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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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l^atetg for f|r |omig. 
A DEAR LITTLE GIRL. 
GEORGE C. BRAQDON. 
One fragrant and radiant day 
There budded with blossoms of May. 
Our May of the clustering curb — 
The dearest of dear little girls. 
How tiny the darling was then: 
But now. only think, she is ten! 
Ah me 1 How the swift seasons fly, 
Like vanishing Clouds in the sky! 
But, well, as it has to be so. 
Let’s garner their Joy* as they go, 
And put them down Into our hearts 
To lessen the aches and the smarts. 
Let's romp with the dear little girls. 
Like May of the clustering curls, 
And shout with the dear little boys. 
Like Claude of the clarion voice. 
Let’s gather them up In our laps. 
And tell them the carious hapB 
And notions and fancies and fun 
Abounding here under the Bun, 
And live our lives over again 
In their lives—we women and men. 
Oh ho! there are arms ’round my neck. 
And my well-starched collar’s a wreck; 
And all over my face are the curls 
Of the dearest of dear little girls; 
And a pair of the reddest of lipB 
Is giving me nectarine sips; 
And a voice murmurs wlnsperingly, 
•• Papa, tell a story' to me 
And because one has dearly been sold 
For kisses, and ought to be told, 
Repeating our sweet pantomime, 
And commencing with ” Once on a time,” 
I invent her a fairly tale. 
And give her a fanciful sail 
On a gossamer boat of the sky. 
From a harbor where cloud-lands lie. 
Through space to a valley afar 
In the west, on a glimmering star. 
And stud it with rubies and pearls 
For this dearest of dear little girls. 
[Rochester Democrat. 
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HOW TO GROW PLANTS IN THE SUM¬ 
MER FOR DECORATING THE ROOM OR 
WINDOW DURING WINTER. 
JULIUS. J. HEINRICH. 
Thebe is rarely any surer test of a happy 
home than the flower-decorated window and 
neatly kept garden; and there is no occnpation 
for the leisure hours better calculated to keep 
the home happy, or to sooth the mind. It yields 
pleasnre without surfeit; tbe more we advance 
the more eager we become. How nnlike this is 
to many of our employments ! To those parents 
blessed with children, how delightful it is to 
bend their young minds to a put Buit so full of 
usefulness and intellectual instruction, combined 
with the advantages usually accompanying in¬ 
dustry. As it promotes in children carefulness 
and thought about tboir plants, so it will lead to 
the same feeling respecting other matters. 
Let me endeavor, therefore, by laying down a 
few simple and practical rules for the manage¬ 
ment of plants in the summer, for the room or 
window in the winter, to turn the children’s at¬ 
tention or that of the female portion of the 
family, to this pleasing and innocent employ¬ 
ment ; for it is a subject calculated to give much 
more real enjoyment at far less expense than 
what are usually termed amusements. 
As I intend and hope this may be for the bene¬ 
fit of young persons mostly, I shall exclude as 
much as possible all technical terms generally 
used in catalogues, and shall coniine myself to 
the most Bimple expressions bo as to make the 
subject easily understood. 
length of time. The following list, although 
very small, contains those moBt suited for this 
Fig. 2 . 
purpose, being easily obtained and not difficult 
to manage. 
List of Plants that will grow in the shade 
OH WITH BUT LITTLE SUN. 
No. 1. Dracsenas 'See Figs. 1 3: 2.) 4. Marantas. 
“ 2. Kerns. 5. Nenioplillas. 
” 3. Lycopodiums. G. Trtnlescaotlas. 
PLANTS THAT GROW BEST IN THE SUN. 
No.7, Alyasum. H. Geraniums, Zonal, 
“ 8. Begonias, 15. ” Scented, 
” 9. Bouvurdlas, 1«. Lobelia. 
’’ 111. Carnations, 17. Mignonette, 
“ 11. Callus, 18. Nasturtiums, 
" U\ Carinas (Pee Fig. 3.) 19. Primula?, 
” 13. Centaureas, 20. Pansies. 
