x AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
December, 1911 
White Pines planted fur Mr. E. H. Coe, Hewlett. Long Ieland, 
These were selected in our nursery and planted the following week 
In the background is a group of Red Cedars planted at the same time. 
Trees which save you twenty-five years 
ip one week i 1s a new achievement i in the nursery business. 
Plant Evergreens This Winter 
ON'T think evergreen planting can’t be done because there is frost in the ground. The frost does not interfere. 
The ground does not freeze deeply under our evergreens and they can easily be dug, while on your lawn the 
frost can be kept out by a little mulching. 
Even if it should be frozen, a few minutes work with a pickaxe 
breaks through the crust and does not add twenty-five cents additional cost to the planting of a twenty-dollar tree. 
The frost helps in other ways. 
Hicks’ is the nursery you have heard about where large 
trees are kept root-pruned and moved apart so they are 
perfect specimens. For large trees, 6 to 40 feet high, the 
winter is a particularly good time to move them. We 
have several thousand of just such trees in our nursery 
that will save you from 6 to 50 years as compared with 
the ordinary nursery stock that’s three feet high. 
If you can’t come to our nursery and select just the 
trees you want, then write us how many you want, not 
failing to state the particular Jocation and purposes for 
which you are going to use them and we wil! make the 
selections for you. Why not order a carload of White 
Pines 10 to 25 feet high? They are the cheapest big 
trees because they are shipped direct from the fields where 
they are growing wild, and we have root-pruned them so 
they can be more economically moved. Are there wild 
cedars in your vicinity? The cheapest way is for us to 
supply the apparatus, and one or more men, and work 
with your teams and men. 
Send for our literature. You will find it of great 
assistance in deciding on the evergreens you want, and 
the easiest way to order them. 
Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, Long Island 
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after the top of the range has been spat- 
tered by frying processes, will keep it evenly 
polished. 
ie is a mistake to keep poking at the top 
of the fire when it refuses to come up 
quickly after being banked. It is also a 
mistake to shake down the fire briskly with 
the regular shaker at such times, as this 
will cause it to fall down into a solid mass 
through which the air cannot circulate and 
the draft will be poor; but after loosening 
the mass of ashes carefully from beneath 
with the poker, open the under drafts for 
quick results. 
O not close all the drafts as soon as 
the coal is put on for banking the fire at 
night, but let it burn for a short time; then 
on closing the drafts for the night ‘there 
will be little danger of escaping coal gas. 
EDELWEISS 
S everyone knows, the Swiss Govern- 
ment has been very active in promul- 
gating a campaign against indiscriminate 
picking of the Edelweiss, the flower famous 
for its association with the Alpine country, 
in its poetry and in the hearts of every 
traveler. There is hardly a tourist in Switz- 
erland who has not returned with a bit of 
Edelweiss. Unfortunately, visitors have 
ruthlessly torn the plant by its roots and 
so have almost exterminated it. However, 
it is worth knowing that a thriving industry 
in Edelweiss is carried on through the sum- 
mer season at Fontenoy and Chantilly, 
villages just outside the gates of Paris, 
where Edelweiss grows even more freely 
under cultivation there than it does near 
the snowiest peaks of the Alps, so that even 
the Swiss shops of Geneva and elsewhere 
are enabled to supply the never-ceasing de- 
mand for this flower, which is thus obtained 
from France and often sold with myste- 
rious secrecy over the Swiss counters to the 
unsuspecting tourist. 
ON GOOD TASTE IN INTERIOR 
DECORATION 
(Continued from page 449) 
too uncomfortable to offer any one but un- 
welcome guests. Furniture should always 
be chosen with an eye to harmonious re- 
lationship of each piece to every other piece, 
not only in the matter of color, design and 
texture of wood, but also in the matter of 
upholstery, so the eye may not be arrested 
by a jarring note as it takes a survey of 
the room. 
Ll? has been said that nothing is more dif- 
ficult than the employment of a one- 
toned color scheme. However, I do not 
think this is true, but has probably crept 
into our belief by reason of the fact that 
one-toned effects are usually more pleasing’ 
and richer in appearance than almost any 
other sort and to the uninitiated suggest 
their being the result of much effort and 
expense. As a matter of fact there is no 
color scheme which better develops one’s 
sense of harmony in color effects than ex- 
perimenting with kindred-toned colors. 
While the use of the word “tone” should 
be confined to musical consideration, it is 
used here by reason of its common accept- 
ance in connection with discussions of 
color. Of course, experimenting is a costly 
matter and one cannot always afford to do 
that in decoration. However, if the walls, 
woodwork, curtains, flooring, ceiling, rugs 
and pictures are right almost everything 
else, if there is not too much of it, will 
adjust itself to the whole scheme and as 
time goes on the elimination suggested in 
one of the preceding paragraphs may be 
