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Show " throw out water sprouts lower down to shade the truntf and conform more nearly to the natural habit of the tree. Continuously pruning off these water sprouts Is largfely a waste of energy, both to the tve and man. and frequently pruning will be found necessary to keep them off- - In cut 9 is shown a tree pruned very high. The top branches that remain are properly cut back. The tree Is just beginning to throw out a large number of water sprouts lower down on the trunk. Mistakes were made by pruning off the limbs a, b, c. dr e and ,f Thia form But of top is also very undesirable. littfe bearing w ood has been left Cut 10 shows a tree with top formed very high. The drawing Is made from a photograph of an Indian peach tree growing In an orchard on the north Eide of the Alleghany Moun tains in southwest Virginia The trees stood very close together on a rich, moist soil; consequently no water sprouts were being thrown out lower down on the trunk The tree was Wearing its first crop of fruit, which was a very heavy one The limbs had to be propped up to keep them from splitting and breaking off. Scarcely any btaring wood for tie fol'owing jear was being formed. The fruit was extremely small and of inferior flavor Scarcely any fruit coull be expected from the tree the following year. The ends of the limbs were not headed in, nor was the fruit thinned A ladder was necessary to gather much of the A heavy storm would have fruit. blown off much of the fruit and al- - rticoltore fasti Pruning the Peach Tree. A correct fern) of top la needed to Insure fruit bearing atid longevity of the tree. If the opportunity la lost to obtain this desirable form of top in the early growth of the tree it ie forever lost for that tree. Pruning the cecond and third years la done on the 'X American Girl Is the' Tallest of Her Sex Radical Changes That Hare Occurred in the Last Century Novelists Must Take Cognizance of Facts iVow Fully I Notwithstanding this connection, a Playrf young Mr Power first smelled gresse Established Yesterday, To day and faint in s small theater st St. Augus- Modeat Super. Recollection of (recently issued by R. H- - Russell) the veteran J. H. Stoddart tella of 0 eccentric Scotch comedian, John He ry Alexander by name, familiar know n aa "Old Alec." J Mrs. Alexander, the wife of the comedian, had assisted In making uf me of the supers In "Rob Roy" anf had sent him on the stage rather huP riedly without noticing whether of not Tie was a fit member of the bod; of Highlanders. He proved to be very tall person and the audience singled him out from the rest as a butt for Its laughter. Mr. Alexander, to diminish blf lng him endeavor height by marching around almost U a sitting posture, admonished him. It a voice that could be heard above th martial music, to Stand up, sir. The Highlander dtd not rise, In his To-morro- w, Ha. and after the usual bumps fail to th anplrfnf player ha ot a poeliinn in .StPlne jsnauscheks fomtssny, playlrg In Meg Mwrijles." Was a well liked: member of th H Daly company, but left tha tall tiled knight to play the ghost tn Beerbohm Tree a revival of Hamlet" In London. During this engagement be had tine, Which ifE statement of Df. r or speculating as to wby she is so tall that American and the favorite, because the most women are "the most' obvious "reason assigned, ta her athr life. beautiful tn the world letic, training and cause If not the with la this only That be accepted may who the that but fact boys the proved by Joy and confidence, he goes on to say that have the same athletic training, only while in all other coun-- ' a great deal more of It, by no means tha honor of playing before Queen he baa visited the keep pace wtih their slaters. TU1 . tries wVs Victoria at Balmoral castle, and are as a, rule may be partly accounted for by the women also presented to her majesty. v, , H men, he has fact that many boys drink and amok to the Inferior physically Coming back to America, he rejoined that the at the early age when such practices America In discovered Baly. Then he went with Mr. Ftske, J would, bp likely to affect their growth, particularly-of thewemea,playing parts In her repertoire, and physique It At any rata they are the aame tort of that and is ones, superb the In young scoring a success as Lord Steyne makes the physique of the American A season tn Australia Becky Sharp. seem Insignificant In proportion. man followed with Mrs. Power (Edith this At point It Is time to stop and Teas, Becky" Crane), in which consider whether this fact, so plain The Only Way," and other American to all who see, la matter for patriotic congratulation cr not. IN HARNED IRIS." MISS Poor American man! Does he realK la ly need sympathy on this score? d Tree in Station Cut 7. Orchard. it necessary to Inquire where is this feminine In Increase wonderful kept constantly in mind while pruning, so that the tree would have as physique to atop? "Wide spreading top aa possible in or From an aesthetic standpoint the der that a large area of leaf surface great stature to which most of the might be exposed to the sunshine and young women attain may be regarded as a mistake. No poet, no artist, no atmosphere, thus enabling the tree to and load of a highly large sentimentalist can readjust In a hurry carry heavy y.