Fig. 3. 
Plants intended for decorating the room or win¬ 
dow during the winter, should not be planted in 
the garden borders or beds in the summer. 
If yon plant them In the soil, and take them up 
in the fall and pot them for winter use, you will 
find that all the leaves of the plant will drop off, 
and in a few weeks you will have only the stalk 
left. It will be some time, and, in fact, almost all 
winter before they will recover. To prevent 
this,—and now is the time after selecting your 
plants—pot them in as small a pot as you can 
possibly get them into without crushing the 
roots too much, and plunge, bury or set the pot 
into the garden-border or bod, up to about one 
inch from the top of the pot, as shown in Pig. 4. 
Be careful not to fill I 
the pots with soil M 
when you plunge or . « P) 
buiy them, because V L-WJj 
you will have to water w, 
them as if on a Sefi 
stand; but by bury- 
ing them, they re- 
quire less water. 
Later on, about the 
first or second week - J 
in August, they 
should be taken up ~ 
and knocked ont of Fig. 4. 
Fig. l. 
The first thing to be attended to is procuring 
roper plants for the purpose; that is, plants 
bich are healthy, Btrong and vigorous, as sickly 
lants in such situations would test the skill of 
ae most experienced gardener to keep any 
and knocked out of no. 4. 
the pot, to see if they are full of roots. If full, 
the plants must bo repotted into a pot a Bize 
or two larger, in order to give them more room 
and nourishment. Repotting is much better 
than watering with guano water, as gnano is a 
very heating fertilizer, and very dangerous. It 
may destroy more plants in a few hours than 
weeks or even months of care can replace. 
Plants treated in this way will answer the double 
purpose of decorating the garden in summer, 
and when Jack Frost comes, you need only to 
raise the pot and you have the plant, roots and 
all, in perfect order, ready to decorate the room 
in winter. Should tho season be very mild in 
September, and allow you to leave them out late, 
give them, about the end of September, another 
repotting, which will carry them nearly through 
tho winter. 
Plants of almost every kind given in the above 
list, can be bought at the greenhouse of any 
florist, if not just now, later on. as they gener¬ 
ally grow them for this purpose. For those who 
wish to grow such plants, they need only to ad¬ 
here to the following rules: 
Nos. 5, 7, 16, 17 and 20, must be grown from 
seeds later on (directions, etc., will bo given in 
these columns in due time.) 
Nos. 13, 14, 18 and 19, may be grown from 
seed sown now aud also later on. 
Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12, can be grown from 
division of the roots now. 
No. 1.—Plants roust be bought, though they 
may bo grown from seed, but it takes some time. 
I have a few hundred growing from seed now in 
my window, sown on the 22d of last April, and 
they are only 1 % inch high. 
Nos. 6, 8, 14 and 15, must be grown from slips 
or cuttings, and so may many very flue varieties 
of No. 18. 
With regard to Nos. 9 and 10, it is best to buy 
plants later on, as they do not root well this warm 
weather, and they take some time to make good 
flowering plants. 
No. 11.—-If yon have an old plant you can get 
plenty Bmall bulbs from it. Repot it, and start 
it to growing at once, or elHe buy a plant later on. 
The beBt way to grow Nos. 6, 8,14, 15 and 18, 
from slips or cuttings is this: take a dish or tin 
pan from two to four inches deep, fill two-thirds 
full of fresh-water or river Baud—no salt-water 
sand—wet this well with water; then make your 
slips taken from the end of the plant, green, 
young wood, about three inches long ; cut off all 
the leaves except the small, young leaves at the 
end; make holes in the sand large enough to 
allow you to put the slip in ; put in your slips 
about one to one and a half inches apart each 
way, and about half the depth of the sand, so as 
to leave about three-fourths to a inch of sand 
from the end of the slip to the bottom of the 
pan ; now water them well through a fine rose 
watering-pot, and place them iu the shade, and 
do not let the sun or wind get at them; use 
plenty of water to keep them saturated; as soon 
as they have rooted, pot into small 2)4 inch pots, 
and Bhade well from tho suu; later on repot as 
required. 
