skin lemon - yellow, with occasionally a 
brownish-red blush on the side next the sun; 
and the whole surface is sprinkled with cin¬ 
namon-colored russet dots, which in some 
parts are so thick as to become patches of 
russet. Eye rather open, w ith long narrow 
segments set in an uneven depression. Stalk 
an inch long, woody, set oven with the sur¬ 
face. Flesh white, very tender and melting, 
very juicy and richly flavored. 
