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white grape in cultivation. It is late in 
ripening and in unfavorable seasons has rotted 
badly, but the foliage has not been injured 
by mildew. The Niagara is unquestionably 
a grand grape in very many sections. Pock- 
lington is too late. Vergennes is promising. 
Worden is by far the best grape to plant for 
profit in New England. 
Prof. Maynard praises the Marlboro and 
Cuthbert raspberries roundly. Superb he just¬ 
ly characterizes as worthless. He pronounces 
the Hopkins, Doolittle, Souhegan and Tyler 
so much alike that one name will suffice for 
all. The Carman has failed to show much 
vigor . 
Prof. Maynard says of the Agawam black¬ 
berry that after another season’s trial he can 
report that it is perfectly hardy, very vigor¬ 
ous in growth, productive, and of the best 
quality. It is not quite large enough, how¬ 
ever, to compete with such varieties as the 
Wilson, but for New England no other variety 
possesses so many good qualities. It ripens 
before the Snyder. He calls the Taylor the 
most productive blackberry on the grounds, 
but the fruit ripens later and the fruit is not 
of the finest quality. He prefers Snyder. Wa- 
chusett bears small berries. Early Harvest, 
Early Cluster, Wilson and Wilson Jr. are all 
too tender... 
‘‘Those desiring the good of the trade have 
entered solemn protest against the dissemina¬ 
tion of plants under false names, an abuse 
wnich must be checked. Further, the pro¬ 
ducer or disseminator of a new plant should 
be secured in the right of naming it. The 
name once given should be unalterable.” 
So says Emily Louise Taplin in Mr. Libby’s 
Garden. Let us hope the protest will have 
an emphatic effect We would go further 
and protest against the fondness of botanists 
for changing the names of well-known plants. 
We can not, for example, become reconciled 
that the old generic name of “Picea” should 
be given to ‘‘Abies” and vice versa —the 
“common” names of spruces and firs remain¬ 
ing the same. So botanists demand that the 
old Ninebark should be changed from 
*“ Spiraea” to “Neillia”; the hemlock from Abies 
to Tsuga; the Couch, Quich or Quack grass 
from Triticum to Agropyrum, and so on with¬ 
out any end. If the prime object of bo amcal 
names is to oblige people to keep studying 
botauy all their lives in unlearning what they 
have learned, and to render such names un. 
availing to those who do not, then go ahead 
botauis s Rut this is not the way to have a 
dictionary of names that all languages shall 
understand and recognize. 
One of the best winter apples with which 
E. Williams, of New Jersey, is acquainted, 
as he states in Garden and Forest, is Peck's 
Pleasant. High-flavored, productive, and a 
good keeper, it very well fills the place once 
occupied by the famous Newtown Pippin, a 
variety long since superseded by others better 
adapted to his locality. 
Northern Spy is also a fine, high-flavored, 
winter apple, but the tree is rather tardy in 
bearing, and the fruit is very liable to grow 
imperfect, and rots to such an extent as to 
impair its value. 
Winesap, a beautiful redapple, of excellent 
quality, of medium size, has proved one of 
the best keepers. 
Yellow Bellflower is also a fine-looking and 
good-keeping winter sort. It seems among 
winter apples what the Orange is among au¬ 
tumn ones, the chief objection to it being its 
large core. 
Wagener stands near the head of all the 
winter apples Mr. Williams is acquainted 
with for quality; it is of medium size, with a 
tender, crisp, fine-grained flesh. 
Teas’ Weeping Russian Mulberry, among 
weeping trees, seems]a desirable novelty. 
“Vandalism! Vandalism!” “Sacrilege, 
sacrilege! ’ and the like are epithets that Mr. 
