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December, 1912 
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it warms the room as it spreads to the 
outer wall, so there is some saving in 
heat. If you are using hot air you will 
find the floor registers, though they are a 
little more in the way than wall registers, 
will give better satisfaction. They start 
the heating right at the floor, and the 
heat naturally rises from there. The wall 
registers must generally be up from the 
floor a little, consequently they do not 
heat the floor well. And besides that, 
they blacken the wall in time. 
The blackening effect of heat centers 
is one thing that you will find it hard to 
get entire freedom from, no matter what 
system you use. There may be less of it 
with hot water, but there is some of it 
with any heater. The furnace register is 
perhaps the worst of all, for occasionally 
a little smoke will find its way through 
them. Yet, it is not smoke so much as 
scorched dust particles that cause the 
trouble, and these will just naturally 
circulate around any heater, and upward 
from it. For this reason avoid placing 
registers or radiators by windows. It will 
soil draperies hung over them, and the 
window chills the hot rising air and re- 
duces the heating efficience. 
By observing these points, and follow- 
ing the spirit, if not the exact letter of 
them, you are likely to get the most out 
of whatever heating system you may select 
and be best satisfied with it. 
THE GARDENS OF TRADITION 
UPPOSING that you have any affec- 
tion for your household poets or any 
homely sentiment at all,’ says a writer in 
the New York Evening Post,” one or two 
lavendar plants will enable you to connect 
your little plot with the ancient tradition 
of big blooming gardens such as your 
grandmother used to be seen moving 
about in with her shears or coming out 
of with baskets of roses. As to the flowers 
for your nursery-made garden spot, you 
will choose certain varieties which prom- 
ise to supply you with a rotation of blos- 
soms—taking care to get plants which 
are timed to bloom that same year. The 
first flowers after those which spring up 
from bulbs are Pansies and little English 
Daisies. You may arrange, say, a bed of 
Pansies with a border of Daisies. One of 
the showiest and readiest blooming plants 
is Salvia, which, planted against the house 
or along the fence, will make a scarlet 
hedge all Summer and bloom until frost. 
May is a good time to put it out. Ten- 
week-stocks and Cockscomb are other tall 
and showy plants which lend themselves 
to the purpose of the commuter whose ob- 
ject is to get a real garden effect about his 
new place so that his first Summer will 
not be the contradiction of his dreams. 
These flowers, too, look well against 
fences, and may be planted early in May. 
Then there is Golden-Glow, which is not 
only gay to look at, but comes up year 
after year, while Asters of all colors, also, 
though they are Fall flowers, can be got 
from the nursery by the last of April. The 
same is true of Cosmos and Chrysanthe- 
mums. 
For all-Summer blooming there is 
nothing more satisfactory the Nasturtium. 
There are the dwarf varieties for beds and 
the wire fence background. The time for 
planting these also is around the first of 
May, and it does not take many plants to 
make a profusion of flowers. That is not 
forgetting, of course, the Geranium. Or, 
if again your ideal is grandmother’s garden, 
there are Petunias, Verbenas, Sweet Wil- 
liam, Hollyhocks, old-fashioned Pinks and 
