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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1913 



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The Flowering Tobacco 



THE votaries of the "weed" look upon tobacco 

 only as a means of gratifying a desire originally 

 created out of curiosity. The votaries of the garden 

 recognize, in some of its forms, an essential element 

 of garden embellishment. 



The word tobacco is an East Indian name for the 

 tube or pipe in which they smoked, and from which 



The tasseled tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris). 4 to 6 

 ft. high, has large masses of white flowers which 

 remain open all day 



is derived the specific term, tabacum, the species 

 mainly grown in various parts of the world for 

 commercial purposes. The name Nicotiana was 

 given the genus by Linnaeus in honor of John Nico, 

 French Ambassador to Portugal in the sixteenth 

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The form usually grown for ornament is Nicotiana 

 alala, generally catalogued as N. affinis. It is 

 easily raised in the greenhouse or hotbed, and if 

 started early will bloom from July to frost. Its 

 long, tubular, white flowers open only in the 

 evening and are extremely sweet scented. 



N. sylvestris is a much more robust species with 

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Illinois. W. C. Egan. 



Natural Cold Storage 



IN MY orchard there is a tree which bears a 

 large apple, of which we do not know the name. 

 It ripens during September, and is not considered 

 a good keeper, although of excellent flavor. It is 

 yellow on one side, and striped red on the other. 

 The apples which were gathered from this tree 

 in 191 1 were used before November set in. 



We did not have any severely cold weather until 

 after New Year's, but from that date the ground 

 was continually covered with snow, and the ther- 

 mometer frequently registered ten degrees below 

 zero. 



On the eleventh of February the weather was 

 quite mild and the snow melted fast. I walked 

 into the orchard, and saw under this apple tree, 

 a bright red cheek. It was one of the above men- 

 tioned apples. One side was buried deep in the 

 snow. I had to dig away the frozen snow in order 

 to get it free. The side which was out of the snow 

 was beginning to soften, but the buried side was 

 solid. I took it to the house, expecting to find the 

 apple frozen. I kept it for three days; then I cut 

 it in two, and found one half in as good con- 

 dition as it would have been in September, and 

 the flavor much richer. 



Connecticut Julie Adams Powell. 



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