HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
1912 
'^iTHouT A Greenhouse—' 
You Don't Know What 
^Real Gardening Joys Are 
It’s indispensable to your outdoors 
garden in growing your plants and 
flowers for early setting out. No one 
is content nowadays to plant their 
garden seeds when fickle Dame Spring 
decrees. It’s entirely too uncertain. 
One year a fairly early garden — the 
next year, weeks late — like this year. 
By having plants in flats or pots all 
ready to plant out, your garden will 
always be weeks earlier than the earli¬ 
est. Then, when next fall comes, you 
won’t have to say farewell to your 
flowers and your gardening joys. Many 
plants can be brought in. There will 
be the greenhouses in which you can 
carry your gardening on just the same. No back¬ 
aches from stooping over, for the soil benches are 
raised a convenient height. Roses—Carnations— 
Sweet Peas—Strawberries—Melons—Orchids—al¬ 
most anything your fancy dictates, and at almost 
any time of the year. Send for our catalog. It 
shows houses from the smallest to the largest. 
There’s surely one among the fifty that will be 
just what you want—and need. 
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New Yorker, unfamiliar with the valley, 
bristle with interrogation points. No, let 
us hasten to assure him, we have not bor¬ 
rowed from the Dutch and in so do¬ 
ing mixed up style. The old-time crafts¬ 
man did this for us and there are many 
existing examples in the valley to testify 
to the fact. It is a treatment that often 
serves to surmount several unsympathetic 
conditions, and as in the case in question, 
is pleasingly effective. 
It will be noticed that the rear of our 
ell, owing to the abrupt falling off of the 
ground, looms up in the air considerably. 
Therefore the laundry yard with its wis¬ 
taria covered enclosure will serve, besides 
its initial purpose, as a screen to eliminate 
some of the height of the offending ell. 
The foregoing will serve to give some 
idea of the problem presented and our 
method of solving it. It may not be a 
perfect solution; probably it could be bet¬ 
tered ; but we feel that it is a fairly credit¬ 
able effort and we are firmly convinced 
that our course in following the local 
craftsman, rather than the wider source 
of inspiration and the very correct taste 
of the average architect, is the only sane 
method of handling an old house. One 
does not set the same palette for every 
sort of picture. 
Garden Suggestions and Queries 
{Continued from page 45) 
ing the last two months on wood of the 
previous season. These should be gone 
over as soon as the flowers fall, and cut 
into shape for next year. Do not be 
afraid to leave them a little open, as they 
will make a great deal of growth between 
now and next May. If they have been 
neglected about the roots, by all means 
spade up about them for a foot or two, 
making a neat circle, and give a little 
manure or fertilizer. Shrubs, just be¬ 
cause they will stand abuse and still live 
through it, are the most neglected of all 
plants, going for years, frequently, with¬ 
out being touched or even thought of. 
In the Flower Garden 
Here, too, there is not much to be done, 
except to keep the surface worked over, 
the beds thoroughly watered once in 
a while, about dusk, if the weather is very 
dry, and a few late tender plants, such as 
salvias or tuberous begonias, set out. 
If annuals have been started in the seed 
border in May, some of them will be 
ready for transplanting and all will need 
careful cleaning, cutting back if they are 
getting too tall, and thinning out if they 
come up thick. 
Another most important thing to at¬ 
tend to at this time is the procuring of 
plants of choice new varieties from which 
to work up a supply for next year. One 
plant of a new or especially fine geranium 
or fuchsia, for instance, procured from a 
friend, or from the florist, will give you 
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