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Show ,... s rc t vumi If FAMOUS WOMfcN IN HISTORY WHO WON AND LOST. gives It Its K in. ist In- heie, tin re and not only in fore a battle, hut during and afiei it miv laeiit. If. C. m ilte Journal of the Davis I In- A I Militurv m i in .,ei it ill mu of more furina ton ..s to the i ii i in i io i!,c jiniii null linjio! t.iie than ewr It on- - the ua!i must he till that Is iH"'Car ) atile Ifi tut ni-- h ami ut the t iii.i t n ket up a tureen against in- i ne in i s . ou f a ml pat role lo "see and nut to - beau u a irn pertain '(foie a lit tie a dating its prugiesi dfMi , n r (il(- lialtle too if the t from a vicns lilt die he powei Hlctorv In found n lontala many of woirnn queens ami iIj'N Inittari' Alike, la houi the passion of ho gained a ruin ,,iei muster) s am lh(' bays the 1hliadilptiia I any-whet- e, n- Scent tO Iota Sfl H IJ'II! OtM ttansfurmf d themaeDes they ami in tfie end alien till their finer lnMin ts have dt sei n ft t hem l Ut y s.nk into the uttermost degradation. It is notorious that Exigloffi women arc UOIIK-f- l e tory," fr la exaltl already reqiilied that be attm tied to lavalrj, if, lu addition to thn, the eaialry is armed with a mrbUJe, whuh it know a how to use, the silfipoitlug eol-I- I II n of light infantry UsUall) attached for linpoiiant expeditions may he left The hi hind with a gain of mobility. iecouno.uauie a oik la of the utmost long-rang- fond of betting W.th tlf inujotiiy of course this ii ineielj a I mule's amusement Othets hale l,m known to lose every hing that they possessed, and finally to have gambled thawr soul lo the hlgfiNrt bidder and then to have orspt away and put dU end to their wretched live Goldsmith's slur) of tbs GhLwuuan wbcUaiMth,S tlKt she bad not lnng to live, piayed ctrJs with her undertaker tor her funeral expenses Is well known. Im a He Is ate to he fowrrd in everyday life. The women of France, perhaps on auount of their warmer blood, were at one time the mow ardent gamblers in the world. In Louis XIV.' reign so many fanil-Ha- s were ruined through the passionate love of the mothers and daughters for a game known as "lioca" that It ' was fochhtdeu by law on pain of death. At Versailles n exception was made ta tlsk rule and here the queen herself frequently lost large sums of money. The frenzied gambling of Madame da Montespan has become proverbial la France as "Le Jeu de la Monte-span.- " At Basset she would play for as much as iJtMUHxi, and would grumble heartily, and the king also, If no one dared to cover her stakes One Christmas evening she lost an Immense fortune, but recovered with three cards $300,000. Three mouths later she lost $610,000. but won It ba k immediately. In 1682 the crash came. At "hoca alone the had played away as much as e I I . Inporlame aud tba proper perform sttwef j $SOO,OUO. bring mors credit arm and he of mote importance to the tommauder than anything else that it can do. If has been noted that all artillery will push lu the front to opeu the combat, alno that It will here U In danger (MW UikalMU lUfaUUM. and will need a cordan about Its front If lufanlry is to supply and flanks this guard the artillery must do without It ot wait till the Infantry can get Here seems an opening for up. (avalry, It can even precede the artillery and find out Just what Is before It WfHr this cavalry 'will ride'the-artille- ry officer, who Is to make the reconnoissance and fix upon the artilAs soon as any serilery positions. ous resistant e H met the eavalry dismounts and throws out a line of skirmishers in front of the proposed positions 'these may or may not be relieved when the lnfantrj gels up The the opposing force will, of tourBe, same thing and skill in this prelluiln-- I ary work will tell lu the subsequent liHttle During Hie battle a cavalry will have its hands full In wauhlng Hie flanks of its own ami) and In dem-- j onsiraling on those of ihe enemy. The exact progress of the crown ptluce at Koniggiaiz .diuii Id have tden known lo Ilenedek, aud hisqnival should not, as regards lime, have been In the least to-th- a sin prove laus-quen- CAN'T SCARE THE CROWS. - e, eaiairi oi niuli.