Sharp County record., 1878-01-18

the water by Oenulng piece vi Wiz VI
whalebone and placing it in the water,
then tying the ends of the thread to 1t.
Place the whole in a warm dark place
for two weeks. when the whole surface
of the pan and goblet will appear COW
cred with Il mass Of feathery green III
YOU have sprinkled the surface each day
with warm water), and from the acornS
long roots will strike down into the
water, and upward three straight, ele-
gart little oak trees will rise covered
with the most perfect and cunning OF
oak leaves. This is truly surprisingly
beautiful object.
FAIRY HANGING-BASKETS.
Take the largest eggs you can find,
hold them for minute in hot water,
then take sharp pen-knife or scissors
and cut about one-third from the small
end, empty the yelk and white into
bowl (f0r Bridget's cakes), and fill the
shell carefully with damp Sandi into
which press a pea in the centre OF one,
a pinch of maurandia-vine, or a morn
ing-glOrv, in another, or you may find a
tiny fern perhaps for one, and this
would be charming then sprinkle grass,
flax, rice, cress, or any fine seeds all
over the surface. Next, crochet with
scarlet, blue, pink, lavender, or bright
emerald-green zephyr (that will look
pretty over the white) little bags, just
large enough to hold the shells; make
little tassels for the bottom where the
point comes and a frill round the top;
then fasten slender cords Of twisted
zephyr for suspending them, and you
have the cutest hanging-basketS ina
ginable. Take rod or piece of wire,
twine zephyr round it (or worsted braid
is better) fasten basket, at each end,
and hang it by cord tied in the center.
Soon the seeds will sprOut, and you will
have, oh! such lovely sight. Three
of these shells fastened together make a
pretty basket.
OTHER ORNAMENTS.
Or cover crOquet balls with bright
colOred flannel; wet them, and soak
seeds of fax, water-cress, or mustard,
and cover thickly; then put into dark
closet until SprOuted, wetting them each
day. When covered with green, and
looking like lovely balls of moss, sus-
pend them in window by cords fastened
to the top where the round piece Of fan
mel is gathered together. Sprinkleawith
warm water each day, and they will
grow for weeks. Another lovely hang
ing ornament is made by selecting a
good-shaped turnip or ruta-baga, and
scooping a hole from the rOOt-end, un-
til only wall about an inch thick is
left, fill the hole with fine sandy, but
good soil (earth from the woods is best),
and in it plant morning glory, or star
ipomGa, and hang it by four cords,
passed through the skin, in sunny
window. Soon the pretty vines will 90
climbing up the cords, running a race
to see which can get to the top first, and
at the same. time the turnip will shoot
but from below, and the delicate white
and pale-green leaves turning up round
the sides will look like some rare china
basket. Or, take carrots and beet roots
and manage in the same way, and
you may have equally lovely baskets.
Again, take the stalks Of cabbages, place
the root end in a jar of water, cover the
jar with flannel or raw cotton, saturate
it and cover as thickly as possible with
anv of the seeds before named, and soon
YOU will have very singular but BEAU
tiful object, for the cabbage will send
forth long white and green curled fOll-
age in form of a cone, which, rising
from the scarlet and green covered re-
ceptacle, is truly beautiful, so much so
that we have seen hundreds of persons
stop during the course Of single day
to see these wonderful looking chang
ing baskets" as they hang in window
of busy city street, and many would
call to ask what that strange and beau
tlful plant wasl To think of saying,
"Only cabbage-stalk.n
swEET-POTATO VINES.
"Aunt Carrie" has little friend,
one of her numerous nieces, who is a
real florist and understands a great deal
about plants and their habits. Now,
you may be sure that in summer she has
beds filled with choice flowers, and in
winter, the sunny windows her mamma
gives her are filled with geraniums, fuch-
Sias, and many other pretty things.
But there is one thing she never forgets
each fall, and that is to make prepara-
tions to have the chandeliers, and any
hanging ornaments, or the picture cords
even, covered and draped with luxuri-
ant vines. Now do not exclaim: "Oh!
yes, but can not get them," or "Oh,
mamma will not let me have any
pots about the chandeliers or
pictures, for in watering them might
injure their beauty" Aunt Carrie would
not have you give trouble in learning to
love flowers; and little Katie does not