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1 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1913. THE SEMi-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Pos # toffice as Mail Matter of the s Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months 75c Six months ‘ l 0c Three months -5c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday ( and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. * It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a stafr of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. “Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD LEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton. C. C. Covle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. Diversified Crops in Georgia. Reports received by the State College of Agricul ture from its farm demonstrat. agents throughout Georgia indicate that this is to he a-year of un usually varied crops. In most of the counties there is a marked tendency toward more modern and eco nomical methods of cultivation and also toward the home production of farm supplies. The ‘yranny of the one-crop idea 1 vanishing and in its place there is arising a movement to utilize all the generous re sources of the soil. v Especially notabl; is the increasing interest in corn and truck products. The work of the Boys’ Corn clubs and also that of the Girls’ Canning clubs is thriving as never before. These progressive insti tutions have already been organized in a majority of the counties and there is reason to hope that before the year ends no considerable pa’rt of Georgia will be without their quickening influence. No movement means more to the economic inter ests of this State than which looks to the diversifica tion of crops. We. have -been spending in foreign quarters millions and millions of dollars for products that can be grown as easily and far more cheaply at home. This applies not only to grains but also to live stock and poultry and divers other necessaries. The result of such a policy is injurious to the general public as well as the farmer. It clips the wings of enterprise and makes the State dependent, where it should and could he thoroughly independent. We have the State College of Agriculture very largely to thank for the new progressive era that is opening. The steady, far-reachipg work of this in stitution is transforming the methods of Georgia’s agriculture and is making the State continually richer and more prosperous. , Adrianople Falls. The fall'of Adrianople tops the Balkan war with a strirring climai. and heralds the end of Turkish power in Europe. For seven months this ancient city, scarred with the almost forgotten battles of Greek and Roman, Goth and Arab and Slav, has un dergone one of the most racking sieges of history, its hardihood of resistance has been scarcely less re markable than the mettle of its Bulgarian foes and it sank at last from sheer hunger and tattered strength. Adrianople, standing as it does on a straight road to the Ottoman capital only some hundred miles to the south, has been considered from the outset the key to the Balkan conflict. Against its fortresses, the Allies have centered their attack, realizing that the capture of this stronghold would strike Turkey to its knees. Adyianople has been the knot which the concerted diplomacy of the great Powers has failed to unite. Its possession was the issue on which the London peace conference last winter went to pieces and though Turkey recently signified a readiness to cede tne city to Bulgaria, if the war ( could thereby be ended, it was apparent that no progress toward lasting peace could he made until this particular question was placed beyond debate. The Ottoman government is now at the end of its resources and its hopes. It must accept such terms as the Allies inay offer, modified, of course, by the overruling diplomacy of the larger nations. It is likely that the area of European Turkey will be reduced to a mere fragment of its present extent. Constantinople and the control of the Bosporus, it will probably retain; hut it will lose Albania, Salon ika Monastir and doubtless a number of the Aegean islands. The Balkan allies will be awarded most of the territory for which they have fought; while the Turkish realm will be narrowed to a strip, only about a fourth as large as Georgia and such power as is left it will be more shadowy than substantial. ' The end of the Balkan war, which may now be re garded as virtually certain, relieves Europe of a nervous suspense that has had ill effects upon the business of all the world. The surrender of Adriano- \ pie, with the prospect of early peace, has already ‘ served as a reassurance and a stimulus to commerce, as is evidenced in the rise of stocks in New York as well as in Old World centers. Barring Bird Plumage. Tariff reformers and Standpatters can join hands over the proposal to amend Schedule “N” “by pro hibiting the importation of the plumage of wild birds, except for scientific purposes.” The law al ready bars the importation of the eggs of certain game birds; and it is urged by the friends of con servation that this measure, if carried a logical step further, would do much to check the ruthless destruc tion of valuable bird life. “The United States,” comments the New York Evening Post, “is the largest market for wild bird plumage and the closing of our ports to this trade would probably be followed by similar action in London and Berlin; Australia has already led the way in this respect.” The movement to protect birds which mean so much to crop security but which are being slaughtered so rapidly that at the present rate many of the most useful species will soon he extinct, is pressing rapidly forward. All