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cities, towns and Tillages of the state of 

 Pennsylvania. We have been doiog this work 

 since the spriag of 1921. Immediately following 

 the war, we found a sliKht reaction against the 

 children's garden work, but now there is an In- 

 creased sentiment in favor of it. We are em- 

 phasizing especially the educational values, men- 

 tioning as well the health and economic values 

 for the children. 



I am delighted with your photographic sheet 

 which you have mailed out, because I think It 

 is a splendid efTort on the part of American 

 florists. Fifty-two per cent of the people of 

 America live In urban centers. To have them 

 properly interested in flowers and vegetables, 

 they must be able t* grow and care for a garden. 

 And to care fer a garden they must know how. 

 Such knowledge is available for few unless it 

 is acquired In the scheel garden. 



In promoting this work your society Is doing a 

 helpful and worth-while piece of work. 1 trust 

 it will continue a vigorous campaign for school 

 garden work. If there is anything we can do at 

 any time in aidi|ig this promotional work, do not 

 hesitate to call apes bs. 



THIS YEAR'S ROSE ANNUAL. 



("The Americun Rose Annual; the 1922 Year- 

 book of Rose Progress," edited for the American 

 Rose Society by J. Horace McFarland. Contains 

 192 pages »f text, besides sixteen pages of in- 

 serteil sepia illustrations and two color plates. 

 Bound in cletli. Supplied to all members of the 

 society whose dues are paid for the current year. 

 To obtain additional copies or further informa- 

 tion, address the secretary, John C. Wister. COO 

 Finance building, Philadelphia, Pa.] 



This is tho seventh in the scries of 

 volumes th.-it bear tlie name, tho Amer- 

 ican Rose Annual. In drawing atten- 

 tion to the merits of the annual, as thi.s 

 reviewer has been trying to draw atten- 

 tion to them from year to year, there is 

 not much danger of exaggerated praise. 

 Feeble commendation would be unfair 

 to the book. Rut there really is another 

 danger which confronts the reviewer; 

 there is danger of monotony in these 

 repeated expressions of approval, since 

 there is little or no opportunity to re- 

 lieve the sameness by mixing the praise 

 with blame. A little sharp, unfavorable 

 criticism •f the annual might add va- 

 riety and picturesqueness to these re- 

 marks, but the closest scrutiny of the 

 book fails to find any occasion for such 

 criticism. If this book is not the ideal 

 sort of annual or yearbook, it is so 

 nearly ideal as to discourage even the 



What I Saw 

 Through the Eyes of a Potato 



Happened to be going by Farmer Fendles' potato patch t'other 

 day and drew up to have a chat. 



He was having a few frank words with his man, which ho 

 finished to the finished end, before he as much as said howdy. 

 This is what I overheard: 



"In all my twenty years of experience," his man remarked, 

 "no one ever told me to plant potatoes that way." 

 "Experience?" replied the farmer. "You've never had any 

 experience. All you've had is pnu-tiee. 



"You've just kept right on for 20 years planting potatoes the 

 same way you planted the first one you ever planted." 



Then he turned to me and said: "Can you beat It, Georg-e? 

 The very reason that fellow is a day laborer is because he has 

 never grot anytliing; but praetlce out of what he's done." 

 When I drove on, says I to myself, saya I, "George, how about 

 you? 



"Are you just practiotnK or experiencing: from your experi- 

 ence?" 



The next day I got the boys together and we made some 

 mighty beni-flclal changes for bettering our F. T. D. methods. 

 Changes that will help you and help us. 

 In fact, if they didn't help you, they couldn't help us. 



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captious reviewer in his search for de- 

 fects. 



Only a few of the articles in the an- 

 nual were written purely from the point 

 of view of the trade grower. The book, 

 like the membership of tho association 

 it represents, is partly commercial and 

 partly amateur in its character. Yet 

 there is no rashness in saying that most 

 of its chapters were written by experts 



— either commercial or noncommercial 

 experts. The contents of the book as a 

 whole, also, are of such a nature as to 

 help the amateur grower and the pro- 

 fessional grower to see horticultural 

 matters through each other's eyes — a 

 great visual achievement, indeed. By 

 that means each grower obtains valu- 

 able enlightenment that would not be 

 available in any other way. Moreover, 



