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7.4Oc nominal Refined quiet: continent. Sc;
compound. 6i2c.
extra prime sl3alS25; family, Si4d1450;
short clear $1450Gl6.J0.
Butter was weaker; Western dairy. 1870
lac; Western creamery. l6d2i12c; Western
factory. 11Gl6c; Elgins, 2llzc; imitation
creamery, 1+qlSc; State dairy, lSG23c; State
creamery. 16Q lyc, old.
Cheese-Fair business and firm; large 9A
ql124c; small. 1olAql25sc; part skins, SQ1Oc:
fulI skins. 2021zc.
Eggs demoraiized; State and Pennsylva-
MIA. lSl2ul9c: Western fresh, l5l2c; South
ern, 13l2Gl412c; receipts, 4.76I packages.
Tallow was frmer; city GO for packages).
51sc; country packages free), 5l4c.
Cotton seed oil was inactive and nominal
in absence OF business, except IN the way of
small lots TO local buyers; prime crude,
barrels 2iQSc; prime crude loose, 23Q20c;
of crude, barrels, 25Q2Sc: butter grades, 35p
36c; prime summer yellow, 33GS3l2c; off sum-
mer yellow. Sll2Q32c; prime summer white,
Coffee-O, ons opened excited and adj
vanced 2Ogz9 points on recount OF Rio stock
giving from 25SO0o TO $4,000 bags. ruled more
active and closed steady at 5a25 points net
advance; sales 1850 bags, including: March,
LSal6. O5c; May, 10. 45ql 5;55c; June, l5loc;
14.3Oc; December, 1390Ql4c; spot coffee-Rio
firmer; No. Z, 1714c; mild steady; Cordova,
yesterday s ies5S n 6nes wa New York STOCK
2Ol,995 bags; total United States stocks,
2 2l 81 bags; afloat for the United states
States, 47O,S4i bags against 466.7 3l bags last
year.
Rice quiet; domestic, fair to extra, 3l4q6c;
Japan, 4A4412c.
Molasses dull; New Orleans. open kettle.
good to choice, 27G36c.
Sugar-Raw firm; fair refining, 213-16c;
sales, none; refined steady; No. 6, 3 1S-I6Q
&c; No. T. 324Q3 15-l6c; No. s. $3.50 lS-l6c; No.
g.. 9 s-le@3}4c No. 10, $1zaS llcl6c; No. u.
11-16c; off A, S9sQ4 S-i6c; mold A, ga
A, 41sd47sc; cut-loaf, S-l6c; crushed, 3 3-l6c;
powdered, 414q4 11-16c; graduated, 4AQ
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AT NEW YORK.
Ruling Prices I'm Produce ut the Sea-
boards Commercial Metropolis.

