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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 17, No. 5, March, 1894 - -Author: Various - -Editor: James Vick - -Release Date: September 13, 2020 [EBook #63196] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VICK'S ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY, MARCH 1894 *** - - - - -Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;"> - -<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="650" height="1000" alt="Cover image" /> - -<p class="center larger">VICK’S<br /> -<span class="smaller">ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY</span><br /> -MAGAZINE.</p> - -<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Devoted to the Profitable Culture of Flowers and Vegetables.</span></p> - -<p class="caption">Vick Publishing Co.<br /> -Fifty Cents Per Year.</p> - -<p class="caption">ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH, 1894.</p> - -<p class="caption">Volume 17, No. 5.<br /> -New Series.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger">COUGHS AND COLDS</p> - -<p class="noindent">are only the beginning. Lungs are weakened -next, the body becomes emaciated, and then -the dreaded Consumption Germ appears.</p> - -<p class="center larger"><span class="u">Scott’s<br /> -Emulsion</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">the Cream of Cod-liver Oil and Hypophosphites, -overcomes Coughs and Colds, strengthens -the Lungs, and supplies vital energy. -Physicians, the world over, endorse it.</p> - -<p class="center">BABIES AND CHILDREN</p> - -<p class="noindent">and Weak Mothers respond readily to the nourishing powers of Scott’s -Emulsion. They like the taste of it, too.</p> - -<p class="center">Don’t be Deceived by Substitutes!</p> - -<p class="center">Prepared by Scott & Bowne, Chemists, New-York City. Druggists sell it.</p> - -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insidefront-1.jpg" width="150" height="250" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">ORGANS $27.50 up</p> - -<p class="center">PIANOS, $175 up</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="u">FREE:</span></p> - -<p>Our large 24-page -Catalogue, profusely -illustrated, full -of information on -the proper construction -of Pianos and -Organs. We ship on -test trial, ask no -cash in advance, sell -on instalments, give -greater value for -the money than any -other manufacturer. -Send for this book -at once to</p> - -<p class="center">BEETHOVEN ORGAN CO.,</p> - -<p class="center">WASHINGTON, N. J. -P. O. Box 280</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insidefront-2.jpg" width="150" height="125" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">☞ SAVE MONEY</p> - -<table summary="Prices"> - <tr> - <td>$90 Top Buggy</td> - <td class="tdr">$52.50</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>$65 Top Buggy</td> - <td class="tdr">36.75</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>$75 Spring Wagon</td> - <td class="tdr">42.25</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>$40 Road Wagon</td> - <td class="tdr">24.75</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>$130 4-Pass Surrey</td> - <td class="tdr">77.50</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>$15 Texas Saddle</td> - <td class="tdr">8.25</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>$15 Cowboy Saddle</td> - <td class="tdr">25.00</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p>Single Harness $3.75, $5.25 and $10, same as sell for $7, -$10 and $18, Double Team Harness $12, $17, $20, same as -sell for $20, $30, $35. We ship anywhere to anyone at -WHOLESALE PRICES with privilege to examine -without asking one cent in advance. Buy from -manufacturers, save middlemen’s profits. World’s -Fair medals awarded. Write at once for catalogue and -testimonials free. CASH BUYERS’ UNION, -158 W. Van Buren St., B3, Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insidefront-3.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center bold">Death to High Prices!</p> - -<p class="center">Buy Direct from the Factory</p> - -<p class="noindent">and save agents’ and canvassers’ -commissions. Hereafter -we shall sell the Majestic direct -to the consumer at factory -cost. The Majestic is recognized -as the best machine for -family use, and has always -been sold by our agents for -$60. For a limited time we -shall sell it for $22 and furnish -all attachments free of charge. -Shipped on approval anywhere. -Send for a sample of its work and catalogue.</p> - -<p class="center">THE TILTON S. M. CO., 275 Wabash Av., Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insidefront-4.jpg" width="500" height="350" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Few men have ever really known,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And few would ever guess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What our country means by marking</div> - <div class="verse indent2">All her chattels with U.S.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">We see it on our bonds and bills,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And on our postal cars,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It decorates our Capitol</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Shadowed by Stripes and Stars.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">In all our barracks, posts and forts,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">It plays a leading part</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the jolly sailor loves it</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And enshrines it in his heart.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">It may stand for United States</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or yet for Uncle Sam,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But there’s still another meaning</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To this simple monogram.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now, have you guessed the message</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Which these mystic letters bear?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or recognized the untold good</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They’re spreading everywhere?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Echo the joyful tidings</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And let the people know</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That the U.S. of our nation means</div> - <div class="verse indent2">We Use Sapolio.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insidefront-5.jpg" width="150" height="125" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>AGENTS $10 a day at home -selling LIGHTNING PLATER -and plating Jewelry, Watches, -Tableware, Bicycles, etc. Plates -finest jewelry good as new, and -on all kinds of metal with gold, -silver or nickel. No experience. -Anyone can plate the first effort. -Goods need plating at every -house. Outfits complete. Different -sizes, all warranted. Wholesale -to agents $5 up. Big profits, -good seller. Circulars free.</p> - -<p class="center">H. F. Delno & Co. Dept. No. 6, Columbus, O.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">HALM’S ANTI-RHEUMATIC AND -ANTI-CATARRHAL CHEWING GUM</p> - -<p>Cures and Prevents Rheumatism, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, -Heartburn, Catarrh and Asthma. Useful in -Malaria and Fevers, Cleanses the Teeth and Promotes -the Appetite. Sweetens the Breath, Cures Tobacco -Habit. Endorsed by the Medical Faculty. -Send for 10, 15 or 25 cent package. Be convinced.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Silver, Stamps or Postal Note.</span></p> - -<p class="center">Geo. R. Halm, 140 W. 29th St., New York</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">Montbretias for Spring Planting.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insidefront-6.jpg" width="200" height="300" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>An order of plants belonging to the Iris family, are natives of Africa, and their general appearance -is that of the gladiolus, 18 inches high. Bloom profusely from July to October, throwing out spike -after spike of beautiful blossoms. Hardy south of the Ohio; North, lift in fall and keep in dry sand.</p> - -<p><b>Crocosmiflora.</b> This is a hybrid variety, having scarlet flowers about one and one half inch in -length, borne numerously in a long panicle standing well up above the foliage, considered hardy.</p> - -<p><b>Pottsii.</b> Flowers bright yellow, flashed on the outside with brick-red; very ornamental and hardy.</p> - -<p><b>Rosea.</b> Flowers rose colored. <b>Mixed.</b> All colors.</p> - -<p><i>Named varieties 5c. each; 6 for 25c.; 12 for 40c. Mixed 5c. each 6 for 20c.; 12. for 35c.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">POPULAR SELECTED COLLECTIONS.</p> - -<p>To all who want good sensible Collections for the Flower and Vegetable Garden we can recommend -either of the following. <i>All of the seeds contained in them are our regular sized packages, and first -class in every respect.</i> They give to our customers a good assortment, best adapted to produce a continued -succession of the most useful kinds throughout the year.</p> - -<p>Several thousand of our Collections are sold annually, and to the same people, which shows that -they are perfectly satisfactory.</p> - -<p class="center bold">FLOWER SEEDS.</p> - -<ul> -<li>No. 1—Twenty Varieties Choice Annuals, $1.00.</li> -<li>No. 2—Forty Varieties Choice Annuals, $2.00.</li> -<li>No. 3—“Beauteous” Collection of 60 Varieties of the Finest -Annuals, Biennials and Perennials, $3.00.</li> -<li>No. 4—“Perfection” Collection of 100 Varieties of the Finest -Annuals, Biennials and Perennials, $5.00.</li> -</ul> - -<p class="center bold">VEGETABLE SEEDS.</p> - -<ul> -<li>No. 5—Twenty-three Varieties, for Small Garden, $1.00.</li> -<li>No. 6—Forty-six Varieties. All Leading Vegetables. $2.00.</li> -<li>No. 7—“Giant” Collection ($4.00 worth) of Finest Varieties -of Vegetables for Family Garden, $3.00.</li> -<li>No. 8—“Mammoth” Collection ($6.50 worth) of Finest Varieties -of Vegetables for Family Garden, $5.00.</li> -</ul> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">FLORAL GUIDE, 1894,<br /> -The PIONEER CATALOGUE<br /> -of Vegetables and Flowers.</p> - -<p>Contains 112 pages 8 × 10½ inches, with descriptions that describe, not mislead; instructions that instruct, not exaggerate.</p> - -<p>The cover is charming in harmonious blending of water color prints in green and white, with a gold background,—a dream of beauty. 32 pages -of Novelties printed in 8 different colors. All the leading novelties and the best of the old varieties. These hard times you cannot afford to run -any risk. Buy <b>Honest Goods</b> where you will receive <b>Full Measure</b>. It is not necessary to advertise that Vick’s seeds grow, this is known the -world over, and also that the harvest pays. A very little spent for proper seed will save grocer’s and doctor’s bills. Many concede Vick’s Floral -Guide the handsomest catalogue for 1894. If you love a fine garden send address now, with 10 cents, which may be deducted from first order.</p> - -<p class="center">$360.00 CASH PRIZES FOR POTATOES.</p> - -<p class="center">JAMES VICK’S SONS, Rochester. N. Y.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65"></a>[65]</span></p> - -<h1><span class="smcap">Vick’s Magazine.</span></h1> - -<div class="double"> - -<p class="center">Vol. 17. <span class="spacer">ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH, 1894.</span> No. 5.</p> - -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="MARCH">MARCH</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/illus1.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Shifting winds and lowering sky—March.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bleak and bare the brown fields lie—March.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Winter’s spectre now is laid,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Yet Spring lingers, half afraid.</i></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Haste, oh Spring, your tasks are set, March!</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>You are late, do you forget? March!</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Long before this time last year,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bluebird and his mate were here.</i></div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<i>J. Torrey Connor.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="MABEL_RAYS_LESSON">MABEL RAY’S LESSON.</h2> - -<p class="center">BY ROSE SEELYE-MILLER.</p> - -</div> - -<div> -<img class="dropcap" src="images/dropcap.jpg" width="100" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">Times had been hard, -harder than common this -past year, and it seemed to -Mabel Ray as though there -was little bright to look forward -to, and less to encourage -her in trying to do -right, trying to be the Christian -she wanted to be some -years ago. She had married -Harry Ray three years -previous; he was a thriving -young merchant, but the past year it had seemed -to the young wife as if he had grown taciturn -and almost fretful if she wanted money for any -little thing which she deemed necessary. Only -this morning he had refused her money for the -fur cape that she really needed so much, especially -if they were going to her folks for New -Year’s day. She had always had what she -wanted when at home, and if Harry begrudged -her the necessities of life, why, she almost believed -she had better go back to that home, for -she was an only daughter and was idolized by -her parents. She sat and thought, and thought, -of her wrongs until the tears came, and then, -after having a good cry, she went into the conservatory -and began picking flowers for the -church decoration in which site was to take -part. There was to be a concert and recitations -and such entertainments, and the funds were to -go to help the needy ones in the parish. For -there were many who needed, many men were -out of work, and their families were destitute -indeed. Mabel was always ready for work of -this kind, it relieved the tedium of the days -when Harry was at the store, and then, be it -known to you, although Mabel would have -blushed had she realized it herself, she liked the -notices in the city personals about the charming -and philanthropic Mrs. Ray who took such a -prominent part in every good work.</p> - -<p>Her time was her own; there were no little -ones for her to care for; her household was managed -by a competent housekeeper who looked -well to the domestic arrangements; so, altogether, -Mrs. Ray rather needed something to give her -an idea of usefulness. She was selfish, I am -sorry to say, but when you think that she was an -only child, reared in luxury, with everything she -desired procured for her, it is no wonder that -she learned to think that what she wanted was -the first thing to be considered.</p> - -<p>Harry Ray really loved his wife, but he was -bearing a heavy burden of financial care, and -then, besides, he did not possess the means that -Mabel’s father had. He would do anything, -sacrifice anything for her, but she seemed thoughtless -about his sacrifices, and did not realize that -perhaps she too had a duty to perform.</p> - -<p>She came home from decorating the church -that afternoon in better spirits, but was almost -vexed when Harry assured her it would be impossible -for him to attend the Charity function -with her that evening. “Wrap yourself up well, -Mabel,” Harry said thoughtfully, “and let the -coachman await you.” He looked almost wistfully -at her bright young beauty and longed for -a word of sympathy and help from her, but none -came. He looked worn and worried, and a -thoughtful wife would have noticed this long -before, but Mabel had not been taught to notice -others in that way.</p> - -<p>So Harry went to his work in his office, and -Mabel, dressed richly, went to the Charity function, -where she expected to sing. The evening -passed pleasantly to Mabel, for she loved a brilliant -scene and the compliments she always -received.</p> - -<p>The next day she was one of a committee to -dispense the various gifts among the poor. She -rose early for her, and with several others she -visited such haunts of misery as she had never -dreamed of. Poverty had always been a rather -pleasant thing in her mind where people were -always holding some sort of meetings to relieve -it, and where kind hearted women were taking -chicken broth or cups of jelly to others who lay -in bed; she never really thought that perhaps it -would be pleasanter to make one’s own chicken -broth or furnish one’s own jelly, or that perhaps -the one who lay in bed might do something besides -just simply lie there; she did not realize -the tragedy of many of those lives where poverty -binds and sickness holds with chains invincible -beyond all human aiding.</p> - -<p>There was more wretchedness depicted in the -squalid homes she visited than she had ever -dreamed of, there was not only poverty but there -was dirt, and there was suffering, and she began -to wonder if there were not other things needed -by the poor besides chicken broth and jelly; she -thought soap would not be misplaced, and that -clothes would find lodgement, she was sure -flowers would be welcomed by some, and she -went home with her heart really aroused from -its selfish stupor. Harry did not come home to -tea, and it was so late before he did come that -being very wearied she retired, and soon fell -asleep. But here, even, she was not free, she -seemed to be in the midst of a white-robed -throng who went about ministering to the needs -of others, and when she spoke to them they only -said “Even Christ pleased not Himself,” and -winged their way on their errands of mercy, and -then she seemed transported to the sunny fields -where flowers bloomed and birds sang their -sweetest carols; there were certain ones gathering -the flowers and when she spoke to them they -said “Even Christ pleased not Himself.”</p> - -<p>And then she was transported to the city and -into the haunts of misery and she saw a wan-faced -woman going into a poor hovel with a -blossom in her hand that she had picked from -where it had fallen from some fair lady’s bouquet. -She placed it carefully in a pitcher with -a broken spout and turned the fairest side of the -flower toward a sick one lying upon a pallet of -straw, and when she looked a halo seemed to -surround the flower and a voice said “Even -Christ pleased not Himself.” And suddenly -she seemed to be in her husband’s office, and -there sat Harry, his face was haggard, and there -were tense lines about his mouth, and he seemed -trying in vain to make the accounts tally in the -ledger before him, and ruin and disaster embodied -seemed looking in upon him as he -worked, and finally he laid down his pen, saying -“I can do no more—if it were not for -Mabel.”</p> - -<p>Then she was in her own beautiful home and -everything seemed going on strangely; the flowers -in the conservatory had withered and died -because they lived to please themselves, and so -it seemed with everything in the house; the -housekeeper was keeping house to please herself, -the cook was not going to serve the dinner -because it did not please her to do so, and so it</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<p class="noindent"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66"></a>[66]</span> -went, and she reached her room and there she -found herself in ease and luxury, taking no thought -for others, and seeking only how she might -please herself; and then there seemed to be the -roaring of a fire and she saw the house and all -therein consumed, but she saw the woman who -had carried the broken flower to the sick child -coming to help her, and then Harry took her in -his arms, and she knew that these were safe because -they had not lived to please themselves.</p> - -<p>After awhile she woke and hearing a step -upon the stairs she slipped on a warm dressing -gown and went out softly to meet Harry. He -was surprised and there was that anxious look -upon his face that she had seen in her dream. -She drew him into the parlor and seated him in -an easy chair, and then smoothed the wrinkles -from his brow and begged him to tell her of his -troubles. So the husband and wife conferred -together, and both bearing the burden it grew -lighter, and after a time it passed away. Mabel -seemed different thereafter, her dream was so -realistic that her very heart seemed changed, and -upon its tablets were written in indelible letters, -“Even Christ pleased not Himself.” She did -not care to figure in charity functions where she -would be praised of men, but she sought out the -needy and tried faithfully to aid them. Her aid -was given so unostentatiously, and with such humility -and earnest sympathy, that the poor soon -learned to love her, and her flowers bloomed not -in vain, for they bloomed for the sick and sinning, -for the poor and needy, and I trow that in -sowing good seeds upon earth she will reap a -heavenly harvest that will surprise her. For -she has learned the sweetness of the words -“Even Christ pleased not Himself.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CURIOUS_ARCHITECTS">CURIOUS ARCHITECTS.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>There is no topic in natural history so interesting -as the architecture of birds; in -the building of their nests they are exceedingly -ingenious. We may well learn a lesson from -the patience, diligence and perseverance which -they display. Just as men are skilled in different -mechanical employments, so we find in the -bird tribe miners, masons, carpenters, weavers, -basket-makers and tailors.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="400" height="175" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">HUMMING BIRD’S NEST.</p> -</div> - -<p>The humming bird constructs its nest of the -finest silky down, and of cotton, or if these are -not available, some other similar material. The -inside is lined in the most delicate manner with -soft substances; the outside is covered -with moss, usually the color of the bough -or twig to which the nest is attached, -thus giving it the appearance of an excrescence. -The delicacy and ingenuity -of workmanship and skill could hardly -be excelled by human art.</p> - -<p>The humming bird is the -“fairy of the feathered race”—the -smallest and most beautiful—and -they are found almost all -over this continent. Most of -them, however, dwell in the far -South, where flowers are ever in -bloom, and summer reigns all -the year round. One species -alone visits our chill Northern States—the -humming bird with the ruby throat. -It comes to us in July and is very shy; -its stay is very short, for toward the first of -September it departs to a warmer climate.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="300" height="400" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">WOODPECKER DRILLING A HOLE FOR A NEST.