The National tribune., 1881-12-17


welcome visitOrtc the home OF every member o.
the Order, and tie RaraI 75pics column Will, r.
possible, be kept up to the progressive plane o!
other departments of the paper.
CHINESE OH BEAN.-Recently at the Atlanta
exposition Mr.. Atkinson, Of Bosten, distributed
beansreeeivedf fiom China, where t'ey are largely
used for the manufacture of OIL and for other
domestic purposes. Having seen few of these
beans, we find that they are the seeds of Glyejns
SOFA e6ojd hisptda), low growing Asiatic plant
which very mUCh resembles the common bush
bean of our gardens. Samples of these beans
have been frequently imported during the last
thirty years. The Japan expedition procured a
supply of both the white and seeded varieties
which were distributed and cultivated as an ex-
pertinent afteC the arrival home of the expeGi-
tion. 1t is tie well-known coy bean, which is
Largely used IL China and Japan (called mise'bv
the Japanese for making a1lind of sauce called
sooia OF soy. The manner o. making it is sai6
to be by taking equal quantities of the beans
and bruised wheat, and boiling them together
until soft; the mixture Is IatIowed to feEEnert
after which sGlt and water are added and tae
Hquo- strained after which i is placed ia stone
jar, where it is kept tightly closed until USED
Of Gate years the beans have been much USED
for the manufacture of OIL, and the refuse pulp
after the oils expressed is made into cakes the
size and shape of large cheeses, weighing about
90 pounds which are used as food for livestock
This bean-caae is also very extensively used as
manure, especially for the sugar-cane plantations
in the southern parts of China and is an article
of considerable domestic commerce in that coan-
try ,ila oil o6a 4I.o
to be much better than thai made from beans
that hare been gathered for two or three months.
The beGn-Oil and bean-cake can be kept for
long tine withSat spelling
The beans can be grown many locality whefo
the common bush bean can be grown.
THE Lz5sS0E,GF THE GARDEN-A garden is 5
beautiful book, writ by the finger of God; every
flower ano every leaf is a letter. You have only
to learn tbem-and he is durce who cannot. if
he viii, dc that-and join them, and then 90 On /
reading anG reading, and you will find yourself |
carried away from the earth to the skies by the
beautiful stSry you going through. You do
not know wEat beautiful thOugEts-for thev are |
nothing shOr$-grow cut of the gcOund and seem
TO talk TO maz. And then there are some flow
-ers, which always seem to me Ike over-dutifuI !
children; tend them eyer so little, and they come
up and hourIs&, and show, as | may saw their
bright and happy faces to you-Bcuolas .Jerro}6
PLEASURES OF INSECTS" Insects generally.
must lead truLy iOvial life. Think what II
must be to lodge ia a lily. Imagine a palace of
ivory pearls, with pillars of silver and capitas
of gold, all exhaling such perfume as never rose
from human censer. Fancy, again, the fun Of
tuekiRg yourself up ia the folds of rose. rocked
to sleep in the gentle sighS OF summer air: moth
ing to do when you awake but wash Yourself in a |
dew drop, and fall to and eat your bed clothes y
PRUNING SHRUBS.-Single specimens 0f shrubs
On a lawn, or in garden, are frequently allowed
TO grow tail and ungracefIl, sometimes to the ex-
tent of requiring stakes to support them, Getract-
ing much from their beauty of form and foliage.
Still more detestable is that clipping process
which subjects all alike to q uniform lump, or
ball. Most Of our early summer flower
ing shrubs blGom most prOfusely on the young
shoots Of the previous years growth, so that all
pruning IN winter will tend, so far to diminish
the abundance Of flowers which may at times be
desirable. The best time to prune most of these
ehruOs is Immediately after the bloom fades in
early summer, and the operation will mainly
cohsiS' IN JudIclously thinning out the shoots,
cutting 'heln close of at the ground, which will
encourage fresh shoots 80 follow and thus renew
'i0 Pi'ii'' '9pred prWa5Okia and Spirea Reersii
I"o oi Ihe pest Towering shrubs, may be formed 6
and maintained into cornnact vo+ ,roooe,1 h,,c1,oo