THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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for tl)c jOouitg. 
SHORT LETTERS. 
Ten letters, from the boys aud girls, that are 
only one page long, or less than that! I have 
enjoyed them, ami 1 know some of them, 
written by the little boys aud girls, were done 
carefully, and that it took time and care bo 
get them ready to send to their Uncle, so I am 
going to make the letters all into one, and it 
will be my letter too, a partnership of eleven, 
to write one letter. 
Eula Cox writes from North Carolina: 
"Pa takes the Rural New-Yorker, aud 
I have been reading the letters from the 
little Cousins, and now ask to join your 
club. I am 11 years of age. Pa’s sun¬ 
flowers are in blcoin yet. The asters are in 
bloom ; there are two colors, pink and purple. 
We set out some strawberries on August 18, 
Pa planted his tomatoes in the Spring aud 
they are full of fruit.” 
Lydia Maxwell sends a few words to us 
from Illinois. She says, “I have been think¬ 
ing ol writing to you, but have been putting it 
off until now. My father has taken your 
paper about two years. 1 would like to tie a 
member of the Horticultural Club. We are 
very tbuukful for the seeds you sent us.” 
Grace Ellis lives iu Michigan; this is what 
she lias to tell us: "As you requested us to 
write, I am going to tell you about my Car¬ 
den Treasures that, you sent. 'There were some 
very pretty poppies and zinnias. ‘I have a bed 
of pansies; some of them are very handsome, 
and I have a good many other flowers. 1 like 
to hear from Franc and Stella March, and, 
like Stella. 1 am learning to cook. I went to 
Flint once and visited the deaf-and-dumb 
school there.” 
Alfred Stevenson writes a good letter from 
Pennsylvania, if it were only longer. We are 
glad to welcome him to the Club. He says: 
"1 would like to join the Horticultural Club. 
I am US years old. My father has taken the 
Rural for two years, and he likes it very 
much. We have a woollen factory and seme 
laud. We also have a vineyard, with 800 
young grapevines, which are very full of 
fruit. We have u quarter of au acre of the 
Early Cluster and the Gregg Black-cap Rasp¬ 
berries, and the Cuthbert red. We gathered 
05 gallons from them, I planted some peanuts 
this Spring; I think 1 will have about a bushel. 
1 will close this, with the hope that I may 
write better next time.” 
Are the peanuts grown in Pennsylvania 
large and fine# The roasting and eating of 
them will be great fun; but Pm afraid, with a 
whole bushel, you will be tempted to eat too 
many at one time. 
Laura Godfrey, from Dakota, sends a neat 
letter. This is what she tells us of things 
grown out there: 
"This is the third letter I have written to 
you. 1 saw one of my letters in print—the 
first oue 1 wrote; but I guess the last one went 
to the dreadful waste basket. 
Last year our salsify seeded the first year, 
and we planted the seed this year, and they 
are not going to seed. Why don’t they go to 
seed ■ I will send you some watermelon seed; 
my grandpa got the seed about 80 years ago. 
When he first got them they were no larger 
than an apple seed. 1 received the flower 
seed you sent me. I did not give them euough 
room, and a good many of them died after 
they came up. I had some very pretty rose 
moss. We had a large flower garden this year.” 
The salsify that made seed must have grown 
from roots; for it is a biennial—a plant that 
stores up food all one Summer for use the next 
year iu making seed; roots intended for grow¬ 
ing seed can l>e left in the ground all Winter 
where they grew, and they will make 3eed in 
the Bpring. 
Fannie Godfrey doesn’t toll us where 
she lives. I will enter her name on the 
Club book when I find out where she lives. 
There is good soil in her garden, wherever it 
may be, so 1 judge it is not in the moon. Bhe 
writes: 
"I want to be a member of your Club. I 
am 10 years old. I have a brother aud a little 
sister younger than myself. My papa takes 
five newspaper*, and likes the Rural the best. 
My sister has a sensitive plant: it is iu bloom, 
uud has a little pink blossom. Uncle Mark, 
how old are you # 1 raised a little garden. I 
planted beans, peas, lettuce, spinach, mustard 
and radishes, I will close, hoping to see this 
iu print.” 