</p> -</div> - -<p>It is only in tropical countries that the several -species of humming bird are seen in their abundance -and variety. The islands between Florida -and the main land of South America literally -swarm with them. In the wild and uncultivated -parts they inhabit the magnificent forests overhung -with rare plants, whose blossoms vie in -beauty with the jewel-like brilliancy of these -animate gems of the air. In the cultivated portions -of the country they abound in the gardens -and seem to delight in society.</p> - -<p>Lovely and full of nervous energy, these -winged gems are constantly in the air, darting -from one object to another, and displaying their -gorgeous colors in the sunlight. -When on a long journey, as -during migration, they pass -through the air in long undulations, -raising themselves to a -considerable height and then -falling so as to form a curve. -When feeding on a flower they -keep themselves poised in one -position as steadily as if suspended -on a bough—making a -humming sound with the rapid motion -of their wings.</p> - -<p>In disposition these little creatures -are bold and pugnacious. In defending -their nests they will attack -birds five times their size and drive -them off. When angry, their motions are very -violent and their flight as swift as an arrow. -Often the eye is incapable of following them, -and their shrill, piercing note alone announces -their presence.</p> - -<p>Among the most dazzling of this brilliant tribe -is the bar-tailed humming bird of Brazil. The -tail is forked at the base, and consists of five -feathers, graduated one above another, at almost -equal distances. Their color is of the richest -flame; the upper part of the body is golden -green, and the under part emerald.</p> - -<p>There are more than a hundred kinds of these -birds, and all are noted for their surpassing beauty. -What a beautiful conception in the author -of nature were these exquisite little creatures! -It is as if the flowers had taken wings, and life, -and intelligence, to share in the sports of animal -life.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/illus4.jpg" width="300" height="250" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">NESTS OF THE BOTTLE BIRD.</p> -</div> - -<p>The nest of the golden-crested wren, a most -beautiful bird found in England and other parts -of Europe, is a fine example of weaving. It is -made of moss and lichen, and lined with feathers; -it has a very small entrance at the top and -the interior of the nest is also small, bearing no -proportion to the size of the structure. The -weaving of this nest is a work of great labor and -assiduity, and compared with the bulk of the -bird, it is of large dimensions.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/illus5.jpg" width="400" height="400" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">NESTS OF SOCIAL WEAVERS.</p> -</div> - -<p>The nest is suspended from the under surface -of a fir branch, thickly clothed with foliage, by -which it is almost entirely concealed and partly -protected from the rain. Thus, beneath a natural -canopy, this little bird rears her brood, -whose cradle swings to and fro with every -breeze. The eggs are from seven to ten in -number, and of a pale brown color.</p> - -<p>A naturalist who watched a nest containing -eight small birds with a powerful opera glass, -observed that the parent birds came to the nest -with food every two minutes, or upon an average -thirty-six times in an hour; and this continued -full sixteen hours a day, which, if equally</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<p class="noindent"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67"></a>[67]</span> -divided between the brood, each would receive -seventy-two feeds, the whole amounting to five -hundred and seventy-six!</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/illus6.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">NESTS OF THE SAND MARTIN.</p> -</div> - -<p>The woodpeckers are carpenters; they not -only bore holes in trees in search of food, but -they also chisel out deep holes in which to deposit -their eggs and rear their young. They -generally build their nest in May, selecting an -old apple tree in the orchard; the boring is first -done by the male, who pecks out a circular hole; -as the work progresses, he is occasionally relieved -by the female. They both work with -great diligence, and as the hole deepens they -carry out the chips, sometimes taking them some -distance to prevent discovery or suspicion. The -nest usually requires a week to build, and when -the female is quite satisfied she deposits her eggs, -generally six in number and of a pure white -color.</p> - -<p>A bird called the grosbeak builds a nest -shaped like an inverted bottle with a long neck, -through which it passes up to a snug little chamber -above. The nest is skillfully constructed of -soft vegetable substances, sewed together in a -wonderful manner, and suspended from a twig -of a bush.</p> - -<p>The social weaver is found in the -south of Africa. Hundreds of these -birds, in one community, join to form a -structure of interwoven grass containing -various apartments, all covered by a -sloping roof impenetrable to the heaviest -rain, and increased year after year as the -population of the little community may -require.</p> - -<p>A traveler, returned from a journey -through South Africa, writes: “A tree -with an enormous nest of these birds was -quite near where our party camped for -the night. I dispatched a few men with -a wagon to bring it to the camp that I might -open the hive and examine the nest in its minutest -parts. When it arrived I cut it to pieces -with a hatchet, and saw that the chief portion -of the structure consisted of grass, without any -mixture, but so compact and firmly woven together -as to be impenetrable to the rain. This -is a canopy under which each bird builds its particular -nest; the canopy projects a little, which -serves to let the water run off when it rains. -The nest contained three hundred and twenty -nests, and it was calculated that the number of -birds would exceed six hundred in this one -nest alone.”</p> - -<p>The bottle-nested sparrow is a basket maker; -it is found in India and is a very intelligent bird. -It resembles our native sparrow in some particulars, -but its color is brown and yellow. It associates -in large communities and builds its nests -on palm trees. It is formed in a very ingenious -way, by long grasses woven together into the -shape of a bottle, and it is then suspended at the -extremity of a branch, in order to secure the -eggs and young birds from numerous enemies, -such as serpents, monkeys and other animals -which infest that part of the world.</p> - -<p>These nests excel in the neatness and delicacy -of their workmanship. They contain several -apartments intended for different purposes; -in one the female deposits her eggs; in another -is stored the food which the male gathers -for his mate during her maternal duties, and a -third is the sleeping apartment for the male -bird.</p> - -<p>The sand martin is a most curious member -of the swallow tribe. It appears in the spring -a week or two before the common swallow, -and it is fond of skimming swiftly over the surface -of the water. This bird makes a hole in -a sand bank, sometimes two feet deep, at the -extremity of which it constructs a loose nest of -fine grass and feathers, in which it rears its -young brood. The beak of the sand martin is -like a sharp little awl, very hard, and tapering, -suddenly to a point.</p> - -<p>The tailor bird is not the least interesting of -the bird family; it has a curious bill which it -uses like a needle, and it forms its nest by sewing -the materials together instead of weaving.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/illus7.jpg" width="300" height="325" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">NEST OF TAILOR BIRD.</p> -</div> - -<p>“The tailor bird,” says Darwin, “will not -build its nest to the extremity of a tender twig, -but makes one more advance to safety by fixing -it to the leaf itself. It picks up a dead leaf and -sews it to the side of a living one, its slender -bill serving as a needle, and its thread some fine -fibers; the lining consists of feathers, gossamer -and down; its eggs are white; the color of the -bird light yellow; its length three inches; its -weight three-sixteenths of an ounce; so that the -materials of the nest and the weight of the bird -are not likely to draw down a habitation so -slightly suspended.”</p> - -<p>The different methods of nest building evidently -result from the peculiarities of the birds -themselves combined with their surroundings. -Will these styles of architecture be changed or -further developed?</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Henry Coyle.</span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="VICKS_FLOWERS">VICK’S FLOWERS.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">What radiance do I see?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">What color-wave outflows,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Making the wilderness rejoice</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And blossom like the rose?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">From sea to sea it pours,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From east to western strands,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Softening the stern Atlantic shores,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Brightening Pacific sands.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The South-land grows more sweet;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">By broad blue Northern lakes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fair as auroral flushes fleet</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The fragrant flower-tide breaks.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Our fertile vales make room</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For this benignant grace;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The prairie’s wealth of native bloom</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gladly to this gives place.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O, lovely enterprise,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Refining where it goes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Making the wilderness rejoice</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And blossom as the rose!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Virginia Westwood.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">“Only the Scars Remain,”</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p67-1.jpg" width="100" height="275" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Says <span class="smcap">Henry Hudson</span>, of the James -Smith Woolen -Machinery Co., -Philadelphia, -Pa., who certifies -as follows:</p> - -<p>“Among the -many testimonials -which I see -in regard to certain -medicines -performing -cures, cleansing -the blood, etc., -none impress me -more than <b>my -own case</b>. -Twenty years -ago, at the age -of 18 years, I had -swellings come -on my legs, -which broke and -became <b>running -sores</b>. -Our family physician -could do -me no good, and it was feared that the -bones would be affected. At last, my -good old</p> - -<p class="center bold">Mother urged me</p> - -<p class="noindent">to try <b>Ayer’s</b> Sarsaparilla. I took three -bottles, the sores healed, and I have not -been troubled since. <b>Only the Scars -remain, and the memory of the -past, to remind me of the good -Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has done me.</b> -I now weigh two hundred and twenty -pounds, and am in the best of health. -I have been on the road for the past -twelve years, have noticed <b>Ayer’s</b> Sarsaparilla -advertised in all parts of the -United States, and always take pleasure -in telling what good it did for me.”</p> - -<p class="center bold">Ayer’s Sarsaparilla</p> - -<p class="center">Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.</p> - -<p class="center bold">Cures others, will cure you.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68"></a>[68]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="LINES_TO_A_SKUNK_CABBAGE">LINES TO A SKUNK CABBAGE.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh, life grotesque! How, whence did spring</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The thought that gave thee blossoming?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How comes thy strange offensive bloom</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Near knolls that give sweet violets room?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sweet violets, which fill the air</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With perfumed incense of a prayer</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That, floating to the world above</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Calls blessings from the soul of Love.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But thou, mephitic bloom! thou hast</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A thought in thee of ages past,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When songs of love were all unknown,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ere earth had into beauty grown,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ere rippling brook and soughing pine</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Had turned her prose hills into rhyme;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When all was dark, and cold, and bare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thou hadst, perhaps, a mission there;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And that is why, ’neath spring-time snows</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy curious spathe so early grows.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hast thou no mission now, strange flower,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Happier to make spring’s early hour?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hark! from thy close-wrapped heart doth come</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The working bee’s glad, soundful hum,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where loads of pollen he doth find</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His waxen honey cells to bind.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So, thou hast place in fields of use,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And vain are now words of abuse—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Giving the best thy heart doth hold</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To help the workers of the world.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And giving thus, with patient grace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Doth baser qualities efface,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in a better, higher sphere</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thine inner beauty doth appear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And thy developed soul shall be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Violet-sweet eternally.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Beth Max.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>These lines were suggested by a spathe of the -skunk cabbage sent me by my brother, W. S. Ripley, -of Wakefield, Mass., who mentioned in his letter to me -when the specimen was sent that he stopped “to -watch the bees go in at the aperture on one side of -the spathe, and listened to their loud humming inside, -as they laid on their load of pollen.” In Thoreau’s -“Early Spring in Massachusetts,” page 172, in writing -of this plant he says: “All along under that bank -I heard the hum of honey bees in the air, attracted by -this flower. Especially the hum of one within a spathe -sounds deep and loud.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_NEW_FRENCH_CANNAS">THE NEW FRENCH CANNAS.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>I do not know of any class of plants that have -attracted so much attention or have been so -much admired during the past season as the new -large flowering French cannas. And for effectiveness -on lawns in large beds or masses, or as -single specimens in the mixed border, nothing -can be more tropical and impressive. They are -really plants for everybody as they are entirely -free from insect pests, and require but little care -and attention to grow them to perfection. They -succeed well in all kinds of weather, wet or dry, -and are not injured in the least by the severe -storms of wind and rain that we so often experience -during the summer season.</p> - -<p>They bloom without intermission from June -until they are destroyed by frost; the spikes of -large flowers somewhat resemble gladiolus but -are really more effective and showy as their -brilliant colors show so grandly against their -tropical foliage. Most, if not all, of the varieties -grow on an average about three feet in -height, and the flowers range in color from deep -crimson to pure yellow, including all the intermediate -shades, many being so beautifully -marked that they are frequently compared to -orchid flowers.</p> - -<p>To grow these cannas to perfection as well as -to enable them to properly develop themselves, -they should be given a very deep heavily enriched -soil, and as soon as hot, dry weather sets -in mulched to the depth of at least two inches -with good stable manure, and if the opportunity -offers, water copiously during seasons of drought. -With this treatment a single tuber will make a -clump three or four feet in diameter in a single -season; this will give one some idea of the immense -amount of foliage and flowers a single -specimen will produce.</p> - -<p>The plants should not be planted outside until -the weather becomes warm and settled, which -in this vicinity is about the tenth of May, and as -soon as the foliage has been destroyed by the -frost it should be cut off, and the tubers dug and -stored underneath the greenhouse stage, or in -some other situation, where a temperature of 55° -is maintained, until the time arrives for planting -them outside again.</p> - -<p>Or the plants can be lifted on the approach of -cold weather, divided, potted up, and grown on -for decorative purposes in either the greenhouse -or window garden. This is a very safe way to -winter over the large flowering cannas or any -other variety of which one’s stock is limited.</p> - -<p>When grown as pot plants for winter decoration -the cannas should be given a compost consisting -of two-thirds turfy loam, one-third well -decayed manure and a good sprinkling of bone -dust, mix well and use the compost rough. The -plants should be given as light and sunny a situation -as possible and a temperature of 55° to 60°. -They should also be freely watered both overhead -and at the roots, and as soon as the pots -become well filled with roots a little liquid ammonia -can be given occasionally or else they -must be shifted into larger pots.</p> - -<p>Propagation is effected by a careful division -of the clumps, and where the plants are to be -kept in a state of rest the operation should be -performed when they are being planted out in -May. In dividing leave two or three eyes or -shoots to each plant.</p> - -<p>Of the many varieties now listed in catalogues -the following are the most desirable and distinct:</p> - -<p>Alphonse Bouvier is the grandest deep red -variety known, both truss and flowers being very -large, and the plant makes a most luxuriant -growth of deep red foliage. In color the flowers -are of a rich velvety red.</p> - -<p>Capt. P. de Suzzini has handsome light green -foliage and is the most beautiful of all the spotted -varieties. Its flowers are of a rich shade of canary -yellow beautifully spotted and dashed with red.</p> - -<p>Francois Crozy has bright green foliage and -very large flowers which are of a bright orange -bordered with a narrow edge of gold—a very -rare and desirable color in cannas.</p> - -<p>Madame Crozy grows about three and a -half feet in height and has broad bright green -foliage. The flowers, which are produced in -massive spikes, are of a bright crimson scarlet -beautifully bordered with gold. The plant commences -to bloom when about one foot in height.</p> - -<p>Nellie Bowden, in all respects this is identical -with Madame Crozy except in the color of -its flowers which are of a rich golden yellow. -One of the most distinct and beautiful of cannas.</p> - -<p>Paul Marquant has dark green foliage and -very large handsome flowers of a bright salmon -scarlet. A very showy variety.</p> - -<p>Star of 1891 is so well and favorably known -as to require no description. It is the best of -all for pot culture, as it is of dwarf growth and -very free-flowering. The flowers are of a bright -orange scarlet occasionally edged with yellow.</p> - -<p><i>Floral Park, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Chas. E. Parnell.</span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_DIFFERENCE">THE DIFFERENCE.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>It makes all the difference between nice thrifty -plants or scraggly looking ones whether we -read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest a floral -magazine. In walking on the street, the appearance -of the windows or front yards tells you -whether the postman leaves a floral weekly or -monthly. Six weeks ago I saw a row of empty -pots right in the sun, and often an old man was -poking up the soil with his penknife to see if his -bulbs had started. You see he didn’t read up -about hyacinths, but potted them and put them -right in the sun. I can imagine his saying to -his wife, “It’s money thrown away to buy -bulbs; they probably are too old to grow and -I’ve been cheated.” So the poor seedsman gets -the blame, and not his own ignorance. Here is -a window with leggy looking geraniums in it, -just a few leaves on top of the long stems. Now -a little reading in a floral magazine would have -shown her, after blooming all summer, the place -for them is the cellar. Ah! here is a window -that shows intelligence. The hyacinths and -jonquils are showing their buds, moved to the -window from the dark corners where they have -been for weeks forming vigorous roots. Here -are primroses in bloom, and oxalis, and a scarlet -nasturtium makes the room bright on a cloudy -day, and in a corner I can see the Palm Latania. -She takes the magazines and knows what are -good winter plants for amateurs.</p> - -<p>In summer one can pick out the magazine -lawns and gardens. Here is one where the man -has two shapely maple trees in front, and has -pruned his “Jac” rose so that it is loaded with -blossoms, and in a circular bed he has put a caladium -in the center, and this shows off the -gladiolus in every shade around it. But the -next front yard is enough to set one’s teeth on -edge. Actually, here is a large square bed with -a tall candidum lily in each corner and, inside, -petunias, zinnias, asters and marigolds in one -blaze of color. The whole effect is like a crazy -quilt thrown over an old fashioned four-posted -bedstead. One sees the roses eaten of worms -and bugs, or planted by the sunflowers and looking -ashamed at their surroundings; whereas the -magazines tell us again and again that roses -need to be watched continually and sprayed to -keep off the insects, and to plant by themselves. -Now for the moral. Let us all show, and lend -our florals, and urge the people to subscribe.