House and Garden 
-THE BARRIER- 
By REX BEACH 
Author of “the SPOILERS” 
First of all this new novel by Ilex Beach is a big, buoyant bracing story of the last 
frontier—Alaska—a story with the dash and swing of “The Spoilers.” This is one 
half of THE BARRIER. The other half is its triumphant love romance. Here 
the new book far surpasses “The Spoilers.” 
There is a new setting, too, but still in the virile 
air of the North. Tlie new people whom Mr. 
Beach makes live before you in the clean cut 
pages of THE BARRIER are intensely human. 
More than one of them will become celebrities in fiction. The story ? In the open¬ 
ing chapter of THE BARRIER the reader scents a mystery and is on the eve of a 
love affair. Old man Gale, a trader at Flambeau on the Yukon, the father of three 
children, mothered by an Indian SquaAv, brings the story on with a rush. His eldest 
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moment on there is not a dull page to the end. Some quaintly humorous characters 
are introduced also. In fact, the humor of THE BARRIER is another feature in 
which it surpasses “The Spoilers.” Illustrated. Cloth. Price, $1.50. 
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THE JUDGMENT OF EVE 
By May Sinclair. A novel of power—above all a story direct and painstaking. It is the 
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The climax involves one of the most moving sentiments between a woman and a man that 
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SANTA LUCIA 
By Mary Austin. In this little community, not far from San Francisco, Miss Austin depicts 
real live people in simple fashion, and moves gradually into a powerful and rapid narrative 
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THE GREATER MISCHIEF 
By Margaret Westrup. This refreshing novel takes its heroine, a sensitive girl, through 
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life in the brilliant days when King Louis XV was a boy, and a regent was on the throne. 
Seraphica is young. She is gay and saucy, too. A dainty comedy. Illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
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much earlier than tomatoes and other 
warmth-loving plants. Seeds can be 
planted two weeks earlier in the spring, 
as the growth is slower during the early 
weeks. If the young cabbage and other 
hardy plants are transplanted from a 
warm bed to a cold frame as soon as they 
are large enough to be handled, the 
warm, glass-covered bed can be used 
for starting tomatoes, peppers, egg 
plants, etc. 
Tomatoes should be started six to 
eight weeks before the weather is warm 
enough to set them in the garden. Some 
may be sown in shallow boxes and 
started in a warm room and later trans¬ 
planted in the garden. As well as 
plenty of air, the plants need a good root 
bed of loose soil, well enriched with 
stable manure. Nearly all of the seed 
houses publish leaflets or books giving 
good advice on the starting of plants. 
These can be had for nothing and 
should be studied carefully .—Farm and 
Home. 
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
NOTES 
T^ROM a recent number of the Jour- 
nal of the New York Botanical 
Garden we take the following items: 
Professor Murrill illustrates and de¬ 
scribes a serious fungus disease of the 
chestnut the ravages of which have 
done considerable damage to these 
trees in the Zoological Park and else¬ 
where, threatening the extinction of 
this valuable tree in and about New 
York City. 
The spraying of young trees with cop¬ 
per sulfate solution, or strong Bordeaux 
mixture, in the spring before the buds 
open might be of advantage in killing 
the spores that have found lodgment 
among the branches during the winter, 
hut the real efficacy of this treatment is 
so doubtful that it could not be recom¬ 
mended for large trees, where the prac¬ 
tical difficulties and expense of applying 
it are much increased. Nursery trees 
should be pruned of all affected branches 
as soon as they are discovered, and the 
wounds carefully dressed with tar or 
paint or other suitable substance. Vigi¬ 
lance and care should largely control the 
disease among young trees. With older 
trees all dead and infected wood should 
be cut out and burned and all wounds 
covered without delay. Particular at¬ 
tention should be paid to water, soil 
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