Falconer tells the American Florist he often 
hears from the lips of visitors who catch him 
in the act of chopping down or rooting out 
some choice or noble tree. But it must be 
done. The moment one tree encroaches upon 
another, one of them has got to be cut down 
else both of them will be spoiled, for it is far 
better to have one perfect specimen than two 
imperfect ones. But why plant your trees so 
close to begin with? For two reasons: First, 
to give the place a full and furnished appear¬ 
ance, we must plant the permanent trees 
where we wish them to remain, and between 
these, as nurses and for temporary effect, we 
may plant many supernumeraries which shall 
be cut down as soon as their services can be 
dispensed with. Second, new trees and 
shrubs occur every year and we must have 
them, and if we keep no reserve grounds for 
such material we are obliged to set them out 
in our already filled plantations. We are al¬ 
ways bringing m and always throwing out... 
A most trying case of this kind is tnis: We 
have a beautiful speejmep pf Ajcock’s Spruce 
(our only specimen) growing so near a weep¬ 
ing hemlock (our only specimen), that in 
another year each will crowd the other. To 
remove either would prove a hazardous and 
expensive operation. What shall be done?_ 
Charles W. Garfield, so earnest in his 
efforts to induce a higher appreciation of the 
utility of making more attractive the yards 
and lawns and grounds about the country 
home, says, in the American Garden, that 
farmers and their wives cannot afford to be 
so absorbed in the methods of getting a living 
that they can devote no time to the enjoyment 
of living in this world. It were better not to 
be born into the world at all than to spend a 
life without appreciating the attractive things 
the good Lord has placed here for us to en¬ 
joy. 
There is rest, genuine rest, after comiDg 
from the field, tired and soiled, to take a bath, 
change attire and work among the flowers, 
trees and vegetables about the house. 
The family usually that has no time to add 
to the attractiveness of a country home is the 
one that is the most wasteful of time: and the 
thrifty, intelligent farmers are the ones who 
have time to devote to the improvement of 
the homestead. 
Many farmers who have never bad time to 
fix up their premises, and who have mortgag¬ 
ed their lands, could have much better afford¬ 
ed to expend time in beautifying the farm so 
it would have attracted a purchaser, sold it, 
and started again free of debt. 
The farmer who can never find time to em¬ 
bellish his premises gets the minimum amount 
of assistance from his children ; while the 
father who is willing and anxious to add to 
the home those attributes which gratify bis 
family, is never troubled about the boys and 
girls wanting to get away to work. 
The American Garden for October, gives 
a cozy sketch of the home of our old-time 
and much-respected contributor, Annie L. 
Jack, of Canada. The same view was present¬ 
ed in the R. N. Y. some five years ago. 
The Garden correspondent found that Mrs. 
Jack is the intelligent working helper, partner 
and adviser of her husband in his business of 
horticulture, and the wise head of a comfort¬ 
able garden-home of a large family of 11 chil¬ 
dren, who are being reared in the paths of 
usefulness, and taught that home and garden¬ 
ing are the dearest and best of centers for 
love, interest, usefulness and worldly effort... 
Eugene Semple, Governor of Washington 
Territory, in his annual report, estimates the 
population of the Territory at 167,982, an in¬ 
crease of about 24,000 during the year. The 
taxable property of the Territory is given as 
$84,621,182, which is a gain of over $65,000,000 
in the last ten years, and a large increase 
over last year. The financial condition of the 
Territory is said to be in a healthy and pros¬ 
perous condition. Public lands have bet-n en¬ 
tered during the year as follows: Original 
homestead entries, 312,740 acres; timber cul¬ 
ture entries, 89,264 acres; cash entries, 133, 
803 acres; pre-emption filings, 359.643 acres, 
coal lands, 18,720 acres; desert land, 24,000 
acres, and timber laud 85.600 acres. 
Experience with spaying cows on the 
Western ranches indicates that it doesn’t pay 
•to spay old stock. The cost is about 33 cents, 
the market price of the spayed and unspayed 
cows is the same per 100 pounds, but the 
weight of the spayed old cows is consider¬ 
ably lighter—say, 30 to 35 pounds. 
