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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1913 
Ifour Winter Trip 
You will be surprised to know 
how LITTLE you*need spend for 
the best vacation you ever had—a vaca¬ 
tion filled with sunshine and cheery skies; 
with outdoor fun and indoor comfort. 
You can choose the most famous Winter 
resorts, including Florida, Cuba, Porto 
Rico, Mexico, Bahamas, Santo Domingo, 
Texas and the Pacific Coast. You can rely 
upon the most trustworthy service because you 
travel in the big, splendidly equipped steamers 
of the 
STEAMSHIP 
LINES 
Write any of these four steamship lines and 
they will tell you where you can go, what you 
can see and what it will cost. You will also 
receive several beautifully illustrated booklets 
and the Winter Travel Number of the AGW1 
News Magazine. A letter now will mean bet¬ 
ter accommodations for the journey. Address 
PI J I • _ TO FLORIDA, calling at Charles- 
V^iyUC Lillie ton anc J Jacksonville with connec¬ 
tions for all leading Southern Resorts. “The Best 
Way South.” 
From Pier 36, North River, New York 
Mollnvv I inp TO TEXAS, all points South- 
lViailOry bine west and Pacific Coast; Galves¬ 
ton, Key West, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Mobile. 
Only route New York to Texas without change. 
From Pier 45, North River, New York 
DISTRICT PASSENGER OFFICES 
BOSTON-192 Washington St. NEW YORK-290 Broadway CHICAGO-444 Com. Nat’l Bank Bldg 
1306 F St., N. W. 
PHILADELPHIA 701 Chestnut St. 
Porto Rico Line L T‘ n ? New York each Sat- 
urday for San Juan direct. 
“*'AZOS, 10,000 tons, and other large steamers in 
Winter service. Send for booklet and information. 
Genera i Offices, / / Broadway, New York 
I jnp f O BAHAMAS (Nassau), Havana 
v . , and Isle of Pines, Cuba, Mexico and 
Yucatan, with rail connections to all important in¬ 
terior cities. Write for booklets. 
General Offices, Pier 14, East River, New York 
WASHINGTON 
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Convenient — Sanitary 
With our Extension Stem 
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No stooping to turn heat on or off 
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Our patent wood wheel with 
it & 
door-knob finish is made to 
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match the trim of room — no 
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plates or screws to catch dust 
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or burn the hands when turning. 
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Can be installed without aid 
of a mechanic. 
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WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR 
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J. O’MEARA, Inc. 
103 Walker St., N. Y. 
WipeYourFeet 
Mud. snow, dust and dirt will not be 
tracked over your floors if you use 
Grab’s Foot Scraper 
outside your door. The ODly de¬ 
vice made which cleans bot¬ 
toms and sides of shoe la 
one operation. Has tea 
parallel plates for scrap¬ 
ing soles and two stiff 
bristle brushes which 
clean Bides of shoe. 
AUTOMATICALLY 
ADJUSTS ITSELF 
to any size shoe. Hand* 
eomely enameled, yLooks 
neat. Can be rotated and 
swept under. Fastens to doorstep or any handy place. Set ono 
and save useless work. Price $1.00. If your dealer will not 
supply you, don't take substitute, but send your order direct tO 
ui Illustrated folder FREE Dept 9 
Victor M. Grab & Co., 121 Ashland Block, Chicago, III. 
Over 
500,000 
in use 
and the compartment is large enough to 
be thoroughly useful, occupying as it does 
about half the cubic space of the entire 
radiator. There are three shelves inside, 
so that a number of dishes or plates can 
be kept warm at the same time. 
Another decided advantage of this use¬ 
ful addition to the butler’s pantry is the 
marble shelf placed over the top of the 
radiator. This is quite broad, and as it 
retains the heat it serves as a most con¬ 
venient resting place for dishes that must 
be kept hot after they are taken from the 
kitchen. 
Garden Suggestions and Queries 
(Continued from page 45) 
as to insure better fruit. Currants are 
produced on wood two or more years old 
and therefore any branches cut should be 
removed after the first season’s growth, 
or else left for several years. Grapes are 
pruned according to the system by which 
they are grown. For best results the vines 
should be kept back to two to four “arms,” 
and these cut back, at the winter pruning, 
to eight or ten buds or eyes. Where, how 
ever, the vines have been trained over an 
arch or arbor, the best way is to cut back 
all the laterals to two to four eyes each 
winter. This may seem severe treatment 
but the new shoots grow with almost in¬ 
credible rapidity, and the fruit will he 100 
per cent, better than if a jungle of old 
vines and an over-burden of fruit are 
left, for a grape vine left to itself will set 
about four times the amount of fruit 
it can carry through in any kind of shape. 
The great advantage of winter spraying 
is that much stronger solutions may be 
used than in the summer. Lime-sulphur 
wash has long been a standard winter 
spray, but preparations of miscible oils 
are yearly finding greater favor and are 
less trouble for the home orchardist to ap¬ 
ply. Full directions for use come with the 
various spraying preparations, and it will 
hardly pay the person with only a few 
trees to mix his own materials. Remem¬ 
ber that the efficiency of spraying will de 
pend wholly—providing you have a good 
solution—upon the thoroughness with 
which it is done. Many plant enemies, in 
eluding the San Jose scale, multiply so 
rapidly that if any considerable percentage 
of them escape there will be practically 
no benefit from the operation of spraying. 
Be sure that every inch of bark on limbs 
and twigs is covered. Where one has but 
a few trees this is most easily done bv 
going over them twice, in opposite direc 
tions; using the style of spray nozzles 
known as “goose-neck” will also be of 
great advantage, as by a turn of the wrist 
the spray may be applied first from one 
side and then from the other, saving the 
operator a great deal of moving about. 
Spraying is perhaps better understood 
now than ever before, and the increased 
interest in and knowledge of it on the part 
of the general public is most encouraging 
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