How old am I# Well Fannie I don’t think 
you would get rich very fast pulling gray hairs 
out of my head, even if 1 paid you five cents 
for each one. 
Emma Beshoar is an Illinois girl. She 
writes: "1 would like to join the Horticultural 
Club. I like to read the letters from the 
Cousins very much; I think they are very in¬ 
teresting. I am raising cucumbers this Sum¬ 
mer. I planted them in a barrel where the 
water runs, and it is pretty wet. I then put 
brush out from the barrel for the cucumbers 
to run on.” 
Did you have more cucumbers from the 
vine in the barrel than you would from one 
grown on the ground? It must have looked 
pretty, grown in that way. 
Mary Pierson lives in Illinois: sheaakshow 
to raise canaries and the name of the large 
black seed among the Garden Treasures. 
Read the article, Mary, Oti page fill of the 
Rural for Sept. Hi, and you will get a few 
hints about canaries. The big. black seed 
among the Garden Treasures remains a mys¬ 
tery. Can you send a flower, leaf, and seed 
from the plant# I think I could find out its 
name for you if I had those. We will count 
you as one of u* in the Club. 
Stella Woodard is a New York girl, and 
writes: "We have a sunflower with 30 blos¬ 
soms. I send you u flower for the name, can 
you please tell me what it is?” I’m very sorry 
but I lost the flower from your letter, so can¬ 
not tell you what it is The sunflower must be 
gorgeous. Have you watched it. to see wheth¬ 
er the blossoms turn toward the sun all the 
time? Do they look toward the East in the 
morning uud toward the West at night ? 
Geo. H. Mack, sends a letter from Wiscon¬ 
sin; he writes: * * I would like to join the \ outh’s 
Horticultural Club. 1 am striving to get an 
education. I am ten years old.” 
I think you can get part of your education 
right here in our Club; we are all striving for 
education and we can all help each other in 
the Club. I learn many things from your let¬ 
ters, and von can learn from each other. Oar 
partnership letter is quite long, isn’t it? and 
part was written in North Carolina, in Mich 
igan, Pennsylvania, Dakota, Illinois, New 
York and Wisconsin. There must, be many 
thingsyou might have told us about your dif¬ 
ferent homes, and we could have had ten let¬ 
ters instead of one. I will sign our letter 
UNCLE MARK AND COUSINS. 
LETTERS FROM COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I ought to have writ¬ 
ten to you some time ago to thank you for 
the flower seed you sent my brothers and me, 
but with my lessons and helping mamma 
about the sewing and housekeeping 1 am kept 
busy. We sowed the seed about the 10th of 
April; some in boxes, and some in beds. They 
came up well, and we transplanted them as 
soon as they were large enough. They have 
bloomed freely, and afforded us much enjoy¬ 
ment Some are new to us, others are old 
favorites. I notice that petunias aud all the 
varieties of diauthus withstand drought bet¬ 
ter than anythiug else. Sweet alyssum burns 
up after a few days of hot, dry weather. Our 
soil is gray and very light. 
We have been using a Keystone washer 
and wringer for eight months, and I wish 
Aunt Beth could see some of the nice, white 
dresses that 1 iron after they have boon 
through the washer. Ask her not to forget 
her promise to write something for the girls 
soon. Papa ordered a Davis Rwing Churn, 
which we received last week. 1 did not know 
that churniug could be made so easy until l 
used it. My sister 11 years old eburus. 
Every oue who saw uud ate our Carter 
Watermelons tins year pronounced them ex¬ 
cellent; they were very large, the riud about 
oue half an inch thick and the flesh fine aud 
very sweet The Rural tomatoes are very 
fine. We had one striped with crimson and 
yellow, which 1 saved for seed. Let me thank 
you for telling us how to save tomato and 
cucumber seed. I have to save a great many, 
os Papa raises tomatoes for market. My 
second sister, Rallie, aud 1 gathered dew¬ 
berries last Spring for mamma to cau. We 
always help seed the cherries and peel the 
fruit for cunning and preserving. 
We like the Rural better every year, and 
think it improves constantly. 