The attempt to cross the buffalo with the cow 
appears to be practically out of the question. 
Col. C. C. Slaughter, of Texas, has been ex¬ 
perimenting with 40 to 50 cows and a buffalo 
bull for several years, and the result is a sin¬ 
gle cross-bred calf which he is disposed to re¬ 
gard as a freak of nature. It grunts like the 
buffalo, and bleats like a calf; but it is utterly 
wild at six months of age, and won’t allow it¬ 
self to be tied. Two other Southwestern 
stockmen claim to have each one cross; but 
the value of such a cross lies more in its 
rarity than in its utility.Dehorner Haaff 
insists that within a year horns will be the 
exception in many parts of the West and arti¬ 
ficial polls the rule. By the way, the words 
dehorning and dishorning having been lately 
referred to the Editors of Webster’s Diction¬ 
ary, they have decided that dehorning is the 
better English. 
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DIRECT. 
-Life: “ What’s 'all this fuss about raw 
material, anyway? Let it be cooked in the 
heat of the campaign!” 
-Idem; “No doubt, he may seem rather 
selfish, but he’s not such a fool in the end— 
the man who’d rather lend to a sfi auger than 
to bis qipgt jptimate friend. ” 
-N. E. Homestead: “‘White’ lying, so 
called, is assumed to be no sin in the way of a 
trade, and it is a pity that so many are addicted 
to it. Take pride in your boy, not as a sharp¬ 
er and trickster, but as an honest, common 
sense young man, who has learned that every 
man will be taken at his exact value as a citi¬ 
zen, in the light of his dealings. ” 
-Howells in Harper’s: “ He don’t ad¬ 
vertise and the editor is as independent as a 
lion, you know, when a man don’t advertise. ” 
- Colman’s Rural World: “The farm¬ 
ers of Mbsouri have almost entirely neglected 
the cheese industry. Not one per cent, of the 
cheese consumed in the State is made in it. ” 
- Fruit Growers’ Journal: “Unfort¬ 
unately the Mills bill leaves the ‘hoss’ doctor 
on the free list. ” 
-N. Y. World: “The Rural New- 
Yorker potato No. 2. is the nearest approach 
to a perfect potato yet produced. ” 
-Puck : “He who borrows money borrows 
trouble with it. A threadbare coat that is 
paid for can keep off the chill of meeting a 
creditor. ” 
-Bulletin Mass. Agricultural Sta" 
tion: “Blyth states that a dose of ‘20 grains 
of powdered hellebore root has caused death, 
and, on the other hand, ten times that quan¬ 
tity has been taken with impunity, so that at 
present, it is quite an open question just how 
much may prove fatal. ” 
-Christian Union: “ If you could once 
make up your mind in the fear of God never 
to undertake more work of any sort than you 
can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry 
or flurry, and the instant you feel yourself 
growing nervous and like one out of breath, 
would stop and take breath, you would find 
this simple, common-sense rule doing for you 
what no prayers or tears could ever accom¬ 
plish. ” 
- Laws Of Life: “Insurance statistics 
prove that while the average life of the moder¬ 
ate drinker is but 35 1-2 years, that of the 
total abstainer is sixty-four years.” 
- Harpers: “The impudence of young 
men generally, reflects the weakness of young 
women.” 
-“Good manners spring from a good 
heart.” 
- Prof. A. J. Cook, Michigan Agricultural 
College: “Owing to agitation through the 
press, legislative action, the Governor’s 
annual proclamation, and the fact that 
farmers are noting the added beauty given to 
our rural scenery through the presence of 
trees, and the further and still more convinc¬ 
ing fact that farms thus embellished sell for a 
considerably enhanced value; influenced by 
some or all of these reasons, tree planting 
along our roadsides and private drives, and 
about our farm houses and grounds has great¬ 
ly increased for the past few years. Now 
there are thousands of trees planted each 
spring where there were tens, ten years ago. 
