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THE GARDEN I\I A G A Z I N E 



November, 1910 



The Work 

 that Counts 



There is no wasted energy, no 

 lost motion in the work of the 

 'Varsity Crew. Perfect team work, 

 co-operative effort and uniform 

 action are strikingly exempli- 

 fied. 



The same principle of intel- 

 ligent co-operation exists in tele- 

 phone communication in its 

 broadest application. 



In handling the talk of the 

 nation the Bell operators respond 

 to millions of different calls from 

 millions of different people, 

 twenty million communications 

 being made every day. 



distance 

 telephone: 



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Ten million miles of wire, five 

 million telephones and thousands 

 of switchboards are used to nandle 

 this vast traffic. 



More than a hundred thousand 

 employees, pulling together, keep 

 the entire system attuned. Unity 

 is the keynote. Without this har- 

 mony of co-operation such service 

 as is demanded would be impos- 

 sible. 



One policy, broad and general, 

 in which uniformity of method 

 and co-operation are the under- 

 lying principles, results in univer- 

 sal service for nearly a hundred 

 million people. 



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 "One VoHcy, One System, Universal Service" 



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Attractive Flowers, Fruit and 

 Foliage 



jyiBURNUM dilatatum is a native of China 

 r and Japan, and was introduced into the 

 United States in the early eighties. It is a stout, 

 bush j^ shrub, ver)- much resembhng the arrowwood 

 (7. dentatiim), and grows from six to eight feet 

 high. The branches are spreading and covered 

 with a dark gray bark. The young shoots are 

 covered with short stiff hairs, of a rusty gray. 



The lea\'es are orbicular or obovate, from two 

 to five inches long, dark green above and paler 

 beneath and of good texture. In the autumn, 

 they turn to a pale yellow and persist in this con- 

 dition until very late autumn or early winter. 

 Before changing to yellow, they often assume 

 shades of purple. 



The flowers appear about the middle of June, 

 and are borne in cymes about three inches across. 

 They are creamy white, abundant and tarry 

 only for a short time. The fruit matures in Sep- 

 tember and is then of a bright scarlet color. It 

 is very decorative and persists until early winter. 



The flowers of this plant, although desirable, 

 do not give it a very high rank. Yet the foliage 

 is particularly rich in summer, and attractive 

 in autumn when it takes on its yellow coloring, 

 and the scarlet fruit gives it high ornamental 

 value. Thus it takes place among the most 

 desirable of the viburnums. 



Massachusetts. Danlel A. Clarke. 



Garden Gossip 



Is IT true that smoke kills mosses and lichens 

 before it does flowering plants? Too bad, 

 because they soften and mellow rocks, walls, tree 

 trunks, etc., and give the effect of age which we 

 are all so eager to get when we find our new garden 

 looks raw. Have you ever heard of anyone who 

 has cultivated mosses and lichens, or had any 

 unusual success in removing the "new" look? 

 It is said that the factory regions about Glasgow 

 have an unnatural look, because the mosses and 

 lichens are killed b}- the sulphurous gases which 

 are belched by the big chimneys. The absence 

 of mosses and lichens makes the rocks look hard 

 and stern, and the land poor and unlovely. Xext 

 the gases kill the evergreen trees, which are more 

 sensitive than the deciduous. 



A Mr. Graves, of Detroit, has the best honey- 

 suckle fence we have ever seen- Hall 's honey- 

 suckle, trained on an iron fence about three and 

 a half feet high. He must trim it carefully, be- 

 cause the vines are covered with foliage, right to 

 the ground, and practically obscure the frame- 

 work. Many people plant honeysuckle on a 

 woven wire fence with wooden posts, but that 

 scheme is not good — topheavy, too thin at the 

 bottom, and short-lived. 



A lady at Grosse Pointe, IMichigan, has an inter- 

 esting substitute for baj' trees in her formal garden. 

 The centre piece of the garden is a laurel-leaved 

 willow, trained just like a box. It is about 12 ft. 

 high. Of course, it drops its leaves in winter, but 

 at a summer home this does not matter. This 

 arrangement does away with the expense and 

 articiahty of tubs. It is more interesting to have 

 your decorative tree grow right out of the ground, 

 and stay there winter and summer. The laurel- 

 leaved willow needs protection from high winds. 

 It can be restricted to any size you like. 



A hundred feet in a hundred years! That is 

 a good rate of growth for an avenue of trees. 

 There is such an avenue of "limes," or as we would 

 say lindens, at Gartincaber, Scotland. The 

 two rows are only fifteen feet apart, and the trees 

 being set too closely in the rows have been drawn 

 rapidly up to this great height. It is a neck- 

 breaking job to view such trees. There is no 

 comfort in looking up to the top of the famous 

 trees at Cambridge, either. Many of the cele- 

 brated avenues of Europe have this same defect. 

 Wider spaced avenues have greater beauty and 

 dignity. They may not be so spectacular to 

 tourists but they are lovelier to live with. 



The best two-leaved pine from foreign lands for 

 the northeastern part of the United States is the 

 Tapantse red pine (Pinus deusiflora). Don't plant 

 Scotch pine when you can get this, for it is really 

 long-lived. 



