Show SHRUB SHOULD PROVE BOON Possibility That Plant Long Sought For Has Been Discovered In Western Texas Most 1 flowering shrubs have their short season of bloom and though at that time they are of great beauty the he flowers last only a short time Then we must be content to look at athe atthe atthe the he green foliage and attractive though that is we wish for a longer season of bloom The wish is met in the discovery inthe in inthe inthe the mountains of western Tex Texas s Inthe id In the semiarid semi regions of a shrub which bears ears the name Salvia We all know the alluring beauty of the annual salvIa At a a season season sea- sea son eon when flowers are scarce it clothes Itself in a splendor and keeps up the procession of beauty until arrested by bythe the he frosts Now trow If we could clothe a shapely shrub with this radiant profusion profusion profusion pro pro- fusion and have it t in bloom a longtime long longtime time we would have just what we have lave been looking for for years The Salvia is a shapely shrub b three or four feet tall well branched and often of a globular form It commences commences com com- blooming early It clothes itself itself it it- self seIt with a splendor of glowing red for about two months Then it slacks up a little but as autumn approaches and most other flowers have nave gone it puts on its scarlet robes again almost overwhelming the the plant plant with the splendid splendid did flowers Probably no shrub ever discovered is more attractive The question comes up as to whether it will stand the northern climate Florists Florists Florists Florists' Flor Flor- have not been in haste to dIsseminate disseminate disseminate dis dIs- it They have sent it to several of the northern states where It has proved hardy During the awful awful aw aw- ful drought of last year in Kansas it stood the test bravely and kept right righton on blooming In Massachusetts Massachusetts' and Pennsylvania It came through the winter win winter ter all right Because its habitat is the high dry portions of ot the West it will doubtless prove well adapted to the heat and drought of Kansas and Nebraska It certainly has the power to resist heat and drought and and will withstand the winter |