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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
A Few Mistakes.

1t is a mistake to undertake too
much. A single small flower bed,
properly cared for, is more satisfac-
tory than a whole flower garden, suf-
fering for the attention one cannot
give it.
1t is a mistake to go "a-bargaining"
when you are buying plants, bulbs or
seeds. None but the best are worth
bothering with, land these are not to be
had for anything less than their true
value.
1t is a mistake to allow ones enthu-
siasm to exceed ones good judgment
in the matter of planning a flower
garden. Cut according to your
cloth" in this as in other things, and
don't get beyond the limitations of
your time and purse.
1t is mistake to trust anything to
luck when it comes to the cultivation
of flowers, and it is mistake to rely
too much on your own judgement if
you are inexperienced. A practical,
well edited magazine is just what you
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02

need for your guidance and direction
as flower grower.
1t is mistake to SOW seed and set
out plants without any regard to their
needs. Do your work intelligently
and inform yourself regarding the
most desirable location for everything
you are going to plant. Find out the
kind of soil required and just how
and when to plant your seed.
1t is a mistake to expect your flow
er garden to shift for itself, even
when you have given it a good start.
You must give it proper attention at
all times or it will be failure, and a
neglected garden is always sorrow
full spectacle.
1t is a mistake to attribute your
failures and disappointments to the
florist of whom you purchased your
plants and seeds. If he sou you good
seeds and healthy bulbs and plants
(for reliable florist would sell no
other), his responsibility ended the
moment the goods came into your
possession, and he is not to blame for
failures he could not avert.-Success
with Flowers.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02
and foliage it has effaced. 1t is truly
a tragedy in the world of vegetation.
NaSturtiums.

Few give the nasturtium proper
treatment, although it will grow and
bloom under any sort of treatment.
The writer has bed of these flowers
every summer that is the envy of all
passers-by and her especial pride and
admiration.
The bed is oval in shape, ten by
twenty feet, raised to foot in height
in the center; is planted in May,
about the 18th, with the common red
variety of nasturtium, about fourteen
inches apart, all over the bed; two
seed in each place, two inches deep.
In month the blooms appear, and
from now on until the very hardest of
frost, this bed is mass OF color, such
as no other flower produces.
This bed is in the center of beauti-
full lawn and gets the hot sun from
nine o'clock in the morning until five
in the evening, and it is no exaggera
ton to say it produces thousands of
flowers. AS the season advances, the
flowers change color, become variega-
ted and of various shades of red.
The treatment is simple but hard
Pick every morning, or at least every
ohter morning, all the faded blossoms
and leaves. Do not allow them to
seed, and water profusely every night.
This bed had barrels of water daily
from the garden hose.
Toward the middle of the summer
there will come lull in the blossom
ing, but it is only for two weeks,
when, 10, they have renewed their
youth and are at it again. Toward
the end of the summer we get little
dilatory about picking, anu many
seeds will form, and as many as ten
quarts were made into appetizing
pickles thae year, and as many more
might have been made. The fancy
variety of nasturtiums were tried in
this bed one year, and there was an
immense mass of foliage, but few
flowers. For ten years have raised
this common flower by the side of a
huge bed of coleus, that cost me eight
dollars to get planted, and the mas
turtiums have furnished the most
pleasure and at no expense, except
the work
But the flowers are not a matter of
luck; they are like babies, and need
regular care and attention to attain
their full growth and highest perfec-
tiOn.-Success with Flowers.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-02

