THE! YELLOW SHEETS 
their stand against all evil, no matter 
about the votes. 
The popular demand for continu- 
ance of OPA was a deep humiliation 
to me. | had thought better of Ameri- 
cans. We have written history for 
something like six thousand years. 
Booms and busts have come down all 
that time. Civilizations have risen and 
fallen; but a pattern runs through all. 
When a civilization is on the skids, we 
find small families the rule in the bet- 
ter circles; divorce is frequent; femi- 
nine modesty goes out of style; gov- 
ernment interferes with business; taxes 
are high and multiplied to pay for gov- 
ernment squandering; and pauperism 
becomes fashionable. Read Gibbon or 
- Durant for the history of the Roman 
decline, and note the parallels. But I 
did not realize that Americans had 
sunk to the “‘bread and circus’’ stage. 
I saw a review of “Profits From 
Field and Stream’’ and sent for same, 
for a present for one of my grandsons, 
and after reading the book, suggest to 
other grandmothers that it is an ideal 
present. Most youngsters like to col- 
lect. All mothers know that. But this 
book helps them know what to collect 
intelligently; how to make some of 
their collecting hobbies pay a little 
money, or other swapping, and there 
is a lot of general scientific information 
in the book. 
If you have an interest in any spe- 
cial line of plants, you can probably 
get a line on books you would need 
from the catalogue of “Book Mark.” 
It is about the most complete specialty 
catalogue in the botanical line I have 
ever seen. 
] buy my typewriter ribbons and 
‘carbon paper from the Golden Rule 
Society, because of getting such good 
values. 
HARDY ROCK GARDEN PLANTS 
HARDY SEDUMS. All Sedums I 
call hardy can survive 15 below zero 
without protection. Some of them are 
hardy in the sub-Arctic. Most are fine 
for rock garden plants. Last year my 
Sempervivums made almost no in- 
crease. This year most are ‘hatching’ 
chicks, and when my backlog of orders 
left from last year are filled, I hope to 
have a nurnber of varieties of hardy 
Semps to offer. There is a rock garden 
plant par excellence. Most of the dwarf 
plants listed under other heads, and 
many of the wildlings, are also good 
for rock gardens. 
have wholesale quaniities of the 
following Sedums: Sarmentosum, 
hardy to subarctic, pendant effect. 
One sent me Glaucum, much like al- 
bum, but different flowers and winter 
coloring; Album white flowers; ever- 
green with us, an alhum hybrid has 
never bloomed for me, color of foliage 
slightly different, a grey green one 
which I think is altissurn, good in rock 
garden, dish garden or as a pot plant; 
Acre and Sexanfulare much alike but 
different, both dwarf and good ground 
cover for clayey spots; Maximoiczi, 
little known in U.S.A.—two varieties 
which are in dispute among the botan- 
ists who have seen them. ‘The dealer 
from whom [| bought them identified 
them as the rare pink-flowered Sto- 
loneferum, and No. 28 as Stolonefe- 
rum coccinea; and the faculty of our 
State Experiment Station at Hope, 
Ark., agrees with him. Other botan- 
ists just as well posted say that both 
are unusual Spurium hybrids. 
Have from one to a dozen plants 
of other varieties. Will trade, plant for 
Mes Bes 
