18 THE GOLD MINE 



Somewhere in the unknown are other fruits — 

 luscious, hardy and prolific, which will yet add millions 

 to the nation's wealth. 



'No one can take out a patent on these discoveries. 

 The wide field is open to all. You can be an inde- 

 pendent mine owner, and perhaps some quiet farmer 

 may yet capture the prize for which all the Kortli- 

 west is longing. 



In floriculture what marvelous changes have been 

 made in roses. The single rose is the product of j^a- 

 ture. The double rose is the product of ITature and 

 art. What marvelous crosses are being made. One 

 day in the East I rode on the cars with the noted Jack- 

 son Dawson, of the Arnold Arboretum, and he was 

 taking eight hybrids of the Wichuriana of Japan. 

 There is no limit here, and a wide awake boy or girl 

 can carry on the process. 



What improvements in lilacs, spiraeas, and syringas, 

 or Philadelphus. This same Dawson showed me a 

 syringa of marvelous beauty and enormous flowers — 

 one of his own creations. 



Some one crossed the delicate little Thunbergi Spiraea 

 with the Multiflora and that gave us the Arguta, which 

 blooms with the tulips — a snowdrift of white — the 

 earliest of all. And it has such persistent foliage 

 that in the autumn it is like a flower garden of itself 

 with its rich tints and marvelous colorings ; thus mak- 

 ing an attractive display at each end of the season. 



Lilacs are all the while being produced from seed. 

 Plant the choicest kinds with the rich diversity of 