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Anna Lyman.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="box30"> - -<p class="center bold">“WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.”</p> - -<p class="center larger bold">BEECHAM’S<br /> -PILLS<br /> -<span class="smaller">CURE</span><br /> -SICK HEADACHE,<br /> -<span class="smaller">DISORDERED LIVER, etc.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">They Act Like Magic on the Vital Organs, -Regulating the Secretions, restoring long -lost Complexion, bringing back the Keen -Edge of Appetite, and arousing with the -<b>ROSEBUD OF HEALTH</b> the whole physical -energy of the human frame. These Facts -are admitted by thousands, in all classes of -Society. Largest Sale in the World.</p> - -<p class="center">Covered with a Tasteless & Soluble Coating.</p> - -<p class="center">Of all druggists. Price <b>25</b> cents a Box. -New York Depot, 365 Canal St.</p> - -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69"></a>[69]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_COTTAGE_LOT">A COTTAGE LOT.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>When a tradesman can indulge in a suburban -home or a summer cottage it will -often happen that he will desire to keep a family -horse. If he doesn’t want a horse he will often -want a cow or chickens. In the accompanying -sketch A is a site provided for one or other of -these animals, and it is designedly given a prominent -position that its architecture may receive -treatment in consonance with that of the residence, -that it may be in unison with the surroundings, -and that it may supplant the useless -and ugly pavilions frequently seen.</p> - -<p>The approach to the house is direct and convenient -for all points, unless the architect is perverse -enough to put the coal cellar on the opposite -side.</p> - -<p>The boundary hedge is of Norway spruce with -room enough to grow and room enough to get -between it and the fence to clip it. I saw a -hedge on paper recently—between two groups -of shrubbery—which was not allowed room to -stand on end.</p> - -<p>There is a small vegetable garden, 13, with a -border around it for blackberries, currants, raspberries, -strawberries and such like, and at the -end, 14, either a few fruit trees or flowering -shrubs. The porches, both back and front, are -but a single step above the roadway. The -rooms may or may not be another step above -them, depending somewhat upon the character -of the subsoil, etc. I have not arranged any -special drying ground, for cedar poles may be -set up in the center of any of the round beds, 1 -to 8, and clothed with Japanese ivy, Euonymus -radicans, climbing hydrangeas and so on, and -have wires between them.</p> - -<p>Now these beds may be further filled with -either bedding plants or select herbaceous plants. -I will assume that it is a summer cottage, and I -would then plant the ground as follows, which -would result in a very different how d’ye do -from that usually seen in such places: 1, Begonia -Evansiana; 2, Funkia grandiflora; 3, -Echinacea purpurea; 4, Aconitum Napellus variegata; -5, Lobelia cardinalis; 6, Sedum Sieboldii; -7, Veronica longifolia subsessilis; 8, six -distinct varieties of Phlox paniculata. These -beds may be varied greatly, but nothing of unreliable -character should ever be planted in -them. Number 1, for instance, might have a -tub of nelumbium in place of the begonia, not -that it is greatly better, but for variety and fancy.</p> - -<p>Numbers 9, 9, 9, are shrubbery groups composed -of the following summer-flowering material, -disposed in such manner that all sides -may be seen, and mowed around, and giving -the longest possible margins for the space occupied. -There are but few trees to bloom after -July, they are chiefly Rhus semialata Osbeckii -and R. glabra; Dimorphanthus Mandschuricus; -Koelreuteria paniculata and Clerodendron trichotomum. -None of them are large. Of shrubs -there are a number, and it is strange that they -are so seldom used effectively. Garden shrubbery -looks more devoid of color in August here -than English shrubbery in midwinter. This -should not be with a list such as the following -to draw from and utilize. Just fancy what we -have—and the great artists we have—and tell -me if it should be.</p> - -<p>There are the altheas, lots of them; Buddleia -Lindleyana; Calluna vulgaris; Clethras in variety; -Callicarpa purpurea; <i>x</i> Clematis in variety; -Clerodendron viscosum; Desmodiums; Dabœcia -polifolia; Daphne cneorum; Erica vagans; -Euonymus Sieboldianus; Hydrangea Hortensia -varieties; Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora; -Hypericum in varieties; Hibiscus roseus, etc.; -Indigofera Dosua; Kerria Japonica; Lespedeza -bicolor; Leycesteria formosa; Lagerstrœmia -Indica; <i>x</i> Lonicera Halleana; <i>x</i> Periploca -græca; Polygonum cuspidatum; Potentilla fruticosa; -Rubus odoratus; Rhodotypus Kerrioides; -Rhus copallina; Rosa rugosa; R. Wichuriana, -and several hybrids; Spiræa salicifolia, S. tomentosa, -S. Douglassii, and S. Bumalda if it is pruned -after flowering in spring; Tamarix Chinensis; -<i>x</i> Tecoma radicans; <i>x</i> Tecoma grandiflora; Vitex -agnus-castus; Vitex Negundo incisa, and a -large number of sub-frutescent plants of large -size, which may be substituted for such of the -shrubs as are tender north of Philadelphia. -Numbers 10 and 11 are prepared borders -which may well be planted with Hydrangeas -Hortensia, Thomas Hogg, etc., and interspersed -with the pink and white varieties of Lilium -speciosum. Numbers 12, 12 are plants of Sciadopitys -verticillata.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/illus8.jpg" width="300" height="500" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">PLAN OF GROUNDS.</p> -</div> - -<p>Climbers are marked x. South of Philadelphia -Bignonia capreolata, Magnolia grandiflora -and evergreen roses may be grown on walls.</p> - -<p><i>Trenton, N. J.</i></p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">James MacPherson.</span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ROSE_LEAVES">ROSE LEAVES.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>My rose bushes are almost as much admired -for their beautiful foliage as for -their lovely roses. “I never saw such handsome -leaves, why they look exactly like wax.” -This is an exclamation I am growing quite accustomed -to hear from friends, and it is really -true; but I think any one who grows roses as -house plants may have just as handsome foliage -if the proper care is taken of the plants. Once -or twice every week (just as is most convenient) -I wash every leaf with clean, weak soapsuds, -under side as well as upper side. With the -small-leaved Polyanthas it is too tiresome to -wash each leaflet individually, but the foliage -can be sprayed well, and then very carefully and -gently a branch of leaves may be wiped at once, -and in this manner one can go over quite a number -of plants in half an hour. The leaves may -be left without wiping, of course, but the foliage -is apt to be marred unless it is done, as the soapsuds -dries on the leaves in white, unsightly spots. -Roses treated in this way will very rarely be -troubled with pests of any kind, and such rich -waxen green foliage as they will possess is more -beautiful than many flowers.</p> - -<p>It is something quite remarkable here, where -the thermometer falls to 40° and 50° below zero, -to see roses blooming outside of a conservatory, -But mine have been doing beautifully in the bay -window all winter, and small as the plants are -they have flowered wonderfully well. At night -the plants are moved away from the window -to a place where they are secure from frost -Queen’s Scarlet seems to make a special effort -to surpass itself each time some other rose comes -into bloom, and every rose it produces is, I -think, more beautiful than its predecessor. It is -in every way one of the loveliest of roses, and -although lacking in the rich fragrance of many -others, it yet possesses a delicate sweetness of -its own. The first time that American Beauty -bloomed for me it bore two exquisite roses, and -the little bush was barely eight inches high, one -of the shoots which produced a flower being -only four inches out of the soil, and the rich, exquisite -sweetness of these large, deep pink roses -is surely unsurpassed by any other.</p> - -<p>Sometimes when the buds seem very slow -about unfolding I take a cup of lukewarm water -and gently bending each bud give it a few minutes -immersion. This certainly hastens their -development and in no way injures them. If I -could only have one rose Queen’s Scarlet would -be my choice; if I could have others American -Beauty would certainly be the next one.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. S. H. Snider.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Care of Seeds.</span>—The smaller the seeds the -less covering required. Fine seeds may be scattered -on the moist soil, or at most have a sprinkling -of sand over them.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">PAYSON’S INDELIBLE INK</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p69-1.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center bold">Has a Record of Half a Century.</p> - -<p>☞ For Marking Personal and Family Linen.</p> - -<p>☞ For Marking Clothing of any Fabric.</p> - -<p>It has been in constant and regular use in</p> - -<ul> -<li>U. S. Gov’t Hospital, Washington, D. C., 50 years.</li> -<li>U. S. Hotel, Boston, 40 years.</li> -<li>Miss. State Lunatic Hospital, Jackson, Miss., 33 years.</li> -<li>Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, 31 years.</li> -</ul> - -<p>Received HIGHEST AWARD at WORLD’S FAIR, 1893.</p> - -<p>Sample bottle mailed on receipt of 25 cts. if you cannot -obtain it at druggists or stationers.</p> - -<p class="right">A. L. WILLISTON, Northampton, Mass.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70"></a>[70]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Letter_Box">Letter Box.</h2> -</div> - -<p>In this department we shall be pleased to answer any -questions relating to Flowers, Vegetables and Plants, or -to publish the experiences of our readers. <span class="smcap">James Vick.</span></p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_1">Lady Washington and Other Plants.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>I see by your September Magazine that you want -the experience of anyone that has had good success -with Lady Washington geraniums. I had good success -with mine. I used as a fertilizer ground oil cake -worked into the soil. It was a year-old plant and -had five bunches of bloom with five pansy-like flowers -in each bloom. They only bloom once a year. I -also used the oil cake on an ivy-leaved geranium and -its growth was beyond my expectations, for in a year’s -time it was eighteen feet long. All plants I have used -it on have done exceedingly well.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. N. G.</span></p> - -<p><i>Lane, Kansas.</i></p> - -</div> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_2">Roses in Kansas.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>I would like to know what manure that the farm -can furnish to use for the bed of Monthly roses, also, -must they be pruned or cut back the first year, and -what treatment must I give them in the winter here -in Kansas? Must I cut off all branches and cover the -roots or wrap the branches?</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. M.</span></p> - -</div> - -<p>Dig into the bed every spring a heavy dressing -of well rotted stable manure. Protect the -plants in winter with a covering of leaves or -branches of evergreens, prune in spring and -when needed at other times, so as to get a good -growth of new wood.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_3">Ixia—Spider Lily.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Will you please tell me through your Magazine -how to pronounce ixias.</p> - -<p>Also, how to treat the spider lily.</p> - -<p class="right">A. E. M.</p> - -<p><i>Casstown, Ohio.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>The division of the word as here given, ix-i-a, -sufficiently indicates its pronunciation.</p> - -<p>The spider lilies, or Pancratiums, are plants -growing naturally in marshes or low moist -grounds and require plenty of water in their -growing and blooming stage—afterwards give -less water favoring a season of comparative rest, -but do not allow to go wholly dry.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_4">Plants About a Fish Pond.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>I have a nice fish pond that till recently has been -outside of my yard, but finding that the cattle would -spoil the banks I am now taking it into my yard enclosure -and wish to make it an ornament, which it -really is. What kinds of plants are suitable to plant -in the water and around it that would make it showy? -I have now the Egyptian lotus growing in it.</p> - -<p class="right">W. C. L.</p> - -<p><i>Pennsville, Pa.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>One great point in making the planting should -be to secure plants which are hardy, and another -to select those appropriate to the situation. -Both of these ends can be secured by using the -water and bog plants which flourish in that locality. -These might be named, but that would -not assist in securing them. The practical way -is to look up a number of ponds and streams and -visit them every month during spring and summer, -and see how many interesting plants may -be found. Mark their positions, and in autumn -visit the places again and remove such as are -wanted and plant them in similar situations -about the pond. Willows of different kinds and -black ash and poplars and alder trees can furnish -shade, and several kinds of shrubs can be -used to ornament the banks.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_5">Osage Orange Hedge.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Please send instructions for raising Osage orange -hedge.</p> - -<p class="right">B. B. R.</p> - -<p><i>Spangle, Wash.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>The Osage orange is a native of Texas, and -consequently needs warm weather to make its -growth. The seed should be planted at the time -of corn planting in northern localities. A month -previous to sowing place the seed in a dish of -water and let it remain covered with water until -ready to sow. If kept in water the length of -time stated it will germinate in ten or fifteen -days after planting. If kept dry and planted in -that condition it will start only after six or eight -weeks, and very unevenly. When planting time -arrives drain off the water and mix the seed with -dry sand and sow it thinly in drills in good soil. -When the plants are up hoe them and keep them -clean or work them with a cultivator, if on a sufficiently -large scale. The first season’s growth -should make them large enough to set in a hedge. -They can remain standing in the seed-bed until -spring and then be lifted early to be planted. -Cut back the tops and the roots so that each -shall be about five inches in length. The ground -where the hedge is to stand should be well prepared -by deep plowing, and dragging fine and -smooth. If plowed up the year before and cultivated -with some cleaning crop such as potatoes -or carrots it will be all the better fitted. Having -stretched a line for the course of the hedge -the plants can be dibbled in along it, at a distance -of six inches apart, or they can be set in -with a spade; another way is to open a trench -about six inches deep along the line and set the -plants in it, one person placing the plants while -another fills in a spadeful of soil against each -one; then the soil is firmed with the foot against -each plant and afterwards the trench filled. The -after culture for the first year is to hoe and keep -the ground clean. The spring of the following -year before growth starts cut the plants down to -within six inches of the old stock. The following -year do the same; an annual rise of six inches -is sufficient. At the second year’s pruning -and afterwards cut the side shoots so that those -at the base shall be longest, giving the hedge a -broad base narrowing to a line at the top.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_6">Vase in Cemetery.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>I have a large reservoir vase twenty-five inches in -diameter for the cemetery. Last summer I had it -arranged by one of our home florists and it did not -do nicely at all and was not in the least satisfactory. -Will you please advise me what plants to use in it this -summer? I thought I would put around the edge to -droop, ivy geraniums, double petunias and nasturtiums -and anything else you may suggest. I have a -pink ivy geranium and would like a white one, and -thought I would like the petunias of some different -colors, perhaps one variegated and some other. The -nasturtiums I shall raise from seed, and I suppose I -might use a little sweet alyssum and lobelia. What -would you recommend for the center plants? Of -course I know it is too early to start it yet, but I want -it all settled so that I can get it ready as early as possible.</p> - -<p class="right">K. A. R.</p> - -<p><i>Waverly, N. Y.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>A vase of plants is not adapted to a cemetery -unless there is a gardener in charge of the -grounds and who will give the necessary daily -care. A garden vase of growing plants needs -daily attention in watering and through the hottest -weather should be supplied twice a day. It -is rare that a cemetery has a gardener in attendance. -We, therefore, would discourage the use -of vases in cemeteries for they are anything but -ornamental unless they have constant care. It -is far better to set directly in the ground whatever -flowering or ornamental plants one chooses -to have. There they will thrive with less attention -than elsewhere. Of course if they can have -the needed care the vases can be filled with such -plants as are usually employed for this purpose, -and, no doubt, the vase which our inquirer complains -of was well filled. It was unsatisfactory, -and probably would be so again another season. -The best place for the vase is on the lawn near -the dwelling. But if it is to be used in the cemetery -then we should try to make the best of it, -and select such plants as will do fairly well with -the occasional attendance they will get, together -with the rain which falls upon them from the -clouds.</p> - -<p>Such a selection of plants is difficult to make. -For a center plant perhaps a small sized American -aloe would be as appropriate and appear as -well as any that might be tried. Possibly a -small India rubber plant might be another good -one. For filling in the list is a restricted one. -The portulaca would be reliable; the ageratum -and the petunia would do fairly well, and the -Thunbergia and oxalis might be expected to -hold their own. The othonna would no doubt -do well set around the edge. Perhaps the green -and the variegated vinca would suffer meekly, if -it was demanded of them, and try to show how -brave they are. We fear the nasturtium and geraniums -and alyssum and lobelia would scarcely -hold their own. In some seasons which we -have known in this region, when showers have -been frequent all through the summer, a vase of -such plants as are ordinarily used would do well, -but such seasons are rare. Usually the plants -will suffer for lack of water.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 175px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p70-1.jpg" width="175" height="500" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="right larger bold">The<br /> -Best<br /> -Food<br /> -For Children?</p> - -<p class="noindent">is worthy every parent’s study; -not only what they can eat, but -what gives the most nourishment. -No children are better, and most -are worse, for eating -lard-cooked food. -If, however, -their food is -prepared with the -healthful new -vegetable shortening,</p> - -<p class="center larger bold">COTTOLENE</p> - -<p class="noindent">instead of lard, they can eat freely -of the best food without danger -to the digestive organs. You can -easily verify this by a fair trial -of Cottolene.</p> - -<p class="center smaller">Sold in 3 and 5 lb. pails -by all grocers.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smaller">Made only by</span><br /> -The<br /> -N. K. Fairbank<br /> -Company,<br /> -<span class="smaller">Chicago, Boston,<br /> -New York, St.<br /> -Louis, Montreal,<br /> -Philadelphia,<br /> -San Francisco.</span></p> - -<p class="clear"></p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71"></a>[71]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_7">Carnations in the House.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Every year I get a number of carnation plants and -I take the best of care of them, as good as I know -how. At first they look well, but in a short time they -begin to turn yellow at the top and the yellow keeps -going down until it gets to the bottom and they are -dead. Other plants do well with me. What is the -trouble?</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. F. P. W.</span></p> - -<p><i>Highlandlake, Colo.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>Carnations want a cool, moist air, and cannot -adapt themselves to the high temperature and -dry air of living rooms heated by coal in stoves -or furnaces. To raise the plants one should -have a conservatory off the living room, or at -least an inclosed bay window.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_8">Madeira Vine.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Will you kindly inform me through your “Letter -Box” how to treat a Madeira vine so it will produce -blossoms? I have a vine four years old, has never -done very well until this winter, but the foliage is -beautiful and it seems strange that it does not blossom. -I have got it in a tin wash basin hung with -strings in the window, the sun shines on it from early -in the morning until three o’clock in the afternoon. -It is trained out each side of basin with strings and -measures three feet across, and hangs about one foot -from the glass. I have trained it back and forth from -the basin to the curtain and it has locked itself -through the lace of the curtain. I want to know what -I shall do with it in the spring. I shall have to take -down the curtain, and will it injure the vine to cut it? -I have been told that I ought to clip this winter’s -growth in the spring. I should like to know why it -does not blossom. Please let me know and confer a -favor.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">A Constant Reader.</span></p> - -<p><i>Baldwinsville, N. Y.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>The Madeira vine is so easily raised it is not -necessary to be particularly careful of a plant -which has already fulfilled its mission. The atmospheric -and root conditions under house culture -are not favorable to the blooming of this -plant. If the tubers are placed in a rich, warm -soil early in spring the plant will make a great -growth and bloom in autumn. When the particular -plant in question is to be moved, in the -spring, a portion of its top growth can be cut -away and then the whole plant slipped out of -the pan into the open ground outside.