Show J hAUMA 1 GAR DEN 1AAAZ I I I 1 ATTEno Of INTRI1BST TO AOIIICULTUIIISTti of I ih m 1gotdai IIIn Al I irItitoo linn or Ift Mil 1 > nl UtliU Thrrral llirllr IUIis Mllullut and llurl Ifall llnnlnir 1 rUrj 1 rt a tele y grower A I I of fifteen yean ex 1 rP I Iwrlfino I may Lo y able to cite my brother trucktii Jf n few practical I JI hlnU that would I alto thrill n specify itlurn for money Invested says a if writer In American Onrilptillig You may any yeol but It tu Itilrea vxlwrlellvs tu ral lM pled marketable rulerx anti this In itilves Hint labor anti cxiKnie i1irii ago before the solvent of the xlfblMchlng sorts I nlll admit that this ww In n measure true hut since the Introduction Ot the Golden Felt Blanching White Plume and lutnl Political l IUd rlRlit hero 1 would Day there are no better sorts It requires but little more experience to crave a Rood crop of celery than It doe to pro duce one of cabbage or beet First begin be-gin properly by buylnc aced uf omo reliable needman Now elect ft plot of fine loamy toll It black all the better Spiilo this to a depth of at lean one foot as early In tile prlne as the ground can be worked then with i ttccMoothcd rako Invcl off tmootuly and lay out bed 1 two feet wide but do not raise them more than can be helped If the ground Is I not very rich now I the time to mike It > o by ap tilIng soma good brand of lUpcrphoc phatc toy a peck to each rod ot bed Thl mUll be raked In to a depth ol five or mix Inches then again carefully care-fully rake tho bed l lengthwise Thl done draw mark crosswise Thee limit bo very hallow anti eight Inches apart sped may now be sown quite thickly and covered by lifting fine earth 01er It ao a a just to hide the lied firm down either with light roller or otherwise Aa celery seed re quires a long time to germinate the bed must be sprinkled once a day It the weather be dry It thl preliminary prelim-inary work has been well done In about three week you will have a Due bed of plant which may be thinned thin-ned to about ono Inch apart In the row All the attention now required will be to keep tile bed free from weed anti give water when dry until about thlTflrit ot July when the plant should bo removed to the field A reclaimed re-claimed awaml muck Is I undoubtedly Ibo belt and roost natural ground on which to grow celery U should be well drained and made vy rich and be well filled Tbo row ahuuld bo mado four feet apart and It ta well lo Ink the row an Inch or two llulc for receiving the plant should be list firmly and Ibo fall It dry pressed with tho feet the plant must bo watered until citabllihed Nothing more need bo done for six week except ex-cept to keep nil well cultivated IIIII free from weeds by that limo the plant will have attained about one foot of growth and banking must begin be-gin Thl branch ot celery culture hu until recently been a slow And ted lOll operation The push scraper Is I now lIed by ull progrclvo grower this la I a simple tool and easily ninJa by any one In a tow minute Take aboard a-board six inches wide fifteen Inch long threefourth ot an Inch thick bora a bolo In the center and Insert a handle a rako handle 10 just the thing diplng back at a convenient angle now brace It and you have a push scraper It now require two men with push scrapers one each tide ot row the earth should bo pushed push-ed gently again tho plant this make a banking of about its Inches and get no moro dirt In the heart than the old time handling and in I much more expeditious ex-peditious besides tho plant are In better shape for banking properly which can be done with hoe or al ado u the operator may are flu The earth ihould be drawn nearly to the top of plant and II tho iclfblanchlnc sens bate been used this will be all the banking required and In about three week there will bo a flno crop of celery mAIII Ilr of MaihlnKlHl A trio that rivals lu height nnd age the monarch of tile redwood forest In California Ilia Just been cut Into CctlonH out In the state of Washing lori nay n writer In St luull Pio neer 1rem All the term which have been Invented tu describe big trcoi rpuld bo Applied to this mammoth without flattery or cxaggirulloii An Idea of its size I may bo guliid front Ipo t fact that If rawrd Into Inch i strips the t lumber undo from thotree would fill ten of the largoit I lied l freight car and the strllw pf wovd II placed end to cnij > Qiild rench frqii tho in tHitio the we now laNew latcom Waih crou Dio water R tho 1 Pacific Ocean to the land ol 11 It tig Chang = iTlitilotal hoIeUuaf thu tree n dWatood I7ff n Wnjprctlvdi 1 wa < OJ fi etl rir iiVouOoneiICTCiitU l pr a mile Toitlie pulnt heru Iha llruL I llmti LranTJeJou I ya illfifpf L Ail Iho base thi 1 clrcurafcrcrfco win found to bo 33 Ki llvlnVho 1 j Thtre wa not throughout The tree the llghtct Indication of unioundiiixs In all llie Id rest of Vuililnctoii there la not a tree young 01 otd tyhlch wouhl make dih I finer lumber thin tbl7 There In I n way to toll the use ot every trey JiistjK rl lrIib i there I Is to Ijrarn jliow niunyyearsa borne ha lUed i W Ith thottreo the lftJ W 3 J0 n problem lidV < J y Blufdylng lists ihumber of ring tbtt I are clearly1 discernible dis-cernible when the saw lias levered the great matt ot wood Into section This test when applied to tbe Waitiligton tree showed that It wisatleast 484 1 It aplfng In I iii HW of like CdII1e r momitaliM Tnr nrn fttrrt rtornis In he 0M 4M et W winter TIle wlnl bltrwa trtwenatywlr t 111 the mow fall a good deal I afur the taint