The SICK man knocking at the door
of health gets in if he knocks the
right way, and stays out if he doesn't.
There are thousands of ways of get
ting sick but only one way to get
well. Do whatever you will, if you do
not put your digestion in good order,
and make your blood rich and pure,
you will not. get well. Rich, pure
blood is the only thing that can bring
perfect health. Constipation is dis
ease of the blood. A large part of all
diseases are traceable directly to i'm
purities in the blood, and can be cured
by eliminating them with DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. The first
thing it does is to put the whole diges-
tive system into perfect order. 1t
stimulates the appetite, eXcites a copi-
Gus secretion of the digestive fluids
es out disease germs wherever they
may be, kills them and forces them
out Of the system. The Golden Medi-
cal Discovery" has been used with I'M
varying success for over 80 years.
The legislation of the Bahama Is
lands, having granted to I'll. M. Flag
Ter site for hotel at Nassau, and
subsidy for a steamer line, nothing
is now left but to begin work and
push it to completion. Well-informed
persons say that there is not the least
doubt about the financial success of
the hotel, as it is likely to be crowd
ed with tourists from December to
April. The legislators spoke highly of
the advantages that would accrue to
the islands from Mr.. Flagler's enter
prise.
A. w. Lewis, of Yular, who was in
the city Friday, says that there is
great distress in the storm swept Sec
ton and that many have not got even
dry corn bread to eat. Some of them
have proportional their supply of
corn meal to last only few days
longer. The grist mills have been
dividing the tolls with these poor I'M
fortunates. In addition to this condi-
ton, and to add to their distress, the
crops have been ruined by the cater
pillars and crickets which have COM
pletely destroyed whole fields of corn.
Mr.. Lewis says this is not local con-
dition, but exists in every part of the
storm district. Mr.. Lewis is prepar-
ing to leave and others will follow his
example. He says that many will
starve to death unless relief is offered
Sun.
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$25 to $50 per week EASY. You work
right around home. A brand new thing.
Write to us quick You will be surprised
at how easy it can be done. Send us your
address anyway. 1t will be to your inter-
est to investigate. Write today. Address
"PeopIe's'' 3941 Market St.. Philadelphia.
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Three Curious Plants.


''cannibal tree of Australia, the
death" or "grapple plant" of South
Africa, and the vegetable python" of
New Zealand.
The "cannibal tree" grows up in the
shape of huge pineapple, and at
tains height of eleven feet. 1t has
a series of broad board-like leaves,
growing in fringe at the apex,
which forcibly brings to mind the gi-
gantic Central American agave; and
these board-like leaves, from ten to
twelve feet in the smaller specimens
and from fifteen to twenty feet in the
larger, hang to the ground, and are
easily strong enough to bear the
weight of a man of 40 pounds Or
more. In the ancient times this tree
was worshipped by the native savag-
es under the name of the "devil tree"
a part of the interesting ceremony
being the sacrifice of one of their
number to it's all too ready embrace.
The victim to be sacrificed was driven
up the leaves of the tree to the apex,
and the instant the so-called "pistils''
of the monster were touched the
leaves would fly together like trap,
crushing the life out of the intruder.
In this way the tree would hold it's
victim until every particle of flesh
would disappear from his bones.
The ''grapple plant is PROSTATE
herb, growing in South Africa. Its
flowers are purple and shaped like
the English foxglove. Its fruit has
formidable hooks, which, by clinging
to any passer by, is conveyed to situa-
tons where it's seed may find suitable
conditions for growth. Sir John Lub-
book says it has been known to kill
lions
The vegetable python" which is
known to the naturalist as the clusia
or fig, is the strangler of trees. Tie
seeds of the clusia, being provided
with pulp and very pleasant to the
tropical birds which feed thereon, are
carried from tree to tree and deposit
ed on the branches. Here germina
ton begins. The leaIy stem slowly
rises upward, while the roots flow, as
it were, down the trunk until the soil
is reached. Here and there they
branch, changing their course accord
ing to the direction Oh any obstruc-
tions met with. Meanwhile from
these rootlets leafy branches have
been developed, which, while pushing
themselves through the canopy above,
get into the light, and enormously
accelerate their growth. Now meta
morphosis takes place! For the hith-
erto soft aerial roots begin to harden
and spread wider and wider, throwing
out side branches, which flow into and
amalgamate with each other until the
whole tree trunk is bound in series
of irregular living hoops. From this
time on it is struggle of life and
death between the forest giant and
the entwining clusia. Like an athlete,
the tree tries to expand and burst its
letters, causing the bark to bulge be-
tween every interlacing; but success
and freedom are not for the captive
L H.
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ddress all comm unications to Floral Dep4 rt
ment AGRICULTURIsT, DeLand. File.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-09

