Show FLOWER AND TJJEK Cornelia Cook La Franco and CatherIne Mermet roses pot grown will last nearly twice as long fair nnd fresh as when forced in beds Tho oldest Button ball tree In Connecticut is situated in Newington It measures 25 feet in circumference and is 200 years old L Cool as a cucumber is scientifically correct Investigation shows that this vegetable has a temperature of 1 degree b ise low that of the surrounding atmosphere Ono of the largest camellia plants over known is now growing in a nursery near Birmingham Eng It quite fills a largo greenhouse Some 2000 buds have been trimmed from this tree and it still has 0000 There has been discovered in the forests of India c strange plant which possesses to a very high degree astonishing magnetic power The hand which breaks a leaf from it immediately receives a shock equal to that which is produced by the conductor oran or-an induction coil The energy of this sing f ular influence varies with the hour of tho 1 dayConnecticut Connecticut contains the rarest specimens speci-mens ofr fruit trees to be found in Now England The largest apple tree In the United States is in tho dooryard of Delos Hotchkiss place in tho town of Cheshire It is 140 years of age and has borne 100 bushels of fruit time and again in one season sea-son It stands sixty feet in height and girts fourteen and onehalf feet |