THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.44 
for !l)c 1 )ouit 0 . 
HORTICULTURE IN-DOORS. 
BY ELKCTRA. 
Being a member of the Light family, 
I was once the observer of a scene that will 
perhaps interest the cousins as they have read 
letters above the signatures of these young¬ 
sters. Will-o' the Wisp the oldest of the boys 
is now the father of three beautiful little girls 
on a far-away ide of the Pacific Ocean. Let¬ 
ters and shells often come tome. During the 
Christmas holidays a letter came bearing 
the picture of two of his girls. Oh ! the dear 
little round faces with the dark eyes and hair, 
and plump cheeks and chins ! So cunning and 
cute ! 
It was a rainy, dismal day, some years ago 
when pent up boj -nature seeks a vent, that, 
seated in the fann y room I witnessed the fol¬ 
lowing occurrence. 
“ Do come to the window, Will, and see what 
sort of a.Spanish stiletto this is punching up 
through the e»rth iu this pot,” said Fox fire 
as he stood with his nose 11 ittened against the 
rain-spattered window-pane. 
Oh ! the Devil’s Darn-needle;” said Will 
looking up frightened from a piece of wood 
that he was industriously whittling, with 
tongue out bet ween h s teeth upon one side of 
his mouth. 
“ Lem me see” said little Glow worm, sud¬ 
denly plucking it out of Ibe earth, and turning 
a long tap-root up to the scrutiny of his 
blazing little eyes. “It’s a long coffee.” 
“Pshaw !” Bellowed Jaek.o’-Laatem, in a 
voice so terrible that Glow-worm jumped, 
“What did you pull it up for you meddle¬ 
some little wriggler? You see it is a date 
seed that I stuck into that pot two weeks ago, 
and now you've killed it as dead* as Hector.’ 
Hereupon he seized Glow-worm who began to 
twist and glow with wrath and determina 
tion to hold on to the plant that Jack was 
trying to rescue. This scuffle brought in their 
mother Phnsphora who finding out the state 
of affairs undertook to pacify all parties. She 
examined the sprouted date seed and said, 
“ Oh I this is not hurt, it will still grow if 
potted in sand and kept warm, Besides I 
have two pounds of dates, raisins, some 
oranges, lemons and pine-apples for Christ 
mas goodies ; and if each of you will save the 
seeds and plant them in moist sandy loam as 
soon as you eat the fruit, each of you may 
have some little tropical fruit trees growing. 
I find Jack has something of my disposition 
to experiment, and I shall give him the seeds 
from my raisins when I stone them for fruit¬ 
cake. He may raise some rare and foreign 
grape-vines. I have frequently had them to 
sprout, so also many of the seeds and nuts sold 
as confections ; these w ith proper care might 
have made some very fair green-house plants, 
1 even carried this disposition of economy and 
experiment into the more common fruits, and 
to more profit as I can prove. Do you know 
what Will has always called that fine young 
Buckeye tree upon whicti you sw ing, little 
Firefly ?” 
“Tom" bubbled up friskily little Firefly. 
“ Yes I picked up that Buckeye at Monticello, 
the home of Thomas Jefferson—and planted 
it in a pot. You see the result.” 
Here Mrs. Phosphora arose and pulled out the 
bureau drawer, from which she took two wal 
nuts ;here too a re the first walnuts that my Jef¬ 
ferson tree has borne. Now little Firefly as you 
and Glow worm are too impatient to wait for 
hidden seeds to sprout, you shall have the 
tufts from the pine apples. They soon take 
root a id grow like u century plant. Will is 
old enough to confine himself to pears, apples 
and peaches. 
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YOUNG QUERIST. 
C. L., North fjinn dale, O., says on s of the 
cows he milks gives bloody milk, and some¬ 
times she doesn’t [give down. He warns to 
know what is the matter. 
A ns —Bloody milk generally is caused by 
some injury to the udder. We have known 
“naughty boys ” to throw stones at cows and 
hit the it on the udder, when bloody milk is 
pretty sure to follow. The best way to treat 
a cow that “ won’t give down” is with kind¬ 
ness, and keep milking. It is quite painful 
for a cow to withhold her milk and- she will 
give down after a time. We would refer C. 
L. to an article in another column, entitled 
the “ Daily Cow,” which w ill give him infor¬ 
mation on this point. 
Annie C., Doylestoivn, O., has some seedling 
Gladioli bulbs, and usks if they should be 
kept in sand this Winter 
Ans - When the plants are about two inches 
high they may be repotted. When they be¬ 
gin to grow yellow in the Fall, the pots should 
be taken up and put in a warm place, letting 
the earth remain on the roots through the 
Winter. They may be planted out in May’ 
and should flower some the third year. 
