Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-22

dragon, Mexican ageratum, Drummond
! phioA, efyslmlm, mlgnonette, and flora's
palnt-brush These flowers are all good,
and all cheap; none costing over ten cents
a packet, and some only five.
Five cents worth Of mignonette will
sweeten whole garden; that is nv exne-
rience with it. | have it everywhere. it
sows itself; but always buy packet of
seed to make sure, for as to passing a
summer without my "littlc darling" I
could not do it. Besides these, | had a
| little bed of pansies; they cost twenty
| cents. [ soWed the seed in cold frame
IN April. The pansy is one Of my favor
ties; 1t has so much "countenance,' as
Jane Austen says, somewhere, of one of
her people. The Germans call it little
| step-mother." Pansies bloom the first
| year from seed, and as soon as most an
nuals; but they are perennial, and the sec
ond year begin to bloom in April and con-
tInue all through the summer, and quite
| into the edge Of winter They do not en-
dure heat very well, and the blossoms are
always finest IN spring and autumn. A
little shade in July and August, and
mulching and watering are useful
| My bed OF Japan pinks (dianthus Chi
nenses), too, cost twenty cents; they. like
sometimes longer; they are very hardy.
and bloom late in the fall l had SOME
daises, too, dear little things; can see
| their baby faces at this moment, as they
| used to look cuddling down in the grass.
Candytutt, when used with other annu-
ais, should be sown later, as it comes into
bloom before anything else, and will be
gone before the others are out; it makes a
pretty edglng for border Of pcrennials,
as most perennials bloom earlier than an
nuals. Nemophila, too, is an early bloom
er, and does best when soWn quite early
in a seed-bed or cold frame.
When a garden is OF &c under way it
goes on almost of itself Many flowers
are very hardy, and SOW themselves wear
after year; but most will deterisrate after
a while, and it is best to buy new seed fire.
quently l never plant my own zinnia
seed; | get it fresh every season; but
candytuft, mignonette, and Drummond
phloX, and petunias come up in my gar
den OF themselves every spring, and can
see no change in them. Portulacca too,
when once established in garden, is as
reliable as perennial.-Ctrtstson Union.
How Maryland EIopement Ended.
4 HOWARD COUNTY Md) farm laborer
WIZ has DCtI loi SoIilc tllllc whining I'm
desshe tormentS of love for his EMPLOYERS
daughter, very pretty little thing of fit
teen, determined recently to end his mis-
cry by an elopement The girl was at
boarding-school, but he knew that she was
willing, so, with a horse and buggy, he
struck for that institution But consta-
BILE in some way OWNED his purpose, and
it fell out that while the unsuspecting
father Of the girl was doing jury duty at
the county court house, dispatch was
placed in his hands, informing him of the
danger that threatened his household. He
speedily disimpaneled himself, and sum-
mOning three athletic young men he, too,
started for the boarding school. The elop-
ers had twenty minutes the start Of them
when they arrived, but feet horses short
ened the interval, and at / O'Clock a. m,
the buggy was deserted in advance. It
was speedily surrounded, and taking the
farm laborer out, they took turns for an
hour and a half in pounding him, and be
ing thus avenged returned home with the
weeping girl. The unfortunate young
agriculturist meandered into town about
noon the next day, with a fearful head on
him, and informed his friends that his
hopes were crushcd-he was not a marry
ing man.