HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, i 
911 
335 
T HERE is money in apples. If your orchards 
don’t pay something is wrong. Send for one of 
our expert orchard men and he will tell you how to 
make your trees good dividend payers. 
New York folks are this very 
day paying five and ten cents 
apiece for apples. 
The same kind of 
apples you could 
produce if your 
trees were in top- 
notch condition. 
Why don’t you 
have them put 
there? We can do 
itforyou. Notin 
any mystic way, 
but just common 
sense pruning, re¬ 
pairing, spraying 
The apple on the left grew on a tree 
receiving the usual orchard care, which 
is practically no care. It is small, un¬ 
evenly colored and badly scarred by in¬ 
sects. 
The right hand one is of the same va¬ 
riety, picked from a tree cared for Mun- 
son-Whitaker’s way. It is a big, beau¬ 
tiful specimen, free from blemishes and 
having a delicious flavor that brought a 
retail price as high as 12 c apiece in 
New York. It only goes to show what 
right care will do. 
and feeding. But common 
sense is the most uncommon— 
So are men who 
know how to de- 
velop an or¬ 
chard. We have 
the uncommon 
kind. Send for 
one of our ex¬ 
perts. He will tell 
you about our 
work. Send for 
booklet “Trees— 
The Care They 
Should Have.” 
Munson-Whitaker Company 
FORESTERS 
Boston—623 Tremont Bldg. New York—823 Fourth Ave. Bldg. 
Pittsburg—743 Oliver Bldg. 
or extreme cold. While indoors, ferns 
are injured, I have found, by over-water¬ 
ing. If they are kept as a beautiful dec¬ 
oration all winter, they should not be 
watered until they have entirely absorbed 
all water drained through from the last 
watering into the under-pan, and the soil 
looks a little dry on top. February is 
the rest month, and they should not be 
watered more than once thoroughly in 
that month. 
My ferns are so large, they are never 
moved during the winter months, only to 
turn them every two weeks, so that all 
sides may have the direct rays of light. 
Care is taken to make as little dust as pos¬ 
sible, as the only showers of water they 
ever get are secured at the time of trans¬ 
planting and during the summer, when all 
the plants are lifted off the verandas to 
enjoy two or three gentle summer show¬ 
ers. In the country they do not have the 
dust to collect on them as they do in towns 
and cities. 
With healthy plants to begin with, these 
directions should bring successful results 
to those who wish to grow the Boston 
fern. 
Edna Coulter. 
Homes that Architects Have Built 
for Themselves 
(Continued from page 303) 
holding clothes, but now promoted to the 
role of a writing-desk; Indian temple 
hangings, Chinese candlesticks, a Nor¬ 
wegian wooden horse collar acting as a 
mirror frame, and pipes from all corners 
of the globe. 
The remainder of the house may be 
considered as stereotyped, unless electric 
washing and ironing machines in the laun¬ 
dry are deemed unusual. 
Such is one architect’s home; and, if it 
is a poor thing, it is at least mine own. 
The Case for Hot Water Heating 
(Continued from page 315) 
At least five dollars per year should be 
allowed on repair account for the items 
mentioned, making the total yearly ex¬ 
pense for steam heating $99.50. 
A hot-air heating apparatus for such a 
house should cost exclusive of any special 
features in the interest of ventilation not 
less than $250, the interest on which is $15. 
For a performance with this type of ap¬ 
paratus that will measure up, even ap¬ 
proximately to the results obtainable in 
hot-water heating, at least fourteen tons 
of coal will be required, or a yearly ex¬ 
pense for fuel of $84. In the matter of re¬ 
pairs not common to hot-water and steam¬ 
heating apparatus fire pots and many other 
parts of a furnace are comparatively short 
lived. A yearly allowance of five dollars 
for repairs and five dollars for rapid- de- 
A Smart Little Country 
House at Glencoe, Ill. 
Made better to look at, and better to live 
in, by Casements—the window which our 
simple and perfect new devices have made 
the best by far for the home. 
THEY GIVE THE HOME LOOK 
THEY REALLY VENTILATE 
NO STICKING OR RATTLING 
NO SCREEN TROUBLES 
NO CURTAIN TROUBLES 
Send for free booklet 
The Casement Hardware Co. 
175 N. State Street Chicago, III. 
HOWARD 
Dustless 
Duster 
(25 Cents Prepaid) 
Makes possible 
a dustless home. 
Write for our 
Dust Book “A” 
and small free 
sample. 
It will show you how 
to make dusting a 
pleasure, how to dry 
clean a silk skirt in 
five minutes, how to 
clean windows in a Ao O// to Soil 
twinkling, to polish pianos and highly finished 
furniture, to make cut glass sparkle like dia¬ 
monds, to make an old derby look like new. 
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