The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-17
Marazine Notes.


 preciative article upon Magnolias: The Trees That Have the Largest Flowers, by Julia Ellen Rogers. This will interest all 5outherners for the Magnolia should be our National Flow CT, or Sectional Flower rather, the Flower of the South. From Nary land to Texas 1t adorns our coast ooufl- try. and blooms far inland in our forests and gardens. The cover de- sign of this months Country Life is that flower to be found in all our old gardens. we cali 1t Chinese Magnolia: purple outside, and china white with in. Beautiful photographs of the flower form the illustrations of the article. Our Bay (Magnolia glouca) is finely shown up. Also the Mag nolia native to our Alabama forests, Magnolia grandihora. This is the Tolah-thocco of our Creek Indians. Also the Magnolia macrophylla, the Cucumber Tree of our Alabama hill- country.
 Helena Livingston tells of A Three Hundred Acre Estate in New York City. The place is Clifton Berley, home of the late Sir Roderick Camer- on. The photographs are by MT. Rudolph Eickemeyer. who has won so great and deserved a reputation as an art-photographer, with his book of OOuShCih hA6tp anu nu~ merous volumes since.
 Other timely articles are: The Story of Bermudan Garden-Flower of course a lily poem; and The Easter Lily, A Romance of Horticulture. No owner of an acre of Gods good ground ought to be without Country Life In America, so full of helpful sugges- tions Is each number. and these sug- gestions are so practical, so possible. The Open Court is so different from all other magazines. It gives in its perusal unreliable delights. So re- freshing is 1t that one feels that its name designates not 50 much the open Court of appeals and true judg- ment as the Open Court of the great Household of Literature. That beau tiful space of the home open to the sky with It's fountains, gardens, and eternal freshness within. space for best restfulness, best enjoyment, best inspiration, aspiration, and best &C., complishment. Edwin Watts Chubb continues the interesting Shakespeare Controversy. G. Arthur Harris, Ph. D., discusses; A New Theory of the Orig in of the Species. The several letters on Electricity and the Body of Resur- rection are of startling interest.
 Ire In the rooms of The Photo Era plant makes the March number somewhat late. But it comes full of harbingers of Sp.inG The beautiful pictures of the number are: Lady's Slippers, Fleur De LIS, Lilies and Vio- let's. Harbingers of Spring, Where My Lilies Grow, Daisies White With Hearts All Gold. Apple Blossoms. and very many others. The articles also speak of a world abloom: F1oricul- ture and Photography, PhotographinR the Wild Flowers. How to Photograph Flowers. These articles will prove of value to artistic photographers, for the field of illustration Is so wide and so open that there is room therein for any skilled and enterprising, and ar- tistic operator to enter with bta camera. All should read the offer of The Photo Era European Tour.
 That unique little periodical: The Papyrus has the following defense of Foe. IL seems marvellous that Poe. one of the greatest geniuses America has ever produced should be constant- ly needing defenders. Every year or 80 there rise LID American uterafa,~s