-t- I gam-MlUl- In Louis XV.'s time matters were In much the same slate. On June 25,1763, for Instance, tle due tie ttirhqlleu undertook to teach Mme. de Barry In her boudoir. Within a Tew minutes, however, he had lost no less than $100,000. This Immensely amused the king, win- we. M King i n and Who was delighted with his favorite's' good luck. Mme. de Pompadour. It will be remembered, gambled for en- ormoug stakes, In Charles l.s time women played j That they had few scruples freely. About so doing Is shown from the fact that the king's wife, Henrietta Marla. Baasomplerre, a well known sport," mf Buckingham. In 1626, played for stakes In a window overlooking Cheap-Sidwhile they waited for a procession to pass. In Charles II. 's time, however, women gambled to an extent hitherto unknown In English history. In those dissolute days the pleasures of the English court were not far different from those of the French. The Duchess de Masarln, for Instance, a piece of the famous cardinal, lost more than n million pounds nod ended her days in beggary. Nell Gwynne lost $20,000 to her rival, the duchess of Cleveland, and this nt one sitting. The latter, in her turn, squandered an Immense fortune at the basset table. Bo fast was the evil spreading that la 179$ Chief Justice Kenyon threatened to send any lady to the pillory, however high la rank she might be who should be convicted before him of playing faro. This provoked from Gilray, the well known caricaturist, an imaginary picture of the first ladles of the Jand standing In the pillory. Beneath was the inscription: "Daughters of TharaotL" During the following year many ladles were heavily punished for refusing to comply with the law. Lady Buckingham, tor Instance, together with Lady Luttrell and Mrs. Sturt, were .fined $200 for playing faro. Ladles at the present day do not openly gamble for slakes which amount to thousands of pound. 1L. rests only With their consciences to say how much they lose at Monte Carlo aud in , private deals during the course of tbs year. Mubuiif Hhli h Oltes II (ireel li 7 of flue I.bUib dy fleck Mlitl l.ttly Lutirelt f Inetl gioO legit tmr flufiug teru-l- b f.tll lleceuie of kuucw.u I'ruiiurtluut. - u j end he was really master of hlraself. On he went, of a truth very slowly, jnd with no end of sllisi backward and ,! v hut , upward and onward FAITIIDIXONSI, ADDER VALUE OP CAVALRY. DAMES MHO GAMBLE. A man, a ruty musket, aud a sleek, wily lilac k crow, the man In an abbreviated night dress, the musket charged nearly lo the muzzle, and the crow cawing in perfect Indifference to the man or gun. were the chief figures in a scene presented at North Deerlng Monday morning. The crow was but one of a flock that had been keeping The weather was warm even 'for the of May. and the mow on th monntain-sld- e was nolt.ng rapidly The (anyone and gold-- - were wild mshlng torrents roaring and tumbling down to the sunny p'am blnw, whei they became tranquil i .vers but all were rivers, even the Htle brooks, iendered (, o by the it- n ralu and thaws Far tip the mounlam n'e nestled a dot of a house, and - its doorway I a this pleasant afternoon young woman with a baby in h arms. She appeared to b .u x'otuly looking for somp one who imp not, for, In the presently, she dlssppi.ued house, only to return to Hie door with a bonnet on head and a shawl w rapped jt bout the babv ' XV f rnm-- t n we cannot go and e find papa Ray. He never darllua Slavs away from his d.nmi unless he is detained by something unusual." She was a strong young la-- , accustomed to the mountains all her life, to their dangeits and pltfuhs ns wetl as their rugged sides, atul h r steps', CYSfi' in umbered with the plump youngster, light arwi free. Faith Dixon was a bmvt girl naturally, but she had nevet Mtpposed herconscious self to be a heroine, or of sll fhs eii wksu she imase strength confronted with great pftil Eagerly she pi muted Tui al (1 around the mountain-sidwhie she knew her husband bad been at work endeavoring to turn the (ourse of a reckless mountain stream a little away land. from his few acres of 'i When she reached the place where her husband had been at work, she found his tools, and even his old Jean coat lay near them, but no Perry himself was In sight. Faith looked about lor with wildly-beatin- g heart, and lifted her strong; clear voice in a loud call "Perry! Oh. Perry No answer! What multi It mean? What had become of her husband? She turned