This is so emphatically wise that we may 
hope and expect to see the custom continue 
and continue to increase.” 
-Idem: “The average cost of a ton of 
coal put on the cars, ready for shipment, is 
about one dollar and twenty cents. This in¬ 
cludes miners’ wages, royalties paid by opera¬ 
tors, intei-est on investments, wear and tear, 
etc. The freight on it is about a half a cent 
per ton per mile. That would make a ton of 
coal, one hundred miles from the mine cost 
$1.70. Give the miner a profit of fifty cents, 
the dealer fifty cents and the carman who de¬ 
livers it the same and the cost to the con¬ 
sumer would be only $3.20. It should retail 
for not more than $3.50.” 
LOG CABIN GRANDMOTHERS. 
An Indiana doctor has recently discovered 
in a common weed whose medicinal qualities 
have never before been suspected, a valuable 
remedy for bowel disorders. 
There is nothing particularly strange about 
this fact. 
Nothing. 
And yet the very simplicity of the new dis¬ 
covery would, with some, seem to throw just 
doubt upon its power. To make it one has only 
to pour hot water over the leaves of the plant 
In its preparation no vast chemical works and 
appliances are required. 
Is it to be wondered at since such plainly 
prepared remedies are accounted as of such 
great merit in these days, that such wonder¬ 
ful results attended our grandmothers, whose 
teas and infusions of roots and herbs and bal¬ 
sams have exerted so great an influence in the 
maintenance of health and life? 
Certainly not? 
The greatest pieces of machinery strike us 
most by their exceeding simplicity. 
The secret of the success of grandmother’s 
remedies was their freshness and simplicity* 
Every autumn found the little Log Cabin 
abundantly supplied with fresh leaves, roots 
herbs and balsams, which were carfully dried 
and prepared and laid away for use. Dread¬ 
ing to call a'doctor'because of the expensive¬ 
ness of his far-made trips, they immediately 
gave attention to the disease and routed it be¬ 
fore it had gained a foothold. 
The old Log Cabin grandmother, in cap and 
high tucked gown, and perchance bespectacled 
in rough silver, herweary feet encased in “hum 
made” slips, is the dear sweet nurse who rises 
to the view of many a man and woman to-day 
as the early years of life pass in retrospect 
The secrets of grandmother’s medicines were 
rapidly being forgotten and the woi’ld was not 
growing in the grace of good health. To re¬ 
store the lost art of log cabin healing has been 
for years the desire of a well known philan¬ 
thropist in whose ancestral line were eight 
“goodly physicians” of the old style, men who 
never saw a medical college save in the woods, 
nor a “medical diploma” except that inscribed 
on the faces of healthy and long lived patients. 
Much time and money was expended in secur¬ 
ing the old formulae, which to day are put 
forth as “Log Cabin remedies,”—sarsaparilla, 
hops and buchu, cough and consumption,and 
several others, by Warner, whose name is fam 
ous and a standard for medical excellence all 
over the globe. These oldest,newest and best 
preparations have been recognized as of such 
superexcellence that to-day they can be found 
with all leading dealers. 
When Col. Ethan Allen was making historv 
along our northern frontier during the revolu 
tion, Col. Seth Warner, the fighting Sheridan 
of that army, who was a skillful natural doctor, 
used many such remedies, notably like the 
Log Cabin extract, sarsaparilla and cough and 
cousumption remedy, among the soldiers with 
famous success. 
They are a noble inheritance which we of 
to-day may enjoy to the full, as did our fore 
fathers, and using, reap, as did they, the har¬ 
vest of a life full of days and full of usefull- 
ness. 
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these days, canned corn-beet takes the lead, 
rivaling hog butter successfully. If those 
w ho eat it could see the kind of cattle which 
are killed for the purpose, only the pangs of 
hunger would make them continue its use. 
Old bulls and old cows, many of them dis¬ 
eased, are said to form a large part of this 
product.” 
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