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growing of out-cloor flowers. Their day 
is fast coming in this country.— R. E. 
Huntington, in The Country Gentleman. 
DYING VILLAGES 
HE Oyster Bay Pilot reports a story 
that the New Bedford whaling 
bark Andrew Hicks recently killed in the 
Arctic a whale in whose blubber was 
imbedded a harpoon iron of the old bark 
Alice, of Cold Spring, L. I. The Alice 
was “one of the famous vessels of 
the Cold Spring fleet, and in her voy¬ 
age to this port brought home whale 
products aggregating a value of over 
^150,000.” 
That was long ago. Cold Spring has 
now neither whaling fleet nor any other 
industry. Since its flourishing summer 
hotel was bought and torn down by a 
wealthy land-owner it has been a 
dying village, without any industries, 
cramped in its growth by the country 
estates about it. 
Fortunate are those villages near New 
York that have not become fashionable. 
turdy, self¬ 
hamlets are 
entirely extinct, like Lakeville, erased 
to make a millionaire’s pleasure park; 
some are restricted in their growth, like 
Great Neck and Manhassett; some like 
Greenwich and Tarrytown, have found 
to their cost that 500-acre and 5,000-acre 
“estates” do not pay as much taxes as 
the same area in half-acre homes; some 
have become mere castle-gate append¬ 
ages of local Lady Bountifuls, whose 
imitation of English country life is not 
complete without peasants to bow to 
them and a made-to-order poverty to 
alleviate. In others the selfish summer 
residents fight and usually thwart every 
effort to start village factories that may 
give employment to local labor. 
The appreciation of country life is an 
excellent thing in the rich; but the 1,000- 
acre estate within forty minutes’ motor¬ 
car run of Wall Street cramps or crushes 
the suburban village and interferes with 
the proper growth of the city itself.— 
Hew Tork World. 
The Colorado Douglas spruce, Pseu- 
dotsuga Douglasii is quite hardy in the 
Northern Atlantic States, but not so 
the one from Oregon and Washington. 
New Mexico and Arizona also give a 
hardy type, the tree flourishing there in 
the mountain regions. 
These only retain their s 
sufficient village life. Some 
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