Ruling Prices In Produce Mt the Sea-
boards Commercial Metropolis.
NEW YORK, March 3.-Flour-Receipts,
20,500 brls; exports. 1920 brls; sales. $500
packages. The early steadiness in wheat in
duced fair buying for winter straights and
spring patents, but at the close demand
fell off and the market weakened City
mill patents. s4.15d4.S5; winter patents 1886
$3.50; city mill clears. SS.55Q36o; winter
straights, s27OG3.05; Minnesota patents, $3.50
1885, winter extras. S2q2.55; Minnesota
bakers, 81 2513 60; winter low grades, SLIGO
G22O; spring low grades. s1.6Oq1S5; spring
extras s1.9OQ2.4O.
Rye -four steady; superfine. s2.7Oq2.S5;
fancy s2.S5G2.9O.
Buckwheat flour more active at 50. 25d2 80;
sales, 215 bags. Buckwheat dull; State $50
zoe; Canadian ex. bond, 65Q6Sc.
Cornmeal was steady; yellow Western,
$2G0q2.70; Brandywine, $40
Rye dull. Barley dull; No. 2 Milwaukee.
61c Barley malt dull; Western, 65Q7Oc; six
rowed. SOaS3c.
Wheat-Receipts, 1900 bu; exports, $1,000
bu; sales 100000 bu futures, 1900 bu spot.
Spots were dull No. 2 red. in store and ele-
vator, 61%c; afloat, CSC; f. o. b., $780, un-
graded red, sec, In elevator; No. 1 North
ern, 6S5sc. Options opened firmer on steady
caDleS, Dig increase III lilS Wethly SApOTlS
and predicted cold weather West. but
turned weak under heavy long selling West
and here and lower rate cables, closing at
ILGlkc net decline No 2 red, March, closed
at 61lhc: May, 63I2G64 3-l6c, closing at G3Ssc
June closed at 6i$4c; July, 60 l3-l6d66$sc,
closing at &C; August closed at &c; Sep
TENDER closed at CSC; December, nAQnAc
closing at 71Ac.
Corn-Receipts. 1900 bu: exports, $1,000 bu
sales. $4,000 bu futures. $1,000 bu spot Spots
were dull: No. 2, 42l2c in elevator, 1910
afioat Options opened firmer with wheat,
but weakened during the morning and
closed at 1sGLc net decline. March, 422sfD
4234c closing at 42a4c April closed al 42l2c
May, 1925 1850, closing at 42$sc; July, 1895
4i31@c closing at 1870.
Oats-Receipts, %, 400 bu; exports, 1900 bu;
sales. 1900 bu futures and 1900 bu spot.
Spots were steady hut dull; No. ., SIC; No.
delivered. CSC; No. 3, 36hc; No. white, Csc
No. white &c. track mixed Western. 3Slt
39c: track white Western, 38fi 42c; track
ing at &c net decline; March closed at S5l4c
May. 34asGt3i12c, closed at 3iSsc.
Hay firm; shipping, Coo; good TO choice.
65dS5c
Hops quiet State, common TO choice. 14ll
14iSc: Pacific coast, lSa22c
Hides dull; wet sailed, New Orleans Sc
lected. 80 TO G5 pounds. 41sa5lhc; Texas Sc
lectsd. 80 TO 80 pounds. 4H5c; BuenOs Ayres
dry. 20 to "a pounds, 1Olzqllc; Texas dry,
"a TO 30 pounds, &C.
Leather steady; hemlock sole. Buenos
Ayres, light to heavy weight, l4Nl9c
Beef was quiet; family, Sl2gH; extra
mess. slSa22. Cut meats easy; picked bel
lies. 6Q17sc; picked shoulders, 6hc; picked
hams. 92sdSl2c.
Lard was easier; Western steam closed at
76oc nominal; March. s.5Sc nominal; May.
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EISeNS here.

CHICAGO. March 3-The Evening Jour
nal reports: Cattle-Receipts. l.Gl0. ship
ues 25d4Oc higher than week ago; prime
TO extra. ASG5; good 10 choice. A2JQ475:
others Sl.50di; Texans. s. 75Hi 10
Market active and Sc higher; rough heavy,
$4G0d470: heavy packers. AS504-y0; prime
heavy and butcher weights, As5H5oS; as
sorted light Sd510. values closed 5000
lower than last week.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, 1.5o0: all sold;
lambs. s4a425; values lOal5c higher than
last week.
ST. LOUIS. March -Cattle-Receipts,
800: shipments, 800. The market was NOM
inal. Choice export steers, N.5ON415; fair
to medium shipping steers, $. 60fA10; medl-
UNI butcher steers, $3.50: feeding steers
fair to choice, s2S5Q3.5O; good native COWS
Hogs-Receipts, Zoo; shipments. S.1OO
The market was duh. Coed medium
weights, SS.90ai.S5; pigs and light weights.
sheepwReceipts, none: shipments. none.
The market was dull Good TO choice native
mixed. S3.50d3S; medium. S3.2OqSi 10: COM
mon, s2.25d2.eO; Texans. 50.
KANSAS CITY. March 3-Cattle-Re-
ceipts. $500: shipments. 100. The market
G T sbjpninS steers a.5cd4So: Texss and and
native cows. $1.50G3 40: stockers and feed
ers 81. sOa350 bulls. S2.s5a3.5o.
The market was steady 10 strong Bulk,
s+.75; heavies, packers and mixed, 47O9
4.S0; light Workers and pigs. A1cG4S0.
Sheep-Recepts. 800; shipments, 500. The
market was steady
BUFFALO, March 3-Cattle-Receipts
light with two cars over from yesterday:
beeves sold at previous quotations.; veals,
$566.25.
Hogs-Receipts far in advance of demand;
pigs shade lower: medium and mixed sold
as usual.
Sheep-Recelpts about 80 carloads Market
dull good 10 best mixed, s. 50d325 top
wethers. .$i25; good TO choice lambs. $500
H. extra heavy, $4.l0q4p.
EAST LIBERTY. March S.-Cattle-Re.
ceipts. 1,240 shipments, l.240. Nothing do
ing; all through consignments. Thirty-thres
cars of cattle shipped 10 New York to-day
Hogs-Receipts. 3.700 shipments 400
Market dull; all grades $5.2Ja5.S5. Nine
cars of hogs shipped TO New York to-day
Sheep-Receipts. eco; shipments. Loco Mar
k9t very dull and lower; prospects will 90
still lower
CINCINNATI, March 3.-Hogs frmer at
A.5Uu ola. Receipts, l,5jO: shipments, LOO.
Cattle In light demand. Receipts, 100:
shipments, 100.
Sheep easy at S2G9.5O. Receipts. 100: ship
ments, none Lambs in light demand and
steady at $3G425
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Poultry and Other Produce.

