The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-07-18

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on the deep, sandy loan.
| CHRYsANTHRMUMs-T are fall and
winter bloomers, so easy to raise that no
| garden should be without them. Divide
the lunches and set out in rich compost
A white, yellow and lilac will be sat-
isfactory, but they mix; so separate
widely. Clumps OF these all over a gar
den, their green leaves and fringe-like
flowers contrasting under weight of dew.
on cold still bright morning, we have
thought among the most agreeable of
winter scenes.
| Box PLANTs.-Plants that are to bloom
in boxes in winter should never be put
in the open ground in summer. Taking
them up in the fall and retransferring TO
boxes will be sure to stunt and injure
them as bloomers. Your winter bloom
ing box-plants must be repotted in the
spring, grow all summer in the boxes,
and have little additional good soil in
the autumn. But the boxes may be set
in the open ground, or under the shade
of tree, if well watered.
LAwNs.-Many people think they are
too poor to have lawns-that such luxu-
ries belong to the rich. Do they know
that such thoughts are pIebidn! God
made the water, the air, the flowers, the
woods, free to all; to whom shall We con-
cede the right to monopolize them? But
the rich do not claim the right, they only
enjoy, as all may, what they can. How
many farmers own small lots of land, and
have not so much as one eighth of an
acre in the horse pond 1t is want of
taste, cultivation. Is it not time to cul-
tivate the mind little, as well as the
farm? MANY will give broad acres To the
cows and hogs, but not a foot for the
pleasure and delight of the family.
Think about this.
HUMBUGs.-Ilave any Southern men of
sound mind been taken in - and done
for" by "Common Sense Incubators - OF
Yankee poultry Dust?" If so, they NAV
now send for F. T. Fassett & Brothers an
sect or Plant Lice Extermnator," which
was never known to injure or disturb the
sckliest of the tribes. Their address is
Ashtabula, Ohio.
Crops AND SPEcULAToRs.-Iti is wonder
full how respectable the farmers have
grown of late years in the estimation of
the spectators of all kinds. They print
circulars by the million and send out To
him to inquire after his welfare, especially
after the condition of his crop, and by
this information they say his "agricul-
tural interests are improved" What
clever fellows they are. They even print
agricultural newspapers and get him To
subscribe for them, for the same reason.
They dwell learnedly and enthusiastically
upon the prodigious value of these ' crop
statistics" to the farmer, and have con-
verted many editors, professors and 9TH
ers skilled in speechmaking to their
views. 1t is vulgar, unpatriotic and
suspicious to insinuate that they employ
the government In the same business.
Nor Much In BUG.-Poultry feeding
is more important than many suppose
When young chicks are in the down they
are in most danger because more delicate
They should have very little heating food,
such as corn meal, for the same reason
that You would not stuff a sucking babe
with meat and bread Left to the hen,
with the run of the fields, the chicks will
be raised without any corn meal Why
is this We answer. because there is not
much heating food in bug. Follow ma
ture as closely as possible, and where you
must aid her, keep her principles in view