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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1913 



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Addison Broadhurst 



MASTER MERCHANT 



By 

 EDWARD MOTT WOOLLEY 



Author of 'Adventures in Business' 1 



E. M. WOOLLEY 



'"T^HE story of Addison Broadhurst is interesting because it rings true. 

 No product of fiction could be more thrilling than the life of this man 

 who, starting from the bottom, had the courage to overcome the difficulties 

 in his path and the foresight to make opportunity. It is the story of a 

 success, and what success is not inspiring? 



Addison Broadhurst tells his own story; of his starting to work in a small country grocery store; 

 of the long weeks he spent rinding a job- in the great city; of his rise in one position only to fail in the 

 next; of his plans when he launched his own enterprise and of its instantaneous growth until it •be- 

 came the largest department store in the city and he a Master Merchant. 



The record of his success and how it was attained he now hands down. "I want," he says, "no 

 greater monument than to leave this record for the guidance of men who are blundering through 

 business careers." 



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interest with which the owner of a great estate 

 reads in the papers the following morning that the 

 peonies, "staged by his able gardener," secured a 

 prize. He feels glad, I suppose; but as for you, your 

 heart is in your mouth with surprise and pride. 



The wrapped flowers will have to be returned to 

 their boxes and carried to the exhibition hall. 

 There your assigned place is awaiting you; the ugly 

 quart preserve jars, which they supply you to hold 

 your treasures, waiting, each with open mouth, 

 to take just one bloom. Unwrap the flowers, 

 shake them lightly, and they fall into lovely form 

 again at once. Regardless of aesthetic feeling, cut 

 the stem short enough to enable it to stand almost 

 entirely under water, the flower resting near the 

 edge of the glass. With all that water supply the 

 blooms stand their best chance of preserving their 

 freshness, until the three judges pass by; and even 

 for the days thereafter, when the Great Public comes 

 in, and you watch, trying not to look vain or con- 

 scious, while one of them copies into his notebook 

 the name of some particular beauty of yours. 



Oh! the excitement of the contest, and the pure 

 joy of it. The "cash" prizes will perhaps not pay 

 your expenses; what does that matter to you when 

 "First Prize" or "Special Mention" marks your 

 work for your beloved flower as well done? 



Would that any words of mine could persuade 

 you to try this delight for yourself. Join the Rose 

 or the Sweet Pea, or, if you follow my counsel, the 

 Peony Society; send for the premium list and then 

 go to its show as an exhibitor, even in a humble way. 

 Six blooms will often suffice to win your way in, 

 and you will know the joy of being an "insider." 

 Believe me, it is even greater than the joy of being, 

 as I sign myself, 



New York. A Winner. 



A Rare Garden Plant 



SOMEONE sent me a basket of papaws (Asi- 

 mina) from Indiana, some thirty or forty years 

 ago, and from these I raised at my home in Clinton, 

 N. Y., a single tree. It has borne heavily annually, 

 with a fruit about three to four inches long and 

 very much resembling a small banana. The con- 

 tents of these fruits is custard-like, and the flavor 

 very peculiar, not liked by a few, but nearly every- 

 one delighting in it. The flavor is somewhat like a 

 Japanese persimmon, but it is never astringent. 

 It should be picked as soon as soft, or a little 

 sooner, and placed in a cool room for use. It will 

 never become a good shipping fruit to a distant 

 market. 



Merely as an ornamental tree the papaw is 

 sufficiently beautiful to claim a place in the garden 

 or on the lawn, standing as it does from ten to twelve 

 feet high, with all the limbs drooping. In May it is 

 covered with large chocolate-colored and saucer- 

 shaped flowers, which become clusters of fruit in 

 October having three or four or five in a cluster. 

 I do not know anything more beautiful or valuable, 

 to add to a home garden than two or three of these 

 trees. I understand that in the West, where they 

 are found wild in river bottoms, they can be trans- 

 planted to the garden, but that seedlings can rarely 

 be secured. I have found the seed very difficult 

 to germinate, yet I think that by care we can not 

 only make them grow, but will be able to select 

 seedlings and secure improvements. The leaf is 

 very nearly identical with that of the persimmon, 

 and the wood has also that tendency to being brittle 

 which annoys us very much with our persimmon 

 grafts. 



In Florida I find another papaw, a dwarfed 

 variety, blossoming with the same chocolate flower 

 in early spring, and occasionally throughout the 

 summer. I have not been able to find, so far, any 

 fruit to exceed three inches in length and an inch 

 in diameter. I am carefully collecting and select- 

 ing, and expect to be able to greatly improve this 

 pretty little bush. I am quite sure that the gar- 

 dener or country home-maker who adds to his garden 

 a good collection of papaws, will not regret it. 

 It might be possible to induce the farmers of the 

 western river bottoms to send samples of the best 

 that they can find, to some one who would engage 

 in comparative growing. I should surely be very 

 glad to make arrangements for work of this sort. 



Florida. E. P. Powell. 



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