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Banksia Roses-Lasiandra and Nier-
embergia.
embergia

Editor Floral Department.:
Banksia roses, [ find grow as we'll as
the Cherokee rose, if a little care is taken
with them when first put out. [ think
perhaps they are best grown as pillar
roses as otherwise they are apt to look
shaggy. The long canes should be tied
up tightly and the old and weak wood
can be annually cut away. They only
bloom once year. l do not find them
easy to strike from cuttings, but they
could be budded on strong growing
rose as low down as possible. There are
three or four varieties in cultivation, the
commonest Of which are the large double
white of Fortunes, the small double
white which bloomsin clusters and smells
like violets and the yellow or buff, which
also flowers in immense clusters. No
single varieties appear at present to be
in cultivation, but single roses in warm
country are apt to be very caducous.
LAsIANDRA MACRANTHA.
[ find Lasiandra macrantha will grow
with ordinary garden culture in Florida,
and stands the sun well. 1t has hand
some purple flowers as large as a do lar,
which will last awhole day in cool wealth
err. My plant began to bloom in August
and is still in flowers.
METEOROLOGICAL FUTEsCENs.
Nierembergia futescens is small
shrubby plant rarely exceeding two feet
in height. 1t remains a long time in
bloom and is often a mass of pale laven-
with but little attention.
A. P. BOsANQUET.
Fruitland Park Fla.
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just been dug up from the ground. 1t
was, therefore, removed to the temperate
Y. elata is peculiar to the dry desert
region west of the Rocky mountains, be-
tween the United States and Mexico. 1t
has erect, stiff, filamentose leaves, and
an erect flower spike ten to twelve feet
high the flowers are four inches across
and pure white.-Gardener' Chronicle.
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INTERLACHEN!
(BET WEEN LAKES. J
Has 1900 Acres in Orange Groves that
have had Wonderful Immu-
nifty from Frost.

1t contains three good hotels, three general
stores saw and planning mill, bank. money order
postofice, telegraph office, the finest school build
ing in Putnam county, a seed house making seed
for the South a speciality, fine Congregational and
Episcopal Church edifces, public library, lit
erary club, a drug store, rose garden Of many
acres, lakes unsurpassed in beauty, society for
culture and refinement found in but few places in
the State. No saloons and no cattle or hogs run
ming at large, This is the kind of town which peo
pie seeking q southern home are invited to came
and see. If they wish to remain transiently to
spend the winter HOTEL INTERLACHEN ex-
tends generous greeting at very moderate rates
and very low terms to those who come early.
For particulars write for illustrated Inter.
lachen'' sent free to all applicants. Address
GEO. w. HASTINGS,
Interlachen, Fla.
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For THE FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
ROSE AND LILY.

Rich red beauty, oh damask Queen.
Velvet breasted with musk maiden,
Fairest of all in that seDsuous Alden;
Born of the South and she is it's Queen
Out from the lashes of softest silk,
Crystal beauty and dusky wonder,
Stars reflected the waters under,
Sparkle the dew eyes dusk and sheen.
Slender beauty, oh sweet white face
Fair with the graces of sunbeam pended,
Over white clouds with blue skies blended;
Dew eyes, tresses and white fair face,
Throned in the garden low do you bow
Over it's Queen and yours, handmaiden,
Lily whisper your gentle VOW,
TO serve Rose Queen in your land of Alden.
ANNA PERKINS.
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Catarrhal Deafness - Hay Fever a
New Home Treatment.

Sufferers are not generally aware that
these dis eases are contagious, orthat they
are due to the presence of living para
sites in the lining membrane of the nose
and eustachian tubes. Microscopic re-
search, however, has proved this to be
fact. and the result of this discovery is
that simple remedy has been formula
ted whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness
and hay fever are permanently cured in
from one to three simple applications
made at home by the patient once in
wo weeks.
N. B.-This treatment is not snuff
or an ointment; both have been discard:
ed by reputable physicians as injurious.
A pamphlet explaining this new treat
ment is sent on receipt of three cents in
stamps to pay postage by A. III. Dixon
& Son, 337 and 500 West King Street >,
Toronto, Canada. -Christian Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrh troubles shoa1ld
oorof11f1Sy rood tho ohouo
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Bedding Plants.

