August, 1911 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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fire is hot and there is no steam, as on 
baking day. A moderate oven serves the 
purpose well if the door is left open and 
the herbs spread upon a wire rack or 
frame permitting circulation of the air. 
When brittle-dry the leaves are picked 
off and stored in covered bottles or cans. 
If so desired, it is an easy matter to pul¬ 
verize them. Lay the leaves upon a pastry 
board and roll them fine. Sift them 
through a flour sifter. 
Herb powders which blend the flavors 
of several herbs are convenient accessories 
to the kitchen stores; for instance, those 
herbs which are combined into kitchen 
bouquets, favored by cooks, may be pul¬ 
verized in this way and mixed in the de¬ 
sired proportions which individual taste 
determines. 
An agreeable blend for flavoring soups 
or stews consists of one part sweet mar¬ 
joram, one part thyme, one part winter 
savory and two parts parsley. 
Bringing Wild Flowers Into the 
Garden 
(Continued from page 97) 
impossible to find them at any other time 
than when in blossom. Those which have 
been named are only a few of the many 
which can be cultivated mqthe garden. A 
walk through the woods cannot fail to re¬ 
veal many which are equally as deserving 
as those to which attention has been called. 
The Garden of the Small Space 
'VfO one need be deterred from raising 
a few green vegetables by lack of 
space. Many things can be grown on a 
limited amount of ground. The experi¬ 
ence of one of my friends proves my asser¬ 
tions. 
She lived in a house with but a small 
plot of ground around it. One morning in 
the spring when she returned from market 
with six sturdy tomato plants, the rest of 
the family laughed at her purchase. In 
no way discouraged at their jokes at her 
expense, she planted the tomato vines 
close up to the back of the house where 
they could be trained up the wall. They 
responded lustily to her care, and soon 
covered it with green vines and leaves. 
She kept an account and found she had 
gathered one hundred ripe tomatoes. Some 
of them were rather small, to be sure, but 
large enough to count. Besides, she gath¬ 
ered nearly a bushel of green tomatoes in 
the late fall. She kept the frost from in¬ 
juring the vines by means of a protection 
hung in front of her vines at night. 
Her success so encouraged her that, this 
year she has tried more experiments. She 
planted lettuce at the foot of her tomato 
vines. By sowing the lettuce seed at in¬ 
tervals of time, she has had a succession of 
crisp, tender leaves all the season for 
salads. 
Furthermore, she trained some cucum- 
HICKS EVERGREENS 
THE BEFORE AND AFTER EFFECT OF PLANTING THEM 
A stable, for instance, may be ever so well built and 
finely kept—still it is a stable, and being such, should 
be screened from view. The illustration below shows 
one, before it was screened and after our pines and 
cedars were used. The lines of the buildings being 
rather attractive, the planting was done in such a 
way that the roof lines were not obliterated. 
Haven’t you some such problem that you want 
solved at once, and overcome a wait of years for 
trees to grow up? Our evergreens of all sizes will do 
it for you. We will do the planning and planting 
if you wish. If you want a few small evergreen? 
or one or two large ones, we have some of the very 
finest of stock. Good, strong, sturdy trees, every 
one of them. 
If you need 30 good sized ones—better order a car- 
lo'ad and we will ship them direct from our New 
England collecting fields. They will cost you, on an 
average, only $17 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 important to remember that August and Sep¬ 
tember are among the best of months for the planting 
of your evergreens. If there are some trees on 
your place or in the vicinity which you wish were 
in certain locations of 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 40 or 50 tons 
weight. 
Come to our nursery if you can. If you can’t, write 
us and we will send a catalog with our reply. 
L. I. 
HICKS AND SON, WESTBURY, 
This outfit, consisting of an Alamo Gasolene Engine and Westinghouse Generator, 
Switchboard and Storage Batteries, will supply your house with electric lights and 
power for water systems and all of the modern household conveniences (vacuum 
cleaners, electric fans, washing machines—in fact anything that operates by elec¬ 
tricity) . 
We also supply water turbines as power for generating electricity, all types of 
water supply systems and everything electrical and hydraulic for the country home. 
Write us concerning your proposition, and w.e will gladly advise you and furnish 
estimates on installations. 
OTIS & WELLS, Electrical Engineers 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
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