June, 1911 
Beauty and Comfort Combined 
With the Honest Skill of Sweden 
is Yours if You Use 
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Can be 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
THE BORDER GARDEN 
By ANNIE H. QUILL 
F you have moved to a new location this 
spring and if in the yard there are any 
tumble-down sheds or fences that are 
an eyesore, they can be hidden by a border 
garden. To do this will mean some work, 
but it will also mean a quantity of fresh 
vegetables all summer. Clean up and burn 
all the rubbish, and spade up a border all 
along the sheds or fences that will get the 
sun for even a short time. I would use a 
fertilizer; only a little will be needed, and 
it can be bought in small quantities. 
Nearest to the walls or fences I would 
plant the Dutch Case Knife pole beans; 
these I know to be a fine snap bean, and if 
you should have more than you need green, 
the balance can be dried and are excellent 
baked. They are exceedingly productive, 
and so very long that only a few pods will 
be needed for a meal. These should be 
planted about a foot apart, and three or 
four beans in a group or hill. It will make 
a difference of two or three days in their 
growth if they are soaked for an hour or 
two before planting. When they are well 
above the ground, pegs can be driven into 
the ground and a string tied to the peg, and 
the other end of the string fastened to a 
nail in the fence or wall. The beans should 
be planted as near as possible to the fence, 
and about eighteen inches from the beans, 
all along the edge of the strip, beets and 
lettuce may be planted. These should be 
thinned out and transplanted, first about 
two inches apart, and later thinned out 
again to four inches apart; the second thin- 
ning of the beets will make nice greens and 
the tender lettuce is delicious, even though 
too small for salads. 
I find that fine cucumbers can be raised 
by taking a length of poultry netting (if 
you keep poultry, they can be planted out- 
side the hen yard fence), and fastening it 
to stakes driven in the ground and planting: 
seed of the Japanese climbing cucumber 
along this wire just as you would plant 
sweet peas. When the plants are up and 
the real cucumber leaf forms, thin them out 
until they are a foot apart. They will need 
a little training until they catch the wire, 
after that they will take care of themselves 
and bear wonderfully. They are finely 
flavored, firm and crisp. Cucumbers need 
a good deal of moisture at the roots and 
should have a good soaking every night if 
possible, but it is a great help to put the 
fresh grass cut from the lawn about the 
roots and leave it there, it will keep the 
moisture about the roots even after the 
grass has dried. Nearly anyone can have 
such a garden, even in a tiny city yard. 
HOW DESERTS ARE FORMED 
HERE is a popular idea that des- 
erts like the Sahara are the bot- 
toms of ancient seas which have 
been lifted above their original elevation 
by geological forces. This notion is an 
erroneous one. It is absolutely certain, 
high authorities contend, that the sands 
of all the great deserts have been formed on 
the spot by the distintegration of the 
solid rocks on which they rest. Desert 
sands correspond in all respects, so far as 
their mode of origin is concerned, to the 
dust and sand that accumulates on our 
high roads in summer. All deserts are 
situated where the winds from the ocean, 
before reaching them, are exhausted of 
their moisture by passing over mountains 
or across extensive tracts of land, 
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