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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS, 
Dear Uncle Make and Rural Cousins: 
—I have sunt my name as a Cousin, anti ought, 
therefore, to do m y share, if I am toerpeetthe 
benefits derived from that relation. How in¬ 
teresting that letter from California in the 
March 1 number, is! Lillie must have fine 
times, Summers! Our climate, this Winter, 
has been quite different from that, of Califor¬ 
nia, the thermometer going as low as 33 deg. 
below zero, and now, the first of March, it 
keeps down near zero. Our house plants have 
not frozen, however, and aie lieginning to 
repay on for our care, by budding. A bego¬ 
nia, cyclamen and primrose are in bloom now. 
I have thought of a nice plan to make money, 
aud am going to try it. In small towns where 
there is no greenhouse, there are always many 
who love flowers. My plan is this: to buy cyc¬ 
lamen seed (or of any other nice pi ant) aud grow 
the plants till they bloom, and then sell them 
in small pots for 25 or 80 cents apiece. One 
could put them in a store, and give 10 or 30 
per cent, for selling them. Please tell me, 
will cyclamen bloom when only one year old? 
Wo have found a cure for green lice (called 
aphis I believe) on rose bushes, and although 
it may have been in the Rural, 1 will repeat 
it: dip the plant in soap suds as hot as you 
can bear your hand, for a few moments; then 
wash iu clean warm water. For a large plant, 
we sprinkled it with the same solution. Wo 
have seen no lice since trying this, and that 
was several weeks ago: neither did it injure 
the plants at all. Wo bud tried snuff, and to¬ 
bacco water, but one or two lice would al¬ 
ways live through the operation. 
We caught a mink the other Right, in a steel 
trap. He was over two feet long, and was a 
beauty. He had cuught 23 of our hens, 10 
twice, and once two, getting in through a wire 
screen at the window by scratching it aw ay 
from the edges. It hardly seemed as though 
a mouse could have got through such a small 
hole. 
We expect to have a garden and flowers this 
year, as usual. 1 think flowers such a pleas¬ 
ure, would hardly know how to live without 
them, and do not thiuk it was intended for us 
to do so, or our Creator would not have scat¬ 
tered them with such profusion all over the 
earth. Good-bye for the present. I’ll try to 
write promptly in the future, whether my let¬ 
ters are always published or not. 
Affectionately your niece, 
Ringgold Co., Iowa, “auburn.” 
[If the seed is sown in the Spring, aud the 
bulbs potted iu the Fall, the plants w ill bloom 
the next Spring. It has given me great pleas¬ 
ure to read your letter, it was so neatlv writ¬ 
ten, and composed with such care. I hope to 
receive many more like it, and I thiuk the 
Cousins will enjoy reading them as much as I, 
Your plan of getting “pin money” is a worthy 
one, and I wish you much success in your en¬ 
deavor. uncle mark,] 
Dear Uncle Mark: —Does peanut culture 
belong to agriculture or horticulture? If hor- 
ticulture, 1 will give my experience to the 
Cousins. The laud on which I planted my 
peanuts was san !v loam. 1 luid off rows three 
feet apart and dug holes about three feet 
apart iu the rows, as for water melons. Iu 
these holes I put half a shovelful of manure, 
mixed with, and covered over with dirt. Ou 
this 1 planted five seeds of what we call the 
Carolina White Hull Peanut—the best kind 
for this country—and then sprinkled a little 
phosphate ou top of the hill; this was done 
about the first of April. When the plants 
came up they were thinned to three in a hill, 
and afterward the field was hoed. Nothing 
more was done uutil the plants were in bloom, 
when I added dirt to the hill ami covered over 
part of the vines. This 1 did to start more 
roots and make more nuts. When digging 
time came, which was about the middle of 
October or after the first frost, I pulled 
the Vines aud dug the nuts; then they were 
washed uud laid iu the shade to dry. The 
yield was not very heavy, as the season had 
been so dry; it did not rain enough to do any 
good from the middle of April till the first of 
August, aud my peanuts (or. as we call them 
here, goobers,) did uot do well. From a half 
peck of seed 1 got but two bushels of nuts. 
Your nephew, w. b. deckxer. 
Fulton Co., (Ja. 
[Peanuts ure a fruit, aud come under hor¬ 
ticulture. UNCLE MARK.] 