increases our foreign sales and every
article manufactured and sold at home
makes n article less to be bought and
shipped into the State. In either
transaction the amount Of our money
in circulation lie increased. There was
a time when England sent her wool to
be worked up IN the factories OF Elan
ders. At the suggestion of his excel
lent queen, Philippa, Edward the III,
induced some of the skilled Flemish
workmen to move to England and
open up factories II that country.
This was a great first step by which
England became the first manufactur
ing country in the world
The course taken by England may
be made a valuable lesson to North
Carolina. IT is very largely by en-
couraging home industries that the
financial condition of the people of our
State is t be improved.
JOHN w. WOODY.
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papers which are published in the
North.
Now, the writer is not disposed to
present the dark side of things, but
these are facts That chow the situation
we have to meet, and our people are
going to meet it They have come to
realize the condition of things and
have made up their minCs to improve
1t.
Let every effort for building up a
better system OF manufacturing indus
tries among us recsIve the encourage
ment of ali This il patriotism IN It's
highest and best sense.
The shoe factory at HlllsborO is a
step in the right dITecGIon, Its sue
cess e not OILY beCter and cheaper
SHOES for members of the E .rmers'
Alliance, 6u5 1J means thousands of
dollars annually saved to the State
The proposition of 8 Ono Wilson in
the Caucasian, for State text books for
our public schools is anoEher lmpor-
rant move. looking to a better supply
of money in the State Our legislature
will, we trust, be alive TO all such
propositions. We believe that there is
a great deal OF real PATRIOTISM in the
men bers of our present legislature,
as we'll as In u incoming Governor,
and we expect To see them gettlng
down to bUsIns SO early in the session,
working for q better development OF
che State
There are a number of Northern
capitalists looking towards the South
as a desirable place for Investments
we need them W. need their capital
and the new industries they will Drine
/ to the State. Every dollar that
comes helps ca pay u taxes. aud
every INDUSTRY opened up helps to en-
ploy cur labor AUD furnish a market
for our produce Every article manu-
fac ured here and sold III Of the Sta e
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-09
LETTER FROM GUILFoRD.

Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
PRITCHETT, N Q.
Our Alliance has gone through an
other year and comes out solid. The
Guilford County Alliance was to meet
with Oeola Sub Alliance yesterday.
The ground was covered with snow,
but there was about 30 gathered for
business; among them was five ladies.
We waited for the Cf1cers, but they
did not come. Not having a quorum,
the meeting was a failure, In part. If
the officers were sick, they are excus-
able
After waiting until 1 o'clock, the
ladies spread the table with good things
IN abundance and we ate all we could,
not eating half-had to quit.
Then Bro. Fields gave us a speech on
the necessity of the Alliance, followed
by Bro. Boone. All seemed to emily
the Calks.
So ends the County Alliance for that
day. Hope the President will call an
other ere long.
T. 81 r PRITCHETT.
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the Creator owes him salvation. The
truth is that all they owe him is, to
help him to develop himself into a self
supporting, self governing and useful
member of society. More than this
destroys sell. exersion, self control, and
self respect, and converts intended
blessings into intended curses upon the
recipient Of the unrequitted bounty.
The Giver of all good ~precludes from
his covenant of blessings all who dis
regard His divine law of compensa
ton.
Tnere is another National evil that
should be combatted in our system of
education, that of ~conceding to many
a position of too great Importance.
All the recognition it is entitled GO, is
to serve as "a medium of exchange"
Our system should inculcate this as a
truth and exalt intelligence, strength
and love, the trinity of divine forces,
to their rightful position of sovel eighty
in human society. Lastly, our system,
while preserving distinctions as to
race and sex, should deal out even.
handed justice to each child in the
State. That this is possible, l will un
dertake to demonstrate in nv next
article. j B. SMITH.
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MRCKLENsURG COUNTY ALL
ANCH.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
CHARLOTTE, " g,
Too Oe 1907

