must be detention points, immigration stations, for these floral newcomers, where their histories and potentialities may be inquired into. Uncle Sam has therefore created at appropriate points in his wide domain a number of Ellis Islands for plants. At Brooksville, in the hummock region of western Florida, is a plant immigration station that furnishes ideal conditions for the propagation of plants coming from the moister but not tropical arts of China and Japan. In these garTens are located the first sizable Federal Molantation of bamboo. This plant is one f the most valuable trees in the world. The smooth stems rise fifty feet in air, branchless for the greater part of their ength. In spring these trees furnish an abundance of edible young shoots as lelicious as asparagus. The wood is exGremely strong. The little canes are our ommon bamboo fishing-poles. The larhiger stems are useful in a thousand ways. This plant can be grown from the Caroainas to Texas, and there is every reason o believe that our descendants will nome day wander through great forests if bamboo in America. At Miami is another plant-introducion garden. Here frost is practically unknown. The character of the region s largely tropical. So the Miami staDion is most advantageous for the propaTugation and preliminary testing of a wide e range of new plants from tropical and ill subtropical regions. The Chico, California, station is loated in the very heart of one of the is eading deciduous fruit and nut sections. Here the summers are long and hot, the he winters are mild, and water for irrigaion is abundant. So the Chico station for Decomes the appropriate place to try out in such widely differing plants as alfalfa from Siberia, hardy fruits from Russia, chestnuts, persimmons, and jujubes from northern China, and citrus fruits from the tropics. D the At Bellingham, Washington, a station has been created after extensive experiments to find the best place in America to grow bulbs, for Uncle Sam feels that America ought not to be dependent upon other lands for her bulb supply. Millions of bulbs bloom there. And there are reasons to believe from these experiments that the so-called "Dutch bulbs" can be grown just as well in this country as in Holland, while tests show that in some respects these home-grown bulbs are even superior to the Holland products. Almost certainly the result of these experiments will be the building up of a great bulb industry in the Puget Sound region. The Yarrow station, at Rockville, Maryland, was established primarily to meet the need for a place near Washington where plants could be inspected by the Federal Horticultural Board, and properly guarded if there is a suspicion that they are diseased. Lack of proper i control of plant introductions in earlier days unleashed upon the country such terrible scourges as the chestnut blight and the San José scale. Uncle Sam does not intend to have a repetition of such a thing. Still another station is located at "The ablest and most influential religious paper in America"-says the London Westminste Gazette "The Church's Stake in the Armament Conference" SERIES of four editorials on "The Church's Stake in the Armament Conference" is beginning now in The Christian Century. In no peaceful period has the church given so much evidence of a vital interest in the essentially Christian business of abolishing war as in past few months. En to observe November 11 as a high day for prayer and earnest discussion. Into every city and hamlet of the country the idea has been carried by magazines and the daily press until Che CHRISTIAN it has now received the reinforcement of President Harding's request that the day be made a solemn holiday. This incident is but one lightened Christian church; CENTURY, illustration of the unique men are coming to regard the Washington conference as an event in whose issue and outcome they have, as Christians, the most vital A Journal of Religion stake. They feel, moreover, that the responsibility of creating an atmosphere not merely of ardent expectancy but of moral demand rests peculiarly upon them and their churches in these crucial, vibrant weeks. This conviction has been finding steady expression in The Christian Century. It was in the editorial columns of this paper that the suggestion was first made EDITOR THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY; position The Christian Century has come to occupy in the thought of American church leadership. It discusses the great issues of the social order, of industry and business, of states and communities, of Christian unity, of theology and ethics, of the personal spiritual life-and all with a candor unrestricted by denominational interests and horizons. No thoughtful man or woman, inside the church or outside, can afford to be without this free interpreter of religion in these great days. What Edwin Markham, Social Prophet, says Edwin Markham, the poet, has just left for New York after a week's visit in my home. He left carrying among his numerous bundles a bunch of eight or ten copies of The Christian Century. Mr. Markham bade me say to you that the reading of your editorials on the social interpretation of the gospel thrilled him. He added: "I want that editor to know that I am I said, Mr. Markham, would you have any objection to having Dr. Morrison quote you as saying that ?" "I would be glad for him to do so!" he replied. So do what you please with what he said. He meant it, with all his fine soul. He has such a passion for a social and industrial interpretation of the gospel that he thrills when he finds a new paper or a new preacher or teacher who believes that Jesus taught a gospel that reaches down into life. WILLIAM L. STIDGER, Minister St. Mark's Methodist Church, Detroit. Fill out one of these coupons and mail today. Addresses outside U. S. must provide for extra postage. The Christian Century 508 S. Dearborn St., Chicago : Dear Sirs Please enter my name (a new subscriber) for a year's subscription to The Christian Century at your regular rate of $4.00 (ministers $3.00). I will remit upon receipt of bill and you will please send me without extra charge a copy of "The Next War," by Will Irwin, or "What and Where is God?" by Swain, or "What Christianity Means to Me," by Lyman Abbott, or "Princess Salome," by Burris Jenkins, or "The Master of Man," by Hall Caine. The Christian Century 508 S. Dearborn St., Chicago Dear Sirs Enclosed please find $1.00 for a twelve weeks' acquaintance subscription to The Christian Century. Name.. Address.... Outlook, 