The morning call., 1893-10-02

MI Gladstone is a very practical man
when he discusses agriculture or floral and
fruit gardening. Some farmers who have
taken his hints about the making of Jam
when they have "a surplus OF fruit have
.prospered.. He recommended orchardists
who have dead pear trees to graft apples
upon them. One man who took his advice
has just presented the. Premier with a
branch cluster Of apples reared from a
pear tree twenty years old which never
has borne fruit of its own. The gratis
were made three years ago, and they at
once showed strong disposition 10 fruit
I; is very interesting question how far
grating may be carried. Occasionally
three Kinds of fruit, by different CRAFTS,
MAY be seen growing upon one trunk, and
there is no very obvious reason why
twenty kinds of fruit might not thus be
nutrifed TO maturity. 1t is also quite con-
ceivable that other trees than thuse which
bear edible fruit might be turned to ac-
count IN grating. Each tree takes up
from the ground some of the mineral con-
stituents which give it distinctive peculiar
ity, bat the foliage plays greater part in
celebrating the fruit. and each graft at
tends to its own wants.
A curious and very interesting bequest
b.
Daring his Ii fetime he was accustomed to
ask every painter whose works he sold
for his palette, and he carefully made a
collection of palettes, which must now be
OF considerable value to artists. because
they are not mere ovals or squares of
wood, but are set according to the artists
me thod for painting. In the production
OF pictures there is good deal more in
the material technique of the artist, his
manner of using color and what cOlors he
uses at the various stages than in any sup
posable attributes of genius he possesses.
The e.utmost genius suffusng his mentality
does not enable him TO dispense with pig-
ments and processes, and it is only pain
fully by self-lab0r or rapidly By correct
and happy tuition that he acquires facility
in handling, and correct judgment as to
hue and the app0rtonment and relation
ship of masses in harmonious or intelii-
gent result. From comparative study of
palettes artists may divine much. There
are scores of tricks in technique which are
the secret of much of the individuality so
pronounced in different painters-their
mannerism or method. Some of the great
est painters never divulged their methods.
Reynolds preached, but did not tell how
he worked.
New Zealand is by far tie most pros
porous of the Antipo1ean .olopies at this
moment. 1t has escaped bank smashes
and has a redundant reveLue. Not being
perturbed in any way, it has vaulted
gayly into the experiment of comforting
the franchise upon women, who. having
always been the equal of men natur ally,
are now a good deal better constitutions
ally. They have ali the privileges of
voting at all elections. and doubtless will
lay claim to Office ard show that they
deserve it. Men in New Zealand out
number women in the proportion of 100
to 8S, but the ladies. having newborn zeal,
will doubtless be better organized, and
they are certain to make an impression
on politics for the better. The expe riment
will be keenly watched in the colonies and
else where. Women may not have long to
wait in most countries for political
equality.
The colliers of Yorkshire when on strike
used to open their meetings, held on COM
mons or moors, with psalm singing and
prayer, after being fortified with which
they debated the economies of the coal
trade and passed resolutions not of an
ultra revolutionary description. They have
other ways now. This is how 1000 men
and boys acquitted themselves at a coiliery
near Dewsbury. They first gutted the