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The Music Room and the Musical House 
{Continued from page 60) 
listen. A fine marine, a gentle rustic 
scene, a glimpse down a river—nature 
pictures will be in good place. 
Welcomed—With Music 
When your guests come, open the top 
of the piano. Your instrument then is 
receiving them, too. Music in its place, 
the suggestion of readiness to play— 
these are the touches of kinship which 
set life into the music room. 
Who, now, will disregard the music 
room? Who will let his home have no 
heart? I speak to you in the words of 
a great old man I once knew: 
“Where there is no music in the 
house, that house is a sad place. If 
you would know where real culture and 
genuine sympathy reside in the human 
heart, go find me the lover of music. 
And if a family would appear to be the 
cultured sort, even though they cannot 
confess a true love of melody, let them 
sham it, if they must. Let them follow 
the suit of the folk who attend opera 
merely to seem to like it. If the name 
of a family be off from the list of music- 
patrons, you wonder why, and wonder¬ 
ing, cast a different glance at the miss¬ 
ing persons.” 
I change all this by saying to you, 
that what you hear of music outside 
your doors, is not to compare with the 
simple kind of music you hear inside 
your own home. I would rather listen 
to the amateur notes of a man at home, 
than admire the marvels of a profes¬ 
sional’s technique on the concert stage. 
There are musical menus just as there 
are dinner menus—there are progressive 
developments of your music room just 
as there are in your business or your 
education, or your garden. 
There are architectural growths to 
your music taste just as there are in the 
growth of your buildings or Japanese 
gardens. 
Where is, your music room ? It is the 
heart of your home. Let it throb and 
send new blood and passion and interest 
through the arteries of all your house. 
Where there is a music room it is likely 
to be a musical house, and a musical 
house is a happy place. 
May Work Among the Vegetables 
{Continued from page S3) 
sowings the word “timed” is to imply 
regulation. Fourteen days applied to 
the sowing of seeds does not or should 
not mean anything; growing conditions 
are the only factor worth considering 
when we are regulating our sowing. 
Three days at some periods of the year 
will produce more growth than as many 
weeks or even months at other times. 
Base your sowings on the condition of 
those previously started; when the ear¬ 
lier rows are breaking through the sur¬ 
face of the ground you may plant your 
successional crop. 
To reduce waste many of our garden 
crops should be transplanted. A com¬ 
paratively small seeding of lettuce can 
be made into a very large planting by 
the proper handling of the seedlings, a 
statement which also applies to many 
other garden crops. It would indeed 
be a wasteful practice to sow cauli¬ 
flower, kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage 
and similar things in drills to be thinned 
later on, so most of these crops are 
started in separate beds and when large 
enough to handle are “dibbled” into 
beds. When these young plants are a 
few inches high they can be transplanted 
to the garden in rows the required dis¬ 
tance apart. 
Transplanting Instructions 
The rules of transplanting are so very 
simple and understandable that it is 
really surprising to think that so many 
should fail. When transplanting any¬ 
thing get all the roots you can, for 
plants exist by means of their roots. 
See that the soil is thoroughly watered 
before you start to lift the plants, and 
that the bed where the plants are to be 
located is well prepared. The bed should 
be prepared but a very short time be¬ 
fore the planting operation or it will 
pack down and dry too rapidly. The 
holes for the plants should be large 
enough to accommodate the roots with¬ 
out crowding. If the bed is in good 
condition they can be made with the 
hand. 
When the plant is placed in position, 
firm the soil around the roots, a very 
important point. A good way to do 
this js to use the fingers in much the 
same position as when playing a piano, 
pressing down until the soil is compact 
enough to assure proper drainage. 
Water the plant thoroughly to settle 
the soil around the roots, and if you 
have facilities for shading the plants for 
a few days it is advisable to do so. But 
with home gardens the transplanting can 
usually be attended to in the evening, 
and if done properly at that time it will 
not be necessary to shade the plants. 
Why do we thin plants? For the 
very reason that drives those who can 
get away from city tenements to subur¬ 
ban homes where the air, sunshine and 
the opportunity to develop health are 
considerably better. Plants that are not 
thinned are poor, weak, drawn-out 
specimens, the first always to be cov¬ 
ered with insects or diseases; and the 
resulting crop, if it matures, is never up 
to a proper standard.- Where hea-vy 
sowings are practiced without the proper 
thinning entire crops will fail. 
The time to thin is when the plants 
are small; if left until they have at¬ 
tained any size they will be so soft 
they will invariably fall over from lack 
of support when the other plants are 
removed, or the roots will be interlocked 
to such an extent as to make it impos¬ 
sible to do this work without pulling up 
many of the plants you wish to remain. 
It is a good practice to water the soil 
thoroughly before starting to thin, as 
the roots of the discarded plants will 
then come out without disturbing the 
others. 
Hilling plants is necessary in many 
cases to prevent their blowing over. 
The plan is to draw the soil up around 
the stems to give them the additional 
support they require. The common 
error, if there can be such a thing, in 
the hilling of plants is attending to it 
when the soil is hard and will not set¬ 
tle properly. 
Before hilling the soil should be pul¬ 
verized with a wheel hoe or a claw-tooth 
cultivator, and then when hilled we 
have a mass of soil all the same con¬ 
sistency, instead of a number of hard 
layers. Beans of all types require hill^ 
ing, as do all tall crops, such as peas, 
corn, tomatoes, etc. Some vegetables, 
such as celery, are hilled to bleach the 
stalks and not for the sake of the sup¬ 
port afforded the stem. 
Insect Pests 
Insect pests appear on the scene very 
early. A preventive for them is much 
preferred to a cure, and while on this 
subject it is only fair to admit that one 
of the greatest of all preventives is to 
give the plants good growing conditions. 
This means a soil that contains enough 
plant food to be productive of a healthy, 
vigorous growth; proper thinning out to 
permit air and sunshine to reach the in- 
{Continued on page 64) 
