House and Garden 
Horses 
Wealthy people, the kind that 
subscribe to living 
in the suburban districts of our 
large cities, must have horses for 
driving and station work. Your 
advertisement published, as we 
will publish it, will attract the at¬ 
tention of buyers. Special rates 
and several other inducements 
will be sent upon request. 
JOHN GILMER SPEED, Editor. 
Kennels 
Dogs for the country are as necessary 
as the garden. If you advertise in our 
Kennel Department, the advertisement 
will be seen and read by people living 
in the suburban districts, and what is 
more, by people who own their own 
homes and are financially able and wil¬ 
ling to take advantage of any offer that 
you may have to make them. Special 
rates will be sent on request. 
GREAT DANES —These magnificent dogs are docile, sensible 
and obedient, but splendid watchers at night. We have some es¬ 
pecially handsome young stock at present. Best blood extant. 
Ideal dogs for country place. Correspondence solicited. 
DANICKA KENNELS, Geneva. N. Y. 
object is not only to prove their right 
ownership, but also to preserve this 
important and interesting relic intact. 
Leicester has in the past lost too many 
historical relics, so that we ought to 
draw the line somewhere. Not far 
away stood the inn where Richard III. 
slept on his way to Bosworth, also the 
Bow Bridge over which the king and 
his army passed. The theatre where 
Grimaldi performed has disappeared, 
but the room wherein Shakspeare read 
his plays still remains intact in the 
shape of the old town-hall. Gopsall 
Hall, too, where Handel spent some time 
and where he wrote or prepared his 
great work, “The Messiah,” remains 
intact. Leicester’s former name was 
Learceaster. 
Through an error the illustration of 
a “ Residence at Pelham Manor, New 
York,” in the advertisement of the Kel¬ 
sey Heating Company, on page 9 of 
the Advertising Section in the October 
number, was credited to Kirby, Pettit 
& Green, Architects. This should have 
read Oswald C. Hering, Architect, as 
he was the designer of the house; in 
fact it is his residence. 
WHAT WE OWE TO INSECTS 
jDROFESSOR Darwin said that if it 
had not been for insects we should 
never have had any more imposing or 
attractive flowers than those of the elm, 
the hop and the nettle. Lord Avebury 
compares the work of the insect to that 
of the florist. He considers that just as 
the florist has by selection produced the 
elegant blossoms of the garden, so the 
insects by selecting the largest and 
brightest blossoms for fertilization, have 
produced the gay flowers of the field. 
Professor Plateau, of Ghent, has carried 
out a series of remarkable experiments 
on the ways of insects visiting flow r ers. 
He considers that they are guided by 
scent rather than by color, and in this 
connection he is at variance with certain 
British naturalists. Whatever may be 
the attraction in flowers to insects—as 
yet, it appears undefined— it is certain 
that the latter visit freely all blossoms 
alike, making no distinction between the 
large, bright-colored ones and the less 
conspicuous blooms, like those of the 
currants, the lime, the plane-tree, the 
nettle and the willow. — Horne and 
Farm. 
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