PrtceS Paid by ShipperSO
Poultry-Hens. &C per 10; young chick
ems, &c per 10; turkeys, old toms, &c per
Id; hens, &c per Id; fancy fat young toms.
turkeys SC; poor, 4c ducks, 61zc per ID;
geese. $4.20l4.SO per doz for choice.
EggS-Shippers paying 13c.
Butter-Extra, 10q12c; mixed, SQ10c-
Honey-16Q1Sc.
Feathers-Prime geese 4Oc per 10; mixed
duck, zoe per 10.
Beeswax-20c for yellow; 15c for dark.
Wool-Unwashed medium wool, 15c; un-
washed coarse or braid 13G15c; unwashed
fine merino. 10613c; tub-washed, 1Sd20c;
bury and cotted wool, &c to loo less than
above prices.
RAW FURS.
Following is the price list for central and
northern Indiana and Ohio for prime skins:
Extra coon, S1q2; large coon, soc; medium
coon, Coo; small COON pc; large mink. I.l0;
medium mink, soc: small mink, Coo: black
skunk. S.30; half stripe skunk. soc; narrow
stripe skunk. 40c; broad stripe skunk, zoe;
opossum, 5Q25c; rat 3G13c: red fox, 500
$1.25; grey fox. 40fJ65c: otter. S36S: Ken
lucky skins. 1OQ20 per cent lower than
prices quoted above.
HIDES, TALLOW, ETC.
Hides-No. l green hides, 21ac; No. I G.
S. hides, 31zc; No. 2 G. S. hides, 2i2c; No.
calf hides. Sc; No. 2 calf hides. 31Sc.
Tallow-No. 1 tallow. 41ac; No. tallow &c.
Grease-White, 411c; yellow, SIC;
BonesNDry. s12a1s per ton.
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WtTt IOITOWS. FIOur
steady; No. spring wheat. 57asc; No. 8
spring wheat, 5SlAc; No. 2 red, 572sc; No.
311H63I%c; No. white, sos. G31lac; No. 2
rye. 46c; No. barley, nominal; No. g. 4iD
SIC; No. A. 43G4Sc; No. flaxseed, $l.S6G1.37
prime timothy seed, $4.15; mess pork per
brl. sl165Gl1.70; lard; per h. 7GO7.O2iac; short
rib sides Qoosel, 6.lGa6.15c; dry-salt Shout
CboxedD, 6.75d7.1214c; whisky, distillers' fin
ished goods, per gal, s1.15.
On the Produce Exchange, to-day the
butter market was dull; creameries 1871
23c; diaries, 1iq25c Eggs weak; strictly
fresh, 15c.
Receipts-F1our, II 900 brls; wheat % 900
bu; corn. 3i5, 900 bu; oats PSI 900 bu: rye
5000 blu; barley, $4,000 bu. Shipments-Flour
10000 brls; wheat, 1900 blu; corn. 600 bu ;
oats. $4,000 blu; rye, 1000 bu; barley, H.
QUO blu.
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LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
The Best Weeks Trade of 1S04-Prices
I'm Most Lines steady.

