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troubleseome where lettuce, tomato, 
endive and other small vegetable 
seeds are started under glass. Traps 
and cast are useful,. but a little white 
arsenic mixed in toasted cornflakes 
which have been slightly moistened 
acts even more effectively. 
“Success with onions is more cer- 
tain if the same ground is used for 
them each year, and if it is thoroughly 
formed before drills are drawn at all. 
In choosing a seed bed for cabbage, 
cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and 
savoys be sure to select one which is 
free from club root, or better not sow 
at all. This disease annually destroys 
many of the Brassicas and its pres- 
ence shows an over acid condition of 
the soil, which a liberal dressing of 
lime in the fall will help to remedy. 
Always sow seeds of this class of 
vegetables thinly in the drills, if not 
you must thin while small, or plants 
will-be pure weaklings. Remember 
that leafy crops such as_ spinach, 
Swisschard, lettuce, endive and rhu- 
barb should have a soil rich in nitro- 
gen, the best form of which is good 
barn-yard manure, and that fruiting 
varieties such as tomatoes, eggplants 
and peppers like considerable potash 
in the soil. 
“T have only touched on some vege- 
tables, but must now turn to flowers. 
These on the whole need much more 
careful covering than vegetables. Of 
the better known and hardier annuals, 
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stocks, salpiglossis, salvias, zinnias, 
marigolds, nemesias, verbenas, pe- 
tunias, vincas, lobelias, phlox drum- 
mondi, snapdragons and balsams; the 
majority of these may also be started 
outdoors, but it is much more satis- 
factory to start under glass. Petunias 
and lobelias have very small seeds 
and should be sown in pans, which 
should be well drained, some moss 
placed over the drainage, a little, 
coarse soil over this, and the balance 
should consist of equal parts loam and 
leaf mold with a good dash of sand 
through it. This should be passed 
through a fine screen, then. pressed 
firmly in the pans with a piece of 
board, watered with a watering pot 
with a fine nose, dusted with sand and 
the fine seeds scattered over this. 
Take a pinch of seed between the 
forefinger and thumb and distribute 
it as evenly as possible over the sur- 
face and do not cover the seed at all. 
To prevent seed washing to the side 
of the pans cut a piece of tissue paper 
and lay over the surface of the pans, 
water over this; it helps to prevent 
drying of the soil and stops seed 
washing; it decays, and allows seed- 
lings to push through it readily. This 
plan is not necessary where experts 
are sowing and caring for seeds, but 
it will prove useful to amateurs sow- 
ing such small seeds as_ petunias 
lobelias, begonias, globinias, minulus, 
etc. 
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alyssum and godetias can be made as 
soon as frost has left the ground and 
it has dried sufficiently to be work- 
able. Sweet peas cannot be sown too 
early after frost has gone, the roct- 
will go well down into the cool, moist 
earth before the growths appears; 
cover two inches deep, but never hill 
up, as too many catalogues and maga- 
zine writers recommend or you will 
regret, it. 
Hardy herbaceous perennials. are 
wonderfully popular now. I well re- 
member the fight waged by William 
Kobinson through the columns of the 
English Garden to secure them suit- 
able recognition in the early eighties 
of the last century. <A great propor- 
tion of these hardy plants are easily 
and inexpensively raised from seed. 
Taking first those usually treated as 
biennials, but some of which are per- 
ennial, we have pansies, bedding 
violas, double daisies, rockets, for- 
get-me-not, ‘Canterbury bells, fox- 
gloves, hollyhocks and honesty; of 
these daisies should be sown in a cold 
frame, or in a shaded position out- 
doors from July 25 to Aug. 1. The 
varieties of slow germination are ‘bet- 
ter sown in fall, when the seed is ripe 
and fresh; it will do no harm to allow 
the soil to freeze over winter, but the 
flats or seed beds should be mulched 
with dry leaves, tight sashes being 
placed over these.” 
quite a number are better started in a 
hotbetd or greenhouse; this includes 
such popular subjects as asters, 
Society MAGAZINE written entirely by society people 
has long been regarded as a desideratum, by society 
people, and at last they are going to have such a magazine. 
It is coming out in New York; it will be called The 
Chronicle—a good enough name, but not strikingly origt- 
nal in its suggestion; perhaps the name itself is intended 
as a sort of guarantee to subscribers (who are to include 
none but society people) that nothing startling, revolu- 
tionary or in way disturbing will be broached in the paper. 
The first number, which will appear “about Feb. 1’’—the 
word “about” carries in itself a certain leisurely and re- 
poseful suggestion—will contain contributions from Mrs. 
Vincent Astor, Francis Burke Roche and Mrs. Benjamin 
Guinness, and articles by Mrs. W. Astor Chanler, Lady 
Colebrooke, Mrs. George Gould and other society people 
are scheduled for the near future. There is no lack of 
ability on the part of the exclusive classes to support 
such a magazine, but of course the question may soon 
arise whether these people will really like a magazine of 
society people, by society people for society people so 
well as they like certain periodicals which are run and 
written mainly by professional journalists and writers. 
A magazine was once started in England to be “written 
by gentlemen for gentlemen,” it is still in existence, but 
in the respect of its editors, contributors and subscribers 
it does not now differ from a good many other periodicals. 
A considerable difficulty, it would seem, must attend the 
restriction of the circulation of such a magazine to society 
people. Society itself does not always perfectly agree on 
“Sowing of such well-known 
nuals as bachelor’s 
ette, candytuft, lupines, poppies, sweet 
“Every flower that you plant along 
some other man’s path sheds of ‘its 
fragrance on yours.” 
an- 
buttons, mignon- 
the details of its own membership. If the possession of 
a copy of the Chronicle is to be accepted as a proof and 
guarantee of membership in the inner circle of society, the 
existence of the magazine must itself be a certain n enace 
to the exclusiveness of the circle. This is a peril that 
should be looked out for by the founders.—Boston Tran- 
script. 
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Kindness will win more things worth having than 
dollars. 
You are nearly half defeated when you tell all your 
plans. 
Buried seeds will grow, but buried talents will not. 
—Beccher. 
“Large ideas” are not to be compared with large 
ideals —Phillip Brooks. 
No life is so strong and complete but it yearns for 
the smile of a friend. 
He who would be a great soul in the future must be 
a great soul now.—Emerson. 
In God’s world, for those who are in earnest there 
is no failure —F. W. Robertson. 