11, 2 (Use title "Rev." if a minister.) Outlook, 11, 2 IMMIGRANT STATIONS FOR PLANTS (Continued) Savannah, Georgia. In these stations Uncle Sam takes charge of all the plant immigrants coming to the Bureau of Plant Industry. The enormous labor connected with the handling of these newcomers is past belief. From all corners of the earth come bales of plants, cuttings, and seeds that must first be unpacked, given each an identification number, and at once inspected for disease. If in any way tainted, a plant is immediately ordered into quarantine. Otherwise it gets a clean bill of health, which permits of its high distribution as occasion necessitates. to The plant propagators at these staions often have to resort to every dea known practice of the craft to save a lant arriving out of condition or out of eason. And sometimes, when they are Wedandling plants utterly unknown to hem, they must devise methods entirely esdew. That The necessary records of a plant imnigrant include a Federal Horticultural mBoard inspection card, a plant introduc ion card, a plant order card, and a "hipping tag upon which is a certificate the of inspection. And each of these cards nust contain minutely detailed informaion, such as the name of the sender, to name of inspector, treatment prescribed, late received, number of specimens reeived, probable economic value, name of recipient if shipped out for trial, and 10 on. ISSUES Merely to list the thousands of plants bush hat have come to these immigrant staions would fill a book or two. Plants of shall sorts, from forest trees to ornamental ines, are on trial. Many of these plants The f Fire no better than our native plants of andike sorts. Some are inferior. Yet WI nany have been discovered that may be helpful in improving old species here or n establishing new industries. For instance, take the peach. For quality American peaches lead the World. But they are terribly subject to lisease. Among the plant immigrants are scores of peach trees from many quarters of the globe. Some of these are ighly resistant to many peach diseases, And will doubtless eventually revolutiondze peach culture in America, either hrough hybridization or by their use as stocks to graft on, thus making the trees ardier. Scores of different strains of wheat are under culture. New fruits of all sorts are here. Ornamental shrubs, medicinal plants, forest trees, food plants, grow here. Many newcomers have proved extremely valuable. The Chinese jujube, which bears a big fruit as large as a big prune, promises to Chcreate a new industry. The tung-oil tree, from the seeds of which is made one of the best drying oils known to commerce, has been successfully introduced into a number of Southern States. The pistache tree, the nuts of which give us the green vegetable coloring for confections, has been found to do especially well in California. 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Ten years ago FIELD AND STREAM was not the leading outdoor magazine. Today it is. Ten years of constant effort to make FIELD AND STREAM not only the most interesting but the most serviceable and valuable magazine for the man who hunts and fishes have brought their reward. Its circulation has nearly trebled (over 100,000 copies printed per month), and this increase has come entirely from the best class of American citizenship-the true sportsmen who hunt and fish purely for the love of it, and who are with us heart and soul in our fight for the proper conservation of our fish and game, for more sensible and effective game laws and license laws, etc. As a consequence, FIELD AND STREAM today has become a publication of power and influence, and literally dominates its field. We who have been making this magazine what it is today understand the many reasons why it has attained this position of dominance; why it is preferred above all other publications of its kind by so many thousands of sportsmen. We do not know, however, what specific single reason, if any, is most responsible for this growth; and that is what we want to find out. Sit down this evening and write us a letter, stating in not more than 200 words exactly why you consider FIELD AND STREAM the best magazine of its kind. Your reason may be the unusual service rendered free of charge by its various departments-"Arms and Ammunition," "Fish and Fishermen," "The Kennel," "Vacation Information Service," etc.-which answer each month hundreds of requests for both technical and non-technical information. Your reason may be the great good which FIELD AND STREAM is accomplishing in its fight for conservation and better laws. Whatever it is, explain why that feature is of first importance to you. The prizes named above will be awarded to the persons whose letters we consider the most constructive and helpful. Letters will not be judged according to their "literary style" but solely according to their critical value. You may win first prize, and thereby recoup a part of your Christmas expenses. Contest closes December 31, 1921, Letters will not be considered after that date. ND FIELD 25 West 45th Street, New York City Say it with Flowers To my friendWith Best wisher Remember the Birthday of Patronize your local florist. You can "Say it with Flowers" anytime, IMMIGRANT STATIONS FOR PLANTS (Continued) sent out from the immigrant station and found adaptable to many parts of the country. As a co-operator for the Bureau of Plant Industry, I am growing udo in my gardens in central Pennsylvania. In these same gardens and orchards I am growing Siberian plums, Spanish cher ries, Chinese vines, real Irish potatoes, and other plants in an effort to learn for Uncle Sam where his new immi grants will thrive and what they are good for. A new blight resistant chestnut has been found that may replace our depart ing native chestnuts; a Chinese dry-land elm has been brought from Manchuria that may some day play a part in re foresting America. The Egyptian cot ton, so useful to tire-makers because of its long fibers, has been successfully introduced into the West. The chayote, the avocado, the East Indian mango, the petsai, the kudzu vine, Sudan grass, and innumerable other plants have been introduced that promise to be of greatest usefulness in this country. As the proc ess of Americanization proceeds, we shall find that many others among the 50,000 immigrants received at our Ellis Islands for plants will help to widen, extend, and perhaps almost to revolu tionize American agriculture. 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