THE RUM!. HEW-TORKER. 
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the Coast Belt of Georgia, South Carolina 
Louisiana and th6 orange zone of Florida, 
from planting thePeen To with any assured 
expectation of gathering its fruits, as it is not 
adapted to any locality outside those named. 
As a variety for growing in tubs and or¬ 
chard hous°s, it deserves some attention. 
Augusta, Ga. 
one of the necessary food elements, and health 
demands that the food contains a goodly pro¬ 
portion of some variety of sugars. The sugars 
in the market are so largely adulterated, that 
they are not always safe a 3 a diet. Honey, if 
procured direct from the producer, is pure, 
wholesome, and one of the most desirable 
sweets that it is possible to get. Comb honey 
in the market is always safe, as is also ex¬ 
tracted if granulated, or in pails or jars with 
the name of some bee-keeper on them. It is 
only dangerous to buy honey that is put up in 
some glass jar with a neatly embellished label 
of some, usually a wholesale, groceryman on 
it. Careful observation and inquiry have 
convinced me that such men are the exclusive 
and their implements and methods of manip¬ 
ulation. 
Last year this style of exhibition was inau¬ 
gurated for the first time in America. The 
success was beyond ail expectation. At To¬ 
ronto, Ontario, the show was the very center 
of attraction at that great exhibition. Single 
bee-keepers sold thousands of pounds of honey, 
and stimulated a demand for honey, that can 
never lose its influence. 
This year several of the Executive Commit¬ 
tees of our State and District Fair Associa¬ 
tions have raised their premiums, promised 
separate buildings so arranged as to permit 
an exhibition of the manipulation of the bees, 
and offered every inducement to call out the 
r bee-keepers en masse. 
If these exhibitions 
are not excellent, the 
bee - keepers will be 
alone to blame. The 
enterprise of the bee¬ 
keepers leaves little 
•room for anxiety on 
this point. 
WHAT SOCIETIES 
SHOULD OFFER. 
j First, the premiums 
j should be much larger. 
range 
oblivious to the changes some of us are seek¬ 
ing here in all that concerns the flower garden 
and the natural embellishment of our homes 
in an artistic manner; therefore, perhaps, a 
few words on certain points in this matter 
may not be amiss. 
The use of the words '‘natural” and “artis¬ 
tic” amounts to about the same thing. The 
object i 3 , in my case, to get gardening into a 
line with art; at present it is notoriously the 
other way. Some time ago an artist well 
known, remarked to a friend of mine: “It is a 
curious thing, you can never get anything to 
paint in a garden except, perchance, a 
pig-stv, or perhaps some half-hidden cor¬ 
ner, where something is allowed to have its 
own way and garland a wall or a hedge with 
beauty.” This hits off the truth prettv well. 
French Prunes in California 
Mr. Luther Burbank, the famous origina¬ 
tor of the Burbank potato, is growing sixteen 
thousand prune trees of the Petite d’ Agon 
variety at his nursery hero for Mr. Wariv-n 
Dutton, our neighbor. They will be trans¬ 
planted next Fall to his ranche located in the 
valley. It has been found that heavy soils 
are the best adapted, north of the Bay of 
San Francisco, for prunes and pears. 
Growing the French prune here is eminently 
successful, especially when set on the almond. 
Nurserymen have not been able to fill orders 
and are raising all they can. The writer’s e x- 
perience can be narrated in a few words, and 
may be of some interest to your readers in 
California. 1 he tree is a rapid grower; 
healthy, free from insect pests (is yet), and a 
heavy bearer. When the fruit, which is small, 
is ripe, It matters little how or when gathered, 
or whether githered at all for several weeks,’ 
It dries on the tree and on the ground about 
as well as anywhere else. Sun-drying a 
few days is all that is required to make them 
the equal of the Turkish prune of commerce. 
No sugar is needed in cooking them. They 
should not be permitted to bear until at least 
five years old, as the first requisite is wood. 
Santa Rosa, Cal. J. B. Armstrong. 
metrical art—the horror of the artist or of 
anybody who cares for nature. My belief 
has long been, and I have \ 
tried to illustrate it in many \ 
ways, that the idea from \ / 
beginning to end of the \ / / 
flower-gardening art is a \}jL , / 
mistake. The poor kind at \ jm\ Ju 
geometry which men fix on ({5K|w» 
tor gardens is merely an ana- M > 
logue of the kind of thing I 
saw on a blanket of a Paw- 
nee somewhere crossing the iU; / rijy 
Plains—certain red geometri- .11 
cal marks expressed elo- 
quently enough that gentle- M 
man’s idea of art. If gar. 
dening merely concerned a j 
set of pigments which had to v % 
be arranged together to pro- L 
duce an effect more or less 
harmonious in color, it 
wouldn’t matter much. But u 
the sad fact is, that the gar- / VF 
den pretends to be the con- Y JnL 
serv^tory of nature herself! dk 
We are dealing not with pig- 
ments or shells or dead mat- 
ter, but with the fairest 
children of nature culled for /'ft ■ 
their beauty from a thou- 
sand hills and valleys in the 
northern and temperate 
Happy are we in such ma- 
terials, had it not been that 
the influence of 
MmB / They 8hould ] 
\wflilS/ i / from ?l to * 20 - To 
bees a Fair is 
MU j I no small task, and is 
\ III!/ / an in jury to the bees. 