well considered legis lation in behalf of this cause is to be commended. In Humanity’s Name, Help the Flood Sufferers. In the wake of the tragic floods that have over swept Ohio and Indiana there looms a trail of suf fering and distress that shakes the whole nation's heart with pity. Only long years can repair the vast loss of property; the grief for the thousands dead can never be healed. But there are tens and hundreds of thousands lining, men and women and children, who stand in immediate need of comfort and refief; and it is to these that a sympathetic public should now turn with prompt and generous ministration. The Journal begins today a subscription for the aid of these sorely stricken people of our sister States. We call upon the good citizens of Atlanta and Georgia and of all the South to contribute, each as his means will permit, to the relief of needs that are indescribable in their sweep and intensity. We will receive and promptly forward to the responsi ble authorities of Ohio and Indiana all sums that are subscribed. When the floods have subsided and the flames of burning cities are extinguished, the keenest anguish of these thousands of sufferers will have just begun. For, behind the raging waters and the struggle for life in the storm, will follow another dire struggle for life in the grip of hunger and cold and destitu tion. Families have been swept utterly away from the moorings of home and all means of support. Women are shivering, unsheltered and scantily clothed; lit tle children are crying for bread; men who have lost all means of livelihood are casting desperately about for a new foothold in life; These floods are among the greatest disasters the world has ever known. Let the people of Georgia and of the South, show their true Americanism and their humanity by rally ing, as liberally as they can, to the relief of this infinite suffering. The Journal opens its list with a subscription of one hundred dollars. Send in your contribution now. Studying European Agriculture. An American commission representing the Uni ted States government and the Southern Commercial Congress will saii for Europe on April the twenty- sixth to study the agricultural progress and methods of the Old World with a view toward adapting them, in so far as is practicable, .to the rural problems of this country. When it is reflected that in France and Germany and England and Other parts of the continent, acres which have been under cultivation for centuries yield vastly more than the compara tively virgin soil jf America, it is evident that we have much to learn from European systems of farm ing; and the fact that the farmers of those countries are able to secure liberal and long-term loans at rea sonable rates of interest, admonished us that our own system of rural credits, or rather (he lack of such a system, demands earnest attention. The American commission, composed of represen tative students of agricultural conditions, will visit England, Ireland, Germany, France, Austria, Russia and Italy and, in the last named country, will attend the International Institute of Agriculture which is to be held at Rome. A vast deal of practical, first hand knowledge will thus be- acquired, knowledge that can he turned to definite account for the im provement of farming conditions in the United States. It is gratifying to note that twenty-six States will be represented in this commission. The South, which is the great agricultural area of America, will be especially benefited by the results of this enter prise. Former Governor Northen. There has passed in the death of former Gov ernor William J. Northen a citizen who rendered varied and distinctive service to Georgia and who was belovad by hundreds of friends throughout the state and the South. The greater portion of his long life- was devoted to educational and civic in terests. He served two terms as chief executive of Georgia and it was during his administration that the Normal and Industrial College at Milledgeville and the State Normal School at Athens were estab lished, largely as a result of his earnest endeavor. He began his career as a school teacher and to his latest years he maintained a lively interest in edu cational progress. For nearly half a century he was a member of the board of trustees of Mercer University and he was also president of the Georgia Baptist Educational society. The commonwealth is deeply conscious of the debt of gratitude it owes his memory for his faithful labors in this important field. Governor Northen was active not only in public and educational affairs, but also in the cause of scientific agriculture. He was among the pioneers in modern methods of cultivation, and as a practical farmer he'exemplified and did much to extend the movement that has counted so vitally in the de velopment of Georgia’s rural interests. He was a leader in religious affairs, having served as presi dent of the Georgia Baptist convention and also of the Southern Baptist convention. A man of gen erous heart and unspotted character, he endeared himself on the personal side to a numerous circle of friends throughout the South, who mourn his death and revere his memory. Progressive LaGrange. The banquet Thursday evening with which the LaGrange Chamber of Commerce will celebrate its entry into new and spacious quarters and the arri val of a remarkably productive era for its commun ity is an occasion of State-wide significance. Prom- ient men from various parts of Georgia are expected to be present and jjin with these civic builders in their well warranted pride over the past and their hopes for greater achievements yet to come. The LaGrance Chamber of Commerce has set an example of progress and co-operation