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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1913 



It is especially important that young business 

 men should read 



"CROWDS 



» 



the new book by Gerald Stanley Lee. 



Men of the generation that is passing, while 

 they hold the world in their hands today, must soon 

 relinquish it to the generation that awaits. 



It is important that young men who are waiting 

 to take over a world, and who must soon manage it 

 somehow, should understand just what it is they are 

 about to take over, and should come to some sort of 

 conclusions as to just what they propose to do with it. 



"Crowds" provides two things — an inspired 

 picture of the world as it actually is today, not as it 

 was ten years ago, or yesterday, but as it is today ; 

 and an equally inspired prophecy of what it is go- 

 ing to be tomorrow. 



The book is not a formula for a new civilization, which might 

 come to pass if men and institutions were something they are not- 

 It is a program for the men who have got to live in the civilization 

 we now have and who have got to work out their salvation, if at all, 

 with the tools and materials of a practical present — 'not with the 

 tools and materials of an Utopian future. 



No business man and no professional man — and especially no 

 young man — is giving himself quite a fair chance in our competitive 

 civilization until he reads " Crowds." 



James Howard Kehler. 



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Tulips That I Like 



A SCARCE, pale yellow, early tulip, chosen at 

 random a year ago from some Holland lists, 

 did very well with me last spring. It is Hermann 

 Schlegel, with the shape of White Hawk, keeping 

 its goblet shape through all weathers. Its color 

 and quality are most unusual. Of the softest 

 yellow — on a palette one would mix it of chrome 

 and Chinese white — it is for a few days flamed 

 with delicate Nile green up the outside of the petals. 

 After a week, the green turns to the uniform pale 

 yellow. 



Then a suggestion of rose color begins on the 

 tips of the petals, and runs down the edges in a 

 thread line. The green and pink markings are so 

 light, however, as not to alter the soft yellow tint 

 of the tulip seen from a few feet away. The flower 

 is most exquisite when cut, particularly for table 

 use with artificial light. The anthers are pale 

 yellow and never dirty. The stems are from nine 

 inches to a foot long. 



Early Paul Moreelse and late Rosalind are two 

 tulips that so repeat each other that a bed of the 

 two, mixed, gives full three weeks of the same clear 

 rose pink. The tint is deeper than that of Kil- 

 larney rose, being indeed more exactly duplicated 

 in geraniums than in roses. Both tulips are 

 standard varieties, cheap and abundant, of the 

 reliable sorts which give fifty flowers for fifty bulbs 

 without any more coddling than plenty of water 

 on the ground, not on the flowers. Many amateurs 

 irrigate their tulips on the wrong end of the plant, 

 and then wonder why the flowers fall. As sensibly 

 might one locate a hot-air furnace in the attic, and 

 with it try to heat the house! 



Cheap tulips, paradoxically, are the sorts worth 

 most in a garden. In twenty cases out of twenty, 

 the cheap sorts — earlies, Mays, Cottage, Darwins, 

 and all ■ — are not cheap because they do not sell, 

 but because they have constitution. They multi- 

 ply for the amateur; they teem, swarm, and cure 

 well for the Holland professional grower. That 

 is the kind of flower for busy people, commuters, 

 spasmodic gardeners, and owners of a floral hoodoo. 

 Cheap tulips are nearly automatic, under reasonable 

 conditions. 



Tulip Sultan, a Darwin and only medium late, 

 is as good a money's worth as any Holland bulb 

 for the American garden. In season, it comes 

 three days before lilies-of-the-valley begin to open, 

 a floral date as widely recognizable as anything I 

 can fix. The Sultan is as hardy and reliable every- 

 way as its small pace-maker, too. In color, it is 

 like polished rosewood done to a piano finish, with 

 the graining evident. It is weather-proof. Its 

 leaves are gray green and heavy, four or five to a 

 plant. Frequently it branches, giving a secondary 

 flower on the main stem, and most bulbs contrive 

 to throw two main stems. The flowers stand 

 upright and cupshaped, thirty inches above the 

 ground; their long stems have a whitish, delicate 

 bloom like a Niagara grape rubbed shiny with 

 handling. 



It is not fragrant in the usual tulip way, nor 

 bad-smelling like the beautiful Clara Butt (which 

 is so lovely planted with Sultan and a good 

 white), but is scented like a cake of honey. Sultan, 

 by the way, is a gross feeder, and semi-aquatic if 

 its preferences be consulted. It is also one of the 

 cheapest of the good Darwins. 



A tulip which must be kept away from all pinks 

 and purples, on pain of inspiring choking sensations 

 in the beholder's throat, is the late La Merveille. 

 It begins to flower with a short stem and a curious 

 bricky bud very long and shaped like a finger roll. 

 It grows steadily redder, and after four or five days 

 is as tall as the ordinary bizarres of mixtures. La 

 Merveille's leaves are close to the ground, its stem 

 naked and bending to follow the sun, but not weak. 

 The full-grown flower reaches immense size, larger 

 than T. Gesneriana, var. spathulata by an inch of 

 diameter. For their length the petals are narrow, 

 and contrive to get themselves into positions mak- 

 ing the interlaced triangles of Oriental sanctity. 

 The base of the flower is yellow, zoned with a slight 

 olive line, the anthers cream; the inside and out- 

 side of the flower giving the same tint, as is not al- 

 together common in the Darwins. It is deliciously 

 primrose scented. 



It would be a magnificent plant to place against 





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