HOUSE AND GARDEN 
112 
August, 
1912 
THIS SUMMER 
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meal or tankage, and set the plants eight 
inches apart each way. As when growing 
inside, keep the leaves as dry as possible 
when watering, and give as much air as 
possible during the day, keeping the tem¬ 
perature at about 60 degrees. 
As soon as the ground is in good condi¬ 
tion outside, and danger of very severe 
freezing is over, set plants in the open, in 
a well enriched, finely prepared bed. The 
rows should be twelve to fifteen inches 
apart and the plants about twelve inches 
in the row. This is the easiest of all the 
various crops of lettuce to bring to matur¬ 
ity, and almost all varieties can be used 
for it, though I confine myself to three, 
Grand Rapids, Wayahead and New York, 
setting the latter last, to carry over until 
the summer crop comes on. 
The crop for mid-summer may be sown 
either in the open ground and thinned 
out or in the seed-bed and transplanted. 
For a continuous supply a small amount 
of seed should be put in every two or 
three weeks. If the weather is very dry, 
start the plants under shade as described 
in the first part of this article. The solid 
or “cabbage”-lieading sorts are best for 
these late summer plantings. Deacon, 
Salamander and New York are all good 
and well-known varieties of this type, but 
I think the newer Iceberg takes the lead 
for quality and tenderness and will un¬ 
doubtedly become as popular as any. 
What the Dutch Can Tell Us 
About House Planning 
(Continued from page 89) 
and waxed or polished is also a much- 
used wood in these houses. A house, for 
instance, on the old road between Laren 
and Bussum, had cypress wainscoting 
throughout the house stained a warm 
brown, which was very effective with the 
walls above it left sand finished and un¬ 
painted. The tone of the plaster, how¬ 
ever, was not a glaring white but a soft 
atmospheric gray. There is a great deal 
not only in having a unity in the floor 
plans and elevations of a house, but also 
in having unity in its decorations. It is 
surprising how seldom we see a house 
that keeps to a homogeneous color scheme 
throughout, because the result in this 
house was so eminently satisfactory. It 
may be interesting to add that this is the 
former home of the Royal Director of the 
National Academy and that the present 
owner is a painter of Dutch cathedrals 
with a fine enthusiasm for the play of 
light upon their Protestantly whitewashed 
walls, and so a man who would find such 
a scheme of cypress and gray walls espe¬ 
cially congenial. But a scheme like this is 
not only effective in itself, but for its 
value as a setting for colorful Oriental 
rugs, for window curtains of China silk, 
Japanese batik and Indian prints, for in¬ 
teresting upholstery and for the loosely 
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