iform success, and the cions of some of
them were vigorous a year after being set. Even iresine (better known
as _Achyranthes Verschaffeltii_) united with coleus and grew for a
time. Zonale geraniums bloomed upon the common rose geranium. Tomatoes
upon potatoes and potatoes upon tomatoes grew well and were
transplanted to the open ground, where they grew, flowered and fruited
until killed by frost. The tomato-on-potato plants bore good tomatoes
above and good potatoes beneath, even though no sprouts from the
potato stock were allowed to grow. Peppers united with tomatoes and
tomatoes united with peppers. Egg plants, tomatoes and peppers grew
upon the European husk tomato or alkekengi (_Physalis Alkekengi_).
Peppers and egg plants united with each other reciprocally. A coleus
cion was placed upon a tomato plant and was simply bound with raffia.
The cion remained green and healthy, and at the end of forty-eight
days the bandage was removed, but it was found that no union had taken
place. Ageratums united upon each other with difficulty.
Chrysanthemums united readily. A bean plant, bearing two partially
grown beans, chanced to grow in a chrysanthemum pot. The stem bearing
the pods was inarched into the chrysanthemum. Union took place
readily, but the beans turned yellow and died. Pumpkin vines united
with squash vines, cucumbers with cucumbers, muskmelons with
watermelons, and muskmelons, watermelons and cucumbers with the wild
cucumber or balsam apple (_Echinocystis lobata_).

Another interesting feature of the work was the grafting of one fruit
upon another, as a tomato fruit upon a tomato fruit or a cucumber upon
another cucumber. This work is still under progress and it promises
some interesting results in a new and unexpected direction, reports of
which may be expected later.--_Cornell Station Bulletin_.

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A HUMOROUS HEALTH OFFICER.

The Michigan State Board of Health recently took Health Officer Davis,
of Close Village, to task for failing to send in his weekly reports.
His reply was unique. He says: "There has not been enough sickness
here the last two or three years to do much good. The physicians find
time to go to Milwaukee on excursions, serve as jurors in justice
courts, sit around on drygoods boxes, and beg tobacco, chew gum, and
swap lies. A few sporadic cases of measles have existed, but they were
treated mostly by old women, and no deaths occurred. There