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what slower, but better, while it is more congenial to all classes 
of vegetation. Used in connection with the preparation of the 
soil and in combination with fertilizers for roses it will give a 
strong vigorous growth of plants, well-developed better buds, 
and beautiful and most lasting blooms 
The soil is a store-house of mysteries, many of which have not 
yet been solved. Investigation, study and experimentation are 
going on along many lines by able scientists in our own country, 
while the same er is being done by the agricultural chemists 
of other nations. At the present time there is being erected 
at Rothamsted, ani a fitting memorial to the memory and 
services of two great men, Sir John Bumet Laws and Sir J. 
Henry Gilbert, who devoted fifty ei of their life’s work and 
much money to the science of agricultu 
A large laboratory is being erected, ne purpose of which is to 
continue their work, which is to be confined exclusively to the 
many great and unsolved problems of the soil which doubtless 
will require another half century of time. No greater honor 
can be conferred and no monument more merited than to the 
ioe of men who have given their life work to the millions 
people whose best opportunity, prosperity and greatest 
es are largely dependent upon good and productive soil. 
GEORGE T. POWELL. 
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A PLEA FOR THE WILD FLOWERS 
The wild things of nature are coming to their own! To the 
cries ‘‘Save the Trees,” ‘‘Protect the Birds’ another note of 
entreaty and admonition has lately been added: ‘Preserve the 
Wild Flowers.” When in the midst of luxurious abundance it 
is a difficult thing to imagine that devastation is possible, yet 
that is the danger apprehended by the lover of wild life, tree, 
bird and flower today, unless individual effort be more strenuously 
directed toward their conservation. 
r the preservation of trees there have sprung up all over 
the country national, state and private forestry associations 
