For March, 1923 



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tliree others almost as large to be felled, al- 

 though the giant contains approximately 23,- 

 000 feet of lumber. It is peculiarly situated 

 for one of its species, for while the cypress 

 usually grows in swamps the Edenborn 

 specimen stands in a hollow between hills. — 

 N. y. Herald. 



One point about wild flowers is their wide- 

 flung profusion. .\ garden flower claims se- 

 clusion ; the wind is not welcomed in a 

 garden but he is the rough-and-tumble play- 

 mate of every wild flower, and the level 

 wheat fields ripple with laughter as he goes 

 frolicking b\'. 



Numberless as the stars are the wild 

 flowers. Who has not brushed the gold 

 from a million marguerites, their ranks clos- 

 ing behind you as though you had never 

 passed that way ? Nor does the fragile prim- 

 rose know aught of scantiness. She pushes 

 her pale petals to the surface, parting the 

 leaves to take an early peep at the sun. She 

 bedecks the woods and enbankments and 

 dapples the shade with her light. And what 

 of the English bluebells? Fragrant, taper- 

 ing bluebells so thickly beneath the beeches 

 and oaks that it is quite iinpossible not to 

 crush them as you walk through the woods 

 in May. Another rare vision, too, when on 

 a Spring evening the full moon sheds a 

 bright sheen all over a field of buttercups. 

 A vision of gold and silver, renewed and 

 ever renewed in memory. 



In the Highlands there is the wild beauty 

 of tiie heather, splashing the hills and moors 

 with its magenta blaze ; masses of it surging 

 at the base of gray-lichened towlders, woo- 

 ing the coveys of furry-footed grouse to 

 slant into its depths with downward curving 

 wings. 



Yet. it is sweet to stand quietly in a shel- 

 tered garden, with intimate flowers, named 

 and natured, rising in orderly array at one's 

 feet ; yet sweeter still to push out into the 

 open and revel in profusion. — C. S. Monitor. 



French wine growers are tearing up tlieir 

 vines and planting the hillsides with pota- 

 toes and grain, according to a committee just 

 returned from a survey of the principal 

 grape regions. This is ascribed directly tn 

 the loss of markets in the United States and 

 in Sweden, as well as the failure of access 

 to German and Russian trade. 



The growers declare their cellars cannot 

 hold another tnillion bottles, and are planning 

 to organize a great sales co-operative so- 

 ciety which will dispose of the stocks ac- 

 cumulated in the last five years at reasonable 

 prices, enabling the industry to start over 

 again, better calculated to comply with the 

 world market next year. — A''. ]'. Herald. 



WHY THE TOMATO WAS FOR- 

 MERLY CONSIDERED POISONOUS 



The Tomato, which in these days occu- 

 pies such a prominent place in our food 

 menus, was until comparatively recent years, 

 believed to be poisonous. This was in a 

 way natural, from the standpoint of the 

 botanists, because they knew that the To- 

 mato plant was really a member of the 

 poisonous "deadly nightshade" family, as is 

 also the familiar Irish potato. 



This belief as to the poisonous nature of 

 the Tomato was so prevalent that even after 

 a few venturesome folk decided they must 

 be good to eat, they took the precaution of 

 stewing them first. When no harm re- 

 sulted it was believed that the stewing 

 process extracted the poison. But even 

 when other more venturesome folk, who 

 perhaps were so hungry they were willing 

 to try anything, ate raw Tomatoes, without 

 harmful result, it was a long time before 

 the practice becaine common. 



Before 1830 the Tomato was known as 



Therefore 

 It Hath Its Charm 



Isn't it hard to quite understand how some people spend unstintedly for 



buildings and the "doing over" of their grounds, only to secure a regrettable 



effect of man-madeness? 



Everything has the look of having been just placed there. All nature's 



naturalness has been ruthlessly ironed out. In contrast, you at rare intervals 



run across a layout that is a delight in its utter frankness — its skillful 



adaptation to nature's own setting. 



How it prompts a long breath and a sigh of contentment. 



Therefore, this greenhouse has its charm. 



It just fits in the picture, as it were. 



You can well imagine the satisfaction it was to do our bit in securing this 



result for Dr. J. H. Lancashire on his Massachusetts woodland-crested estate, 



at Manchester-by-the-Sea. 



Why can't we do as much for you? Would you like our booklet called 



"Owning Your Own Greenhouse"? 



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If you want the finest 



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the Giants — true to name — we 

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Send for our catalogue, which 

 is a handbook for dahlia 

 growers. 



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