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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. MAR 7 
for ti)e T)oim 0 . 
A CALIFORNIA COUSIN’S HOME. 
LILLIE WILSON. 
hen I wrote to you 
last Spring, we lived 
in the Valley in Tu¬ 
lare Co., Cal. but we 
have beeD compelled 
to move to tbe 
mountains on ac¬ 
count of ray papa's 
health. We have 
only been here a 
week, and it seems 
very odd, to live 
with mountains on 
all sides of us; they 
do look so lovely; 
on the south and 
west, they are covered with Live Oak, Manza- 
nita.and other trees and shrubs, all of different 
shades of green, and under all, is a nice car¬ 
pet of green erass. Oh, such large rocks as 
there are of every shape almost!—some looking 
as if laid together by the hand of man, others 
as if thrown out by a volcano. On the north 
is whatis called Bald Mountain, because there 
are so few trees on it. and the vegetation is 
not so abundant as where there are more 
trees. To the east, over a low range of moun¬ 
tains, can be seen Pine Ridge, covered with 
stately pines, and. farther back, a mountain 
covered with snow. It is a dazzling sight, for 
the suu is shining bright; and down in a little 
valley between the hills is my present home. 
I can surely tell the Cousins of the wild 
flowers this Spring, for I shall oe on the look¬ 
out for every one I can find. I did not write as 
I promised before, for the reason that we did 
not take our trip to the mountains until Sep 
ternber, and then the flowers were nearly all 
gone. Uncle Mark, the seeds you sent did 
nicely. 1 bad such a big bed of them, and 
have saved lots of seed for this year, and hope 
to have a flue display of flowers. We have two 
seedling geraniums in bloom—one pink, and 
the other red, both single. We had several 
more budded, but tbe plants all had to be 
taken out of their pots aud packed in boxes 
for tbeir 60-mile ride, so we had to cut them 
back considerably, and will not have any blos¬ 
soms for some time. We brought over 200 
plants, and I do not think we will lose any of 
them, except some coleuses—they are so ten¬ 
der. 
I wonder how many of the Cousins have a 
collection of cacti. We have nearly 50 varie¬ 
ties, some of them very pretty and some hor¬ 
ridly ugly. Let me tell you of some:—First 
on the list stands a night-blooming ODe from 
Florida, said to climb to the Pip of the tallest 
trees and to have white flowers a foot in di¬ 
ameter; it has no thorns, and is as lovely as a 
plant can well be. Another, also a night- 
bloomer, has long, flat leaves; we have several 
more night - bloomers, some with square 
leaves, some tbree-coruered, and others 
round, and one creeping one that looks like a 
snake, for we have it coiled around a stick, 
set m the middle of the pot. We have one 
called the Running Jayhawker from Texas; 
get near it, and you will think it well named, 
for its spines are over an inch aud a-liaJf long. 
This is not a Night-blooming Cereus. We 
have also a pretty one, just the shape of a 
melon, aud called the Melon Cactus. This lias 
five branches, or leaves, no two alike—it’s the 
oddest one in the whole lot. The Lace Cactus 
is very pretty to look at. An ugly thing, 
with curved spines, five in a place, is called 
the Devil’s Pincushion; auother, with branch¬ 
es like a stnaU tree, has just enough spines to 
induce people to let it alone. 
Let me say to the Cousins that they need 
not stay east of tbe Rocky Mountains in order 
to have nuts, as Mrs. Fisher tells them; they 
can come to California; we raise California 
walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, and peanuts in 
the valley, and we are going to try them up 
here. We have some black walnut trees at tbe 
valley home, the seed of which came from 
Iowa; but the trees are small yet, so I do not 
know whether they will bear or not. We tried 
butternuts aud shellbarks, but they were a 
failure. 
-♦-*-•♦-- 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—H ave you got any 
little girl just three years old in the Club? 
My Mamma read some letters to me to-day; 
she tried so bard to keep me still from waking 
the baby that she was most wore out, so she 
said she would read some, and I liked that 
little girl what had the calf. 
My Mamma said 1 couldn’t come in the 
Club ’less that 1 had a garden, so my Papa 
said he would get me a little hoe from the 
city, and I told my Mamma what I wanted to 
grow. 1 want to grow onions and morning 
glories! I can’t hoe very much, because I’m 
so little, but I’ve got a little maid, Norah, aud 
she can borrow my Mamma’s hoe. I’ll show 
Norah how to make a garden. My hand is 
tired aud my Mamma’s tired. Wo wrote this 
together; I’m holding her “fum' 1 (thumb), be¬ 
cause she couldn’t get on at all holding my 
hand. Please send me some seeds—onions and 
morning glories. Your little niece, 
SALLIE PALMER GRIMES. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— Will you not be good 
natured enough to add to your number a 
lonely little girl who very seldom has any¬ 
thing to amuse her ? 'It’s true she is only a tot 
of a thing of three, but she has a goodly stock 
of energy aud enthusiasm, and she has gone 
into this matter with earnestness aud purpose. 
