HOUSE AND GARDEN 
J 
UNE, 1912 
M ake your visit now, 
because during June 
the trees, shrubs, and 
hardy flowers will be at their 
best. It’s the ideal time to 
make your selections. You 
can see things as they will 
actually be. It’s so much 
better than trying to form a 
conception from catalog descrin- 
tions. Don’t put oft coming till 
fall, when the flowers and 
foliage are pa.ssing, and your 
enthusiasm on the wane. Do it 
now so you can make your 
selections when you are keenly 
alert to just the things you most 
need. Run down in your auto 
any day. 
It’s a beautiful ride along the 
Jericho Turnpike, where our 
nursery is located. 
Perhaps you don’t know that we 
have trees in all sizes, from 
fifty cents for a three year old, 
to fifty dollars for one twenty. 
One very important thing to 
also bear in mind is that anv 
of our evergreens can be planted 
in August and September just 
as successfully as in the Spring. 
Come and make your selections 
now, and we will tag them with 
your name, and ship them any 
time the latter part of July. 
If you can’t possibly come to 
the nursery, then let _us send 
you our catalogs. This year’s 
editions are exceptionally inter¬ 
esting and entirely untechnical. 
You’ll enjoy them. 
Isaac Hicks (El Son 
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trouble they could put a half dipper of 
water into each hole before setting the 
plant. Mantell at first thought of putting 
it around the plants after setting them, but 
it took only a moment’s refiection to show 
that Raffles’ method of putting it in the 
hole was the right one. 
One thing that never ceased to compel 
Mantell’s attention was the great differ¬ 
ence between what they sold things for 
and what he knew people in the city were 
paying. Priestly was not a shipping point 
for produce; truck of all sorts and even 
potatoes were imported by the storekeepers 
there in large amounts. In many instances 
Mantell figured out that consumers in the 
city paid for various staple products, not 
perishable, at least three times as much as 
the growers in the big shipping districts 
received for them. Freight charges could 
account for only a small part of this enor¬ 
mous difference. As a business man, it 
worried him to think that there was so 
much loss between the manufacturers and 
the consumer. M’as there no way in which 
the actual producers could get a bigger 
slice of what the consumer had to pay? 
Here was another problem which, tucked 
away in the pigeon-holes of his busy brain, 
occupied many of his spare moments, for 
Mantell, even when busy with his hands, 
at such more or less mechanical jobs as 
weeding and cultivating, always kept his 
head busy with the ever-arising problems 
of his new and many-sided business. 
The great agricultural event of the fall 
was the local “Fair.” Nothing else in the 
course of the year was so universally at¬ 
tended. Practically every able-bodied per¬ 
son for miles around put in his appear¬ 
ance here. The first and greatest attrac¬ 
tion was the crowd. They all w^nt, pri¬ 
marily, to see each other, and a very good 
social institution it was. Next, in varying 
degrees of attractiveness, came the horse 
races, the balloon ascensions, the vaude¬ 
ville “features,” the agricultural and hor¬ 
ticultural exhibits. 
The Mantells were very enthusiastic 
about the Fair. About a week before the 
local one, Mr. Mantell, Robert and Helen) 
had attended a larger one not far from 
Priestly, to see the State Experiment Ex¬ 
hibition given there. Robert and Helen 
were quite carried away by the vegetable 
and farm exhibits, and came back fully 
determined to capture every prize they pos¬ 
sibly could at the local fair. The Fair- 
Book was gone over carefully, and every¬ 
thing they thought they had a ghost of a 
chance at was checked off. Mrs. Mantell 
caught the enthusiasm and decided to com¬ 
pete in the jelly and cake and bread lists, 
in the Ladies’ Department. 
So for several days previous to “En¬ 
trance Day,” all was preparation and 
bustle. 
Mantell had been quick to note, at the 
other fair, that the care and neatness with 
which the various exhibits had been pre¬ 
pared and staged had a great deal to do 
with the appearance of their quality. 
Clean washing, clean baskets, or old ones 
lined with clean white paper around the 
top, neatly printed labels, clean berry bas- 
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