her step- - now further up the mountain, when nur her, the water Hie gorge was deeper, and dashed along more fhn lv On. on hhe pressed lingtng to bowlders and vines for uppnrt. little Ray in her arms eiijmiug It all in baby delight, giving fmHi now and then a joyoue little mo She had (folie to whec the mountain etieam swept In through the narrow canyon walls, and Its mur was almost deafening Here she paused and jneiefl down -e vr the infant moun-- i him-e'- f r ujion the very i me tdg of that awful precipice whph his father had fallen ah daft (himiped Ray. and his father famvine he heard g glanced upward only to gv r h a low caap of horror at sight of . eet infanlllt- - face, well daubed but very h veltow i lav, it is true . to the delta' td father. he shouted. "Go (,o t a K hdhv Oh mv God ' Where Is Faith? an r is almos'ni my fet and first -- . ' i wal ' -- vv "Make Hie ropes fast quickly, wlfey!" i,.. .ailed; "I cannot cling here very mam minutes." There ,i a hush, a hardy one and strong, qn it- near, lo this Faith tied the laddei he had constructed on her way up the mountain, and, with a prayer to God. flung It over the wall and guided it with her own hands until it swung near her fast weakening and nearlv fainting husband. He looked up and saw not a mere dangling, frail rope as he had expected, that he would have had great and perhaps difficulty could not have climbed at all incumbered as he now was with the baby, but a rQal Udder, rudely constructed, but with knots and straps here' and there! Wondering how Faith could have done it. he seized it and began slowly a to drag hlm-ud- f feeling up. up. -Btrange dizziness reeplng over him. but not only bis life, but perhaps hie child's, depended upon his reaching solid earth on, e more. Om, on, slow ty, slowly, for poor, little, limp Ray hung like a lump of lead on his arm; hut at last he felt Faith's strong, young aims seize him and pull him over the dangerous edge of the canyon and lie was saved! "My baby! oh, my baby! Is- - ha. dead" moaned the poor mother. "I dont know. I caught him as he felt hv his skirts, and It threw me off my balance and I tumbled Into the torrent, but managed to grasp the rocks Ah, he's all right, except the shock and Jar! There! he's coming round, wlfey thank God!" The baby opened hls sweet eyes, and seeing hie mother weeping. Joined In with a lusty squall for (Company. "But the rope, said Perry, when he could speak cal ml; "I dont see how you managed. "Oh. I did It on my way back. It detained me a little, but grandfather was a sea captain, you know, and he used to teach us children all about ropes and ladders, and and I feared you could not get uj? If I did not make The gun had been In the family for generations, and had not been fired for many yeara, being one of that kind of guns that la used to ornamsnt the mautels of many .old houses In this part of the country. Exasperated by the rawing ot the rrows, the man determined on annihilating the flock It possible, and decided to assume the risk of personal injury attending the firing of the ancestral weapon. TUMBLED OVER. Its sides, only to give forth a startled, horrified cry, for there, on a narrow ledge many feet below her. lay her It easy You saved my life and Ray's, and I guess my own little wife is a real husband! "Oh, "Perry. Perry!" she sobbed. are you dead? -But even aa she spoke he moved, turned his head and raised his face, over which the blood was flowing free- heroine, though neither she warships had bombarded . 0 yeara to eat -- mountain-aide, t H.m j, i, t Manzanillo all day and part of a night, and were about to reaume firing In the morning w hen news of the protocol reached the In Porto Rico American comander. Mllee plan for investing San mq frpm four different points on the land side wss worktng successfully, and Gen. Wilson, at Coamo, had Just demanded The surrender of Albonlto, if er having shelled the enemy at nearby, when the order to i ase hostile operations was received, v Manila, Admiral Dewey and Gen, Merritt, Ignorant of the peace negotiations In Washington forced the of the city unconditionally by a vigorous bombardment by the fleet the day after the proclamation of the The really great events of protocol. Hie war thus began and ended before ihe Philippine capital. Gen. ' i sur-und- er Fwtr Hair Growlag Scarce. o, hi-s- I TH last I hots la tfas War. The one hundred and fourteen days war was ended by the protocol for peace while Important operations were in progress In Cuba, Porto Rico and In Cuba our the Philippine islands. 