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  2. MINING

    The treatment of pyrites is a subject at once wide and comprehensive, Pyrites is the name given by mineralogists to designate a large group of minerals, compounds of metals with sulphur or with arsenic, or ...

    Article : 2,058 words
  3. HORTICULTURAL

    Perhaps no class of plants tends so much to embellish our flower gardens as the Petunia, and the nearer the species or varieties approach to the wild condition the more powerful is their perfume. The common white variety is well known ...

    Article : 716 words
  4. A Large Apple Orchard.

    An American correspondent of the Garden, writing from the State of New York, says:—There is in this district an orchard of 25,000 apple trees, and we have other very large orchards in New York State which I could name; and there ...

    Article : 279 words
  5. Half Barrels for Hen's Nests.

    "The engraving shows one-half of a salt barrel, which is to be notched as indicated. I find this form very useful as nests for laying or setting fowls. They may be packed away snugly, and are cleaned so readily, that farmers will ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 230 words
  6. Billy's Lookout.

    The new rush is not very lively, but numbers of the miners ate resolved to make the beat of a poor show and to trust a little to future discoveries. Whether this place, as a whole, can be thus termed "a poor show" is a matter of ...

    Article : 2,933 words
  7. The Pansy.

    The sowing of the seed of this popular plant is not well understood by amateurs, or even by professionals in this colony. If an old bod that has contained Pansies is neatly forked up and watered in the autumn, we ...

    Article : 412 words
  8. A Convenient Garden Tool.

    "Every one who does much work in the garden (writes "Eben E. Rexford" in the American Agriculturist) knows that one of the most convenient tools he uses is the hoe. More work, better work, and a greater variety of it can be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 456 words
  9. Garden Notes.

    Those who grow sage often know to their cost the difficulty of keeping it after a continuance of dry weather succeeded by a lew days' rain. In lowlying bottoms after such weather, the plants will die off one after the other ...

    Article : 784 words
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