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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1912 
THE NET 
By REX BEACH 
Author of “The Ne’er-do-well,” “The Silver Horde,” 
“The Barrier,” “The Spoilers,” and “Going Some.”' 
Big, buoyant, bracing, this new story surges along through stormy seas of excite¬ 
ment to its final anchorage in the placid depths of love. Yes, love is here—the strong, 
passionate love of a man for his heart’s desire. Revenge is here — the hot, reeking revenge 
of the Sicilian Mafia. Corruption is here — political corruption which leads to riot. And 
through all these scenes of violence and bloodshed, there flows a steady stream of the 
genuine Rex Beach humor — the humor of brilliant phrase and ludicrous situation. 
Like his books of the lawless North, his new novel will quicken every heart that 
pumps red blood, and while in real life one does not care for overmuch slaughter, yet in 
fiction the guns boom softly, and the bloodstains dry when we close the book. 
Illustrated. Post 8vo, $1.30 net. 
The Pictures of Polly 
BY MARY KING COURTNEY. 
Virginal and dewy-fresh, all rosy with 
the soft radiance of delectable youth, this 
story comes tripping with laughter — a new 
kind, a new name. 
It ought to have been written in violet 
ink — and yet beyond its laughter and its 
fun, beyond the moonlight of its tender 
witchery, there glow the passionate feel¬ 
ing, the ardent wooing, the daring — naked 
and unashamed — which mark the dawn of 
palpitant first love. 
Illustrated by Will Foster. Cloth, $1.00 net. 
The Financier 
BY THEODORE DREISER. 
Author of “Sister Carrie” and “Jennie 
Gerhardt.” 
In its bigness, its insight into large phases 
of the evolution of American life, its por¬ 
trayal of the race for gold, and the alliance 
between Mammon and politics, and in its 
logical succession of dramatic events, and 
its gripping interest, this novel is certain 
to be ranked as one of the great examples 
of modern fiction. 
Beauty and the Jacobin 
BY BOOTH TARKINGTON. 
Author of “The Conquest of Canaan,” etc. 
Here is a plot that reveals an ingenuity 
worthy of a French dramatist; character 
is portrayed through dialogue with a daz¬ 
zling cleverness that makes us think of 
Dumas — but always the traits of the 
author’s own genius—his American sense 
of humor and genuine, untheateric feeling 
— are the most potent factors in the charm 
of this characteristic Tarkington tale. 
Illustrated. Post 8vo, cloth. $1.00 net. 
“Charge It” 
BY IRVING BACHELLER. 
Author of “Keeping Up With Lizzie,” etc. 
Is a genial, merry satire, full of the keen 
wit of the Honorable Socrates Potter. 
Its seventeen chapters are so many waves 
of merriment, and every wave breaks into 
laughter — wholesome, hearty laughter. 
“Charge It” hits most of the glaring 
follies of to-day, and hits them hard, but 
in a kindly spiiit. Like “Keeping Up 
With Lizzie,” this book will undoubtedly 
have an effect on the life of the time. 
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.00 net. 
A Successful Back Yard Garden 
T HIS article is not for professional 
farmers. It is intended as a ray of 
encouragement, and perhaps suggestion, 
to those amateurs who, with very small 
space at their command, yet long for a few 
home grown vegetables and flowers and 
the joy of raising them. 
We live in the suburb of an old Georgia 
town, which has kept a good deal of its 
charm in spite of the fact that it has be¬ 
come a fashionable winter resort. As our 
back yard was a little over a half acre and 
already contained two cows, a chicken 
yard, a pigeon yard and a servants’ cot¬ 
tage, there was not much ground left when 
the “gardening fad” struck the family. 
However, we managed to fence in a spot 
about 105 x 42 feet and after devoting 
about 60 x 18 feet to a permanent aspara¬ 
gus bed, we planted the rest in vegetables 
and flowers. 
Our planting season begins in October. 
In this month we plant out spinach, beets, 
carrots, lettuce and endive in our vegetable 
beds, and in the flower beds we sow 
Shirley poppies and Coreopsis seed. In 
this month we also fertilize the chrysan¬ 
themums heavily and set our fall bulbs. 
In November we plant the sweet peas 
in a trench about a foot deep, covering 
with about six inches of earth and cover¬ 
ing up plants as they come up. We also 
plant Escholtzia seed and set young- 
plants of sweet william, gaillardia, fox¬ 
glove, hardy phlox and pansies. In this 
month our chrysanthemums bloom. 
In December the vegetable garden bears 
well and we also have violets and narcis¬ 
sus in bloom. 
In January we plant green peas in the 
open ground. We plant the Alaskan pea 
in rows about two feet apart, using the 
ground from which the earlier spinach 
and beets have been pulled. 
In February we plant in the hotbed the 
seed of tomatoes (Sparks Earlina and any 
of the later sorts), peppers, eggplant, sin¬ 
gle dahlias and verbena and in the open 
ground we plant dwarf sunflowers. The 
pansies are in full bloom in this month, as 
are many of the bulbs. We tried the plan 
of planting the tomato seed in strawberry 
boxes with the bottoms cut out and sink¬ 
ing in the hotbed. It was such a success 
that we had tomatoes the tenth of June 
this year and they are much taller than my 
head. We train them to a stake, cutting 
off suckers. In this month we also fer¬ 
tilize the asparagus heavily. 
In March we plant nasturtium and pe¬ 
tunia seed in the open ground and set out 
Shasta daisy plants and African daisy 
plants. We also spray the young tomato 
plants with weak Bordeaux mixture. 
In April we set out the young plants 
from the hotbed, tomatoes, peppers, etc., 
plant lima beans or butter beans, as you 
prefer. We divide our chrysanthemums 
and violets this month, saving the strong¬ 
est roots. The green peas and asparagus 
are ready for use and the poppies, sweet 
Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.40 net. 
As Caesar’s Wife 
BY MARGARITA SPALDING GERRY, Author of “The Toy Shop,” etc. 
A pure woman comes home at 4 o’clock in the morning in an automobile with her 
former lover, and explains her all night absence by saying the car broke down. 
The waiting husband does not believe her, but because of his passion for possession, 
shuts his eyes to what he believes to be her unfaithfulness. What effect would this 
have upon a man, upon his every day life, upon his character? 
That’s the story — and a more nakedly forceful one of its kind does not exist. 
Illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. Cloth, $1.30 net. 
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