beOU1uS f1duCS.
Editor Floral Department.:
Will you please name some good bed
ding plants? K.
OcOee, Fla.
We presume our correspondent wishes
q list of such plants as will succeed bed
We will give a list OF such as we know to
be satisfac tory, and which will succeed
with a proper amount OF attention. We
shall be GLAD to have the list added to by
any of our readers. There are doubtless
many plants not included in the follow
ing list which are equally as valuable.
The various species of Acalypha with
their magnificent variegated leaves Sue
coed admirably in the open ground, and
a large bed composed OF the different
sorts would present most striking and
beautiful appearance. II cut down by
frost they sprout up readily from the
root.
Achania Malvaviscus is an old plant
almost too we'll known to need mention
ing. Although it stands the sun we'll it
grows best in partially shaded situa-
tion. 1t can be utilized as the centre of a
bed of lower growing plants, or it may
be trained low. Its scarlet, Abutilon-li like
flowers are very brilliant. The Achyran-
thes, with their handsome colored leaves
are most admirable for budding, and are
extensively employed for that purpose in
connection with Coleus.
The family of Agaves is large one
and nearly all Of the species delight in q
hot sandy SOIL Combined with Cacti,
Dasylirions, Fourcroyas and Yuccas,
magnificent tropical and sub, tropical ef-
fects can be obtained.
Ageratum Mexicanum succeeds bedded
out in almost any situation. There are
both white and blue.
Allamandas trained in low, bush form
present an array OF golden blossoms bet
ter imagined than described.
Alternantheras are another class ofcol
ored leaved bedding plants which stand
drouth and sunshine with impunity.
Among the best for bedding out in Flori-
da.
The common Caladium esculentum sue
coed almost anywhere, while in verv rich,
or moist locations it's growth is rank
and magnificent. By selecting a par
italy shaded location, and using this
plant for the centre of bed, surrounded
with the fancy-leaved sorts, the most
pleasing and gorgeous effects can be pro-
duced.
Cannas are among the most valuable
bedding plants for Florida and will
amply repay the most liberal feeding.
While some of the have particularly beau
tiful foliage, either bronze or green or the
/. two combined, all have beautiful flowers,
particularly some of the more recent in
4 Productions.
According to Reasoner Brothers 'No
spot in America is better suited for the
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cultivation and enjoyment of that most
deservedly popular OF plants, the Chrys-
anthemum, than is Florida. Perfectly
hardy, not particular as to soil or loca-
ton provided they have good drainage),
fourishing in sun or shade, and opening
in all their beauty with the ripening of
the golden orange, in the soft sunny days
of Florida's autumn and early winter,
with the purple aster and the golden-rod
and the crimson woodbine leaves, who
could help approaching the Queen OF
autumn In a partially shaded posi-
ton the flowers will remain open and
preserve their beauty for a longer time"
OF the Cleodendrons, two species, G.
Balfouri and G. fragrans, can be utilized
as bedders. The former is a climber
which may be pruned to grow low, the
latter half shrubby plant. Both are
fine boomers.
The Coleus is universally known as one
ofthe finest bedding plants in cultivation.
In partially shaded location in this
State it succeeds perfectly.
The Daturas, although coarse growing
plants, produce beautiful trumpet-formed
flowers, some of them of great size and
delicious fragrance. They are very valu-
able for open ground cultivation, espec-
tally in large display planting, when D.
arborea sometimes called Brugmansa
suarcolens and locally called Trumpet
Lily is seen to great advantage.
Goldfussia anisophylla is perfectly at
home here in the open ground, and during
the winter and spring months produces
the greatest prof1sion of pretty light
blue flowers. Small plants bloom lro-
fusely, and in time become large bushes
in this climate.
Hamelia patens, q native of the West
Indies and South Florida along the coast,
would be valuable while small as a bed
ding plant. In the first place it's foliage
is of a beautiful, velvety texture, and
very attractive alone. Then small plants
six inches to foot high produce plenti-
fully during many weeks of the summer
heads of bright orange red flowers. With
age it becomes a woody shrub five to
twelve feet high, but by pruning can be
kept low
The Ginger Lily or Butterfly Lily
(Hedychium coronarium), the Cardamon
Plant (AmOmum CardamOmum) and the
Ginger Plant (Zingiber officinalis) are all
valuable for bedding, particularly in par
TALLY shady, moist situations. They can
be used very effectively with Cannas, etc.
In the same situations the Heliconias, or
Wild Plantains, can be used, their mag
nifcent foliage rivalling even the banana
in beauty.
The Hibiscus is too we'll known to
hardly require mentioning. Both our
native varieties and the Chinese species
are invaluable.
1t seems superfuous to mention the
Jasminum, the various species, SO fra
grant and beautiful, cannot be over
looked
The 1antana, too, only needs to be
mentioned. For prodigality of bloom it
is unsurpassed.
The Lions Tail Neonotis leonorus)
makes a most snowy plant for the centre
of bed. 1t succeeds on very Indifferent
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To whom all correspondence relating to this de
partment should be addressed.
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FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
JEsSAMINE,

