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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February; 1912 
That Orchard of Yours 
Is the yield satisfactory ? 
Is the quality of your apples satisfactory? 
Does your orchard cost more than it returns? 
If it does it shouldn’t. Orchards can be made to 
pay and pay surprisingly well. 
By pay we mean either in high quality marketable 
fruit, or in just such splendid, fine-grained, delicious 
apples as you want for your own particular use. 
Health, perfect health, then, of trees is the first 
requirement. 
It’s a requirement we thoroughly understand. 
Send for one of our inspectors to come and look 
your trees over. He will advise you what should 
be done. You are, however, under no obligations 
to do it. While he is there he might look over 
your other trees at the same time and advise about 
them. Right now is the time to have inspections 
made and arrange for doing the work. Don’t put 
it off till spring when the rush of work is on. 
There’s no economy in that. 
Let us send you our booklet — “Trees — The Care 
They Should Have.” 
Munson-Whitaker Company, 
Foresters 
Boston — 623 Tremont Bldg. New York — 823 Fourth Ave. Bldg. 
Pittsburg — 743 Oliver Bldg. 
Send for catalogue P 27 of pergolas, sun dials and garden 
furniture or P 40 of wood columns. 
HARTMANN-SANDERS CO. 
Exclusive Manufacturers of 
KOLL’S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 
Suitable for PERGOLAS, PORCHES 
or INTERIOR USE 
ELSTON and WEBSTER AVES., 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
Eastern Office: 1123 Broadway 
New York City 
Livingston’s Tomatoes 
are valued by all friends of this fruit as the choicest 
procurable. For sixty years we have bred tomatoes 
for yield and quality and our new “globe” shaped 
sorts are as near perfection as anything evolved. Ot 
ideal shape with solid meat of finest flavor, they 
stand unsurpassed. 
Trial Packet of Livingston's **Globe” illustrated 
below (enough seeds for 250 plants) 10c. postpaid 
Useful 130 page Catalog 
and Tomato Booklet . 
FREE 
Nearly 300 illustrations from photographs and 
honest description make the catalog one of the most 
reliable seed books published. “Tomato Facts” ex¬ 
plains why we are the leaders in the tomato line. 
Both books are free. May we send copies to you? 
The Livingston Seed 
616 High Strei 
Columbus 
Ohio 
others of 1^4" pipe twisted in a close 
spiral that fitted over the outside. These 
were, of course, connected, and from them 
two runs of inch pipe went completely 
around the walls of the small house, with 
an open tank—made of an old paint keg 
■—-at the far end. 
Great was the excitement when this 
clumsy apparatus was first set going with 
a fire of dry pine limbs; but it worked. 
Indeed, with a good coal fire they could 
keep the water boiling in the keg. 
For the next few days it was kept going 
night and day (and at noon the thermom¬ 
eter hung inside often stood as high as 115 
degrees) to dry things out. 
Dirt was heaped on top of the stove, 
dried out, and replaced with another batch 
to get material sufficiently dry to use for 
starting seeds. 
Then there were the benches to put up, 
and a hundred little odds and ends to be 
attended to, such as having the blacksmith 
rhake irons for the ventilators out of old' 
wagon tires, and sawing up boxes for flats. 
The middle of the month had arrived 
before the first flats of cabbage and let¬ 
tuce were up. It took a great deal of 
care to manage the fire so that coal-gas 
would not defeat their efforts, but the ex¬ 
ceptionally direct draft they had for the 
stove helped to overcome this difficulty. 
Of course without Raffles’ practical 
knowledge and experience in all this work 
it would have been impossible to get re¬ 
sults anywhere nearly as good as those 
they did get. Mantell realized this. But 
he was only taking advantage of the fac¬ 
tors which could be made to work in his 
favor, where a man of less energy would 
not have made the attempt. The croakers 
at the village store still croaked, and pre¬ 
dicted failure. But the seeds sprouted, 
and day by day their little leaves grew big¬ 
ger;; Their first radical, definite effort 
seemed to be meeting success, and every 
official and employee of the Mantell com¬ 
pany looked forward with unbounded en¬ 
thusiasm to the wider activities that the 
opening of spring held in store. 
Stories in the Sno'W’ 
{Continued from page 2 > 3 ) 
has ranged the woods, loading fat under 
his shaggy coat, without ever a thought of 
the lean season to come. But now he has 
a sharp reminder and sets out upon his 
search with all the thoroughness and en¬ 
thusiasm of some seeker for that ideal 
apartment. After we have followed him 
a while, we shall be certain that he will 
find it. Every brush heap is nosed into, 
fallen trees are carefully examined, and 
large standing ones are entirely walked 
around to see if perchance they contain a' 
hollow large enough for a long nap. 
Ledges of rock are particularly interest¬ 
ing and are gone over most minutely. Lit¬ 
tle recesses that appear promising are dug 
clear of snow. In some he even lies down 
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