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tiplying. We commence digging and shipping in August and keep it up 

 till the ground freezes. You go to dig and you will find the ground as 

 dry as an ash heap just thrown out of the furnace, but the roots gather 

 and hold the moisture and they are plump and fleshy and vigorous, and 

 when transplanted commence growing with great vigor. It is a fortunate 

 thing that the most charming of all the family flowers is so well suited 

 to these regions, the climate of which is so trying to other things. The 

 spring rains will bring on the blooms and then the plants will take care 

 of themselves. 



These flowers are well adapted to California where it rains one month 

 which will bring out the blooms, and then the plants will hold their own 

 and keep on growing during the dry months. 



The Oriental poppies, the Chinese bellflowers and the columbines 

 all of them passed through the ordeal without trouble. 



CURATIVE PROPERTIES OF FRUIT. 

 By J. H. Kellogg, Battle Creek, Michigan, Sanitarium. 



Man, like the big apes, the gorilla, the chimpanzee and the orangou- 

 tang, is naturally a fruit eater. Culver, the great French naturalist, 

 called attention to this fact more than a century ago. The same fact 

 was announced in Holy Writ. Genesis, chapters 1-29, reads: "And God 

 said, 'Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed which is upon 

 the face of all the earth, and every tree yielding seed; to you it shall 

 be for meat.' " Fruits, including nuts, grains, and tender shoots, are 

 unquestionably the natural bill of fare for the human family. The big 

 apes at the London Zoo receive no other food with the exception of 

 cooked vegetables. Fruits differ from most other foods in the fact that they 

 require no cooking. They are, as they say in Mexico, cooked in the sun. 

 It may even be said that they require no digestion. This last state- 

 ment, if not absolutely true, is nearly so, for the sugars and acids of 

 fruits require no digestion, but are ready for immediate absorption and 

 supply the body with nutriment in its most easily available form. This 

 is why fruits and fruit juices are so wonderfully and immediately refresh- 

 ing. The energy-imparting elements which they contain are ready for 

 immediate absorption, and hence do not tax the body or digestion. 



The common prejudice against the use of acid fruits, on the ground 

 that they render the blood acid, and hence should be avoided in gout and 

 rheumatism, is entirely without foundation. The acids of fruits are 

 combined with alkaline substances. When fruits are eaten the acids 

 are quickly digested, burned, or utilized in the body, leaving the alkalis 

 behind, so that the effect of fruits, even those that are decidedly acid 

 in flavor, is to increase the alkalinity of the blood and to aid the body in 

 getting rid of uric acid and other poisonous acid wastes. The free use of ap- 

 ples and of juicy fruits of all sorts is to be highly recommended in all cases 



