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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1913 
Perfect 
Between-season 
Heating 
Between seasons, when it’s too 
cool for NO heat and not cool 
enough to keep up a full-steam or 
hot-water heat, it is then you most 
appreciate the intermediate regula¬ 
tions of 
Vapor-Vacuum Heating 
Ttade Mark. Registered 
Kriebet n?'S ystem 
With steam or hot-water systems, the 
heat must be always all-on or all-off, 
you cannot get a happy medium to save 
your life. 
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System), you can get any degree of heat 
in any radiator, any time, by simply 
moving the controller handle. 
This handle is conveniently placed at 
the top of the radiator — no back-break¬ 
ing stoop or wrist-wrenching twist-twist- 
twist as with the other systems. 
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Cementone Floor Enamel 
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The Ohio Varnish Company 
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8602 Kinsman Rd., Cleveland, 0. 
manner. As seeds usually rot, if at all, 
before they sprout, this frequently saves 
the gardener very aggravating disappoint¬ 
ments — and incidentally his opinion of his 
seedsman. When seed is soaked in this 
way, it must, of course, be planted at once 
after being removed from the water. Even 
if it has sprouted so that the embryo tap¬ 
root is visible it will usually come through 
all right. 
Although I have thus gone into detail 
about early and late planting, which covers 
a period of eight weeks or more, of course 
the real garden work — cultivation — will 
have begun long before the planting is fin¬ 
ished. 
The planting itself is just play — and 
this is as it should be. That is, in fact, 
the spirit which should continue through 
the whole season’s garden activities, and 
without which neither you nor your table 
will get one hundred per cent, dividends 
from it. 
The only way to prevent your garden 
operations from becoming laborious and 
flat and stale, if not unprofitable, is to keep 
things from getting ahead of you at any 
stage of the game. And the only way to 
prevent this is to start in in earnest at the 
very beginning and to keep things cleaned 
up in a businesslike, methodical way. By 
far the best method of doing this is to 
have a regular time, whether it be fifteen 
minutes or an hour and a half, or ten min¬ 
utes before breakfast in the morning and 
ten minutes before dinner at night, in 
which to do your gardening. Even with 
much planning and careful work, for the 
first season or two you will probably at¬ 
tempt more than you can properly look 
after. If, however, for any reason at any 
time you find that the work is beginning 
to get ahead of you, that something has 
got to wait over for tomorrow or the next 
day that ought to be attended to at once — 
then take my advice and get someone to 
help you now until you are again fully 
caught up with the work. A dollar or so 
spent for extra assistance at such a crit¬ 
ical moment will often save you many dol¬ 
lars’ worth of vegetables and many hours 
of what is the most laborious and dis¬ 
couraging work I know of — trying to 
catch up with a crop that has once got 
away from you. Most especially should 
every Saturday night see the garden 
cleaned up trimly and neatly, for every 
gardener knows that the weeds will grow 
as much and insects multiply to as incon¬ 
ceivable an extent during one Sunday as in 
six long week days. For there is only one 
way of keeping the weeds from getting at 
least a little ahead of you, and this is to 
get ahead of them. 
After the earliest crops are put in, such 
as onions, beets, spinach, oyster plant, 
parsnips and so forth, the beds will un¬ 
doubtedly appear so fine and clean and 
smooth that it does not seem possible 
that they would ever cause you any trouble. 
Long before the seeds which you have just 
put into the ground will have germinated 
and have pushed above the surface, thou- 
H t-Kt, are draperies and up¬ 
holsteries to suit each room 
in your home. The fabrics are 
full of artistic quality, yet surprisingly 
inexpensive. 
Reproductions of stuffs found in fa¬ 
mous paintings by old masters. Faith¬ 
ful copies of rare pieces from the 
Chateau de Blois, Musee Royaux de 
Bruxelles, and the South Kensington 
Museum. Also eight light-weight 
casement cloths, all 
Guaranteed Color-Fast 
Ask your dealer for our book, 
“Draping the Home,” showing a 
variety of practical interiors in color; 
or write us for it. 
ORINOKA MILLS 
215 Fourth Ave., New York City 
These goods are guaranteed absolutely 
fadeless. If color changes from exposure to 
the sunlight or from washing, the merchant 
is hereby authorized to replace them with 
new goods or refund the purchase price. 
Insist on 
seeing a 
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SOLID BRAIDED COTTON 
Strong :: Durable :: Flexible 
Will not kink, stretch, ravel, nor stain the 
clothes. Guaranteed to last at least five 
years, even when permanently exposed to 
the weather. Can be distinguished at a 
glance by our trademark. The Spots on the 
Cord. 
Send for Sample. Carried by all dealers, or write to us. 
SAMSON CORDAGE WORKS BOSTON, MASS. 
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