HOUSE AND GARDEN 
3 2 4 
November, 
1913 
Hitchings 9 Greenhouses 
Turn the Seasons 
Upside-Down 
N O matter if you do have to tramp 
home in the snow and the 
howling wind; when you get there, 
you can go down to your greenhouse 
and wear your straw hat and pick 
some ripe peaches, or luscious melons. 
The roses will be in bloom and the 
sweet-peas just showing bud. Those 
old-fashioned flowers, the seeds of 
which you planted on one of the 
side benches, will bring back 
those of your boyhood memory. 
Reluctantly you will leave, but 
not before you have picked some 
carnations to take along with the 
peaches and melons. The chances 
are you will refuse to wait till 
breakfast to try the melons. 
If you have a -Hitchings’ Green¬ 
house, you can have Summer-time 
all the time. 
Let us send you our catalog. 
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New York City 
1 170 Broadway 
Hphia, Pa. 
15th and Chestnut Sts. 
Elizabeth, N. J. 
WHITE METAL 
Manhattan Drainboards 
Covered With White Metal Like Sterling 
Silver (Not Plated) All Sizes and Shapes. 
The seams and cracks in a wood drainboard 
harbor enemies to health which are not al¬ 
ways visible but are ever present. 
There is no plumbing fixture that comes in 
closer contact with dishes and tableware. 
JOHN TRAGESER STEAM 
COPPER WORKS 
447-457 W. 26th ST., NEW YORK 
Last and least is the Allen kitchen. 
Every requirement has been met, and not 
a bit of waste space exists. The kitchen 
contains a sink, two dressers, a closet, a 
gas range, hot-water boiler, gas water 
heater, and a table with a radiator under 
it. It is seldom possible to design a kitchen 
so that it is equally convenient to the din¬ 
ing-room, living ropm, cellar and back 
door. The laundry is of the smallest pos¬ 
sible dimensions, but contains a two-part 
wash tray, with a closet above, and a re¬ 
frigerator. The rear door and porch are 
protected with a hood. The dining-room 
has an ample china closet. A door from 
the kitchen to the living-room is a great 
convenience in a small house like this. 
When planning a kitchen, the following 
suggestions may be helpful. Always pro¬ 
vide a double-acting door between the 
pantry and dining-room, but not between 
the pantry and kitchen; for if the latter is 
done then every time one door is pushed 
open the air pressure forces open the other 
door and allows the odors to go straight 
through. If a single swing door is used 
from the kitchen to the pantry this trouble 
will be obviated. 
Iron bars should be furnished for the 
pantry window, so that it may be left open 
at night. 
The kitchen walls and ceilings should 
never have the dirt-catching sand finish, 
but should have a smooth white coat finish 
for painting, or, better still, a washable 
paper which may be renewed at slight ex¬ 
pense. 
Use very little molded woodwork; plain 
boards are easier to keep clean. Do not 
use wood wainscoting, for it is impossible 
to make the boards fit perfectly tight. 
Advocates of tiled walls and floors forget 
that the dirt-catching joints cannot be 
glazed and are hard to keep clean. I pre¬ 
fer painted walls. Linoleum makes an 
excellent floor covering; it is quiet, and its 
flexibility makes it as easy to the feet as 
carpet. 
Here is an excellent means of forming a 
ventilating flue for the kitchen. Connect 
the smoke flue to an eight-inch cast-iron 
pipe, which should be run up in a brick 
flue about 12 inches by 18 inches in size, 
place a register in the bottom of this flue 
above the range. The heat in the smoke 
pipe will draw the fumes and smoke from 
cooking up the flue. 
Do not make the kitchen any larger than 
is actually required to contain the neces¬ 
sary conveniences. A big kitchen may 
necessitate having an extra maid to keep 
it clean and in order. 
To Destroy the Locust Borer 
A CCORDING to information received 
from the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, the cutting of the locust tree for all 
purposes, including thinning operations 
and for private commercial use, should be 
done between the first of October and the 
last of March. To destroy the locust 
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