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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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salary until he is able to comprehend the 
value of money, and also the source of 
supply and the ease with which it may be 
dissipated. He must read books and news¬ 
papers to keep posted on the topics of the 
day and the course of human events. It 
would be well for him to attend debating 
societies to qualify himself to stand on his 
two feet and express himself in an intelli¬ 
gent manner. Learning acquired by a 
young man in his own room after his labors 
of the day are over is hard gained and for 
that reason more lasting than the education 
acquired in the great institutions of cul¬ 
ture. The young man taught in a 
fashionable college is a house plant, while 
the young man who cultivates himself is an 
outdoor growth and better able to stand a 
severe drought or a severe storm, which all 
are subject to in the variations of life. 
The question of choosing a business is a 
serious one. As a rule a young man should 
adopt the calling for which he has a pre¬ 
ference, If he has no particular choice it 
would be well for him to try different oc¬ 
cupations until he finds one that suits him. 
Mr. Sage does not counsel changing about 
to gratify a spirit of uneasiness, for once a 
young man is installed in the business that 
he is suited to he ought to stick to it. He 
has known young men who entered employ¬ 
ments reluctantly and after a trial became 
fond of them. A young man must be de¬ 
termined to succeed. After all, there is one 
great lever, and that is will power. With¬ 
out it very few men succeed. 
It depends on the circumstances whether 
failures betray incapacity in a man. If a 
failure is due to a cause not general, then 
it may be attributed to a lack of foresight 
and understanding. A shrewd merchant 
will not stock up with unsalable things; 
a shrewd farmer will not plant his ground 
to raise unsalable crops. Both the mer¬ 
chant and the farmer must find out what 
is most salable and act accordingly. There 
are exigencies, to be sure, like contagions, 
disasters, combinations, strikes and boy¬ 
cotts, that cannot be foreseen. The prud¬ 
ent man of business has prepared himself to 
stand losses from such causes, and when 
the troubles have passed the fact of his 
having weathered them makes his financial 
position in the community stronger than 
ever. The present condition of the coal 
trade well illustrates the uncertainty of 
things. The mild, open winter could not 
be foreseen and has caused great dullness 
and loss in the trade. Then there is the 
march of improvement. This is an age of 
competition, and it requires energy and 
perception to meet it. It used to take 
90 days to find out the condition of the 
tea crop in Japan or the coffee crop in 
Brazil. Now an inquiry can be sent and 
an answer secured in a single day. 
Many of the most successful men have 
started wrong and afterward righted them¬ 
selves. There are many instances where 
men educated for the pulpit have gone to 
the bar and been conspicuous successes. 
Then, again, men educated for the bar have 
gone to the pulpit and achieved success. 
Close application is necessary in every 
business. Did Mr. Sage not give personal 
and careful attention to his own business 
he could not hope to prosper. All are free 
and equal in this country and every man 
makes himself what he will. His mind 
directs his course in life. If he has the 
will power to adopt wise principles success 
will come to him. 
PITHS AND REMINDERS. 
Speaking of the lace Peter Henderson,the 
American Florist says that his ear was 
always open to the tale of the distressed, 
and when his hand was extended to them 
it was never empty. No one ever asked his 
advice in vain, even though it was in the 
busiest moments of his ever busy life, and 
his daily correspondence was never without 
an answer to some one needing his counsel. 
Many a florist has been sustained by his 
words of cheerful encouragement, and 
many a young man has been started on a 
prosperous career by his sage advice. A 
gentleman in the broadest sense of the 
word, chivalrous and kind, he was always 
so considerate of the rights and feelings of 
others that he would not wantonly offend 
a child, and even to the last he was more 
mindful of the comfort of those arouud him 
than of his own. 
Emily Louise Taplin, a particular friend 
of Mr. Henderson, remarks in the above jour¬ 
nal that he enjoyed superb health up to the 
time of his last illness and he always spent 
three or four hours a day in the opeu air. 
Though encumbered with the many cares 
attached to such a_vast^business, of 4 which 
he was the mainspring, Mr. Henderson 
never seemed worried or harassed ; his was 
emphatically a sound mind in a sound body. 
His ceaseless activity never seemed toilsome, 
and he enjoyed life fully. Though thorough¬ 
ly abstemious in his habits, he was fond of 
social intercourse, and his wide knowledge, 
keen observation and shrewd but kindly 
speech made his conversation both enter¬ 
taining and instructive. The writer never 
heard him say an unkind thing of any one ; 
if he expressed disapproval it was done in 
such a way that it left no sting behind. 
Mr. Henderson modestly ascribed his busi¬ 
ness success largely tp two things—his 
temperate habits and the liberal use of 
printer’s ink. He studied advertising as a 
science, so that his name has become a 
veritable household word, and he always 
appeared to foresee any business demand 
in time to supply it. 
J. J. THOMAS, the veteran and respected 
pomological editor of the Cultivator and 
Country Gentleman, says that among the 
general causes of the failure of orchards 
are: 
1. Farmers who allow cattle to break 
into young orchards should remember that 
fences are as important as manure. 
