XIV 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1907 



A FAIENCE MANTEL 



The Readers of '''"American Homes & 

 Gardens" would do well to study 

 the Faience Mantels oj the 

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 Company 



This illustration shows a most pleasing 

 example — the lines are simple and chaste — 

 the dark green tile of rough texture harmonizes 

 admirably with tiie tinted unfinished plaster of 

 the room, while the beamed ceiling and dark 

 Mission furniture make it into a beautiful 

 picture. 



The greatest care should be exercised in 

 the selection of a good mantel; it should be 

 the best that can be afforded, of design and 

 coloring that harmonizes perfectly with the 

 furnishings of the room and one which is not 

 the freakish thing of a season but a mantel 

 that you will grow to like better every time 

 you study it. 



If the readers of American Homes and 

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 place the services of their art department at 

 the reader's disposal for suggestions and help 

 in the selection of mantels. 



Catalog M illustrates many other pleasing 

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 one interested, and if you will send us a 

 description of your room we will be pleased 

 to suggest a good mantel for you. Address 

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For squash-bugs, and the beetles that infest 

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 to get it all over the plant. Put it on before 

 the dew has dried off. 



A correspondent asks this question. Do you 

 advise turning house-plants out of their pots, 

 and setting them in the garden ? To which I 

 reply, No. 



A plant put into the ground will send its 

 roots far and wide on all sides. Of course it 

 will make a vigorous growth, because it has 

 an opportunity, at last, to grow naturally — 

 such as no plant confined to a pot ever has — 

 and the owner will fancy, because of this 

 luxuriant development, that her plant is going 

 to receive great benefit from planting out. It 

 does receive such benefit for the time being. 

 But by and by, when the plant has to be lifted 

 and potted, preparatory to its return to the 

 house, there is quite a different story to tell. It 

 will be necessary to cut away nearly all the 

 roots that have grown since it was planted out, 

 in order to reduce it to the pot-room you can 

 give it, and in doing this you give it a check 

 quite severe enough to offset all the benefits 

 resulting from its summer sojourn in the 

 ground. It will not have recovered from this 

 check by the time it must be taken indoors, 

 consequently it goes into winter quarters in 

 an enfeebled condition, and it will be long past 

 the holidays before it gets fairly under head- 

 way again. Keep the plants intended for use 

 in the house next winter in pots the year round 

 is my advice. They may not make such ram- 

 pant growth as those in the garden beds, but 

 it will be a growth quite sufficient to meet all 

 the requirements of the window-garden. Your 

 plants will be ready to go into the house in 

 fall, at any time, and they will go in strong 

 and healthy, if you have given them proper 

 care during the summer. If you really care for 

 plants, you will be willing to give them such 

 care as they need throughout the season. It 

 will not seem a task to be shirked, if possible, 

 but a labor of love. 



It is not too early to begin preparations for 

 next winter. A fine specimen can not be 

 grown in one month, or two, or three. Plants 

 started in midsummer will not be at their 

 best before they are about a year old, but they 

 will be in prime condition to do satisfactory 

 work in the greenhouse or window-garden the 

 coming winter. Late-started plants will grow 

 well, and will give you satisfaction in that 

 respect, but they will be too small to produce 

 much of an effect as specimen plants, and the 

 probabilities are that you will get very few 

 Bowers from them. Their energies will go to 

 the production of branch and leaf rather than 

 that of bloom. 



The same advice will apply to such plants 

 as ferns, fine-foliage begonias, and all plants 

 of that class, whose beauty depends largely 

 upon strong development. A half-developed 

 plant is satisfactory, as far as it goes, but the 

 trouble is, it doesn't go far enough. Start 

 these plants now, and grow them to good size 

 by winter, if you would have them afford you 

 the greatest possible amount of pleasure. 



Feed the dahlias well. Water them liber- 

 ally if the season happens to be a dry one 

 Treat sweet peas in the same way, being care- 

 ful to keep seed from forming. 



Some of our summer flowers are very satis- 

 factory as winter-bloomers. The salvia is one 

 of these (S. splendens). To grow a fine plant 

 for winter, select a shoot sent up from the 

 base of an old one, and cut or pull it away in 

 such a manner that it brings with it a few 

 roots. Put this in a small pot of sandy loam, 

 and keep it there until it has made considerable 

 root-growth. Then shift to a seven or eight- 



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