ome feorn 
pictures of rustic work in floral guides one can 
many ideas of how to make handles, etc. After the them 
Wood work is finished give i’ 
shellac varnish, plant in the centre a Fern or : 
foliage plant, at the side an Ivy, with some tra 
at the edges, and yon will have somethin. 
gain on, split them in two so that one side will he flat, cut 
so they will he a little longer than your box is 
the basket a good coat of deep—wind them, at the ends, and nail them on your 
box letting them project about an inch at the top and 
bottom; it is pretty to make them of two kinds of 
wood—bright and dark. White birch and the tops of 
There are many beautiful things made in rustic 
work, but they are 
for the bottom, nail 
these firmly togeth- i ; 4|^ ”,- r L r '■ .A 
the c<>i)iin >mi laurel, 
arrowwood makes 
very pretty ones; but where this cannot be found 
grapevine can be used instead. By looking at the 1 
vine 
your 
box with good rich 
earth, plant in each 
end a German Ivy 
or some other climb¬ 
ing vine, in the cen¬ 
tre a Carl Halt 
Fuchsia, put Myrtle 
at the edges to droop 
down, and fill in be¬ 
tween these with 
Sweet Alyssmn and 
bright foliage plants 
and you will have 
something that will 
delight you all win¬ 
ter with its beauty— 
do all this and you 
will envy no longer 
your rich neighbors, 
for you will have 
things as pretty as 
they, and they have 
cost you nothing— 
but work. 
Rustic. 
IlPlB 
To kill lice on 
canary birds, give 
your birds new 
cages, not wooden 
hut those 
enti rely of 
metal. The sticks 
of elder with the 
holes, for the birds 
to sit upon; the lice will go into these sticks, which 
should he cleaned out every few days. But the main 
remedy is to attend to the health of your birds; if 
they are perfectly healthy, provided with plenty of 
good food, kept in clean cages, exposed to light 
they will never he troubled with 
It is with birds as with men, the sickly, 
the poor, the unclean, or those suffering from insuffi- 
pieces for the edge, and cient nourishment especially, will he subjected to the 
ones, 
made 
Scene in a Chinese Garden, 
pretty as those of your rich neighbors, 
that will cost you nothing but- your work. 
Beautiful brackets can he. made by 
cutting a piece of pine hoard in the 
shape of a half circle, put a piece under 
for a support, and to fasten to the wall; 
take some of the straight pieces of and fresh air 
laurel root and nail them on the under 
side close enough to hide the hoard ; 
take rougher 
nail them on so they will project, at 1 plague, 
least an inch above and below the 
board; give this also a coat of varnish, Howto Treat Gold Fish. —They should always 
fasten it td the wall, set upon it a rustic he kept in a vessel sufficiently large, and he given 
cross, with bright autumn leaves, either fresh water every day. Wash the inside of the vessel 
wax or natural ones pressed (the wax with a cloth. The fresh water ought to he perfectly 
ones are prettiest) trailing over it, and— clean, and not too hard. It is not good to feed them, 
well, I think you will feel repaid for as the food will only serve to render the water unfit 
all your trouble. for their existence, and if renewed every day, the water 
vermin 
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