MESEMBRYANTHEMUM.

The mesembryanthemum, usually called ice-plant, is one of the most effective border plants. Nothing can be prettier around a small bed than a thick edging of these sparkling rich green plants, and yet I have never seen it used in this manner except in my own garden. The plants grow larger, more robust, coarser perhaps, when used in this way, but they form an unbroken edge of great richness. Sow the seeds in the house and transplant when danger of frost is over; shade for a few days from sun and wind, and do not let the ground dry out about the roots until the plants have started into growth again; after that an occasional watering is all they require. Treated in this fashion they grow riotously and yield a wealth of beautiful, cool looking foliage for bouquets and all kinds of cut flower work, which has the additional merit of keeping fresh a long time even under unfavorable circumstances. One can pick long sprays of this pretty greenery without it being missed from the plants in the least. A low glass dish filled with ice-plant, the sprays drooping over the edges gracefully, and a few pale pink flowers peeping out between the leaves, is an exceedingly pretty center-piece for the dinner table. In putting out the plants set them about ten inches apart.

Mrs. S. H. Snider.

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“SANITAS.”

Unfermented, CONCENTRATED and Pure

JUICE OF THE GRAPE.

THE PHYSICIAN’S AID.

Our mission is solely to supply Nature’s own pure food. It is the mission of the physician, who understands his patient’s needs, to supply the medicine. Our reason for offering this product to the public, to you, is that it is pure. There is need of such an article of grape juice. We have the testimony of hundreds of letters to prove the assertion. Nearly all the bottled juice now on the market contains an antiseptic of some description to prevent fermentation, generally salicylic acid. Why does such juice fail as a food? Simply because the antiseptic principle that preserves the juice in the bottle exerts a similar influence in the stomach, and prevents the natural action that is part of Nature’s plan for assimilating food. Our concentrated juice of the grape is absolutely free from all antiseptics, and is Nature’s best food and strength producer for weak and defective digestive organs.

Invalids will, of course, seek the advice of their physicians as to the proper time or quantity, but well people may partake freely, and know that the certainty of gain far overshadows the possibilities of excess.

THE CONSUMER’S SUPPORT.

The grape cure has been found in many cases to rapidly reorganize and reconstruct the blood current, and to surprise the tissues and excite the nervous system into health. The beverage form of grape juice is an agreeable and wholesome nutrient in a great variety of sicknesses. Its fruit acids, its blood salts and its grape sugar make it a valuable medicine. It affords a nourishing and easily managed food for dyspeptics of many kinds. We seek to supplant alcoholic and fermented drinks by something more wholesome, more satisfying and refreshing—something embodying all the best principles of ripe grapes marred by nothing that would falsely stimulate or excite, and in the new era that is dawning, the life-giving principles of the grape, in their purest condition, will enter every home as a comfort and a blessing, instead of a delusion and a snare.

Its sub-acid taste and easiness of assimilation give it a high value in fevers of every sort. Its concentration, keeping qualities and palatability give it certain advantages over the beverage form. It is agreeably administered in aerated water or hot or cold water.

Two varieties of our concentrated juice suitable for redilution with any aerated, carbonated or pure cold water are bottled under our labels—i.e., Red, Zinfandel, White, Muscatel.

Sold only in pint bottles, the contents of which are equal to one-half gallon of fresh grape juice. Price, 65 cents per bottle. For sale by leading druggists and grocers. Send for descriptive circular.

THE CALIFORNIA GRAPE FOOD CO.

145 Broadway, New York.
J. S. Twombly, Selling Agent, 27 Commercial St., Boston.

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