1 - nor knew It before. ly. -- - arms!- - people. .are said to be becoming leas numerous than formerly. The ancient Jews wefe.s jraee; now they are. with,. few exceptions, dark. So it Is In a les&r Aha .Irish, among whom degree-wit- h person 150 years ago a dark-haire- d waa almost unknown. , Fair-hair- ed fair-hair- . ed Methods. wss here first," said Agulnaldo. Why should Dewey be resentfully. considered so much more of a man Well," replied the canthan I am? did adviser, "your methods are different Dewey keeps bis eyes open all the time and you' keep your mouth Et. open. 1 - Love, like Ice, Is awfully slippery and It soon thaws. . ,.r r AND MATTERS OF GARDEN. INTEREST TO ACT ICU LTU RISTS. r Rlnt tltalluu r Hi lltrtUuUo. Zberoor About u, ..,11 V Hivultur Cul- - Xtiu uuil aiorUultur. most Quickly after treatment in that month. The amount of jw 1 to cut out at a time in uo t be deiui.i! b the operator It :il depen i largely upon the specimen. the varietv and is uebavior in Hie h.cality These uiatt-r- c will sun l.e lea'ned by the opeiatoi who wilt qilhi.lv lent) how lo ItantH6 ts hw .men- - a.' as a pule-s.ona K" i t betui than mo-- 1 of the men hat p e as epe-- i lenced ;h 'Dpi1' ami navel from pHie 111 iu-- tu pH ' cs t. lo p.uee 1, o le fi i, i1 ruh Liven .,'1 he lmed tememhir - to top the speiimen wiHim liaiu-.- . bourn's md no. to trim Ins Mibjeos to uni bum but allJ bem eaiii to follow Hit gen ml lines of their natural growth, tu which they Ulalvva)i he beautiful 31 G K., ill Farmets Rev.ew -- and la i i abh i al w- - ih-- -- Haler and t ro To rcakt one ton of drv nn'tor 'n our grain ciops, the use of from Joj to 500 tons of water is netesaat). in Wisconsin, King f and that a two tun crop of at hay ovti one thou-au- d r tons of watti acre, tq ml to about nine Inches of rainfall he average rate foi Held copi at huge IS given by Euiopean obscivei-- , dl J23 times the weight of diy matter proj duced. being at the rate of auoat of ramtail actual.) evapoiauJ iiquuj i u-- Faith ne,r knew how she dragged hem, H tu the pot and looked down " htr fi rhe felt must be Upon Hint death to her dilld at least. At hist she could see nothing The ledge vv hei cun her husband had been was almost (avert'd with water. both dead! D ad ' she in cm nod Db, how ,au I bear It? Too latet. toqi late!" Then she fancied she heard a voice, a fain' all. and looking closer In that mad whin of waters, she beheld Perry clinging to the lower end of the ledge and yes with something In his tbs man awake on a small tree within a few yards of the man's sleeping-roo- f,--t- - lift' be sacrificed de-Hg- -- ds-tanc- hi- muJ-ilaube- -- er in - i e, well-know- n Oh fi h dan" icpeaml Ray, and Just Hue his lumbers vone, raised into a te fled shilek as she discovered !,, e He wa- -, feTT upon his eaf. He rosy face tut, .ud his hei .hlrraped h gay cry of and unuhled over the canyon's hr "Faith!" he called, "Faith, love, Is that you? I thought you would come! his man the rose, Rubbing Injuries willing to bear even the loss of an I missed my footing and fell over the 'm arm If the crow had been put out of wall; fortunately I lodged here. existence. Evidently the crow was In only bruised and my head cut a little, wonderment wt the action of the mao, but the water la rising gradually, and me aa when the latter took another look before many hours will sweep out of the window there was the crow, away If ou dont find a rope'" Oh, Perry, what tell me " gazing anxiously toward the window, "Go home! There ate ropes In the a look resembling a smile coming to stable and on the beds, bring an the bird's visage as the man returned thing you can find. to the window. "Yes, 1 will; don't lo-- e heart u be bark In ten minutes " t'nplmnl Imputation. But even as she spoke she thought Among the stories told of Dr! Emof her baby hnd how h would Imped-ha mons, clergyman of a progress. former day and generation, there are 'Til have to leave vou darling, lind ropwtwOow or Ik rutted Kingdom his show keen which wit. in I'm so afraid; but The British registrar general. In