November 16, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



483 



CARING FOR THE WOUNDED IN FRANCE. 



Assisted by supplies of clothing, 

 sheets, etc., secured from the Ameri- 

 can Red Cross, many of the convents 

 in and near Paris have been turned 

 into hospitals for wounded soldiers, 

 while the large, beautiful gardens 

 which are found at nearly every con- 



vent in Europe are still cultivated, 

 that the wounded may be cheered by 

 the bright flowers. 



The accompanying photographs show 

 the gardens at one of the large con- 

 vents near Paris, which is now used 

 as a oO-bed hospital. Beside the rose 



tree, which is one of the many culti- 

 vated here, is one of the children 

 now under the protection of the Sis- 

 ters, who not only take care of and 

 educate the children but also tend the 

 wounded soldiers brought to them for 

 nursing. C. L. L. 



THE GINGER JAR. 



And now for the glorious awaken- 

 ing. Let every one plant and sow and 

 cut and propagate and advertise in 

 Horticulture. Now is the time. 

 Four years of hold-up lets the world 

 loose. Get busy — one and all! 



Now that the war is over we are 

 hoping that the U. S. mail service be- 

 tween Boston and Philadelphia will 

 get back to normal, so that the trade's 

 favorite paper may reach them on 

 time — as it has always done — until 

 this world war started. 



We will hear less now of the stop- 

 page of horticulture and the growing 

 of flowers. So the ground hog may 

 take courage of hope — and feel once 

 more that life is worth living. The 

 seed merchant may publish his cata- 

 log, and the nurseryman may send 

 his men out on the hobo track. The 

 glorious climate of California will 

 loom up once more as an inspiring 

 vision and the greenhouse builder 

 may look with gilded hope to the land 

 of the setting sun where Jack Frost 

 holds sway. The car is on the track 

 again, and all is well. We celebrate 

 now the post mortem of the arch pole- 

 cat of the universe — alias the skunk. 

 Amen. 



Which is the finest — to stick to our 

 thoughts, of which we haven't any 

 until we read the morning papers, or 

 to wait until Woodrow lets loose the 

 truth on us? John Burton thinks we 

 should do a lot of listening, and not 

 do too much talking. John We.steott 



has no such conservative idea. He 

 says, "Let's all get out and hustle. 

 Now's the time to clear out the sea 

 drift in the stream opening; never 

 mind if it's only 3 a. m. — never mind 

 about my pajamas. Now's the time. 

 Hail Columbia." So it looks as if the 

 commodore had the best of it. He is 

 77. Eleven times seven is seventy- 

 seven. Things happened at 11 a. m. 

 the 11th of the 11th month, so it 

 looks as if it was "come eleven" for 

 the commodore. 



Geo. C. Watson. 



THRIFT STAMPS ALWAYS GOOD. 



It has been called to the attention 

 of the National War Savings Head- 

 quarters, that there is current a mis- 

 apprehension as to the value of Thrift 

 Stamps at the end of this year. A 

 number of people have made the state- 

 ment that they would not feel war- 

 ranted in urging the purchase of 

 Thrift Stamps in December, for at 

 the end of the year these would be 

 valueless because 1919 would bring in 

 a new issue. 



The United States Government has 

 no desire or intention of defrauding 

 any holder of a government security 

 or of taking away any part of the 

 value of these securities by any tech- 

 nicality. B. Mason Hamlin, Acting 

 State Director, says: "We are very 

 pleased to say that Thrift Stamps 

 bought on the very last day of the 

 year, although not sufficient at that 

 moment for exchange into a War Sav- 

 ings stamp, will be taken care of by 

 the government and turned into the 



Issue of the new War Savings Stamps 

 by the payment of the amount due to 

 make up the cost of the War Saving 

 Certificate. There will be no penalty 

 attached." 



To make this statement doubly 

 sure, there is appended an order from 

 the Secretary of the Treasury in Cir- 

 cular No. 101, which reads as follows: 



"The Secretary of the Treasury will 

 make provision for the exchange of 

 Thrift Stamps after December 31, 

 1918, into War Saving Certificates, 

 Series of 1918, upon payment of the 

 additional amount then required, or 

 into some other series, or will other- 

 wise protect the interest of holders of 

 Thrift Stamps." 



This should set at rest finally all in- 

 timation that the National Govern- 

 ment will not protect the smallest 

 holders of its securities. Such assur- 

 ance should not be necessary, but 

 obviously it is. 



COOL GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



The following is a limited list of 

 plants which in these days of scarce 

 fuel can be wintered successfully if 

 frost is just excluded — In tact, some 

 of them would stand a certain amount 

 of frost with impunity: Deutzias, Hy- 

 drangeas Philadelphuses, Sparmannia 

 africana, agapanthuses, Vallota pur- 

 purea, Francoas, Trachelium caeru- 

 leum, Crassula coccinea. Cinerarias 

 (easily injured by frost), herbaceous 

 Calceolarias, Schizanthuses, Myrtles, 

 Aloysia citriodora, Eucalyptus Globu- 

 lus, Geraniums, Fuchsias, Crinums 

 and others — The Garden. 



