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Day
15
Month
September
Year
1871
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Public Domain
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A certain nobleman, very prouu óf tho rxtiMit üiiil and beauty 't' nis pli grounds, ohanoing nni: day to cali 011 a small .-i)iirr, whose garden mighi oover 1 1 : i i t' an aere, vas greatly struck with tho brilliant colon -f l" aeigbor's flowers. " Ay, my lord, thé íowers aira freí] enough," siM tibie aquiïe, "Uut perrait mu to show yon my grap -.' Conduoted into an old-fashioned little greon-house, v.i as a vinery, my i with mortilication and cnvy ou grapes fcwice fifi fine as ín own " jVIy deai fri( i . "yon have a jewel Ofa gardener; let nu: scu him ! " The gardeüeï w.is oálled - the singlo gardener - a simplo.-looking youm; nader thirty. " Accept my poiupliinenis on your flower-bed umi grapes," said my lord; and teil int', if } ou c;ui, wliy your i' are so much brightcr thantnine, wad yonr i b finor. Yun mü&t aave lied bortioulture profoundly." "Pleasoyour lords - l tho man, " I liav.; not had th :■ ofmuch i tlurnticm ; I. bei tt'( tto sohi ila :■ : 'r. the flowers and the vinea the tteating theuijust oamo ! m ■■ ■■ you soo, by chance." ■ By chancó? Bxplain." " Well, my lord, t ïnnai me to Luinuni m business of iiis'n ; and it caine on t' rain, Eind I took A'S. VÜU S'.'O." " Vis, y.)ii tooK slit;lt.:r in a i and i ? " " A:i 1 thi ■ i gentle'iB shelter, t'ju ; ftad u ere I liout oharcoal " "Aboul charcoal? Go on." "And one said that it had done i o' goi.nl in many kinds of sickn iss, and ■Uy in Iho first stages of cholera; and [ r.'i'k ft iioü on my mimi of that, becau'se we'd i ■ in our village the year afore; and 1 guessod the two gentieiiion woie doctors, and knew out." ' I dare say theydia; Imr flowersand vinos don't have the cholera, do thej P" " .'-'.i, ni y lord, bul they have complaints of their o-Aii ; aml one of the gentlemen went on to say that charcoal had a special good effect upon :i!i lii',', and tol I a stovy oía vine ■ □ Germany, I think, who had made a very sicklv, poor vineyard one of the lx-st in all parto simply by oharcöal dressing. Sol naturally pricke 1 ir; my eara al that, foi our vines were in go bád a way thai ter thought tt doing away with them altogethér. 'Ay.'said the old gentleman. 1 and sea how. a I i Lnklingof charTllr rain waa n im ir, and the gentlemi o Ift't the mewg; and I thought - 'Well, but before Itrythe oharc al upon my plant-, LM li ist make soms inquiry of them as aren '1 doctors, but gardeners;' -ii I went to our nurseryman, who has a dea.1 ot' book-leantiAg; and asked him if ho'd ever heara of cfiarcoal dressing be■■d for vines ; and he said he had read in a book that it was s. , but had tried it. Ut; kindly leut me the book, which was translated trom some forren one. As 1, after I had picked out of it all I uould, I triü'l the onarcoal in the way the book told me to try it, and that's how the grapes and the flower-beda came to please you, my lord. It's lucky chance that over I heaid those gentlemen talkitig in the mewsi please your lordship." "Chande bapp1 ná tó att,'1 answered the poer, sentcntiousl v : " but to turn chance to account is the gift of few." His lordship returned homo, ■„■ gloomily on the huea of his vast parterres ;he visitedhis vineries, and sooütc(l at the clusters ; hesummoned ' is head gardener- a gentleman öf the hi reputo for scienco, and who ncvcr of a covvslip exoept by lts name in Latín, 'fo t!iis learnéd personage my lord ooramunicated what he had heard and of the benignant effecta of charooal, and produced in proóf a magnificent bunch of grap68( Whioh he had brought i'rom the squire's. " j[y lord,'1 said thi r, scivrcoly glanoing at the grapes, " Squre -'s gardener mnst bo a poor ignorant cvoature to i'íincy he has disoovered a secret in whát is bo well ksown to ovcry professed horticulturist. Professor Jjiebig, my lord, has treated of the good etfeüt of charooal dresaiüg to vines espeoially : and it is to be wtfjlained on these soieiitiñc principies i " therewith the 'wist; man entered into a profound dissertation of vvliieh his lordship did not understaild a word. "Well, then," said the peer, ctttting short the harrangue, "siuco jrou kn ■ woll that charo1 for vines and flowere, have you ever tried it on mineV" "Ii ■ ■,■, , ir.v lord ; it did not dhadee to come into my head." " Nay," replied the peer "chance xiut it into your . ■ mí, but thought never took it ont of your i My lord, who, ifhe1 did not know rauch abput hortieulture, w;is i goo! manMndj disndesed the i of lea and, with uuuy ap ilosies for - rob bis neighbor ot luch a treasnre, the squire to transfer to his sen man of genius. The equire, who thoughl that now the oharooa) bad been once ais1, my new gardener could apply it as wel] as the old ono, was too happy tu obbige my lord, and advamse the fortunes otan i, in i8i fellow born in lus vilbip knew Yery well that a man who.makea goefd use oí thé ideas ! , brough oh ince, would make a still better use of the idoaa reoeived through stuly. Hi: took some kind, but not altogether unselfish, pains with the training and education of the man of genius whuiu 1k had gained to his s The man is nniv my lord'a forester and bailiff. The woods thrive ander him. t!ir farm pays largely. II" and my lord are bothtae richerfor theoonneotion between them. HEe is not the lesa practically taking, (though he nolonger says ■■ i, m't" and "his'n,") nor the Lesafelicitously theoretical, though he no longer ■ ;-i experiment to chance. - E. Bülwbb Lttton, in CaxUmiana; Au immense trado has spnmg up in . in little spi.'ciinriis of the "black bread" of the siego, and in bulleta that have killed tho coiuimr.iisl bakeries are kept in oonstant eznployment in maintaining the bread Bupply, while the importation oflead into th oity has y increased adnee the World wen( baos again to amuse itsêlf on the boulerards. A vagabond who was cfoestionod by the authorities as to his meaos oí support, lately, replied that he wi ft manufacturer oi "sonvemrs." He paased his time in iirint; l; int i briöB and wUing tlwm foï a muio apieoe tifiur■wards.

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