~ u,
Jan 26, 1897
Mecklenburg County Alliance met
with Maryann Alliance in Charlotte,
January 23rd, with President N. Glib
bon in the chair The Alliance was
called to order at IL o'clock. The roll
was called by Secretary r N. Elliott
A quorum of Sub. Alliances wered
through their delegates INC were pres
ent. The minutes of the last quarterly
meeting we're read and adopted.
The first business taken up was Bro
Ivey's guano circular advising the
County Alliances to establish agents
in different parts of the county to
handle the Alliance guano, go as to
have it convenient to the brethren
After some discussion and recommen
dations the following men were select d
and recommended as agents: r W.
Elliott, at Derite; r r ss Sseel, at
Huntersville; Mr.. Oatney, at Paw
Greek. The County Alliance unani
mously agreed TO use the Alliance gu
apo the coming season, and an agency
will be established in this city for the
handling of the same.
After the guapo business was settled
the manufacturing business at Hills
boro was brought up and discussed at
some length. Every Alliance member
present appeared to be anxious that
the shoe factory should be started at
an early day, but no definite plan was
ofared The members present agreed
TO put in what money they could as in
dividuals.
james A. Wilson, Chairman OF the
Executive Committee of the County
Alliance, offered a resolution which was
adopted, in regard to the Weighing OF
cotton In this county. AS the la stands
the seller and the buyer each pay Ave
cents, but there Il no penalty attached
it either party fails TO C m ,ly. Mr.
Wilson claims that the law has beeD
violated and he asks that the legisla
ture attach a penalty to the law.
We wish to say for the encourage
ment of the Alliance brethren of che
State, that we are not dead in this
county by a large majority.
The Alliance adjourned { meet With
the Mcdowell Greek Alliance, April
9Th.
While we are on this County ALI
ance write up, we wish to to talk al1ttie
Alliance in a general way. The Ala
ance has nOE done les work. II we al
low the Alliance to droop and die We
may as veil take the woods; we are
gone. | heartily endorse the action OF
our brethren in Currltuck to nave a SIX
days meeting in AprIl-meeClng In the
SIX days in Pix counties. Now, that i
business; this is the kind of Allianc
meeting like to attend. l get a who'll
week of good rRtIoDs. Push the goo
work on, brethren; let US see to it the
the shoe factory ia etarted and let u
see to it that we ~paEronize the busineee
agency as much as possible and at IT,
end Of the year we will ell be better off
and the Business Agency III better con
dition. J P. SOssAMON
Special Alliance Lecturer ana Organ
iz9r.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-09

The fence here shown is made with
the Duplex Automatic Woven Wire
Fence Machine. which lie made entirely
of wood and malleable iron. and 10 so
simple and easily operated that anyone
who knows how to turn a grin stone
can teke it right into the field or any
place and make 40 to 60 rods a day OF
the best fence on earth, horse high.
bull strong, pig, chicken or rabbit tight
at q cost for the wire Of only ID TO 30
cents a rod. It can be made III II varI
ETY. Of sty les or designs, using either
plain orbarb wire for the top and bot
tom margin wires, and by using wire
pickets, weaving the m right in o tne
fabric ornamental designs can be MADE
suitable not only for farm reside nCes.
but RlsO c'ty and suhuF ban residences
Meesrs KIteelman Bros RIdRevnle,
Indiana. whose sdvt rtlsemenT appears
elsewhere in this paper, claim this d.
pick Automatic M c1Ine is the result
Of their ten years experience in the
manufacture OF woven Wire fence ma
chimes and is Perfection Itself. They
also claim to be able to sell a machine
and enough wire to make 100 rods of
an Ideal Farm Fence for less money
than 80 rods Of any good woven wire
farm fence nOW on the market cRn be-
bought for in the roll. Send for their
illus rated catalogue, which fully de
scTibes machine and shows "a different
d. slRna Of fence the machine will make
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-09
PRICE. % N

Send % cents for the bnok IL the 8ll.
yer Knight WabChmAn, 1880 New Yorh
avenue. Washington, D. O.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-09
BUILD UP OUR HOME.
Industries-A Way t. Better Times for
the South
correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
GuILEnRn OLIEGn N =

