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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1912 
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Your Trees— 
Why Have Them 
Inspected ? 
11TOW unfair to give your flowers and 
shrubs every attention , and your 
trees scarcely any. 
Just because your trees look all right, 
does not prove that they are. 
There is one way to make sure, and 
that is by having them inspected by one 
of our experts. 
You will get the exact facts concern¬ 
ing their condition, and suggestions concerning the care your 
trees need. 
Have us make such an inspection, and give the trees expert 
care if they require it. 
There is no better time than now for inspections. 
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In it, you will find much helpful information and further 
facts about our Inspections. 
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forests were compared where the infesta¬ 
tion was equally as bad as our forest, and 
while most of the trees were defoliated in 
the woodland not treated, our trees seemed 
free from the pest. 
The August brood came on in the 
treated area as plentiful as elsewhere but 
some of the colonies of the new brood did 
not appear to spread in the manner which 
others grew. The trees were examined 
and it was found that the larvae had taken 
the disease without treatment. 
I made inquiry concerning this and 
found that this disease will live over win¬ 
ter where once planted, and if the mois¬ 
ture conditions are favorable will grow 
another year. Even in a dry season this 
disease seemed to do its work. Perhaps if 
some others would give this parasite a 
private trial on their estates, they would 
aid in controlling the Brown-tail moth. 
Garrett M. Stack 
The House We Remodeled with 
Paint 
( Continued from page 284) 
in camp. Fabrics can be stenciled in 
this way and the extra moisture absorbed 
by the cheesecloth and paper. 
Like all the other work we attempted 
we succeeded; this is not to be wondered 
at, though, as the operation of stenciling is 
so simple. From putting a simple one- 
color stencil on the walls of the bath above 
the wainscoting line, stenciling curtains 
to match — for we were wise enough to 
try the simplest things first — we finally 
grew bolder and attacked the bedrooms 
and plan to do likewise with the dining¬ 
room, the curtains of which are already 
stenciled in rose. The operation was al¬ 
ways the same, only in finishing the walls 
the surface was in an upright position. 
When two distinct colors were used— 
not blended — two stencil plates were em¬ 
ployed and a separate brush used for each 
color. For the fabrics a medium was 
added to the colors to make the same 
washable. 
The bathroom stencil was applied in 
blue, using a mixture of cobalt 1 part, 
sap green 1/10 part, and a small quantity 
of white. The stencil pattern was guided 
by the top of the wainscoting and started 
at one of the corners, working from left 
to right. When as much of the wall as the 
pattern covered was colored in the blue, 
the pattern was picked up and shifted 
along farther to the right. The cheese¬ 
cloth curtains, hung straight to the sills, 
were finished with a two-inch hem and 
stenciled as the wall; the medium, how¬ 
ever, was added to the stencil colors. 
In the chambers two color stencils were 
used and the more floral patterns selected, 
giving results fully as striking as printed 
paper friezes, but more durable and cer¬ 
tainly more individual as we selected our 
own colors; a wild rose for the pink room, 
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