-vv'P- a colored fruit. the tradition handed down through VfM. In cut 7 is shown an average countless generations That their hero"J Tf peach tree of the General ines should be about a head shorter Lee variety as grown In the orchard than tbetr heroes. i .. of the Texas station. It la a general To arrange this nowaday the hetype of tree found In that peach orroes would have to approach seven chard, where three consecutive crops feet In height, a thing which teems Cut 11 Tree Bent Over by Fruit of peaches hare been borne with most ruined the orchard. This form not at all likely to happen, for the scarcely a limb being broken by an of tree is as difficult to cultivate unboy aren't keeping pace with the girls overload of fruit A ladder has not der, without average boy that were to be found to the tree, as a at alL And theres the difficulty. Injury well been found necessary In gathering the properly formed low topped tree. A race of giant would he endurable fifty years ago and dont match who amazons of race of the goddesses fruit from these trees. with race young or-a ! 11 but same Cut shows a tree iu the aesthetically, are developing. In cut 8 la shown the same tree aft- - chard with the toplormed extremely who could look straight over the head eome Interesting Pesehel make of the masculine half of humanity eo high. The top of the tree was bent no-- 1 In statements cherished old regard to the stature ot over till It nearly touched the ground. upset all the good la that If left alone, the tree Is practically tions that it would take a few hundred J people In thla country, One emiof descendant European new the literature ruined. banners' Review. ah' entirely year with Inf Increased could have perceptibly grants and art before the old traditions Cause of Sunacald. be blotted out But without borrow- atature la the United States and that obtain their full We do not appreciate sometimes ing trouble theres no disguising the men here do not He wbat It means to neglect our trees. fact that the "as high as my heart I growth until their thirtieth year. caused. Is thla land. this that probably thinks freta vanished Take a tree which Is headed high, for dsys have as the aborInstance. The trunk of the tree Is Elderly women who are only a little by the change of locality, and tall Is race also very to and of south iginal the the rays exposed, until full J attain not doe growth wise Z HAENL VZXMA west sun during the winter season, zv 30, but It seems that this explanation and many persons think nothing of cannot apply to American women a this. Yet tests have proven that the However much opinion may dlflSr tunitleg for effective acting are many, their Increase of height Is of recent Sam Tree Shown In Cut 7, After temperature of the bark on the southCut Pruning. manifestation. west side of a tree trunk thus ex- aa to the advisability of producing Our illustration ebows Miss Harned er pruning. This tree 18 now able to posed is 23 degrees higher than the plays of the character of Iris, there In one of the costume she wear In When all la said no one knows exbear at least three bushels of fine temperature of the atmosphere. This ta no doubt that the production his the piece. why this wonderful tall race of actly Co the artistic reputatieu recent accident In Miss Harned fruit. About half the has been demonstrated by Inserting a added much .has sprung so suddenly Into ex-girls Detroit, It Is feared, wjll Incapacitate it pays much small Thermometer beneath the bark. of Miss "Virginia; ITarned. The wood has been eut aw Utenct nor why they threaten already I a tlm but permanent dla-ost Powerful HU11! ber one of th r. better to produce one large, fine peach of to leave the men behind them. Has It 1th Bt3B tbls eeasnn nd th0 than It doe. to produce two small, In-- 1 ability Is not feared by her physicians. which gdhtle connefMl'm vHh the perf TUI wm tc make frequently the case In some ohm. cl freedom and indcptiidt at fect days ample wood growth for the succeeding during the winter, when the sun is which Alexander repeated the com i plays were presented with success, j and deed? And If this stracg thought Then he was with Sir Henry Irving years fruitage. The low top will not bright. Add 23 degrees to this, and mand in a louder voice: Stand'-Uluxuriance of growth makes the sain be In the way of cultivation any more you have the