2. Planting in thin soil, setting trees 
hurriedly, and allowing weeds and grass 
possession of a hard and crusted earth, will 
not accumulate silver and gold. 
3. Planting large nursery trees, care¬ 
lessly dug with short and mutilated roots, 
will prove unprofitable. 
4. Shortening back the heads of newly- 
transplanted trees after the opening of the 
leaves, instead of before the swelling of the 
buds, checks the growth and seriously in¬ 
jures them. 
5. Allowing weeds and grass to grow in 
young orchards, invites mice and stunts 
the trees. 
6. Permitting suckers to grow around 
the trunks, thus making a wasteful 
brush-heap, spoils the trees. 
7. Pruning too much at a time, instead 
of a light pruning in successive years if 
needed, injures the vigor of trees. 
Selection of Ground.— Upon this sub¬ 
ject Mr. Thomas advises: 1. Select a good 
soil, such as will raise good farm crops. 
2. Make it mellow at once, or with pre¬ 
vious mellowing crops. 
3. Hillsides or rocky places are admis¬ 
sible only in case plenty of bam manure 
can be had for annual top dressing. 
4. See that the land has good natural or 
artificial drainage. 
Choice of Trees.— 1. Choose young 
and vigorous trees, not over two years old 
from the graft. 
2. See that ample roots are secured in 
digging—enough to stiffen the tree without 
staking, and give ready growth. 
3. Avoid large, overgrown or stunted 
trees which have short roots mutilated by 
digging. 
4. Remember that a good supply of roots 
is more important than straight stems or 
handsome heads. 
5. Procure well proved standard va¬ 
rieties, and not new lauded sorts. 
Setting Out. —1. If trees from a dis¬ 
tance are partly dry when received, bury 
them for a week, top and all, in finely pul¬ 
verized moist soil, to restore them. 
2. Before setting out, dig holes broad 
enough to receive all the roots without 
bending. 
3. Use no manure, except on the surface 
after setting or in the remote parts of large 
holes. 
4. In setting out, spread the roots out 
equally on all sides, at their full length, 
and fill in compactly fine.mellow earth. 
5. After set, shorten back thelong shoots 
and thin out where too thick, giving a neat, 
even, moderate head. 
6. Always shorten back before the buds 
swell, and never when partly or wholly in 
leaf. 
7. Keep the ground for several feet 
around the newly set trees, clean and mel¬ 
low all summer. 
After Care.— 1 Keep the ground culti¬ 
vated over the whole surface for six or 
eight years after transplanting; after 
which allow grass to grow only in case a 
good annual or biennial top-dressing of 
manure can be given. 
2. As the roots of growing trees are as 
long as their hight, avoid the mistake of 
spading or manuring narrow circles around 
the foot of the Stem, but culti vatejthe/whole 
surface. 
8. Preserve a smooth, clear stem by 
promptly removing all suckers. 
4. Clover and sowed grain should never 
be allowed in young orchards ; grass, if 
kept short, and annually top-dressed with 
manure, is admissible : hoed crops, as com 
and potatoes, do well; and clean culture is 
best. 
Peter Henderson & Co. catalogue a 
new pea called Chelsea. The vines grow, 
it is said, one foot high, being of compact 
habit. It is as early as the American Won¬ 
der and yields a much larger crop. The 
pods are said to be half as large again as 
those of any other first-early dwarf kind. 
The quality is first-rate. We shall try it 
among the novelties we are now selecting 
for next season. 
ANOTHER new pea named Melting Sugar 
is announced. It is said to grow to the 
hight of five to six feet, bears a profusion 
of large, broad pods, which are generally 
found in pairs, and which are so brittle 
that they snap without any string. Being 
an edible podded variety, it should be used 
in much the same way as a wax bean. The 
pods when cooked are very sweet and ten¬ 
der. 
The improved strains of cyclamen, as 
they well deserve, are growing more and 
more prized.— 
The Mapes Company recommend this 
formula for com : Peruvian guano eight or 
nine bags or about 1,600 pounds ; muriate 
of potash 225 pounds: nitrate of soda 200 
pounds. This will make, as put up, about 
10 bags. The analysis (allowing the potash 
to be SO per cent., and the nitrate of soda 19 
per cent.) will show about five per cent, of 
ammonia, 16 per cent, of phosphoric acid 
and nine per cent, of potash—all costing 
the purchaser about $41.00. This formula 
may be used also for oats and grass seeding. 
DIRECT. 
-New York Herald: “I tell you a 
slice of well done English mutton is about 
the best thing a child can have to eat to 
make good flesh and skin.” 
-“ Do you know how many people are 
poisoned Dy decaying teeth ?” 
-“The prostration of the doctors through 
overwork by the late epidemic guarantees 
us a summer of uncommon healthfulness.” 
-Memphis Appeal: “Many a coffin is 
covered with roses by hands that never be¬ 
fore gave its occupant anything but thorns.” 
-Rome Sentinel: “The man who 
never offends anybody can usually count 
his friends on the fingers of one hand.” 
-Milwaukee Journal : “ The world 
seldom looks to see the kind of tracks you 
left behind, provided you only get there.” 
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