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per cent, and White Clover, 5 per cent. 
This is one of the places where White 
Clover is an essential. Under these con¬ 
ditions it fulfils its mission perfectly. 
While all the named kinds may not flour¬ 
ish, there will be enough to make the work 
successful. 
Choosing Flowers for Their Color 
(Continued from page 306) 
more of a lemon yellow. The graceful, 
long-spurred yellow columbine (Agueligia 
Chrysentha) is a good, soft color, a trifle 
deeper and brighter than a maize yellow. 
Of the annuals, the various calenduke 
are good; the palest tints are a pinkish 
cream, shading through deeper and deeper 
maize yellow until the warm cadmium and 
orange shades are reached. The yellow 
gladiolus “Canary Bird” is a good, deep 
maize yellow, but best of all is the ever- 
lovely phlox Drummondi, listed as “Isa- 
bellina” or “Primrose,” as perfect in color 
as Iris mvescens, but deeper and pinker— 
the palest buff. Could I have but one pale 
yellow in my garden, it would be this an¬ 
nual phlox. 
Turning to the clearer and brighter 
hues, we open the season with the fine, 
deep chrome yellow crocus, “Cloth of 
Gold.” Then come the clear lemon 
chrome of Viola cornuta “Sutca,” and the 
pale tint of the dear little English Prim¬ 
rose. A good early yellow, which, though 
almost a bright sulphur, has a strangely 
silvery quality, is Alyssum saxatile. This, 
like Anthemis tincteria, which has a daisy¬ 
like flower of light lemon chrome, may owe 
its silvery effect to its soft, gray-green 
foliage. The deeper lemon chrome, Ice¬ 
land Poppy, is a charming flower, of good 
color. 
The good, bright yellow tulips are al¬ 
most “too numerous to mention.” Yellow 
Pottebakker is a good early one, small, 
charming, black-anthered “Bouton d’Or,” 
a pretty late one, and between come all 
sorts of beauties, which are more accu¬ 
rately described than most—it is hard to 
go far wrong in buying bright yellow tu¬ 
lips ! A few of the irises, notably I. Ger- 
manica “Aurea,” are good clear yellow, 
but most of them have bronze or reddish 
markings. The wild yellow flog, I. pseudo- 
corns, has a flower of good color. 
The very double, very shiny, old-fash¬ 
ioned gold button (Ranunculus repens) is 
a creeping double buttercup of brightest 
lemon chrome, so bright as to be almost 
real gold. The “California” primrose 
(Ginothera fruiticosa var. Youngii) is a 
pretty flower of a bright pale lemon yel¬ 
low. The well-known Coreopsis lanceo- 
lata, though a bit rampant, is a good color. 
The lemon lily (Hemerocailis Hava) is a 
soft chrome yellow, and the variety H. 
Thunbergii, a charming, creamy orange 
yellow. A flower much used in England, 
and deserving of more notice here, is the 
Unseen Forces Behind Your Telephone 
T HE telephone instrument is a common sight, but it affords no idea of the 
magnitude of the mechanical equipment by which it is made effective. 
To give you some conception of the great number of persons and the enormous 
quantity of materials required to maintain an always-efhcient service, various 
comparisons are here presented. 
The cost of these materials unassembled is only 
45 % of the cost of constructing the telephone plant. 
Poles 
enough to build a stock¬ 
ade around California — 
12,480,000 of them, worth 
in the lumber yard about 
$40,000,000. 
Wire 
to coil around the earth 
621 times—13,460,000 
miles of it, worth about 
$100,000,000, includ¬ 
ing 260,000 tons of 
copper, worth $88,- 
000 , 000 . 
Lead and Tin 
to load 6,600 coal cars 
—being 659,960,000 
pounds, worth more 
than $37,000,000. 
Conduits 
to go five times through 
the earth from pole to 
pole —225,778,000 
feet, worth in the ware¬ 
house $9,000,000. 
Telephones 
enough to string around 
Lake Erie—8,000,000 
of them, 5,000,000 Bell- 
owned, which, with 
equipment, cost at the 
factory $45,000,000. 
Switchboards 
in a line would extend 
thirty-six miles—55,000 
of them, which cost, un¬ 
assembled, $90,000,000. 
Buildings 
sufficient to house a city of 
1 50,000—more than a thou¬ 
sand buildings, which, un¬ 
furnished, and without land, 
cost $44,000,000. 
People 
equal in numbers to the 
entire population of Wy¬ 
oming— 150,000 Bell Sys¬ 
tem employes, not in¬ 
cluding those of connect¬ 
ing companies. 
The poles are set all over this country, and strung with wires and cables; the 
conduits are buried under the great cities; the telephones are installed in separate 
homes and offices; the switchboards housed, connected and supplemented witK 
other machinery, and the whole Bell System kept in running order so that each, 
subscriber may talk at any time, anywhere. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
One Policy One System Universal Service 
Before Ordering Your Gladiolus Bulbs 
send for our Catalog which contains descriptions 
of the best that Europe and America have 
produced, including many varieties not listed 
elsewhere — all grown in our own gardens. 
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Wellesley, Mass. 
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