Price 12 Cents. 
live on, it is as follows : For food they have vegetable 
mold, sand, and charcoal dust; for drink—quite warm 
soft water, and sometimes the water that fresh meat 
or fish has been washed in. I find by counting there 
are thirteen branches, whose aggregate length is 
nearly 300 feet. There is one branch that I know has 
grown seventeen feet in the past two years. A short 
time since a lady asked me if I did not pull the ends 
to make them grow. I think that the soil 1 give them 
mantle excepting that occupied by a picture, and in 
winter there are two tables standing in the bay win¬ 
dow covered with, plants. R. F. F. 
the bay win¬ 
dow in our 
sitting - room, 
about half 
way up the 
sides. Three 
branches are 
festooned a- 
cross the bay 
window over¬ 
fastened to the 
ceiling by tw< > 
hooks, then 
passed around 
over the bay 
window, then 
each way from 
it entirely 
around the 
room, which is 
16 feet long 
and 12 feet 
wide, besides 
the bay win¬ 
dow. Across 
one side of the 
room, except¬ 
ing over the 
window, there 
are six branches 
Red Spider. —Last winter two frames became in¬ 
fested with red spider, introduced with new plants 
recently purchased. I took out the pots, sprinkled 
the plants copiously with water, strerved lime all over 
the frames 
that were 
simply alive 
with spiders, 
returned the 
pots, and the 
pest vcas sub¬ 
dued. 
S. E. B. 
A Beautiful Villa, Designed for Residence 
places three and four 1 is exactly suited to their wants. 
of Henry T. Williams. See Page 117. 
Cactus Cut¬ 
tings. — To 
grove Cactus 
cuttings suc¬ 
cessfully, lay 
the cutting od 
the soil or 
stand it up; 
give it no 
water; in a 
short time it 
will have 
taken root, 
and can then 
be planted in 
a pot of pul¬ 
verized brick, 
charcoal, sand 
and compost. 
Flora Z. 
in other places three and four 1 is exactly suited to their wants. Then I wash the 
branches, and now and then a space where there are ' leaves about once a month in winter, but not so often 
only two. These branches? seem to come in just the ] in summer. This is done with a sponge and warm 
right places—on one side to be trained around the j water; a step-ladder enables me to reach them easily, 
mirror,.and on others to pass around picture frames; Besides the Ivy I have four shell hanging baskets, in 
and the beauty of it is, the leaves are very regular, 
perfect, and near together. 
Now, if you would like to know' what these Ivies 
which grow fine vines, 
hang in the bay window. 
trailing 
&c.: these 
On each end of the mantle 
a Madeira vine, which covers the space over the 
Exchange. —Will some lover of Flora, in far-off 
Washington or Oregon, be kind enough to exchange 
some autumn leaves—leaves of the Oregon Grape, etc., 
Maple, some of the fine mosses of that section, also 
fruited specimens of Ferns, for Bulbs, White Lillium 
Candidum, Tuberose, Polyanthus Narcissus, Caladium 
Escultenum, Spanish Moss, or other plants we cultivate? 
Clear Creek Station, Texas. Miss S. E. Byers. 
t ■ 
Mrs Virginia Dimmers 
