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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1907 



The Most Sensitive 



feet are 



Comfortable in the 



Red Cross Shoe 



It is stiff soles that make your feet hurt. 

 Every step you take, the ball of your foot 

 bends — the sole of your shoe remains rigid. 

 This continual rubbing makes your feet burn, 

 draw, ache! 



The sole of the Red Cross 

 Shoe, though of regular, 

 walking thickness, is 

 flexible. 



It bends with the foot. 



The leather is tanned 



with genuine oak bark, 



by a process which 



takes six months. 



It isn't parched 



and burned by 



Acetic acid, to hasten 



All its life and elasticity 



j / "It bends 

 ' with the f oof 



the tanning process, 

 are preserved. 



The Red Cross Shoe entirely prevents all 

 rubbing and binding — removes all tension and 

 strain. It is absolutely comfortable. 



And the Red Cross protects the foot and sup- 

 ports the arch, better than stiff sole shoes. It is 



made in 



all the latest 



fashionable 



lasts, 



all leathers 



No. 142 — Red 



Cross Gun Metal 



Oxford, $3.50 



More head-aches, back-aches and "nerves" 

 come from aching feet than you have any idea. 

 Our booklet " Women To-day " shows the importance 

 of foot-comfort to health. Write for it. 



Leading dealers keep the Red Cross. If yours 

 doesn't we will gladly send you the name of one 

 who does. Or we will supply you direct, fit 

 guaranteed. If this trade-mark, with the name 

 Krohn, Fechheimer & Co. is not stamped on the 

 sole ofthe shoe shown you, dont buy . Imitations 

 have neither the style nor wearing qualities of 

 the Red Cross. Oxfords, $3.50; High Shoes, 

 $4.00. 



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constantly worked during the summer to keep 

 it from getting sour. In July, the plants 

 began to send up their flower stems, and in- 

 stead of having a few flowers only two inches 

 across, as many previous writers had said, 

 I counted as many as twenty-three flowers 

 on a single stem and they averaged four to 

 five inches across! This bed gave a magni- 

 ficent, continuous display for three months, 

 and it is safe to say that no one plant was 

 through flowering when cut off by frost in the 

 middle of November. 



A third year's trial with greatly increased 

 stock only served more fully to insure its 

 success. This time it was planted on high, 

 but well-enriched sandy soil, and by reason 

 of frequent summer rains, it maintained a 

 display equal to that of previous years in 

 moister soil. 



In raising plants from seeds, I found an 

 extraordinary diversity in foliage, habit and 

 flower. Some plants did not flower until 

 late fall, while others bloomed very early and 

 kept it up for three months. Thus the pro- 

 cess of making sufficiently early a plant that 

 naturally blooms very late was accomplished 

 in three years, whereas in the case of the 

 cosmos, many people have been working at 

 it for half of a century with only slight gains, 

 compared with stokesia. There are relatively 

 few perennials that will bloom the first 

 year from seed even when the seed is started 

 indoors in March, or earlier. The stokesia 

 will do so and this is the most satisfactory 

 way of raising it in large masses for bedding. 



Happily, the stokesia can be easily multi- 

 plied by division of its roots, each one 

 of which, if disconnected, and given good 

 care, will make a plant and will bloom the 

 same season. This sort of propagation is 

 easily practiced by an amateur and it is the 

 commonest method by which desirable 

 varieties of hardy perennials are multiplied 

 when once these varieties have been fur- 

 nished by seed. Seeds give variation, but 

 a variety is kept true to the improved type 

 of means of asexual propagation, i.e., any 

 process which does not involve the use of the 

 seed. It is probable that no early-flowered 

 variety of the stokesia ever appeared in 

 Europe, because it is commonly said to bloom 

 so late in Europe that the plants are lifted 

 from the open ground in early fall, potted 

 and placed in conservatories to flower. A 

 few years ago, however, an early variety was 

 discovered in Europe, and distributed under 

 the name of Stokesia cyanea var. prcecox. 

 This produces early flowers even when raised 

 from seed. So freely does this variety bloom 

 from American-saved seed, that the plants 

 exhaust themselves later by trying to make 

 seeds from every flower — a good feature if 

 one desires to raise seedlings annually. 



A few white-flowered forms were dis- 

 covered in the summer of 1901, and were 

 offered for sale for the first time. This 

 variety is similar in every respect to the older 

 form except the color of the flowers, which are 

 pure white. 



Stokes's aster has proved perfectly hardy 

 in Western New York and even Boston, and 

 so far as I know, it has no insect enemies 

 or diseases. 



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