XIV 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1908 



How to Make an Old Home 

 Modern at Very Small Cost 



THE things most in evi- 

 dence in any home are 

 the woodwork, furni- 

 ture and floors. 



If these things look old, 

 shabby or out-of-date, the 

 home cannot be modern. 



Are you perfectly satisfied 

 with the appearance of your 

 furniture, woodwork and 

 floors? 



If you are not, you can easily 

 remedy matters yourself — you 

 can do the work in your spare 

 time — it's interesting, fasci- 

 nating — the expense is trifling. 



You can make a pine floor 

 almost as beautiful as hard- 

 wood — you change old dis- 

 carded furniture, making it 

 handsome and modern in finish 

 — you can change the shiny, 

 harsh, always-marred varnish 

 finish on any wood to the 

 proper dull waxed finish. 



The "Johnson Way" is the 

 only way that is absolutely 

 satisfactory and really simple 

 and practical. 



Wood stains dry so quickly 

 that it is very difficult to apply 

 them evenly — they show laps, 

 light and dark spots and rub 

 off — spirit stains and water 

 stains raise the grain of the 

 wood. 



As for "varnish stains," 



stain and varnish, they pro- 

 duce a coarse, out-of-date, 

 shiny finish and anyway var- 

 nishing requires expert hand- 

 ling — such preparations hide 

 the beauty of the wood be- 

 cause they are too "thick" to 

 penetrate the pores and they 

 are a constant source of care 

 and expense — they cannot 

 wear well because every 

 scratch and scrape takes them 

 off the surface. 



Anyone can secure the best 

 results with Johnson's Wood 

 Dyes and Johnson's Prepared 

 Wax. 



Johnson's Wood Dyes (in 

 14 shades) are really dyes — 

 they do not coat over the wood 

 — they color it because they are 

 so prepared that they penetrate 

 the pores — thus they accentuate 

 the beautiful grain of the wood 

 and give an unequaled rich- 

 ness and depth of permanent 

 tone — a perfectly even texture 

 which will not rub off. 



Then right over the Dye, 

 you apply Johnson's Prepared 

 Wax — simply rubbing it with 

 a cloth and you have a mod- 

 ern, subdued, lustrous and 

 enduring finish which cannot 

 be produced in any other way. 



This finish is easily kept in 

 perfect condition because it 

 does not show scratches and 

 heel marks like varnish, shel- 

 lac and hard oil, and when a 

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 have to do is rub a little John- 

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 worn part. 



But don't expect to be able 

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 and dirt — does not show re- 

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 brought to the most beautiful 

 and lasting polish with the 

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ing. The blackberry and strawberry can be 

 shipped, on the contrary, a long distance. The 

 wise berry-grower for this reason prefers the 

 raspberry, at least in his earlier planting. 



The black raspberry is used mainly for dry- 

 ing and export. It is, however, a grand fruit 

 for home use, and should be planted to a 

 limited extent. Nothing excels it in a bowl 

 of milk, and this the boys and girls soon find 

 out. The plant can not be kept in good con- 

 dition beyond four years, while I find I can 

 keep a field of red raspberries in good shape 

 for twelve years. The black raspberry roots 

 at the tip, and in order to secure plants we 

 must leave untrimmed enough canes to furnish 

 the sets we need. On the contrary, the red 

 raspberry multiplies by suckers ; although 

 there are some crosses of the two sorts, like 

 Schaffer and Columbian, which root in both 

 ways. The suckers, which spring so abun- 

 dantly with the reds, must be largely culti- 

 vated out or cut out. I top off my black rasp- 

 berries at four or five feet, and keep them 

 headed in all summer with arms of fifteen or 

 eighteen inches in length. There is consider- 

 able difference in the growth of varieties, and 

 some of these, like the Davison Thornless, I 

 allow to grow taller. My red raspberries I 

 do not cut off until October or November. 

 Earlier clipping or heading in will start a lot 

 of weak shoots and ruin the plantation. Wait 

 until the weather is cold and there is no 

 danger of starting buds. 



As soon as the berry crop is off I cut out 

 the old canes and fork them from the field 

 At the same time I crowd the new canes be- 

 tween two wires that are stretched from post 

 to post — the posts standing about twenty feet 

 apart. The wires are then clamped together 

 with bent pieces of wire. The two wires 

 should stand about three feet from the ground. 

 Now you have your canes in good condition 

 for winter and for running your cultivator. 

 The tops can be clipped when the weather 

 directs. The black raspberry is already 

 trimmed and ready for winter. I treat my 

 blackberries like the red raspberry — -that is, I 

 do not cut them back until cold weather. But 

 I do not put the new canes between wires. 

 The old canes are cut out and burned, and 

 through the young canes I cut a passage wide 

 enough for my horse to pass without being 

 severely scratched. The upright growing 

 Snyder, and King Phillip, I leave standing at 

 a height of six or seven feet, but the somewhat 

 spreading Eldorado have to be cut closer. 

 These three sorts include about all that I 

 now plant. 



The best raspberries of the red and golden 

 sorts are Cuthbert and Golden Queen. Neither 

 of these is absolutely hardy, but they generally 

 give a good crop as far north as central New 

 York and Massachusetts. I have succeeded in 

 raising a seedling of a lemon-yellow color, 

 which is absolutely hardy. It is not yet ready 

 for introduction. The best purple berry is 

 still Schaffer, and even Columbian must give 

 way to it. It annually kills back a little ways, 

 but it invariably gives a fine crop. Indeed it 

 is one of the really grand berries that we must 

 never part with. Of all berries it is the best 

 for canning, and the flavor as well as size are 

 unsurpassed. The Loudon is a large and 

 high-flavored berry, but very juicy, and unfit 

 for market within twelve hours of picking. 

 Miller, Haymaker, Cardinal, etc., are un- 

 worthy of planting. In fact, we are as yet 

 not out of sight of the old Cuthbert. Of the 

 very early sorts, Marlboro is emphatically the 

 best. For market the demand will take about 

 one-quarter either yellow or purple; but there 

 must be about three-quarters of your stock 

 pure red — and bright red at that. The house- 

 keeper is very proud of her canned goods, and 

 she likes to look lovingly at the rich cardinal 

 color. The flavor of the golden berry is 



