ie and Pearl. I am eleven
years old.

ANNA W. C.

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I have a few specimens of trees arranged according to the
directions given in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 31. I would like to exchange
them with some little girl living in any locality except San
Francisco.

As I live in the city, I do not have many opportunities to get
specimens, but when I do go to the country I make good use of my
time, and in spite of being very much afraid of cows, snakes, and
lizards, I sometimes venture in pretty wild places for good
specimens.

This year we went out to Napa Valley with a friend, who drove us
all over the valley. We saw hundreds and hundreds of acres of
vineyards, and passed lots of places where they were laying out
more.

I am an only child, and I have no pets now except my flowers and
dolls, and my own lovely piano.

IDA BELLE DISERENS,
734 Grove Street, San Francisco, California.

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I would like to exchange pressed flowers with some little girl,
and when the seeds are ripe I will exchange seeds. I have some
nice flowering beans, and different kinds of larkspurs. I will
exchange larkspur seed for pink seed. There are many varieties of
ferns here.

Can any one tell me how to varnish leaves, and also if there is
any way to keep pressed flowers from fading?

MARY LOWRY,
Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Illinois.

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As a great many of the other little girls write to Our Post-office
Box, I thought I would write too. Papa takes YOUNG PEOPLE, and we
children like it very much. I guess he does too.

I have no pets, but my older sister has a pet calf, and it is very
pretty. Its name is Lily May. She feeds it on meal and water. I
have three dolls. Two are china, and one is a large wax doll, with
beautiful brown hair.

I would like to exchange pressed flowers with any little girl.

SALLIE M. BROWN,
London, Kentucky.

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Since my letter was published in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 33, I have
received so many letters from different States--several of them
accompanied with eggs--that it is impossible for me to answer them
all promptly. I wish to tell the correspondents, through the
Post-offi