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THE GARDE N M A G A Z I N 



January, 1913 



A New O. Henry Book 



ROLLING STONES 



By O. HENRY 



THIS book will be a real treasure of 

 discoveries to that steadily growing 

 legion of readers who find in 0. Henry 

 what they are looking for. 



It contains material that has been buried 

 in obscure attics for years, records of his early 

 brilliant work that were so thoroughly lost 

 that he, himself, had forgotten them. 



In this volume is a sheaf of a dozen letters, 

 written early and late in his life, and full of 

 his qualities; half a dozen hitherto unknown 

 photographs of the man; and some quaint pen 

 and ink and wash drawings from the young 

 artist, who in his twenties, spent what time 

 he could in caricaturing the population of 

 Austin, Texas. Among the contents are verses, 

 light and of ambitious aim, ten short stories, 

 some of which are entirely unknown; and 

 part of the whimsical contents of this paper, 

 "The Rolling Stone," copies of which had 

 been lost for years. 



This is the last of twelve volumes that com- 

 plete 0. Henry's works. The name "Rolling 

 Stones," is derived from the paper. 



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See Tom and the dog. 

 Will Tom hurt the dog? 

 Oh, no! Tom will not hurt 



the dog. 

 Tom will give the dog a bite 



to eat. 



Every one knows O. Henry the 

 writer, but few knew his gift for 

 making cartoons as laughable as 

 the above picture, which is re- 

 produced with several of its kind 

 in the new volume. Pie drew 

 and commented upon every- 

 thing from life in Austin, Texas, 

 to the trials of an author. 

 These pictures are humorous 

 and enjoyable. 



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things in proportion! It was absurd. The place 

 was a veritable Jungle, yet all around it was nec- 

 essary to use a pick to break the soil. 



Since using sawdust, all this has been changed. 

 The soil is friable, easily worked, and holds moisture. 

 I get along with half the quantity of water, and 

 things grow to their natural proportions. The 

 plants that require large quantities of nitrogen, 

 phosphoric acid, or potash, are fed with chemicals 

 containing those substances; but, owing to the 

 nature of the soil and the large quantity of humus, 

 plants seem to demand less nitrogen and phosphoric 

 acid. 



Things flourish in the most astonishing way. 

 To give some idea of the abnormal growth, a scarlet 

 passion vine (Passiflora manicata) that I planted as 

 a little, 18-inch vine twenty-two months ago, is 

 now covering sixty feet of wire fencing; seeds of 

 Eucalyptus globulus, planted at the same time, 

 have grown into trees twenty to twenty-five feet 

 high. 



It has occurred to me that, while, at the present 

 time, the use of sawdust and shavings is typical 

 of the Southwest, it might, under some circum- 

 stances, be worth trying in the East. While 

 staying at a farm house in Nova Scotia, some years 

 ago, my host told me that in one of his fields, the 

 soil of which was largely clay, he had been unable 

 to grow anything. Finally, in exasperation, he 

 spread six inches of sawdust on the surface, and 

 plowed it in. He was the laughing stock of the 

 neighborhood, at the time, but, as he explained, the 

 field was no good, anyway, and he could not make 

 it worse. He allowed it to remain fallow for a 

 year, and then sowed it to oats. Since that time, 

 he averred, he has raised a number of different 

 crops, and it always comes out the banner field of 

 the farm! 



California. F. H. Mason. 



An Instance of the Mendellian 

 Law 



TWO years ago, my wife purchased some white 

 beans, such as are used for baking. I selected 

 a number and planted them. When I came to 

 gather the crop, to my amazement more than 25 

 per cent, were jet black. Last spring, the black 

 ones were planted — no white ones at all — be- 

 tween the poles for the lima beans. On gathering 

 the crop, about 60 per cent, were pure white and 

 much larger than the black beans that were planted. 

 Some of the black beans had also been planted 

 fully fifty feet away from any other kind of beans, 

 with the same results as to color. 



My opinion of this is that the former must 

 have hybridized with the limas in order to produce 

 larger white beans; but did the latter planting 

 revert to the original white color? Has anyone 

 ever had any similar experience? — William H. 

 Ivins, Pennsylvania. 



— (This experience with the beans is a clear illus-' 

 tration of the Mendellian law. Gregor Mendel 

 himself used peas as the basis of his experimental 

 work and worked out the law of definite results in 

 hybrid generations in the color of the grains just 

 in the same way as you have run across it in beans. 

 Peas and beans being closely allied, we expect to 

 find manifestations alike. The Mendellian law 

 shows in general that characters are reproduced 

 in the succeeding generations in definite ratios; 

 that, for instance, if you hybridize a black and a 

 white bean you will produce three groups of hybrids. 

 Of these three groups, two groups, or 66 per cent, 

 roughly speaking, will look alike. Let us assume 

 that they appear black. The other one-third or 

 H per cent, will be white. 



If you sow the black hybrids again you will 

 find the same general ratio will, in succeeding 

 generations, gradually bring out pure bred whites 

 from one half of the original 66 per cent., while the 

 other half of the 66 per cent, remains constantly 

 black. These are referred to in scientific language 

 as dominants and recessives. It is a very interest- 

 ing study and if you will carry your researches any 

 farther we would urge you to read a wonderfully 

 interesting book entitled "Mendelism," by Pro- 

 fessor Punnet. This has many illustrations and 

 diagrams and is as fascinating as any romance. — 

 The Editors.) 



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