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">A FARM OF FOWLS.</p> - -<p>In the whole West there’s not to be found another -such collection of fancy poultry as that of -C. C. Shoemaker, Freeport, Ill. He invites -correspondence or a visit. It is said that Mr. -Shoemaker’s business has trebled itself every -year since he began business.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">How He Got the Best of Hard Times.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Jones wanted an Organ and as Mr. Jones -was one of those good husbands he wanted to -please his wife, but in this case with the hard -times staring him in the face he did not see how -he could spare the money. Anyway he thought -he would see what he could do with the dealers -and agents in his neighboring town, but after -looking over their stock he found the cheapest -Organ he could get would cost him $65.00, and -it didn’t amount to much at that.</p> - -<p>This was more than Mr. Jones could afford -and he told his wife so. Although a great disappointment -to them both, they decided they -would have to give up the idea.</p> - -<p>A few days after this, Mr. Jones in looking -over Vick’s Magazine saw the advertisement of -the “Beethoven Piano and Organ Co.,” of -Washington, N. J., stating that they sold a first-class -Organ for only $27.50, with stool and book. -He sent for their catalogue which they send free -to all who write.</p> - -<p>Mr. Jones now has the organ in his parlor, -for which he paid $27.50, and says it is even -better than the agents offered him at $65.00.</p> - -<p>He beat the hard times by purchasing direct -from the factory, thus saving the profits of the -dealers and agents.</p> - -<p>The Company offers the same good bargains -on Pianos.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_9">Mildew on Cucumber Vines.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Is there anything that will kill mildew on cucumber -vines in a forcing house without injuring the vines?</p> - -<p class="right">A. L. B.</p> - -</div> - -<p>Try sulphide of potash. Dissolve one ounce -in four gallons of water and syringe the affected -plants with it. It will probably destroy the -mildew and not injure the plants.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_10">Moles.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Can you tell me in your “Letter Box” how to get -rid of moles? We are very much annoyed by them -and find a trap perfectly worthless.</p> - -<p class="right">M. H. C.</p> - -<p><i>Fort Riley, Kans.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>The trap is the best known means of destroying -moles, but of course it requires vigilance and -patience and perseverance in its use, without -these the trap is ineffective. Those who have -tried poisoned corn say that it will effectually -rid a place of moles. Soak the kernels in arsenic -water and place them in the runways. Perhaps -some of our readers may have some experience -to state on this subject.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_11">Pine Apple Air Plant.</h3> - -<p>Several inquiries have been received about -the treatment of this plant. Those who are -offering it in the trade advise that the roots be -wrapped in moss and that the plant be wired -upon a piece of bark or wood, that it be placed -in the window, and frequently showered or -sprayed. We have had no experience with it. -The plant is a native of a hot and humid climate -and it is somewhat doubtful that it will generally -succeed in window culture. Unless the window -is a bay, and enclosed with glass on the -side of the room which it is off, and, moreover, -well heated, it will probably in most cases prove -a failure. Its family relationship is with the -Spanish gray moss, and the pine apple.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_12">Phyllocactus latifrons.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Your answers to correspondents in the “Letter -Box” are so helpful that I am led to ask for hints as -to the treatment of the night-blooming phyllocactus. -I have one that blossomed three or four times, but -only a single flower at a time. It seems to spend its -strength in sending out long, round stems two or -three feet in length. I cut off one of these a few weeks -ago and it soon started again at the same spot and is -now three feet long. Ought these stems to be cut, -and is there any special treatment which will secure -blossoms? An answer in your interesting Magazine -will much oblige</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. D. F. G.</span></p> - -<p><i>Norwich, Conn.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>It is not advisable to remove the shoots as -mentioned, a large and well branched plant is -desirable, and in that condition it should be -capable of producing more flowers. Give a rich -soil with a mixture of sand, and water moderately. -Let it have a position where it will have -the sun a portion of the day.</p> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_13">Mammoth Freesias.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>In reply to Mrs. J. F. S., in the January Magazine, -concerning mammoth freesias, I will say I have had -them two years. I do not find the bulb any larger -than the ordinary variety but they produce more flowers—I -had from three to five clusters from each bulb; -they bloom about two weeks earlier and the flowers -are a little larger than the others. I like to grow -them with the others to have a succession of bloom. -I have never failed with freesias, and think Mrs. J. -F. S. has made some mistake in their treatment. -Plant an inch deep in a rich soil, place them in the -dark until they have sprouted, then place next the -glass in a south or east window. Keep the pots in -deep saucers and fill the latter with <i>hot</i> water every -morning. One great secret is to keep their feet warm. -Many people do not give them enough water, they -require a great deal. If any remains in the saucer -from the day before throw it out and give fresh. If -water is poured on the soil it should always be warmer -than the air. In this way I have an abundance of -large perfect flowers, the clusters sometimes remaining -perfect for three weeks. As a last word, have -good drainage and give plenty of heat and water. I -think your Magazine is invaluable.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. C. H. J.</span></p> - -<p><i>Crestline, Ohio.</i></p> - -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">THE SWINE AND THE FLOWER.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I shrank to meet a mud-encrusted swine,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And then he seemed to grunt in accents rude,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Huh! Be not proud, for in this fat of mine,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Behold the source of richness for your food!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I fled, and saw a field that seemed, at first,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">One giant mass of roses pure and white,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With dewy buds ’mid dark green foliage nursed,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And, as I lingered o’er this lovely sight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The summer breeze, that cooled that southern scene,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Whispered, “Behold the source of Cottolene!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<i>M. E. Wilmer.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3 id="Letter_Box_14">Wormy Raspberries—Violets—Storing Cauliflower.</h3> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>Can you tell us how to prevent having wormy raspberries? -For the last two years ours have been -worthless from being wormy.</p> - -<p>I want to have a bed of violets. Must I use roots -or can I get seeds?</p> - -<p>How can cauliflower be put away for the winter? -We cut ours from the stump, turned the leaves over -the heads and packed them closely together, but -some of them have spoiled.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. R. P. F.</span></p> - -<p><i>Beaver Dam, Wis.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p>We do not know what insect it is whose larva -infests raspberries. If any of our readers can -supply the information we trust they will give it.</p> - -<p>Purchase the roots of violets, it is not practicable -to raise them from seeds.</p> - -<p>Cauliflower, like the strawberry, is good enough -to be eaten when it is ready. It does not improve -by keeping. The heads may be kept in -a cool cellar for a considerable time if they are -pulled up with some soil adhering to the roots, -and set in rows in the cellar with the roots covered -with soil. Tie the leaves together or -turn them down over the heads.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><b>THE BROADWAY CENTRAL HOTEL</b>,</p> - -<p class="noindent">New York, which has undergone a thorough rebuilding, -is now open to the public.</p> - -<p>This is altogether the largest hotel property in -New York, and, with the present improvements, -will have a valuation of nearly two millions of -dollars and accommodate over one thousand -persons.</p> - -<p>Mr. Haynes, the new lessee, is making it a -great popular house for families and business<br /> -men, at popular rates, for which the location is -admirably adapted. The new cable-cars on -Broadway reach every fashionable store, theater -and attraction of the city, and transfer with all -cross-town lines, reaching every station, dock -and ferry in town.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><i>Every reason why it should</i></p> - -<p class="center larger bold">FIT</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p71-1.jpg" width="200" height="350" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent bold">For Dr. Warner’s Coraline Corsets are made in 25 -styles—modelled to fit every variety of form.</p> - -<p class="center bold">Wear the one that fits<br /> -<span class="larger">YOU</span></p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72"></a>[72]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/vicks.jpg" width="450" height="175" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine.</h2> - -<p class="center">Devoted to the profitable culture of flowers and vegetables.</p> - -<p class="center">ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH, 1894.</p> - -<p class="center smaller"><i>Entered in the Post Office at Rochester as “second-class” -matter.</i></p> - -</div> - -<p class="smaller hanging"><i><b>Vick’s Monthly Magazine</b> is published at the following -rates, either for old or new subscribers. -These rates include postage:</i></p> - -<p class="smaller hanging"><i>One copy one year, in advance, Fifty Cents.</i></p> - -<p class="smaller hanging"><i>One copy twenty-seven months (two and one-fourth -years), full payment in advance, One Dollar.</i></p> - -<p class="smaller hanging"><i>A Club of Five or more copies, sent at one time, at 40 -cents each, without premiums. Neighbors can join -in this plan.</i></p> - -<p class="smaller hanging"><i><b>Free Copies.</b>—One free copy additional will be allowed -to each club of ten (in addition to all other -premiums and offers), if spoken of at the time the -club is sent.</i></p> - -<p class="smaller hanging"><i>All contributions and subscriptions should be sent to -Vick Publishing Co., at Rochester, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p class="center bold"><i>ADVERTISING RATES.</i></p> - -<p class="smaller"><i>$1.25 per agate line per month; $1.18 for 3 months, -or 200 lines; $1.12 for six months, or 400 lines; $1.06 -or 9 months, or 600 lines; $1.00 for 1 year, or 1000 -lines. <b>One line extra charged for less than five.</b></i></p> - -<p class="smaller hanging">☞ <i>All communications in regard to advertising to -Vick Publishing Co., New York office, 38 Times -Building, H. P. Hubbard, Manager.</i></p> - -<p class="smaller"><i>Average monthly circulation 1893</i>, <b>200,000</b>.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">SITUATIONS FREE OF CHARGE.</p> - -<p>We are constantly receiving applications of -people who desire gardeners and florists, and -we have decided that hereafter we will publish -advertisements of those who desire situations -free of charge. Write copy plain and send by -the first of the month for insertion in the next -month’s Magazine.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_YELLOW-FLOWERED_CALLA">A YELLOW-FLOWERED CALLA.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>A visit a short time since to the famous greenhouses -of our townsman, Wm. S. Kimball, where -orchids mostly abound, favored us with a view -of the rare yellow-flowered calla, Richardia -Elliottii. Although we had carefully read the -description of this plant we found it really more -beautiful than the image we had formed of it. -The plant in appearance is much like that of the -common calla, Richardia Africana, except that -the leaves are spotted all over with white spots. -The flower spathe is of good size and form, and -of a pure canary yellow color. It will prove to -be a grand companion to the common calla and -is destined to be widely cultivated. At present -the plants are very scarce and expensive and it -will be some time before they can be very freely -offered.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="OUR_NATIVE_GRAPE">OUR NATIVE GRAPE.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>There has recently been issued a treatise by -this title, on grapes and grape culture by Charles -Mitzky, of this city. Its main feature is the -very full list of hardy grapes cultivated in this -country with their description, origin and history -as far as known, and numerous illustrations -and colored plates. Over eight hundred varieties -are described, thus bringing together nearly -all that have so far been produced or made public. -The work also contains chapters on planting, -pruning, cultivating, training, fertilizers, -diseases and noxious insects and their remedies, -harvesting, storing, marketing and a brief account -of wine making, in fact almost everything -of interest to the grape-grower is here treated, -some of the chapters being contributed by prominent -scientists and horticulturists.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PLANT_BED">THE PLANT BED.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>The enterprise in getting out the artistic and -truly beautiful Floral Guide, and sending -it into our homes during the inclement weather -of these winter days, when we have time to sit -by the fireside and study its pages, enables us, -against the time to plant seeds, to know exactly -what we would like to have among vegetables -and flowers. This beautiful compendium of -vegetables and flowers came as a herald of the -new year, and as the new year seems always to -bring the spring season near, so it naturally fills -the mind with the pleasurable anticipations of -the task of seed planting.</p> - -<p>The plant beds are little squares made of very -rich soil, black and friable, with sand intermixed, -on the sunny side of the garden palings that -have a solid base board, or a wall or house, to -afford protection. The rich soil makes a good -bottom heat for forcing gentle growth. My old -colored mammy, who always saved the garden -seeds and gave them out as needed and directed -the gardening operations on the plantation, had -the plant beds made on each side of the garden -gate, one set of little beds for early vegetable -plants, the other for flowers. The soil thoroughly -pulverized, and the seeds planted thickly, it -is surprising how they would spring into life, -and the rapidity with which they would grow. -Thick planting of seeds is only to be advised -when they are intended for transplanting. I -have seen the cabbage bed so full of plants that -it seemed as if two plants or more had sprung -from every seed. Early and late cabbage, the -rows labeled, can be planted in the same bed; -lettuce, pepper grass, parsley and radishes in another, -taking care to sow the radish seed thinly -as the plants will not transplant well, and the -radishes must be used for the table taken from -the place where the seeds are sown. Cabbages -grow better when the small plants are transplanted -to the large bed where they are to stand -for their season’s growth.</p> - -<p>After these early vegetable plants have been -set out, later on tomato and egg plant seeds can -be sown in the same beds. Nothing is gained -by forcing these latter, for in my experience certain -vegetable and flower seeds do better planted -late, as the heat of summer is needed for their -development.</p> - -<p>The plant bed can be made and planted early -in the season. Here in the South many persons -plant in “old Christmas,” the first twelve days -after New Year, but February or March is better, -I believe.</p> - -<p>The flowers that do so well in company with -these vegetables are sweet alyssum, nemophila, -mignonette, snapdragon, candytuft, verbena, -sanvitalia and petunias. Japanese pinks and -Marguerite carnations, Phlox Drummondii and -poppies are better planted where they are to -bloom as they do not transplant well. Sweet -alyssum and nemophila begin to bloom when -about an inch high, and can be transplanted at -any stage of growth, even in bloom; they are -sweet little flowers that make lovely borders, -cute little jars, beautiful hanging baskets, and -when planted in the sides of jars that contain -large plants, hang over the sides in masses of -bloom. The speckled pretty little blue nemophila -always makes me think of birds’ nests -full of speckled eggs in the cool green grass. -Sweet alyssum I love too well to write about; -it would sound like exaggeration.</p> - -<p>Petunias do well in the early beds, but also -flourish and bloom finely if their planting is deferred -until the torenia, portulaca, cypress, zinnia, -tageta and real midsummer flowers are planted. -None of these last do any better for early planting. -They will not bloom until their season, -summer, no matter how early they are planted. -The beautiful fall bloomer, cosmos, may be -classed with them. Snapdragons, carnations -and verbena do not bloom in early spring from -seed, but require an early start to bloom in summer -as their growth is not rapid. Sanvitalia, -vinca, and a long list of annuals are beautiful -and well worth raising. Annuals are cheap, but -they subserve a purpose and nothing quite takes -their place, and I confess to a liking for flowers -which I have raised from seeds. It is easy to -exaggerate the beauty of anything that stands in -striking contrast to its surroundings, but these -plant beds early in the season, green and growing, -ahead of everything else, are as pretty as a -picture, and the young, crisp, green vegetables -are suggestive and appetizing.</p> - -<p>If twenty-five years of putting Mr. Vick’s seeds -in the ground does not entitle me to render a -verdict in their favor as the best to be had, then -experience counts for nothing. A sure return -for every seed put in the ground is the answer -they give to the question “What shall the harvest -be?”</p> - -<p>Further north, doubtless, cold frames are better -for early planting of seeds, but in the South the -plants are more healthy and stand transplanting -much better for exposure to the moderate cold -of the early season in their rich, warm little plant -beds.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. G. T. Drennan.</span></p> - -<p><i>Lexington, Miss.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">March Work.</span>—At this time, the dividing -line between winter and spring, finish all the -pruning in the open grounds. Grape vines, fruit -trees, deciduous hedges, and roses and many -other plants will need attention. In this climate -sow peas as soon as the ground can be put -in order. Start hotbeds, and cold frames. Look -after those flower seeds which should be sowed -early in the house.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">HELPS IN ECONOMY.</p> - -<p class="hanging">Stylish Gowns of Handsome Color at Small Cost—Diamond -Dyes Make Old Clothes Look Like -New—Two Useful Books Given Away.</p> - -<p>With a few packages of Diamond Dyes wonders can -be done in making old dresses, gowns, and suits look -like new. Many families have not bought a single new -dress, wrap, or suit this winter, yet they dressed well -and fashionably, by dyeing their clothes with Diamond -Dyes.</p> - -<p>Those who buy one package as an experiment, find -the dyes so easy to use that they color over gowns, -cloaks and suits for the whole family. The Fast Black -Diamond Dyes are especially popular, being easy to use -and making a rich black that will not fade, crock, or -wash out.</p> - -<div class="box30"> - -<p class="center bold">COUPON.</p> - -<p>This entitles any reader of Vick’s Magazine -to one copy of “Successful Home Dyeing,” and -“Mats and Rugs; Art and Fancy Work.”</p> - -</div> - -<p>For the home-dyer or rug-maker these books give complete -directions with many illustrations. Send above -coupon to Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt. -and both books will be mailed free.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73"></a>[73]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="DONT_FORGET_THE_POTATOES">DON’T FORGET THE POTATOES.</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“An old lady sat in her old armchair,</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">For days and for weeks her only fare,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As she sat in her old armchair,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Had been potatoes.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But now they were gone, of bad or good.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And she thought of the deacon over the way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The deacon so ready to worship and pray,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Whose cellar was full of potatoes.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">She said, ‘I will send for the deacon to come.’</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And the deacon came over as fast as he could,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thinking to do the old lady some good,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">But never for once of potatoes.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He prayed for patience, goodness and grace;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But when he prayed, ‘Lord, give her peace,’</div> - <div class="verse indent4">She audibly sighed, ‘Give potatoes.’</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So ending his prayers, he started for home,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The door closed behind, he heard a deep groan:</div> - <div class="verse indent4">‘Oh, give to the hungry potatoes!’</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And the groan followed him all the way home;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the midst of the light it haunted his room;</div> - <div class="verse indent4">‘Oh, give to the hungry potatoes!’