Editor's Portfolio.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS., FEBRUARY, 1897.

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THE GARDEN OF PEACE.

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING for the present month has sampled generously the more notable recently published books in its particular field. The garden is so much and so truly and rightly a part of the home in its best sense, that no apology will be asked for the liberal extracts given from "The Garden of Peace" —what all gardens should be, by the way. It would seem an impossibility that anyone reading of this "Garden of Peace" should not feel impelled to cultivate something quite in the same line; and let us hope that to all there may come an equal measure of success and enjoyment.

"Miss Hetty's Surprise" is the title of a story which will elicit more than usual interest, and is certain to be doubly pleasing on the ground of "ending well." It is from the pen of Addie S. Chenoweth, and has the sparkling New England flavor, which most readers enjoy. Its opening deals with the semimonthly of the Highfield sewing-society; but later on the heroine-or one of the heroines-drives away in the evening dusk with Farmer Ladd on a mission of mercy which develops an occasion of joy.

The world-wide fame of the Boston Cooking School will give universal interest to the article which presents generous extracts from the cookbook

recently sent forth by the talented principal of that school. Quite a few of the recipes in which the volume is so rich are given, and many readers will be glad to make trial of some of them, in the interest of their own tables.

Then in compact form, we have an illustrated description of "A Handsome Rug for Baby's Use," which is contributed by Frances H. Perry, and certainly looks very attractive in the picture.

The article in the "Household Insects" series deals with "Clothes Moths," always an interesting subject to the housewife-especially when "at her wits' end" in dealing with the pests.

Maria E. Chandler contributes the sixth paper in her series on "Practical Cooking," quoting from her "cookbook in manuscript," and the instructions, with the accompanying recipes, will be found very helpful.

There is another paper in "The Table" series, by Mrs. Arthur Stanley. This relates to "Dainty and Delicacy," and in addition to some practical suggestions contributes a generous quota of recipes.

"My Neighbor Over the Way," by Martha Dean, tells of a small woman who accomplishes a great deal without being over busy, largely because she is economical and systematic.

A new and bright evening entertainment is described by Florence H. Harkins, and is designated "The Game of 'Points.""

There is the usual wealth in the departments, an attractive Anagram, and in every way a good and helpful "feast," touching about all sides and phases of the home life.

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The original verse is led by the frontispiece, Living Pictures," by Clark W. Bryan, followed by "The Queen of Home," by Harriet M. Bolman. Sprinkled through the pages will be found: "The Brook of Truth," by Laura Dunbar; "Storm and Sunshine," by Maria B. H. Hazen; "Go Thy Way," by Clark W. Bryan; "How to Polish Silver," by Margaret Prescott; "Winter," by M. K. Sherman ; "In Meditation," by John Wentworth; and "At the End of Life's Journey," by Clark W. Bryan.

PAUL AT ATHENS.

Greece hear that joyful sound,

A stranger's voice upon thy sacred hill,

Whose tones shall bid the slumbering nations round

Wake with convulsive thrill.

Athenians gather there; he brings you words
Brighter than all your boasted lore affords.

He brings you news of One

Above Olympian Jove; One in whose light
Your gods shall fade like stars before the sun;
On your bewildered night

That unknown God, of whom ye darkly dream,
In all his burning radiance shall beam.

Behold, he bids you rise

From your dark worship at that idol shrine;
He points to Him who reared your starry skies,
And bade your Phœbus shine.

Lift up your souls from where in dust you bow;
The God of gods commands your homage now.
But brighter tidings still!

He tells of One whose precious blood was spilt
In lavish streams upon Judea's hill,

A ransom for your guilt;

Who triumphed o'er the grave and broke its chain;
Who conquered death and hell, and rose again.

Sages of Greece! come near--
Spirits of daring thought and giant mold.
Ye questioners of Time and Nature, hear
Mysteries before untold!

Immortal life revealed! light for which ye
Have tasked in vain your proud philosphy.

Searchers for some first cause

'Mid doubt and darkness-lo! he points to One Where all your vaunted reason, lost, must pause, And faint to think upon

That was from everlasting, that shall be
To everlasting still, eternally.

Ye followers of Him

Who deemed his soul a spark of Deity!

Your fancies fade, your master's dreams grow dim To this reality.

Stoic! unbend that brow, drink in that sound!
Sceptic dispel those doubts, the Truth is found.

Greece though thy sculptured walls
Have with thy triumphs and thy glories rung,
And through thy temples and thy pillared halls

Immortal poets sung,

No sounds like these have rent your startled air; They open realms of light, and bid you enter there.

-Anne C. Lynch.

