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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



NOTEMIEK, 1913 



I soon shall be in mining camps, 



And then I'll look around, 

 And when I see the gold-dust there, 



I'll pick it off the ground. 

 I'll scrape the mountains clean, old girl, 



I'll drain the rivers dry ; 

 I'm off for California. 



Susannah, don't you cry ! 

 Oh, Susannah ! don't you cry for me ! 

 I'm off to California with my wash- 

 bowl on my knee. 



GOLD 



— A tale of the 'Forty-niners 

 By STEWART EDWARD WHITE 



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 the West; the wild scramble in the East to reach the scene; thousands 

 of men, young and old, leaving their city homes for the great ad- 

 venture of their lives; the journey to California by way of Panama; San 

 Francisco, a mushroom city buzzing like a bazaar and full of montebanks, 

 gentlemen of the road, miners, the seething mass of a motley population 

 drawn from all points of the compass. This is the background against 

 which Stewart Edward White sets the romantic story of his little party of 

 four who go West to seek their fortunes. It is a pidture of one period of 

 American history that will never lose its wonder and its glamor. 



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Crab Orel 



Hot Springs, Ark. 

 Atlanta. Ga. 

 Owlght, 111. 

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 Crab Orchard, Ky. 



Portland, Me. 

 Omaha, Neb. 

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Philadelphia. Pa.. 813 N. Broad st. 



Pittsburgh, Pa., 4946 Fifth ave. 



Dallas. Tex. 



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Seattle, Wash. 



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 Winnipeg. Manitoba 

 Guatemala City, 



Guatemala 

 Puebla, Mexico. 

 London, England. 



This one seems, at first glance, as though it were a 

 castor bean or aralia, but upon closer examination 

 the leaves are found to be much more and deeper 

 divided. There are ten to twelve segments and 

 the leaf is six inches in diameter. It is useful only 

 as a foliage plant, for the flowers are small and 

 inconspicuous, and it is a plant seldom grown. 



The plant makes an upright growth and seldom 

 branches to any extent, but very pretty plants can 

 be had by pinching out the top when the plant is 

 only ten or twelve inches high. This will cause 

 side shoots to start. 



To propagate, tip cuttings are used. On the 

 plant illustrated there is a shoot starting in the axil 

 of each leaf. These are to be carefully taken out. with 



This may look like a castor bean plant, but it 

 really is Begonia digitata 



a little heel, if possible, and put in the cutting 

 bench, the leaves having been cropped a little to 

 diminish the leaf surface. The best time to propa- 

 gate is in the winter when there is plenty of 

 bottom heat in the cutting bench. 



All begonias delight in a rich soil in which there 

 is plenty of humus, and this one is no exception 

 to the rule. A soil made from two parts fibrous 

 loam, one part leaf mold, one part well-decayed 

 manure and one part sand will give excellent 

 results. It requires a night temperature of 55 to 

 60 degrees with a rise of 10 or 15 degrees during 

 the day. P. T. Barnes. 



A Tractable Windflower 



OF THE two common native windflowers in 

 our part of New England, I find the rue 

 anemone (Syndesmon thalictroid.es) as tractable 

 when transplanted to the home grounds as the 

 wood anemone {A. nemorosa) is the reverse. 

 Though I plant the latter under shrubs, I can not 

 persuade it to flower. The rue anemone, on the 

 other hand, has done so well by me that I should 

 like to recommend it — not so much for the garden 

 proper as for the shrubbery. It lifts easily, as it 

 is tuberous, whereas Anemone nemorosa, which I 

 believe has become A. quinquefolia since I studied 

 botany, has a most elusive root stock that makes 

 it very difficult to dig up. 



Connecticut. H. S. A. 



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