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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



and changes from month to month will 

 be of absorbing" interest and will 

 greatly increase your pleasure. Most 

 pei sons can understand a reader's in- 

 terest in any daily paper, because they 

 can compare it with their own interest 

 in the daily paper at home. lint a 

 magazine devoted to nature has not 

 that comparative merit. If you are 

 ignorant of all nature, you might as 

 well try to understand what the peo- 

 ple on Mars are doing as to compre- 

 hend the magazine's attraction. Every 

 one who is not familiar with nature is 

 always puzzled to know why nature 

 students and lovers are interested in 

 "such things," and every one who has 

 received The Divine fire is puzzled be- 

 yond the power of words to express, to 

 understand why everv one else does 

 not show a similar enthusiastic inter- 

 est. It may sound like a "bull," but 

 the fact remains that we are interested 

 in the things that interest us, and if 

 we want to take an interest in things 

 we must get interested in them. 



"Big Tree" Tomato Vines in Glenbrook 



In Mr. A. H. Emery's laboratory for 

 testing-machines, etc., at Glenbrook, 

 'Connecticut, two workmen, Messrs. 

 Elliott and Donahuh, are shown in the 

 accompanying illustrations in the act 

 of picking a tomato from a vine of the 

 Ponderosa variety, that is fourteen feel 

 in height. It will be observed that the 

 man at the left is holding a pole ten 

 feet in length from his right hand up- 

 ward, and clasped to the end of that 

 pole a jointed measure extends down 

 four feet to the base of the vine, mak- 

 ing a total of fourteen feet. If any cne 

 has produced a tomato vine taller than 

 that we should like to have the par- 

 ticulars. 



TOMATOES (FOURTEEN FEET TALL) GROWN 

 IN GLENBROOK. 