which all other towns will do well to emulate Its membership is large and active. Its spirit is one constant earnest ness and endeavor. It has realized the rich re sources of its city and by persistent, organized ef forts is. turning them to wondrously fruitful account. The rapid growth of LaGrange is due not only to its inherent advantages but very largely to the thorough going work of its Chamber of Commerce. This in stitution is compelling the attention of the State and the South to the opportunities which LaGrange affords and to the substantial results it is accom plishing. To this thifty city and this progressive organiza tion, we tender our heartiest wishes for their con tinued success. The Colored Window of Self By Dr. Frank Crane ills. * v ' The most useful thing one needs to learn to pro mote his own peace of mind and effectiveness of ef fort, is humility. Humility is no more nor less than that state of mind in which one ignores one’s self. There is no unspotted happi ness when self is present. Thg, minute you exclaim: “How hap py I am!” you are conscious that a cloud has obscured the seren ity of your hour. This is often expressed by the notion “I am too happy. It cannot last. Something evil is sure to happen.” Which is mere ly a customary, though fantas tic, way in which we- give evi dence that self-consciousness has spoiled our bliss. Contrast, for instance, the glee of a little child and the elation of those grown people who are getting drunk. In the first case joy is unaware of itself and shines out as simply as perfume radiates from a flower or sparkles of luster dart from a diamond. In the other instance they call the attention of themselves and of each other to the fact that “we are jolly good fellows, which nobody can deny.” For the difference between being intoxi cated with the spirits of corn on the one hand and the spirits of youth on the other is precisely the dif ference between conscious and unconscious hilarity. One is disgusting, the other charming. Let the orator become suddenly aware of his hands and feet and straightway he is tongue-tied. Only when self has disappeared wholly, does he pour the fire of his heart directly *into his hearers’ hearts. The gift of humility is the art of moving speech. Humility is the secret of good manners. Whoever moves aboa and talks in forgetfulness of self is in nately polite. The boor and awkward lout is simply the person who is oppressed with himself. It was said of Matthew Arnold, that “he discov ered the purely intellectual importance of humility. To see things clearly, he said, ‘you must get yourself out of the way.’ The weakness of pride lies after all in this: that one’s self is a window. It can be a col ored window, if you will; but the more thickly you lay on the colors the less of a window it will be. The two things to be done yirith a window are to wash it and then’ forget it.” Who Thought the New Thought (G. K. Chesterton in the London News) What is the new thought? And who thought it? This is a very mysterious matter which has exhausted all my slender talents as* an amateur detective. I know I am laying *no light burden on myself and my local postman in asking such a question, for the peo ple in movements such as this always assume that you know nothing about the movement and proceed to tell you all about it on reams and reams of letter paper. But this is not my difficulty. My difficulty is that I have read what is to be said about the new thought; I have read columns and columns about it; it is the thought that I cannot find. A new thought is a very rare thing, and it would be a magnificent creature to catch., The only things I can think of that one would really call “new thoughts” would be certain celebrated jokes, certain scientific discoveries and a few less frequent cases o' 7 a really original argument used in an old controversy. As an instance of the first class, I should call Mrs. TQdgera’ idea of a wooden leg a new thought. As a s cafte of the' second, I think New ton’s discovery of tliq 'calculus might be called a new 'thought. As a casV of the third, I should give St. Thomas Aquinas’ argument for the resurrection of the body, and th e objection which M. Poincare (the math ematician, not his relative, the president) raised against the mere logic of de.erminism. J can find nothing of this sort, big or little, light or heavy, about the expositions of the new thought. I find some old thoughts that are true; and people take them for granted because they are true—as that “sickness and disease are due to failure to understand the laws of life.” I find some old thoughts that are also true, but which are so old that many modern people had dropped them merely because they were old—as that the soul can heal the body in a manner commonly called miraculous. Lastly, I find some old thoughts that are not true at all—as that “in the old thought world, life was regarded as a punishment, the cause of life was sin, the purpose of life was pain and suffering.” That has been alleged of Christianity millions of times; but it happens to be a perfectly plain blunder upon a point of fact. But of a new idea, or even a new way of putting an idea, or a new appli cation of an idea, I cannot find a trace, therefore, I cry aloud, repeating my question: “Who thoiight the new thought? And what was it?” Mississippi’s Rural Strength. Mississippi abundantly enjoys whatever satisfac tion there lies in a large rural, as contrasted with a small urban, population. The complete census re ports show that out o» a total number of one mil lion, seven hundred and ninety-seven thousand, one hundred and fourteen people, only two hundred and seven thousand, three hundred and, eleven live in cities; the