A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



riety as a substitute. Another advantage is 

 not being kept weeks for seed which should 

 be in the ground. Send for your supplies 

 to an old established firm; "bargains" are 

 the most reckless waste of money. 



If the "Home" is to be an ideal haven of 

 rest, it must be pretty. Economy will pro- 

 hibit buying plants for the flower garden the 

 first summer, but exercising a little fore- 

 thought now will enable you to have a lovely 

 display of flowers all through the summer at 

 a normal cost. Procure some shallow boxes 

 from your grocer. They should not be 

 more than three inches deep, and about a 

 foot and a half long and a foot wide. If it 

 is not possible to get what you want, saw a six 

 or seven inch box in halves, using the lid as 

 a bottom for the second box. It will be well 

 to provide quite a number of these boxes, as 

 you will want them for vegetable seed unless 

 you have a hotbed a luxury which is hardly 

 to be indulged in the first year. 



Drainage is essential in the boxes to be 

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