The Price 
of Goodness 
The goodness of Uneeda Biscuit is 
not a matter of cost to you. It is assured 
by the careful selection of the best ma- 
terials for Uneeda Biscuit; by the skill 
of experts who bake nothing but Uneeda 
Biscuit; by the perfect cleanliness and 
appliances of great bakeries built ex- 
pressly to bake Uneeda Biscuit; and, 
finally, by the perfect protection of a 
package that excludes all dust and 
moisture. 
All this has resulted in a quality out 
of all proportion to the price. 
Uneeda 5 
Biscuit 
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY 
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‘i Without a Night Fireman 
made possible bya WILKS WATER HEATER in your greenhouse, 
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ta . ; ; 
It Don’t Pay to Feed Hens That Don’t Lay 
We have for sale 100 pure bred yearling White 
Leghorn hens—all laying to-day—$2.00 each. Also 
5 cockerels $5.00 each,. or we will divide the lot to 
suit—Settings of 15 eggs, $2.00. 
BELLE HILL WHITE LEGHORN RANGE, Elkton, Md. 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
April, 1909 
for the house, complete the furnishings of the 
garden, unless one can have a sun-dial on a 
beautifully carved pedestal, or some small faun 
in bronze to smile and sympathize with the 
things that happen not only among the roses, 
but, perhaps, also sub rosa. 
In such a garden one may pass many hours 
of delightful occupation and many hours of 
thoughtful worship of the queen of flowers. 
The rose garden should be protected from 
high winds, and it will be all the better if it 
gets sunshine for only eight hours in the 
middle of the day. Before eight or nine the 
sun perhaps will not reach it, and then is the 
time for work and for picking the flowers 
while still dew covered and just beginning to 
open. ‘The colors of the rose are more bril- 
liant in the morning light or after four in the 
afternoon, when the long shadows from the 
west come creeping over them; toward night 
their fragrance seems to float in the air, more 
delicate and more entrancing. 
After the first prodigality of bloom in June, 
there comes a pause when there are few flow- 
ers and then one is quite willing to have the 
rose bushes out of sight and to forget all about 
them, except the necessity for cultivation and 
watching. 
There is a quick recovery and for the re- 
mainder of the summer there should be plenty 
to gather every day. 
THE HOTBED 
By Ida D. Bennett 
HAVE always advocated the construction 
of the cheapest and most temporary of 
hotbeds rather than no hotbed at all, but 
where one is living in their own home and 
the bed will be apt to prove permanent, a sub- 
stantial construction is always to be preferred, 
and this can best be secured by the use of 
concrete. I could give reliable data as to the 
amount of material and expense of construct- 
ing a hotbed of a given size, if there was any 
uniformity in the charges of masons and the 
cost of material even in the same place. 
Where one can do their own mason work, 
or at least oversee it, concrete construction 
is the cheapest and most satisfactory form of 
permanent work for outbuildings, but high 
priced, and dishonest masons may easily make 
it the most expensive. 
In building permanent structures it is well 
to build them on a generous scale, as it is 
better to have a little unused room than to be 
cramped for space, and the advantage of hav- 
ing room, not only for the starting of one’s 
flower and garden seeds, but also of bulbs and 
cuttings, is beyond any trifling matter of ex- 
pense, for a few feet more or less wil) not add 
materially to the expense. 
Even more important than the matter of 
size of the beds is their location, for upon this 
will depend their effectiveness. “They should 
be as near the house as possible for convenience 
in caring for, and should be, if possible, on 
a rise of ground or at least in a well-drained 
position and facing the south, with a building, 
wall or other windbreak at the north; pro- 
tection from the full force of the west wind 
also has a value, for the hotbed will be in com- 
mission at a time when the west winds are 
much in evidence. 
It is best in constructing the beds, whatever 
the material, that the building shall be from 
the bottom of the pit up, and the pit should 
be about four feet deep. Very satisfactory 
results often follow the making of beds whose 
frames rest upon the surface of the ground, 
but such an arrangement always presents a 
serious element of risk, especially where the 
premises are infested with moles, gophers and 
field mice, which enter unprotected beds much 
to their harm. It is seldom that trouble of 
