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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1913 



A New Novel 



By 



Grace S. Richmond 



Author of 



"Red Pepper Burns" 



"On Christmas Day in the 



Morning," Etc. 



Mrs. Red Pepper 



YOU remember "Red Pepper Burns?" Well, the doctor and his wife 

 enjoyed their own married life so much that they just couldn't help plot- 

 ting against their friends. It's another doctor and a pretty Southerner 

 they conspire against after getting them where they can't run away. You'll 

 find "Red" is just the same big-hearted, likable fellow he was before, hasn't 

 grown a day older, and you'll meet lots of other old friends. 



£T No book of Mrs. Richmond's has found such a wide popularity as "Red 

 ^^ Pepper Burns." Though published two years ago it is selling every- 

 where. The new story is a continuation of the other — though in no way 

 dependent upon it. Mrs. Richmond has merely given us a glimpse of the 

 married life of the young doctor and his delightful wife and you will fully enjoy 

 their more eventful life. 



Four attractive illustrations, two 



of which are reproduced here in 



smaller size. Decorated Wrapper. 



$1.25 net. 



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tree, or clump of trees, situated some six or eight 

 miles northeast of us in what was known as ' Upper 

 West Prairie,' but as the wild tales were too much 

 to be believed, coming from a class of old settlers 

 whom we. knew to be given to exaggeration, we 

 paid no attention to the matter until about ten 

 years ago, when we made a trip during the bloom- 

 ing season and saw what a valuable thing had stood 

 there, as near as we could find out from old settlers, 

 about forty years. We at once made arrange- 

 ments with Mr. Woodbridge, in whose pasture the 

 original clump of trees were standing, to propagate 

 and introduce them to the trade. As the trees 



Bechtel's double flowering crab has flowers two 

 inches across and is the most showy of the orna- 

 mental apples 



were identical with the single-flowered wild crab 

 growing around and in the same clump, we had to 

 mark these during blossoming time, so as not to 

 make any mistake in procuring buds or cions. 

 The indications all go to show that it is an accidental 

 sport from the single flowering wild crab." 



teas' weeping mulberry 



In 1883 Mr. John C. Teas, of Carthage, Mo., 

 found growing in his nursery, among a batch of 

 seedlings of the Russian mulberry, one plant that 

 sprawled upon the ground instead of growing in 

 the usual upright form. This plant is still living, 

 and is less than four feet tall. Buds from it were 

 "worked" upon an upright growing form, and 

 thus Teas' weeping mulberry was introduced to the 

 horticultural world. One tree, budded at about 

 six feet, was exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition 

 in 1904, but it was not distributed for general 

 planting until one year later. It is quite difficult 

 to bud or graft it on stock more than six feet tall, but 

 I have one worked at a height of nine feet, which is 

 now fifteen feet tall, an unusual height. 



HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENS, VAR. SffERILIS 



In 1902 or 1903 Mr. James Semple, of Semple's 

 China aster fame, and Mr. John A. Shafer, at one 

 time Secretary of the Alleghany (Pa.) Botanical 

 Society, while out in the woods one day, discovered 

 a sterile form of our native tree hydrangea (H. 

 arborcscens) growing wild. Mr. Semple, being 

 an observing florist, saw at once the value of his 

 find, and brought it home to his garden and pro- 

 ceeded to propagate it. It is now upon the market 

 under various common names such as snowball 

 hydrangea, hills of snow, grandiflora alba, and 

 American everblooming hydrangea. It com- 

 menced to bloom in June and continued until 

 frost, the faded flowers turning to a greenish hue, 

 which color they retain until near frost. This is a 

 more accommodating plant than its cousin H. 

 paniculala in that it will stand considerable shade, 



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