up and blighting the functions of life A lighl 
spnnglingof slaked lime might possibly arresi 
the evil. 
Mr. Sarrn called to Bay he had a blind pig, 
two weeks old, which he must kill. “The 
p:g could not follow its mother, and there was 
no use in letting it live.” Going over to see the 
pig, wo found it to bo a case of mud poison. 
. 80vv liad laid in too mud, and tho pig. hav¬ 
ing no one to wash its face, had g0 n 0 on, from 
day to day. until the mud had produced sore- 
ness and inflammation in the eyelids, and they 
had so swelled np as to close the eyes. We re¬ 
commended that the sow bo kept away from the 
mud, as other pigs were sore and swollen about 
t leir months, and that he wash tho face of all of 
10 m with castile-Boap suds and oil them, and 
fed uJwth ^n- 0 " 6 b ° 0iIod evory day a,ul 
!ntl 1 l * subsided. Sows Uo in the 
nud to keep cool and to got away from the Hies. 
In a dry time tho mud in old water holes is vory 
poisonous to tho skin of animals. A .lirfw I 
will sometimes make the 
the breasts of sows aro 
in such a pen. 
We have been amuse 
between Col. Waring, 
American Jersey Cattle' 
of Kentucky, 
French ma 
the escutcheon to ho 
irees ftn endless variety of gorgeous 
dowers, whllo in addition, their branches aro 
b ?.!, nt .! f . Ul I J ^to largo Climbing plants, 
in tho species 
Ipornwa, 
such hh are familiar to cultivators 
of Combmtum, Pnssijiora , OIhuus, 
PoyainvMa, BUpionia , and many others 
which oftentimes reach from the ground to the 
very tops of their supporters, and hung across 
then- branches, like ropes, to neighboring trees, 
until the whole forms a tangled mass of splendid 
flowers arid foliage utterly beyond the concep¬ 
tions Of those who have never seen a tropical 
forest. To collect and send homo tho riches of 
those tropical regions is a work of much cost 
and is attended with great difficulties and danger! 
in tho prosecution of which many highly intelli¬ 
gent and talented travelers have fallen victims 
either to tho pestilential climate, tho wild boasts 
of the country, or tho treachery of, in many 
instances, tho equally wild aborigines. To tlieso 
men, who, by their arduous and self-sacrificing 
labors, have so largely increased our lutowledgo 
ot tho vegetable kingdom, all honor is due, and 
wo cannot pass them in this place without 
recording our test thanks and highest praises 
for then- services, and at tho same tinm express¬ 
ing our deep regret for fchoir loss. To our lead¬ 
ing nurserymen and amateur horticulturists, 
again, both at homo and on the continent, who 
have contributed funds so profusely to facilitate 
the introduction of nature’s 
Waring, tho Secretary of the 
„ -j Club, and Mr. Hardin 
Col. Waring thinks that the 
11 Tenon’s theory about tho value of 
Vor y important, and a most 
valuable guide ... the selection of a good milking 
cow. Mr Hardin, who seems to be a practical 
man says ho cannot or has not yet boon able to 
master thw theory, and ho believe* it to bean 
unmitigated lmmbug.’’ Ho says it is as easy 
to bleed escutcheons as It is solid color or other 
distinguishing marks. This is true. He thinks 
some breeders knowing this fact, aro anxious to 
^ns ca^Th < ! f f° UEN0N ’ R ° l0nf >' ft * 0wmtch - 
Z J t u U ' faUf!y > "ill be se¬ 
lected for their escutcheons, at long D rioes 
Both of these gentlemen are considered slvants 
m Jersey lore, both names gracing the tmvn 
i HE REST INSECT DESTROYER, according to the 
Journal of Chemistry, is alum water. Tut tho 
alum into hot water and let it boil until it is en¬ 
tirely dissolved, thou apply it hot with a brush 
to all cracks, closets, bedsteads and other places 
infested by insects. It is certain death to ants, 
bedbugs, roaches and id genua onino , while 
there is no danger, in using it, of poisoning any 
of tho family or injuring property. 
STOVE PLANTS.—NO. ONE 
Mr. Connor is going to leave his Early Rose 
potatoes, which ho intends for his own use in 
the ground until next month, thinking they will 
l T tlm " itd »S»ia pat Into the 
cellar. Wo rather think ho is right. 
n"es EAR Onr 1 . b |!! t , WhGn 8hipPOd 1,1 «“»» pack- 
“f . °" r half Barrels of Bartlotts brought 
almost as much as whole barrels. They were a 
Woe °t[ And r ° ttCl, " d N(m York »ver- 
Oroh .fr ? ° tdy per Bair barrel. 
- lull barrel, the commission merchant said 
had been used for pickling and the fS 
as so tainted that ho could only got $2 for it 
1 0ars ara Vt 'T Ohoap. Flemish Beauties which 
are splendid, can hardly be sold at all. For pre- 
helnsc liT" 'T‘ l ° KArU,,tta - fashion 
el l n ’’ a ' 11,0 b k- ^-ehooked bean- 
t es go begging for buyers. It is strange that 
^r ,,0U * Be such a large crop of pea« and 
j . apples. I me apples are worth as much 
m New' lork as the best of pears. 
THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 
MORALLY, SOCIAtlY, POLITICALLY AND PRACTICALLY 
CONSIDERED. 
1!Y ALBERT W. AIKEN. 
MORALLY 
, raan W ,B° has a good garden to at- 
ld ‘"’ rare, y Ins time at the store 
the Four Cornors," idly gossiping, or still 
worse, at the ” 1‘odunk hotel” as tho village 
tavern is generally termed, enjoying the pleasures 
ol the wine-cup, or, to put it loss poetically and 
more literally, dt inking bad ale or worso whisky. 
appy tho day for this country when wo do 
nave a pure, cheap wine to supplant tho vile de¬ 
coctions of brain-crazing alohohol now so freely 
dispensed! 
SOCIALLY: 
I he culture of a good garden promotes 
fioeial harmony. Where aro the two men 
working side by side, deeply engaged in teach¬ 
ing the young vegetable idea how to shoot, who 
[ can resist the temptation, now and then, to lean 
over the fence, discuss tho merits of the new 
varieties, or impart to each other tho latest plan 
to battle tho brawling cut-worm that makes 
night and cabbages—hideous ? 
I know that the doctor and I —the doctor is 
my next door neighbor, an excellent gardener 
only a little slow and set in bis way, whereby 1 
succeeded in provoking his astonishment and 
admiration this spring with my Golden Trophy 
tomatoes, Hanson Lettuce and Tallby’s Hybrid 
Cucumbers, and elicited from him the con¬ 
fession that my now sorts were a “lectio” 
ahead of his old ones. 
BRIEFLETS 
-.uo-uuusJi—BJSK MUST PAGE FOR DESCRIPTION. 
placed in the positions they occupy, except so 
far as to point out, that as dilTcrent genera and 
species in a wild state are subject to different 
conditions of atmosphere, both aB regards 
moisture and temperature, as well as to varieties 
of soil, as to the physical and chemical qualities 
of the materials of which it is composed, it n 
only reasonable to insist that those wlio attempt 
the cultivation of plants, should have some 
knowledge of those matters, sufficient to enable 
them to imitate nature, so far as the artificial 
conditions with which they may have to doal will 
allow. 
We may first speak of Stove Plants, that is to 
say, plants requiring a considerable degree of 
artificial boat in our climate ; they are plants 
whose home is in the tropica- m the regions of 
palms, troe ferns, gigantic bamboos, and 