The common remark on the wholesale
streets yesterday was that it had been the
best business week Of the present year. and
the increased business reached TO Commits
sion row. While trade was increased on
Commission row considerably by sales of
seed potatoes. onion sets and other seeds.
in other lines more trade has been In prog
ress. and no complaint has been heard on
the part Of the commission men OF dull
trade or slow collections for some days.
Poultry, egg and butter markets are active,
but in prices all are lower than at the be-
ginning Of the week. Provisions are moving
better in Jobbing way, but not up to ex-
pectations. Prices are unsettled. and being
downward in tendency, the retail men buy
only TO meet immediate needs. Dry-goods
houses experienced a much better trade.
but still the dry-goods men say there is
large room for Improvement Wholesale
confectioners speak of their trade as COM
pairing very favorably with a year ago.
Hardware men still report trade slow. With
iron dealers it has improved some. Oranges
and lemons both rule easy at quotations.
Receipts Of strawberries. tomatoes, cab
bageS and cucumbers OF Southern growth
are the increase, but selling yet at lux
ury prices.
active in the week ending March g. as a re-
suit Of the reduction In east-bOund rates.
STILL shippers and dealers are not doing
the increased business which had been
looked for by those who had for six weeks
been hearing the same parties say If they
had 20-cent-Per-10O- pound rate. Chicago to
New York basis, to work on, they would
be doing something. Track bids yesterday
ruled as follows:
Wheat-No. 2 red. 55c: No. 8 red, size; re-
jected, 40G50c; wagon, 54c.
Corn-No. 1 white. &c; No. 2 white, Csc;
No. 8 white, 35c for one color 341zc
for grade; No. 2 white mixed 3i24c; No 3
white mixed. 34lhc; No. white mixed, 30c
No. yellow. 34&4c; No. yellow, 3419c; No. 4
yellow, S0c No. mixed, 34&4c; No. mixed,
3fl2c: No. mixed. goo; ear corn, 361zc
Oats-No. white, &c; No. white. Bic;
No. 2 mixed, 3Oc; No. mixed 29c; re-
jected, 23d25c.
Hay-Choice timothy, $115O; No. 1, 81:
No. 2. 50: No. 1 prairie, $3.50; mixed, IS;
clover, S70750 per ton.
rye.
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Saturdays Bank CIcarings.

At New Orleans-Clearings. 81. S51. 663.
At MISUNDERSTANDING $3.50 SIS: balances.
500. SIS.
At St. Louis-Clearings. S35l9.349: week.
SCI pa, 500; last week. SO. 102 7GS: same week
last year. s25079. GO Balances 500 7S2.
week, g. 424l25; last week s.. 1866 1876: same
week last year. s.. 109.S71. Money dun al 6
a. per cent. Exchange on New York. 9Oc
premium
At New York-Clearings. $Ss.lGl. Isl; bal
ances. s4.0i9. 32S; for the week: CIearfngs
s4e5 OO2 400; balances 500. Isl. $50
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SO. 9O7 $50; bal
ances, 81. 49, $50. Clearings for the week
S63 $50. go; balances. S9943.5IS
At MISUNDERSTANDING, s.. 45O I26: bal
ances. $2l6.6 Clearings for the week $40 =
go. 72l; balances, 81, S57.466.
At Chicago-Clearings, $l3 234. 600: week
Ss4. as, 900: corresponding week last year
SIo7. 272. 600. New York exchange. 50c premi-
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, March 3.-The volume Of
business during the past week has been of
more encouraging proportions. and for a
Saturday the market to-day in the dry
goods district has shown unusual stir In
all departments of domestic dry goods more
interest is seen, and sellers are taking a
cheerful view with reference 10 the near
future of the market. Cotton goods are
steady and unchanged; print cloths dull and
unchanged prints and printed fabrics fairly
active and steady; ginghams and woven
wash goods moderately active, with some
thing like an upward tendency as 10 prices,
while dress goods and foreign dry goods are
selling more freely and steady. The job
bling trade is better, with prices fairly sus-
tanned.
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OLE.

