House and Garden 
Among bush honeysuckles the one 
known as Lomcera Morrowi is a great 
favorite because of its bright red berries, 
which it bears in such immense quanti¬ 
ties in the summer months. All the 
bush honeysuckles are propagated either 
by seeds, soft wood cuttings in summer 
or hard wood cuttings made in winter 
and set out in spring. 
The false larch, so called, Pseudo- 
larix Kcempfen, is a beautiful tree. 
Though deciduous, as all larches are, it 
has an appearance in summer of a hr, 
its foliage being between those of a larch 
and a hr. In late autumn the foliage 
becomes of a yellow tinge. 
Tsuga Mertensiana, the western hem¬ 
lock spruce, is thought not hardy, but 
there are specimens of it about Philadel¬ 
phia which thrive very well. William- 
soni, another one, considered synony¬ 
mous with Hookeriana, is also hardy 
thereabout. 
In former days it was the custom of 
European nurserymen to remove the 
strip of wood from a bud before budding 
with it, and this may still be the rule. 
But our own nurserymen consider its 
removal entirely unnecessary, and insert 
the bud just as it is cut from the shoot 
furnishing it. 
Among midsummer flowering shrubs 
of merit place the several vitexes. Of 
V it ex A gnes-castus, there are three 
colors—white, lilac, and deep lilac. 
1 hen there is another species, incisa. 
All are summer blooming. 
The best mulch of all for plants in 
summer is that of fine dust. This is 
secured by frequent harrowings when¬ 
ever the soil is in a suitable condition for 
it. Mulching of leaves, short grass and 
the like is apt to cause roots to approach 
the surface, which is not desirable. 
^Joseph Meehan in Florists’ Exchange. 
A WONDERFUL JAPANESE CARVING 
G)NL of the most marvellous workmen 
in the world is Hananuma Masaki- 
chi, of Tokio, Japan, who has carved a 
figure in wood so like himself that when 
the two are placed side by side it is said to 
be almost impossible to tell which lives 
and breathes and which does not. By 
Fiction Number 
The Ghost at Point of Rocks 
By Frank H. Spearman Author of “Whispering Smith” 
Young Hugh Morrison was put on “a night job” at 
the loneliest desert station on a great Western road, with 
the idea that this would prove the most effective way to 
“give the boy a quick railroad death.” The story of his 
experiences, including the mystery and romance sur¬ 
rounding the ruin of “the great brick house,” is one of 
absorbing interest. Illustrated by W. T. Benda. 
The Commandeering of the Lucy 
Foster By James B. Connolly 
Readers of Mr. Connolly’s “Out of Gloucester” will 
lie glad to meet Captain Wesley Marrs again and to learn 
how he managed to get his load of herring out of Fortune 
Bay, and of how the agent of the Crown was made to 
serve the purposes of the shrewd Yankee skipper. There 
is a fine description of the way the “Lucy” was maneu¬ 
vered to give an imitation of a vessel in distress. 
With an illustration by W. ,T. Aylward 
The Grandfathers of the Evolution 
By Nelson Lloyd 
Few of our short-story writers have shown as much 
originality both in plot and treatment of character as Mr. 
Lloyd. This is a distinctly novel conception, full of humor 
and shrewd observations upon some familiar phases of 
American ancestor-worship, illustrated by.). m. Flagg 
u Lascar” By Lt. Hugh Johnson 
An army story of an unusual sort. The chief charac¬ 
ters are three old veterans of L Troop of the Nth U. S. 
Horse, Captain Wendell Benner, his orderly, Danvers, 
and the latter’s horse, “Lascar.” The bond of comrade¬ 
ship that unites the three is brought out with fine touches 
of humor and pathos. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth 
Waldo Trench Regains His Youth 
By Henry B. Fuller 
The background of the story is Italy. “Waldo 
Trench, I take it, was one of the youngest things that ever 
happened. These few pages from the note-book of a mid¬ 
dle-aged observer will tell how he grew older; then how, 
through the application of force majeure at a critical 
stage of his career, he became young again.” 
Illustrated by J. M. Flagg 
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