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Evergreens 
No Better Time Than Right Now To Plant Them 
IBN IT now because it’s easily done—easily done 
because the ground is in so much better con- 
dition than in the Spring; help is easier to get, 
and you doubtless have more time to give to its 
attention. 
Of special importance is the fact, that evergreens 
planted now have a chance to make enough new root 
growth so that when Spring comes they are thoroughly 
established and at once begin to develop. 
Added to all these reasons is the additional pleasure 
of having the trees all this winter to cheer you with 
their greenness or call forth your admiration when 
snow-laden. So it looks as if you would have to buy 
your evergreens just as soon as possible and get them 
right in the ground. 
There are no better evergreens to be bought than 
Hicks’ —some have even gone so far as to say there 
are none as good. In our nursery are thousands of 
trees from 8 inches to 30 feet. Cedars—white pines, 
and at least six different kinds of spruce. 
For screens, you know there is nothing equal to 
evergreens — they are beautiful all the year round— 
they always screen. Run out to our nursery if 
possible and make your own selections. If you want 
as many as thirty —better order a carload and we will 
ship them direct from our collecting fields where we have 
root pruned them. They will cost you, on an average, 
only $25 apiece, planted. You cut out double 
freight and the nursery charges that would otherwise 
have to be added to the cost of each tree. It is im- 
portant to remember that August and September are 
among the best of months for the planting of your 
evergreens. Or if there are some trees on your place 
or in the vicinity which you wish were in certain 
locations on your ground, we can move them for you. 
It matters not how big they are, we will send a crew 
of experienced men and special equipment for moving 
trees of even 30 to 50 tons weight. 
If you can’t come to the nursery, write us and we 
will send our catalog along with our reply. 
ISAAC HICKS & SON Westbury, L. I. 
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August, I9II 
venient to use a wire sieve of small mesh. 
Water may be poured through this over 
the seeds until they are clean. They are 
then spread out to dry. 
The seeds of peppers do not require 
washing. They need merely to be cut away 
from the core, separated and dried. 
Beans and peas are taken from the pod 
when it is dry and cracked, but the pods 
should be taken from the vine just before 
this condition is reached. 
Radish, turnip and lettuce seeds are 
gathered by crushing the dried pod and 
shaking the seeds into a receptacle. Spinach 
and carrot seeds are saved by shaking them 
when dry over a pan. They need no wash- 
ing. 
In saving corn, use the finest ears and 
let them mature on the stalk. Turn back 
the husk and hang them in a dry place with 
the kernels exposed. 
SOME FIRST FLOOR FURNITURE 
EXT to the dining table the side- 
board is the important article in the 
dining-room. If the ordinary side- 
board to match the dining-room furni- 
ture is to be used, it looks its best when 
standing against the largest wall space. 
Sometimes a built-in sideboard is pre- 
ferred, and this is fitted into a recess that 
is usually reserved for it in the architect’s 
plan. 
Attractive china closets may be designed 
for the dining-room when the plan of a 
house is under consideration. One lover 
of Colonial ideas transplanted a china closet 
from an old house and made it the keynote 
of interest in his new dining-room. In 
another home the same idea was carried 
out, but the closet was built into the liv- 
ing-room, where it held a collection of 
antique china and silver. The handwork 
on the old wood made an entertaining study 
for everyone who entered the house, add- 
ing to the interest of the contents. 
In the modern bathroom the medicine 
cabinet is now built into the wall with no 
projection of the door into the room. These 
cabinets are made for this purpose with 
the inside enameled with white paint and 
the shelves arranged to adjust at different 
heights. The door is usually covered with 
a mirror. 
In the house of the bungalow type there 
is a special fitness in furniture built in to 
suit the needs of the household, as it les- 
sens the care of a vacation home. The 
style and variety may be only limited by 
the ingenuity of the designer and the out- 
lay that is to be made. 
For the living-rooms one may make a 
wide bench or lounge with spiral springs 
and a cotton felt mattress, over which a 
spread of heavy linen may be laid. Al- 
though a lounge by day, it may be con- 
verted into a bed by night if there is an 
extra visitor to put up. Or, to economize 
space in the bedroom, one sleeping bench 
may be placed above another, like the beds 
in a Pullman car—a device that appeals 
especially to the young boys of a family. 
If closet room is lacking in the bed- 
rooms of a bungalow, a corner wardrobe is 
easily arranged with a top shelf on which 
to fasten a chintz curtain, with hooks 
against the wall for holding coat hangers. 
A box to hold underwear or shirtwaists 
may be contrived from a large soap box, 
covering it outside with a figured cotton 
goods, and on the inside with paper muslin. 
Some wide boards for a washstand may 
have attached two supports slanting back- 
wards from the under part of the top to 
the wall in the simplest kind of construc- 
tion. 
