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Show QUESTION OF TREE PLANTING Problem Is Worthy of Very Much More Consideration Than Is Usually Us-ually Given It. What kind of tree should one plant beside one's home? asks Good Housekeeping. House-keeping. Obviously it should be a fast grower. Also it should be ornamental. Preferably it should give a shade that is lofty and not too dense. A productive produc-tive tree will answer as well as one that Is merely ornamental. If a grafted tree Is planted rather than a seedling it will produce In a very few years. Nut trees are both ornamental and productive. The black walnut and the pecan seem to be well suirtd to this sort of planting. Why not try one or the other, or possibly both, one on each side of the house? The black walnut is a rapid grower, reaches large size, and has foliage of great beauty. A mature tree will produce pro-duce a great quantity of nuts. The pecan is also large and beautiful, as well as long-lived. Among the most beautiful and stately of the trees at Mount Vernon are pecan trees planted by George Washington and still In excellent ex-cellent condition. Commonly one thinks of the pecan as a tree for warm latitudes only. Both it Dd the English Eng-lish walnut will thrive much farther north than is commonly supposed. For planting near the house, then, the black walnut, the pecan or a good shagbark tree would be an excellent choice. The foliage of the walnut is always beautiful and in the fall the leaves of both the hickory and the pecan pe-can are symphonies in brown, i I v ZANE GREY'S MESSAGE TO READERS AND PICTURE FANS Zane Grey, famous novelist, sends a special message to those of his read ers who witness 'Riders of the Dawn' Benjamin B. Hampton's photoplay of his latest novel. "The Destrt of Wheat," which with an all-star cast, including Roy Stewart, Claire Adams Robert McKim andl other celebrities, is the attraction at the Victory Theatre Thea-tre Tuesday and Wednesday. "Readers of my novel, The Desert of Wheat,' will find that when they witness 'Riders of the Dawn, they will see, instead of the novel as it appeared serially and in book form during the war, a film version that is almost a sequel to the original," said Mr. Grey. "I want them to know this happens. The novel was written for the war, and contained in fiction form my appeal for patriotism. The film does not deal with the war. "It was to have been filmed like my previoisly personally endorsed picture by Benjamin B. Hampton, 'Desert Gold,' as an accurate screen edition to the book. As it is, it is an accurate screen edition of a sequel to my book, which I wrote because of my desire to convey another message to the true Americans in this country; coun-try; a sequel' written exclusively for the purpose of filming, which will never be published'. "The same characters, the same locale, the same background of limitless lim-itless deserts of wheat, that greatest of foods, appear in my sequel, with some plot events, which, so closely related to the original novel, would not be found in any published in any published sequel. I am sure that my readers will appreciate seeing the characters of 'The Desert of Wheat, brought to life as I have seen them in this picture, and I heartily recommend recom-mend it to them as the finest pictur-ization pictur-ization ever made from one of my stories." |