temperature of th bark sir! and Mlsi Terry at the London Lyceum swift progress in the next thirty yeqra than the one shown in cut 9. The at 73 degrees. No, at this temperaand came again to America to create Thla time the Highlander explains that it has In the rast, where, oh, under and weeds owe that grow Crass I canna, Alec, I canna; ma kllta the part of Judas In Mary of ture the bark can start to grow, and where, will man be thtnl " such low headed trees have given but which promises to Increase his the aap become active. This condi- short." little trouble. By use of the extern tion exists during the day, but at On the aame occasion Charles Lovf fame. His ambition la to star in a VERY OLD FORM OF WIT, was the Captain Thornton of the special production ot The Merchant the day the bark night temperature drops, Is bound to be affected, and damage cast. He had a cold and coughed fre- of Venice." Tha Retort th Most Ancient of All results. A few days of this condition, quently while speaking. Whereupon Laughter-Inducer, atand by relaxing and contracting the Alexander unsympathetically drew la of all verbal coins th retort The Da Wolf Hopper's Explanation. bark has become loosened from the tention to his Illness by saying In aa memto get Into circulation and. to recent a At dinner given quickest and us trank, and dies. Thus we have the audible aside: Lord preserve the readiest to pass from one hand to ber of the theatrical profession In condition known as sunscald, which deliver ns frae the asthmaOcal army. another. entertainment vaudeville a Perhaps ot all 'coin It lad Providence, many persons have supposed was In our English toegu oldest. aieo th Wolf De and Hopon waa the program, Th Greatest Living Actoraf caused In the summer season, when of the reparte of wa hav to sit was who legends present, happened Which are the six living actors or per, aa a matter of faerthe damage waa,j and courier for well nigh a thou--san- d of Charles member an to next king Erlish don have who world done In the winter. A sunscalded actresses in the years. Th pun, which 1 often company named Stephentree la then apt to be attacked by th moat for dramatic or lyric art? Hawterys a son. species of retort, goes as far back borere and other insects, A lady heads the list, who, as wu to our language. To play on words, as of th on entertainment the BernDuring and the decay of the tree sets In. To b expected, la Mm. Sarah B In a very personal manner, la the often to I Wants have protected- - the south and weat hardt She has secured 14,997 votes, performers sang, form of retort Old) lines the of on the and slmpleat elder the Lady, Leading 8,000 sides of the tree trunk from the direct and beaU by nearly made a witty as well Fuller Thomas Mon-nabout making In 11. the song, something rays of the sun In the winter time Coquelln, who cornea second. atas true a epitaph tor himself when he would have prevented this trouble. Sully la third, supported by 1L792 Bernhardt look like thirty cents, them write on bis tombstone two bad attention. beMr. tracted ladles Stephensons admirers. Th only other Prof. Whitten. "Fullers Earth." But words only, H turned to Hopper and lnqnlred: sides Mm. Bernhardt en tha list are himself Fuller got caught sometimes. with Is mean? who fourth, does that I aay, old chap, what Elonora Duse, Body Blight of Pear Trees. la which! name Th "Sparrowhawk, and Mak Bernhardt look Ilk thirty Thla disease works on the trank and 8,817 votes, and Mmes. Rejane was too friends rejoiced, of one his her with cents. Its awfully queer, yon know." larger limbs of pear trees. It is easily Adelina Patti, who follow 81r habitual punster, and the to tempting Henry recognised on the tranks of trees that 8,697 and 4,216 respectively. In his most sepulchral ton and so he asked the unfortunate man who Cat 1 Hadd Back but Pruned Too are not old enough to be covered with Irvings name waa sent in by 1,433 without a ausptclan of a smile, Mr. was afflicted with it what waa the difj High. London Telegraph. bark. The first appearance of reader. rought Hopper volunteered: between a sparrow hawk and ference Bi on disc barrow, the trees can be culthe disease Is in the spring when dark It That old T11 tell answer which he got was, chap. owL The as an you, necessary- Strong sunken spots are seen scattered over tivated at closely Tyron Power. An owl Is fuller In the head, and London merely a colloquial expression Indicawinds will not have such leverage on the trunk. These spots are round or In was born Power Tyrone fuller in the face and fuller all over,"1 the top of this tree as to bend It over oval In outline and gradually Increase In 1869, and his given name Is not tive of th acme of mediocrity. off. of The trunk which was probably more fuller than or shake the fruit In size until the latter part of the pronounced Tyranny," if be does play