HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1911 
GARDEN 
TERRA COTTA 
Jar 
for A utumn 
Wild Flowers 
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niture, Vases,'Flower Pots. Etc., 
made in strong and durable Terra 
Cotta. 
Galloway 
Terra Cotta Co. 
3214 Walnut St. .Phila. 
Interior Decoration 
Interior decorations of all descriptions 
planned and executed. Single rooms 
or whole houses furnished, and wall 
coverings, hangings, rugs, furniture, 
etc., selected to suit any scheme. 
Out of town orders carefully attended to. 
Lamp and candle shades. Stenciling. 
MISS THROOP-MISS VEERHOFF 
37 EAST 60th STREET NEW YORK 
then fill it with a filler stained pretty dark. 
It takes out the contrasting colors or 
rather tones them down so that the whole 
floor blends together in a nice effect and 
after being finished off no one but a close 
student of such things would notice the 
difference between this and the highly ex¬ 
pensive clear stock in quartered flooring. 
One could go on and talk enough to fill 
a volume about this matter of sound 
sense in flooring, but after all the secret 
of it is contained in the one idea, that of 
using narrow units. No matter where 
you are located or what kind of material 
there is at hand to use for flooring, if you 
can get it in narrow units, preferably not 
wider than ij/2 inch net, you can make a 
floor out of it and a floor that will give 
service and look neat even though you 
may use a comparatively low grade of 
lumber. Indeed, much of this narrow 
flooring is made of low grade lumber 
ripped into strips and the conspicuous de¬ 
fects cut out. It makes an excellent floor, 
too. One that even when laid plain just 
as a single floor is good enough for every 
day and Sunday, too. It can be finished 
off with varnish and waxed for the par¬ 
lor or finished off with a special varnish 
and stand the hard service of the kitchen. 
Storing Vegetables and Fruit 
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ground, cure during the warm days of 
September, but must be covered when a 
clear cold breezeless night invites frost. 
These vegetables are ready for storing 
when the stems are shriveled and free 
from moisture and the rind somewhat 
hardened. Only a dry air will keep these 
vegetables in a room where the tempera¬ 
ture does not get below 40 degrees. 
All tubers must be at least surface dry 
before storing, with the exception of sweet 
potatoes, which are most exacting as to 
care. They must be dug before frost and 
subjected to a slow drying out in small 
slatted baskets or crates in a warm room. 
Carrots, beets, turnips, parsnips and such 
vegetables cannot be dried and stored 
satisfactorily as are sweet potatoes, as 
they lose so much by shrinkage. They 
are best if stored where they may get the 
slight moisture of soil contact. Fine, 
clean sand on the floor of a cool cellar is 
the best substitute for natural conditions. 
A layer of sand about two inches deep is 
spread upon the floor, the vegetables laid 
thereon and then covered with more sand. 
Onions, beans, peas and peppers re¬ 
quire a dry room well above freezing after 
a preliminary sun-drying. 
Cabbage keeps crisp and fine-flavored 
under a mound of earth. 
A little detail well worth attending to 
now in advance is getting a few barrels. 
They always advance in price as the apple 
picking season comes on, and frequently 
one cannot get them for love or money. 
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