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PANSY— Boddington's "CHALLENGE"— All Colors 



This mixture contains all the finest Giant strains — of 

 the leading Tansy Specialists in the world — the Giant self- 

 t lie (JlaBt striped and margined, and the Giant 

 blotched, etc., nil carefully mixed in proportion — the finest 

 that money can buy— the finest your money can buy. A 

 Boris! wrlio lias grown it said, "Why don't you call it 

 Delia) 



Trade pkt., 58c ; \ i-u., 75c; ' 4 oz., 51.50; T j oz., $2.75 ; oz., J5.0 



Choice Varieties of Giant Pansies 



Trade pkt. Vi oz. Oz. 



i.imii Trlmardean. Improved mammoth- 



rerlng In g'->d range of color $0.15 $0.50 $1.50 



Giant Masterpiece (Frilled Pansy). Petals 



utlfully waved, exquisite colors 15 .85 3.00 



i assler's Glont. A flue strain of large 



highly colored flowers 15 .85 3.00 



Glanl Bagnot'l stained. Exhibition. Ex- 

 tra choice flowers, large and plenty of 

 light colors 50 



Giant Madame Perret. A recent introduc- 

 tion, by i celebrated French specialist; 

 trong, free growth. Especially rich 

 in red shades 15 .85 3.00 



Giant Fire King. Brilliant reddish yel- 

 low, with large brown eyes $0.25 $1.00 $3.00 



Giant Lord Bearonsficld. Deep purple 



rlolet, top petals light blue 15 .50 1.50 



Giant Canary Bird. A five-spotted yellow 

 variety. Ground color, is a deep golden 

 yellow and each petal is marked with a 

 dark blotch 15 .85 3.00 



Giant Orehldeallora. or Orchid -flowered 

 l'ansy. Splendid variety. Beautiful shades 

 of pink, lilac, orange, rose, terra cotta, 

 chamoise. etc 25 1.25 4.00 



Giant Emperor William. Ultramarine blue. 



purple eye 10 .50 1.50 



Giant Golden Queen. Bright yellow, no eye. .15 .60 2.00 



Giant Golden Yellow. Yellow, brown eye. .25 .75- 2.50 



Giant King of the Blacks (Faust). Black. .15 .60 2.00 



Giant President McKinley. Golden yel- 

 low, large dark blotch .15 .85 3.00 



Giant Prince Bismarck. Yellowish bronze, 



dark eye 25 .75 2.50 



Giant Rosy Lilac 15 .00 2.00 



Giant Pretiosa. Crimson-rose, white mar- 

 gin, violet blotch 15 .60 2.00 



Giant White. Violet spot, the largest white. .10 .50 1.50 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman, 342 West 14th St., NEW YORK 



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tion. Take Arizona for instance. The 

 forests have been cut from the moun- 

 tains, the rubbish inviting the fire; 

 and the fires never miss an -invitation. 

 Greed drove in great flock and herds 

 of sheep and cattle. They have de- 

 stroyed the herbage which fastened the 

 thin layer of earth to the rocks. Til 

 floods carat and ripped the earth from 

 the mountain sides and whirled ava- 

 lanches of mud into the fertile valleys, 

 often plowing out great gullies 20 and 

 30 feet deep through the rich soil and 

 all hurried on to fill the river beds. 

 Now when the floods come there is 

 nothing to detain them and the people 

 of Texas must suffer from the vandal- 

 ism of Arizona, just as the people of 

 our southern states must loose mil- 

 lions from the rapaciousness of north- 

 ern lumbermen who for the dollar for 

 today would mortgage the whole fu- 

 ture of those who must suffer from 

 their greed. 



Gn into Colorado and vandalism is 

 there. The mountains are robbed of 

 their beauty. The upland pa 

 over-fed and you have desolation in- 

 stead of beauty. A pioneer in the Rock- 

 ies said. "I think we early setth is 

 should have great credit in coming in 

 here and starting things." I replied. 

 "If you never had seen this country 

 and had left it today as God made it. 

 it would be worth five times as much 

 as it is now." 



Robbing the Land. 



There are no richer lands on earth 

 than the great prairies of the West and 



here in God's richest garden there have 

 been two sources of disaster. The first 

 is cropping lands without remunera- 

 tion, raising wheat year after year 

 with no manure, till some of the rich- 



trms of .Minnesota are now s 

 d they will hardly raise chicken 

 tem of waste applies to 

 rich level lands. There is a. double 

 system applied to hillside lands — rob- 

 bing the soil and allowing it to wash. 

 Stand by any of our streams after a 



■ rain and you will sec the very 

 cream of our fields going to the Gulf 

 of Mexico. It is waste, waste, every- 

 where. Most feeders will have their 

 feed lots perched on some steep hill- 

 side if they can find such a place, so 

 that the richest fertilizer the world 

 produces can be utterly swept away 

 without any trouble on their part, and 

 thej ki ep on growing 25 bushels of 

 corn to the acre, when by saving the 

 manure and plowing their land deep 

 they might have 100 bushels. Our coal 

 lands with their marvelous deposits 

 have been well nigh given away. I 

 have seen veins of coal 11 feet deep 

 which the wise U. S. Government sold 

 for $10.00 per acre. Streams with wat- 

 erfalls that were gold mines have been 

 parted with for a song. 



The Man of the Hour. 



What wonder in the midst of all this 

 ruin that "Great Heart" should arise. 

 He looks on the past and then on the 

 present, and then into the future, and 

 he asks himself what will become of 

 this nation 200 years from now. On 



the ordering of Providence, when a 

 tremendous crisis comes there is al- 

 ways a man to meet it. This time it 

 was Gifford Pinchot, by education one 

 uf the best foresters the world has pro- 

 duced. A man of means he is ready to 

 lice thousands for the future. He 

 might have made judicious invest- 

 ments in the great West, he knew so 

 well, so he could have become a bil- 

 lionaire. He could have taken his 

 chances in an unguarded moment and 

 captured forests, water powers and 

 coal lands. No man since the days of 

 Robert Morris, who furnished the sin- 

 ews of war for Washington and then 

 died in a debtor's prison, has done 

 more or made greater sacrifices than 

 Mr. I'inchot. Though for the present 

 he has lost his position he is yet a 

 king, independent of throne or crown. 

 Few men have shown such a fearless 

 persistence in the face of the most de- 

 termined opposition. There were 

 thousands of men who had pet plans 

 for the future. They wished to put 

 their hands on the nation's wealth. 

 Cattle men and sheep men, who for 

 years had been allowed to ruin young 

 forests and destroy pastures by over- 

 feeding; these rose in arms and what 

 a clamor they raised! 



Rangers vs. Cowboys. 



The cattle men wanted fires. Some 

 of the cowboys had it worked down to 

 a fine art. Here was a tract they want- 

 ed burned. Then might be caught. One 

 takes a magnifying glass and sets it 



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