The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-22

sent by mail at about one dollar per doz-
en-. At this price, certainly, few need
be without some of these pretty things.
Why is it that so few of that queen of
flowers, roses, are seen about our country
placest All that is required of annual,
or June roses, as they are called, is to
plant them and care for them, and, after
the frat season, you have yearly bloom
and fragrance. Why not train a few
climbing roses up and about the porchs
Do so; you will never regret it. With
these. and the June roses you will soon
come to want few of the hardy perpet
uals that, with slight protection in win
ter, make the wife and mother happy
and the children contented with home,
however humble it may be.
Among the more common and pretty
ANIMALS are as:eT, balsam, clarkia, con-
volvulus, larkspur, lobelia, marigold.
mignonette, nasturtium dwarf, sweet
pea, phlox, Drummondii, portulacca and
Zinnia. Within the last ten years asters,
balsams, convolvulus and portulacca
have been much improved, and the seeds
of exceedingly fine varieties are now as
cheap as the older and common sorts.
In planting your annual seeds this
spring, do not forget that old favorite,
the sweet-william (Dtdnthus,. now i'm
proved so as to be desirable in any COL
lection. They do not flower until the
second season, it is true; but, trans
planted into bed when the seedlings
are of proper size, they will amply re-
pay the little trouble and care they re-
ouire.
Now, we do not expect that our read
ers are going to rush into flower culture
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take it for the first time will do so ex-
tensively the first season; but SO far as
your means go, and your leisure will al
low, there is nothing with which you can
employ your time to better advantage
than with few attractive flowers.
| Did you ever admire a beautiful foil
eggplant of stately growth and tropical
| appearance, with its large, perhaps
nearly purplish, and deeply cut leaves
| and stem; or with blood-red leafribs
| and fruit of a delicate rosec color; and,
perhaps, feel qualm upon
| hearing it called castor-oil
plant? If SO, forget the qualm, for
castor-oil has gone out of fashion
| for purging juvenile humanity; but re-
member that some varieties of this fam
| lily, Ricsnus, are among the most beauti-
full of our summer foliage plants, as they
are among the most easily cultivated, if
| planted when the ground is warm and all
danger of frost is ever
! Do, therefore, plant few flowers, you
who have not already done so; but do not
neglect the kitchen garden. If you cul.
tivate that as we'll as the children will
the tlower-beds you may perhaps find
your reward in decreased doctors bills
in the course of years, and we are sure
your family physician will rejoice; for
| although doctors must live, this they
may easily do from the ailments, real OF
imaginary, of those etfeminate ones OF
both sexes who cannot help themselves
or that other class who never read, cul
tivate gardens or enjoy their fruits. Yes
your physician will rejoice, for there are
few more humane, self-sacrificing indi
viduals than the educated physician
And so, dear reader, cultivate garden
and with it few flowers" Farm ana
| Garden 4" Ghir11o Tr,b7fne