his many join faihtrs nr, the town where he was pastor there demands It" Quarterly return of btrtha, marriages lived a was who a pantheist, physician She carried Ray aw.iv some and deaths, just Issued, states that took pains to let every oue know where a bu-- h grew th population of the I'nlted Kingdom and fad, it. He had made frequent boast that this the placed him ti-In the middle of 1898 is estimated at mng EmDoctor could he easily conquer chubby ankle with oue apron-tri- m, 40.188.917 persons; that of England in argument, and one day came while with the other ne made it o and Wales at 81.397.078; that of Scot mons chance. He and the doctor met at the bush. land at 4,219.946, and that of Ireland his of a sick man. "How old the "God keep my ba boy!" sj, at 4,541.903. In the United Kingdom are house air?" asked the physician, you, breathed, aa ehe datshtd away 294.(15 births and 169.881 deaths were Doc"SJlxty-twreplied The water was slowly i,ut sui,,i, registered In the' three months ending brusquely. hla nearing the poor, prisoned father He tor Emmons, quietly, although Jana $0, 1898, The natural increase watched it a it crept up imh !v u,h eyes showed his surprise. "May I aak f population was therefore 124,634. "I've been alive In turn? It Will reach me in less than an The number ot persons married In the your age creation in one form or ansince the and If Faith should mu houf, Quarter ending March 31, 1S9S, waa other." said the physician, meet or with an weriibnt curtly. Weil, ur . llQ,12tw..The birth rate In the United Ah. then I suppose you --were with is sweeter ws.dang--r approaches, and In second 1898 the of quarter Kingdom he may be In time l wonder if vhe Adam and Eve In the Garden of waa 29.4, and the death rate 17 per Eden?" took baby with hei the doctor. "CerPout Faith, mv Inquired The marriage rate In the first 1,000. came the reply. "Dm!" said dear little wife! tainly," 12 1898 was per 1,000. Quarter of In the mean time seven n on i Doctor Emmons, placidly, meditating face. "I always thought Ray had missed his mammi hot , on the other's fas Mtxlr trod Galore there was a third person there, but covered that be w, fast aaj ip Near the elty of Durango, Mexico, a lusty squall. have differed from me." (Ljpme 640 mountain feet high is an Iron But aa the squall dil not .g,,,. ,0 la from 60 to 70 per cent Klse uf tfau Temalo. mend matters, he 1tan t. t ad the Iron metallic u a mass spreads In The i. ,, migV with a' pure. According to the latest available apron-strin- g all directions for a radius of three or statistics the . United States has thla until the many kid- ami ir0 vg caaee of tomathe fralh strip of cth.o mol four miles. The entire deposit Is ex year canned 4,500-00h,j sufficient to supply all toes. Less than fifty years ago peofree. timaled to he the Iron required lo the world for He proceeded to ( i jv , ple did not know tomatoes were good ,p the if. until found i , - The crow began the solo about midnight, and continued without ceasing until the poor man could bear It no longer, end he started out of bed to wipe the crow family off the earth, or that part of it lying contiguous to his residential property. Pointing the guu at the crow, which eyed the man with a look of utter contempt, the man fired and fell to the floor from the recoil of the musket. His arm was nearly driven from hie shoulder, and his spine nearly telescoped by the force of the fall. FABM ihie--inche- through the piahl. To evaporate this water it is uec that the ground cont.un'ng the roots should not be too full of water One would suppose that with voter flooding the roots of the plaints the latter would be able to take both food And water with added ease, but such Is not the ease, except with aquatic and plants. With most plants the action of the roots stop at' the point where they fieach "flood water. Thus if at the depth of eighteen inches "flood water be struck, the roots below the eighteen inches will cease to operate, and If the water condition continue they will rot off. A bulletin of the California experiment station says on this point: "This is amply apparent in some of the irrigated orange groves of southern California, where the One roots of the trees fill the surface soil as do the roots of maize in a cornfield of the Mississippi Ttates; so