ARBORICULTURE 



A PROGRESSn'E MINING COM- 

 PANY. 



THE SHASTA DAISY. 



The St. Bernard Mining- Company of 

 Earlington, Ky.. has a clear appreciation 

 of the needs of the company in the mat- 

 ter of timber, and is planting each year 

 many acres of forests, besides taking ex- 

 cellent care of the forest property which 

 the company owns. 



It is well known that a very large 

 quantity of timber is used in various 

 ways in the mines, and each year this 

 timber is procured with greater cTifficulty 

 and increasing cost. 



Mr. John B. Atkinson, President of 

 the company, says their timber property 

 covers from 9,000 to 10,000 acres, yet 

 they propose to plant fifty to one hun- 

 dred acres of new forest each year, as 

 coal mining is ravenous of timber. The 

 company will plant 20,000 catalpa spe- 

 ciosa and 20,000 locust this season. 



The picture on page 14 is from a pho- 

 tograph sent us by this gentleman, and 

 represents a grove of walnut trees now 

 sixteen years old. Nuts planted last 

 fall have made excellent growth, some 

 three feet in height. From 47 to 60 per 

 cent, of the nuts grew (probably some 

 were taken by small animals). 



The surface above the veins of coal or 

 other minerals may just as well be made 

 to produce the wood necessary to supply 

 the mines with all timbers, and there is 

 nothing better than catalpa and locust for 

 this purpose. Here is a practical object 

 lesson for the great mining companies of 

 the country. 



If the Government can fix the price of 

 transportation, why may it not fix the 

 price of groceries? — Indianapolis Star. 



Yes, and every other commodity. 



The ennoblement of flowers from com- 

 mon weeds is another achievement of 

 Luther Burbank. The moon daisy of 

 Europe, the ox-eye daisy, the pretty pest 

 of American fields and roadsides, and an- 

 other species from Japan, are in nature 

 rather coarse, unsavory things, gener- 

 ally more cursed for aggressiveness than 

 praised for beauty. Hybridization, cul- 

 tural arts and selection have brought from 

 them a group of forms known as the 

 Shasta daisies, of surprising size and 

 beauty, and of exceptional commercial 

 value. The rays have been enlarged, 

 thickene^, and given a dazzling white- 

 ness, the stem lengthened and made more 

 rigid, and the whole growth glorified into 

 an association of grace and serviceability 

 in probably a greater number of lines of 

 decorative demand than any other single 

 blossom. By selection the chosen group 

 includes a great variety of forms, atti- 

 tudes and arrangement of rays — the type 

 being a grand central tuft of gold, en- 

 circled by a zone of brilliant white ; the 

 growth combining the grace of one parent 

 species, the size of another, and the white- 

 ness of the third, and all these ennobled 

 and extended. — Sunset Magacine. 



THE LOOKING GLASS OF LIFE- 



Look for goodness, look for gladness, 

 You will find them all the while; 



If you bring a smiling visage 

 To the glass, you meet a smile. 



Do not look for wrong and evil. 

 You will find them if you do ; 



As you measure for your neighbor. 

 He will measure back to you. 



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