remaining million and a half abide in country districts. Equally interesting is the statement that there are three hundred and seventy-six thousand, four hundred and twenty dwellings and only three hun dred and eighty-four thousand, seven hundred and twenty-four families, a record which indicates that there is a house for almost every family, flats, ten ements and apartments being comparatively un known. Mississippi is free from the problems which congested population entails. There are presumably no crowded quarters, no slums, no lack of room and air and sunlight in that spacious commonwealth. Nor is there any need of a “back-to-the-farm” or a “stay-on-the-farm” campaign. Every man, if he will, may thrive beneath his own vine and fig tree. The towns and cities of Mississippi are prosper ous, yet they are comparatively small. Meridian is credited with a population of some twenty-three thousand, Jackson, the capital, with a little more than twenty-one thousand, Vicksburg with nearly twenty-one thousand and Natchez and Hattiesburg with some eleven thousand, seven hundred each. Atlanta’s population alone is not far below that oi Mississippi’s total urban population. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that only five- tenths per 'cent of the State’s white residents are foreign born and only one and one-tenth per cent are of foreign parentage.' Eighty-seven and a half per cent of its citizens were born within its borders. This vast predominance of people native to the soil should have important effects. It should make them more cohesive than is the population of States where thp foreign intermixture is large; and it does make them distinctively Mississipians. So long as the rural interests of a State are pro gressing and its people are developing their agri cultural possibilities, so long as the soil holds its due share of attention and endeavor, the State’s prospect is cheering. In a section where farming is the natural pursuit of men, the growth of big cities is of minor importance compared to the conservation of rural interests. Mississippi is to he congratulated on its faithfulness to the farm. ‘^(OUAITRY’ 'rJOME TOPuS CewpocTED wjre&xzHjrEirort THE MARCH CYCLONES. /-The element* have surely been at war during this fateful March of 1913. I told the readers of The Semi-Weekly in a previous issue that I was less than five miles from the hurricane which overtook Clarks- ton and Tucker week before last and less than thirty of th e same eccentric storm which overtook the peo ple of Gordon and Floyd counties which came the same night. Today the newspapers are overflowing with ac counts of a still greater cyclone which reached from Louisiana even to Chicago with greater damage. The evening that I was m Atlanta and so near to Clarks- ton and Tucker I was eye-witness to a most astonish ing electrical phenomena. I was very tired after a long railroad trip and was lying on my bed in my dear sister’s home and looking out at the threatening sky that was lurid with incessant lightning flashes. As I gazed suddenly I saw a ball of fire in the heavens as large as the moon at Its full. Streaming downwards were at least a half dozen vertical flashes of lightning that fell earthwards. In the same in stant the house trembled with awful thunder detona tions. I sprung from the bed feeling sure something fearful had occurreu, but it was not until the early morning paper gav e the news about the storm in At lanta suburbs, did I understand that the damage was done four or fire miles away. I had heard t these globes of fire before* but this was the first time I ever saw the phenomena. Twen ty-odd years ago we had in this section (near Car- « tersville) a January storm that alarmed my family very much. It came on a Sunday afternoon and my son who had been ill was going to Cartersville to visit a doctor. The storm came up so hurriedly that we were starting a colored man with some wraps to help the lad along as he returned. As we stood in the door, handing them out, there came a blinding flash and a terrible explosion. The cook was looking at a big tree in the yard not far from the house and she saw a great ball of fire as it fell in the tree top. The tree was shivered its entire length and our back piazza floor and the yard was thickly strewn with bark and oak splinters from the tree. When my son got home he reported only a shower and not much storm, only three miles distant. I do not understand such balls of fire, nor do I compre hend the why or wherefore of cyclones. A gentleman from Floyd county told me of the storm that passed Curryville and Calhoun, where five children of one family were blown out of the second story and all mangled to death. Three of the victims were long missing, and finally found in a slough, after the wa ters subsided, that emptied into ^the Oostanaula river. Two of the victims were mother and son, who had moved into the community a little over a year ago. When the house fell on them the son was pinned down hand and foot and he was forced to lie there with his mother in a few feet of him dying for four long hours before help came to them and he could not touch her. I was not surprised to hear that the ago nized son had become insane from grief and anguish. How little do we apprehend the dnagers that lie thickly about us. May God be praised for His pre serving mercies! RAISE SOME SHEEP, FARMERS. * A neighbor of mine has nin% little lambs and a lot of sheep. He put up a fence forty-eight inches high and dog proof. The sheep lot comes up to his yard fence so that the folks can hear if the dogs get after the sheep. We have thousands upon thousands of acres of land in Georgia that would support sheep abundantly, but the dogs are so numerous