Your niece, anna. s. daniel. 
Prince Edward Co., Va. 
[Sister Beth is writing something for the 
girls; she is interested in all your letters and 
will not forget you. uncle mark.] 
seeds and they came up nirely. After they 
were transplanted out-doors the chickens 
scratched up a good many. There were zin¬ 
nias, lady slippers, featherfews, and others. 
I planted radishes, lettuce, beets, etc. They 
all came up nicely, and we had plenty to eat. 
I also planted cucumbers for pickles, and have 
just begun picking them I have only about 
a dozen hills; the rest did nor, corrio up: but 
what did come up are growing splendidly. I 
was very much Interested in your article in 
the Youth’s Department about collecting seeds. 
I have already begun to collect some of mine. 
Your nelce, bessie c. Underhill. 
Dear Uncle Mark :—We take your paper 
and we like it very much. I read the letters 
from the Cousins every week, and not seeing 
any letters from this county, I have decided 
to ask permission to join the Society. I am 13 
years old, I live in the country. We have 
150 acres of laud, I milk two cows every 
night and morning. Many thanks for the 
flower seeds you sent us; but it was too dry 
for them to grow. We sowed the Black Cham¬ 
pion Gats aud the Rural peav: both did extra 
well—the peas especially, which were loaded 
very heavily. Yours truly, 
Bruce Co., Can. THOR. K. casket. 
[You are welcome as a member of our Club, 
but I cannot enter your name among the 
Cousins until you send your j»ost office address. 
UNCLE MARK.] 
Uncle Mark:—1 would have written to 
you before, but we have all been sick 
with the measles, and mu had them too, so I 
had all tho work to do. My flowers came up 
nicely, and they were very pretty; we have a 
very nice flower garden; we have saved a 
great many seeds, and we are going to have a 
larger garden next year. There has only one 
pansy blossomed yet and that is yellow, it is 
very pretty; we have a great iliany kinds of 
flowers. 
I ha ve a canary bird, and we caught a little 
wild canary and put it in with her, and she 
feeds it as if it were her own. My brother and 
I have a garden, we have beans aud we are 
going to sell them. I am taking music and 
singing lessons. 1 am a temperance girl 13 
yeareold; there are about 50 belong to the 
Band of Hope. We have had two concerts; 
we have badges and caps. I hoj»e all the Ru¬ 
ral cousins cau say they belong t,o some tem¬ 
perance society. dora m. Barnard. 
Lake Co , Ill. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I received the seeds 
which you sent me, aud I want to thank you 
for them. 1 have a very pretty flower garden. 
I have a large dog; his name is Don, he is a 
good dog. I have a rabbit, I call him Bunny 
Bell. 1 have three little Maltose kittens. My 
father is a farmer and takes the Rural; I 
like to read the letters from the Rural Cous¬ 
ins. We live near Fox Lake and Grass Lake, 
where a good mauy people from all over the 
world come to spend the Rummer: many of 
them go huotiug, and go fishing on the lakes. 
I belong to the Band of Hope. 
I am a temperance boy. Just eight years old, 
And 1 love temperance better than gold: 
I’ll taste not, touch not, handle not the wine, 
For every little hoy, the temperance pledge should 
sign. 
Don’t you think so Uncle Mark# From 
Lake Co , IU. guy c. Barnard. 
[Dora and Guy are making a right start, 
we want a strong army of temperance boys 
and girls in our country. uncle mark.] 
gtU.sccUaneimjs ^dvertiMttg. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— It has been a long 
time since I have written, so l thought I would 
try and write a little. We had a cucumber 
that weighed two pounds, and a radish that 
weighed 'i% pouads. We had a mess of to¬ 
matoes August 6. I have some tomatoes, 
onions and parsnips iu uiy garden. I thank 
you very much for the flower seeds that you 
sent me. We have a nice bed of flowers all 
mixed. I wish you would put your picture in 
the Rural. Wo have got some nice colts; if 
you came out here you could see them. I guess 
I wiU stop. From your niece. 
Union Co., Iowa. etta child. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I will tell you about 
my garden this year. I planted the Rural 
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