... bages do best in rather firm ground and will heart quicker. It is best to plant in dri Us. Plant plenty of salading, including endives, corn salad, lettuces, radishes, mustard and cress. The three last may be sown now on the sou h border. if well broken ...

... to buy safety pins for the baby. Baby ? Nonsense cried an older girl at the same counter. You're green enough to make a, salad of. Why, that man bought those safetv uins for his own use. Men use them in many ways. First they put one through the top of ...

... Drink is certainly the most powerful pre- disposing cause of the development of the symp- toms of sunstroke. Hints- TOMATO SALAD.—Twelve smooth-skinned, round tomatoes, cut in slices, two eggs hard. boiled (rub the yolks to a smooth jiaste, cut the white ...

... richly-cut coloured glass bottles, 4 cases of fish carvers and forks, several magnificent epergnes, with cut glass dishes, salad stands, centre pieces, candelabras, water and claret jugs of the most elegant shapes, egg frames with cups and spoons, sauce ...

... manure will be found of very great assistance. This should be given in the spring, and the ground intended for the summer salad crops made ready at the same time. It will be found that animal manure is a far better manure for succulent crops than artificials ...

... Farringdon- road costers in their appeal from the magisterial decision recently pronounced against them. A new garniture for salad has been found in the chrysanthemum flower. It can be served raw or cooked. The Japanese way is to boil it with a clove, and ...

... only grow such as will seil readily in your immediate neigh- bourhood. Where there are hotels doing a large summer business salading pays well as a rule, but in rural districts geaerally one has to use his own skill and judgment in selecting what to grow ...

... the tesalt was charming. AOBTrc With Hints en Poultry and Stick. By COUNTRY COUSIN. Beet Culture. Beetroot is an excellent salad vegetable, and should be grown in every garden. It must be remembered that beetroot js only half-hardy, con- sequently early ...

... upapartfbf the stock of roots of chicory; they will come in useful by-and-bye should any thing befall the lettuce or endive. Small salads, suoh as mustard and cress, should be sown under glass now. Take up the lettuces, or most of them which are full grown, and ...

... moisten the ground some hours pre. vious to sowing, and after the seeds are in shade. For instance, for a regular supply of salading, select a cool, shady piece of land, thoroughly moisten, stirring it about with the fork while applying the water. Leave ...

... or cucumber growing, has been dealt with in previ- ous notes in this column. Salad Plants: Chicory. Although chicory is well known to be.a pala- table and wholesome salad, it does not appear to be grown to any great extent in English, gardens generally ...

... sometimes happens when plants have to be kept through the winter. Melon and cucumber- beds will come in very useful for winter salads after the melons and cucumbers have been cleared off. Fork over the soil and expose it by taking off the lights to get it ...