HOUSE AND GARDEN 
W ITH the ordinary type¬ 
writer, the day’s work 
usually begins to tire the op¬ 
erator by three o’clock; the 
constant strike, strike, strike 
on the usual heavy-touch 
machine shows its fatiguing 
effect in mid-afternoon. But 
when the operator has the 
advantage of 
Monarch riich 
there is neither three o'clock 
fatigue nor closing hour fa¬ 
tigue. The Monarch operator 
doesn’t hammer the keys, she 
touches them. The mechanical 
principle exclusively incor¬ 
porated in the Monarch com¬ 
pletes the impression. A 
feathery touch starts it — there¬ 
fore strength isn’t called for 
and fatigue doesn’t follow 
Letters written on the 
Monarch Typewriter 
are uniform in spacing, 
alignment and color 
In addition to the Monarch Light Touch, 
and the exclusive Monarch Rigid Carriage 
feature, every other important improve¬ 
ment of the modem typewriting machine, 
such as Back Space Key, Two-Color Rib¬ 
bon Shift, Contained Tabulator, etc., will 
also be found in the Monarch. 
Let us demonstrate Monarch economy 
of strength, time and money. 
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Then try the Monarch, to the end that 
you may know that Monarch merit rests 
in the machine itself, not merely in what 
we tell you about it 
Monarch Department 
Remington Typewriter Company 
(Incorporated) 
New York and Everywhere 
THE CLIPPER 
There are three things that destroy 
your lawns, Dandelions, Buck 
Plantain and Crab Grass. In one 
season the Clipper will drive them 
all out. 
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similar to that just described excepting 
that the water supply is artificial, and this 
is all possible, especially where there is a 
declivity of the ground. Ponds naturally 
are in the low spots and tanks, pools or 
artificial ponds should not be built on side 
hills unless graded to make a perfectly 
level surface and suitable planting around 
to obliterate the undesirable lines when 
masonry is used. The top of the wall 
should be at least two inches below the 
surface of the soil to allow a sod of grass 
or other plants to cover and so hide all 
signs of the masonry. 
The next consideration to water supply 
is the outlet, overflow, etc. In the former 
case provision against a freshet should be 
made, as in case of such happening the 
whole garden may be destroyed. Where 
an artificial supply is used this will be un¬ 
looked for, but the pond or pools will 
need an overflow and may need to be 
drained of the water. Just how this is to 
be accomplished depends entirely on each 
particular case. In either case the outlet 
must needs be near or directly on the bot¬ 
tom of the pond and as circumstances call 
for. Do not have the overflow in the wall 
but connected with the outlet. The outlet 
may be regulated with a valve the size of 
which may depend on the volume of water 
to be drawn off. To this should be ad¬ 
justed a stand pipe in two or more sections 
that will regulate the depth of water in 
the pond. When required full the stand 
pipe should be level with the desired sur¬ 
face. This will allow any foreign matter 
and possibly insects to be washed off the 
surface, and plants if such exist. The 
supply of water necessary after once filled 
is nominal, the requirement being only to 
replace what is lost by evaporation. The 
lepth of the pool when finished and ready 
for planting should be two feet. It may 
be more, but this affords ample means for 
an attendant to get in and amongst the 
plants with rubber hip boots on to perform 
any duty with comfort and I may say 
oleasure. 
| Six^Weeks of Strawberries 
( Continued from page 8o) 
and allowed to remain until after fruiting. 
The plants should be allowed to send 
out their runners for about six inches on 
either side of the rows during the first 
season. The cutting back of runners 
favors a larger size of the berries. 
Owing to the defective pollination of 
some varieties of strawberries, it is ad¬ 
visable to combine certain varieties with 
those that produce perfect or staminate 
blossoms — one row of every four being 
planted with a perfect variety. The Glen 
Mary and the Cardinal are varieties that 
have few if any staminate flowers and 
should be planted with some other mid¬ 
season variety. 
For garden growing the following 
varieties are satisfactory and ripen as fol¬ 
lows: early — Success. Heritage, Michel’s 
August, 1912 
Early and Climax; mid-season—Warfield, 
Senator Dunlap, Gladstone, Bubach, 
Sharpless, Pride of Cumberland and Ten¬ 
nessee Prolific, all perfect varieties; 
late — Brandywine, Steven’s Late Cham¬ 
pion, Gandy and Commonwealth. 
Garden-grown berries should be allowed 
to ripen thoroughly before picking and 
should be picked when cool, toward eve¬ 
ning or in the morning when there is no 
dew. Beds that are kept mulched until 
after the fruiting season grow berries 
with longer stems and ripen their fruit 
more evenly. 
The Flowerless Garden 
(Continued from page 97) 
many trees and shrubs that have highly 
colored foliage, from copper beech and 
purple maple down to the golden elder 
there is a host of things and a variety of 
color, with strong decorative value, 
though care must be particularly exer¬ 
cised not to use these high colors to the 
point of garishness. For all that has 
been suggested for planting the flowerless 
garden there is nothing rare, nor costly, 
nor unattainable. The brightest and best 
shrubs can be bought for about twenty-five 
cents each and the outlay of a few dollars 
in material and labor will suffice to do 
something permanently beautiful. 
Overdoor Inscriptions and Devices 
(Continued from page 79) 
are the motto inscriptions used either by 
themselves or in combination with some 
heraldic, fanciful or emblematic design. 
Thus it will be seen that the field opened 
up for the play of imagination is as broad 
as it is inviting. 
Of the materials suitable for the execu¬ 
tion of overdoor devices and inscriptions 
there is no lack. They may be carved in 
stone or wood, molded in terra-cotta or 
cement, baked in tile, wrought out of 
many sorts of metal, inlaid in mosaic em¬ 
bedded in cement or, finally, painted on 
wood or some other convenient surface. 
With such an array to choose from, neither 
architect nor craftsman can complain of 
dearth of means for the expression of his 
ideas. The kind of material to be used 
must be determined first by the character 
of the design to be wrought and second by 
the material employed in the rest of the 
building or its trimmings. Carvings in 
wood or stone for overdoor decoration at 
once suggest themselves because of our 
familiarity with intricate patterns in both 
substances, but attention should be espe¬ 
cially directed to metals, mosaic, cement 
and paint as vehicles of ornamentation. 
Among the metals, lead, because of the 
ease and variety of ways in which it can 
be worked as well as for the mellowness 
of its surface, deserves much considera- 
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