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Garden Labels

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
March
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is luid down ai uu axiom that the mere saving by growiug one's own vegetables is not all the proftt. The pleasure of seeing things grow, and the compaiisons which one ia able to uiake between one variety and auother, has a good deal to do with the satisfaction which a well-fcept vegetable garden g:ves. Yet this latter nloas. ore is often lost on account of Indifferenee or carelessness in labeling the varieties when the seeds aiy sown. it is extreinely inortifying to take i friend through tho garden, and when ne admires the particular boan or pea to be unable to remember what they are, vtnd so on all through. Sometimes we find that a piece of chip has beeii Btuck in and pencilled with the name, bilt that is long since Ilegible; or perhapa a tvvig has been ent and' split, and the paper label folded and stuck in, but now milde wed or rotten. For garden labels there s iiotliiiur yet discovered superior to pine sticks cut luto lengtha of aay ten or twelve incites, split tliin, one side shaved with a pocket knlfe, and tb en vory liglitly painted with white lead, and flnnly wiitten on with ;i pencil. Every garden ahould be provided wlth about a bundred of tliesn agninst the spring sowing season, and they Bhonld be kej)t conveniently at hand, so as to be jnst within rcacli when wanted. J'liis is a hint which uKiy geem to ïnanv to beof the over practica] kind. No doubt every body feels that lie "knows tlii.s already." Pcrhaps lie does, but from tlte number wliom we sec negleet it, we feel sure that tlie liint wil! uot be wholly thrown away. Lieutenant Schwetka's scarch party lor the remains of Sir John Franklin'a expeditiou enduied cold wliioh at one Urne feil to 71 below zero. The Iowest degree of natural cold ever obeer ved was, accoiding to Huniboldt, 76 below ero, recorded by Wrange]) as experiencHd by hljn at Yakutsk, Siberia. Sometimes those who have lost aa eye wi 11 keep two or thret artiflcial substances. They will use one for the daylight with a smal] pupil, and another night time with ilaige pupil to offset the dilation. As ozone wlien aliout to condense lias a Mue tint, M. Chappuia thinka tliat tbe azuie of the sky may be due to nzont' in the upper air.

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Ann Arbor Democrat