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THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 
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fantastic grouping from tlio glass roof tlvo 
side of a Ijoard, or some other unoxpootod 
situation. Figs, Nootariuos, Grapes, and 
Peaches tempt one to pluck them while oh. 
routo tluwigh this tour of tho glass houses. 
The foliage plants are a wonder, as well as 
the Azaleas, of which there are many varie¬ 
ties. 
Tho house conservatory is admirahlo for 
its arrangement. It is a room high and wdo, 
and paved with marble, and having a plate- 
glass front toward tho homo mansion. Hero 
the choicest of tho blossoming exotics, tho 
Boses, in short,.everything that is best from 
the greenhouses, is arranged to delight tho 
eye of the owmors of tlio estate, from time to 
time, as they come to perfection. It is difli- 
cult to imagine anything finer of this de¬ 
scription. In June the Az.aleas are placed 
on the lawm under a canvas cover, and later 
the Rhododendrons in tho same fashion, to 
the admiration of all who go to see them. 
As these gardens are contiguous to Wel¬ 
lesley College, the students of that institu¬ 
tion have the rare privilege of rowing across 
the “Mere,” and enjoying the sight of this 
culture of flowers. 
The famous Baker gardens, near the Hun- 
newell estate, are not so extensive, but have 
imique featm’es. In Cambridge are some 
gardens of rare beauty, and a public botani¬ 
cal garden of considerable excellence. The 
flowers and plants from this last-named gar¬ 
den and its conservatories are used by the 
classes in botany of both the Harvard Uni¬ 
versity and the Harvard Annex for women. 
Indeed, it is difiicult, if not impossible, to 
leave Boston in almost any direction without 
finding evidences of the unusual admiration 
and care given to horticulture in its vicinity. 
— Mrs. Ella Dickinson, in the Churchman. 
WOOD FLOUE. 
A letter from the Catskills to the New- 
?ork Sun says: The ehief industry up here 
s producing wood fiour, a kind of cousin to 
,vood pulp. It was first manufactured in 
he Catskills about nine years ago, and now 
)ver twenty mills are in full blast. The 
jrocess is exceedingly simple. Any soft- 
vood tree—Poplar is the favorite—is felled 
ind drawn to the mill. The bark and boughs 
ire removed, and the trunk put in a machine 
vhieh is nothing but a lead-pencil shaipenei 
m a large scale, with four or more n e 
idges instead of one. On starting the ma 
ihine, the pencil sharpener revolves wi 
jreat swiftness, and in a few minutes con 
rerts the log into a hundred miles ot hne, 
Jlean shavings. These are ground and bolted 
ixaetly as in a flour mill. The pro u.e is 
ioft, flue, yelloivishly white flom-, similar 
ippearance to very well-ground orn ■ 
[t possesses a slight woody sm® , 
ilmost tasteless. It is put up in ’ 
ind then is dispatched, unmarke , 
toed to find out who 
article, but with no success. „ 
miller was not very eommuuicativ • 
tnueh exactly. One log may ’ 
or it may give ten. It sells 'we ’ ^ ’ 
pretty toL^ble. I reckon I clear about $8 
or $9 a day out of “ 4 ^ f 
never figured it up. stiffen 
Good for many things. It s us 
paper; but if you put in too much, 
gets brittle. Paper stock is much dearer 
than Poplar flour, and that’s why they put it 
in. If you mix tho flour with linseed gum 
and ‘bilod’ oil, you may got a kind of oil¬ 
cloth. Some folks mix it with meal to give 
to pigs and other animals. I guess it’s good, 
but I never give it to my hogs; and even 
those follows give it to some other fellows’ 
critters, and not their own. Yes, I heard 
that some bad contractors mixed it with 
meal for anny and Indian supplies, but I 
don’t take much stock in tho story, because 
they could buy sour meal as cheap as Po])lar 
flour. It wouldn’t pay to mill Pine, Cedar, or 
Hemlock ; they are worth too much as tim¬ 
ber. But any wood that isn’t used that way 
can be milled into flour. I use Poplar al¬ 
most altogether, but when I run short of 
logs I grind up Buttonball, Birch, Elm, or 
Willow.” 
'I'he farmers dislike the new industry, as it 
promises to play havoc with the forests, 
which are both an attraction to the boarder 
and a protection to agriculture. The tan¬ 
neries years ago used up all the Oak and 
Hemlock; the lumbermen have stripped the 
country practically of Piue, Cedar, and Wal¬ 
nut ; the chair factories are consuming the 
Hickory and Maple; now the wood-floiu‘ 
mill promises to grind up what remaining 
trees there may be. 
ELECTRIC BOUQUETS. 
The latest novelty in bouquets — newer 
even than pink Water-lilies or blue Hydran¬ 
geas— was carried by the Princess of Wales 
at a ball after the races at Goodwood. It 
was of Roses, and in the middle of it was 
concealed a miniatiu’e electric lamp, the 
light from which could be turned on at will 
by means of a little switch in the form of a 
lady’s brooch. Gentlemen’s boutonnieres are 
also so arranged as to contain an electric 
light. 
