The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-11
home INTERESTS.
Next Years Garden.

are whistling around our homes; when Jack
Frost is ever on the alert to find some creyice
or Granny where his icy breath can penetrate
to fhe destruction of some of our floral pets
AS we gather around the genial hearth-stone
of this happy Home let us look back with
pleasure on the beauties Of our gardens during
the summer now passed away, and then plan
our campaign for the coming season, resolving
to still more beautify our homes by decking
them with lovely flowers. Some never had a
garden; then by all means get one the coming
spring, even if it be no more than box of an
nuals growing on your window sill. 1t always
seems to me when | pass house where the
windows are filled with flowers that kind, IN
telllgent people live there, for some way or an
other the two always seem 20 60 hanc in hand
together. Others, again, had the leastlitte mite
OF garden containing some OF the old-fash-
loned perennlals. and these are better than
none, but for brilliancy of color and durability
OF bloom the ANNALS deserve the first place
At some future time propose to talk about a
number OF the choicest ANIMALS with instruc-
lions how to grow them.
Quite often inquiries come from beginners
as to the best sorts for them to start with
They have seen something pretty somewhere
or other and want it, but do not remember
that the coveted flowers were brought to per-
lection by experienced growers. A novice is
almost sure to fail with the small seeds such
as the Petunia, because they bury them in the
covered at all. Asters, Balsams, Pinks, Phlox
and EMMA are some of the most desirable,
easily cultivated ANNALS
10 me, and no doubt to many of my readers,
there is peculiar charm in raising choice
plants from seed. How eagerly we watch for
the first appearance of the tiny cotyledons or
seed leaves, and as eagerly observe their
growth from day to day until they still further
excite our admiration by producing lovely
flowers! am going to tell you of two kinds
you can raise this winter, and have them
bloom neyt summer Get 81 shallow cigar box.
i'll 1t with sandy, porous soil, SOW the seeds
thinly, dust a little sand over the seeds, just
enough to cover them. Now put on piece of
damp flannel. Keep it there and moist until
the seeds germlnate; then you may put on a
pane OF glass, and as the seedlings advance in
strength remove the glass and let them take
their course
G6ranlum seed sprouts readily in the tenn
perature OF an ordinary sitting room, and if
bloom is desired next summer. SOW them at
any time from now until February, and bed
them out in May. Seedlings are always ro-
bust, and sometimes a really good variety is
produced, to say nothing of the economical
way our flower beds may be filed. Apaper Of
seeds costing dime will produce as many
plants, Ill careful hands, as one could purchase
for two dollars atsome greenhouses. Eerbenas
may be grown in the same way. Tie seeds
look like little pieces of sticks and one lady re-
turned them to- me last spring under the i'm
preston she had received sticks for seeds.
Sow them as | have directed, and, If you have
patience, in time you will be rewarded with
very thrifty plants and large, fragrant flowers.
TO get good plants it is of the utmost impor-
lance to secure good seeds, and these can only
be procured from those who understand what
flowers to raise the seed from. Like produces
like, hence the seeds should be sowed with al
eye to producing plants which shall be the adj
mlratlon of every beholder. Verbena seeds
take much trouble to save, and are not included
in the six varieties already spoken of.
AS have had some experience in the vege-
table garden as we'll as floral, shall be glad tc
give my readers any instruction in my power
For any hints or helps you may desire, drot
me line and will do my best to assist you.
Mr. RENNIE.
AINswoRrR. Washington Co.. Iowa.
Peegotty Gives Thanks.
Thanksgiving day and steady down -poul
of rain. How many homes are happy today
welcoming the loved ones, caring for the chill
dren and blessing Him whose loving kindness
has brought together the old aid young unlimited
families, and given one and all in this broa;
land so much cause for q genuine Thanksgiv-
ing. If the weather is doleful, so much more
cause to make the freside bright and beaming;
one more reason to remember the poor and
suffering, whose Golfers are empty and larders
bare of even necessary food. Yet, even to-day,
the poor man may find many reasons for
thankfulness; work is plenty, wages good, and
to those who care to help themselves plenty is
holding out her hands, piled with all good and
useful. If hearts are aching for the lost ones,
II the vacant chair, the empty crib, the loving
caress we long for, the cheering word we miss,
remind us that the reaper has visited our
homes since the church bells rang out their
last Thanksgiving chimes, let brave hearts and
strong will bring smiles for our families and
friends, not tears, remembering this is the
home day, when everything sad and sorrowful
must be put away, and only joy-bells ring out
their peans, while frolic and fun hold carnival
i'll our homes and by all our fresides. May
each and every member, reader and critic OF
our circle enjoy to-day the fullest measure OF
happiness, and peace and plenty reign supreme
in heart and Preside
La Noble has said just the right thing of
Burns. His very faults made HIM understand
and appreciate human nature, and he wrote for
the common people as well as those of intellect
ABOVE his own, maybe-and touched a chord
in every human heart when he sings of "Auid
Lang Syne, " John Anderson" and the Got
ter's Saturday Night"
Ii any one does not at least respect the Bible
their lives must be wanting in something
which time will only make more needful, and
they will long for peace which only it's teach
ings and precepts give us, be the intellect ever
so brilliant, the mind overfiowing with brilliant
wit, and the heart full of good and noble as
pirations. PEGGoTTY.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.