The Press., 1884-08-07
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 VARIOUS THINGS.

critical and inquired, "How long since that moving you spoke of has been ma- nured % s.Well, I don't remember, was the answer, after few moments thought s'Within twenty years ?' the inquirer ask ed The farmer looked up and his eyes sho1le as he winked to his brother farmer, sI don't think it has, but the run from our barn-yard where the grass is always good is poor this year." "But just think of Washbuan's lot, that is well cared for and the grass grew so stout before the drouth and frost that he will have Q good crop of hay" The other farmer here spoke, "But Washbum will not have so much hay as usual" ''True, I know that, pursued the critic, "but just look cut there," pointing to row of small quince bushes that were set by run of waste water from a trough, ''see how much higher the grass is around their roots than between them where 20 fertilizer was put. There had no water run there since the early spring, and the quince bushes were nearly hidden by the rank growth of grass. 1T see," said the last speaker, 'but you know the water ran there." 'Yes," ln- terrupted, 'but you know the water ran there" ''Yes," I interrupted, "but 1t al- so ran between them where the grass IS so
  together, prophesying poor crops, ignof- ing the fact that from even sand banks 1n terest can be drawn, predicting that butter will be butter by next September, for the pastures were all drying up. Yet, at this writing, July 25th. our pastnres are as green as in May, our butter was never bet ter through the month of July, the. nights have been so cool, and since we owned our farm we have never had so great a quantity of white clover growing for after math.
 And now for our flowers. In to-day's paper, is 8 breath of Gen. Jacqueminot roses, brought thither by an old farmer, so we will speak of ours. The Gen. "Jack' budded full early in May. Solarge buds we never had before, they were as large as our thumb, but when they came to open, what disappointment Some insect had eaten, out the centers, and though some of the half opened buds were beautiful, we have not had a really fine, fully opened rose of this variety this season. There are more buds growing, and perhaps, before the frosts come, we may have some fine roses.
 But our other roses have done grandly- we have three polyanthus, Annie de Mon travel, an exquisite white rose; Cecils Bruner, lovely pink; and Mignonette, which is the most profuse bloomer of all, though it is the one we like least for the blossoms are so shaggy.
 The Abbe Gerardin, Homer, Beau Gar mine, Coquette de Lyons, Cramoise Su- perior, Souv Paul de Neyron have been profuse bloomers; General de Tartas has extra large buds; Smiths yellow has proved to be pure white, yet we are glad this mistake was made, for we had not many white roses in our selection of ever blooming, but among our hy brids we have four, the Baron de Maynard being all that doing well. We have conundrums at our rose bed. We answered them at first, moles, when we found roses out of the ground mornings, but when we found St. Joseph lying on top of 8 shawl with which we had covered the beds we thought of Norman Sprague's fox story, "Yes, Fanny lost good many hens, foxes got 'em, you know, an one mornin' we tracked the fox, he went over back of the house toward Hop river-for we found the bars let down! We looked into the speaker s face and saw his definition of fox by the twinkle of his eye, and when our climbing Hermosa was found one morning twisted of close to the roots we said 'smoles, but mentally added, ssNorman's foxes" Yet we nsver saw rose bed do better than ours, tofSnt one other have we lost from forty, y,one se out, Triumph de Anges, and that blossomA too soon and then was up set oy moles, If all Dingree & Conrad s roses do as Wehes ours have this season, they will ind saA for all they can grow one of our runnlnA Aroses, Mad. Alfred Car nere, IS four feet hish and our other plants grown by this firm a, doing well.
 The other. day .neiR, ,bor completed her sixty-seventh year. sSAe is very fond of flowers, so T said, 'sI'v4Na good mind 10 send the lady 8 bouquetof sixty seven kinds of flowers, but don't ktow as we have them" ''Ess," said Poll, which is her word for affirmation, thoug she is a young school ma'am, sswe can make out with wild flowers ' so we teok soup plate, filled it with moistened and, fixed ans edging of rose geranium baves and then began to cut flowers. ssWhat shall we leave out ?" asked Polly, for to our surprise we found we had over an hundred different blossoms.
 "But what has this to do about farm lng?' growlss one, who thinks the Storrs school is humbug,. and that the chief end of man is to fill the long stocking with coin.
 Just this, each morning our girls and boys go out to see the flowers. There is a regular rush if a new one is found, and we always address the discoverer as sfChristo- pher Columbus. z Then the bees work on them. It is pleasure to see our bees and the neighbors' bees busy among them. They delight in the national flower of Germany, and it is particular business to cut the morning bouquets, for the bees are so greedy for their share of sweetness then we have humming bird which Ia to our petunia bed daily visitor" 'tFlow- CTS everywhere" said caller, the other day. ':Yes, when we gre well, we gather flowers every day, not choice flowers, for, strictly speaking, we have none, but flow CTS from the fields are also culled."
 It educates us ali. When we find 8 plant we do not know we try to learn it's name, and we usually succeed. 4 g '
 Our boiling-water-w -weevil- cured American Wonder peas did not come up only as we dug them up and found them rotten, so our advice is, don't scald peas expecting to have them grow. A. s. PARKER.
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