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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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trum japonicHtn, and the Manzanita, Arc- 

 tostaphylos glauca. 



How is your lawn? This is the time 

 to renovate California laws. Dig out every 

 weed, rill in every hollow, trim the edges, 

 and roll, roll, roll. Use a heavy roller and 

 don't stop going over it because you can't 

 see any marked difference. Roll the lawn 

 now four or five times. 



Beside my front porch last Spring were 

 some of the most beautiful Tulips I have 

 ever seen. It was a new lot of bulbs I was 

 trying out and so I planted them in a mis- 

 cellaneous bed where I passed them several 

 times a day. You know it is the constant 

 association with a flower that makes you 

 know that you love it. I learned which 

 of the sorts I liked best and this year, I 

 am going to plant those in separate beds 

 and borders — this year in November, right 

 now. You can't have too many bulbs. 

 They please everyone, and they should 

 surely have an important part in everyone's 

 grounds. 



Besides Tulips, you may plant Hyacinths, 

 Xarcissus, Easter Lilies, and Fresias. 



'Tis well enough to have a bed of 

 flowers that is gorgeous in Summer and 

 by Fall is dead, but it is so much better to 

 plant for permanency — to plant the flowers 

 that come back — old friends — to greet us 

 next year and the next and next. If you 

 would have a garden of old friends, get 

 plants of the following Perennials now and 

 set them in your chosen spot, with well- 

 stirred and well- fertilized soil about their 

 roots, and with shade until they have made 

 a start. 



Pansies, Stocks, Columbine, Canterbury 

 Bells, Carnations, Shasta Daisies, Holly- 

 hocks, Oriental Poppies, Petunias, Snap- 

 dragons, Violets and Verbenas. 



Sweet Peas are not of the "old friend" 

 sort, but we must have them. I can 

 scarcely imagine a real home without Sweet 

 Peas. The Spencer varieties are the larg- 

 est and most attractive, but there are other 

 sorts that you will like. Plant the seed 

 now for early Spring blooming. 



Did you ever hear that saying, "The 

 shoemaker's wife goes barefooted?" That 

 applies to a good many of us in California 

 — here where we may have crisp vege- 

 tables from our own garden the year 

 around, we go without them. And why? 

 I wonder why. I guess it is because we 

 don't really realize what we might have. 

 Here are the vegetables that may be planted 

 in November and will bear before Winter 

 is entirely over: Onion seed, beets, carrots, 

 cauliflower, lettuce, peas, parsley, radishes, 

 spinach, and turnips. 



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 covers three fourths of the earth's sur- 

 face, and land the other fourth. This 

 statement dates back to a time when very 

 little was known about the distribution of 

 land and water in the polar regions, and 

 needs to be considerably revised in the light 

 of recent discoveries. Taking account of 

 the results of the latest polar expeditions, 

 Prof. Wagner estimates that the ratio be- 

 tween land and water is 1 :2.242 ; in other 

 words, that about three sevenths of the 

 earth's surface is land, and the rest water. 

 This estimate assumes that only 10 per cent, 

 of the surface north of latitude 80 degrees 

 north is land ; an assumption that may be 

 considerably modified by the forthcoming 

 explorations of the great unknown region 

 north of British America and eastern 

 Siberia. 



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