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crushed and mixed with water, then al¬ 
lowed to stand three or four days in 
large tubs, when a kind of fermentation 
sets in. The juice may be applied fresh 
or after standing two or three years. 
The solution leaves, on drying, an in¬ 
soluble film that fills the pores of fibres 
and woods, diminishing their water¬ 
holding capacity and preventing the en¬ 
trance of destructive fungi.— The Coun¬ 
try Gentleman. 
BIOTA AUREA NANA 
A N uncommonly beautiful little ever- 
^ green and one well suited for 
florists’ trade as a pot plant is the new 
dwarf golden arbor-vitae. Biota aurea 
nana. It belongs to the Chinese arbor- 
vitae section, having a dwarf, pyramidal 
growth, just of the shape so many desire 
plants to be that are grown in pots for 
decorative purposes. Many florists are 
acquainted with the common golden 
arbor-vitae, a compact grower and of 
somewhat pyramidal habit. The new 
one— B. aurea nana — is more pyr¬ 
amidal, having less diameter of base 
in proportion to height, and its color is 
thought to excel the older one in its bright 
golden tints. 
The thick habit of these golden arbor- 
vitaes makes them suffer in their southern 
exposures in severe winters. The sun 
starts the sap into activity, in the day, 
then comes the cold, perhaps zero 
weather, at night, the extremes of tem¬ 
perature causing the injury. Where 
plants are less bushy the air gets through 
the foliage easily and in this way the 
southern fronts do not become so heated 
in midday as they do otherwise. Because 
of the injury from the sun, it is a help to 
give shade on the sunny side whenever 
it can be done.— Florists’ Exchange. 
BUILDING MATERIAL LOW 
TN nearly all of the middle Western 
■*- States the price of building ma¬ 
terial is comparatively low, in some 
places twenty per cent under last year. 
Lack of demand, due to economy made 
necessary by the hard times of last fall, 
seems to be the chief reason. If you 
need buildings, now is the time to get 
your material; but don’t build unless 
you really need to. It is the poorest kind 
of management to buy anything simply 
because it is cheap. It is a matter well 
worth careful attention just now. —Farm 
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