NEW YORK, March 3-Petroleum quiet;
United closed at S0Ac; Washington. brls,
&c; Washington, in bulk, 3.50c; refined New
York 5.15c; Philadelphia and Baltimore,
5.1Oc; Philadelphia and Baltimore, in bulk,
2.60c. Rosin quiet; strained, common 10
good, $1.104115. Turpentine steady at 31kQ
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Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS, March Section
steady; sales of spot, 1900 bales; to arrive,
$50 bales; low ordinary. ll-l6c; ordinary,
3-l6c; good ordinary, 11-16c; low middling,
1-l6c: middling, 5-l6c: good middling
slice; middling fair. Lice; fair, 91sc. Re-
cepits, 3,479 bales; exports to France, $3.50
bales; continent, $3.50 bales; stock, 262, 264
bales.
LIVERPOOL, March 3.-Cotton-Spot de-
mand firm at steady prices. The sales of
the day We're 10000 bales, of which 500
bales were for speculation and export, and
included $500 bales American.
NEW YORK, March 3.-Spot cotton mar
ket dull; middling uplands, 75sc; middling
gulf, 77sc. Total sales, POS bales.
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UNI. Sterling exchange dull: actual rates,
$.6G4SS2. Money rates, 4ff6 per cent
At Boston-Clearings. S14.521. 75l; balances,
S1.610SlS. Clearings for the week, $N, 1885,,
239; balances $11.24i ,7J1.
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LII MANNER OF INVESTORS MAY
~ find Ii profitable tn consult with
n the INDIANA TRUST COMPANY;
they who have charge of enterprises
Of various kinds. and all persons I'm
their private capacity who have sur
plus funds or any sort of interest in
an estate to be cared for.
The conservation of an Institution
like this; Its experience; it's command
of the avenues of safe and profitable
investments; the nature of its Organf-
xation, which gives IL perpetual ex-
fstence and hence uninterrupted man.
agement of all of its undertakings
the legal supervision under which Ii
rests; Its vast financial responsibility
tS2,OOO.OOO in alb make available to
its patrons advantages not otherwise
to be secured.
Upon all manner of trusteeshfp or
agency I'm affairs this company may
be consulted free at any time, and it's
services secured whenever desired.
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Metals.

NEW YORK, March 3.-Pig iron dull;
American, $ll5OGl5. Copper quiet; lake, 95sc.
Lead quiet; domestic, g. 10c. Tin nominal
plates dull. Spelter nominal.
ST. LOUIS, March 3--Lead and spelter I'M
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Silver used or The table should be wiped
each day with a soft clamJis s itc- b.
comes clouGel as much from thc steam II
coffee, tea and hot foods geaera.y as from
actual use, and the daily polishing Keeps Il
in good condition.
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LIVE STOCK.
Cattle Scarce md Quiet-HoEs Slow
hut SiendN=Shcen Dull

INDIANAPOLIS. March 3.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, -; shipments, 200. But few fresh
arrivals. The market was very quiet. with
no material change in prices.
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REAL-ESTATE TRANSFERS..
Nineteen Transfers Yesterday, with q
Total Consideration of S1G,3OG.

instruments filed for record in the re-
corders office of Marion county. Indiana,
for the twenty-four hours ending at p. m.
March 3, 1894, as furnished by Thee. Stein,
abstracter of titles, Hartford Block, No. sc
East Market street.
Marion L. Warmoth to Alice s. Mar
ston, lot e. in Floral Park addition. $500
Asa b. Wilson to Smith w. Marston
and wife. lot IS. in Dark & Osgoods
first addition to West Indianapolis. LOO
Alfred NJ. Ogle ct al. TO Henry G.
Barrow ct al, lot 13. in Ogles East
Park addition. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 40
Z. B. Martndale to Hugh Rocker. lot
coin Park. ........................... 1000
Hugh L. Rocker to Awhile L. Webb,
lot g. in square 10. second section
Marcus ]. NJ. Davis to George Selden-
sticker, lot 8, in square TO- second
section Lincoln Park.................-. 200
John j. Beisel to August Benzinger
and wife, lot g. in Coburns first adj
dition to Belmont. ..................... $50
Henry d. Hamilton to Luther D.
Waterman, part of lot II, in square
Henry Nicoiai to Madison Stout, part
of lots / and 2, in square S1...... 2,SCO
Anna NJ. Buehler executrix, to Leo
pold Leppert. lot l. in Hanson ct
ais subdivision of Yeiser, guar
William II. Hunt to Charles II. Hunt,
lot IS. in Atkins & Perkins Univer-
sity Place addition; :::......:....:..... $500
Charles II. Hunt to William H. Hunt,
L. IN AtF'us Il Perkins Univer-
-sity Place addition ..:..............: 500
Henry s. Ross to John Chew, part of
the south half of the southwest
quarter of section 90 township Il,
range 4.......................... $50
Joseph L. Ludlum to John Drohm ct
al, lot II, in square ), in s. a.
Fletcher, jr.s. northeast addition. $50
Nancy l.. Parker to Enoch II. Moon,
lot p. in stilz's second addition. 1900
Alice Vickery to Ida Schooley, lot y,
in Stout's second additon............. 275
Syndicate Land Company to Henry
Overlook. lots Is and ii, in square
6, in Tuxedo Park. 400
Charles Reimer TO Herman Schultz
and WIFE lot CO. in Kappes &
Franks south addition. .::........... 1000
Jennie G. HattOn TO Alice E. Dough-
erty. lot 3, in block 3. North-side add
dition ............................ 200
Transfers 10; consideration. .......... &c. O6
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In hanging dresses away they should be
suspended from two or three hooks rather
than one This tends TO keep them in shape
and also prevents the crushing OF the dra-
perieS.
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Farm Labor.
Philadelphia Inquirer.

