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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1912 



One Hundred 

 Masterpieces 



By JOHN LaFARGE 



Author of 

 "Great Masters", "The Higher Life in Art", etc. 



MR. JOHN LaFARGE has given a key to the art beauties of all time in 

 this splendid volume; a work which holds open to the average reader the 

 door to the storehouse of the ages — ■ the gallery of immortal paintings. In 

 the present volume he treats not of a group or school, but of those imperish- 

 able achievements of the greatest painters of the world. Enforcing his words 

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 very spirit of the masters and has interpreted to us their finest works in a man- 

 ner which is not only understandable but truly inspiring. 

 The book is, indeed, a veritable treasure-house 

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PARTIAL CONTENTS 



Allegories: Parts I, II, and III. 



Sacred Conversations: Parts I, II, and III. 



Triumphs: Parts I and II. 



Annunciations: Parts I and II. 



Madonnas: Parts I and II. 



The Romantic School: Parts I and II. 



Portraits of Fashion: Parts I and II. 



The Sadness of Certain Portraits: Parts I, II, III, IV, 



and V. 

 The Borgia Rooms: Parts I, II, and III. 

 Portraits of Children. 

 The Primitives: The Flemish. Unknown Portraits. 



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The Higher Life in Art 



This is a notable resume of the work of Delacroix, 

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Brief critical biographies of Michael Angelo, Ra- 

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join these rails by upright strips of the same sized 

 stock. Then add the horizontal rails, eight to 

 ten inches apart, of common plaster lath or any 

 other light stuff. Two of these hurdles, inclined 

 toward each other and loosely nailed or tied at the 

 top, complete the trellis, the legs of which are 

 pushed into the ground when in place. The vines 

 can be supported by tying them loosely to the 

 cross-pieces with raffia. If you desire it and have 

 an available seed bed in which to grow the cucumber 

 seedlings, you can cover the trellis with pea-vines 

 until June or early July, when they will be removed 

 and the cucumber plants set in their places, or' at 

 least in the same rows, but three feet from hill to 

 hill. 



ONIONS AND LETTUCE 



A third combination is that of onions and lettuce. 

 Onion raised from seed is an all-season crop, and 

 should be sown as soon as the ground can be worked. 

 If we let the onion rows be eighteen inches apart, 

 there is room between each two rows for a row of 

 lettuce, nine inches between the heads. By using 

 a bit of the garden, say two yards square, as a seed 

 bed we can raise lettuce plants for a continual 

 succession all summer, replacing every head har- 

 vested with a new seedling plant. Meanwhile 

 the onions are maturing, are profiting by the 

 cultivation resulting from the growing of the 

 lettuce and by the occasional applications of 

 nitrate of soda between the rows, and will be ready 

 by fall, the entire expense of raising them being 

 paid for (and more, too, most likely) by the sale 

 of lettuce. 



Nearly all the small-growing vegetables and 

 root crops can be adapted to such schemes as these, 

 which are but suggestions. This sort of intensive 

 cultivation will need, of course, more handwork, 

 and now and then nitrate of soda or other com- 

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 expenses are, of necessity, low; whereas everything 

 you raise has some value, and you will be surprised 

 to find how many quarts, pecks and bushels a 

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How to Have Muskmelons All 

 Summer 



MUSKMELONS are such a satisfactory crop 

 for the home garden that it is . strange 

 that more amateur gardeners do not raise them. 

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 with the abundance and quality of the crop when 

 it has been properly cultivated. From a patch 

 30 x 50 ft. it is possible to supply a family of seven 

 with a plentiful supply of melons almost until 

 frost. 



First, procure good seed. The Emerald Gem is 

 a fine melon for the home garden, sweet and of 

 fine flavor, yellow fleshed though not very large. 

 Long Island Beauty, a green-fleshed variety, 

 Netted Gem and Rocky Ford, are other good kinds. 

 There are many others, probably all good, par- 

 ticularly the Jenny Lind and Nutmeg strains, but 

 the big Montreal melons have always failed with 

 me. Can any one tell me how to succeed with 

 them? 



The preparation of the soil is the next considera- 

 tion. If possible, manure the melon patch in the 

 fall and plow or dig it up. Early in the spring 

 dig and manure it again, using well-rotted stable 

 manure and adding wood ashes if you have them. 

 Melons are gross feeders. They like best a sandy, 

 well fertilized soil. Continue to work over the 

 soil if possible, though this is not absolutely nec- 

 essary. The first of May prepare the hills. Pul- 

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 out a little, throw in a spadeful of well-rotted 

 manure, cover with soil and round up. Let these 

 hills stand until the middle of May or later if the 

 weather is cold, when the seeds can be planted, 

 ten to a hill, and watered. The seeds may be 

 started on clumps of sod in a greenhouse if you 

 desire, but I have not found this necessary or, 

 indeed, particularly advantageous. Melons are 

 a late crop, and mature better at their proper 

 season than they do when forced. 



Before you plant the seeds prepare a number 

 of boxes as follows. Knock the bottoms from soap, 

 or other wooden boxes, and nail cheesecloth over 



