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Show pindinewplaiits Band of Rescuers The Crag Rats of Hood River, Ore., is a group whose avocation is the rescue of persons lost on mountains. It was organized in 1926, although the idea of such a rescue group had been suggested by a young lumberman, A. L. Anderson,, some 12 years ago. In that locality scarcely a month passed that some one was not lost on some of the mountain peaks, ao Anderson and other experienced mountain climbers formed their organization. In five years they have averaged six notable rescues annually and many others of lesser note. Dow You Need lot Fear Coughs always important to get a cough under control as quickly as possible. Too often it may otherwise prove the forerunner of something far more serious. One sure way to banish the fear of coughs and colds is to have in your medicine chest a bottle of B. & M., The Penetrating Germicide. Keep it ready for instant use when anyone in your family develops symptoms of a cold in the chest or a sore throat. Use B. & M. externally, Just as you would a mustard plaster. You will find It many times as efficient and it gets quick results. Order from your regular druggist, or send us his name and e $1.25 and we will send a bottle postpaid. Valuable booklet free on request F. E. Rollins Co., 53 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. (Adv.) It by the National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.I. (Prepared years of whole hearted to the cause of was recognized recently when Allison V. Armour. patron of eight expeditions to find and bring into America from foreign countries useful and ornamental plants to enrich our farms and gardens, was awarded the Frank N. Meyer medal for distinguished services in plant introduction. The presentation was made by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic society, at Belnn Bhreagh, home of the late Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, now the summer residence of Doctor and Mrs. MANY Gros-veno- r. Mr. Armours yacht Dtowana sailed under the auspices of the United Stares Department of Agriculture and carried on each expedition a staff of scientific experts chosen by the secretary of agriculture, the president of Harvard university, and the director of Kew gardens, England. As described in Exploring for Plants, Dr. David Fairchilds fascinating account of three of these expeditions, the'yacht Utowana was especially equipped with laboratory, library and greenhouse arrangements, and everything possible was done to facilitate the collecting, study and transportation of living plants in conformity with the strict regulations of the federal plant quarantine and control board. One of the most Interesting and unusual of the expeditions headed by Dr. Fairchild was that to the Canary islands, a few years ago, when a visit was paid to one of the strangest botanical gardens in the world. The Garden of Orotava. There Is something a bit bewildering to most people in a collection of plants such as one finds in any European botanic garden. The Latin label and the crowded specimens are too confusing. At Orotava, Don Juan Bolinagas Jardin de Aclimatacion, as he calls his botanic garden, is no exception. It dates back to a time when the Illusion prevailed in scientific circles that even the plants of the Tropics might be acclimated so that they would grow in the chilly gardens of Europe if only they were brought into them gradually enough. Thi garden was to have been an Important link in the chain of gardens reaching from the Tropics to the Arctic circle; but a century has proved too short a time for the process of acclimatization, as it was understood, to make any impression on the hardiness of tropical trees, and this dream has not come true. To a botanist, however, the Jardin de Aclimatacion of Orotava is full of fascinating plants which have been brought from all parts of the world, for it represents the successes of thousands of introductions which the long lifetimes of such botanists as Wildpret and others of its directors made possible, and although few of the plants introduced, have found their way into Summon use in the island, that Is not lhe fault of the men who have been in charge, but of the public, which does must look forward to changes in the taste of the users of plant materials. Today the great rock terraces, built hand labor as with such an American farmhand would refuse to undertake, are growing the dwarf Chinese banana for European markets at a profit which would surprise even the most successful of the South Florida tomato growers. But what if the taste for the Honduras banana should supplant that for the Chinese species in the minds of the Europeans? The profits of banana raising might vanish and the growers might have to turn to something else. It is at such turning points as this . frost-tend- back-breaki- ... r er that human tragedies occur. Then come into their own the gardens of introduced plants, furnishing their knowledge of what other plants will grow and what will not in the climate and soils of the region. Huge Roxburghs Figs. The most amazing tree in the garden at Orotava is Roxburghs fig (Ficus roxburghli) from the Himalayas. It is not at all a commercial fig, but a wild tree from the tropical forests of Burma. It seems to be very seldom cultivated in botanic gardens anywhere. It is a spreadng tree of immense size, and its trunk and large branches are literally covered with enormous figs figs that are three Inches in diameter before fertilization and that swell up to to four inches afterward. This fertilization, by the way, is very curious. It is done by running a small stick into the Interior of each fruit, a process which appears to irritate the Internal flowers in the same way that the fertilizing wasp does in its native habitat. Every afternoon boys Irrigate the garden, not by means of the usual irrigation canals so familiar in California but with a large fire hose, which delivers a stream of water onto the foliage with such force as to wash off thousands of insects and prevent the dust from gathering on the leaves. But whenever one thinks of the Canaries the barrancos come to mind. These are great, dry river beds with precipitous sides and terraced plantations wherever terraces could be built They are short canyons leading from the mountain peaks to the sea; but unlike those solitary canyons of our Southwest these are the abodes of men, and there are always to be seen, walking over the zigzag mule paths which enter them, the forms of people. Dragons Blood Trees. The Canaries have long been noted in botanical literature as the home of the dragons blood trees. The most famous and largest one of these remarkable trees was reported to have been 79 feet in circumference, at the ground and 70 feet high, and Its age wa6 estimated as being anywhere from the age of the great Pyramids of Egypt on up to 10,000 years. Although this specimen was destroyed In the hurricane of 1867, there are descendants still standing near the town of Icod which give a very good Idea of these incredibly old trees. Since they are more nearly related botanlcally to lilies than to our hardwood trees, the difficulties of estimating their age are very great They have no annual rings of growth and in appearance bear scarcely the faintest resemblance to an oak, a pine, or a giant eucalyptus. 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The record so far, covering the distance, is a day and a night Most successful man in establishNothing has ever been done to iming peace between two men who are lick one can both of who is prove prunes and they call this an If you fall in with a lucky crowd, fighting of progress. age of them. luck. the will get part you i M0 0 PARAFFIN BASE NLY CONOCO GERM PROCESSED OIL mOTOR OIL, SSSZ Can Give You the Extra Benefits of the "U D IE EXE N yAKTT" like. They seem, like the huge, ungainly tortoise of the Galapagos islands, to be left over from antediluvian times, and one can imagine dinosaurs feeding upon their foliage. Their great branches rise from the trunk as clumsily and inartlstically as do the sawdust-fillelegs and arms of the doll; and yet there is a certain stateliness about them, too. The Plant Introduction medal was established by the staff of the division of foseign plant lntrdductlon of the Department of Agriculture in honor of Frank N. 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