and our lawmakkers so perfectly indifferent to farmers’ interests, that we- must get dog proof fence to save the lives of the sheep. Isn’t it a perfect shame? But we can buy forty-eight-inch wire and get the dog proof sort and have a few sheep as this good neighbor tells me he idoing. We can have a taste of mutton occasionally that way. Why not try it? Next year we are to elect a new legislature, and I am in 'favor of getting from each candidate his views on a dog law. If he will not vote against suck- egg dogs, chicken-eating dogs, and sheep-killing dogs, and run wild dogs *hat bite men, women and children not to speak of horses and cattle then we do not want such a representative. Do we? It is time to have something our way isn’t it? Make the candidates answer before a capable witness and then we will get it. THE DEADLY AUTOMOBILE. Our entire section of country is saddened today to know that a gay party of ladies in the suburbs of Rome, Ga., wer e all maimed and one mangled otft of recog nition by an overturned automobile two days ago. It was the chauffeur’s fault, or possibly I should say mistake, because there is no evidence that he intended any harm, only was trying to go too fast and over did it. It is the speed mania that does nearly all the mis chief, and there seems to be no curb for that speed mania. It seems to obsess humankind. Everything that rides or races on land or water is afflicted with it. I am afraid of autos because they will go fast when crazy drivers are behind the wheel, and the ac cidents occur almost universally when the speed ma nia has possessed th e drivers. And everybody understands the danger, yet in spite of the danger the occupants of an auto car will risk the results that are painfully demonstrated every day in the week, and almost every hour in the day, if the daily news is correct. And more than all, when we get in an auto car, un easy and are anxious, as some of us are, we like the fast going and do not seem to be at all concerned when we begin to fly about in crowded streets and are crossing railroad trac! s. I believe we will reach a place where we must have one road for autos and another for foot passen gers and slower vehicles. It Is not going to do to. risk racing cars ih crowded streets and where human kind can be run down and mangled. ECHOES FROM DIXIE. When you meet trouble on the highway, never stop to shake hands with him, for if you do he will take you by the arm and accompany you home. * * * The land of content is unknown to some people, and a great many are too grouchy to explore It. * * * If you see trouble coming just dodge behind happi ness and he will pass on by without seeing yo. * * * There are many lessons to learn in the school of life, and death will find us with the task still unfin ished. * • * Some people would doubtless attain success if they were not quite so busy prophesying the downfall of others. * * * If some people could climb the ladder of success, high climbing would make their head dizzy and they would fall back down. ' * * * Fortune is such a lazy goddess she refuses to come to any one; you must go to her. * * * Some people could climb the ladder of success if they were not so busy pulling the other fellow down by the coat tail. O. HOMER. SPRING FLOWERS By Frederic J. Flaskin % The number of men, women and children who de light in flower growing is multiplied every spring. The number of public parks, school gardens and pri vate gardens, whose owners are generous enough to share their floral treasures with those less fortunate, was never so great is at present The interest thus called forth develops a constant demand for new flow ers, as well as a greater utili zation of the old ones, so that the floriculturists are continu ally kept busy to meet it. The department of agriculture does all in tis power to further this interest. It distributes flower seeds, bulbs and plants, issues bulletins of direction for their cultivation, and also gives fre quent exhibitions of floral beauties. These exhibitions sometimes are calculated to stimulate interest in some fdF- gotten plant, to demonstrate the value of new ones, or to simply give pleasure to those who attend by visions of beauty such as only those familia with the resources of great green houses can imagine. This spring the department is interested in dem onstrating the beauties of the amaryllis, an oldtime favorite in the gardens of our grandmothers, but lit tle heard of recently. The exhibition, which was one of the attractions of the national capital during inau guration week and for some time after, included thou sands of plants whose gorgeous blossoms had a tropi cal luxuriance and served to demonstrate the remark able changes which the hybrid florists have been able to accomplish by cross fertilization. The process of cross-fertilization is as simple as it is effective. No doubt the idea of it, as demonstrated to the many visitors who attended the exhibition, will have a wide spread development throug out the country during the coming season. The amaryllis blossom lends itself readily to the process because of its size and simplic ity. The florist desiring to make a cross-breed be tween two plants will select two as nearly perfect in size and coloring as he can secure, usually represent ing two distinct colorings. For instance, he will takA a red flowered and a white flowered amaryllis. When the flower first opens, he will remove the pollen- bearing anthers of each. Then, with a sort camel’s hair brush, he will apply the pollen from the anther pollen from a red blossom to a white one. The applied pol- of a white flower to the stigma of a red blossom and the len will pass through the styles of the flower down into the