Uncle Mark: —Last Spring I planted a 
few peanuts in a pan, aud after warm weather 
came, transplanted tliern to the garden. They 
grew well, but all did not get ripe. Pa’s Shoe- 
peg Corn grew well, but did uot ripen. The 
best tliiug pa has had from the Rural is the 
White Elephant Potato. The first year he 
aised 37 pounds from one potato; the next, 
25 bushels, and last year he grew' 225 bushels 
on three-fourths of an acre. Pa made a fish¬ 
pond for carp last year on a swampy piece of 
ground covering an acre. He intended to 
bring water from a large stream, but there is 
no need of doing so, as large springs have kept 
plenty of water in it. It is seven feet deep in 
the middle, but around the edge it is shallow, 
so that water plants can grow. Pa expects to 
get fish this Spring to put into it. 
Bradford Co , Pa. truman w. gerould. 
JJnclr Mark: —I saved seed from the 
White Elphant Potatoes and planted them in 
a box the 1st of March, 1S83, and then set 
them in good garden soil. I had one-half peck 
of potatoes. A good many were as large as 
hen’s eggs, but some were very small. Most 
of them looked liked i’eaehblows. In one hill 
the potatoes were white with pink eyes, and 
in another, dark blue; doesn’t that seem 
strange' All the seeds were alike. I will 
plant the potatoes and see what they will 
come to. My report on flowers will be rather 
jjoor. Until the first of August the weather 
was too wet, and after that too dry. But I 
well try agaiu, and hope for the best. The 
Winter has been so cold and long, W’e have 
lost nearly all of our house-plants; but we 
intend to get more and try again. I wish all 
the Cousins would try a bed of mixed lark¬ 
spurs; they ure such beauties. 
Your niece, a da siiaitner. 
Washington Co., Ia. 
Uncle Mark. — I thank you very much for 
the seeds seut last Spring. I planted them in 
a box three feet long, eight inches deep, and 12 
inches wide, filled it with good dirt, and cov¬ 
ered it with an old window. This box I placed 
in a warm, sunuy place, being careful not to 
let the plants burn, and to give them sufficient 
amount, of moisture; if kept too wet, they will 
“damp off.” I had very good success with 
them. The Sweet William plants were look¬ 
ing very nicely in the Fall. 1 expect some nice 
flowers from them this Spring, We have a 
long piazza with a flower-bed in front of it. 
We drove stakes at equal distances around 
the outside of the bed, and in the stakes drove 
nails two inches apart, and ran wire from post 
to post, fastening it securely at each nail, until 
the fence was about two feet high, and then 
trained climbing vines over it. It made a 
pretty and good fence, and kept the hens out 
of the garden. We have a plum tree on the 
east side of the house, ou which we put scraps 
of meat and bread, which the little birds 
come muny times u day to eat; they are not 
the least bit afraid of us. The younger mem¬ 
bers of the family are very much amused 
with them. Yours truly, 
Yates Co , N. Y. homer orr. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—L ast year I had a 
garden 12x01) feet, from which I raised White 
China Beaus that I sold for 48 cents; onions. 
(11 cents; cabbages, 28cants; radishes, 12cents; 
lettuce, 2? cents; musk-mellous, 48 cents; Per¬ 
fection Water-melon, of which I had eleven 
fine specimens, $1.10. From the two Blush 
Potatoes, 1 raised 20 pounds, that 1 prize very 
highly. I have a nice lot of seeds that I saved 
from the choicest specimens, of which 1 would 
be pleased to give some to the Cousins. My 
little garden gave me in cash $3.29, aud I also 
had the satisfaction of giving some of its pro¬ 
ducts to ray friends. 1 want to join the 
Youths’ Horticultural Club, as I am much In¬ 
terested iu this department of the paper. My 
papa says the Youths’ Page is worth the price 
of the Rural, for the instruction it gives the 
youug. harry m. hart. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
[You have doue well. The money, which 
you got from the proceeds of your sales, was 
uot the only good you derived from your gar¬ 
dening. 1 dare say you learned much that will 
help you cultivate your garden with still 
greater success this season.— uncle mark] 
Dear Uncle Mark:— It has been a loDg 
time since 1 wrote to you. I wish to remain 
a member of the Horticultural Club. I am 14 
years old. The Blush Potato did uot yield 
well. The Shoe peg Corn grew very fast: 
some stalks were about seven feet high, but 
the frost killed it before it was ripe enough 
for seed. This year we raised the Burbank, 
Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, and the 
White Elephant. The Beauty of Hebron and 
White Elephant are very nice. Potatoes are 
very plenty, but most people’s potatoes rotted 
very badly. 
Oats were a good crop this year. Wheat 
was a poor crop. Corn and buckwheat are 
very scarce on account of the early frost, 
which nearly' spoiled them. 
Yours truly, allen k. Johnson. 
Erie Co., N. Y. 
Now that Summer is near at hand, do not 
neglect the Youths' Department. It is just 
the time when Uncle Mark has lots of room 
for the Cousins. 
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