\VK\f! It \ The rewards there- 
IR A 1 fore should be large. 
\ V(ffi 111 II I There should be a sep- 
\IiwS hA I I / arate building for the 
IwHwU'J / I 1 / exhibition, which 
Vv mu™I // r should be filled with 
\\viiufli'// ’il I tons of honey put up 
.V. vWyjHJl// | / in the very best style 
AVroSHil /I /// known to the art. A 
X V HWi / A small room on one 
Y\ 1 iV/f / Hi 8 * de the building 
V wH I'f f I // shouId h® shut off by 
l A Mm // netting so the bees 
\ 1 IWhIjIm/ / / could be manipulated 
A || mil ]l > each day with no dan- 
V V t j j ger of any one being 
villi f HI j / m / stung. The bees could 
Mil ill III/ / be so arranged as to 
\liW wmlll / 1 fl y° Qtofa side of the 
fMjj / , building where no one 
\\ xmmtimi/ / would P ass - in this 
\\ j/i w ay any one and all 
V \udirW mr !// could see how easy it 
Vi Wifi jjfjfll/J Is to handle bees and 
W Wwnf il// receive no hurt. All 
\ wil iwiffjf / who bring honey should 
\ M / be allowed to sell, on 
\ 13] Wnl the conditions that the 
I \ nfij U show was not injured 
\ MSlifr / thereby. This would 
\ \J lllir / a ^ d to pay expenses 
\ i vlyl / and would do more 
) than any one thing to 
develop the honey mar- 
(wh I rules for exhibi- 
11 jin' First, bee-men should 
turn out and fill the 
’wuj building wiih honey 
tey put up so as to sell to 
the best advantage. 
The important matter 
of grading should be 
illustrated as fully as 
possible. Crates and 
all other valuable fix¬ 
tures should be shown. 
] Bees should be brought 
and handled at stated 
L—Flo. 269 .—From Like. ^ ^ The 
books and papers 
should be put ou exhibition. Honey should 
be brought in small tin boxes for retail among 
the children. In this way apiculture can be 
advanced as in no other way. Let us see 
what Society shall be worthy to take the first 
prize for its excellent exhibitions! 
Michigan Ag. Coll. 
mrxim 
BEE-KE2PING AND FAIRS, 
PROFESSOR A. J. COOK. 
a miserable 
art has prevented us from en- vjjTj 
joying them in any full and |8| 
quiet end beautiful sense. It 
was perhaps natural enough || 
that when man first began 
to think of a garden, he being l 11 
in a state of nature where 
everything was wild, rugged \ 1 
and informal about him, |l 
should have recognized some \§^ 
beauty in formalities, some- Fig. 271 
thing admirable in a straight line end some¬ 
thing very clever In laying down a str.'es of 
geometrical knots and crinkum crankums on 
the rugged earth. We have long ago passed 
that stage, and yet any one who observes the 
great gardens, public or private, of the world 
may see that this doleful art has still posset 
sion of men’s minds, and must be utterly de¬ 
stroyed. 
It is only a few years since I came to Lon- 
g)n and found them laying out the Royal 
Horticultural Gardens at S. uth Kensington 
as the latest development of horticultural art 
the whole thing being like a clever pocket 
handkerchief or piece of an Indian shawl! To 
show the base idea at the bottom of it, it is 
merely necessary to say that a number of par¬ 
terres were laid cut in peundtd brick and 
slate, and thus in place of the leading idea, 
the true way of impressing the beauty of na- 
ture by plant or flower or tree or grass, we 
had the opposite brutal notion of leveling 
nature down to the grade of the muddler in 
colors. The so-eallt d landscape gardener, dis- 
satistied with the materials and their change- 
fulness and life and levelness, said, “Get me a 
lot of pounded brick and slate ami I will give 
you something you have never seen the like 
of. Happily no human being ever found 
pleasure in the same garden, which has indeed 
been a miserable failure from beginning to 
end But it is not this alone. In every coun¬ 
try I have seen the central flower-garden idea 
f geometry, straight lines, hard outlines be- 
fore and instead of the quiet, stately,indefinite, 
illimitable beauty and variety ot the true gar¬ 
den. In Vienna, Berlin, Paris, some of the 
most famous gardens are carried out cu this 
principle, a:.d the influence of such gardens 
has so far permeated ail others that every 
amateur sets out his flowers as a paper-hanger 
would—or a man laying down tiles. 
Too Small Beds. —Most gardening books 
published up to the present time ahound with 
miserable patterns of beds-auall, complicated 
Seven subscriptions with $14 will entitle 
the sender to the Rural New-Yorker for 
one year free. 
culture a most attractive, ii 
healthful avocation. Such h 
ceived benefit, but have been 
most to advance the inters: 
ijortmtltiu-al 
THE WAY ONWARDS, 
