Show bores OP AN OBSERVER ao an eastern p aper WHO toll of ft a bod bad of south american 8 lu city fountain when in to full I 1 bloom A which aich told fold their leaves ahrn tile sun eun gets low and unfold thorn again only alt m r conrin but some dight when ben iho melr 1 li fult full n of t humidity the guile iss flowers untold unfold their 1 leaves e aves to lo the store of the tb P 7 alt a w which 1 1 le IF f fall a 11 directly upon them apparently under the Im preast a it that thoy ivoy have had their nap and sho day it Is come 1 had occasion to a pilot having succulent 11 about half an am inch square so and two feet high with trend broad loaves leaves which yielded a pleasant plo kant perfume whim when chafed chafee a little I 1 dont know its name rod and hi voni found any my one who villo doom doo it t grew very fast and WILA was shading other plants too much so BO one evening colaff cv I 1 removed it to another place taking it up lip with a gold shovel above full ful I 1 of dirt it I 1 A be bun I 1 same ainu out tile the next dornink lb t be nun was up and the plants threw three or tou four r beads were bowed over to the ground I 1 it ft b bucket of water about its 14 roots maltie satt t so roma a boards up between it and nd the nun slid and when n I 1 I 1 came out cut front from it had straightened up and looked as A vigorous be as ever the plant acted like it ack person it nee diall water or ROI got too lunch still its if boada beads would droop over until they I 1 lesica as t ad upon ing either tile a horse which supported the bourd boards or ilia ground I 1 lien nursed with water or more shielded from the son un it would str up again and lit in short abort it was ill and a iid would have died like 1110 a human flower 1 without medicine and car cam fr the best woman ir ic the world brought bome ft pond illy from a neighbor a 9 recently a aud ud put t it to lo ft a basof of water licary morning morn I 1 on it 11 would 0 old unfold its petals patois and spread them out upon the water had and every fold iberi up in as though they hd had never cover opened about the fourth morning sho she uld said come ccann and see my do dond d baby tho the flower tied had the life alfo in the length of vino to m which bich ll it was at ached it orai tightly lightly and neatly closed olo cd rod as pule pale along tho the of the ibo leavo Sag as u roul dead auby it was dead I 1 I 1 took look up two box older trees about six alx lx inc 11 04 IQ in thanet cr last winter und and set the ibea out in 0 o t ibe b front yard they both leaved out oat lo in tho the maring but bug not 0 one e of them started little sprouts sprout six alx or eloby eight inches ions find aud altogether looked as though it would mako make it live of jr it tho the other which by ilia way inas much tho the i oner beer tree barely leaded out BUD and there it 16 mined the loaves ies yes small ernull and puny pully and wilt ing alnie evry every d adny ity in tho the still ain after a thoo 1 I watered both of them plenty US I 1 taa thought aught new leaves to appear at the tops of th be brunches branches of the true I 1 despaired of it took look u careful look to detect at first slowly they became moro more and more noticeable new leaves camo came to join thoin them lower down or else the bcd ocd oi d vijay puny leaves started to co prow grow sod aud now DOW lila tree has bus a UDO bee thrifty growth of sprouts nil all over K R large head ht ad in abort the tram planting w without much cutting backi back laid ims won tho other tree when tile ton ion boren hent bent of the dog days was wall on OD bigun to wither 1 and the leaves leave to die I 1 called in a trio wall ito bo bald it was bark burk bound and would pr probably bably dlo die llo lie out cut the top back almost to it ft stump mump in ind u ignico of my in ambes but tho the true persisted in dyjor dolog mail was wa soon boon dead I 1 should like to lu balvo SOMO komo tree doctor explain what leads those two trees re hot in this I 1 transplanted at the sarro time a dozen or moro more box ciders about two notion lit in diameter mont of these leaved out oui at ilia proper time and haro dotas very well they acm long shinder filAnd cr trees nod ns as I 1 wanted thero them to rag up lip I 1 cut buck back the leader at all one of thein tried very bard for long but put forth a loaf leaf then as ac an experiment thinking the tree a failure anyhow I 1 cut culott off eight or ten tell fuel feet of the ibo top it leaved out and grew a nice head this dOLer ruined we me to pursue tho the sumo some courso course with another tree bloh had bad boon been ablo able only to put forth a loir few puny leaves it ib worked wull well with this tree also alo although it muki activist leavo save beon been in the birtt days day of july that it was done I 1 it Is it wonder how much water if you have to put ll it on with a base it at takes in bo keep a tree or shrub olive alive to lo one of our hot summers I 1 believe I 1 have given my trees this reason neoly set out moro more water about aboul the roots them they would baic got anten in ten years of ordinary rainfall yet I 1 cannot canoot bee that they have bad too much it Is the same with my flower beds and lawn la wo and I 1 believe it Is As the groudis rould ill i to luosa 0 a underneath and the water Is As drawn dow dowa a as it by a sponge I 1 bud bad to take up a box elder on account of at sidewalk grading in an alt abe weather tile fibrous roots root which grew down from the ends of the roots of trem treat were well started but was as dry an a a chip I 1 removed tat abo tree to abu of tho the eldevIa lk where the grading had bad brought the r surface u r f c a down to within too ten inches of a be bed of c or which und oriles thin abl part of the manic town at a varying distance front from the gram arau roots root T to my tree nono delta better with far lew less water than it did w boo boa la in the grounds and I 1 attribute it to the fact that the cabout elt catches chos nod and holds bold a t the be astor aster it if I 1 was going to miiko make a lawn aaen L cold have base a tamped camped clay bod bed that would bold water r not moro more than six alx lx inches below abo surface and the same only a little further down for trees go bo much kalkes ufa life Is ft burden la in many places place along the streets where the have boon been sunk bolow below the old grade thoro there Is no DO doubt that too loo trees can call bo be lowered in the elnior inter by etting tho the dirt about them and allowing it to freeze alth ft lih but little trouble and not much injury to the trem trees many of 0 them cocu loo us ess la mulberry and od all be poplars tin ciul L the L lombardy on hardy had better belter bo be tallon away but young box it would pay to alive uvo as u above it Is 1 a pity that the iho prudo grade after being established could not have been to and also tile material of tile sidewalk fixed uniformly it aad a d adhered to first south cost of mala has is fluture co ce moot brick str adAmant cloae a ad a abot owners please aloa e and every mail fixes b in own crado article bithia elastic limits the street sired Itself cant bo be graded except in patches put chos under these circumstances A butery was made about the OH art brigham but it Is a good piece c of t finished work whereas biml boulb la Is worse than as an though it buda badat t boon been touched at nil all a except X of course that thoro there are sido but I 1 suppose jurisdiction could not bay bacq been obtained without an that every owner aona the street should fix hla his own awa grado grade and choose his own material As an it if the owner of tit ik lot abutting oo on the street on tied the abe rik alk nud and like ilio street ort on which ills ground abuts I 1 hope no DO muro more sidewalk will ever bo be ordered until the tow people bavo digested the root fact that tho the people at act large 0 awo a the slid and the and ud that abutting boys bavo no more I 1 ight lu in and to them am filiau guy other individual |