HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 19 i 
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NO, DON’T 
“SWAT” THE FLY 
At least until you have read 
CHAPTERS OF MY LIFE 
FROM 
THE LIFE OF 
THE FLY 
By J. Henri Fabre 
Quite recently both the literary and 
the scientific world discovered an over¬ 
looked genius, a modern one at that. 
They found a simple old French nat¬ 
uralist, neglected and poor, who has 
written some of the most interesting, in¬ 
spiring and remarkable scientific studies 
that have ever been produced. Maeter¬ 
linck calls this man, Fabre, “One of 
the glories of the civilized world, . . . 
one of the most profound admirations 
of my life.” 
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suitably be placed either a clock or a bust 
and at the ends two great candlesticks or 
a couple of elegant vases are always in 
keeping. Very much more put on the 
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dignity. 
The room whose physical character we 
have thus studied with regard to furnish¬ 
ing h finished. Its main features were a 
fireplace on the west side, two windows on 
the north, a door on the south and an un¬ 
broken wall on the east. These features 
were all taken into account. So must we 
do with every room that is successful. 
With an infinite variety of rooms, with 
infinitely varied physical features and ex¬ 
posures, it is impossible and undesirable 
to formulate any stereotyped treatment. 
The main thing to be remembered, how¬ 
ever, is that we must observe a regular 
method in our operations and the working 
of that method we have attempted to show 
in the foregoing paragraphs. Therein lies 
the whole value of this study. 
Proper Planting of Evergreens 
I N planting an evergreen be sure it is not 
going to rest deeper nor stand higher 
than it originally did when the hole is 
finally filled up. Evergreens more than 
anything else must go into the ground to 
the exact depth which they have occupied. 
Put the best earth into the hole first — the 
top soil, if necessary, or soil brought from 
somewhere if the top soil is not good and 
friable — and tamp every shovelful with a 
round-headed stick. 
In tamping be sure that you do not just 
hammer on top of the roots — this does 
very little indeed toward firming the tree 
into its new place — but drive against them 
from the sides and under them so that 
there will be no later settling on one side 
or another, and a consequent tipping of 
the plant just when it ought to be getting 
well adjusted to its change of abode. It is, 
of course, very easy to leave a small un¬ 
filled space around the earth ball where it 
narrows under from the sides, for the 
earth thrown in may lodge against it 
where ‘t comes out closest to the sides of 
the hole before the space farther down is 
filled at all. Watch this carefully, and do 
not be in a hurry. Haste is usually re¬ 
sponsible for this sort of thing being im¬ 
properly done. 
When about three-fourths or even a 
little more of the hole is filled in, and the 
plant stands firm and true and cannot be 
shaken, turn on the water and let it run, a 
quiet, gentle stream if from a hose, until 
the depression is full and running over. 
Several pailfuls may be used if it is poured 
from a pail, for it should be tipped in 
gradually and allowed to sink into the 
ground as it runs, the object being to 
gently settle all the earth to its own read¬ 
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