“ These, if they come generally in use,” 
suggests the rrairie Farmer, “ will deal a 
death-blow to flirtations in dark places, as a 
passing friend has but to turn onliis battery, 
and lo! forms and featmes are revealed with 
uncompromising distinctness. Paterfamilias 
will probably be a willing patron of the 
electric boutonnidres, as he can thus not 
only follow up and drive away ineligibles 
'and detrimentals, but can collect his scat¬ 
tered forces as the small hoiu-s approach and 
gather them under his wings preparatory to 
departure.” ^_ 
VEGETATION ON COINS AND BANK-NOTES. 
Recent researches of Paul Reinsch, in Er¬ 
langen, Germany, have revealed the occur¬ 
rence of different Bacteria and minute Algffi 
on tho surfaces of coins and bank-bills. By 
long circulation, coins become partly in- 
crusted with a thin film of organic detntus, 
composed principally of starch-gi'ains and 
fibers, which furnish favorable conditions for 
this miorovogetation. On tho surface of 
paper money, even of notes which appear 
perfectly clean to the naked eye, are always 
to be found the special Bacteria of putre¬ 
faction (Bacterium Termo); while on those 
that have been long in use various micro- 
scopio plants are found in full vegetation, 
thus furnishing a ready explanation of how 
diseases are sometimes transmitted through 
money. 
ODE BOOK TABLE, 
Xlio HcarOistoiio, Fai'm, and Nation is the 
title of a now Monthly, a .Toiirnal for Domestic and 
Kiiral Economy, Agriculture, Horticulture, Live 
Stock, Current Events, Education, etc., published 
liy W.TI.'rlwmpsonit:Co.,PliiludclpMa. The initial 
miiubcr contains a rlcli store of useful and enter¬ 
taining information, carefully and ably edited, 
well printed on good paper, and is altogether as 
near the ideal rural family paper as any publica¬ 
tion that conies to oiir table. 
Outing. —The November number of Outing 
brings Ihc niagazinc into new prominence in the 
added space given to yachting matters. This 
form of outdoor pleasure is represented in several 
articles of unusual interest, by a full record of 
nautical events, “ A .Scamiier in tho Nor’-West,” 
by .T. A. Fiaser, profusely Illustrated by the 
author, is the leading article, and gives the reader 
some fascinating glimpses of the shores of tlie “ big 
sea-water” of .Superior. Another capital illus¬ 
trated paper is “ Wlieeliug among the Aztecs,” by 
Sylvester Baxter. This gives some delightful 
glimpses of tlie ancient city of Mexico and the 
pleasant environs that tempt the wheelman to his 
steed. The editori.al department dlscus-ses “ Art 
and the Bicycle,” and “Physical Education in 
College,” among other topics of the hour. The 
price of Outing is .S^.OO a year. The inieelman 
Co., Publishers, Boston, Mass. 
Tliree Visits to America. By Emily FaitbfulL 
121110 , pp. xii, 400. Cloth. Price, 51.50. Published 
by Fowler & Wells Co., 753 Broadway, New-York. 
The author of this volume needs no introduc¬ 
tion to an American public; her work in behalf of 
struggluig women during the past twenty years 
has been attended with so much success that she 
has acquired wide-spread celebrity. Her three 
visits in this country were made for the iiurpose 
of studying oiu’ society, our industrial methods 
and organizations in behalf of poor .and uufoiiu- 
nate English women, and the record of these three 
risits is not a rush into print to gratify personal 
motives merely, or to let the world know “my 
impressions of America,” after the style of so 
many foreign tourists, but the notes of a warm¬ 
hearted, practical observer who is in earnest for 
the Improvement of tho condition of her feUow- 
woiiicn, and gives her beat experience in the 
tracings ot her pen. Few writers on America 
have seen so much of our countty, t.alked with so 
many of oiu‘ best people, and looked so deeply 
into our social habits and institutions; and .as she 
reiates the notable incidents of her journeys in a 
lively, agree.able ni.anner, showing everywhere 
the woman of exuberant good nature, the reader 
is captivated at the start. Sketches of conversa¬ 
tions occur all through tho book, most of them 
with well-lojowu people, all ot whom cordially 
aided Miss Faithfull toward the .attainment of her 
mission. But wh.at will most interest the Ameri¬ 
can reader are tho chatty comparisons made of 
oiu* social mamierisms with those of old England, 
and the tendencies that she thinks are clearly to 
bo seen in popular senttmeut as concerns trade, 
government, labor, tho woman question, and so 
on. Tho eminent utility of what Miss Faithfull 
says here and there makes the book valuable; 
while it will entertain every one who t.ikes it up, 
it Tvill bo sure to instruct those who are thoughtful. 
N. W. Ayer & Son’s American Newspaper 
Annual for 18S4 contains a carefully prepared 
list of aU newspapers and periodicals in the 
United States and Canada, arranged by States in 
geographical sections, and bj’ totvns in alphabeti¬ 
cal order. In this list also is given the name of 
the paper, tho issue, general characteristics, year 
of establishment, size, cironlation, and advertis¬ 
ing rates for ten lines one month. Then follows a, 
list of all newsp.apers inserting advertisements, 
ari'anged in States by counties, with tho distinct¬ 
ive features and circulation of each paper. Also 
complete lists of all the religious or agricultm-al 
periodicals, of medical, commoroial, seientlflc, 
educational, or anj’ other of the class publioar 
tions, oan'bo obtained Horn it. It will show you 
at a glance all tho newspapers imblishcd in any 
one county in the United States and Canada. It 
gives the loention, county-seat, and population 
of every county in the United States, the charac¬ 
ter of the surface, the nature of tho soil, and its 