To grow Nos. 13, 14,18 and 19, from seed - 
take boxes of any length or width you like, but 
only four inches deep; fill each box three inches 
deep with light, sandy, rich soil; sow your seeds 
\ in rows about three inches apart, aud cover with 
just enough soil to bnry or cover the seed; water 
them now well through a fine toho watering-pot, 
and place them in a sunny situation, but do not 
forget to water them when they get dry. When 
the plants are large enough to handle, pot into 
small pots and water well, and shade from the 
snn until rooted; later on repot as needed. 
|ugUr. 
HIDDEN METALS. 
1. Let me plead bis cause. 
2 . Why brag, old Dan 1 
3. Four zebras sank In the river, 
4. They left the grass-plat In a muss. 
5 . On the banks of the SIX, verdure grows, 
c. Put the ticket In your pocket. 
7. No sir! on my honor. 
s. Haste, EUa, or you’ll be too late. 
9. As best ushers cost little, they abound. 
10. The epp perceived the robber. 
11 . I had the pew termed unsafe. 
12. In the Hebron Zenobta bathed. 
13. Ills Initials were “ R. Z.” In Coptic. 
By Answer In two weeks. Balto. 
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FRACTIONAL PUZZLE. 
l. Take one-quarter of crow. 2. One-tenth of 
kingfisher. 3. Onc-elghth or bobolink. 4. One- 
sixth of magpie. 5. One-seventh of lapwing, fl. 
One-ninth of goldfinch. 7. One-eighth of wood¬ 
cock. 8. One-eighth of paroquet. 9. One-quarter 
of swan. 10 . One-sixth of linnet, il. One-eighth 
or starling. 12. One-seventh or vulture. Take 
one from each and form a bird. 
isr- Answer In two weeks. May. 
■ — 
CENTRAL PUZZLE. 
an army officer; an animal; a pattern; sig¬ 
nified ; a mechanic; damp; fine rain ; a town of 
Georgia; income; a walrus; Indian corn: an 
Irish poet; a moving power. Centrals form a 
Bible traitor. Little One. 
iy Answer In two weeks. 8. c. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERB.—July 20. 
answer to Triple AcROSTic.-Prlmala, Pep¬ 
per; Centrals, Ginger ; Finals, Nutmeg. 
answer to Mountainous Enigma.—” The hap¬ 
piness of life Is made up of minute tractions such 
us a loving kiss, u smile, a kind look and the count¬ 
less other lntlultealQials of pleasant thought and 
feellDg.. i 
It Is dangerous to love to be wise above what is 
written; to be curious and unsober In your desire 
of knowledge, and to trust to your own capacities 
and abilities, to undertake to pry into all secrets, 
and to oe pulled up with a carnal mlud. Buiils 
that are thus soaring above the bounds and limits 
of humility, usually fall Into the very worst of 
errors. 
RESIGNATION. 
TEMPERING THING3. 
Observe the pains taken with the temperature 
of the globe. See how the earth has its shores 
cooled and bathed by the sea and air; Its surface 
so graded that the ratDs shall neither rest on It 
too long nor run off it tco speedily ; the strata are 
so Upped that the water gushes out, here ana 
there, In cool springs; the mountains and hills 
are 80 arranged that the rivers meander to and 
fro over the surface of each continent, fertilizing 
and connecting all parts; mountains rise In the 
heated tropics, cam Ing the land up into cooler 
regions, catching the sea-breeze, and compelling 
It to deposit Its burden of water In dally and 
nightly showers. Great masses of Ice at the 
poles set In motion cuirents in the ocean and at¬ 
mosphere rolling down toward the equator, and 
bringing perpetual reinforcements of cool water 
and cool air. Clouds sail to and tro—great ships 
of heaven—going about their Master’s business, 
carrying water from one part of the continent to 
tbe other; carrying algs a freight of electric fire 
rrom where It Is tc excess to where It is needed. 