</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He could bear it no longer; arose and dressed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From his well-filled cellar taking in haste</div> - <div class="verse indent4">A bag of his best potatoes.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The widow’s heart leaped up for joy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her face was pale and haggard no more,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">‘Now,’ said the deacon, ‘shall we pray?’</div> - <div class="verse indent0">‘Yes,’ said the widow, ‘now you may.’</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And would you hear this simple tale,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pray for the poor, and praying, prevail?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then preface your prayer with alms and good deeds;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Search out the poor, their wants and needs;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pray for their peace and grace, spiritual food,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For wisdom and guidance—all these are good—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">But don’t forget the potatoes!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<i>The Independent.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">A CINCINNATI MIRACLE.</p> - -<p class="center bold">WHY MR. CHARLES B. NOBLE IS -BEING CONGRATULATED.</p> - -<p class="center bold smaller">A Remarkable Case of Being Completely Cured -of Paralysis After Nearly Three Years -of Suffering and Eminent Physicians -Had Declared Their -Best Efforts Baffled.</p> - -<p>Newspaper men as a rule place little credence -in patent medicine stories and seldom bother to -even read them. This is not to be wondered at -when it is taken into consideration how often -they are called upon by unscrupulous persons to -fabricate and publish stories of remarkable cures -and perhaps print a picture of the mythical man -or woman supposed to have been cured. That -all medicine advertisements are not mere -“fakes,” and that all newspaper men are not -equally prejudiced is proven by a story published -in the <i>Cincinnati Times-Star</i> of a well-known -newspaper man whose life was saved by -reading an advertisement. So remarkable and -interesting is the story that it is here reproduced -as published in the <i>Times-Star</i>.</p> - -<p>Mr. Charles B. Noble, the well-known litterateur, -who has been suffering for nearly three -years with paralysis, was upon the street to-day, -cheerful and active and the recipient of congratulations -from his many friends. There is a bond -of unity between all newspaper men, so that Mr. -Noble’s case appeals to every member of the -craft as well as to every one afflicted as he was. -Mr. Noble has spent the last three years in -traveling from city to city seeking skilled physicians, -to whom he has appealed in vain for -relief. Knowing this, a reporter expressed surprise -at the remarkable cure, but Mr. Noble, -after executing a jig to show that he was as -sound as he looked, let the reporter into the -secret of his cure.</p> - -<p>“It was a hard time I had of it,” said he, -“but the last medicine we take is always the -one that cures, and I have taken the last. I -was paralyzed on March 9, 1890, while in the -employ of the David Williams Publishing Company -of New York City as their traveling representative -from Cincinnati. I found the traveling -a great help to me, both in a financial and a literary -way, but suddenly stricken down as I was -at Somerset, O., 150 miles from Cincinnati, I -was incapacitated for both writing and money -making. Luckily my literary productions had -been remunerative, and I had a snug bank account -laid up, but these three years have made -a drain on it.</p> - -<p>“I sought a score of physicians, going to the -best specialists in Cincinnati, Chattanooga and -Pittsburg. Twelve Cincinnati doctors, pronounced -my case incurable, but I would not -give up, and after seeking in vain for relief in -Pittsburg and Chattanooga, consulted the best -medical talent in Chicago. Up to January 17, -1893, I had spent $2,500 for doctors and medicine -and was about to give up in despair when -I got hold of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale -People, through reading the advertisements.</p> - -<p>“From the first week of using the remedy I -made a steady improvement, and on April 12, -I put up my cane after using it thirty months. -I certainly believe this medicine is all the proprietors -claim for it, and that it will do all they -say it will. I take pleasure in recommending it -to all similarly afflicted. Like many who have -tried medicine in vain I was doubtful of its value -at first, and only used it when I grew desperate. -Now I can not praise it too highly. It has restored -me to health and strength and I feel -grateful accordingly. Dr. Whittaker pronounced -it a hopeless case of locomotor ataxia.</p> - -<p>“Yes, I know there are many who will fancy -anything you say about my case is an advertisement, -but if they want any corroboration, let -them address me at the Y. M. C. A. building, -and I will cheerfully answer all inquiries if -stamps are enclosed.”</p> - -<p>Pink Pills, while advertised and handled by -the drug trade as a proprietary article, are not -considered a patent medicine in the sense that -name implies. For many years previous to their -general manufacture they were used as a prescription. -At first their great restorative powers -were not fully recognized and they were chiefly -prescribed for impure blood and general weakness. -Their remarkable success in such cases, -and the fact that there was nothing in the formula -that could do any harm, even if they did -not do any good, led to their being tried in cases -where the skill of the physician and the power -of medicine had entirely faded. Their power -of restoration seemed to border on the marvelous. -They proved to be a never-failing specific -for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial -paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, -rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effect -of La Grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and -sallow complexions, and all diseases of the blood -such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc.</p> - -<p>They are also a specific for troubles peculiar -to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, -and all forms of weakness. They build up the -blood and restore the glow of health to pale and -sallow cheeks. In case of men they effect a -radical cure in all cases arising from mental -worry, overwork or excesses of whatever -nature.</p> - -<p>Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose -form, by the dozen or hundred, and the public -is cautioned against numerous imitations sold in -this shape) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for -$2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct -by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, -Schenectady, N. Y., or Brockville, Ont. The -price at which these Pills are sold makes a course -of treatment inexpensive as compared with other -remedies or medical treatment.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="GROWING_ONION_SETS">GROWING ONION SETS.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>While the practice of growing onions directly -from seed is becoming more extended -all over the country, still the time will -never come probably when the old-time practice -of growing the crop from sets will be done away -with, especially in the South. With the constantly -increasing acreage devoted to this splendid -esculent it is quite likely more onion sets -will be raised and planted ten years hence than -there is at this time. Southern truckers and -market gardeners, along with those who only -grow simply for home use, will continue to use -sets for growing the first crop which is used or -marketed in a green or unmatured state. Thousands -of acres are yearly planted in the South, -putting out the sets anywhere from September -to November, both inclusive. Most any “tyro” -in gardening can grow a crop of onions from the -sets where only failure would result if the seeds -were used. There is hardly anything surer than -making “sets” grow, whereas it is not always -sure that one gets onion seeds that are good and -of such a variety as will make a good crop in -our Southern climate. So much by way of -preface.</p> - -<p>The Southern gardeners and truckers depend -almost entirely upon the Middle and Northern -States for their onion sets, although it is quite -practicable for them to raise their own sets if -they choose to do it. The Southern trucker it -seems as a rule, however, would prefer to have -others grow his sets for him. This is all very -well when he can buy them at $1.50 to $2.50 a -bushel, but oftentimes he has to pay twice this -sum for his sets, occasionally three times. There -is an advantage in the trucker growing his own -sets. He can grow just the variety that better -suits our climate, sets of which he cannot always -get with any certainty. The several varieties of -Italian or Spanish onions are far preferable for -the South—kinds like the New Queen, Rocca, -Early Nocera and some others, these do much -better than the American varieties.</p> - -<p><i>How to raise the Sets.</i>—There are two ways -of growing—broadcast or in drills. The latter -is to be preferred. For the purpose choose medium -land, not very rich in humus or nitrogen, -but as clean land as possible. Sowings can be -made any time from February 15 to April 15. -Plow the soil and harrow it and run a light -roller over it. Lay off shallow drills fifteen to -twenty inches apart. These shallow drills, not -deeper than a quarter of an inch, should be <i>one -and a half or two inches wide</i>. Just prior to -sowing whiten these drills with landplaster. -Using the freshest seed attainable, sow the seeds -carefully along the drills at the rate of twelve to -fifteen to the square inch. Cover lightly with a -rake and then run a garden roller over the drills. -If the seeds are good there will be a pretty show -of onions in the course of ten days. Cultivate -very shallow and just enough to keep down all -weeds. 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American Nation Co., Box 1726, Boston, Mass.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p75-8.jpg" width="300" height="100" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">Waverley</p> -</div> - -<p class="center larger">The Sensation of the Year</p> - -<div class="figleft"> -<p class="noindent smaller"><i>Strictly High Grade.<br /> -Warranted One Year.</i></p> -</div> - -<div class="figright"> -<p class="larger">$85</p> -</div> - -<p>28-inch size 28 lbs. fitted with Waverley -Clincher Tires, made under -Gormully & Jeffery’s Patents.</p> - -<p>Equal to any High Grade Bicycle made, regardless -of price. Full line 24, 26 and 28-inch sizes, -Ladies and Gents. Ask for Catalogue “A,” mailed -free.</p> - -<p class="center"><b><i>INDIANA BICYCLE COMPANY</i>,<br /> -7 Street</b>, Indianapolis, Ind., U. S. A.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">DO YOU USE</p> - -<p class="center larger"><i>Buttermilk</i></p> - -<p class="center bold">Toilet Soap</p> - -<p class="center">The best, purest and most economical -of all soaps?</p> - -<p>A great <b>complexion cleanser</b>, makes your skin -feel <b>new</b>. We want you to try it. At all dealers, -or sample cake by mail 12c.</p> - -<p class="center">COSMO BUTTERMILK SOAP CO.<br /> -185-187 WABASH AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p75-9.jpg" width="300" height="325" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">PRIMLEY’S CALIFORNIA FRUIT CHEWING GUM</p> -<p class="caption">A DELICIOUS CONFECTION</p> -</div> - -<p>Makes Sweet Breath, Clean Teeth and Good Digestion. -Heartburn and Dyspepsia disappear on its use. <span class="smcap">Don’t -make any mistake, get</span> <b>PRIMLEY’S</b>.</p> - -<p>Send five outside wrappers of either California Fruit or -California Pepsin Chewing Gum and two 2-cent stamps, and -we will send you “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll—Mr. Hyde,” -by Robert Louis Stevenson, or any of our other 1700 fine books. -Send for list. For 10 cents and two outside wrappers we will -mail you one elegant pack of our Souvenir Playing Cards.</p> - -<p class="right">J. P. 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Address by -postal card or letter</p> - -<p class="center bold">WOLFE, WEBB & CHITTENDEN -INVESTMENT COMPANY,<br /> -DENVER, COLORADO.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p75-10.jpg" width="300" height="175" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center larger">McMULLEN’S</p> - -<p class="center">GALVANIZED WOVEN WIRE</p> - -<p class="center larger">FENCING</p> - -<p class="center">WIRE ROPE SELVAGE.</p> - -<p class="center">POULTRY & RABBIT NETTING</p> - -<p class="noindent"><b>Railroad, Farm, Garden, Cemetery, Lawn -Fencing.</b> Prices down. <b>Freight paid.</b> <i>Catal’g. free.</i> -<b>McMullen Woven Wire Fence Co., Chicago.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft"> -<p class="larger noindent">Free to<br /> -INVALID<br /> -WOMEN.</p> -</div> - -<p>Why suffer longer, when you -can receive free a diagnosis of -your troubles by Dr. Wallace S. -Springsteen. Send at once for -symptom sheet and treatise. -You cannot lose anything, -therefore send now. Something -entirely new in medical -treatment,—successful when -everything else had failed.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>SPRINGSTEEN MEDICINE CO.</b>,<br /> -381 Central Ave., Cleveland, O.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76"></a>[76]</span></p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-1.jpg" width="100" height="50" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center"><span class="larger">MURRAY</span><br /> -VEHICLES and HARNESS</p> - -<p>Time Tried and Tested and Endorsed the world -over as the <b>Best and Cheapest on Earth</b>.</p> - -<table summary="Prices"> - <tr> - <td><b>Single Buggy Harness</b>,</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>5.95</b></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Double Buggy Harness</b>,</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>15.70</b></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Single Farm Harness</b>,</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>17.67</b></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Double Farm Harness</b>,</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>22.94</b></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Top Buggies</b>,</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>55.95</b></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Road Carts</b>,</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>14.90</b></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Road Wagons</b>,</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>31.75</b></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Spring Wagons</b>,</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>43.50</b></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Farm Wagons</b> (2 horse)</td> - <td class="tdr"><b>39.50</b></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class="center">Fine 160 page Catalogue, free.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>Wilber H. Murray Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, O.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft"> -<p class="noindent larger bold">You Dye in<br />30 minutes</p> -</div> - -<p>Turkey red on cotton -that won’t freeze, boil -or wash out. No other -will do it. Package to -color 2 lbs., by mail, 10 -cts.; 6, any color—for -wool or cotton, 40c. Big pay Agents. Write quick. <i>Mention -this paper.</i> <b>FRENCH DYE CO. Vassar, Mich.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="u">THE IMPROVED</span> <span class="larger">VICTOR INCUBATOR</span></p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-2.jpg" width="150" height="130" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Hatches Chickens by Steam. -Absolutely <b>self-regulating</b>. -The simplest, most reliable, -and cheapest first-class Hatcher -in the market. Circulars free. -Catalogue 4 cents.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>GEO. ERTEL & CO., Quincy, Ill.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-3.jpg" width="100" height="140" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center bold">Mammoth New Catalogue Almanac</p> - -<p class="center smaller bold">AND GUIDE TO POULTRY RAISERS.</p> - -<p>64 large pages, printed in colors. Description -of all leading varieties of fowls. Over -50 fine illustrations. Plans for Poultry -houses. Remedies for all diseases. Recipe -for Poultry Powders. The finest thing -out—everybody wants one. Only 10c.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>C. C. SHOEMAKER, Freeport, Ill., U.S.A.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-4.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="larger"><b>LADIES!</b></span> If you desire a transparent, -CLEAR, -FRESH complexion, FREE from blotch, -blemish, roughness, coarseness, redness, freckles -or pimples use DR. CAMPBELL’S -SAFE ARSENIC COMPLEXION -WAFERS. These wonderful wafers have -the effect of enlarging, invigorating, or filling -out any shrunken, shrivelled or undeveloped -parts. Price, by mail, $1, 6 Boxes, $5. Depot, -218 6th Ave., New York, and all Druggists.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger"><b>10 CENTS</b></span> (silver) pays for our handsome -PEOPLE’S JOURNAL one year, -<i>on trial</i>, and your address in our “AGENTS’ DIRECTORY,” -which goes whirling all over the United -States to firms who wish to mail <b>FREE</b>, sample -papers, magazines, books, pictures, cards etc., with -terms, and our patrons receive bushels of mail. Greatest -bargain in America. <b><i>Try it</i></b>, you will be <b>Pleased</b>.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>T. D. Campbell, X 118 Boyleston, Ind.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">CARDS</span> Send 2c. stamp for Sample Book of all the FINEST and -Latest Style Cards for 1894. We sell GENUINE CARDS -NOT TRASH. UNION CARD CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="MESEMBRYANTHEMUM">MESEMBRYANTHEMUM.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>The mesembryanthemum, usually called ice-plant, -is one of the most effective border -plants. Nothing can be prettier around a small -bed than a thick edging of these sparkling rich -green plants, and yet I have never seen it used -in this manner except in my own garden. The -plants grow larger, more robust, coarser perhaps, -when used in this way, but they form an -unbroken edge of great richness. Sow the seeds -in the house and transplant when danger of frost -is over; shade for a few days from sun and wind, -and do not let the ground dry out about the roots -until the plants have started into growth again; -after that an occasional watering is all they require. -Treated in this fashion they grow riotously -and yield a wealth of beautiful, cool looking -foliage for bouquets and all kinds of cut -flower work, which has the additional merit of -keeping fresh a long time even under unfavorable -circumstances. One can pick long sprays of -this pretty greenery without it being missed from -the plants in the least. A low glass dish filled -with ice-plant, the sprays drooping over the edges -gracefully, and a few pale pink flowers peeping -out between the leaves, is an exceedingly pretty -center-piece for the dinner table. In putting -out the plants set them about ten inches apart.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mrs. S. H. Snider.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>Vick’s Seeds contain the germ of life. They -grow, flourish and produce abundantly.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold"><span class="larger">CONSUMPTION</span><br /> -SURELY CURED.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">To the Editor</span>—Please inform your readers -that I have a positive remedy for the -above named disease. By its timely use -thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently -cured. I shall be glad to send -two bottles of my remedy free to any of your -readers who have consumption if they will -send me their express and post office address. -T. A. Slocum, M. C., 183 Pearl St., New York.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-5.jpg" width="200" height="110" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">THE NAME TO REMEMBER<br /> -<span class="smaller">when buying a</span> <span class="larger">BICYCLE</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">IS</span><br /> -A. W. GUMP & CO.,<br /> -Dayton, Ohio.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>$30.00</b> to <b>$50.00 saved</b> on many <b>new and -second-hand Bicycles</b>. Lists free. <b>Over -2,000 in stock.</b> Cash or time.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>AGENTS WANTED.</b></p> - -<p class="center clear"><b>When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">100 <span class="u">USEFUL</span></span> Articles wanted in every family, with -full instructions to Agents. How to -make an easy living. All postpaid for -10 cents. HOME SUPPLY CO., CLINTONVILLE, CONN.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger"><span class="smcap">Handy Cobbler</span></p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-6.jpg" width="250" height="200" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center bold">COMPLETE SHOE<br /> -and Harness Kit</p> - -<p>for home use. Great time -and money saver. Articles -separate cost $6. Price -26 articles, boxed, 20 lbs., $3. -No. 2 without extra harness -tools, 22 articles, 17 -lbs., $2. Catalogue free. -Agents wanted. In order -give R. R. or Exp. station -and name this paper.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>KUHN & CO., Moline, Ill</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><span class="larger bold">BABY CARRIAGES</span> Shipped C. O. D.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-7.jpg" width="100" height="130" alt="" /> -</div> - -<table summary="Prices"> - <tr> - <td>$18.50</td> - <td>Carriage</td> - <td>for</td> - <td class="tdr">$9.25.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>$12.00</td> - <td class="center">”</td> - <td class="center">”</td> - <td class="tdr">$5.95.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>$5.00</td> - <td class="center">”</td> - <td class="center">”</td> - <td class="tdr">$2.75.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p>Anywhere to anyone at <b>Wholesale Prices</b> without paying -one cent in advance. We pay freight. Buy from -factory. Save dealers’ -profits. Large -illustrated catalog -free. Address <b>Cash Buyers’ Union, -164 West Van Buren Street, B 27, Chicago, Ill.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-8.jpg" width="200" height="125" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">BALD HEADS</p> -</div> - -<p class="center">NO CURE, NO PAY.</p> - -<p class="center">Mustache, No Pay.</p> - -<p class="center">DANDRUFF CURED.