. The Forfar Directory and Yearbook 1900. He takes care, before the budsare much sweUed, to prune apricots, peaches,nectarines, and plums, and also apples, pears,cherries, gooseberries, currants, and ra^pberriesbefore the end of the month. It is to be notedthat pruning after vegetation has commenced, except summer pruning, is not to be thought the flower garden, if the weather be fine, heplants dried roots. In the last week of the monthhe sows mignonette and hardy annuals in a warmborder for subsequent transplanting. Creeperswith drooping flowers are trained by him hori-zontally, whilst
. The Forfar Directory and Yearbook 1900. He takes care, before the budsare much sweUed, to prune apricots, peaches,nectarines, and plums, and also apples, pears,cherries, gooseberries, currants, and ra^pberriesbefore the end of the month. It is to be notedthat pruning after vegetation has commenced, except summer pruning, is not to be thought the flower garden, if the weather be fine, heplants dried roots. In the last week of the monthhe sows mignonette and hardy annuals in a warmborder for subsequent transplanting. Creeperswith drooping flowers are trained by him hori-zontally, whilst roses and others are trained up-right. He pricks over the soil in shrubberiesand between evergreens, and dresses it with,niamue if required. His attention is given tothe edging, which he renews. He also keeps,the gravel walk in order, and sweeps and mowsand rolls the grass. Wall trees should be pro-tected when the buds begin to swell, during theprevalence of east wind. 2ncl The masters eye 7nakes the horse fat. [28 SUDDEN DEATH OF PRESIDENT FAURE. How to Converse Agreeably. lEELL me, pleaded the artless maid,wherein lies the secret of the art ofconversation ? The sage assumed the attitude he was wont toassume when in the act of imparting wisdom,and said— My child, listen ! I aTi listening ! breathlessly she , my child, he rejoined, that is allthere is in the art of Conversing agreeably. igoo is Not a Leap Year. Contrary to the general rule that years whosenumbers can be divided by four are leap years,the year igoo is not one. A little explanation will make it clear whythis is so. The old Roman calendar, with itskalends, nOnes, ides, and intercalaries, was al-most as cumbersome and puzzling as the Chinesealphabet, and it seems strange so enlightened apeople could have retained it so long. But inthe time of Julius Caesar the year had got aboutthree months out of place, and he made the year47 —called the year of confusion—445 dayslong,
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