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Don’t Kill all the grass 
on your lawn, but kill each husky weed with a Deadly 
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AMOS H. WHIPPLE. PROPRIETOR. 
Have HKchings Build You a Greenhouse 
These greenhouses of ours are regular joy spots that will give you 
flowers and vegetables all the way around the calendar. Their 
u up keep ” is almost nil compared with an automobile. 
And by the way, if you have an automobile, then just attach a 
greenhouse to the garage and the heating for one will take care of 
both—a happy thought. 
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August, 1911 | 
fast, in thin, shallow soils overlying sand 
and gravel conditions that would mean 
failure to other evergreens. As a perma¬ 
nent screen tree to shut out an undesirable 
view this pine, thickly planted, will soon 
grow up and accomplish the desire. 
There are other Western evergreens 
from the Rocky Mountains destined to fill 
an important place in our gardens, but the 
four here enumerated are the essential 
ones for bold, free planting and good per¬ 
manent effects. 
Gathering and Storing Kitchen 
Herbs 
T O those who devote a portion of the 
garden to culinary herbs, their gath¬ 
ering and preservation for use during those 
months when the taste requires a stimu¬ 
lus is is an important consideration. 
Thyme, savory, parsley, sage and sweet 
marjoram lend agreeable flavors to winter 
roasts and stews. 
Herbs should be gathered just before 
they flower, as leaf and stem are then in 
their best flavor. 
Where the herb garden is in a perma¬ 
nent location such herbs as basil, marjor¬ 
am, savory, sage and thyme are ready for 
picking in July. If grown from spring- 
sown seed, however, they cannot be gath¬ 
ered before September. 
The work should be done on a dry day. 
Gather the herbs by breaking off the 
The herbs should be spread upon a wire rack 
and dried; the leaves are then picked off, 
ground, and stored away in cans 
branches of the plants to a length of five 
inches. Cleanse them from dust by rins¬ 
ing them in cold water. 
There are two methods of drying. One 
is to do the work rapidly over a hot fire; 
the other is a gradual process in the sun¬ 
shine with a gentle air stirring. There is 
something pleasantly suggestive in the 
thought of herbs dried in the soft summer 
air, but it is sentiment, nothing more. In 
reality they borrow nothing jjrom the 
scented breeze. Sun and wind hd've served 
their purpose during growth. The better 
process is that of quick drying. To ac¬ 
complish this they may be bunched and 
suspended over the stove, or spread upon 
a frame o,f coarse-meshed wire when the 
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