</p> - -<p class="center">CALL OR WRITE</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Prof. G. BIRKHOLZ</span>,<br /> -Room 4,<br /> -Cor. 5th Ave. & 14th St.,<br /> -NEW YORK.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">LACE.</span> Ladies send 5 two-cent stamps for -samples of fine imported Laces. -We will send <span class="smcap">free</span> as a premium a piece containing -<b>12 yards of handsome lace</b> for a one year’s subscription -to “OUR COUNTRY HOMES MONTHLY MAGAZINE” -at $1.00 a year. Write us now. <b>Agents Wanted.</b> -We also give as premiums Watches, Jewelry, Books, Albums, -etc., etc. Address Publishers Our Country Homes -Monthly Magazine, 302 & 304 S. Salina St., Syracuse, N. Y.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-9.jpg" width="100" height="60" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="figright"> -<p class="bold">FREE</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="larger">480</span> Sample styles of New Cards & -Premiums for 1894. Agt’s large -Sample Book of genuine Hidden Name, Silk -Fringe, Envelope, Bevel edge & Fancy shape Calling Cards, -all for 2 cents. CROWN CARD CO., CADIZ, OHIO.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p76-10.jpg" width="600" height="350" alt="" /> - -<p class="center bold">“SANITAS.”</p> - -<p class="center">Unfermented, CONCENTRATED and Pure</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="larger">JUICE</span> OF THE <span class="larger">GRAPE.</span></p> - -<p class="center bold">THE PHYSICIAN’S AID.</p> - -<p>Our mission is solely to supply Nature’s own pure food. It is the mission -of the physician, who understands his patient’s needs, to supply the medicine. -Our reason for offering this product to the public, to you, is that it is pure. There is need of such an article of grape juice. We have the testimony -of hundreds of letters to prove the assertion. Nearly all the bottled -juice now on the market contains an antiseptic of some description to prevent -fermentation, generally salicylic acid. Why does such juice fail as a -food? Simply because the antiseptic principle that preserves the juice in -the bottle exerts a similar influence in the stomach, and prevents the natural -action that is part of Nature’s plan for assimilating food. Our concentrated -juice of the grape is absolutely free from all antiseptics, and is -Nature’s best food and strength producer for weak and defective digestive -organs.</p> - -<p>Invalids will, of course, seek the advice of their physicians as to the -proper time or quantity, but well people may partake freely, and know -that the certainty of gain far overshadows the possibilities of excess.</p> - -<p class="center bold">THE CONSUMER’S SUPPORT.</p> - -<p>The grape cure has been found in many cases to rapidly reorganize and -reconstruct the blood current, and to surprise the tissues and excite the -nervous system into health. The beverage form of grape juice is an agreeable -and wholesome nutrient in a great variety of sicknesses. Its fruit -acids, its blood salts and its grape sugar make it a valuable medicine. It -affords a nourishing and easily managed food for dyspeptics of many -kinds. We seek to supplant alcoholic and fermented drinks by something -more wholesome, more satisfying and refreshing—something embodying -all the best principles of ripe grapes marred by nothing that would falsely -stimulate or excite, and in the new era that is dawning, the life-giving -principles of the grape, in their purest condition, will enter every home as -a comfort and a blessing, instead of a delusion and a snare.</p> - -<p>Its sub-acid taste and easiness of assimilation give it a high value in fevers -of every sort. Its concentration, keeping qualities and palatability -give it certain advantages over the beverage form. It is agreeably administered in aerated water or hot or cold water.</p> - -<p>Two varieties of our concentrated juice suitable for redilution with any aerated, carbonated or pure cold water are bottled under our labels—i.e., -Red, Zinfandel, White, Muscatel.</p> - -<p>Sold only in pint bottles, the contents of which are equal to <span class="smcap">one-half gallon of fresh grape juice</span>. <b>Price, 65 cents per bottle.</b> For -sale by leading druggists and grocers. Send for descriptive circular.</p> - -<p class="center">THE CALIFORNIA GRAPE FOOD CO.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>145 Broadway, New York.</b><br /> -J. S. Twombly, Selling Agent, 27 Commercial St., Boston.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>Los Gatos, California.</b><br /> -Norman Barbour, Selling Agent, 77 Warren St., New York.</p> - -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77"></a>[77]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="MARGUERITE_CARNATIONS">MARGUERITE CARNATIONS.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>“My first sowing was early in February, 1892. -The plants came into bloom the middle of June, -and I had more or less flowers from them all -through the following winter and spring. In -1893 I made two sowings, one the beginning of -February, and another the end of March, to secure -plants for winter flowering. About eighty -of these in six-inch pots were plunged out of -doors until the middle of November; then removed -indoors and placed in light airy position. -They have been flowering profusely ever since, -and will continue doing so to the end of May.” -These statements are made by John Milne in -the <i>Journal of Horticulture</i>. Another writer -in the same publication says:</p> - -<p>“Those who have not yet grown these carnations -have missed much. I sowed some seeds -at the end of February last year in a mild heat, -and the seedlings were potted when large enough, -the bulk of them eventually finding their way -into pots five and a half inches in diameter. -Some few were grown in pots an inch less, but -I noted those in the larger pots were much better -every way. Small pots do not afford sufficient -scope for the roots, as these are freely -made, and being very fibrous they absorb a quantity -of moisture. A moderately rich compost is -essential, the plants requiring a fair amount of -stimulative food to enable them to continue longer -in flower than they do when in a starved condition. -To test these carnations I planted some -in the kitchen garden, but I found that those in -pots flowered much the best. About ninety per -cent. of these carnations come double from seed, -which is a great gain, as single flowers are really -of little use for decorative purposes. What I -admire about them is the large number of self-colored -flowers that are produced. The bulk of -them are deliciously scented, and all fringed at -the edges of the petals. When the weather permitted -the plants were assigned a position out of -doors where they could obtain all available sunlight, -were given plenty of space, and well supplied -with water at the roots. Directly the pots -in which they were to flower were full of roots, -weak liquid manure was supplied to them freely. -By the early part of July they commenced to -flower, and kept on unceasingly until the early -part of November out of doors. Where buttonhole -bouquets are in demand these Marguerite -carnations afford excellent material for the making -of this favorite adornment, and as the carnation -is a popular flower for the purpose this new -race is doubly valuable.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">SITUATIONS WANTED.</p> - -<p><i>Advertisements of gardeners and florists desiring -situations will be inserted under this head free.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A FIRST-CLASS GARDENER AND FLORIST, single, -27 years of age of temperate habits, Hollander, but -speaking English, with the best of reference, wants a situation -as private gardener. Apply to “Hollander,” care -Vick Seed House, Rochester, or at Vander Meulen’s Greenhouses, -Dunkirk, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-1.jpg" width="300" height="120" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center larger">World’s Fair comes to<br /> -“THE PAGE”!</p> - -<p>At least the President does when he wants fence. Last -month his Manager called on our agent and bought 500 -rods. It’s now delivered and paid for, at the same price -<b>you</b> can buy. Plenty of fences “just as good” were -offered at <b>cut rates</b>, but four years’ trial beats a <b>Medal</b> -with Hon. Thomas W. Palmer.</p> - -<p class="right"><b>PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich.</b></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_PRETTY_FLOWER_STAND">A PRETTY FLOWER STAND.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Here is something you can make for yourself -before another summer comes. This -is a flower stand, and the simplest contrivance! -Saw off an old cedar tree about two feet below -the first branch, then saw it off again about two -feet above the first branch. The thicker the -branches on this unsightly stump the better for -your purpose. The branches must next be -chopped off irregularly, leaving some a yard and -some half a yard in length. Bury the lower end -of the stump about one foot in the ground, and -on the end of each branch nail a piece of board -about ten inches square to serve as a shelf. -These shelves must be firmly nailed so that -boxes or pots can be set upright on them. Now -paint the whole thing green and you have a -pretty flower stand. You will not believe it until -you try it, but it is beautiful. Instead of -bedding out the plants you wish for winter -flowering, try the plan of keeping them on this -stand out of doors during the summer, where -they will get all the benefit of the sun and dew. -On the approach of winter they will only need -to be brought indoors, and will be in a much -better condition for blooming than if they had -been taken up at the risk of breaking half their -roots and potted in a hurry.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Prudence Plain.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b><span class="larger">$12 TO $35 PER WEEK</span> Can be made by working -for us.</b> Parties preferred who -have a horse and can give their -whole time to our business. -Even spare time will play splendidly. -This announcement is of -special interest to farmers and farmers’ sons, and others -residing in the rural districts. A few vacancies also in -towns and cities.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>B. F. Johnson & Co.,<br /> -No. 5 South 11th St., Richmond, Va.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">MY <span class="larger">WIFE</span> CANNOT SEE HOW YOU DO -IT AND PAY FREIGHT.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-2.jpg" width="100" height="115" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="larger">$14</span> Buys our 2 drawer walnut or oak <b>Improved -High Arm Singer</b> sewing machine -finely finished, nickel plated, adapted to light -and heavy work; guaranteed for <b>10 Years</b>; with -<b>Automatic Bobbin Winder</b>, <b>Self-Threading Cylinder -Shuttle</b>, <b>Self-Setting Needle</b> and a complete -set of <b>Steel Attachments</b>; shipped any where on -<b>30 Day’s Trial</b>. No money required in advance. -75,000 now in use. World’s Fair Medal awarded machine and -attachments. Buy from factory and save dealer’s and agent’s profits.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>FREE</b></p> - -<p class="noindent"><b>Cut This Out</b> and send to-day for machine or large free -catalogue, testimonials and Glimpses of the World’s Fair.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>Oxford MFG. CO. 342 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO, ILL.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-3.jpg" width="200" height="175" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><b>Award of Highest Prize</b> -at <b>World’s Fair</b>, ratified by verdict -of “<b>The Multitude</b>.” Our -“<b>Modern Bath</b>” an ornament and -source of joy in any home. Send 2 cts -for catal’g illust’g 18 styles Tub. -Improved Water Heaters, etc.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>MOSELY FOLDING BATH TUB CO.,<br /> -181 W. South Canal Street,<br /> -CHICAGO, ILL.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-4.jpg" width="150" height="160" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">High Arm Warranted Ten Years.</p> -</div> - -<p>FREE TRIAL in your own home -for 30 days without -paying one -cent in advance; machine to be returned -at our expense if unsatisfactory. We -take all risks, <b>pay freight</b>, ship anywhere, -to anyone, in any quantity at -<b>wholesale prices</b>. $65 <b>Kenwood</b> machine, -<b>$24.50</b>; $55 <b>Arlington</b>, <b>$20.50</b>; $45 Arlington, -<b>$17.50</b>; $35 High Arm Gem, <b>$12</b>. We sell -all makes and styles, from cheapest $7.95 -to best “Kenwood,” $24.50. <b>All attachments -free.</b> <span class="smcap">Three Highest World’s Fair -Medals awarded.</span> Over 100,000 now in use. Buy direct from factory. -Save agents large profits. Catalogue and testimonials <b>free</b>. <b>Write -at once.</b> Address (in full) <b>CASH BUYERS’ UNION -158-164 W. Van Buren St., Dept. A 43, Chicago, Ill.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger">CHRYSANTHEMUMS</p> - -<p class="center">Choice Seed, 25c. packet. Circular free.</p> - -<p class="center">T. H. SPAULDING, Orange, N. J.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b><span class="larger">READER</span> If You Love <span class="larger">RARE FLOWERS</span></b> -<i>choice only</i>, address <b>ELLIS BROS., -Keene, N. H.</b> It will astonish and please. ☞ <b>FREE</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-5.jpg" width="200" height="175" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><b>MUSICAL CLOCK & Box Combined.</b> -Runs 8 days, -keeps perfect time -& furnish constantly -all the most -charming & popular -tunes. Plays -anything from a -simple song to a -difficult waltz or -operatic selection. -To introduce it -one in every county -or town furnished -reliable persons -(either sex) -who will promise -to show it. Send -at once to -<b>Inventor’s Co., New York City, P. O. Box 2252</b>.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger">RARE FLOWERS FREE!</p> - -<p>We want all to try our Northern Grown seeds, so for 30 -days only we will send the following (well worth $1.00) -<b>FREE</b>:</p> - -<ul> -<li><b>Giant Petunias</b>, 5 in. across, beautifully stained.</li> -<li><b>Golden Gate Poppies</b>, hundreds of beautiful colors.</li> -<li><b>Snowball Pinks</b>, white as winter snows.</li> -<li><b>Royal Prize Pansies</b>, 3 inches across, all colors.</li> -</ul> - -<p>Also a 20-cent coupon and our beautifully illustrated -catalogue for 1894. Enclose 6c. for postage, and address -<b>O. M. RICHARDSON & CO.</b>, Florists, Canton, -Maine. Mention this paper.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-6.jpg" width="300" height="55" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">All about Poultry for a 2c. stamp.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>S. M. T. JOHNSON, Box 11, Binghamton, N. Y.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><b><span class="larger">DRUNKENNESS</span> Is a DISEASE.</b> -<b>It can be Cured</b> -by administering -<b>Dr. Haines’ Golden Specific</b>. It can be -given without the knowledge of the patient, if -desired, in coffee, tea or articles of food. Cures -guaranteed. Send for circulars. <b>GOLDEN -SPECIFIC CO., 185 Race St., Cincinnati, O.</b> -☞ <b><i>The Only Cure. Beware of Imitators.</i></b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-7.jpg" width="150" height="100" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">45 Yards High Class Fowls.</p> -</div> - -<p><b>THE <span class="larger">WORLD’S FAIR</span> Highest Awards, -MEDAL and DIPLOMA, -on our INCUBATOR and BROODER -Combined.</b> If you are interested in -Poultry, it will pay you to send 4 cents in -stamps for 72 page catalogue, giving valuable -points on Poultry Culture. Address</p> - -<p class="right"><b>Reliable Incubator Co., Quincy, Ill.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger bold">OPIUM</span> Morphine Habit Cured in 10 -to 20 days. No pay till cured. -DR. J. STEPHENS, Lebanon, Ohio.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center bold">Teeth White as Snow.</p> - -<p>I have a simple and harmless -preparation which -will make the teeth <span class="smcap">pearly white</span>. Sample box 15c. or -sample and recipe of Tooth Whitening 25c., postal note or -stamps.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">MATTIE M. CRON, Cromwell, Ind.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figright"> -<p class="larger bold">LADY</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="larger">AGENTS</span> clear $100 monthly. <b>100 New -Ladies’ Specialties</b> for Old -and Young. 64 page Illust’d Catalogue -<b>FREE</b>. G. L. Erwin & Co., Chicago, Ill.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">LADIES</span> who will do writing for me at their -homes will make good wages. Reply -with self-addressed stamped envelope.</p> - -<p class="right">MISS MILDRED MILLER, South Bend, Ind.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><span class="larger">WOMEN</span> WHO CAN <span class="larger">CROCHET</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">and have a few hours’ spare time can get work to do <b>at -home</b> to occupy their spare time <b>profitably</b>. Address</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">L. WHITE & CO., 209 State St., Chicago, Ill.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft"> -<p class="larger bold">YOU</p> -</div> - -<p>You can now grasp a fortune. A new -guide to rapid wealth, with <b>240</b> fine engravings, -sent <b>free</b> to any person. This -is a chance of a lifetime. Write at once. -<b>Lynn & Co. 48 Bond St. New York</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 120px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-8.jpg" width="120" height="50" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">CORNS CURED</p> -</div> - -<p class="larger bold">FREE.</p> - -<p>Send for <b>Free</b> Sample Bottle. -Regular size 25c.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Cohn’s</span>, 332 W. 51 St., N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p77-9.jpg" width="100" height="110" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">☞ For 6 two-cent stamps we will send you -a brilliant Gem of unusual color -and a copy of “<i>The Great Divide</i>,” provided -you write you saw this in Vick’s Magazine. -Address, “The Great Divide,” Denver, Colo.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">EUROPE</span> Holy Land, California, Bermuda, -Florida, Mexico, etc. Select parties; -best ticketing facilities; choicest ocean berths. Send -for “TOURIST GAZETTE.”</p> - -<p class="right"><b>H. GAZE & SONS, 113 Broadway, New York.</b></p> - -<p class="noindent">(Est. 1844.) Official Ticket Agents Chief Trunk Lines.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft"> -<p class="larger">Greenbacks.</p> -</div> - -<p>$150.00 for $5.00; genuine Confederate -States greenbacks; in common bluebacks. -Terms 4 cts. A. L. NAPLES, Mulberry, Kansas.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger">NEW PLAYS</p> - -<p>READINGS, RECITATIONS, -CATALOGUES FREE!!! -DE WITT, ROSE ST., N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><span class="larger">GREEN’S</span> Fruit Guide and Catalogue</p> - -<p class="center"><b>80 PAGES, 9 COLORS, ILLUSTRATED. Free to all who Apply.</b></p> - -<p class="center">Trees, Plants, Vines, Small -Fruits, Roses, Ornamentals</p> - -<p class="center"><i>SIXTY THOUSAND PATRONS. ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. 2 NURSERIES.</i></p> - -<p class="center"><b>See Green’s Monthly—“Fruit Grower”—Sample -Free. 100,000 Readers. 50 cts. a Year.</b> Address <span class="larger"><b>GREEN’S NURSERY CO., Rochester, N. Y.</b></span></p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78"></a>[78]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p78-1.jpg" width="500" height="350" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">James Vick’s Sons, SEEDSMEN</p> -<p class="caption">Rochester, N. Y.</p> -<p class="caption">Danvers Yellow Globe Onion Seed, $1.00 Per Pound, -delivered, and other Reliable Seeds in proportion.</p> -</div> - -<p><i>Tested and Tried, Proven Good, are -all the Seeds and -Plants we offer.</i></p> - -<p><i>Vick’s Seeds <span class="smcap">have “grown”</span> for -over Forty Years, and -will continue to do so.</i></p> - -<p><i>We Pay the postage or express charges, -except when noted.</i></p> - -<p>VICK’S FLORAL GUIDE, 1894, -112 pages of Flowers and Vegetables, -will be sent for ten cents, which can be -deducted from first order.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="HANGING_BASKETS">HANGING BASKETS.</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Only certain kinds of plants are suitable -for hanging baskets; such as are of low -compact growth, to cover the surface, and such -as are of drooping or trailing habit, to hang over -the sides, are best for the purpose. For the center -use some graceful plant of upright growth. -In setting the plants in hanging baskets a layer -of moss at least one inch in depth should be -spread over the bottom and sides, so that the -water may be held and prevented from washing -through. To have the plants bloom freely they -should be hung where they will be exposed to -the sun at least two hours every day, and in dry -weather they need copious watering. A good -plan is to dip the whole basket in water until it is -thoroughly soaked. It can be allowed to drip -before being again hung up. Watered in this -way the soil retains the moisture much better than -when the water is only poured on the plants.</p> - -<p>Panicum variegatum is one of the most valuable -plants I have tried for baskets or vases. It -is a species of grass from New Caledonia, of -very graceful habit of growth, with beautiful variegated -foliage striped, white, carmine and -green. The ivy-leaved geraniums are excellent -climbing or trailing plants adapted to hanging -baskets. They have a fine, thick, glossy foliage, -which of itself would warrant their cultivation, -but they also have the charming attraction -of possessing beautiful flowers as well -as foliage. Any one who once succeeds in getting -a good variety started in a basket will never -allow their window garden to be without a plant -of this kind, as they all bloom with the greatest -freedom. Chas. Turner is my favorite variety -of the ivy-leaved geraniums.</p> - -<p>Nasturtiums are lovely in a “rustic” hanging -basket, that is, one made of rough and gnarled -roots and limbs of trees. All the varieties of -oxalis are pretty grown in earthenware baskets, -and wire baskets lined with bright green moss -are especially suitable for the different varieties -of tradescantia, or “wandering jew.” There is -a drooping variety of cactus, Cereus flagelliformis, -admirably suited for hanging baskets. I -have seen this planted in a large ox horn suspended -by chains, and it made a most unique -ornament.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Prudence Plain.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Unemployed in England.