Fuller bargained for. the tree is so well shaded by its own growing season. A distinct boundary Change In "The Wizard." limbs that there is scarcely any lia- line la then formed the Paula by shrinking Julian Mitchell, Miss Beechers Admirers Active. bility of sun scald so frequently found ot the dead tissue. At this time (he Edith ' Hutcblna 1 - n orchards- - of the Western - States. wards. Mis Thq body of Henry Ward Beecher deaf bark ban be easily removed in ' twelve Broad ay show girls" went to cemeGreenwood from A man can stand on the ground and one moved to be enplace. The inner bark remains Chicago to ad Interest to the local gather every peach from thla tree. sound and suffers but little. If any, the tery to a site near Plymouth church. Oz." ot Wizard The gagement of The limbs will need no props, nor Will first Brooklyn. Dr. Iilllis and th congreyear. If this dead bark Is not reFrom the front of the theater Mr. they break or spilt off. If spraying moved It becomes very dry and hard gation have under way a plan to erect Mitchell and the two new principal should be found necessary It wilt not and In two or a Beecher memorial building and a three years forms such scrutinized the performance, while the be found difficult to do. Of course, if suitable monument to the famous of dead bark that the tock be allowed to run loose in the a heavy layer "show girls" spent the evening with vine. There Is a collection of Beecher becomes barkbound. If this con-- j wardrobe woman getting measured orchard, more damage wilt be done to tree the but they have been put Into a relics, dltion la not removed the tree stops sJO , vault-ilk-e for their costumes structure off the, alley en- -; dies. and growing a new written has church, and It Is to trance G?en McDonough Plymouth The dead bark should be removed ' wherein tha existence that The to Wizard," much too for not act say third aa soon as found. The trees should of this building and the mementos of the adventures of little Dorothy, the be gone over in the spring about the are Beecher therein are known to compar-stivelscarecrow, and the time growth starts and all diseased ' bewhere few people. In they Kansas, terminated bark removed. Tree washes and funand new songs gin. There are also gicides seem to have no value either tn Chamberlain's Unpopularity, new music. disease or the Its checking preventing Each year when the time for thd diseased the bark spread. Removing making of wine comes around the own - Worthy Remembrance. and thoroughly cleaning the trank and of vineyards on the Moselle, In ers W. S. Hart of The Suburban" comlarger limbs seem to be a sure and of a very ancient custom, pursuance of a efficient remedy. presentapany Is especially proud the christen vintage with the name of tion copy of "Ben Hur," which has This Is a faithful representation of na- some person who has been specially - Not Infrequently th oat crop sufreached him from Its distinguished ture prominent during the previous year, fers very greatly from th presence General Wallace. On tbd fly - Girls of be Garibaldi and B.smarek have figured author. to are stature great will It farmer pay any smut to of leaf Is the following Inscription: found everywhere and thero are no as sponsors of certain moselles, a give this question a thorough InvestiMesaia First the S. W. To Hart, class distinctions In the matter. The well as the Emperor William. This and to make arrangements this name here, and along girl who has always enjoyed every Cut IB. Effect of Fruit oa Ends of Lons gation for dipping the seed oats write I my year the season has been cold and wet next winter of world counwhole a good send and the wine will be poor, so the vine and the with It you simple luxury, trees than to high-- 1 spring, these Tyrone Rower. LEW WALLACE. baa owner of the Moselle have chrls who the and maiden wishes. girl son ot not Is advisable the try He is It but to headed ones, Jusaryharacters. 1902. Dec. 2, j tened thqtr wine after Mr. Chamber la or In Ind., office, that farmer Crawfordsvllle, her looking The earned shop living carefully Harold Power, the grandson of Tyrone grazing purpose plant orchards bofor lain. t his InteresU will test enough ot Power, an Irish comedian of fame In Mr. Hart created the role of Mesaia are of the same height It should also remembered that tha after sow be this to aura to la observe he seed season. at that For a the The Willlarge when for the llmbe Sir people It an and played nncle. and he baa trunk la atronger ad- Those whom we love make Ilfs it la good and has proper germinating hlalay, come out at different places. iam Tyrone Power, K. C. B., who li short time he also played the HU part magnificent young creature with or shadows. sunshine fond ar too high power. miration and wonder. They In th Wallace play. 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