She importunes for her garden out-of doors 
and solaces herself just at present with a box 
on the gallery, in which she plants everything 
she can get hold of, from a peach stone aud 
orange seeds down to cypress viues. 
This letter was her own idea and mostly 
her own words, mistakes aud all, aud she 
talks about “Uncle Mark” as if she had known 
him all her life instead of hearing of him for 
the first time yesterday, so I venture to send 
tbe dear baby’s letter. Yours truly, 
Rapides Parish, La. MRS. T. L. grimes. 
(The dear little girl is very welcome, in¬ 
deed, and we are all glad that her mamma 
helped her write us such -a nice little letter. 
You shall have some seeds for your garden, 
little girl, and we will look for auother letter 
from you in the Summer, telling us all about 
it.— UNCLE MARK ] 
Dear Uncle Mark:—As I am interested 
in flowers and vegetables, I would like to join 
the Y. H. C. I am 13 years old; I go to school 
10 mouths in a year. You see I do not have 
much time for gardening—only mornings and 
afternoons before and after school, and part 
of that time I help to take care of the chickens 
aud turkeys. My grandma cares for the poul¬ 
try; she was taken sick when our turkeys 
were like quails, aud then I had to care for 
them. She had about 70 growing nicely and 
they were taken sick and I saved 38 of the 
flock and cared for them myself. My grand¬ 
ma always liked to work in the flower garden 
and I have worked with her ever since I was 
large enough to do anything; it has given me a 
taste for flowers, and I also like to work in the 
vegetable garden. She has a large bay 
window and it is filled with very nice plants. 
She has a very large cactus five feet high and 
four feet wide as it stands. 
1 have two canary birds; one is named 
Chicky and tbe other Cherry; and they are 
great singers, when I practice mv music, they 
chirp and sing with me. Next Summer I ex¬ 
pect to bunch asparagus. Pa has a large bed; 
we raise it for market; it is very fine and con¬ 
sidered the best on the Island. 1 will dose 
with much love to you and the Cousins. 
Queens Co., L. I. annie m. hall. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I have been thinking 
about writing to you for a long time, but do 
not have much time. I am 16 years old, my 
father died a year ago last Fall. He took 
your paper for many years and I have con¬ 
tinued to take it; I like it very much. I do a 
good part of the work on a farm of 20 acres. 
We have three cows, and a calf that we are 
raising, and two horses; we have ft full blood 
Devon cow that I think a great deal of. We 
raise a great many strawberries, raspberries, 
currants, peaches, pears and grapeB, besides 
corn, potatoes,onions,tomatoes, asparagus aud 
cucumbers. I have made nearly 18 barrels 
of cucumber pickles this Winter. We have a 
good many hens, and three good Bized hen¬ 
houses, two of which I built myself. Our 
hens are white and brown Leghorns, we raise 
eggs entirely to sell. One of ibe neighbors 
bas urged me to buy some full blood brown 
Leghorns at $1 apiece and breed pure blood 
fowls; do you think it would pay? I tuke 
care of a school house during the Winter, be¬ 
sides making my pickles, and doing farm 
work which keeps me pretty busy. I must say 
good-by now, as my letter is already long. 
Your affectionate nephew, 
Hartford Co., Conn. n. a. giddings. 
(If vonr bens are kept for eggs only, the 
white, and brown, are just as good as the 
brown alone. You are making the Winter 
pay as well as the Summer 1 see, that is oue 
secret of success on the farm.— Uncle Mark ] 
Dear Uncle Mark;— 1 am a little girl 
eight years old. I have been sick for a long 
time. I don’t go to school; ma doesn’t let me 
study much because it hurts me to bend over. 
1 have a flower bed of my own. Last Summer 
we planted tbe Rural seeds; they all came up, 
they were very pretty when they were in 
bloom. We have some bouse plants, and two 
nice lemon trees. My father takes the Rural 
New-Yorker and the Tribune, and ma takes 
the Bes Journal. When I go to school I 
study arithmetic, spelling, writing, and 
the Fourth Reader. 1 have a sister living in 
California, and she sent us a box of New 
Year’s presents, and among them were three 
pauipas plumes. We have three little canary 
birds, two singers and one female. 
Yours sincerely, Ellen Jackson. 
Keokuk Co., Iowa. 
[We hope you will get well and strong soon. 
The pampas plumes that grow in California 
are very fine indeed — Uncle Mark.] 
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