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New Members of the Club for Week 
Ending Feb. 4. 
Minnie Coninne, P. E, Hufftuann, Ivy Gar¬ 
dener, Sarah McDonald, Katie McDonald, 
Clinton Keeler, Thom >sTreville, Alonzo Good¬ 
man, Henry LocJcwood, Chester Lockwood, 
Charley H. Griswold, Allte Mast, Ada L. 
Skelton, Martha Hill, Ferro Sweely, George 
Butcher, Dora Bird, Gracie Conrad, Claude 
Conrad, George Heck, Walter Hall, Minnie 
Frost, David Frost, Bessie Cowan, Frank 
Blodgett, Lucy M. Smith, Frank S. Lyon, 
Herbert Alford, George A. Haughton, Bessie 
Finley, Frank McCormick, Mary McCormick, 
Alice S. Johnson, Retta Connett, George 
Mudge, Maggie Salisbury, Mary Bryant, 
George Bryant, John Deland, Henry Deland, 
Mamie Bubar, Thomas Bubar, Fred W. 
Clement. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear UnCle Mark: — 1 have been wanting 
to send you a letter for a long time but have 
been t o busy. We have b en husking corn 
several weeks. Corn husking is later than 
usual, because it rained here for twelve weeks 
almost all the time, and the ground was too 
wet to get the horses in the fields. Most of 
the flax got so wet it was either left in the 
field or spoiled in the stacks. Our White Ele¬ 
phant Potatoosdid first rate; they did not have 
very good attention because there was so much 
else to do, still we got <30 pounds from two 
small potatoes with twenty six eyes. Pa says 
the potatoes more than pay the Rural sub¬ 
scription. The pinks were very nice though 
they were hurt by draught the first of Sum¬ 
mer. We couldn’t get any seeds from them. 
Hope to do better next time. I am going to 
have a garden of my own next Summer, and 
hope you won’t forget me in your seed distri¬ 
bution. I would like to see a real good melon 
once more. Our asparagus is fine. Pa wants 
to alwaystake the Rural. I will write again 
and tell how the seeds do. Your nephew, 
Brush Creek, Iowa. Eddie C. Becker. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I will tell you what 
I have been doing for the year. The latter 
part of the Summer was very dry; sodry that 
corn as well as other things parched in the 
fields. I planted a small patch of potatoes in 
the Spring and if they had not been planted 
on a low field of ground I would not have had 
any potatoes; as it was there was a fair crop. 
The patch was about GO feet square and I 
made over six dollars from that aloue. My 
beans did well for the season, but they were 
planted too late and the hot weather ripened 
the vines before they were through flowering. 
1 had a few very handsome carnations from 
the Rural seeds last Bummer, and have many 
more plants that will make a fine show next 
year. The celery nud Rod-bud seeds never 
came up, but don’t know why they did not. 
I think the Club is getting along nicely and I 
like the Discussions very much. 
Purple Cane, Neb. WM. J. Mason. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I write to let you 
know that I wish to become a member of the 
Horticultural Club. I am a little boy of 11 
years of age and I live in the country with my 
uncle. I think it is much better than the city. 
Last Summer I worked a small garden which 
my uncle gave me, and if I receive any seeds 
I will do the best I can to cultivate them. I 
have two pet colts; I can go around them and 
they will not hurt me. Their names are Dandy 
and Lightfoot. My uncle takes the Rural 
and I like to read the letters and discussions 
by the cousins. Your nephew, 
Westwood, N.J. R. H. Yates. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —This is my second 
attempt fo write, as my other letter reached 
the waste basket. I thought it must have been 
too long to print so I will try and be as brief 
as possible, although I am not afraid of the 
waste basket. The drought visited us the same 
as every w here else, but the Elephants stood it 
very well as we got a peck of good sized pota¬ 
toes. The oats were badly rusted, but the 
sorghum did not make its appearance at all. 
The Dianthus flowers were as beautiful as any 
thing 1 could wish for, varying iu color from 
the deepest crimson to pure white. Y our niece, 
Clarance Center, N.Y. “Princess.” 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I am a little girl 14 
years old. I wrote to you two years ago. My 
papa has taken the Rural New Yorker for 
two years, and he likes it better than any 
paper h has ever taken. I like to read the 
children’s letters very much, and Mary Wa¬ 
ger-Fisher’s writings. 1 am a lover of flow¬ 
ers. We have a pit nearly full of geraniums, 
fuchsias, oleanders and muny others. We live 
on a farm 11 miles from Knoxville. We thank 
you very much for the seeds you sent us this 
year. The oats did not do well. Your niece, 
Church Grove, Tenn. Ida A. Clapp, 
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