age, why should there be any special difference In 
their size ?” 
“Because they are different varieties. These 
rows ot tall trees with the very large oranges a re 
the Konah, and the rows beyond, with fruit a trifle 
smaller, are the Rio. These Ught-oolored oranges 
of medium size are the St. Michael and Mediter¬ 
ranean Sweet. Then we have the Maltese Blood, 
which Is red, as Its name indicates, the Du KOI, 
Tahlta, Bergamot, Mandarin, and other standard 
and fancy varieties—about seventeen, I think, and 
six kinds of lemons.” 
“I didn’t suppose there were so many different 
kinds.” 
While Daisy and Mr Erman were talking Violet 
had been filling a basket with the golden fruit, and 
now, slipping her hand through her friend's arm, 
she said .-—“Come, Daisy, you have learned enough 
about the oranges, and I want you to eat your fill. 
Last January, when Mr. Hopkins and his wife 
were here, they would persist In eating the green 
oranges, and then went back East and told every 
one that California oranges were sour. I was so 
provoked 1 didn’t know what to do, and you must, 
prove the statement to be utterly false 
Jtfrtili&et’jsr 
HIDING “ EA8TER EGGS 
Scampering through the barn yard, 
Nellie, Fred and Bess, 
Hiding *’ Easter Ekvs” away 
Just where you’d never guess. 
Not in the great old hay-mow, 
Nor corner inf manger or stall; 
“ O, Mamma," cried Bess, ” you need’nt try, 
’Cause you’ll never guess at all.” 
“ You know Mamma said we might hide them 
Just anywhere we please 
Nell, did you ever see such eggs, 
. Such nice large ones as these ? 
And we’re going to color tots of them. 
Mamma says slie’ll help ua too. 
I am so glad that Easter comes, 
And Nellie and Fred are, too.” 
O, innocent. Joys of childhood ! 
Sometimes our heart still begs. 
For the feelings of mingled Joy and pride, 
In hiding “ Easter Eggs.” 
This Fertilizer, which was at first sold almost entirely In 
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THE “YOUNG QUERIBT 
DAISY’S YEAR IN SOUTHERN CALL 
FORNIA. 
IF. c, H., New York City.—We have no seeds ot 
the Golden Rural Tomato to selL 
A. S. L., Livingston, N. r„ asks If the firm of 
Burt and Prentice, 46 Beekman St., N. Y. are re¬ 
liable. 
Ans.— We believe they are. Tour complaint 
will be referred to them. 
C. L. D., Edgerton, Kan , asks 1, how many tons 
the largest ship will carry, 8, how many miles 
the largest ships will run in an hour. 
Ans.— The Great Eastern Is said to have been 
built to carry 10,000 tons; a, eighteen miles an 
hour is the fastest time ever made by ocean steam¬ 
ships. 
A T . it., Almond , N. I'., wishes to know what will 
keep the little white worm away from the roots 
of plants. 
Ans.— We presume you refer to house-plants. 
The little white worm Is most common In the roots 
of the geranium and seems to come from decaying 
matter produced by keeping the plant roots too 
wet. we do not think you will he troubled If your 
flower pots have proper drainage. 
M, r.S., Kactne, W/s., asks how she shall treat 
Japan Quince seeds saved last Fall, also the little 
black berries from the Honeysuckle? Do they 
contain seeds, and when should they be planted ? 
ans —The little black berries are seeds. In raising 
the Honeysuckle from seeds they should be sown 
In the Autumn after they are ripe or they will 
not come up the first year. Both the Quince and 
the Honeysuckle are propagated by cuttings. 
/. M. D., Boulder, col .—Please tell me when and 
how to plant peas so they wlU not be buggy. 
ans.— You ask a difficult question, Blnce the pea- 
weevil, to which you probably refer, begins Its ex¬ 
istence In the pea Itself; hence, wherever the pea 
Is sown, j ust there wilt be the weevil. One method 
suggested to get the better of these pestB Is to keep 
tho seed peas over one year in tight vessels. Some 
recommend putting the seed peas in hot. water a 
minute or two before sowing, by which means the 
weevjrs will be killed and the sprouting ot the 
peas will be qulokened. Late-sown peas are less 
liable to the attacks of this weevil. 
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The Orange Trees. 
“ What smells so sweet?” asked Daisy one day 
soon after her arrival. 
“ Why, that is the orange blossoms 1" cried vio¬ 
let. “Haveu’t you seen auyyet?” 
“ No,” answered Daisy, “ I know which are the 
orange trees, but haven't looked at them closely." 
