The Farmer Knew Better

"What is that?" asked the farmer of the musician, pointing to his tuning in strument.

"That is a pitch-fork," was the reply.

"You must take me for a jay," commented the farmer, as he took his departure. - N. Y. Sun.

Field Culture

After the setting of the plants, keep the cultivator at work; go through the rows both ways as frequently as possible until the vines prevent, and by that time weeds will not longer be troublesome. But it is not to kill weeds that the cultivator is kept going, but to make plants ; cultivation will secure both results.

Flowering Sago Palm

About two weeks ago our largest sago palm (Cycas revolula), began to show signs of flowering, by the appearance of a ball of yellowish colored mossy substance in the center of the plant. It has opened and enlarged every day until now there is a perfectly formed blossom composed of leaf-like petals, each about four inches long, the number of petals corresponding to the number of leaves the plant has borne. The blossom or flower is about twelve inches in diameter and is, in appearance, a miniature of the palm itself. The plant is eight feet in diameter from tip to tip, has always been in perfect health, and is a beautiful specimen.

Can anyone tell whether there is any record of a sago palm having flowered before in this country, and whether the plant dies after the flower reaches perfection ? - GarRETT B. LlNDERMAN, Penn.

Flowers For Sunday School Scholars

An English paper gives an account of "a very successful flower show in connection with the Sunday School and Band of Hope, Union Chapel, Shirley." "It is intended that this shall be the first of a series of annual shows of a similar character." Prizes were given for a scarlet geranium musk, fuchsia, calceolaria, fern, window hanging plant, specimen plant, bouquet of wild flowers, bouquet of garden flowers, basket of garden flowers, basket of wild flowers.

For Canning

Bernard, Chinese Free, Columbia, Crawford's Early, Elberta, Crawford's Late, Deming's Sept, Duff's Yellow, Duggar's Golden, Foster, Lemon Cling, Mixon's White, Stump the World, Chinese Cling, Jackson and Lee.

For Family Use

Alexander, Bernard, Chinese Cling, Chinese Free, Columbia, Crawford's Early, Duff's Yellow, Duggar's Golden, Eatan's Golden, Elberta, Foster, General Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Hale's Early, Lady Parham, Lemon Cling, Mixon's White, Rivers, Royal George, Stump the World, Tillotson, Bustion's Ootober".

For Shipping

Alexander, Thurber, Chinese Free, Crawford's Early, Chinese Cling, Elberta, Crawford's Late, Jackson, Lee, and Stump the World.

For The Table. Raspberry Vinegar

Pour over four quarts of red raspberries sufficient vinegar to cover them, and let them stand twenty-four hours. Then scald and strain, and allow a pound of sugar to each pint of juice resulting. Boil twenty minutes and bottle. Will keep for years.

Forcing Christmas Roses

Experiments were made last winter in forcing Christmas roses (Helleborus) for the New York flower market. They appear to sell in England, but do not take at all here, not being sufficiently showy. Some of them are pretty enough, but a great many are very weedy, the colors being undecided and dingy. They can never compete with brighter flowers.