JESUS WALKING ON THE SEA. Though Heaven above be dark, And ocean stormy, still his love and might Are with the inmates of that little bark; And, in the fourth watch of that fearful night, A Heavenly form, arrayed in vestments bright,

Treads with unfaltering feet the billowy tide,
The moon has risen, and sheds her silvery light
Full on that form, which towards them seems to glide
As if the winds to chain, and all their fears to chide.

Can it be human? One of mortal mold
Could walk not thus the waves in majesty.

Fear strikes the timid, awe o'ercomes the bold,

As, underneath that shadowy, moonlit sky,
The glorious vision silently draws nigh,
Shining more brightly from surrounding shade.
"It is a spirit!" in their fear they cry.

Soon does their Master's voice those fears upbraid;
"Be of good cheer," he says; "'tis I: be not afraid."

Peter goes forth to meet him; but the sound
E'en of the sinking tempest's lingering breath,
The clouds of night yet darkly hovering round,
The parting waves his only path beneath,
Recall to him but images of death,

And fear had sunk him; but, with outstretched hand,
His Lord exclaims. "O thou of little faith!
Why didst thou doubt?" His hope and faith expand,
And by his Master's side he walks as on dry land.
-Barton.

TEMPLE OF DIANA.

And where stands Ephesus, in days gone by
Pride of the East, Ionia's radiant eye,
Boasting the shrine to famed Diana reared,
Earth's wonder called, that myriad hearts revered?
No street we tread, but climb a grass-grown mound-
What is this Ephesus that moulders round?
The embattled walls that swept o'er Lepre's side,
To shapeless ruin crushed, have stooped their pride;
Where stood that early church Paul loved so well,
No cross, no tomb, no stone remains to tell.
Diana's fane that, glassed in depths below,
From bronze and silver cast a starry glow,
With statues, colonnades, and courts apart,
And porphyry pillars, each the pride of art-
Have Time's stern scythe, man's rage, and flood and fire,
Left naught for curious pilgrims to admire?

A few poor footsteps now may cross the shrine,
Cell, long arcade, high altar, all supine;
Bound with thick ivy, broken columns lie,
Through low rent arches winds of evening sigh.

Rough brambles choke the vaults where gold was stored,
And toads spit venom forth where priests adored.

Publishers Desk.

FEBRUARY, 1897.

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NEW PLANTS FOR THE GARDEN. Among the new plants prominently offered this season are a few which are here briefly described. The sweet pea, Bride of Niagara, which was sent out last year is now offered more confidently than before. It appears that with the great care that is being taken to breed this sweet pea up to a high standard, it advances rapidly to an ideal form. The plant is a strong grower and prolific of bloom. The proportion of double flowers produced is now very large. As to their beauty there is no question. Everyone who sees them is delighted with them, as they are far more showy than flowers of the common form. The double flowers have two, and frequently three, large showy, rosy banners contrasting with its white keel and wings. Even the single flowers of Bride of Niagara are larger than the blooms of most other varieties. They are sweet and beautiful. The Flowering Pea Bush, Desmodium penduliflorum is a shrub which grows to a height of four or five feet, sending up great numbers of thin, flexible stems, which from August until frost comes are almost literally covered with pretty rosy purple, pea-shaped flowers. The stems droop over giving the plant a very graceful appearance. The fact of the bloom appearing late in the season gives additional value to the plant, for at that time there is a great dearth of blooming shrubs. It is entirely hardy and will be greatly enjoyed and appreciated as soon as it becomes known.

A handsome, hardy perennial plant is offered in a new yellow, or orange colored Day Lily, Hemerocallis aurantiacu major. This is a Japanese introduction, and is a plant which will be greatly admired. The yellow Day Lily has always been a favorite, and this new variety will be even more pleasing with its great bell-shaped lily emitting a most delicious perfume. The plant produces a great number of flowers during its season of bloom. For the enrichment of the fruit garden there has been no acquisition for years equal in value to the new variety of blackberry called the Rathbun. It has many points of excellence. First, the fruit is very large. The Erie blackberry has been considered one of the largest sized berries

but a comparison was made last summer of the Erie with the Rathbun taking a quart strawberry basket full of each, just as they were picked for market. The basket of the Eries contained 164 berries, while that of the Rathbun was filled and rounded up in the same manner as the other with forty-five berries. The quality of the fruit excels that of any other known variety either of blackberry or dewberry. It is without any hard core, being soft and sweet throughout. It is jet black in color, shining as if varnished, and retains its color and fine appearance to the last. The plant is remarkably productive and has proved to be one of the hardiest in cultivation.

SWEET PEA, "NEW COUNTESS." This is an improvement on the Countess of Radnor, the shading being of the delicate lavender, but entirely free from any pinkish tinge; for corsage bouquets and cut flower decorations where a soft, subdued coloring is desired it is one of the very finest varieties.