that the plow can hardly be run without turning them up and under. In these same orchards It will be observed, in digging down, that at a depth of a few feet the soil is too water-soake- d to permit of the proper exercise of the root functions, and that the roots existing there are either inactive or diseased. That In such eases abundant irrigation and abundant fertilization alone can maintain an orchard in bearing condition, is a matter of course; and there can be no question thdt a great deal of the constant cry for the fertilization of orchards lu the irrigated sections Is due quite as much to the shallowness of rooting as to any induced by really necessary exhaustion of the land. When the roots are Induced to come to and remain at the surface, within a surface layer of eighteen to twenty inches, it naturally becomes necessary to feed these roots abundantly, both with moisture and with plant food. This has as naturally led to an of the requirements of the trees In both respects. Had deep .rooting been encouraged at first, instead of the growth by surfaee fertilization and frequent irrigation, some delay in bearing would have been amply compensated for by leas of current outlay for fertilizers, and less liability to injury from frequently unavoidable delay, or from Inadequacy, of irrigation. The above Is an illustration of the necessity of having land well drained. d It also shows why land will stand drouth better than land. On the latter kind of land the roots of plants remain near the surface, and when drouth comes they easily dry up. On well drained land the roots strike deep and when drouth comes they are protected by several feet of earth in which is a fair supply of capillary water. seml-aquat- n, over-estima- te ng well-draine- . i i vo! 1'!sture and oll Stirring. The Kansas Expei'ment Station Is -tuivii.g the .Cut of various modes if soil treatment up m roll tuoiaiure. effect of a mulch hat the (an e ajiproxche I hv pi o; . r tillage of w,U-huuw- ii Mill it o fa not as widely t ailed upon good fdruung die. Dies. Oue of the station fields vvliuh contained in round nunUada 26 per .cent of wair. In, Jtbf first foot of soil on July 7. 1898, had one portton plowed, another and a portion left untreated. The ensuing dry weather in the course of four weeks, notwithstanding several light rains, reduced the moisture of the untreated part to 15 per cent aud that of the disked land to 18 per cent, the plowed ground retaining 21 per cent. The last two were In excellent condition,- for. seeding, while the first would plow up lumpy and unsatisfactory. The weight of an acie of the dry soil to the depth of one foot may be taken as 1,600 tons. Each per cent of water in soli to that depth represents about sixteen tons of water per acre, or of an inch. The water apparently lost by the untreated soil was 176 tons per acre, equivalent to over one and one-haInches of rain. This Is about f what the soil would hold after a soaking rain. The real loss was much mote than this, since as water escaped from the upper foot, other would be drawn up from below The figures by capillary attraction. given are minimum quantities, therea disk-harrow- th lf one-hal- fore. Stubbie ground should unquestion- ably be plowed while the moisture Is still in the soil. Experiments of the station show that simple plowing is quite as effective for moisture conservation as any tillage yet tested. It time does not permit plowing, the epeedy work of the disk harrow compares favorably in efficiency. In either case if talu follows sufficient to start the weeds, kill them with a harrow. This will at the same time break up any crust and preserve the soil mulch. This treatment not only Insures a perfor wheat in respect to fect seed-be- d moisture, but the soil has time to settle to the firm condition ' so advantageous to wheat, and the bareness, warmth and moisture are most favorable to the formation of nitrates from organic matter. Nitrates are highly important for successful wheat CodTtoHoiii of HorttcaltarUta. The convention season Is at hand, and a few words on the subject will not bs out of place. To those that attend the manner of conducting such conventions Is of prime importance. When people go a long distance to attend euch assemblies they usually do it for tbe purpose of learning