</span>—The sufferings -of the unemployed in England, if not -greater, are at least more vocal than ever, and -remarkably various are the remedies proposed. -Besides the project already named, Mr. Keir -Hardie suggested to Parliament the establishment -of an eight hours day and the prohibition -of overtime in Government factories, the reclamation -of waste lands and foreshores, the reafforesting -of the country, and the provision of -suitable accommodation for the aged poor. The -<i>Daily Chronicle</i> revives an old scheme for reclaiming -the Wash, and so adding a “new country” -to England. Mr. Chamberlain’s hope is -for extended markets for national trade. A conference -of vestries, presided over by Lord Onslow, -proposed to Mr. Gladstone the formation -of light railways, made and worked as in Ireland, -to carry away the refuse of London. The -gravity of this problem throughout the United -Kingdom can hardly be overestimated, and its -conditions are not so transient as those in the -United States. There is no such “army of unemployed” -in Chicago or New York as in London.—<i>From -the “Progress of the World,” in -the February Review of Reviews.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">TO CATARRH SUFFERERS</p> - -<p>A clergyman, after years of suffering, -from that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and -vainly trying every known remedy, at last -found a medicine which completely cured -and saved him from death. Any sufferer -from this dreadful disease sending his -name and address to Prof. Lawrence, 88 -Warren Street, New York, will receive the -means of cure free and postpaid.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p78-2.jpg" width="200" height="250" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">Send $2.00 for a large FUR RUG</p> -</div> - -<p><b>5½ feet long by 33 inches -wide.</b> Made from selected -skins of the Japanese Angolia. -Long, soft, silky fur.</p> - -<p>The colors are <i>Silvery White</i>, -<i>Light Grey</i> and <i>Dark Grey</i>. -☞ We also have a beautiful -<b>Glossy Black Fur Rug -at $3.00</b>. Same size. Comfortable, -luxurious, elegant. -For Parlors, Reception Halls, -or Bed Rooms. Sent C. O. D. -on approval if desired.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>THE LAWRENCE, -BUTLER & BENHAM CO.</b><br /> -94 High Street, <span class="smcap">Columbus, O.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> -<p class="caption">AUTOMATIC SHELL EXTRACTOR</p> -<p class="caption">DOUBLE-ACTION</p> -<img src="images/ad-p78-3.jpg" width="200" height="135" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">$4.50</p> -<p class="caption">WORTH $15.00</p> -</div> - -<p><b>HILL—He Pays the Express</b> -on this American-made Revolver. -Full Nickel Plated, Rubber Stock, -Center Fire, 32 or 38 Caliber, -Five Shot, 8-in. long, -rifle barrel 3¼ inch Long -fluted cylinder, Low -curved hammer which -prevents accidental -discharge. Weight -16 oz. Cut this out -and we will ship by -express C. O. D. $4.50, -we pay all charges.</p> - -<p class="center">W. HILL & Co.,<br /> -207 State Street, Chicago.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p78-4.jpg" width="150" height="160" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">Warranted. Light Running.</p> -</div> - -<p class="center">HIGHEST MEDAL<br /> -<span class="smaller">awarded to</span><br /> -<span class="larger">MAJESTIC</span><br /> -Only Medal for -Sewing Machine -Attachments</p> - -<p>Why? Send for catalogue</p> - -<p class="center">TILTON SEWING MACHINE CO.,<br /> -275 Wabash Ave., Chicago</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p78-5.jpg" width="150" height="190" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center larger bold">BEAUTIFUL SHAWLS</p> - -<p class="center larger bold">FREE</p> - -<p>Owing to the failure, during -the recent panic, of a -large manufacturer of <b>Fine -Cashmere Shawls</b> we -were enabled to secure an -enormous quantity of Plaid -Shawls at a fraction of the -cost to manufacture, and -propose to <b>give them -away absolutely Free</b> -as follows: To every person -who sends us <b>25</b> cents for -one year’s subscription to -<b>MODERN STORIES</b>, -a large 16-page handsomely -illustrated story and family -paper, containing fascinating -stories and a choice -piece of sheet music each -issue, by authors of worldwide -reputation, we will send one shawl absolutely <b>FREE</b>. -Remember there are no conditions, our offer is fair, square -and absolute. Every person who cuts this ad. out and returns -to us with <b>25</b> cents for our paper one year gets a shawl -<b>FREE</b>. If you want one send <b>now</b>. Address,</p> - -<p class="center"><b>MODERN STORIES, 87 Warren St., New York</b></p> - -<p class="center"><b>When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><span class="larger">VICKS’</span> Brilliantly Beautiful <span class="larger">INVINCIBLE SWEET PEAS</span></p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p78-6.jpg" width="100" height="225" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">SUPERIOR SELECTED STRAINS.</p> - -<p>We have for several seasons applied our best efforts towards improving, perfecting, as -well as increasing, our stock of the mixture which we introduced last season as “VICK’S -INVINCIBLE,” and which we know will please the most exacting. For flowers of lively -yet delicate colors, varying from the pearly white to the darkest and richest reds and purples, -this “Invincible Mixture” <i>leads</i> because it is the result of culling, season after season, -only the choicest and the best from the flowers of the year previous. The many and various -colored and shaded blooms cannot fail to give perfect satisfaction.</p> - -<p class="clear"><b>Price, Vicks’ Incredible Mixed Sweet Peas, per packet 15 cents; two for 25 -cents; ounce 50 cents.</b></p> - -<p class="center">JAMES VICK’S SONS, Rochester, N. Y.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79"></a>[79]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p79-1.jpg" width="500" height="220" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center larger">TREES AND PLANTS.</p> - -<p>Upon our 250 acres of nursery we have every class of hardy Trees and Plants; Fruit, Ornamental, -Nut and Flowering. <b>Mary</b> and <b>Henry Ward Beecher</b> Strawberries and -<b>Lovett’s Best</b> Blackberry are among the most valuable novelties. In our catalogues named -below (which are the most complete, comprehensive and elaborate published by any nursery -establishment in the world) all are accurately described and <b>offered at one-half the -price of tree agents</b>.</p> - -<p><b>LOVETT’S GUIDE TO FRUIT CULTURE</b> tells all about fruits, their merits and -defects; how to plant, prune, cultivate, etc. Richly illustrated. Several colored plates. Price 10c.</p> - -<p><b>LOVETT’S MANUAL OF ORNAMENTAL TREES AND PLANTS</b> is authoritative -as well as instructive; a model of excellence in printing and illustration. Gives -points and plans for ornamental planting. Price, with colored plates, 15 cents.</p> - -<p><b>Established 40 years. We successfully ship to all parts of the World.</b> -All who order either of the above and name this paper will receive an ounce of Flower Seeds <i>free</i>.</p> - -<p class="center">J. T. LOVETT CO. <span class="spacer">LITTLE SILVER, N. J.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p79-2.jpg" width="250" height="225" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="box30"> - -<p class="center larger">SPRAY YOUR FRUIT TREES & VINES</p> - -<p><b>Stahl’s</b> -Double Acting -Excelsior Spraying -Outfits prevent -Leaf Blight & Wormy -Fruit. Insures a heavy -yield of all Fruit and -Vegetable crops. Thousands -in use. Send 6 cts. for -catalogue and full treatise -on spraying. <i>Circulars free.</i></p> - -<p class="center"><b><i>WM. STAHL, Quincy, Ill.</i></b></p> - -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">GIVE UP TRYING TO GET SATISFACTORY RETURNS FROM POOR SEEDS.</p> - -<p class="center larger">Vicks’ Seeds Contain the Germ of Life</p> - -<p class="center smaller">THEY GROW—THEY FLOURISH—THEY PRODUCE ABUNDANTLY.</p> - -<p class="center">SOW VICKS’ SEEDS AND REAP GLORIOUS REWARDS.</p> - -<p class="center smaller">You Get the Best only from JAMES VICK’S SONS, Rochester, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">$120.00 PER MONTH</p> - -<p class="center bold">IN YOUR OWN LOCALITY</p> - -<p class="noindent">made easily and honorably, without capital, during your -spare hours. Any man, woman, boy or girl can do the -work handily, without experience. Talking unnecessary. -Nothing like it for money making ever offered before. Our -workers always prosper. No time wasted in learning the -business. We teach you in a night how to succeed from -the first hour. You can make a trial without expense to -yourself. We start you, furnish everything needed to carry -on the business successfully, and guarantee you against -failure if you but follow our simple, plain instructions. -Reader, if you are in need of ready money, and want to -know all about the best paying business before the public, -send us your address, and we will mail you a document, -giving you all the particulars.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>TRUE & CO., Box 1398, Augusta, Maine.</b></p> - -<p class="center"><b>When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger">DO YOU GROW “POSIES”</p> - -<p>If so, send for Catalogue -of PLANTS & SEEDS, -and compare with others -before you order. We -send a packet of our celebrated “PRIZE” ASTERS -Free, with Catalogue, if you mention this paper.</p> - -<p class="right">Address, The CALLA GREENHOUSES, Calla, O.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="box30"> - -<p class="center bold"><span class="larger">SEEDS</span> FREE FOR TRIAL</p> - -<p>We have the Finest and -Cheapest Seeds to be found -in the world and we want -every reader of this paper to try one of the following -collections Free. They would cost you -from 75c. to $1.00 purchased elsewhere.</p> - -<p><b>1st FREE OFFER, Vegetables</b>, 1 pkt. each.</p> - -<ul> -<li><b>BEET, Mitchell’s Blood Turnip</b>, earliest and best.</li> -<li><b>CABBAGE, Surehead</b>, sure to head.</li> -<li><b>CELERY, Golden Self Blanching</b>, the best.</li> -<li><b>LETTUCE, Denver Market</b>, fine new sort.</li> -<li><b>WATERMELON, Dixie</b>, luscious, great bearer.</li> -<li><b>ONION, Selected Globe Danvers</b>, standard sort.</li> -<li><b>RADISH, Summer Varieties</b>, 15 choice kinds.</li> -<li><b>SQUASH, Fordhook</b>, best, new sort.</li> -<li><b>TOMATO, Picture Rock</b>, a grand tomato.</li> -</ul> - -<p><b>2d FREE OFFER, Rare Flowers.</b></p> - -<ul> -<li><b>FORGET-ME-NOT, New Giant Flowered</b>, large.</li> -<li><b>CANDYTUFT, Fancy Mixture</b>, best bouquet sorts.</li> -<li><b>CALENDULA, Double White</b>, very showy.</li> -<li><b>CLARKIA, Salmon Queen</b>, richest col’d double.</li> -<li><b>CHRYSANTHEMUM, White Bouquet</b>, fine flower.</li> -<li><b>GAILLARDIA, Perpetual Flowered</b>, rich, showy.</li> -<li><b>POPPY, Riverdale Mixture</b>, fancy sorts only.</li> -<li><b>SCABIOSA, Dwarf, Double Striped</b>, lovely, grand.</li> -<li><b>SNAPDRAGON, Show Mixed</b>, penciled blossoms.</li> -<li><b>ORNAMENTAL GRASSES</b>, 25 choice sorts.</li> -</ul> - -<p>Either of the above collections, (9 packets Vegetable -seeds, or 10 packets flower seeds) <b>Mailed -Free</b> on following conditions: Send us 10c. for -either of above collections, or 20c. for both, and -we will mail them to you; also “Book on Summer -Gardening,” and include in each lot a check -for 10c. This check you can return to us at any -time and get 10c. worth of seeds, thus the collection -really costs you nothing. (We charge this -10c. to prevent people from sending who have no -use for the seeds.) We want you to try our seeds.</p> - -<p>☞ Both collections, book, and packet each of -the lovely early <b>Carnation Marguerite</b> and -profuse blooming <b>Begonia Vernon</b> and a 25c. -check for 25c. Book free to seed buyers.</p> - -<p class="right"><b>J. J. BELL, Flowers, Broome Co., N. Y.</b></p> - -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="box30"> - -<p class="center larger bold">SEEDS <span class="smaller">BOX WORTH $3.50</span></p> - -<p class="center bold">35 Regular Size Packets, <span class="larger">ONLY 50 CENTS</span>.</p> - -<p>The great demand for our 50 cent Complete Garden Collections in years past induces us to -offer the same again. Many who have tried every collection they have seen advertised, pronounce this -the greatest bargain they have ever obtained. <span class="smcap">Our Seeds are the Best and Cheapest, and we -offer these Great Inducements to get Everybody to Try Them.</span> This Great <b>COMPLETE -GARDEN</b> Box contains One Packet each,</p> - -<ul> -<li><b>ASPARAGUS, Barr’s Mammoth</b>, giants, good qual.</li> -<li><b>BUSH BEAN, Rust Proof Wax</b>, best bean grown.</li> -<li><b>POLE BEAN, Golden Champion</b>, productive, good.</li> -<li><b>CABBAGE, All Head</b>, large, sure header.</li> -<li><b>CUCUMBER, New Everbearing</b>, early, productive.</li> -<li><b>CORN, White Cory</b>, earliest, best, sweetest.</li> -<li><b>LETTUCE, Grand Rapids</b>, best forcing.</li> -<li><b>MUSKMELON, Netted Gem</b>, unsurpassed quality.</li> -<li><b>WATERMELON, Dixie</b>, luscious; has no equal.</li> -<li><b>ONION, Early White</b>, early, sure cropper.</li> -<li><b>PEAS, Bell’s Extra Early</b>, best early.</li> -<li><b>PARSNIP, Improved Guernsey</b>, best for table use.</li> -<li><b>RADISH, 15 Choice Summer Sorts. Mixed.</b></li> -<li><b>SQUASH, Fordhook</b>, best for general use.</li> -<li><b>TOMATO, New Stone</b>, solid, large, good.</li> -<li><b>5 PACKETS Other Choice Vegetables.</b></li> -</ul> - -<p><b>15 PACKETS Choice Flower Seeds</b>, including such sorts as Cozy’s Canna, Sweet Nicotiana, Etc.</p> - -<p>All the above, (best outfit for a complete vegetable and flower garden ever offered)—20 full packets -choice vegetables, and 15 packets rare flowers in a box with our new Book on Summer Gardening -by mail postpaid for only 50c. Send for it. Address, <b>J. J. BELL, Flowers, Broome Co., N. Y.</b></p> - -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">CHOICE ROSES AT 5 Cts.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p79-3.jpg" width="250" height="275" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">Good & Reese’s Roses are on their own roots.</p> -</div> - -<p class="center bold">OUR RAINBOW COLLECTION<br /> -OF 20 ROSES FOR $1. PREPAID BY MAIL.</p> - -<p>The roses we send are on their own roots, from 10 to 15 -inches high, and will bloom freely this summer either in pots -or planted in yard. They are hardy, ever bloomers. We send -instructions with each order how to plant and care for them. -Please examine the below list of 20 choice fragrant monthly -roses, and see if you can duplicate them anywhere for an -amount so small as <b>$1</b>. They are nearly all new kinds.—We -guarantee them to reach you in good condition, <b>and we also -guarantee them to be the best dollar’s worth of roses you -have ever purchased</b>. <b>THE RAINBOW COLLECTION OF 20 -ROSES FOR ONE DOLLAR MUST BE ORDERED COMPLETE.</b></p> - -<p>The List:—<b>Bridesmaid</b>, the best pink rose by far ever introduced. -<b>Princess of Wales</b>, amber yellow, deepening to orange. <b>Snowflake</b>, -pure white, always in bloom. <b>Princess de Radziwell</b>, lovely coral red. -<b>Pearl of the Gardens</b>, deep golden yellow. <b>Beauty of Stapleford</b>, -bright rosy crimson. <b>Queen of Fragrance</b>, in clusters of six to ten roses, -white edged pink. <b>Rheingold</b>, beautiful shades of saffron and tawn. Sunset, -golden amber, resembles an “afterglow.” <b>Dr. Grill</b>, coppery yellow and fawny -rose. <b>Duchess Marie Immaculata</b>, an intermingling of bronze, orange, yellow, -pink and crimson. <b>Lady Castlereagh</b>, soft rosy crimson and yellow. <b>Papa -Gontier</b>, lovely dark red. <b>Star of Gold</b>, the queen of all yellow roses. <b>Waban</b>, -a great rose in bloom all the time. <b>Lady Stanley</b>, great garden rose. <b>Viscountesse -Wautier</b>, one of the best roses grown. <b>Cleopatra</b>, soft shell pink, lovely. -<b>Sappho</b>, fawn suffused with red. <b>Letty Coles</b>, very chaste and beautiful.</p> - -<p class="bold">THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING.</p> - -<p>This applies to Floral matters -as well as to matters culinary.</p> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p class="right">Ballinger, Texas, Nov. 29.</p> - -<p>The <span class="smcap">Good & Reese Co.</span>, Springfield. O. Gentlemen: -The 20 ever blooming roses you sent me for $1. arrived -yesterday in the most splendid condition, and allow me -to say that I was absolutely surprised at the size of the -stalks and the amount, length and thriftiness of the -roots. I have wondered many times how you could afford -to send out such roses for such a small price. Every -home in the land should have their yard full of ever -blooming roses at this price.</p> - -<p class="center">Yours,</p> - -<p class="right">(Judge) <span class="smcap">C. H. Willingham</span>.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p class="right">Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 20, 1893.</p> - -<p>The <span class="smcap">Good & Reese Co.</span>, Springfield, O. Gentlemen: -I wish to thank you for the excellent assortment of -roses contained in your Rainbow Collection. On May -3, I planted them, 19 of them lived. About six of them -bloomed in June, since which all have bloomed either -monthly or perpetual, true to their color. On Sept. 1, I -counted 106 buds and blooms on the 19 roses. They were -much admired by my friends and neighbors, and allow -me to thank you for furnishing this source of pleasure -so cheaply.</p> - -<p class="center">Very respectfully,</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">E. D. Smith.</span></p> - -<p>82 Fifth Avenue.</p> - -</div> - -<p><b>We will also send our Iron Clad Collection of 12 Hardy Roses, all different colors, $1. Try a set. -20 Chrysanthemums, all prize winners. $1. 16 Geraniums, double and single, flowered and scented, $1. -12 choice Begonias, different kinds, $1. 40 packets choice Flower Seeds, all different kinds, $1.</b> Our -handsome, illustrated, 152-page Catalogue, describing above Roses, Plants and all Seeds, mailed for 10c. stamps. -Don’t place your order before seeing our prices. <b>WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY.</b> We have <b>large two year old -Roses for immediate effect</b>. <b>Liberal Premiums to club raisers, or how to get your seeds and plants free. We -are the LARGEST ROSE GROWERS IN THE WORLD. Our sales of Rose Plants alone last season -exceeded a million and a half.</b> When you order Roses, Plants and Seeds, you want the very best. Try us. Address</p> - -<p class="center bold">GOOD & REESE CO., Box 44 Champion City Greenhouses, Springfield, Ohio.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80"></a>[80]</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peach Yellows.</span>—This disease is making -considerable trouble in certain parts of the country. -It attacks trees about the time they are -coming to the age of most prolific bearing to such -an extent that in certain portions of the peach-growing -regions healthy old trees are unknown. -The symptoms of the disease are: Yellowish-green -color of leaves; small leaves tinged with -red; the new shoots small, wiry, and clustered, -especially when growing upon the trunk or larger -branches; fruit ripens prematurely, is highly colored, -and insipid or bitter to the taste. The -sickly yellowish-green foliage may be due to injury -or lack of nourishment, but when coupled -with the other characters given the presence of -the “yellows” can be considered as certain. -The only sure way is to dig out and burn every -tree as soon as it is seen to be affected. This -plan has been followed in Michigan, where, between -1870 and 1880, the disease was very bad. -Now hardly a case of “yellows” can be found -in many of the peach regions. Constant attention -and prompt action have proved successful, -in this case, at least.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">SELECTED SEEDS</span> 8 pkts. for 25 cents. -Sweet Pea, Aster, -Pansy, Phlox, Poppy, Petunia, Zinnia, and Marguerite -Carnation (or 60 Oxalis Bulbs). G. T. GRAEFF, Box -1576, Philadelphia, Pa.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger">$5.00 Worth for $1.00!</p> - -<p class="center">“<b>The Cream of New Chrysanths.</b>”</p> - -<p>Pres. Smith, Maud Dean, Kate Brown, G. W. Childs, -Nivens, Mrs. F. L. Ames, Hicks Arnold, Golden Gate.</p> - -<p>This set of 8 Gems $1.00; 6 sets $5.00, by mail. Mention -this Magazine, and we will give you free 2 Choice Carnations.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>McMULLEN & PASFIELD</b>, -20 Bedford Avenue, <b>Brooklyn, N. Y.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p80-1.jpg" width="300" height="350" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Straws show -which way the wind -blows. Watch them—and -be convinced. When you see all sorts -of washing powders patterned -after <i>Pearline</i>; when you see it -imitated in appearance, in name, -in everything except merit; when -you find three persons using <i>Pearline</i> -where two used it a year ago; when you hear it as -a household word with the best housekeepers; when -you find its former enemies now its staunchest friends;—then -you may know the wind is taking you along -toward <i>Pearline</i>.</p> - -<p>Why not go with it? You are losing money by -trying to head the other way; money, and labor, -and time and patience.</p> - -<p>Go with the rest—use <i>Pearline</i>—and you stop -losing, and begin to gain. Millions realize that there -is everything to gain and nothing to lose—with -<i>Pearline</i>.</p> - -<p class="center larger clear">Blowing</p> - -<p>Peddlers and some grocers will tell you, “this is as good -as” or “the same as Pearline.” IT’S FALSE—but what a -puff for Pearline.</p> - -<p class="right">JAMES PYLE, New York.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">The Innisfallen Greenhouses</p> - -<p class="noindent"><b>Have been favorably known for more than -twenty years</b>, and always give satisfaction. In order -to increase my business, I make the following</p> - -<p class="center bold"><span class="u">SPECIAL OFFERS</span></p> - -<p class="right"><b>which are -marvels of -cheapness</b>.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-p80-2.jpg" width="300" height="375" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center">NEW EVER-BLOOMING<br /> -<span class="smaller">DWARF CALLA,</span></p> - -<p class="center larger bold">“THE GEM”</p> - -<p>This is a novelty of great merit. The only objection to the old -variety is that it sometimes grows tall and scraggly, but the -“<b>Little Gem</b>” is of strong and dwarf habit. The foliage -which is of a lustrous dark green is in great abundance. The -flowers are produced in the greatest profusion, being literally an -ever-bloomer, it will bloom freely all summer in the open -ground, in September it can be lifted and potted and will continue -blooming all winter. The “Little Gem” Calla will continue -to grow and bloom for years without ceasing, and the quantity -of flowers which a large plant will produce is astonishing, the -flowers are snowy white in color, and of good size, it seldom grows -higher than fifteen inches. Price for plants that will bloom this -season, <b>30 cents each</b>. <b>For $1.00 I will mail 5 plants -to one address.