June 3, 1916 



H R T I C U L T U B B 



777 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The girls of America owe a large 

 debt of gratitude to the Page Com- 

 pany of Boston, Mass., for the many- 

 interesting and deserving girls' books 

 they send out each year just about the 

 time the vacation period is beginning. 

 This vacation literature is always 

 clean, wholesome and vivacious and 

 marked by a refreshing absence of 

 anything morbid or objectionably 

 sensational. "Social mush" finds no 

 place in The Page Company's publica- 

 tions. 



One of the books just out is "Blue 

 Bonnet Keeps House." This is the 

 fifth in the popular Blue Bonnet series 

 by Caroline E. Jacobs and Leia H. 

 Richards. It is the tale of a girl of 

 wealth who owns a ranch in the west 

 and of her social e.xperiences in a so- 

 journ in Boston. A book just suited 

 for a present to a girl in her teens. 

 Price $1.50 net. 



Sylvia of the Hill Top, the Second 

 Cheerful Book, by Margaret R. Piper, 

 author of "Sylvia's Experiment; The 

 Cheerful Book." "The Cheerful Book" 

 is a trademark, well taken considering 

 the phenomenal success of the "Glad" 

 books which carried the name of the 

 Page Company all over the world. 

 Sylvia of the Hill Top starts off with 

 an episode in which a young gardener 

 becomes "part of the landscape" and 

 as the hero of the story "makes good" 

 all through. The heroine of the first 

 Cheerful Book proved herself a mes- 

 senger of joy and cheerfulness to 

 thousands of readers. This book tells 

 how she continued her sunny mission 

 during her summer vacation and made 

 friends with everyone. The frontis- 

 piece is in full color. Price $1.25 net. 



The Girl from the Big Horn Com- 

 pany; by Mary Ellen Chase. Since 

 this book was issued its popularity has 

 so spread that the Page Company 

 have been compelled to put it into its 

 fourth printing. It is one of those big 

 whole-souled healthy stories which, 

 sad to say, we see so little of in these 

 days. This is the story of a typical 

 Wyoming girl and her experiences 

 among new social surroundings in 

 Vermont. It is full of life and spirit. 

 One reviewer of this book says: 

 "Virginia Hunter, with her fresh 

 western ways and her wholesomeness, 

 is so infinitely superior to Gladys Ful- 

 lern Goat or some other individual 

 who is made the heroine of the social 

 penny thriller that it seems almost a 

 shame that the publishers have to sell 

 the unique book alongside of the com- 

 monplace." 



The price is $1.25 net. Seven full 

 page illustrations, frontispiece in full 

 color. 



Bulletin of the American Dahlia So- 

 ciety, Vol. 1, No. 3. The May issue of 

 the Bulletin is a progressive and use- 

 ful document. Articles on Dahlias 

 from Seed. Preferred Varieties, Dah- 

 lias in Public Parks. Affiliation, Judg- 

 ing Points, The Dahlia as a Cut Flow- 

 er, and many notes on cultural topics 

 by growers of repute form the con- 

 tents which dahlia growers will find 

 interesting and instructive. 



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FREAKISH FACTS AND FACTLESS 

 FREAKS. 



Rosebush Yields Apples. 



Dr. Irwin's rosebush this ,vear produced 

 apples instead of roses. The crop was 

 gathered by Dr. Irwin last we«l;. It con- 

 sisted of five apples, each about the size 

 of a hen's esg, and of delicious flavor. 



In Mr. Ogden's yard in Fulton Avenue 

 is another rosebush which has produced 

 flowers for ten years. But it. too, became 

 tired of the humdrum existence it had 

 been leading, and also produced apples this 

 year. 



— Moberly (Mo.) Monitor. 



Phone 90 Nassau St., 



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Raises Strawberries in Cellar in Win- 

 ter. 



St. Louis, April 2. — Mrs. Katherine 

 Schuch of Randle street, Edwardsville, III., 

 has found that the basement of her home 

 is good for something beside storing coal 

 and doing the week's washing. She grows 

 a winter crop of strawberries there. While 

 the snow is piled around the house, it is 

 a common practice of Mrs. Schuch and 

 her sons to step downstairs and fill a bowl 

 with ripe, deliciously flavored berries for 

 luncheon. The I)asemcnt strawberries are 

 not so red as those grown in the sun in 

 strawberry season, but it seems to the 

 family that they equal the spring berries 

 In taste. 



— Boston Post. 



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"Do not feed the plants" was an order 

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 the Flower Show, nt the Grand Central 

 Palace, recently, as thousands of men and 

 women made the acquaintance of the col- 

 lection of mouse and bug eating flowers 

 on exhibition there. 



The orchid hybridizing exhibit of Clem- 

 ent Moore, amateur floriculturist, attracted 

 particular attention when it was le.-irned 

 that tlie mother orchid captured and de- 

 voured small insects that might injure the 

 young seedlings when they first appear 

 above the ground. Other carnivorous 

 plants whose tastes run largely to dainty 

 field mice also were Included In the col- 

 lection. 



— New York Tribune. 



Judges at the International Flower Show 

 at Grand Central Palace who were to 

 pass on the comparative merits of 

 modest violets rubbed their eyes, blinked, 

 looked again and then demanded to know 

 what variety of bloom was a new one that 

 reposed in the midst of a mass of mauve 

 tinted flowers. 



Somebody had tried to piny a little Joke 

 on the horticultural wise men by Including 

 among tne entrants a variegated cubist 

 cabbage labelled "Violet Ascending to the 

 Sun." Every tint in the rainbow was re- 

 flected in the common or garden variety 

 of vegetable which had carefully been 

 C'dnred and stuck all over with flower 

 petals. The Judges refused even to con- 

 sider the floral novelty and It was hastily 

 removed by the management of the 

 show, who took care to suppress the 



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— New York Herald. 



