If lime-sulphur is determined upon, the home-made article may be used, or the commercial lime-sulphur solutions may be used, in which case they should be diluted with water, in the proportion of one gallon of the commercial lime-sulphur to not more than ten gallons of water.  The application should be made thoroughly, so that every bit of the bark of trunk and limbs is covered with the spray.

If miscible oil is used, I would recommend using one gallon of the oil to each nineteen gallons of water.  Hard or alkaline waters should be avoided, as sometimes the oil will not make a good emulsion with them.  Use soft water, if possible.—­C.P.  Gillette, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station.

The Horticulturist as King.

C. S. HARRISON, NURSERYMAN, YORK, NEB.

Some of the promises regarding our future stagger us with their vastness.  “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my throne.”  But how is it down here?  Thou “crownest him with riches and honor.”  Thou hast “put all things under his feet.”  Unto fields where feet of angels come not we are chosen as partners of the Heavenly Father to make this a more fruitful and beautiful world.

In our life work much depends on our attitude regarding our calling.  We can plod like an ox, or like Markham’s semi-brute man with the hoe, and make that the badge of servitude to toil, or we can make it a wand in a magician’s hand to call forth radiant forms of beauty from the somber earth to smile upon us and load the air with fragrance.  We can live down in the basement of horticulture or in the upper story.

Man is coming to his own.  The savage trembled at the lightning stroke which shivered the mighty oak.  Little knew he that here was a giant at play waiting to be tamed and harnessed so he could be the most obedient servant—­ready at the master’s beck to leap a continent, dive under the ocean, draw heavy trains, and run acres of machinery.  Man reaches out his wand, and steam, gas, and oil rise up to do his will.

If, with the advance of civilization, he wants beautiful things to adorn person or home, he finds subterranean gardens of precious gems almost priceless in value—­gems that are immortals, flowers that never fade, prophets all of the “glory to be revealed.”

You have heard of the marvelous Persian garden of gems—­four hundred feet in length and ninety feet wide—­made to imitate the most beautiful blooms of earth.  It cost millions upon millions.  Do you know that it is in your power, with the advance of floriculture, to create gardens far more resplendent in beauty—­great gardens of delight fit for the touch of angel’s feet, while the whole is flooded with billows of sweetest perfume?  Three years ago that was a patch of barren earth; now you have pulled down a section of paradise upon it and condensed there the tints of the morning, the splendors of the evening, the beauty of the rainbow, and the effulgence which flames in the mantles of the suns.