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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1913 



Cora turned up the lights at the sides of the cheval-? 

 glass, looked at herself earnestly, then absently, and 

 began to loosen her hair. Her lifted hands hesitated; 

 she re-arranged the slight displacement of her hair 

 already effected; set two chairs before the mirror, 

 seated herself in one; pulled up her dress, where it 

 was slipping from her shoulder, rested an arm upon the 

 back of the other chair as, earlier in the evening, she 

 had rested it upon the iron railing of the porch, and, 

 leaning forward, assumed as exactly as possible the 

 attitude in which she had sat so long beside Valentine 

 Corliss. She leaned very slowly closer and yet closer 

 to the mirror; a rich color spread over her; her eyes, 

 gazing into themselves, became dreamy, inexpressibly 

 wistful, cloudily sweet; her breath was tumultuous. 



"Even as you and I?' " she whispered. 



Then in the final moment of this after-the-fact 

 rehearsal, as her face almost touched the glass, she 

 forgot how and what she had looked to Corliss; she 

 forgot him; she forgot him utterly: she leaped to 

 her feet and kissed the mirrored lips with a sort of 

 passion. 



"You darling!" she cried. 



—From "The Flirt" 



Just Out 



The 



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Author of "Monsieur Beau- 

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][ Everybody knows a flirt — 

 everybody has had a love 

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 of the flirt in himself or herself. 

 Many, many people have 

 married flirts. Many, many 

 more have been engaged to 

 flirts. Here in this book is 

 the soul of a flirt. 



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Early cultivation should be deep, but more shallow 

 later on. In midsummer, if the space between the 

 rows is not mulched, I should cultivate so as to leave 

 a fine layer of soil on the surface, which is "dust 

 mulch." Besides good cultivation, the foilage of the 

 plant should be protected. Currants only need 

 spraying with poisons to kill worms, but as men- 

 tioned, English gooseberries will need spraying for 

 fungus. 



The question of pruning bush fruits is one of per- 

 sonal taste. Those who prefer the tree form for cur- 

 rants and gooseberries, will have a more symmetrical 

 bush, and perhaps a little larger and less fruit. The 

 bush form will probably yield more and smaller fruit. 

 Cherries, etc., should not be headed lower than three 

 feet and the branches that interfere with cultivation 

 shortened. The upright vase form should be kept 

 in mind in pruning the trees. 



New York. W. H. Jenkins. 



A Home-Made Lawn Roller 



THE photograph shows a lawn roller that we 

 made at home from a section of 1 2-inch terra- 

 cotta sewer pipe filled with concrete. A roller is 

 an absolute necessity if the turf is to be kept in 

 perfect condition, but good rollers are expensive and 

 many people do not care to pay the price. A 200- 

 pound iron roller is catalogued by a standard dealer 

 at $10 or $12; ours weighs 225 pounds, cost $3.10, 

 and after three years' service we term it a successful 

 experiment. 



The bell end of the tile was carefully chipped off 

 with a hammer and cold chisel, leaving a length of 

 23 inches. A piece of i-inch gas pipe serves as an 

 axle. A circular piece of board was made to fit the 

 end of the tile and a hole the size of the gas pipe 

 was bored in the exact centre. This was the bottom 



A home-made lawn roller which cost $3.10 to make 

 and has been used for three years 



of the cylinder. The upper end of the gas pipe was 

 braced exactly in the centre by a narrow board 

 fitted across the middle. This left space to pour 

 in the concrete mixture of 1 part cement, 4 parts 

 sand and crushed stone, mixed with the proper pro- 

 portion of water. When this was set and hardened 

 the bottom and top boards were removed and the 

 spaces smoothly filled with a cement mortar. 



The iron framework was made by a blacksmith 

 at a cost of $1.50. Two iron washers are used at 

 each end of the axle. The handle was made from 

 a strip from the home lumber pile, and the hand 

 piece is from an old lawn mower. 



Pennsylvania. Elinor S. Brinton. 



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