new things and better methods. This tact should be constantly in the minds of the officers. It too often occurs that a very large part of the time is taken up with routine work and In discussions that are not Instructive. We have seen some unimportant amendment to the constitution consume the entire time of a session; we have seen a fight over officers take up another session; we have seen the vindication of some officer become the principal topic in another session. We have attended conventions that were very profitable by reason of good papers and good discussions on horticultural subjects. We have attended other conventions that appeared more sf a farce than anything else. From such conventions we have gone away painfully impressed with the Idea that the people that had been to the expense of coming from a distance would probably not do so again. Tbe presiding officer holds the situation largely In his hands. If he be inert tbe work of tbe convention will lag, and foreign topics will be allowed to consume the precious hours. If he be energetic and understand his business, tbe speakers and those engaged in the discussions will be held to tbe topics before tbe convention, and much will be accomplished. Every presiding officer would do well to study up on parliamentary law. J'ranlnr Ornamental Shrub. Shrubs may be pruned at any season wen the object is only the removal of dead wood and other unsightly parts. When living parts are to be removed, however, the summer Is preferable, since wounds heal more readily during the growing season. When the aim of pruning Is the production of flowers, greater care and judgment are necessary. Shrubs that bloom in the early1 months of the year demand different treatment from those that blossom in the late summer and early fall months. The former develop their flower buds during the season previous to flowering and protect them by means of bud scales, wax, down and other devices during the winter. It may be seen, therefore, that if these plants be pruned, during the autumn, winter or early spring, the crop of flowers may be materially lessened. If the late flowering species be pruned during the summer the same result may follow. Hence the rule, prune ar-tthe blossoms fall. Many of the Subjects die back in the branch that produces the flower head, leaving an unsightly, withering or dead part. Other species seem slow to overcome the effort made in flower production. In any event the pruning done after flowering will have the effect of proMichigan Apple Crop- .- E. C. Reid, ducing more thrifty growth and an increased development of flower buds. secretary of the Michigan State HortiLilac, Japah quince, flowering currant cultural Society, says; Although the and other early bloomers should bs crop of Michigan winter apples Is not condipruned In early June; hydrangea, to be a large one, nor In best of In excess be of of will it that tion, 1b burning bush, etc., late thetutumn, or at latest before growth starts In any state east of the Rocky mountains, the spring. In fact, in the case of and Is already In exceedingly brisk demand in the v market. Everything ot gll late flowering shrubs, particularly If not perfectly hardy, the pruning may tbe apple kind in Michigan this year will command a good price. Buyers be postponed until the buds first bein the field for cider apples gin to swell In the spring. In this are already and drying stock, many evaporators way the shrubs need be attended to only once and at a time when there will having been erected within the state be no danger of cutting out flowering by men who have been engaged in that wood, as might often be the case if Industry elsewhere. The early fall the pruning were done before cold fruit Is selling at what would be very high prices In ordinary years, comweather seta in. manding thirty to fifty cents per shrubs may be handbushel. In same led the why as flowering, with the exception that evergreens must not The earlier the hens shed their old be pruned late in the year or In the coats the sooner to they will winter, since the wounds made dry make a winter egg reeord. r begin out badly and are slow to heal over. The best month in which to prune Don't bet on what 'you feel in your them la April, because they recover bones unless it's rheumatism. er -- . |