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themselves, but nevertheless sincere, that 
make us feel welcome. 
The appointing of the guest-room need 
not be a matter of great expense, as stated 
before. With a little ingenuity and 
thought the hints above given may be 
adapted to individual needs. The main 
thing is to make your preparations in a 
spirit of consideration, remembering that 
the prime requisites of a guest-chamber 
are that it be cheerful, neat, homelike and 
convenient. Every hostess wishes her 
hospitality to be well spoken of and well 
thought of, and it is by attention to just 
such little things as those noted above that 
she is surest to realize her wish. It is not 
the mere material creature comforts that 
most please the guest, but rather the con¬ 
sciousness of welcome conveyed by all the 
little gratifying evidences of thought that 
has prompted attention to the minutest de¬ 
tails. 
The Proper Use of Dwarf and Stand¬ 
ard Fruit Trees 
(Continued from page 184) 
furnishing apples for cooking and winter 
use, such as Baldwins, and depending upon 
the dwarf trees for a more limited quan¬ 
tity of extra choice fruit for dessert pur¬ 
poses. 
From all this it may be seen that there 
are plenty of real uses for the dwarf and 
semi-dwarf trees, but no one should at¬ 
tempt their raising who is not prepared to 
give them proper conditions for growth 
and devote to them the necessary amount 
of attention and care. 
Generally speaking, fruit on dwarf 
stocks may be grown where standards of 
the same variety are successful. One con¬ 
dition which all fruits require in stand¬ 
ards as well as in the dwarfs is very thor¬ 
ough sub-drainage. Most of them will 
stand a great degree of cold, but a wet 
season is apt to prove fatal either to the 
crop or to the trees themselves. 
Unless the trees are to be planted in a 
garden soil already rich, holes should be 
dug out to a considerable size and old, very 
thoroughly-rotted manure mixed through 
the soil before it is put back into them. If 
the trees are to be set in a row along a 
wall or a trellis, it will be better, instead 
of making individual holes, to prepare a 
trench or broad, deep furrow in the same 
way. Where the trees are to be grown 
against the wall two things must be 
avoided—although in Europe they do not 
have to pay attention to them because of 
the difference in climate. Do not plant 
them against the wall, but a foot or so 
from it and trained on a trellis, for in our 
hot summer sunshine the wall surface be¬ 
comes so heated that it might be injurious 
to the branches trained against it and also 
training the limbs a few inches away from 
the wall gives more opportunity for a free 
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