Fuchsias

Every spot around one's home ought to be beautifted. No matter if it is a house built of logs or stone y on cali home, you cannot make it too beautif ui, If yours is a log cabin, cover it with vines, anti make it the dearest and most beautiful spot on earth. Floweis have a refining influence, and are elevating to our thoughts, and should be cultivated, if only a few, by every mother in the land. They are indeed the stars of the earth. A reader has asked me to teach her how to treat fuchsias. I dearly love this flower, and I think that they will find a place in the affectionsof any one wlio prows them. So I will begin by telling how I am doing at this season of the year wiih my plants. Several weeks ago I made slips of all the new growth and rooted them in sand, then I put in t wo-inch pots and they are gro w ing nicely. As soon as all danger of f rost is past, I shall prepare a bed close Co the north side of the house in the shade; they do not need much sun, indeed tney must be protected from it during the hottest part of the day. L'heii I will shift my plants into fourincli pots, or sooner if need be, and siiik the pots a little below the level of the soil in the beds prepared for iht-m. Il not well sheltered from the wind, you had beter build alathfence about two (eet high aiound the plants; thiough the hot, dry weather. they should have ft tiood sprinkling with water about three evenings in eaeh week. They will begin to bloom as soon as thpy have had time to make the bwát, and " if carefullv lifted in the Fitll will continue to bloom until Cbristtnas, arnl such VRtietieS as Specoisa and Lustre, much loncer. VVhen v cew flowtriBg, and the leaves begin to turn yellow and dropofE.they sbouid have tlieir annual rest. Gradually quit watering them and set the plant3 down cellar, andonly give them enough water to prevent their drying out entirely. In about six or eight weeks you in.iy briDg thetn out again, iml tliey will need repotting aud given somt! stimuhtnts in the shape of liquiil nianuit', wlien new growth will s on htart and the planta may be treated the sau-e a3 they were the year before. The fucbs. inakes a splendid pot plant, and may be pruned to any deaired shape. When the little plant attains a height of eight or ten inches pinch out tbe center, and in place of one there will be threeorfour branches grow out. Let these branches make about she same growth, then clip the points out, keeping the sdde branches of equal length or tapering like a pyrOr you can clip off all Ihe lower linabs and allow the upper ones to droop over, as they are sure to do wl-.en loaded tlowera, and you form a hundsome umbieJla. I think Specois i is the best variety l'or this purpose. Get some iron lilings or 'scalts of iion from a-ound a blacksmitli'sanvil and woik among the soil, and it will cause your ilowe:sto grow vigorously, and bring aniplleof liiofm. - tíard ners' ZIonthly. By plunging a sheet of paper into an ainmoniacal solution of copper for an instant, then passing it between two cylinders and drying it, it is rendered entirely impermeable to water, and may even be boiled without disintegrating. Two, tluee, or any number of sheets rolled together become permanently adherent, and form a material having the strensrth of wood. By the tion of eloth or any kind of flbre between the layers the strength is greatly increased. A little fellow, who knew Mother Goose better tb.an he knew his Bible was asked in his class, " Who were throw into the fiery f urnace ?" This was too much for him. The question was passed. The answer carne promptly, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. This was a mortification to the little fellow; and when the next question eame, "Who put thern in?" he answered, witliajump, "Little Johnny Green!' When the inscription on a coin is illegible, heat it gradually as hot as it will bear. and the letters will come out quite plainly.