EDITED BY WALTER N. PIKE,
JEssAMINE, PAsCO CO., FLA
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Sufferers from Catarrh troubles should
carefully read the above.
, 1890-07-24
THE FARMERS PARTY.
Convention of the Minnesota
Alliance.
A STATE TICKET NOMINATED
Editor owen Chosen to Run for
Governor-Some Lack of
Harmony.

ST. PAUL, July l7.--At the Farmers
Alliance aud labor convention this
morning the first business was the re-
port of the committee ON resolutions,
which was adopted. 1t demands that
tho war tariff be radically revised, and
especially denounces the Mckinley bill
as the 'crowning intamy of protection"
II demands government control of rail
roads, fGvOrs an increase in the volume
of money and demands Tree coinage of
silver.
The first ballot for a candidate for gov
ernor resulted thus! lgnatias Donnelly,
l72; r. J. Hall, 10; knute Nelson, 66;
Daniel Buck, II; General j. IL. Baker,
5; Pinkham, 3; Gamble, 3; Owen Rahilly
/; Armstrong, | Harrington, Z.
The afternoon session was an exciting
one in which there was some expression
OF bitterness on the part of one faction OF
the alliance against the leaders of an
other, but the ticket finally nominated d
was said to be fully adaptable to all, al.
though there are those who doubt this.
The first ballot of the afte rnoon resulted /!
Hall, 222; Donnelly, 220; Rush, 81
Owen 10; Baker, .,
Upon the announcement of the vote,
Donnelly took the floor In the interests
of harmony. He believed the nomina-
tion of Hall to-be inudvisable, and that
1t would result iniuriously to tho ALI
ance. Hall had publicly insulted him
by ordering him to keep away from
the district convention, and his don
nelly's) friends would not forget IL, He
considered a compromise advisable, and
proposed as compromise candidate
L, II. Rahilly.
Hall released his friends from sup
porting him, and favored the compro-
misc candidate. Any result would be
wholly satisfactory to him.
Finally, after much confusion, the
roll-Call was resumed. Few votes were
cast for either Hail or Donnclly, and the
current was all in the direction of Il. w.
owen, editor of the Farm, Stock aud
Home, published in Minneapolis.
When II was apparent that a majority
was cast for him, General Baker moved
that the nomination be made unani-
nous, and the convention SO ordered.
Donnelly then made speech warmly
commenting the character aud stand
ing of the new candidate.
Without further trouble the ticket
was completed as follows: Lieu.
tenant governor, J. |. Barratt,
Of Browns Valley; secretary of state
Mr.. Wesenberg, of Duluth, Sean
dinavian; state auditor. Z. ii. Rahilly,
Of Wabash county state treasurer, Eric
Matheson, OF Lac Quiparle; attorney gen.
eral, j. NJ. Burlingane.
After providing Tor the election of an
executive committee the first political
convention OF the Farmers Alliance and
Labor Organization of Minnesota ad-
journed sine die.
, 1890-07-24
THE NEW YORK FIRE.
Great Enterprise Being Displayed by
the Western Union.

New YoRK, July l9.-The Western
Union Company is proving a great cor
poration. 1t certainly possesses great
energy aud enterprise. The building at
the corner of Broadway aud Dey streets
presents the appearance of beehive.
A small army of workmen are engaged
in repairing the damage done yesterday
Never before has the Western Union
been confronted by such condition.
Not one of the 1, 200 wires running into
the building can be used.
The fire once out the immense energy
of the corporation began to assert itself.
Offices were established all about the
city and the great system worked with
out u central point, and all through the
night force of men were busy clearing
the water and debris from the building,
and force oflinemen went up and down
the poles hitting about the streets with
lnnterns like so many steel-spurred fire
tiies.
All through the night miles of wire
were stretched and instruments attached,
which clicked on in q merry way as II
nothing had happened.
When morning dawned fifty wires had
been run into 40 Broadway, and as
many operators had fingers on the keys.
Messages were clicking oil in the usual
way up to noon.
Work had been going on increasingly,
and the officer in charge said there
would be no let up until everything had
been repaired and the company able to
handle all their business. Throughout
the metropolis the great lire is the talk
OF the day. Thousands of people who
came up Broadway this morning stopped
on the pavement long enough TO survey
the ruins. The interior of the structure
soon took on the appearance of a ice
hive. There were several hundred oper-
ators in the office.
The Associated Press Is still located in
Jersey city, the guests OF the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company and will
probably remain there until some time
next week. A gang of wOrkmen is busy
at AIS Broadway preparing temporary
home for the association, which 1t will
occupy until the burned building is re-
paired,
, 1890-07-24
WORLD ON WHEELS.
Behring Straits Can Be
Easily Bridged.
A LINE TO RUSSIA FEASIBLE
The Northern Pacific Traffic AL
lance With the Baltimore
g. Ohio Road.

