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not worth even keeping at all. Think of 
the patience! To begin with cross fer¬ 
tilizing blossoms and guarding them; 
then planting the seeds thus produced; 
then waiting for these to come up; and 
then waiting for them to grow up after 
they have come up, until they are old 
enough to blossom themselves; and then 
to throw them all away, root and branch, 
if they fail to meet a certain standard ! 
Why, one needs to be a Job and a Me- 
thuseleth combined to go in for this sort 
of thing, I vow ! 
Hybrid teas are the roses which now 
approach nearest the ideal for the gar¬ 
den, for they do bloom all summer; most 
of them are fragrant, and they are not 
impossibly tender: But, oh! how I wish 
they would hurry up and mix rugosas 
and hybrid teas and hybrid perpetuals, 
and whatever other ingredients are neces¬ 
sary, and give us the warranted-hardy- 
delicious - smelling-beautiful-double-flow- 
ered-free-from-bugs-and-disease rose, in 
all the colors, which our hearts are crav¬ 
ing! “Doesn't seem much to ask,” says 
Polly Addicks, really sulky about it, 
“when you see what has been done.” 
For our gardens we were told to have 
no teas unless we were willing to pro¬ 
tect “thoroughly”; to have many hybrid 
teas and protect these “moderately”; and 
not to give much space to hybrid perpet¬ 
uals unless we had some special favorites 
among them. I, for example, have al¬ 
ways loved a “Jack” rose because of its 
association with my frivolous coming-out 
age, an armful of these as large as my¬ 
self having figured conspicuously in a 
certain very sentimental scene about that 
time—so of good rousing General Jacque¬ 
minot I have several, and always shall 
have several. To make them somewhere 
near perpetual — the name is a cheat! — I 
am this year going to try cutting back 
the branch that has flowered, as he sug¬ 
gested, almost to the main stalk. They 
will put forth a new branch treated thus, 
and very often—though not always, I 
judge — this new branch will blossom. 
Anyway, it is worth trying. 
Together, Polly Addicks and I have 
worked out a wonderful “efficiency gar¬ 
dening” scheme this summer — and this is 
one of the fine things about a garden 
club, by the way. It makes for this sort 
of mutual interchange of ways and 
means, and gets things running smoothly 
for you when you have never been able 
to get them running smoothly for your¬ 
self. And, thanks to this scheme, I am 
really enjoying my small rose garden for 
the first time. 
Counting in this year's additions, I have 
about eighty roses; and my schedule, 
which hangs beside the door of the sit¬ 
ting room up-stairs, calls for “Tuesday: 
7 to 8 A. M., spray roses,” following 
“Monday: Dissolve soap for rose spray.” 
This have I followed religiously ever 
since the Tuesday nearest to April 15th; 
No-Rim-Cut Tires 
Dropped 28% 
During 1913 NoRim-Cut tire prices dropped 
28 per cent. They dropped so fast, so far, that 
16 makers have declined to follow. 
Now comes this situation: 
Sixteen makes of tires are selling higher than 
Goodyear prices. Some are nearly one-half 
higher. Higher, mark you, than No-Rim-Cut 
tires—the tires which once cost one-fifth more 
than other standard tires. 
The Reason Is— 
Mammoth Production 
The difference lies in quantity. In this new 
factory with its new equipment we are building 
up to 10,000 motor tires per day. Perhaps 
twice as many as the largest rival plant. 
Factory cost has dropped immensely as our 
output ^multiplied. And every saving goes to 
you. Last year our profit averaged only 6 yi 
per cent. 
Those are the only 
reasons why we under¬ 
sell 16 other makes. 
Extra 
Features 
In fabric and rubber 
we give you in Good- 
years the best tire 
men know how to 
build. Our experts 
have tried a thousand 
ways to lower cost 
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No-Rim-Cut Tires 
With All-Weather Treads or Smooth 
per mile, and they say that No-Rim-Cut tires 
mark the present-day limit. It is simply 
unthinkable that any maker has learned a 
better way to build tires. 
We give you in addition four great features 
found in no other tire. 
We give you the No-Rim-Cut feature, which 
we control, and which has ended rim-cutting 
completely. 
We give you the “On-Air” cure, which saves 
the countless blow-outs due to wrinkled fabric. 
This one extra process adds to our tire cost 
#1,500 daily. 
We give you a method — controlled by patent 
— which lessens by 60 per cent, the risk of loose 
treads. And we give you the double-thick All- 
Weather tread, the one anti-skid which runs like 
a plain tread — which is flat and smooth and 
regular. 
No-Rim-Cut Popularity 
No-Rim-Cut tires, 
even when high-priced, 
came to outsell any 
other. And now, after 
millions have been put 
to the mileage test, we 
are selling 55 per cent, 
more tires than in any 
previous year. 
They offer you the 
utmost in a tire at the 
lowest price possible 
now. At a lower price 
than 16 other makes 
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Rolling will press the soil back around the roots and 
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which ants and moles will not work. 
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