The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1873-05-07
HORTICULTURAL HINTS.


/: When fruit trees occupy the
ground, nothing else should-ex-
.cept very short grass.
2. Fruitfnlness and growth OF
the tree cannot be expected the
same year. .
. g. There is no plum thatthe cur
culio will not take. though any
kind may sometimes escape for one
year in one place.
4, Pea:h borers will not do much
when stiff clay is heaped
up round the tree a foot high.
S. Pear blight still puzzles the
greatest men. The best remedy
known is to plant two for every one
that dies.
6. If you don't know how to
prune, don't hire a man from the
other side of the, sea who knows
less than you do.
Z. Don't cut OFT big lower limb
unless you are a renter and don't
care what becomes If the tree when
your time is out.
8. A tree with the limbs coming
out near the ground is worth two
trees trimmed up five feet and is
worth four trees trimmed up ten
feet, and SO on till they are not
worth anything. i
9. Trim down, not up.
10. Shorten in, not lengthen up,
II. IF you had all arm cut off
you would feel it at your heart "a
tree will not feel, but rot to the
heart. ~ q III
12. When anybody tells you %
a gardener that understands al
Eabout horticulture and agriculture
and that can be hired, don't believe
a word If it, for there are no such
to be hired. Such a man can make
more than you can afford to givt
him; and if he has sense enough
to understand the business he vii
always have enough to know this
The ABsURD1TY, OF TIGHT ia.
cING. = There would be no tight
lacing if girls could be made to I'm.
derstand this simple fact-that
men dread the thought of marry.
ling a woman who is subject to- fits
OF irritable temper, bad headache,
and other ailments we.need moi
mention, all of which, everybody
knows, are the direct and inevitable
product of the compression of the
waist. Men like to see a small
waist, certainly, but there is "a very
great difference between the waist
which is well formed and in pro,
portion to the rest Of the figure,
and a waist which is obviously and
artifciaily compressed, to the de-
struction Of that easy and graceful
carriage which is one Of the chief
charms of a woman's appearance.
An unnaturally compressed waist is
far more certain of detection, than
"a mass Of false hair or a faint dust
ing OF powder. The rawest youth
who. enters a ballroom can pick
out the women who have straight
ened themselves artifcially,l If, a
young lady who, to obtain the ap-
pearance Of a dragon-hy, has been
subjectiHg herself to Considerable
physical. pain, and who has been
laying up for herself pretty store
of ailments, which only want time
10 pronounce themselves, could
only see the stare Of scarcely dis
guised contempt, and understand
the scornful pity which greet the
result Of her labor, we should have
a change OF fashion and it is
merely a fashion. Through all
changes women remain true only
to one fashion. Whether her cloth
ing is as long and lank as that of a
fGrecian virgin, or whether she
builds around the lower half OF
her figure rotund and capacious
structure of steel, she is ever faith
full to the tradition of a small waist;
and she will weaken her circulation,
she will make her hands ,red,. she
will incur headache, she will crack
her voice. and she will ruin her di7
gestion, all to produce a malforma-
ton which wise men regard with
pity, and fools with derision.-
Athena1un.
CAUSES OF DEATH. - The last
publication of the British death
rate and its causes is curious read.
ing. One man died from the bile
of a cat; and two from the bites
respectly Of ferret and adder
Ano+har vas stunr TO death by