HOUSE AND GARDEN 
266 
October, 1913 
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The November House U' Garden 
will be replete with timely, suggestive articles along the lines of activity in which 
the country dweller is most vitally interested. 
You will find both pleasure and profit in reading these features, whether 
your especial interest is centered 
INDOORS or OUTDOORS 
PLANNING THE KITCHEN. Practical 
guidance for the housewife who desires 
to make the most important room in 
the house more efficient. 
A RESUME OF OLD CLOCKS. An ex¬ 
pert collector’s remarks and advice on 
a fascinating hobby. 
THE WINTER GARDEN. Every phase 
of the house plant problem as it is 
presented to the ordinary owner. 
STORING VEGETABLES AND FRUIT. 
How to keep for winter use, some of 
those delicious things your garden pro¬ 
duced the past summer. 
REPAIRING THE TREES. Now is the 
time to save that favorite tree that was 
injured by storm or disease. 
THE FALL CLEANUP. Valuable point¬ 
ers on putting the garden and grounds 
in shape for the winter so that they may 
be in the best condition for next spring. 
OUR NON-GAME MIGRATIONISTS. 
A sequel to the finest article in this 
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with the insect and seed-eating birds. 
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plants put in the open now will be glori¬ 
ously beautiful in December. I purchase 
from the nurseries my first planting of 
pansies in October, for Christmas blos¬ 
soms in the porch boxes and borders. The 
South is so hot in July and August that 
closer attention is required for the seed¬ 
lings than I have time to give, hence, my 
dependence on the florists for the first 
blossoms — which I must have for the love 
l bear for the unexpectedness of the winter 
flowers. For the cultivation of pansies in 
the South, the article of this Department, 
in the House & Garden for April, 1913, 
covers the subject in detail. 
If you would have a green and grassy 
turf for the winter now is the last minute 
in which you have to work. Many South¬ 
ern gardeners spade up the lawn as soon 
as the summer suns begin to turn it 
brown, put in fertilizer, and sow the seed. 
This gives a soft and beautiful green grass 
and is good to look at, but it does not give 
a turf. Every footstep sinks into the 
soil, and if all the planting in the bor¬ 
ders is not done before the grass seed is 
sown, there must be a constant making 
over of the parts stepped on, or else all 
plantings must be delayed. In either case 
the garden picture is not attractive. 
If the turf is very badly worn, if the 
lawn needs to be re-graded, if the drain¬ 
age is not what it should be, and it must 
be made over, the sooner it is done the 
better results you will have. If you have 
a Bermuda or Kentucky Blue grass sod 
use bonemeal liberally, reseed thickly with 
the best quality evergreen lawn grass seed, 
sowing in one direction and then across 
at right angles to the first sowing, rake it 
in carefully and in a few weeks you will 
marvel at the freshness and beauty of 
your turf. You will think that springtime 
has come to your door again. 
Any householder in the South who al¬ 
lows his lawn to become brown and stay 
so all winter is cheating himself, his 
family, and his neighbors — to say nothing 
of his section of the country. Nothing ap¬ 
peals to the tourists, from the snowbound 
sections, more than our green, mossy 
lawns, and dooryards, when January 
snows have driven them to our more fa¬ 
vored clime. Plant, then, grass seed and 
plant it generously now. 
As the summer flowers wither and die, 
fertilizer is put in, the perennials carefully 
attended to and the bulbs planted. If the 
lawn does not have to be made over from 
the beginning it is possible to plant the 
bulbs as the borders are ready for them 
and, in this way, a succession of bloom is 
assured. All the standard ones, hyacinths, 
tulips, narcissi, daffodils, crocuses, jon¬ 
quils, and snowdrops, may be put out until 
December and are perfectly hardy in the 
South. It is only when a sharp cold snap 
comes after the blossoms are well above 
ground that disaster results. This does 
not often happen. In buying bulbs re¬ 
member that the best are always the 
cheapest. Plant in masses and follow any 
good article on the planting of the same 
and no mistake will be made. 
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