HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1913 
the pantry. The “butler’s pantry,” large 
and fitted with every convenience for 
elaborate entertaining, is not a small house 
feature. A small serving room, however, 
is frequently placed between kitchen and 
dining-room, since kitchen noises and 
odors are then lessened in the rest of. the 
house, and convenient space is provided 
for storing china and table linen. Though 
space is restricted, a sink is sometimes set 
into the window ledge. If the serving 
room can consist of rather a long, narrow 
hallway, filled in at one side with cup¬ 
boards, and well lighted on the other by a 
group of two or three windows occupying 
the entire upper wall space, it proves much 
more convenient than the ordinary cave¬ 
like room, lighted by a single window and 
with much wasted floor space. Also the 
window ledge is then of sufficient length 
to be of some use. If the house is steam 
heated, a steam plate warmer is installed 
beneatli the ledge, or an electric warmer 
may be used. It is a modern innovation 
and gives good results. A corner is per¬ 
haps utilized for a built-in cupboard to hold 
table leaves. Drawers fill the lower sec¬ 
tions of the cupboards, as more convenient 
of access. High cupboards are used only 
for storing purposes. In those placed at 
a height easily reached, the glass and china 
are kept. 
The small, cool room opening from a 
kitchen opens' also, as a rule, into an entry 
or porch. If ice must be put through a 
window the refrigerator should be of a 
kind that permits this method of filling. 
Usually it is not. Thick walls with an air 
space keep an even temperature in the 
room. A shelf or so to put groceries on 
and a place for milk bottles are found 
convenient. A recently built cupboard, a 
substitute for a refrigerator, takes the 
place also of cool room. Built into a shal¬ 
low bay, with a small window at one end, 
the walls and floor are coated with cement 
mixed with cinders. With an ice shelf, 
draining into a sanitary trap, and food 
shelves made of zinc, the cupboard is 
easily flushed with a hose. It is used with¬ 
out ice the greater part of the year. 
Preserve and vegetable rooms are 
kitchen auxiliaries on the cellar floor. 
Thick walls ensure an even temperature. 
In some preserve rooms slits in the outer 
wall serve as ventilators, all outside light 
being excluded. In others the tradition of 
keeping preserves from the light is dis¬ 
regarded, the housewife relying upon 
sterilization of jars and the perfect clean¬ 
liness of modern methods to prevent fruit 
from fermenting. The old-fashioned, 
hanging shelf that occasionally spoiled a 
season’s work by falling, has given place 
in the modern preserve room to neat cases 
of shelves, with or without doors, that line 
the walls. On these shelves is an array of 
stored-up delights, preserving the colors 
as well as flavors of summer. For with 
the study of Colonial furniture and archi¬ 
tecture has come a study of Colonial re¬ 
cipes and a revival of jams and jellies, 
no longer bought from the grocer, but 
ARLY this Spring when 
the golden bloom branches 
of Forsythia are making 
cheer spots on your neigh¬ 
bors’ grounds, you will 
again wish 
that you had 
planted some 
0 f Moon’s 
Shrubs last 
fall. 
Later on, when the feath¬ 
ery crests of Spirea; the big 
round flowers of the Japa¬ 
nese Snow Ball and the 
lovely blooms of the Hy¬ 
drangeas are at their height, 
you will wish you had 
The smaller shrubs show the char¬ 
acter and quality of our shrubs 
about 2 feet high, which sell for 
twenty or twenty-fire cents each. 
The larger, about 4 feet high, sell 
for fifty to seventy-fire cents each. 
planted Moon’s Shrubs this year, this 
Spring. 
So year after year you go on wishing 
and dreaming —while your neighbors’ 
shrubs and trees are each season growing 
the more beautiful. 
Better make a break right 
now, by sending for Moon’s 
Catalog, and then order 
early so you can plant early. 
There are a few plain, 
common-sense reasons why 
Moon’s Hardy plants, shrubs 
and trees are superior. Why 
they are so reasonable in 
price. 
The catalog tells the 
reasons. 
The NX/m. H AAoon Company 
Makefield Place Morrisville Pa. 
Philadelphia, Room “D” 21 So. 12th Street 
A Little Timely Talk on Moon's Shrubs 
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