So they do the work of a mercantile navy; and 
sometimes, too, they meet In battle, like ships of 
war, and we have a terrific naval engagement, 
with awrul discharges of lightning and rolling 
thunder, yet not to destroy life but to save It, 
Such pains are taken to keep the earth In good 
temper, with equal balance of hot and cold, 
moist and dry. So, too, when rhe aurora borealis 
appears in the heavens, Ills not merely to delight 
us with its beauty. Use always lies under the 
beauty, as the skeleton beneath the outward hu¬ 
man form. Those steady discharges of auroral 
light to the zenith along Innumerable conduct ing 
lines come, It Is thought, to equalize the electric 
conditions of the air. As the engine blows off its 
excess of steam, so the earth is blowing off its ex¬ 
cess of electricity, and tempering Its climate for 
human use. 
If God takes such pains to temper the climate 
of the earth on which our bodtea live, does he 
not also temper the climate for the soul 7 Let ub 
trust in his providence; let us believe that tho 
events or life, Its trials and disasters, Its varied 
experiences, come, not blindly nor by accident, 
but are sent to give tne right temper to our moral 
and spiritual nature, to fit us tor the work we 
have to do m time and eternity. 
The word temper Is applied to the manufacture 
cf steel. To temper steel exactly Is the difficult 
point, and even the cutlers themselves do not 
know how they do It; they see something in the 
look or the steel which shows them that it Is of 
the right temper. The utmost care, the most 
delicate and constant attention, are necessary in 
that ancient and wonderful process by which 
Iron Imbibes carbon and turns to steel. The 
smallest crack m the side or the furnace vitiates 
the results. Day after day the fire rages In the 
heart of the shut trough, and there the work 
goes on. So the steel gets Its proper temper, 
whether It Is to be a ruzor, a coach-spring, or a 
file. 
And docs not God take as much care to temper 
us as the steel manufacturer In Damascus or 
Sheffield takes of fits knives and sabres ? We also 
are often put Into a raging furnace, and there, 
amid the stern experiences of life, we He in the 
fire to be tempered, and go under the hammer to 
be compacted for the work we are to do in ihe 
universe. One is to be made Into a delicate Instru¬ 
ment, like a razor; another Into a hurd one, like 
a file; and each needs to be brought to a different 
temper. So, too, has our nation been tempered 
In the fire and furnace or war, and since then in 
the financial disasters of peace. Wo have gone 
under the heavy hammer blows or disaster and 
ruin. We need to bo tempered. We have been 
going Into excesses of self-love, Into liberations of 
egotism, which are destroying our national life. 
We have been Intemperate in our selMove. We 
have forgotten to worship God with reverence, to 
love man with tenderness. We need to be tem¬ 
pered again, and our great war and all the subse¬ 
quent evils have been sent to do the work.—Rea. 
James Freeman dark . 
All me! God heard my wayward, selfish cry, 
And taking pity on my blinded heart. 
He bade me the angel of strong grief draw nigh, 
Who pierced my bosom in its tenderest part. 
I drank wrath’s wine-cup to tho hitter lees. 
With strong amazement and a broken will; 
Then, humbled, straightway fell upon my knees. 
And God doth know my heart is kneeling still. 
I was not patient in the olden time. 
When my unchaetened heart began to long 
For bliss that lay beyond its reach; my prime 
Was wild, impulsive, passionate, and strong. 
Heaven-Bent, to come and nestle In my breast; 
I could not realize how time might prove 
That patient waiting would avail me best. 
“ Let me be happy now,” my heart cried out, 
’* In mine own way, aud with my chosen lot; 
The future Is too dark, and full of doubt. 
For me to tarry, amt 1 trust it not. 
Take all my blessings, all I am and have. 
But give that glimpee of heaven before the grave !’ 
I have grown patient; seeking not to choose 
Mine own blind lot, but take thut God shall send. 
In which, if what I long for I should lose, 
I know the loss will work some blessed end. 
Some better fate for mino and me than I 
Could ever compaBs underneath the sky. 
[All the Year Round. 
