HOUSE AND GARDEN 
400 
December, 1911 
U. S. Government Report 
(Dept, of Agriculture, Forest .Service, Bulletin 95,) 
issued June 30, 1911, says of 
CYPRESS: 
“AS SIDING IT 
PRACTICALLY 
WEARS OUT 
BEFORE IT 
D E CAYS.” ( 
From page 44 . 
U. S. Government 
Bulletin 95. 
) 
Same report says “CYPRESS shows paint well and holds it for many years, but lasts a long time without it.' 
(You know the conservatism of Government Reports .) 
Here’s a photograph (straight from 
the wood) of a piece of Cypress Siding 
taken from St. Charles College, La., 
duly attested in writing by the presi¬ 
dent, Father Maring. Built 1819 — 
Torn down 1910. NOT A TRACE OF 
ROT. Note that the lower or exposed 
edge, originally the thicker, has be¬ 
come the thinner by the simple 
erosion of nearly a century of rains. 
CYPRESS SWING SOUND AS 
A DOLLAR after withstanding 
the tempests of a century and willing 
to start again ! 91 YEARS “ON THE 
JOB , ’’WITHOUT EVEN PAINTING. 
on a church in use till the day it was 
razed to make room for a larger 
building,and the CYPRESS LUMBER 
COMPOSING IT THEN USED AT 
ONCE to erect a new gymnasium ! 
THERE 9 S INVESTMENT VALUE WORTH WHILE! 
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When planning new improvements or repairs to old ones, just remember -'“With CYPRESS you BUILD BUT ONCE .” 
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banking the fire at night or at any time if, 
for one reason or another, you wish to 
quench it, and they are needed often to 
roast chestnuts—in our house at least. Keep 
them brushed back behind the fire-screen, 
so that the hearth is clean, but remember 
that a fireplace is a place in which to burn 
something, a place for a fire: do have it 
look as if it served its purpose and served 
it thoroughly. I saw one the other day, all 
hard glazed green tile that shone like glass, 
looking so clean and cold that it fairly 
screamed to be warmed. Its owner told 
me they never lighted a fire in it; there 
seemed never to be time somehow, and 
anyway it didn’t seem worth while, with 
the steam! 
The backlog should be a whole log, not 
a split piece, and it should lie on the bot¬ 
tom of the fireplace, back of the andirons. 
In this position it will keep the fire for¬ 
ward where the greatest amount of heat 
may be realized from it, and it will not 
burn itself, except as it is charred without 
actual flame. Such a backlog in the old 
times when fireplaces were as large as sit¬ 
ting rooms, would last for days, radiating 
a vast amount of heat before being actual¬ 
ly consumed. 
The cost of our chimney reconstruction 
was about $20 including the cost of the 
cast-iron throat. This could be lowered to 
about $8 or $10, if the labor were exclud¬ 
ed. the throat itself being $5 or there¬ 
abouts. The labor is so simple that an 
energetic man might very easily do it him¬ 
self, if he were not averse to getting very 
much mussed up. It would be a tiresome 
thing and one requiring patience, but 
given this nothing else but common sense 
and a measure of agility are needed. 
When and How to Do Winter 
Spraying 
(Continued from page 374) 
Winter spraying is done usually in No¬ 
vember, or in February or March. A 
bright fairly warm day, with little or no 
wind, is not only the most comfortable, 
but things will go better and results be 
more satisfactory. 
Although this article deals with winter 
spraying, a word on winter pruning may 
not be amiss, as the trees should be put 
into the best of shape before spraying. If 
you will only take the pains, in winter, to 
do just the best you can by your trees, you 
can begin right now to set your mouth for 
some surprisingly fine fruit. 
Pears and plums require practically no 
pruning; just enough to keep them in even 
form, and the instant removal of black- 
knot if any should appear. Peaches will 
have to be cut out a little to keep them 
open, and headed low — in the commercial 
orchards they like to have the lower 
branches low enough to droop right down 
onto the ground, when in fruit and thus 
relieve the trees of their excessive burdens. 
The apple requires more attention. Young 
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