The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

Charcoal powder will be found very
good thing to give knives frst.rate
polish.
A Danish Dish.-One pint of currani
juice; one pint of water half pint of sage
two cups Of sugar. Boil all together Until
the sage is soft. Pour into molds, and set
| on ice. :s@ -= ..-s ...
TO make simple butexcelleht pastry
put one pound of flour in a dish, make d
hole in the center, drop in the yolk of one
egg. Then make paste by pouring cold
water into the hole, and stirring until all
the flour is made into paste; then roll
out. Have ready one pound of butter,
lay it on the paste; fold the dough over
the butter and roll out. Repeat this
folding the dough over and rolling out
eight or ten times, with a quick, light
stroke. Then put the paste on the ice
for all hour or so; then roll it out again
several times before covering your pie
plates or cutting the pastry into putfs.-
Christian Union.
-Hotse plants do best in rather cool
rooms, or temperature not so high as
sixty degrees; this is the reason that we
often see finer plants in the cottages of the
mechanic and laboring man than in the
warm, furnace. heated mansions of the
rich. In the latter, however, much i'm
provement may be made by keeping the
air chamber Of the furnace abundantlv
and constantly supplied with evaporating
water-at least eight or ten gallons daily
for medium-siZed furnace; and if the
plants still appear to suffer from dry air,
hang wet napkins over them. If this at
tention cannot be given, the plants should
be selected from such sorts as grow nat
urally in dry climates, such as the cactus,
sedum, etc. House plants are often in
jured by the accumulation of dust in
sweeping, which may be partly remedied
by Swinging, but more easily by placing
large tunneles of tissue paper inverted
over the plants till the dust settles. Tissue
paper is best, on account of its little weight
on the plants.-N. Y. Times.
How often do VIC hear the complaints
don't know why my plants do not
bloom in winter; they all seem to be
thriving, but produce no flowers The
reason that such complaints are so CON-
mon is simply this: They grow their
plants in pots that are too large for them,
and when the time comes that they should
bloom we finu the substance that should
w tilC loNldtttou VI DutlS anu mowers
taken up in the luxuriant growth of foil
age with which the plant is clothed. But
this, although important, is not the only
advantage gained by the use of small
pots. They are so much handler in trans
terring from one place to another, occupy
so little room, and are in every wav so
much more desirable than the large ones
that we would give them the preference
even if they did not enhance the bloom
ing qualities of the plants which were
grown in them. OF course small pots are
not to be recommended Tor all. kinds of
plants, for there are certain plants that
will do no good unless the roots have an
abundance of room in which to expand
and receive nourishment But for such
plants as fuchias, geraniums, abutilons,
cupnes, and others upon which we depend
for flowers in winter, they will prove ex-
tremely valuable. Foliage plants, and
others of which we do not expect flowers,
but want luxuriant growth Of leaves,
should be grown in large pots.-Floral
Cabinet.