HOUSE AND GARDEN 
214 
March, 1913 
Just an Inkling 
What a Greenhouse 
Will Do for You 
Did you know you could 
have bloom-laden nasturtiums 
climbing up the columns and 
cheroke roses blooming 
against the workroom parti¬ 
tion ? 
Did you know — but why 
multiply the endless “did you 
knows”? You have doubtless 
already made up your mind 
to write us and find out all 
about greenhouses; and espe¬ 
cially what such a house as 
the one you want will cost? 
Along with our answer to 
your letter, we will send you 
our Catalog—one of over 100 
pages. 
The illustrations are many 
— the text a bit brief — but de¬ 
cidedly informative. 
Let us hear from vou. 
O F course you know 
about the roses, car¬ 
nations, or orchids it 
will grow for you, but did you 
know you could also have 
melons like those in the illus¬ 
tration — melons so heavy they 
must be supported in nets? 
Did you know that you 
could grow them in a com¬ 
partment of a house only 11 
feet wide? 
Did you know you could 
use another compartment for 
strawberries, tomatoes, and 
buttery golden wax beans ? 
Did you know you could 
have an aquatic pool under 
the bench, and on the same 
bench grow snap dragons and 
sweet peas? 
HitcHi 
Philadelphia Office 
Pennsylvania Bldg. 
New York Office 
1170 Broadway 
Factory — Elizabeth, N. J. 
Witch 
Hazel 
Fine Specimens j ttfr 
Send for Catalog. 
The Elm City Nursery Co. 
New Haven, Dept. N, Connecticut 
Dutch Bulbs-direct from Holland 
And finest new dahlias, described in Free Catalog. 
GT. VAN WAVEREN & KRUIJFF 
American Kranch House, 142 N. 13th St., Philadelphia 
House for the 
White Bellied 
Swallow — Price 
$3.00. 
Winning Back Our Birds 
All my life I’ve loved and studied birds. I’ve been building houses 
for them for years; have won hundreds of martins, bluebirds and wrens 
to my grounds. My friends wanted bird houses—the birds came to them 
— calls for more houses came to me. So I now build enough ot my hve 
most successful houses to offer them for sale. Write for illustrated 1 older. 
The Martin House, Three stories and attic. 26 rooms. Price $12.00. 
The Wren House is of Solid Oak. Cypress Shingles and Copper Coping. 
Price $5.00. The Bluebird House. 
Coping. Price $5.00. 
Solid Oak, cypress shingles. Copper 
14 Onflcnn / A Director of the Illinois\ 
JOS. n, L/Oason V. Audubon Society ) 
901 Association Bldgr. 
Chicago, III 
House for the 
Great Crested 
Fly Catcher— 
Price, $3.00, 
and April. That is early enough to pre¬ 
pare for the advent of the young chicks 
unless one has an evenly-heated apartment 
for their care. 
The broody hen proclaims her desire 
for progeny by persistently setting on a 
nest which may contain eggs or nothing. 
The location of the nest is a matter of 
personal selection. The hen knows where 
she wants to set, and is frequently too 
“spunky” to set anywhere else. Madame 
will often leave a properly equipped nest 
for one of her own selection. It often 
pays to consider the whims of a broody 
hen, and to accord with her rather than to 
oppose her. She wants seclusion, good 
nesting material, room to turn in, and the 
privilege of shaping and arranging her 
nest. Let her have a day or so to adjust 
herself before giving her the eggs. When 
she has settled down and will peck and 
ruffle up when approached, she is at home. 
Give her thirteen or at most fifteen eggs 
for a medium-weight bird. If she con¬ 
tentedly bills them under her feathers, all 
is well; but if she acts dissatisfied and 
refuses to cover them, she will probably 
prove inconstant and it will be better to 
give them to another hen. 
Aside from a regular supply of corn 
and water, and a convenient sand bath as 
well as a supply of grit, no other care is 
needed by a setting hen. 
Where several are setting at the same 
time, it may be necessary to devise some 
means to prevent their interfering with one 
another. Sometimes a hen will want to 
go into partnership or trade nests with 
another hen. Individual compartments 
from each nest, provided with food, etc., 
and covered with wire slats, will save 
trouble and loss of eggs. 
As soon as the eggs begin to hatch, some 
supervision is necessary. Discarded shells 
should be removed, as they sometimes get 
over the hatching eggs and prevent the 
emergence of the chicks. The hen must he 
kept upon her nest until the hatch is over, 
which is about a day and a half or two 
days from the time the first shell is pipped. 
The chicks need not be fed until they are 
strong enough to leave the nest. 
hi. Roberts Conover 
Selecting Eggs for Hatching 
S UCCESS in hatching chicks depends to 
a great extent upon the eggs, which 
should be selected with intelligent care and 
kept under proper conditions until enough 
have been accumulated to fill an incuba¬ 
tor or to start several hens setting at the 
same time. During cold weather the eggs 
should he gathered every two or three 
hours, or they may become chilled. Only 
those which are well-shaped, of normal 
size and an even color should be chosen 
for incubation. Brown eggs and white 
ones ought not to be used in the same ma- 
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