HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 
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plying the second. If your paint becomes 
thick, thin it with turpentine. After the 
second coat has thoroughly dried, go over 
the whole with a coat of floor varnish — 
two coats are better — and this will dry in 
twenty-four hours. You then have a floor 
that will be most satisfactory in every way. 
Should you care to go still deeper in the 
decorative floor art, cut a stencil in some 
heavy board or stencil paper and stencil 
a border in black. This can be done over 
the varnish and the design again var¬ 
nished. This gives a finish to the floor 
and is pleasing to the eye. In a guest¬ 
room where the floor is less used, let the 
white paint of the surbase extend on the 
floor to the width of a foot. Paint a line, 
of some color harmonizing with the gen¬ 
eral color scheme, close to the surbase as 
a division line and on the white floor sur¬ 
face stencil some simple pattern. This 
will brighten your floor and bring the 
color scheme together. H. D. Eberletn 
Care of Pelargoniums 
I N the central section of California one 
summer, the weather was more than 
usually cool. My pelargoniums—planted 
on the south side of the house—became in¬ 
fested with thousands of tiny white bugs, 
the stems, leaves and all being completely 
covered. Plants looked perfectly dejected, 
and the flowers were dwarfed. As the 
plants had grown half way up to the porch 
roof—and the blooming season just com¬ 
ing on — I went to spraying, but nothing 
seemed to dislodge that particular bug. 
Finally I nerved myself to cut the plants 
back to the main stock, greatly as I dis¬ 
liked to lose a season’s bloom. In three 
weeks, to my surprise, they came on with 
renewed vigor, the plants covered with 
flower buds, the finest I ever had. If even 
the bugs give us pointers like that, we'll 
surely get on, for I’ve always been in¬ 
structed against pruning Lady Washing¬ 
tons in blooming season. In that respect 
they are supposed to be entirely different 
from the common geranium, which has to 
be pruned all the time if one wants to get 
around. Pelargoniums need severe cutting 
back in the fall, and clipping once in a 
while, besides. Hereafter, if bugs appear, 
which they are likely to, when the season 
is cool — I’ll apply the wisdom they’ve fur¬ 
nished me — to their own undoing. E. A. 
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The Late Vegetable Garden 
T N the midst of your busy times with the 
. care of and enjoyment of the many 
things which you planted in spring, do not 
overlook the fact that the second half of 
the garden season is still ahead of you, and 
that many of the things which you are 
at present so much enjoying will be gone 
long before cold weather sets in. If the 
joil is in good moist condition a last plant¬ 
ing of peas may be put in now to furnish 
a crop for early fall use. There is still 
time to put in another planting of early 
sweet corn, such as Golden Bantam. 
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v ’ garden, why not provide a home for the birds 
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your home or the much frequented road or street. 
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