And on either side of the river wes there the tree of life, whith 
beer twelve manner of fruit, end yelded her fruit eveiy month, 
. It is emazing, the number of prophecies dealing with the coming 
Aingdom of God upon eerth, which have reference to some ohese of gard- 
ening, We see the beginning of the fulfillment of this proohecy in the 
fruit trees now being offered, -which cerry several varieties of fruit 
On one: root, This hes not Peon i cerried. ito anything’ like the extent of 
woileh, it--ds capeble, 
Iuther Purbank told en interviewer that in the beck yard of his 
3enta Rosa home, was room Lorvomlywoné.tree,’ He. ond his wife decided 
on an AvDle tree, partly because of the beeucy ofeit's sori £ blooms, 
On the original sorout, he grefted or budded nine others, mékinz ten 
gn; e le: He selected varieties blooming in Succession, which Sreatly 
lengthened the seeson of bloomin., and which elso Tapiec. iach iinesar 
ripenine, Ziving them Apoles through the yecr, from early to the winter 
x<eepers, 
t 
A Man writing in Better Homes enc Gerdens, some yeers eZo; told 
of his experiment with en ordinary Flowering Almond, This bush is 
St6tI 1S wbut elosely related) to the. Pesch anc Almond families. On this 
bush, he bucded three Varieties of Peaches, early, mid seeson and late, 
one “Apricot; one Neetz.ine, end one nut bearing Almond. . At the time of 
writing, all the frui¢ brenches. hed borne full sized fruit, of -2ood 
quality end the Almond brench hed borne catkins, 
seems to me thet one practicél.means of helping bring on the King- 
dom; is to leern Grafting end buddcine, experiment end report the 
results. 
| ‘My Africen Succulents heve stood the droughth best of any of my 
plants, 
Miss Violet hunger, of Bernallilo, Ney Mexico, has bsen kind e- 
nough to loan me some textbooks on Succulents published undex the 
eauspicés of the Cactus ene Succulent Society of America, Am having a 
great time identifying mine, I find that the pvlent sent me labelled 
Crassula Schmidtii, and “hich JI have sold uncer thet name,. is really 
Xalenchoe Pectschenkoi, Normally the leaves cre a soft rey green, 
but when it bvegen ta really suffer with the Orovughth, they begen to 
turn purvle., Now Flourishing and of normel color. ‘This ovlent provo- 
gates by lecves. Remove e fully grown leef, yress it gently inte 
Ssofts0i1, rizht side ups and beby plents form slong the edge, Very 
oretty even hen not in’flower ana herdly needing as much cere as a 
Beponiay. 
Crassula lycopodioides. looks like some kind tof dark green Moss. 
Made a little new growth even when suffering for water. I think it 
would be nice ag an edging plant to a window box, thet Zot full sun 
only abort half a dey, 
The Sedum I listed as Iineare veriegeta is now recognized as a 
variety of Sermentosum; but: 1 fine it nothing like so hardy as the 
common Saimentosum, The Slizzard lest Jenuary kille@ 211 of mine but 
one plent, and I fezsr the ¢rouchth hes killed thet, ; 
I fear I have lost my perennisl Gecum Pulchellum, but it may come 
out from the roots, 
