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pro rata among the holders of the profit sharing certificates, 
according to the amount held by each. 
Only the employees who have been with the company 
one year will be allowed to purchase these profit sharing 
certificates. It is guaranteed by the Oregon Nursery 
Company that the certificate shall not earn less than 6% 
on the investment. Each employee investing in these 
certificates will be given a certificate of a like amount up to 
and including $100.00, with the understanding that 6% 
interest will be deducted from the profits earned by the 
additional certificate. 
A board is appointed to pass upon and approve of all 
applications made for the Profit Sharing Certificates. Any 
employee holding one of these certificates and desiring to 
leave the company permanently during the year, or any 
whom the company may wish to retire, will be paid face value 
of the certificate with 6% interest from date of the certificate 
until retired. 
In order to aid and encourage those who have not been 
in the employ of the company a year, it is agreed that deposits 
may be made with the company upon which they will receive 
6 % interest, thus encouraging them to save their earnings 
until such time when they may purchase profit sharing certifi¬ 
cates. 
The certificates are good for one year and must be sur¬ 
rendered at the annual meeting, of the stockholders on the 
first Monday in August, at which time if the plan is to be 
repeated another year, new certificates will be issued. 
At this date the response has been far beyond our expecta¬ 
tions and gives a representative expression from the body of 
employees. We hope the plan will foster a sentiment of 
unity which will be of mutual profit to employer and em¬ 
ployee. 
Oregon Nursery Company, 
Per R. E. Parsons, 
Assistant Secretary and Treas. 
PERENNIAL PHLOXES 
As an occupant of the informal perennial border, phlox 
is one of the most satisfactory. As a summer and autumn 
bloomer, it may be relied upon. As a plant which when 
established multiplies itself and gives the owner the satis¬ 
faction of dividing and subdividing his clumps, it is all that 
can be desired. 
Extraordinary improvement has taken plaee in the 
perennial phloxes in the past ten years. Both French and 
German hybridists have been at work, and the range of 
color, size of the bloom, has been greatly increased. 
The white varieties have always appealed to the writer. 
They ai;e among the earliest of the group, though not among 
the strongest growers. Some of them are notably free, 
however, from the attacks of red spider, which is an enemy 
to be reckoned with in the culture of this form of the phlox. 
A writer in a recent number of The Garden Magazine recom¬ 
mends Von Lassburg, Helena Vacaresco,^Purity, and Miss 
Lingard as desirable white varieties. 
Among the scarlets with salmon tinge, the same writer 
recommends Goliath and Brilliant. Of the true scarlets. 
George H. Strohlein and Baron Van Dedam are said to be 
exceptionally fine. Among the crimsons, Comte Von Hoch- 
berg is popular, while Captain Wilhelmy and Rosenberg, 
the latter a very large flowered variety, are favorites with 
those who grow phloxes in profusion. 
Among the pinks, Beranger, Madame Paul Dutrie, and 
Buchner are recommended. Of course, the term pink is 
somewhat generic, and represents a variety of shades into 
which may be grouped several distinctive forms upon the 
basis of color tints. 
The perennial phlox exhibits a great variety of color, 
and we go from pink to rose and so on through magenta, 
carmine, to blue, lavender, and the like. Of the roses, 
Paul Martin and Pantheon are good representatives. Of 
the blues, Le Mahdi is strikingly characteristic of the shade 
of the English violet. Merlin and Javanaise, two of Le- 
moine’s creations, are highly recommended. Among the 
purples, Gypsy and King, Franklin and La Nuit are highly 
spoken of, and among the carmines, Edmond Bossier and 
Obergartner Wittig are two of the best. 
Among the parti-colored are Belle Alliance, Richard 
Wallace, and Aglae Adanson; crimson and white, and De 
Mirbel, rose and white. Of the lavenders and lilacs, Antonin 
Mercie and Daniel Leseur are increasing in popularity. 
Phlox specialists speak of grey shades in the'flowers of this 
group, but one can hardly believe that a flower of this color 
would be specially attractive. The writer in The Garden 
Magazine referred to is of the opinion that these shades 
are unfixed productions, in other words, forms in the process 
of evolution. We agree with the writer that as a rule the 
solid colors are the most attractive. , 
The phlox for its highest development needs a good deal 
of moisture and a strong soil. Dryness and heavy clays 
do not agree with it, and troubles soon arise. The phlox is 
exceedingly hardy and is to be numbered with the herbaceous 
plants adapted for cultivation in the cold North and West. 
The phlox, the iris, and the peony form a garden trio difficult 
to surpass from the standpoint of vigor, beauty of flowers, 
and ease of culture. 
THE SEPTEMBER AMERICAN BOY 
The September issue of The American Boy fairly overflows with 
good reading matter. In quantity as well as in quality the publishers 
have this month exceeded the high average which they maintain for 
this model boys’ magazine. 
The articles on How to Play Football, written by members of the 
All-American Eleven, the first of which appears in this issue, promise 
great things in the way of interest as well as instruction for the followers 
of the great autumn sport. The September articles are by Sanford B. 
White, of Princeton, and Leland , 8 . Devore, of West Point. 
How a Motor Car Runs, by Lee Anderson, is a remarkable technical 
article making clear the construction and mechanism of this modern 
wonder. It is an article for father as well as son. 
Besides the two attractive serials, special articles of note, and the 
usual valuable departments, there are six short stories of merit. Two 
of these are humorous stories of the better sort, and the others whole¬ 
some tales of thrilling adventure. 
The introductions of humorous drawing by artists of national 
repute adds a pleasing touch to this already attractive publication. 
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