64,07 
VOL. 2, NO. 11 
May proved cool and rather wet. 
Hard on my Cacti. Amost all early 
spring flowers now dormant. No 
more Spring, Beauty, Toothwort 
Bluets, Viola Rafinesque until next 
spring. Wood Sorrel still with us 
but will go to sleep through the very 
hot weather. 
Am sold out of young Sempervi- 
vums and will have no more of the 
S. Tectorum for quite a while. Were 
you ever afflicted with a pup? If so, 
you can understand. Ralph, my 
youngest son, is away at work and 
has left his small, half Boston bull, 
to my tender mercies. 
I had a leaky slop jar holding a 
big mother plant of the S. Tectorum 
and surrounded with a big brood of 
““chickens."’ Decided some were big 
enough to wean. Set jar on front 
porch and went about something 
else for perhaps a quarter of an 
hour. Returned to find entire lot of 
plants gone. Search produced the 
mother plant, shaken to a_ frazzle 
and two small chicks. Reckon Spot 
ate the others. | planted both chicks. 
One died but the other may live. 
And I have one young plant left 
from a previous “‘hatch.’’ Can say 
this for myself: I did not use very 
strong language out loud. Spot out 
ran me. | 

SINGLE PEONIES 
Benjamin Auten, Carterville, Mo. 
If you do not like single Peonies it 
must be. because you are not ac- 
quainted with them. The most beau- 
tiful flower that ever grows on a 
plant of Cahusac is an open center 
side bud, much handsomer than the 
flowsy, overcrowded center bud. 
A single Peony is as big as a dou- 
ble, and holds an equally big place 
in the patch. It’s golden center 
throws a glow into a patch that 
nothing else in Peonies can match. 

THE YELLOWSF 
JULY-AUGUST, 194 i 
L. D. COLE, GRANNIS, ARK;,,(ERITOR 





> 




Also, the sing Sede. fe 7 t Hotmd: their 
heads in the mud when 
come. Also, they are graceful, not 
so stiff and stupid as the doubles. 
The singles have some’ faults. As 
they ripen, the pollen scatters over 
the flower making it dirty. They do 
not have a good odor, neither do 
the pollen bearing doubles. If there 
is only a single row of petals, dam- 
age to one petal spoils the flower; 
but some singles have two rows, and 
maybe some, three. The yellow cen- 
tered Japs have no pollen to shed, 
but their centers are not so brilliant. 
As to colors, in both Peonies and 
Tulips, it is the darkest flower in 
either patch or bouquet that gives 
it the highest brilliancy. A really 
white Tulip dulls the bouquet. White 
Peonies are not so glaringly white. | 
ORANGE TREES AS HOUSE 
PLANTS 
Mrs. Ed Wills, = __ 
R. 3, Harrodsburg, Ky... 
About 12 years ago | bought’ a 
small Orange tree with 3 or 4 
oranges on it. Now it is 4 feet high 
and that broad across, blooming and 
carrying oranges ready to ripen. Last 
year it had about 60 to ripen, not 
so ‘large as our store oranges but 
very sweet, no seed and thin peel. 
[t is very attractive, as those people 
who never visit the South can say: 
“We saw an Orange tree with ripe 
Oranges on it. 
I also have a growing Pineapple | 
plant in a crock. I cut top off a ripe 
Pineapple, put in soil and my plant 
grew. 

There is another advantage ‘about 
these Orange trees not mentioned 
above, and that is: burglar protec- 
tion. My mother had _ two, even 
larger than Mrs. Wills’, standing in 
