American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . lishments to the slight inconvenience of by-standers. The public appeal having failed tobring the desired response, or as a personal fa-vor, No. 9 is offered at private sale, and at abargain. Well, I tell you what, Mister, therois one great beauty about that boss—an that is,lies all The portraits already givenwould be incomplete without those on eitherside of the central picture, Nos. 5 and 0. The poor horse endures this old age of suffer-ing and toil because his value is solely in hislabor. In Europe, the societies for pr
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . lishments to the slight inconvenience of by-standers. The public appeal having failed tobring the desired response, or as a personal fa-vor, No. 9 is offered at private sale, and at abargain. Well, I tell you what, Mister, therois one great beauty about that boss—an that is,lies all The portraits already givenwould be incomplete without those on eitherside of the central picture, Nos. 5 and 0. The poor horse endures this old age of suffer-ing and toil because his value is solely in hislabor. In Europe, the societies for preventingcruelly to animals have for years been endeav-oring to remedy this evil, by encouraging theconsumption of horse flesh as food. This isnow so far on the increase in some Europeancities, that it really seems as if there might be amarket for the flesh of old horses. It is saidthat old, well-fattened animals are much ten-derer and better than young ones, and thereis really no reason, except in our prejudices,why we who eat swine might not eat AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 259 Beautiful Foliage Plants.—Begonias. The old Begonia fuchaiokhs andi?. incarnatahave long been prized by cultivators for theirflowers, and they still remain among the favor-ite tenants of the green-house. It is com-paratively recently that a set has been in-troduced, -which are valued more for thebeauty of their foliage than that of theirflowers. The first notable one of this kindwas Begonia Rex, with its enormous leavesof rich green, with a broad silver of the first plants of this sent to thiscountry came,from Kewto Cambridge, andwe well recollect the pride with whichDoct. Gray placed the plant in a properlight, to show its beauty, and our astonish-ment that a leaf could be so was our astonishment to find thatthis plant could be propagated from theleaf, and that from a leaf planted in a pota dozen plants would spring up. But allthis was years ago; now leaf propagation i
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