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When the Garden Comes Indoors 
(Continued from page 54) 
more water is given and the plant, 
instead of being cured, is killed. 
To take a growing plant up from an 
outside bed, and pot it for winter use, 
is an exceptionally difficult garden 
stunt. The first point in doing it suc¬ 
cessfully is to start early, so that the 
change may be made and the plant 
becomes established under its new 
conditions before it is necessary to 
take it inside. The moving from the 
outside open air to indoors is always 
a good deal of a shock to the plant in 
itself ; when to that is added the shock 
of transplanting, the result is usually 
fatal. To give the plant every chance 
it can have of surviving, do the work 
carefully as follows: 
Select your plants for the winter 
garden, choosing, if possible, the 
youngest and most vigorous speci¬ 
mens, even though they may be con¬ 
siderably smaller in size. Cut back 
severely the growing wood : there will 
be good material for cuttings, but if 
you cannot utilize it that way, remove 
it just the same, though it may seem 
at the time a needless waste of flow¬ 
ers and buds. In the case of begonias, 
geraniums, and other rather soft 
wooded plants, there should be little 
more than a stump or skeleton of the 
plant left. Water the soil about the 
plant thoroughly, and with your lawn 
edger, or an old long bladed knife, 
make an inward slanting, semi-circu¬ 
lar cut, a few inches from the root. 
This will sever about half of the roots 
of the plant, with the result that in a 
few days’ time a great many small 
new roots will start from the root- 
stubs which remain. After a week or 
so, complete the cut, making a com¬ 
plete circle about the plant. This 
circle should be in proportion to the 
size of the pot to which the plant is 
to be transferred; about the same 
number of inches in diameter. In 
potting, use a rich garden loam, with 
a little bone meal added. Pot firmly, 
using a small tamper to get the soil 
down firm, and be sure to “crock” 
or drain all pots bigger than 3". After 
potting, give them a thorough 
watering, and then keep the plants in 
the shade, giving little water, for a 
week until growth is well begun. 
All this may seem like a good deal 
of “fussing” over a simple job, but if 
you will try- part of your plants this 
way, and part in the usual way, you 
will see that it is well worth while. 
If you do the work at once, your 
“renovated” plants should have two 
to four weeks in which to grow and 
wax strong and vigorous for their 
winter’s work indoors, before it is 
necessary to put them inside. 
Many of the plants used for porch 
and window-boxes, or vases and urns, 
may be handled in much the same 
way to give good winter results. In 
this case, however, the root-growth 
will have been much more confined 
than in a bed, and they usually can 
be merely lifted out with a trowel 
and potted ; but even these should be 
trimmed back rather severely, as di¬ 
rected in an earlier paragraph. 
So much for the “home-made” 
plants for your indoor garden. But 
there will be other things which you 
will want, and will not be likely to 
have unless you have had a consider¬ 
able winter garden before. These in¬ 
clude many of the plants already 
mentioned, and in addition a number 
of the hardier palms and ferns, such 
as Phoenix Roebelenii, P. Rupicola; 
Cocos Weddelliana, very light and 
graceful, and particularly effective 
with other plants; Kentia forster- 
iana and K. Belmorcana among the 
palms; and Scotti, Wliitvwni, Schol- 
zcli, Roosevelt, John Wanamaker, and 
Glory of Moordrechit, among ferns. 
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(Continued from page 46) 
well-arched toes. Many ordinary 
specimens have faulty tails, too long, 
set too high, and often carried too 
gaily. The correct tail carriage is 
just on a line with the back with a 
slight upward curve at the end. 
Outside of Germany only the 
smooth coated dogs are common, but 
in their native land there are also 
wire and long haired varieties. The 
latter are particularly attractive look¬ 
ing; but to our unaccustomed eyes 
the broken coated animals seem a 
trifle grotesque in a little dog so de¬ 
cidedly of the basset hound type. 
They also have several pleasing and 
distinctive colors in Germany that are 
almost unknown to us. We are famil¬ 
iar enough with the deep solid reds 
and the glossy blacks with the attrac¬ 
tive tan points, and to a lesser degree 
with the yellows and deep tans with 
the yellow points. That most attrac¬ 
tive color known in Germany as the 
“tiger dachs,” a sort of dappled brown, 
is very rarely seen outside of the 
larger bench shows. It is unmistak¬ 
ably attractive. The ground color is 
a shining, silvery gray (sometimes 
almost a white) dappled over with 
small spots of yellow, brown, tan, 
or black. The spots must be small 
and evenly distributed, for, so the 
German Standard says, “the main 
factor in such an appearance is that, 
at some distance, the dog shall show 
an indefinite and varied color which 
renders him particularly useful as a 
hunting dog.” By the same token 
he becomes a very smart and attrac¬ 
tive looking house dog, and a dappled 
specimen will appeal to those who 
admire a typical and distinctive color¬ 
ing in a dog and like to own some¬ 
thing that is uncommon and pretty. 
There is no gainsaying that the 
dachshund is an odd looking little 
dog; but he is not a whit more curi¬ 
ously put together than many another, 
and there are many points in his per¬ 
sonality that some of these other dogs 
do not possess. He ought to be more 
popular than he is. 
Little is known of the origin of 
the breed. Since very early times 
there have been short-legged, crooked 
fronted dogs. Terriers of this type 
were formerly called turnspits in 
England, and several different varia¬ 
tions of this peculiar formation have 
been common all over Europe. Some 
of these dogs and the smaller hounds 
have possibly been responsible for the 
French basset hounds, while the Low' 
Countries, as shown in early Dutch 
paintings, had the small, low dogs in 
their kitchens three and four cen¬ 
turies ago. In all probability the 
dachshund proper was of German ori¬ 
gin. Certainly the breed as it is to¬ 
day is of German development. For¬ 
tunately the fanciers, upon whom the 
future of any variety of dogs so 
largely depends, are striving, both in 
America and England, to return to 
the German ideals of type. This is a 
favorable sign, pointing to a brighter 
future for the breed. 
