HOUSE AND GARDEN | 
July, 1911 
Modern Sleeping Porch fitted with Wilson’s Blinds' 
Practically makes an Outdoor room of the ordi¬ 
nary porch: a room at night, a porch by day. 
Wilson’s Venetians 
for outside and inside of town and country houses 
very durable, convenient and artistic. 
Special Outside Venetians 
most practical and useful form of 
Venetian yet devised for porches and 
windows; exclude the sun; admit the 
breeze: 
Write for Catalogue lt Venetian No. 3 .” 
Orders should be placed now. 
Jas. G. Wilson Mfg. Co. 
1.3&5 West 29th St .New York 
Inside Venetians, Rolling Partitions, 
Rolling Steel Shutters, Burglar and 
Fireproof Steel Curtains, Wood 
Block Floors. 
SAMSON SPOT CORD 
For Sash Cord. Will outwear common 
roughly braided cord or metallic devices 
many times over. The smooth, even braid 
minimizes abrasion and prolongs wear. 
For Clothes Line. Will not kink, stretch 
or ravel, or stain the clothes, and is guar¬ 
anteed to last at least five years even when 
permanently exposed to the weather. Look 
for our trade-mark, the Spots on the Cord. 
Send for samples. Carried by all leading dealers. 
SAMSON CORDAGE WORKS, BOSTON, MASS. 
Country Homes 
remote from “town” demand 
every possible protection 
against unwelcome visitors. 
Have you a Smith & Wesson 
revolver in your home? 
We want you to have our beautiful book¬ 
let. Send for it today. 
SMITH & WESSON 
MANUFACTURERS of SUPERIOR REVOLVERS 
420 Stockbridge Street 
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 
vored crop. Two bushes well cared for 
will yield more than a dozen half neg¬ 
lected ones. The currant suffers from ex¬ 
cessive heat and dryness, but with proper 
attention a full crop should be secured 
every year. 
As with the other small fruits, a most 
important factor in growing currants is 
proper pruning. The most convenient and 
satisfactory way is to keep it in bush 
form. Set the plants singly, at the dis¬ 
tance previously mentioned, and so cut 
all new growth, which is produced gener¬ 
ously by the currant, as to retain a uni¬ 
form bush shape, preferably somewhat 
open in the center. Another thing to 
keep in mind when pruning is that the 
fruit is borne on wood two or more years 
old, so all wood should be removed either 
when very small, or not until four or five 
years old. All that is allowed to grow one 
or two years and then removed, is just 
that much of the plant’s energy wasted. 
Therefore, in pruning currants, take out 
(1) superfluous young growth; (2) old, 
hard wood (as new wood will produce 
better fruit) ; (3) all weak, broken, dead 
or diseased shoots; (4) during late sum¬ 
mer, keep the tips of the new growth 
pinched off, which will cause them to 
ripen up better, resulting in more fruit 
when they hear; (5) maintain a good 
bush form, go over the whole plant lightly 
in the fall, trimming the desired shape —- 
but do not cut back more than one-third. 
Under some special circumstances, as 
where space is limited and they must be 
grown close against a wall, it may be ad¬ 
visable to train to one or two a few main 
stems. This, however, increases the dan¬ 
ger of loss from the currant borer. 
The black currant is entirely different 
from the red and white currants. It is 
used almost exclusively for culinary pur¬ 
poses, or preserving. The plants are 
much larger, and should he put five or six 
feet apart. Some of the fruit is borne on 
one-year old wood, so the new shoots 
should not be cut back. The old wood, 
also, bears as good fruit as does the new 
growth, so there is no need to cut it out 
until the plant is getting crowded. As 
the wood is much heavier and stronger 
than that of the other currants, it is ad¬ 
visable gradually to develop the black 
currants into the tree form. 
The common green currant worm is the 
worst pest encountered in growing cur¬ 
rants. His appearance will be indicated 
by holes eaten in the lower leaves early 
in spring—generally before the plants 
bloom. Spray at once with Paris green 
in water (1 lb. to 50 gals.) or with arsen¬ 
ate of lead (2 lbs. to 50 gals, water). If 
a second lot appear after the fruit sets, 
dust with white helebore. By the time 
the fruit ripens, this will propably have 
been washed off by the rains; if not, wipe 
from the fruit. For the currant borer, 
cut out and burn every infested shoot. 
Examine the bushes carefully late in the 
fall; those in which the borers are at work 
will usually have a wilted look, and be of 
a brownish color, readily distinguished. 
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HEATING 
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itself but add to the renting or selling value of 
any building. 
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used an Underfeed five years. Best furnace I ever heard of. Gives 
even temperature at all times. We have June weather in our home 
all winter at coal cost that has never exceeded $14 for heating eight 
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(Indicate by X Book* 
let you desire) 
Name 
Address. 
Name of your dealer* 
Ornamental Foliage Plants 
We make a specialty of 
choice collections for 
Greenhouse as well as 
everything in the line of 
decorative trees and 
plants. 
Visit our nurseries or 
send for descriptive cata¬ 
logue of Nursery Stock 
and Greenhouse plants. 
Experienced and 
Competent Gardeners 
Any lady or gentle¬ 
man requiring their ser¬ 
vices can have them by 
applying to us. No fees. 
ad wv a Please give particulars 
ALOCASIA ARGYREA regarding place. 
Julius Boehrs Co,, Exotic Nurseries, Rutherford, N. J. 
F OIi summer resorts which want clean battling places, 
sporting clubs where weeds interfere with power boats, 
ponds or lakes where ice is harvested or any water 
where weeds are undesirable— Ziemsen’s Submarine Weed- 
Cutting Saw is indispensable. Easily operated from the 
banks or on greater lakes just as well from boats and very 
large spaces cleared in shortest time. 
Write for illustrated circular which explains how It 
works and good references. 
ASCHERT BROS., Cedar Lake, West Bend, Wis. 
Have You Seen The Latest Garden* 
Novelties? 
THEY include musical 
Garden ornaments, 
concealed lawn chimes, 
combined rose bush foun¬ 
tains with chimes with or 
without electric illumina¬ 
tion 1 . Smaller models for 
table decoration. These 
novelties are placed on the 
market this season for the 
first time. These chimes 
can be concealed by flow¬ 
ers or vines, and the least 
breath of air will produce 
the sweetest tones, coming apparantly from a dis¬ 
tance. We also have a full lineof all’kinds of gar- • _ 
den furniture, vases, settees, fountains and all ut dlumination 
other garden beautifiers. Write for Catalogue. 
AMERICAN GARDEN BEAUTIFYINGCOMPANY 
430 4th Avenue, NEW YORK 
A. S. JAKOBSON, Inventor. 
A rose bush foun¬ 
tain with or with¬ 
in writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