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
GUILFORD COLLEGE,, N Q.
Next to the quesuons of money and
transportation, and IN a Sense allied t
them, is the question of home indus
tries. The one prime CAUSE of tn.
present financial condition in our State.
as well as other Southern States. IL
that we buy more than we sell. We
pay III more money than we receive
In return, thus making the per capita
of u money in circulation grow Lees
and less every year. Free silver or
any measure that will increase the
amount of money in the natl IN will
aid US, and we should work 20 that end
Yet, 1t is mainly through the improve
ment OF her own industries that North
Carolina is to be put on the way to
true prosperity. Once brought up to
the point where the balance of trade Is
In our favor, Immediately money will
become more more plentiful in the old
North STATE.
We need a better system of farming
to compete with the great Northwest
brought nearer and nearer to us By IN
creased railroad fsclllties Much can
be done In trucking and fruit culture,
while the possible OF our
fisheries have hardly begun to be &c
veloped; and yeG the States greatest
are In the line of manufacturing Indus
tries. In this way the amount of cur
sales ouCslde OF the State may be
largely increased and our purchases
very much lessened.
At pre- sent. a large part Of what is
bought and shipped into the State
could be as we'll produced at home.
We dress ourselves in Northern made
clothes, ride TO church IN Northern
carrIages-made of SJuEhern material
pulled by Western horses, fed on
Western corn. hitched by Northern
harness, and hunt throughs our empty
Northern made pocket book to fnd a
] contribution 70 buy Sunday-BohooI
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GOV. RUSSELL AND HIS ANCRS.
TRY.
correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
HIGHLANDS, OIslow Co. n. O.

correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
RICHLANDS, OIslow Co. N. o.
I have just read the inaugural ad-
dress of Governor Russell, and desire
to say it ls beyond question a great
State paper, and if his administration
of the State government is in accord
with the address, North Carolina may
we'll be glad that he is Governor. If
he ia not a man q head and shoulder
higher than most men and possFs sed
of brains and backbone, it is not be.
cause he did not spring from gallant
ancestry. The writer was well &C,
quainted with his grandfather, D W.
Sanders, and his father, Daniel L. Rus
cell, Sr. They were remarkable men
There Is a poor wiregrass ridge in Ons
low county, on Brown Sound, near
Bear Greek, which has given birth to
three of the grandes5 characters that
ever we're in OnslOw, to wit: D. W,
Sanders, Daniel L Russell, Sr-, and
christopher Stephens
d. W. Sanders was the only man the
writer w saw who valued time more
than money. He was a man that
rushed. He began the world poor,
without education or family prestige.
and at the time the civil war broke
out, his estate must have been worth
at least $3.50 600. The writer has seen
his turnout on the road 81, $50 car
riage, four fine horses and harness,
two ouslde servants, a man and , wo
man. The outfit must have been
worth about g. OOO-good plantation in
that outfit.
II Governor Carr has done what
Governor Russell states about leasing
.Cu5 the railroad, he certainly has
acted agsinst the interest of the tax
payers and ought to be held RESPONSE
bic.
If the Governor would drop bis gold
standard ''latIn union" procllviGies,
and go for all money to be issued by
the general government, the coinage OF
silver Is TO 1, aud not stand for re
demptIon money, but q sci-ntl1c dol
lar, do n with National bauks, and
keep all the nations money separate
from Individuals or corporations, gov
eminent Ownership of railroads, rele
graphs and telephones, then we would
nave an Ideal G. vernon and might well
Use bis q10CaGInn of poetry:
" are living we are dwelling
IA a grand AID awful fime,
IN All az or ages { ltng
10 u HViugi Is subHn..@
VI q llfe ana VI Tue character of
u w. Sanders, of Palo Alto, Oaslow
county, N Q, and OF the life and char.
acter OF d tniel L Russell. s., of Town
Greek, county, N o. The
writer asks to write more fully here
6l@F' J. II FoY,.
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The prosperity OF politicians to forget
the principles they advocate before
election in the scramble for places
after the victory is won is what knocks
the confidence of the people in politi.
clans -Concordia Kansaa