SWEET PEA, "GOLDEN GATE." The flowers of this variety are quite distinct from any other Sweet Pea, the novel feature being in the shape of the wings or lower petals of the flower, which stand upright in two parallel rolls like the ears of a rabbit. The coloring is a beautiful shade of soft mauve and the plants are very floriferous.

SOME GOOD THINGS IN FLOWERS. THE THREE MOST POPULAR FLOWERS grown from seed are, Sweet Peas, Nasturtiums and Pansies. They grow and thrive everywhere, and the coming season will see many beds of these so-called oldfashioned favorites of our grandmothers' gardens, grown from seed. All annuals, profuse bloomers, fragrant and attractive, and such an assortment of shapes and colors that will be attractive to the most fastidious eye. Few flowers impart such rich bits of beauty to the garden as the different types of Nasturtiums, Pansies and Sweet Peas. They are easily grown and will give a beautiful show of flowers throughout the summer. No other flower grown out of doors will give the variety of colorings, combined with fragrance, that the Sweet Pea does, and no other annual is so popular and it is one of the

few flowers that never goes out of fashion.

Some of the newest varieties to be grown this year are the Apple Blossom, Blushing Beauty, Bronze King, Firefly, Gaiety, Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, Venus, Waverly, and that ever popular variety called the Miss Blanche Ferry, which blooms a week or ten days earlier than any other variety.

Next to Sweet Peas, the Nasturtium is a popular favorite. It begins to blossom early in summer and lasts long after the first frost. It is because of their persistent habit of blooming, the profusion of their bright, cheerful flowers, their hardy, healthy nature and comparative indifference to soils and situations. Both the Dwarf and Tall or

Climbing kinds are now to be found in colorings as beautiful and delicate as are offered by any other race of annuals.

Pansies are everybody's favorites. There is no flower capable of adapting itself to our varied climate that can be more truly called an "Ever-blooming " flower, showing buds and often open blossoms amid the rigors of winter, and the improved varieties now offered by the leading seed houses are of neat and compact growth (not straggling like the old kinds) and the flowers produced from these special strains, such as Royal Show, Giant Yellow Prince, Fire King, Snow Queen, Meteor, Peacock, Imperial German, Emperor Frederick, Black Prince, Giant Paris and new Red shades, surpass any others for fine form, good substance, velvety richness and choice variety of colorings, while their size is all that can be wished for in Pansy flowers of good keeping qualities.

There is also the Sweet Scented Pansy, a new class,the result of crossing the Pansy (Viola tricolor) with the Sweet Violet (Viola Cornuta). The resulting hybrids, in addition to retaining the delightful Violet perfume, produce the most beautiful Pansy-like blossoms in an endless variety of colors.

Another candidate for popular favor is the new Centaurea Marguerite, the most fragrant and longest keeping cut flower, and one of the most valuable introductions of late years. This novelty is entirely distinct from all other Centaureas, and undoubtedly the most beautiful variety known.

The handsomest climber in cultivation is the New Imperial Japanese Morning Glory. The colors of the flowers, shadings and markings are limitless, and are really wonders of Nature of such incomparable beauty that a description is inadequate.

If you have not already secured the different seed books and catalogues, do so at once. One of the handsomest publications, devoted exclusively to flowers from seed, by the Pioneer Seedswoman, Miss C. H. Lippincott, of Minneapolis, Minn., is free for the asking.

Try a few of the easily grown, popular varieties the coming season, and the exquisite delight of seeing a bed of flowers of your own raising and thoroughly good, will be apt to inspire a real ambition, and lay the foundation for future success with more difficult flowers.

C. H. LIPPINCOTT.

THE BEST NEW PLANTS AND FLOWERS.

The number of our novelties is this year much smaller than usual. We have found that a few really good things are better appreciated by our customers than a long list of inferior plants, and consequently the rule of rigid selection has been observed in our grounds and greenhouses at Floral Park, N. Y., more strictly than ever before.

Gladiolus Childsi, that magnificent new type which we first introduced a few years ago, is represented by thirteen distinct new kinds, selected from thousands of seedlings as follows: Norma Dee Childs, white, rose and yellow; Falconer's Favorite, bright red; Middleboro, pink, rose and carmine; Exquisite, pure white and magenta; Blue Danube, pale blue, carmine and white; Erie, carmine and yellow; Gracilis, deep red and blue; Marginata, salmon, crimson, white and blue; Elaborate, deep red, purple and white; Ethel, rose, white and crimson; Adolph Glose, blue, crimson and white; Hohokus, crimson and magenta; old Oxford, salmon, blue, crimson and white.

Next in order of merit must be placed Rudbeckia