Transfers, 10; consideration. ........
The Delaware farm and home. (Wilmington, Del.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-24

: The birch has been neglected on ac-
count of a supposed want of beauty, but
when old it is one of the most graceful
Of trees, changing its stiff, upright growth
to just the reverse. 1t cannot be included
among the largest park trees as single
specimens, but in widely spaced groups
it is quite distinct and beautiful, its beau
ty being enhanced by its silvery white
bole shining through its branches. 1t is
one of those trees which quickly get
spoiled if thinning has been neglected.
As it's branches are slender and impatient
of shade, the bottom ones soon die off and
leave the tree bare pole.
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MuLcHINe TREES AND PLANTS.

With View to Retarding the Maturity of
Fruits-Conclusion Drawn.
It is the general opinion that mulch
or heavy cover placed upon the soil about
plants when it is frozen will retard flow
ering and the maturing of fruit; yet the
practice appears to be often unsatisfac-
tory, and there are reasons for supposing
that the philosophy of the subject is not
commonly understood. With view to
settling the question, apple and other
fruit trees, also small fruits, were mulch
ed last winter at the Cornell university
station at Ithaca. Professor Bailey, after
due investigation of results, arrived at
these conclusions:
First-The early bloom of fruit plants
depends very largely upon the appropria-
ton of food stored in the twigs, and it is
more or less independent of root action.
This is proved both by direct experiment
and by study of the physiology of plants.
Second-It must follow, then, that the
temperature of the twig or branch must
be reduced if vegetation is to be much
retarded; or, in other words, the top of
the plant, as we'll as the soil, must be
mulcheu, ana IN practlce tnlS Is possible
only with strawberries and other very
low plants or those which are laid down
during winter.
Third-There is danger of injuring
plants by heavy mulch which is allowed
to remain late in spring. If it is desired
to retard flowers or fruit by mulching,
the practice should not be violent, and
the plants should be carefully watched.
Fourth-Many strawberry growers are
able to delay the ripening of fruit from
two days to two weeks by mulching, but
weeks delay is usually about the limit
of profitable results.
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Protecting with Boards.

Wooden boards come in very handy in
protecting plants in winter, Gardening
says. Make wind break fences Of them
to protect your garden against the pierre
ing blasts; build boxlike structures of
them over your more tender roses, rho
dodendrons and other evergreens; nail a
few overlap fashion to ward off the rains
from your stored celery in the ridges, or
make shutters of them to put over the
mats or other protecting material you
have on your frames to keep it dry and
more frost proof, And old boxes or bar
rels set open, mouth down, over many a
choice plant OF root may safe it's life in
winter.
The Delaware farm and home. (Wilmington, Del.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-24

namely, stree" or shrubby ones and
herbaceous ones, but these sets include
good many species The tree or Mouran
peonies are indigenous to China and ia
pan and are among the choicest of the
race, hardy and free blooming, and al
though most of them have fine double
flowers, their doubleness is not as stiff as
that shown in many of our herbaceous
peonies.
Until recently, however, says Garden
ing, the more double the flowers of the
Moutan peonies We're the more they
were appreciated. Within the last few
years, however, we have been getting
from Japan race of single and semi
double Moutan peonies that for real
beauty surpass any of the doubles we
used to get from China. They have
large flowing, plain or crimped satiny
petals, and in color vary from pure
white, through pink, rose, purple and
scarlet, to glistening crimson, and we
have had them as much as II inches
across A pure white semidouble Japa-
nese Moutan or tree peony measures eight
inches across.
In filling our garden with hardy flow
ers we should strive to have selection
of the choicest subjects, thrifty and gen.
erous in their nature, like these peonies,
and Japan anemones, larkspur, phloxes,
Kempfers irises, day lilies, Speciosum
lilies and the like, and to cover the sea-
son from the time of crocuses in March
and April till Maximilian's sunflower in
October.