DWARF PEAR TREES OF THE NORTHWEST. Compare with the hat.

stock." Such trees, kept carefully pruned to reduce their size, are sometimes not more than five or six feet high, and yet bear large fruit. The same thing is done. with the pear, by grafting it on the quince.

By similar means cherry trees are

A DWARF APPLE TREE OF THE NORTHWEST,

LUTHER BURBANK'S LATEST WONDER.

Dwarf chestnut six months from seed, in bearing.

made dwarfs, and are used on dinner tables nowadays for decorative purposes --with trunks not more than an inch and a half in diameter, though four or five years old. The little trees are never permitted to grow more than three feet high. At the proper season they are set in pots, and placed in the hothouse for the purpose of forcing them into fruit. Finally, when the fruit appears, most of the cherries are removed while immature

with a pair of scissors, only one hundred or so being allowed to ripen. As a result, they are far superior in size and quality to the best of ordinary cherries.

The agricultural experiment station at Brookings, South Dakota, is at present trying to create for the prairie region of the Northwest hardy dwarf varieties of apples and pears-trees of absurdly small sizes, only four or five feet in height, but yielding the biggest kind of fruit. They are expected to add very importantly to the agricultural wealth of that part of the country.

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OR the first time in the geologic history of North America, diamonds have been found in the original matrix-in Arkansas. Three companies already are operating in the field and more than seven hundred diamonds have been found, the largest of them weighing six and one-half carats. While of course many of the stones are small and almost worthless, that is a characteristic of every diamond field. The larger stones, however, are of excellent quality and may be cut into finished gems with no more than the average loss in weight. They range in color from the purest blue

white to canary yellow and brown. Of the stones discovered, one is an absolutely flawless blue white gem weighing four and nine-thirty-seconds carats. Another is an absolutely flawless canary yellow gem weighing one and one-half carats, so perfect in shape as to require almost no cutting to make it a marketable gem. One diamond still retained in the matrix in which it was formed is estimated to weigh between three and four carats and apparently is flawless.

As yet, only the surface of the diamond field has been touched, and whether untold riches lie beneath it only time can tell. For the present the indi