ovary where it reaches the seeds which al ready are formed. It nourishes them quite as well as the pollen from the anther of the flower to which they belong. When the flower^ fades, these seeds ripen and are carefully gathered and planted. The results of cross-fertilization are seen in the wonderful striped and variegated flowers which, grow upon the plants produced from the seeds which were taken from plants producing flowers of a single color. The history of the amaryllis goes back to the ear liest times wnen voyagers to unknown countries brought back to the centers of civilization rare tropi cal plants which the botanists of the period delighted to add to their herbariums, while the expert gardeners endeavored to adapt them to their own localities. The Amaryllidaceae family is a large one, including more than 500 species, of which the Hippeastrums are best known. This species includes about fifty varieties, most of which are included under the common name amaryllis, although the amaryllis demonstrated now by the department of agricultuure really cornea from the lily Johnson!, also known as the Bella Donna, It first was produced by a poor watchmaker named Johnson, of Lancashire, England, who had a great love for plants and by dint v- great sacrifice secured a few plants of the Amaryllidaceae family for experi ments. He developed a variety which finally was ac cepted by the English Botanical society, so he did not lose his recognition as did the less fortunate developer of the American Beauty rose. The amaryllis as exhibited to the thousands of visitors to the government greenhouses at Washing ton will not have lasting value as a garden plant,, be cause it blooms but once in a season; however, that bloom lasts so long under proper conditions and is so magnificent in appearance, it repays no small expen diture of time and trouble. After the flowering the bulbs should fc>e preserved unless it is desired to pro duce the next plants directly from the seed. The ' flowers sometirrtes measure eight or nine inches across and grow in great clusters above a rich back-* ground of long oright green leaves. Most -of the va rieties are considered scentless, although a delicate perfume is noticeable from some of them, especially just after they open. While the different species are to be found in many tropical countries, the plant used by Johnson, which formed the beginning of the vari ety now being exploited by the department of agricul ture, Is said to have been native to Brazil. Recently the efforts of the department have been turned toward the development and production of some more prolific and hardy species of p;astern lilies which will lend themselves readily to the resources of the amateur or home florist. For this purpose several hundred fine plants, raised in the government green houses near Washington, have been distributed among the different experiment stations of the country, espe- pecially those in California. They will be utilized for experimental efforts of reproduction, and is hoped that the resudts of these experiments, if shc.- cessful, will be made of practical value to the coun try within the next three years. In the meantime the commercial florists must still be given the “corner” upon the production of Easter lilies once supposed to be imported from Bermuda, although now ^raised each year to an increasing degree in this country. While new flowers occasionally seem to predomi nate in popular favor, the permanent value of the rose remains unaffected and rose culture is recognized al ways as a- most important branch of floriculture. Each year new roses are developed, some of which never are heard of excepting among the rose growers themselves, while others become well known to the general public. The interest in rose culture is appealing to school children i,n a number of cities. Even the principles of cross-breeding these fragrant beauties are being studied by the children of a number of agricultural high schools’ and the production of two new roses is claimed by a school in western town. A well known periodical publish^ for boys has been stimulating the interest in rose culture by offering prizes for the best results. A boy of fifteen recently won a prize for an article giving a thorough description of the manner in which he raised roses from cuttings. He sec cut tings of fine hothouse roses, obtained from bouquets sent to his sister, in wet sand in the cellar where the proximity of the furnace gave him the required tem perature. He kept them properly moistened until the roots formed, then set them in separate pots in which they blossrmed within eighteen months. * At present the latest rose news of the department of agriculture pertains to the development of two new Killarney varieties. One ii known as the “Killarney Queen.” This is a deeper pink than the old Killarney, although it has the same exquisite grace of form. The other is to be known as the “Double White Killarney” because of its manifold petals which completely hide the center of the flower. This gives four distinct va rieties of the Killarney rose, the first being the pink from which was developed the Killarney white rose that became popular about two years ago, and is pa rent of the new double white blossom being put upon the market this year. The deparament also is ex ploiting two new yellow roses. The “Sunburst” has a deep yellow tint, almost orange at the base of the petals, shading to creamy w r hite at the outer edges. The other is the “Lady Hillington,” which is a small yellow rose of exquisite shape and fragrance, lighter in shade than the “Sunburst.” It has the advantage of being a most prolific bloomer and, therefore, is likely to obtain favor with the home florist.