House and Garden 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE MONTH 
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THE GARDEN 
To Editor House and Garden: In your 
Suggestions for the Month (July) you advise the 
plowing (under) of the strawberry bed and claim 
that it will then be ready for new planting in the 
fall. It seems to me that Kellogg’s method of 
mowing, the bed, letting the trash dry for about 
three days and then, during a brisk wind, burning 
it right on the bed is a better plan for a bed not 
more than two or three years old. 
A. D. C., Humboldt, Iowa. 
Answer: There is no disposition to discount 
the Kellogg method as referred to by our corre¬ 
spondent. On the contrary, it is commended where 
its use is practicable. It is only an adaptation to 
the cultivated berry-bed of the methods practiced 
in sections of the South where the strawberry 
grows wild, in abundance, in the old “sage-fields. ” 
In those sections it has, from the time the memory 
of man runneth not to the contrary, been the 
custom to burn over the fields in the early fall. 
The suggestions in the |uly issue obviously 
referred to strawberry beds in city or suburban 
gardens where police regulations, or surrounding 
conditions, would not permit the plan of “burn¬ 
ing-over .”—Editor Suggestions for the Month. 
CORRESPONDENCE 
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a green roof, and gray trim. The effect does not 
satisfy me. Could you make me some sugges¬ 
tions as to color in doing over this house ? 
R. F. D. of Kansas. 
Answer: You do not state the shade of 
brown chosen for the body of your house; if a 
russet or golden brown is the color this 
would not harmonize with the red sandstone. 
Since the foundations are of this stone, I would 
suggest that a moss green color for the body 
of the house with ivory trim would be your 
best choice, the roof in a shade of reddish brown 
which will harmonize perfectly with the red sand¬ 
stone, being deeper in color, but as I have said, 
harmonious. I am glad to know that this Depart¬ 
ment has been of service to you in the interior 
of your house, and am pleased to supply sugges¬ 
tions for the exterior whenever requested. 
DECORATING A COLLEGE ROOM 
I wish to decorate and furnish a college room 
>n - Hall at Cambridge for my son’s occupancy 
in the coming year, would you make me some 
suggestions. I send you a rough draft showing the 
size of room, position of windows, etc. It is on a 
southwestern corner. The windows you will 
observe are large and the room 16x19. There 
is a small bedroom opening off which has cherry 
woodwork finished in the natural, this I will leave 
as it is. Kindly advise me as to wall covering 
for this room also. The furniture I will use here 
is mahogany, but as the room is small I will not 
require much decoration. The larger room has 
oak woodwork which is now an objectionable 
golden oak with a high gloss; I have obtained 
permission to change this and will do so under 
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