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large dark blotches on the lower 

 petals, somewhat like "Madame Cam- 

 pan," raised in Belgium (1856). 



A much more modern type is, how- 

 ever, the "Duchess of Fife" (1890) 

 with no blotches, and in which the 

 color is yellow edged with purple; 

 this forms a striking contrast to the 

 so-called Empress Pansy (1894), which 

 by far is the most showy and the most 

 fashionable of all these that have been 

 raised so far. 



With the exception of green, all the 

 other colors are represented in the cul- 

 tivated pansies, and the number of dif- 

 ferent shades is immense. Double 

 flowered varieties are not considered, 

 and in this way we find always in the 

 pansy something of its old, true nature. 



Few flowers have become known 

 under so many names as our pansy, 

 and some of these are quite interesting 

 for instance : Stepmother, Blue suneye, 

 Widow herb. Day and night. Two 

 faces under the sun, Call me to you. 

 Kiss at the garden gate, and finally the 

 longest ever attributed to a flower : 

 "meet-her-i' -th' -entry-kiss-her-i' -th'- 

 buttery." 



the ground upward, one could easily 

 study these roots in all stages of 



growth, 



beginning with the first little 



lenticel just starting to expand on the 



STEMS THAT ARE ROOT-LIKE. 



It is interesting to note the first 

 steps in the transformation of a stem 

 into a root, a transformation that is 

 easily observed especially with the 

 stem of tomato vines. In my garden 

 this year the tomato vines were of 

 unusually heavy growth on account of 

 the over enrichment of the soil. From 

 lack of time or for other reasons I 

 failed to train the vines on sticks in 

 the usual manner. They remained es- 

 pecially neglected in one corner of the 

 yard, where they lay on the ground 

 and developed rootlets, or root-like 

 branches, in patches that extended 

 along almost the entire length of the 

 stems. By examining the vines from 



THE ROOT-LIKE STEMS 



side of the stem and ending with the 

 long rootlets as shown in the photo- 

 graph. But mentioning the lenticel 

 reminds me that a botanist not long 

 ago told me that he had induced a 

 section of a tree trunk to project tiny 

 roots through the lenticels by keeping 

 it in a damp place. I wonder if any 

 of our readers can give any information 

 on this subject? 



Growing Peanuts. 

 It is an easy matter to grow pea- 

 nuts in open beds or in boxes filled 

 with earth. It is interesting to watch 

 the "intelligence," seemingly, with 

 which the flower is pushed under 

 ground for the fruiting nut to grow. 