fashion that It doe In tn e Ito Mounlalti Hut the pig trte hnt gone all inroMrti I tht weather fur almwi flu crniMhti and If man had only lit u 1 uumt l would have betn nont the worst for wr The Mail 1110 own the tree lu ILl Protested form hive submitted to lUrnUMa 111ft qultuu rrtsnlmg the changes which undoubtedly took Plate round It durlug Ihn rtnturlt that bet Interoned ilncv It Ivigan tu treaty OC counts It Ii I lmi > o lbie to enaralne In detail the ingrate 01 the Oftecondo MuuntainM bat eo far u IntuilHttlua has ilMnuuttralikd tha big ire was tha ulrtna lu tile tests of ubliigton Metenllil hold that th tails stated pruvt that there lit be < n no material iJiangt In the nrlhH nurfaee In tha late of WatBlntton shot prulialily In I the entliu territory of tbt nllwl States for nt Iwilt too > esra U Im lowest bold by tOme that the surfie ut the earth In tile far western utiloti of our country differed iiidirrlaliy from whose It U I slows with en recent a pe rind from tho scientific point ol view at live centiirlu login Uuuee llio lilg tree cuiuplvuly dlipruit the rlicr filled theory It la I Julio llkly the wooded giant was a tiny slapling In tht days when Columbus lint discovered the West ludlea U hall groan steadily and without oppoiltlon lure ibat dale The tree wn us itmlght as an arrow from ltd base lo the first limb 20 feet and curiously enough tho trunk maintained nn cqually stern posltluu to tilt topmost puluU tho Illil MR1 14OW 111olt A few year ngo tho writer agreed with the popular opinion tint the kood old Ulnc purple and whltoof the old hnmcittaJ would bo polled by any attempt to eclargo or double Its flower flow-er or modify In any way lu peculiar fragrance Hut the lower of tile good old varlolle must decide In favor of tbo beat nail sorts After careful examination ex-amination The follago III I better they blossom profusely when much yountor the trusses of bloom are larger the petal are larger and thicker tlio fragrance fra-grance Is I more delicate and Ibo doubling doub-ling ot the flower of some of them give the rich expression and ocn the color of the boil Hyacinth Of Ibo single flowering sorts well tested It Iowa one of tho lost to 1 Charles X II I II a troug growtr has good foliate and its very largo I reddish purple IrusiM aro dclloatidy fragrant Of tin white alnglo arlctlca Maria Lcgrnyni Is I one of tin beat It flowers whet very young and III pure white trunoi are large well formed and very fra grant 01 the double varieties we highly prize the following 1rialdcut Carnot trusses cry largo flower perfectly per-fectly double with n peculiar mixed expression ex-pression ol light blue pink and whlto 1yrkmldaUi bu very large compound cluster that divide Into small runes resembling the light blue hyacinth pike ILl fragrance Is I peculiarly fine Madamt Jules Finger bloom very young trusses very large qulto compact com-pact flower large perfectly double loon Simon only differ from the above In tht color ot Its flower being darker In Its purplo and blue ShAdEs Mom Maxlme Cornu Is 1 mentioned last but In bush leave great trusses of double flower and rich fragrance It is I ono of tile best The only Purpose of these note li I to draw attention to tho remarkable re-markable advance made In Improving this good old ihrub Prof J L Build How rinl OliUIn food Bulletin 48 Utah experiment station It may bo Interesting before wt Oases on the experiment proper to explain In a very general way now a plant obtain Its food The substances which makeup make-up tho ali of the plant the water which It contain and moat of the nitrogen ni-trogen ot tho combustible portion are taken from tho toll and the air through the root while nil the carbon and some of tits nitrogen are taken from HID air by mean of the leave When u plant burn the carbon or charcoal It contain unite with tho oxygen of the Mr to form an Invisible ga usually usual-ly known AI carbonic acid gas Since the burning of charcoal In ono form or another In I always going on at tho earth surface It 1 follows Hint the air we breathe the atmoipkero about its must coulnln considerable quantities of carbonic add gas The great coloring mutter of leave known to scientists as chlorophyll or leufgreen has tho re mnrkablo property when under proper conditions of temperature and moisture moist-ure and In Iho presonee of light of taking tho carbonic add was from tho air nnd of breaking It lip In tbe cell of tile leaf lulu charcoal and I oxygen Tho greater part of the oxygen thus tot free is thrown back Into tile nlmo plicrc whlla the charcoal Is I cauicd lo unite with water and other substances found In tile cell lo furm the various classes at bodies that make up the cqmbuitlblo portion of plant Fighting lInaA good plan for keeping the flit oft the cow nt milking 1 limn fins been suggested It I Ita U > work to n charm and certainly Ito 1 > It-o tits llttlo to try It The niothoi Ito 14 I-to throw n plfcco of cloth nter the cows back at milking time The lolh can ho made out of old cotton lacks and ihould bo large enough to cover tile body very thoroughly falling down behind be-hind over tho tall 10 that tile mem her can not bo switched Into the face of the milker Ux A Kansas Apple Orchard Tho Hart gas apple king Judge Vellhou who baa tile largest npplo orchard In tile worfd eolll his orchard to clover IU soon as they begin bearing nnd twice a year roll the clover down with a hoavyiroller urovjded with knives similar sim-ilar to those ot n stalk cutter The clover clo-ver rcaeed luelf Ux |