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Show Dish Bags on the Brush. In tho gardens of Charles Richardson, in Pasadena, which are famed for their remarkable re-markable vcgctablo and iloral productions, arc growing dish rags, real, genuine dish raga that would delight tho heart of every hotisowlfe. Mr Richardson has heretofore hereto-fore raised many wonderful plants never boforo Introduced to American soil, but this year he has exceeded all previous agricultural triumphs by raising an Immense Im-mense crop of dish rags, enough to supply sup-ply his family for neveral consecutive gon-eratlonH. gon-eratlonH. Theao dish rags, or vegetable uponges, as thny arc sometimes called, are Indigenous to Africa. Now It has been demonstrated that thoy will thrlvo in thlK country, they arc bound to become a popular pop-ular production, since not only for homo consumption but for commercial purposes thoy con be raised with profit. Tho graceful, grace-ful, well-foliaged vines arc not only ornamental, orna-mental, but they bear in great profusion a fibrous spongo that Is eminently useful for bathing purposes, as well as for scouring pans ana ltcttlC3. Los Angolcs Tlmos. J |