New IoRK, July ls.-"They can talk
about my uncle us beng visionary and
u mild lunatic all they please, but "A day
will come, and not so far oil either,
when lie will be recognized us thor
oughly sensible, though bold engineer"
said William Henry Gilpin, OF Pueblo,
Colo, at the Hoffman house to-day.
Gilpin has been for the last two years
with his uncle, William Gilpin, ex-
governor Of Colorado, on a tour of re-
connoisance of the northern Pacific
coast.
William Gilpin believes there is no
serious obstacle in the way OF building
a railroad which shall join in union the
United States and Russia by way of ST
beria and BehriLg straits, Alaska and
British America.
The only apparent difficulty is in
crossing Behring straits, but this diff
Guilty is only apparent, The straits are
only forty miles wide ana in the middle
lies an island about big enough to hold
New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City
combined The water is nowhere more
than forty feet deep, and there will be
no trouble in erecting piers on hard
ottom.
, 1890-07-24
THE SEAL FISHERIES.
Rear Admiral Latham interviewed
ON the situation.

VIcroRIA, B. c., July ls.-The British
man.of-war Warspite, the flagship of the
North Pacific squadron, with Rear Ad-
miral Latham aboard, arrived here yes
terday. The admiral was interviewed
in regard TO tho suggestive movements
of war ships to protect Canadian vessels
Bchring sea.
The admiral had not yet had an oppor-
tunity to completely peruse the mass of
correspondence that awaited him here,
but stated emphatically that he had as
yet received no instructions to send any
OF the fleet to the north to protect British
vessels from seizure by American cutters,
or to retake any that might be seized in
Behring sea. lie considered the matter,
principally from what he had read in
the press, purely one for diplomatic
negotiations. He had as yet to learn
what new phase Id presented itself that
would suggest the possibility of war
ships being required to take hand in
the adjustment OF the difficulty.
, 1890-07-24
ITALIANS IN AMERICA.
The Padrone system Said Not to Ex-
ist In This Count, ".

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE house
comnittee on Immigration to-day heard
statement by Dr. Verdi, OF this city,
himself native of Italy, upon the sub
ject of the padrone system. His state
ment was mainly in refutation of those
made by preceding witnesses respecting
the existence of a system Of Italian slave
labor in this country.
He said he had lived forty years In the
United States and had never yet found
an Italian laborer who worked under a
padrone. Italians were not fools, and
we're not to be gulled so easily into sur.
rendering themselves voluntarily into
slavery.
DIR. Verdi spoke of the restrictive laws
OF the Italian government concerning
emigration, and said that Italy needed
all her citizens and was doing all she
could to keep them and as a matter OF
fact was good TO those of sobriety, in
telligence and skill. The Italians in New
York we're not fair sample.
Representative Oates, who was a men,
ber OF the food committee of the last
congress, said he had little doubt that
the Italian restrictive laws cited by DIR.
Verdi, and which had not been in opera
tion before this year, would be of great
beneht in preventing the immigration of
undesirable elements.
, 1890-07-24
A sTRANG E CASE.
An Attempt To Restrain an Employe's
Liberty OF Action.

