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When it came I found it filled with partridge berry vines - moss (green and trumpet) evergreens, a little pine tree, a mayflower plant with birds all set and some checkerberry plants. They were extremely pretty. I gave Mrs. Pettengill some, Miss Bessey and Miss Garland - They all have small, closed jars of them. Then I fixed up a good-sized jar and two bottles for myself, and a jar for the kitchen, and yet I have enough left for at least one more. Did I tell you I had some paper-white narcissi started too? I also have a Madonna lily, but I am not sure it is going to thrive.

I started to tear the October ship off the calendar in the kitchen to-day, and found it stuck. I pried it off, however, thinking it was attached to the other by glue on the edge, and was surprised to find a worm between the leaves. It looked like a corn borer I thought we had been careful to destroy all