July 9, 1910 



horticulture: 



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exposed to 40 degrees below zero. It 

 belongs to the Siberian type. This 

 family now has 30 varieties and is in- 

 creasing every year. 



The Iris. 



Oil beautiful! beautiful flower! 



The ward of tbe sunbeam and shower 



In garments of woven delight, 



Of the sunset, Aurora and light. 



While over thy beauty there plays 



Such delicate tlntings and rays. 



Such blending of color and shade. 



Well becoming a heavenly maid. 



Etheral, lovely and sweet. 



Thy presence we joyously greet. 



Thy Mother, fair Iris, in beauty supreme. 

 Took all her rich garments of loveliest 



sheen. 

 The robes of the rainbow, flower garden 



of air. 

 Of bewildering beauty, resplendently fair. 

 And made tor her child such a dazzling 



dress 

 No daughter of royalty e'er could possess. 



Though her form seems so fragile, yet 



wondrously brave, 

 Away In the Northland where flerce tem- 

 pest rave. 

 She awakes from her sleep in her cradle 



of snow 

 And beams on the world with a radiant 



glow. 

 Away on the plains in the drought and 



the heat. 

 She is cheerfully waiting admirers to 



greet. 

 To her fairy presence must ever belong 

 The tribute of praise and the rapture of 



song. 



We are not to forget the stately and 

 Imposing Delphiniums. These give us 

 all the shadings of the blue. We see 

 some of immense size. The Boston 

 shows often exhibit those of rare merit. 

 It would take a strong imagination to 

 suggest an improvement. The main 

 stems straight and tall and the 

 branches packed with blooms, some 

 single and some double. In the West 

 if planted in exposed places in the full 

 sweep of the wind they will need stak- 

 ing. 



All perennials need shelter from the 

 cruel blasts which often sweep at the 

 rate of 40 miles an hour. You can 

 produce a calm by planting a hedge 

 around your flower garden. If you 

 want something tall, the flowers of 

 which will add to the attractiveness 

 of the whole display, take the Grandi- 

 flora Tatarica or Manchurian Honey- 

 suckle. The Silver Tamarisk, charm- 

 ing both in bloom and foliage makes 

 an excellent hedge. This is the best 

 of ten sorts which we have tested at 

 York. 



Brothers, do you know your own 

 power? You can take a dull and 

 sombre piece of earth and make an 

 elysium of it. You can take the man- 

 tles of the stars, the splendor of the 

 sunsets and the coloring of the rain- 

 bow and weave into a jeweled carpet 

 fit for the touch of angel's feet. 



Beauty has a mission. God might 

 have made apples of the color of 

 cobble-stones and given the strawberry 

 and cherry the drab of gravel instead 

 of the appetizing tints which are the 

 despair of the artist. 



On earth there is beauty everywhere 

 from the prodigal blooms of the tropics 

 to the vast profusion of flowers in the 

 frozen tundras of the North. 



This world is only the porch of an- 

 other. Flowers and gems are the 

 prophesy of the glory to be revealed. 

 How superbly the great landscape 

 Artist laid out this world of ours! 

 What a land he gave us before it was 

 bared by the greed of men! Did you 

 ever think that this same Artist who 



A RECORD BREAKING APPLE TREE. 



Spokane, Wash. — Experienced grow- 

 ers i)redict that the Frazer apple 

 tree, growing in the Walla Walla val- 

 ley, near Walla Walla, Wash., south- 

 west of Spokane, will yield between 

 1.50 and 200 bushels of fruit this season, 

 thus breaking its record of 126% boxes 

 in 1907, the highest production from a 

 single tree known anywhere in the 

 world. The tree bore 70 boxes in 1906, 

 42 boxes in 1908, and 45 boxes in 1909. 

 More than 500 barrels of fruit have 

 been picked from its limbs since it 

 came into bearing. 



The tree was grown without irriga- 

 tion from a seedling planted by Can- 

 trel R. Frazer in 1866, two years after 

 he settled in the valley. It is 42 feet 

 in height and its branches spread 57 

 feet from tip to tip. This is shown by 

 the positions of the two men at the 

 sides of the accompanying photograph. 



taken a tew weeks ago, when the 

 branches were laden with pink and 

 white blossoms. 



The trunk is seven feet in circum- 

 ference at the base and measures six 

 feet six inches just below the first 

 limb, which is four feet from the 

 ground, and measures four feet seven 

 inches. Mr. Frazer, who planted the 

 seedling, is standing at the trunk of 

 the tree. The tree is sound and 

 healthy, despite the fact that it has 

 produced fruit every season for nearly 

 40 years. 



The tree is not a standard variety, 

 but is classified by the growers in 

 southeastern Washington as Frazer's 

 Prolific. The fruit is of medium size 

 with golden yellow skin, the flesh be- 

 ing firm and sweet, thus gaining recog- 

 nition in the Northwest as a winter 

 apple. 



laid out this earth along the lines of 

 harmony and beauty also has land- 

 scaped the universe? When you get 

 through your schooling down here and 

 have faithfully proclaimed the great 

 evangel of beauty, when you have 

 passed away you will leave a path 

 lined with radiant forms of loveliness. 

 It will be said of you, "He passed this 

 way and these are his footprints." 



When you stand as victor under that 

 arch on which is written, "AH things 

 are yours," you will receive the salu- 

 tations of the universe and the eternal 

 beauty is yours. As the land of prom- 

 ise rose in wondrous mirage to the 

 vision of Moses on Tabor so will the 

 broad fields of light rise to your gaze 

 and, behold, the universe itself is one 

 great flower garden. Who can describe 

 the clustered glories, the harmonious 

 mingling of colors of the milky way 

 so thick with immortelles? How amaz- 

 ing the vastness! tremendous abysses 

 of distance illumined by the smile of 

 Jehovah. He drove his plow share 

 through the fields of azure and all the 

 furrows were flowered with stars, 

 Orion and Pleiades great bouquets held 

 in the hand of the Creator, the 



constellations gardens of surpassing 

 splendor. 



So remember that the beauty of the 

 earth is a prophecy of that opal sea, 

 >>\vplled walls and the great gardens 

 of God. Let the hither shore give 

 some promise of the future shore. We 

 spend a few moments down here. Most 

 of our life is over there. So while here 

 pull down a section of Paradise and 

 live in it and so have an introduction 

 to the Paradise beyond. 



CARNATION COUNTESS KNUTH. 



It having been asserted in some quar- 

 ters that this recently introduced va- 

 riety is identical with Sonnenshein, 

 introduced by Neubert, Messrs. Hjal- 

 mar Hartmann & Co., of Copenhagen, 

 introducers of Countess Knuth, have 

 been conducting a trial of the two va- 

 rieties with the object of setting the 

 question at rest, and the results are 

 that Countess Knuth came into bloom 

 eight days sooner than Sonnenschein, 

 and further, the latter is more deeply 

 fringed in the petals than the former, 

 and the color in the two sorts is quite 

 distinct. In other characteristics they 

 are very much alike. 