“ Let’s go out and pick some oranges and you 
can have all the flowers you want. There Is papa 
poisoning gophers; he will explain about the trees, 
though I can tell almost all the different kinds.” 
The girls walked along to where Mr. Erman was 
stooping on the ground, 6ome peach sprouts lying 
hy his side, and before him a small pall contain¬ 
ing bits of sweet potato. “ Stall at It, you see," he 
remarked, as the girls came near; “ these gophers 
are never Idle. They burrow under the ground 
and eat the roots ot the trees, and unless I am con 
Stantlyon the lookout my trees are killed almost 
before 1 know It. so every day or two I go around 
with my medicine.” 
“ How do you know where they are It they never 
come above ground." 
“ Oh, they usually work near enough to the sur¬ 
face to throw up some loose dirt like that mound 
yonder. There’s a rellow l must take care of. 
Then I dig down till 1 fl nd the runaway, stick a 
poisoued bit of sweet potato on a peach sprout, 
put it down in the hole, cover It, and that usually 
finishes Mr. Gopher. 
“ There papa, we didn’t come to hear about 
gophers. Daisy wants to see the orange trees.” 
“ Well, here they are all around us; plenty of 
flowers, too, Pick some for her, violet." 
some of the trees were white with blossoms, and 
the air was laden with fragrance, violet began 
breaking off the flowers with such a lavish hand 
that Daisy expostulated. “ There, there! Don’t 
pick any more of the beauties 1 Just think how 
many Oranges you have spoiled already t” 
Violet and her father laughed. “Yon foolish 
child, don't you see what quantities of flowers 
there are 7 These little trees never could support 
so many oranges. Papa will have to thin them 
out, so don’t deny yourself any orange flowers 
whenever you take a fancy for them.” 
“ How beautiful the trees are with the white 
blossoms, bright oranges and glossy leaves 1 Why 
are some ot the leaves so light?” 
“ Those are the new growth, it has been so 
warm this winter, and we have had so little frost, 
that the trees have grown right along, though not 
as fast as they do in Summer.”. 
“ 1 always thought that orange trees were very 
large before they bore, but look at this little 
thing,” said Dalay, pointing to a diminutive spec¬ 
imen about three feet high, bearlDg half a dozen 
handsome oranges, 
“ Seedlings do not bear until they are from six 
to nine years old; but these trees are all budded. 
This is the way we bud a tree,” continued Mr. 
Erman In answer to Daisy’s inquiring look, “ we 
generally take a seedling and cut the bark of the 
trunk in a certain manner, and msert a bud from 
some variety rbat we wish t.o propagate. This 
bud does not come rrorn the end of a twig, but 
from the axil or a leaf. Then when the bud begins 
to grow we cut off the seedling top, and the whole 
tree is grown from that bud. In a few days I am 
going to bud some stock and you must come and 
see how It is done,” 
“It seems a pity to cut off the trees,” remarked 
Daisy. 
“ Yes, but If these were not budded trees there 
would not he an orange on the place to-day. These 
trees are nearly four years old from the bud, and 
have not been set three years; and look at me 
hundreds ot oranges. Next year l expect to have 
thousands Instead of hundreds.” 
“ When do you pick the oranges, Mr. Erman ?” 
“ They do not become nice and sweet until about 
this time, though some pick mem as early as Jan¬ 
uary; but I think they are too sour then. From 
March to May la the best time for California or¬ 
anges. They have been picking for some time In 
the large orange groves which are from twenty, 
five to thirty years old; but there are a great, many 
oranges on me trees still, and we must take you 
to see the old ranchos the flrst day I can spare.” 
“ I should think it would hurt such little trees as 
some of tuese to bear so many oranges." 
“ I don’t see that It hurts them any. The trees 
that, bore last year are bearing now, and seem to 
have made as much growth as the others. Be¬ 
sides, 1 never allow a tree to have more fruit than 
It can mature without hurt to Itself, You remem¬ 
ber the thinnin g procesBOf which Violet told you." 
“ But, Mr. Erman, If these trees are all the same 
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KASTICK MUSIC : Send for lists of Raster Carols 
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Uncle Mark t— Our children, who took much de¬ 
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found out—through their examinations of different 
flowers and seeing the regularity of their parts—a 
pleasant evening puzzle for the cousins. Apples 
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Dear Unolk Mark:—I am only six years old 
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Willie one year old. I have no sisters. My big 
brother belongs to the club, hut he Is very lazy 
about wrltiDg. The China pinks you sent him 
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time Christmas. I went to see iny grandma at 
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