</b></p> - -<p><b>ONLY $1.00</b> will buy any one of the collections -named below, delivered -safely by mail, postpaid, to any address. The collections are all -fine, strong plants of the best varieties and are marvels of cheapness. -Every plant is plainly labeled, and there are no two varieties -alike in the same collection.</p> - -<p><b>FOR $1.00 I will mail FREE 20 Prize-winning Chrysanthemums; 20 fine Single -and Double Flowering Geraniums for $1.00; 20 Choice Ever-Blooming -Carnations for $1.00; 20 Flowering Begonias for $1.00; 20 Assorted Flowering Plants -for $1.00; 20 Fancy Leaved Coleus for $1.00.</b></p> - -<p><b>For $5.00 you can select any six of the above Collections.</b></p> - -<p>To every one who sends an order from this advertisement and mentions this magazine, we will send <b>FREE</b> -a valuable plant.</p> - -<p><b>ORDER NOW</b> <span class="u">and ask for our CATALOGUE of BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS for 1894</span>.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="bold">CHARLES A. REESER</span>, INNISFALLEN GREENHOUSES, <span class="bold">SPRINGFIELD, O.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">FREE</span> <b>A MAGNIFICENT PREMIUM PACKAGE</b> of <b>FLOWER SEEDS</b>. Do <b>YOU</b> read this -magazine? <span class="smcap">Vick’s Magazine</span> says its readers comprise the best people in the land. Everybody knows -that’s so. We want to make you our own friend, and are willing to make it worth your while to get -acquainted. So, if you will send us <b>10 cents</b>, for 3 months subscription to <b>Homes and Hearths</b>, we will send -you as a present, transportation prepaid, our unequalled <b>Premium Package</b>, containing 200 choice, fresh, guaranteed -varieties of flower seeds from largest growers, including <b>Sweet Peas</b> (Boreatton, Grand Blue, Queen of England, -Isa Eckford, etc.), also <b>Pansies</b> (Rex, Gold Margined, Snow Queen, etc.), <b>Asters</b> (Jewel, Perfection, Victoria, etc.), -and many others. The whole is a perfect wealth of flowers, fit for a royal garden. Homes and Hearths is an attractive -16-page monthly, with lovely original illustrations, splendid and absorbing original stories: special departments -for news about dress, FASHIONS and for HOME DECORATION; best selected matter; FIRESIDE FUN; a perfect -Mine of pleasure and value. The cash premiums which you will find in it are the most liberal ever made. Address -<b>HOMES AND HEARTHS PUB. CO., New York</b>.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">Poppies</span> <b>FREE.</b> Send us 10 cents for a sample -copy of <b>INGALL’S MAGAZINE</b> -and we will send you a “<b>YARD OF -POPPIES</b>,” all in their <b>Beautiful -Colors</b>—<b>FREE</b>. Address <b>J. F. -Ingalls, Lynn, Mass. Box H2</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">A FINE ROSE</span> And packet of beautiful -<b>FLOWER SEEDS</b>, -with catalogue, for <b>10c.</b></p> - -<p class="center"><b>ALFRED F. CONARD</b>, Box 5, <b>10 West Grove, Pa.</b></p> - -<p class="center">Late President <span class="smcap">Dingee & Conard Co.</span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold"><span class="u">850,000</span> GRAPE VINES</p> - -<p><b>100 Varieties.</b> Also <b>Small Fruits, Trees, &c.</b> Best -rooted stock. Genuine, cheap. <b>2</b> sample vines mailed for <b>10c.</b> -Descriptive price-list free. <b>LEWIS ROESCH</b>, Fredonia, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="INDEX">INDEX.</h2> - -</div> - -<table summary="Index"> - <tr> - <td>A Cottage Lot</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_COTTAGE_LOT">69</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Architects, Curious,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#CURIOUS_ARCHITECTS">66</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Begonias, Perhaps</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#BEGONIAS_PERHAPS">74</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Book Notice</b>—</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Our Native Grape</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#OUR_NATIVE_GRAPE">72</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Calla, A Yellow-Flowered,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_YELLOW-FLOWERED_CALLA">72</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Cannas, The New French,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_NEW_FRENCH_CANNAS">68</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Don’t Forget the Potatoes</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#DONT_FORGET_THE_POTATOES">73</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Flower Stand, A Pretty,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#A_PRETTY_FLOWER_STAND">77</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Fruit Trees, Care of,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Growing Onion Sets</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#GROWING_ONION_SETS">73</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Hanging Baskets</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#HANGING_BASKETS">78</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Letter Box</b>—</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Lady Washington and Other Plants</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_1">70</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Roses in Kansas</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_2">70</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Ixia—Spider Lily</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_3">70</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Plants About a Fish Pond</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_4">70</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Osage Orange Hedge</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_5">70</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Vase in a Cemetery</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_6">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Carnations in the House</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_7">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Madeira Vine</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_8">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Mildew on Cucumber Vines</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_9">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Moles</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_10">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Pine Apple Air Plant</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_11">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Phyllocactus latifrons</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_12">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Mammoth Freesias</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_13">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Wormy Raspberries—Violets—Storing Cauliflower</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Letter_Box_14">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Mabel Ray’s Lesson</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#MABEL_RAYS_LESSON">65</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>March Work</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Marguerite Carnations</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#MARGUERITE_CARNATIONS">77</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Mesembryanthemum</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#MESEMBRYANTHEMUM">76</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Peach Yellows</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Plant Bed, The,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_PLANT_BED">72</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Poetry</b>—</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">March</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#MARCH">65</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Vick’s Flowers</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#VICKS_FLOWERS">68</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Lines to a Skunk Cabbage</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#LINES_TO_A_SKUNK_CABBAGE">68</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Rose Leaves</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#ROSE_LEAVES">69</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>The Difference</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#THE_DIFFERENCE">68</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>Unemployed in England, The,</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Page_78">78</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><b>Illustrations</b>—</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Birds Nests</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Page_66">66, 67</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdl1">Plan of Grounds</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td> - </tr> -</table> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insideback-1.jpg" width="300" height="300" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="box30"> - -<p class="center">D. and C.<br /> -<span class="larger">ROSES</span></p> - -<p>Will grow anywhere, with a little -sunshine, water, and care. You can -learn how to grow them, and every -other flower of import, from our</p> - -<p class="center"><b>New Guide to Rose Culture</b></p> - -<p class="noindent">for 1894. If you so request, we will send -free, this book and a copy of our Floral -Magazine, ‘<b>Success with Flowers</b>.’</p> - -<p class="center">The Dingee & Conard Company,<br /> -West Grove, Pa.</p> - -</div> - -<p class="center"><b>When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="box30"> - -<p class="center">A BARGAIN Collection of <span class="larger">Flower Seeds</span></p> - -<p>19 Choice Annuals (everybody’s favorites), all new -fresh seeds, sure to grow and bloom this season. -<b>Pansy</b>, 40 colors and markings; <b>Phlox</b>, 10 colors; <b>Verbena</b>, -18 colors; <b>Pinks</b>, 10 colors; <b>Petunia</b>, 10 colors; <b>Asters</b>, -12 colors; <b>Balsam</b>, 8 colors; <b>Mignonette Sweet</b> mixed -<b>Sweet Peas</b>, 12 colors and <b>Sweet Alyssum</b>.</p> - -<p><b>FOR 12 CENTS</b> and the name and address of two -of your friends who grow flowers, -I will send, post-paid, the complete collection, one -pkt. each of the ten varieties (enough for any ordinary -garden.) This is a <b>BONAFIDE</b> offer, made to introduce -my home grown flower seeds to new customers -and which I <b>guarantee</b> to please you or the amount -paid refunded, and the seeds given as a present.</p> - -<p class="center">Address, <b>Miss C. H. LIPPINCOTT,<br /> -319 and 323 Sixth Street, South, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.</b></p> - -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">SEEDS GIVEN AWAY</p> - -<p class="noindent">FOR TRIAL. I have found that the best way to advertise -good Seeds is to give away a sample for trial. -If you will send me a 2-cent stamp to pay postage, I will -mail <b>free</b> one package, your selection, of either Cabbage, -Carrot, Celery, Cucumber, Lettuce, Musk or Water Melon, -Onion, Parsnip, Pepper, Pumpkin, Radish, Spinach, -Squash, Tomato, Turnip, or of Flower Seeds—Aster, Balsam, -Celosia, Carnation, Mignonette, Pansy, Phlox, Poppy, -Sweet Peas, Zinnia, or Verbena, and one of my 1894 Catalogues. -Under any circumstances do not buy your Seeds -until you see it, for I can save you money. Over 200,000 -people say my seeds are the cheapest and best. I have -earliest vegetables on record. Discount and large prizes -to agents. 50 cents worth of Seeds free with $1.00 order. -<b>Write to-day.</b> <b>F. B. MILLS</b>, Box 30, <b>Rose Hill, N. Y.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insideback-2.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="center larger">ELEGANT PALMS</p> - -<p>From India and the Isles of the Sea. -5 Glorious Plants, different sorts, post paid, -60c. These will grow and flourish everywhere.</p> - -<p class="center larger">PALM SEED.</p> - -<p>It is child’s-play to make them grow. -Send 5c. postage for our great catalogue, -(130 pages); or catalogue and one large -package of 5 different kinds of Palm seed, -free for 20c. postage. 100 packages $10. -A child can sell 100 packages in two evenings -after school and make $5.00.</p> - -<p class="center larger">JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. LA CROSSE, WIS.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger">NORTH STAR CURRANT</p> - -<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">is perfectly hardy</span>; will stand any climate; -<span class="smcap">strongest grower</span>—3 to 4 feet in one summer. -<span class="smcap">Fruit Large</span>, sweet, most <span class="smcap">delicious flavor</span>. -<span class="smcap">Berries do not shell or drop off; most -prolific.</span> Picks 25 per cent. more fruit. Full -particulars and fine colored plates <span class="smcap">free</span>.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>THE JEWELL NURSERY CO.</b>,<br /> -Nursery Ave. 39, <b>Lake City, Minnesota</b>.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>When writing to advertisers, mention Vick’s Magazine.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><span class="larger">FREE</span> Catalogue HOME-GROWN<br /> -<span class="larger">NORTHERN SEEDS</span></p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insideback-3.jpg" width="100" height="90" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><b>Guaranteed fresh</b> and reliable. -Large pkts. 2 to 5 cts. <i>Direct from -Grower.</i> Novelty presents with -every order. Catalogue, <b>Free</b>—or -with 2 packets Seeds, 5 cents; -35 packets, $1.00. Send to-day.</p> - -<p class="right"><b>A. R. AMES, Madison, Wis.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">Banquet Strawberry.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Equal to wild berry in flavor. <b>CROSBY PEACH, -frost proof. Fruits every year.</b> <span class="smcap">Colored Plates.</span> -Full descriptions. <span class="smcap">Free Catalogue.</span> All fruits. Write at -once. <b>HALE BROS., South Glastonbury, Conn.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center"><b><span class="larger">CONARD’S</span> SUNSHINE PANSIES -and Red, White and Blue -SWEET PEAS are the best.</b> 1 pkt. each, 2 for 10c. -Large pkts. 2 for 20c., with catalogue. <b>Alfred F. Conard</b>, -Box 5, <b>West Grove, Pa.</b>, <i>Late Prest, Dingee & Conard Co.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ad-insideback-4.jpg" width="400" height="600" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">HOW DO YOU SPELL <span class="u">SOAP</span> DEAR?<br /> -WHY MA, <span class="u">P-E-A-R-S</span> OF COURSE!</p> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="box40"> - -<p><b><span class="larger">SEEDS</span> A $3.00 BOX of NEW, RARE and BEAUTIFUL <span class="larger">FLOWERS FREE</span></b></p> - -<p><b>HARD TIMES OFFER</b>—We know that -one trial will convince you that we have the -<b>BEST</b> as well as the <b>CHEAPEST</b> Seeds to be found anywhere in America, so we will mail you -<b>FREE</b> for trial the following 15 Packets of Choice Seeds and two Grand Bulbs;</p> - -<p><b>1 BEAUTIFUL SPOTTED GLADIOLUS BULB, sure to bloom. 1 EXCELSIOR TUBEROSE BULB, Lovely and -Fragrant, ☞ BELL’S Show Mixtures are Finest and Rarest Sorts in the World.</b></p> - -<ul> -<li><b>ASTER, Bell’s Show Mixture.</b></li> -<li><b>PINK, Bell’s Show Mixture.</b></li> -<li><b>VERBENA, Bell’s Show Mixture.</b></li> -<li><b>PETUNIA, Bell’s Show Mixture.</b></li> -<li><b>PHLOX, Bell’s Show Mixture.</b></li> -<li><b>ALYSSUM, White Wave</b>, Choice White.</li> -<li><b>CALLIOPSIS, Golden Wave</b>, Extremely Showy.</li> -<li><b>PANSY, Bell’s Ever-blooming Greenland</b>, Brilliant.</li> -<li><b>COLUMBINE, Queen Victoria</b>, Choice New D’ble.</li> -<li><b>BUSH MORNING GLORY, Double Violet</b>, Pretty.</li> -<li><b>GODETIA, Double Show</b>, New Double, Rare.</li> -<li><b>WONDERFUL MEXICAN PRIMROSE</b>, Worth 25c.</li> -<li><b>LINUM, Perpetual Flowering</b>, Blooms all Summ’r</li> -<li><b>SWEET PEAS, Beautiful Home Mixed</b>, Large Flower</li> -<li><b>HARDY ANNUALS, 400 Choice Sorts</b>, Mixed.</li> -</ul> - -<p>☞ <b>All the above 15 Packets Seeds and 2 Bulbs Mailed FREE</b> on the following conditions; -(This is to prevent people sending who have no use for them). Send -us 25 Cents and we will mail all the above, postpaid, with our “<b>Book -on Summer Gardening</b>,” and send you in the box a check for the -25 cents; this check you can return to us and get 25cts. worth of Seeds -at any time. So you see the box of Seeds costs you nothing. We have -1200 of the choicest varieties and do this to get your patronage. Book -mailed free on application to all seed buyers. Address, <b>J. J. BELL, Flowers, Broome Co., N. Y.</b></p> - -<div class="box30"> - -<p class="center"><b>GRAND BOX FREE.<br /> -SEND FOR IT.<br /> -LOVELY FLOWERS<br /> -EASILY GROWN.</b></p> - -</div> - -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="page"> - -<p class="center larger">JOSEPH GILLOTT’S STEEL PENS.</p> - -<p class="center">THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS.</p> - -<p class="center">Gold Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889,</p> - -<p class="center">AND THE AWARD AT THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">VICKS’ SEEDS ARE GUARANTEED TO CONTAIN THE GERM OF LIFE.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">The Greatest Medical Discovery -of the Age.</p> - -<p class="center bold">KENNEDY’S<br /> -<span class="larger">MEDICAL DISCOVERY</span></p> - -<p class="center bold">DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS.,</p> - -<p class="noindent">Has discovered in one of our common -pasture weeds a remedy that cures every -kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula -down to a common Pimple.</p> - -<p>He has tried it in over eleven hundred -cases, and never failed except in two cases -(both thunder humor). He has now in his -possession over two hundred certificates -of its value, all within twenty miles of -Boston.</p> - -<p>A benefit is always experienced from -the first bottle, and a perfect cure is -warranted when the right quantity is taken.</p> - -<p>When the lungs are affected it causes -shooting pains, like needles passing -through them; the same with the Liver or -Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being -stopped, and always disappears in a week -after taking it.</p> - -<p>If the stomach is foul or bilious it will -cause squeamish feelings at first.</p> - -<p>No change of diet ever necessary. Eat -the best you can get, and enough of it -Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed-time. -Read the Label. Send for Book.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center larger bold">The “Charmer” Pea</p> - -<p class="center bold">Pleases Everybody Because:—Very Productive; -Highest Quality; Fine Flavor; Staying Qualities; -Great Merit; Deep Green Color, Large Peas, -Closely Packed; Nine in a Pod.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;"> -<img src="images/ad-back-1.jpg" width="150" height="375" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>This new variety of large podded, handsome Table Pea, -introduced by us, jumped at a bound into instantaneous -favor all over the United States.</p> - -<p>The plants stand from three and a half feet to four feed -high, and bear large, long pods, mostly in pairs, which are -packed remarkably close with flattened, greenish-white, -wrinkled peas, and these, when cooked, are of the finest -flavor and color. The weight of the Pea compared to the -pod is much greater than usual, producing more shelled peas -than any other variety.</p> - -<p>In season it follows Little Gem and comes before Champion -of England. Both for the market and family garden -this Pea will be found of the highest merit.</p> - -<p>Everybody is charmed with this variety, and whether for -private use or marketing, a liberal quantity should be planted.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>Price, per packet 10 cents; per pint 30 cents; per -quart 50 cents.</b></p> - -<p class="center larger bold">Vick’s Pea, King of the Dwarfs.</p> - -<p>This new seedling, introduced by us, in season follows closely McLean’s Little -Gem, coming into market in the space intervening between the early and the late -varieties. The vines are sturdy and remarkably vigorous, growing about two inches -taller than the Little Gem, and bearing a profusion of pods and Peas in the -pod, with all of the principal dwarf varieties, including the American Wonder, we -find that the King of the Dwarfs outyields them all by 20 per cent., all planted at the -same time, on the same soil, with equal cultivation.</p> - -<p>It is a cross between American Wonder and McLean’s Little Gem, and is the most -promising of forty different seedlings. In flavor it is unsurpassed.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>Price, per packet 15 cents; per pint 75 cents; per quart $1.25.</b></p> - -<p class="center larger"><b>JAMES VICK’S SONS, Rochester, N. Y.</b></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">VICKS’ SEEDS DO NOT DISAPPOINT. THE HARVEST IS GREAT.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/ad-back-2.jpg" width="500" height="325" alt="" /> -<p class="caption">1894 COLUMBIAS ARE BEYOND CRITICISM</p> -</div> - -<p>No bicycle ever made at all approaches them in -beauty and style joined to excellence of construction, -none so strongly appeals to the experienced -rider as meeting every requirement of a perfect -mount.</p> - -<p>The need of repairs for Columbias will be infrequent -under our new system of inspection, which -now begins with a scientific analysis of the raw -material by a metallurgist, and only ends when -thorough tests have been made of the complete -machine and all its parts.</p> - -<p><b>1894 Standard Price, $125.00.</b></p> - -<p class="smaller">Seven newly designed wheels are shown -in our 1894 Catalogue which will interest -every cyclist. Our agents furnish it free, -or we mail it for two two-cent stamps.</p> - -<p class="right">POPE MFG. CO.</p> - -<p class="right">BOSTON, NEW YORK, -CHICAGO, HARTFORD.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="larger">BRIGGS</span> <span class="u">PIANOS</span>. Celebrated for their <b>Beautiful Tone</b>, <b>Action</b>, -<b>Design</b>, and <b>Great Durability</b>.</p> - -<p><b>Easy Terms.</b> Old instruments taken in exchange. -<b>Write for Catalogue and Full Information.</b></p> - -<p class="center"><b>BRIGGS PIANO CO. 621 Albany Street, Boston, Mass</b></p> - -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine, -Volume 17, No. 5, March, 1894, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VICK'S ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY, MARCH 1894 *** - -***** This file should be named 63196-h.htm or 63196-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/1/9/63196/ - -Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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