CHICAGO. July ls.-A decision was
rendered by Judge Trelay to-day in "A
case involving question said never to
have been passed upon before in court.
1t was the suit of Oppenheimer Il Co.,
manufacturers OF sausage castings, of
Chicago and New York to prevent by
an injunction George Sayre, former
employe. from going into the same
business in Illinois and eighteen other
states within three years from the date
at which he ceased to be i'll
their employ. The consideration
named in the contract was 81
Judge Troley decided that, as the result
of modern methods of commerce, it
made no difference whether the contract
was to one or more states, but that, as
the man was only employed from week
TO week he was made to agree that for
one dollar and the employment for one
week, he would mortgage his liberty OF
action, and practically his means of
livelihood for three years. The injunc-
ton was not granted
, 1890-07-24
THE MORMON CHI uRcH FUNDS.
Arguments la Opposition to the . en-
ate Bill,

WAsHINGroS, July t9.-The house ju-
dietary committee listened to an argu-
ment by Judge james o, Broadhead, of
st. Louis. to-day, in opposition to the
senate bill providing for the application
of the forfeited Mormon church funds to
support the common schools of Utah.
Judge Broadhead's intention was that
the bill was in violation OF the general
law respecting charities, inasmuch as it
proposed to divert from its legitimate
purposes moneys subscribed in aid Of
certain charities connected directly with
that specific denomination. He held
that although certain OF these charities
had been declared illegal, yet there were
others among those specified. such as
the support OF Mormon schools, which
could legally receive the funds, as tho
property is in the hands of a receiver.
He held the passage Of the bill to be un-
necessary.
, 1890-07-24
PROMINENT MIN DEmIND 1T.
A Gigantic Stock Yards Company
Organized.

BosroS Mass, July ls.-The official
announce mcnt will be made tomorrow
of the incorporation, under the laws of
Now Jersey, of the Chicago Junction
Railway q Uuion Stock Yards Com
pany, with the following directors;
Chauncey NJ. D-pew, of New York;
Hon. John Quincy Adams, OF Boston;
ex-United States Minister Edward j.
Phelps, of Burlington, VT; William J.
Sewell, OF Camden, n, J. John Hoey, of
Hollywood, n. J. president Adams ES-
press Company Frederick. Fl. Winston, of
Chicago; Right Hon. Hugh f. Child
of London, late chancellor of the eN-
chequcr Francis Blake, OF Blake Bois-
man & Co., London; Bernard T. Boz
sanquell, director'of Lloyd's bank Dim.
itcd), OF London; Adolph Novnndre'
Andre Mondes * Co., bankers, of Lon
don. Tho trustee for the bondholders
and register of trans fer is tho Central
Trust Company, of New York.
The capital STOCK is $l3 90 900. This
stock will be fully paid IN cash, and will
be non -assessable. and the stockholders
will have no personal liability what
ever,
, 1890-07-24
AN ENGISEtK KILLED.
A Bold Attempt at Train Robbery
Near Van Vert. ohio,

VAN WHIT, ohio, July ia bold
attempt at train robbery was made late
tonight on the Cincinnati, Jackson n
Michigan railroad. Three men boarded
the engine of IA north-bound passenger
train at Enterprise, ONO, and attacked
Engineer Van Devender ana the fire
man with hammers and couplng'pins,
knocking both scnseless. They did not
succeed In stopping the tram, however,
probably owing to the plucky fight of
the trainmcn, and jumped oil before
reaching Van Vert. The engineer and
iiremon were both lying scnseless in the
cab OF the locomotive, and the train,
which should have stopped at
Van Vert station, rushed through
the yards vt the rate OF
twenty live miles an hour. Here 1t col
liied with switch engine and Engineer
Vandeyender was found dead in the
wreck. The fireman Is still unconscious
and 1t can not he lcariediwhethcr the
engineer was killed by the train robbers
or met his death in the collision. None
OF the passengers were seriously injured
, 1890-07-24
TnE SEATTLE CENSUS.
More Districts WIN Probably he Re-
Enumerated,

SEATTLE, WASH, July 1S,-Supervsor
jenkins has not yet received any au.
thority from Superintendent Porter to
proceed with the remuneration of any
other districts in the city. Yesterday
morning he telegraphed TO the depart
ment at Washington city urgi re-
count OF three more districts, but has
received no reply. The enumera tors en-
ployed in districts 80, 32 and 40 have
completed their work, and the returns
show an increase of 26 per cent. The
greatest gains were in district 40. The
former count of these three districts was
4, All, and it is now more than $3.50.
The remarkable gains in these Just re-
enumerated show the necessity of
further recount. If this Is done, distric,
AZ, which is north of Madison and
between Third and Fifth streets, will be
gone over again, as considerable COM
plant comes from that quarter.
supervisor jenkins received instruc-
tions yesterday to recount the Duwanish
district. 1t includes West Seattle, South
Seattle and Mercer island. This district
was badly taken, and teliiully Loo sh ort
oil its population,