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  2. HORTICULTURAL.

    Healthy and vigorous fruit trees that grow well end produce good wood and follage, but do not bear fruit, may be changed in character by grafting upon ...

    Article : 535 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOR.

    Friend: How did you come to know your wife? Mr Sourby: I married her! It is a curious fact that the best patrons of chiropodists are Cornishmen. ...

    Article : 1,609 words
  4. MASHED TURNIPS.

    Peel and boil the turnips, and when quite tender drain and mash them with a fork until free from lumps; add pepper and salt, place in hot vegetable dish and ...

    Article : 545 words
  5. THE ASHANTEES.

    In Ashantee, a country that has now remained in peaceful subjection for over a quarter of a century. Great Britain has again to deal with a race of savages ...

    Article : 925 words
  6. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    The room is cosy, And dark; The curtains away to and fro; In visions rosy I mark ...

    Article : 228 words
  7. ARMY SLANG.

    "Why did you not obey the order?" asked the C.O. "Weil, sir," replied the recruit, "I thought the sergeant was stringing me." ...

    Article : 104 words
  8. WHAT'S IN AN ENGLISH NAME?

    I once loved a maiden so comely, Whose name was Alicia Cholmondeley: But shortly my thoughts and my dreams Were wandering to Wendolin Wemyss. ...

    Article : 126 words
  9. LADIES' GOSSIP.

    This question is a very important one—so important in fact, that the late Mr Ruskin did not disdain to write upon it. Let me quote to you his words upon the ...

    Article : 1,037 words
  10. NOTES.

    Worm casts always abound most on loose soils, and so can be largely prevented by making the lawn very firm with a roller. The casts may be ...

    Article : 406 words
  11. ON THE VELDT.

    From Karee. on the road to Kroonstad, a correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette" writes:—But to return to Karee and our march ...

    Article : 564 words
  12. NURSERY NOTES.

    The notion that a crying baby is a healthy one, like many popular beliefs is true in a measure, but may be dangerously misleading. A baby that never ...

    Article : 424 words
  13. AFTERNOON TEA.

    Salt Beef Sandwiches.—Procure some salt beef, and boil it sufficiently to cook it through, but not to make it stringy. When cold grate the beef, and mix into it ...

    Article : 290 words
  14. KITCHEN GARDEN.

    I feel sure I cannot harp too much on the subject of thinning of crops, for the simple reason that crops, as a rule, are mot thinned to anything like the extent ...

    Article : 231 words
  15. THE FLOWER GARDEN.

    Where new lawns are to be made by sowing seeds, no time should be lost in preparing the site by deeply digging and levelling. Success in obtaining a good ...

    Article : 434 words
  16. SEEDLESS ORANGES.

    Twenty-five years ago there were no seedless, or naval oranges grown. A few oranges were raised in Florida, but the bulk of the supply came from the Mediterranean and the fruit was ...

    Article : 817 words
  17. HOW MELBA BECAME FAMOUS.

    The following interesting story about Madame Melba is from "Massina's Penny Weekly":— When Madame Melba had completed ...

    Article : 570 words
  18. INVALID COOKERY.

    A Light Soup.—Method: Divide and cut up half a calf's foot and half a pound of lean veal; put them in a saucepan with two quarts of water, an onion, six or eight ...

    Article : 511 words
  19. LORD ROBERTS.

    Mr James Barnes, now with the British Army in South Africa, gives in the New York "Outlook' his impressions of "Lord Roberts. and very graphically are they ...

    Article : 523 words
  20. THE BOYS FROM THE BUSH.

    The tele was told by an old rough Boer—a prisoner—the other night. But Britons all over the world will like to hear of the stern-fought fight, ...

    Article : 492 words
  21. THE CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    Gloxinias and begonias previously started should now require to be moved, and this is best done before the leaves become developed. Let the corms be ...

    Article : 545 words
  22. A GOOD PUDDING SAUCE.

    Mix one teaspoonful of arrowroot with a little milk. Put on a quarter of a pint of milk to boil; when boiling, add this to the rest; stir well, and boil gently for ...

    Article : 74 words
  23. USEFUL HINTS.

    Wet clothes should always be changed at the first opportunity. Many serious illnesses begin with a chill, caused by neglect of this precaution. ...

    Article : 453 words
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