The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-22
Persian Lawns
PLANTS.
Jobson Thought He Knew All About
 Them.


 | Washington Star.
 It was only about two months ago that | MT. Jobson stormed aroIud the house | and made terrific uproar because Mrs. Jobson had bought about s1.75 worth of 1 Towering plants in pots at the market Madame" he sternly inquired of Mrs. Jobsor on that occasion, do you labor | under the hallucination that your hus- band is the owner of a dozen or so of | 200-00O- barrels per-hour gushers in the Beaumont oil fiel1s? Dye imagine that l I'm at the head of the beet sugar inter- | est in this country?'
 But" said Mrs. Jobson, just a few | little plants to make the house look cheer l ful-"
 Cheerful nothing" broke in MT Job son. The blossoms'll all drop off of those measley geraniums and azaleas and things within twenty-four hours and then side of three days they'll be deader' n salted mackerels. You might just as well have taken that $1.75 and chucked it to the goldfish in the fountain at the Ma tional Museum. You've got just about as much idea of the value of money as a rabbit has of wireless telegraphy."
 MT. Jobsons 8 prediction as to the short lived character of Mrs. Jobsons plants didn't come true. In fact, Mrs. Jobson was engaged in watering them few evenings later when there was ring at the front door bell. MT. Jobson answered the bell. The individual on the stoop.
 
 was arrayed in the uniform of blue jacket of the United States Navy. The bluejacket seemed to have a pretty plaus- ible way about him.
 Good evening, Mir. Jobson," he said, as soon as MT. Jobson had opened the door. ''I was told today by MT. Blank" naming well known business man to whom MT. Jobson had been under more or less, obligation, that you are inter- ested in rare kinds of foreign plants"
 Cm-yes, said MT. Jobson, a bit sur prised. but fiattered that the well known business man should have had him in mind in connection with such connoisseur- snip. Come in,' and MT. Jobson held the door open invitlngly. The man in the sailors uniform stepped into the hall. He was a bronzed shrewd-looking chap. Under his arm he held a small package.
 Well" went on the man in the tar's makeup, I've just got back to Wash ington, my home from a cruise in the China seas, and I've brought d number of specimens of Chinese bulbous plants back with me-"
 That so?' inquired MT. Jooson. some what interested to be engaged in conve;.- sation with heavy weather chap who had been so far from home.
 es sir, replied the man in the deep water rig. and I've brought few of the specimens along with me |" and he pro- ceeded to unwrap the package
 The package contained about dozen Iouho' browmSh-looking. rather dirty bulbs. The individual with the salt wa ter makeup picked one of them out and held it up 10 the light between his thumb and forefinger
 ., This one" he said, belong to the fam ny Chinkalenss Bloomerinous. It's about the most rapid growing bulhous DIant known in the Horticulture of China. All you have to do is to plant it about three inches deep in q pot and set it in the sun, watering il couple of times day, ana inside oi a week or so an orchid-like blossom, in three distinct colors. makes It's appearance. seeming to grow right out
 Well, Tn be dinged," exclaimed Mir. Jobson. taking the bulb and cxaminjn4, it curiously. That's quick action for a fellows money isn't it?"
 Yes, sir compacentv replied the ty of it is that's the only snecinten oF abn ehinkalensis bloomerionus now in inc | nlted States, and the superintendent of the botanical gardens here has been try.