House and Garden 
THE STRAND MAGAZINE 
Summary of Contents for June, 1908. 
The Wonderful New 
Color Photography 
An intensely interesting account of the new process of photograph¬ 
ing in Colors, discovered by Monsieur Lumiere of Paris, illustrated by 
five specimens of his work reproduced in colors, including the photo¬ 
graph of a lady taken from life by this process, reproducing all ^ the 
delicate shades of tint of hair, eyes, complexion and dress. It is a 
wonderful achievement. 
Svimmer Fiction Number 
Being the first of our Siiiiiiiit'i’ Niiiiilx^rs the Juno Struiid will be 
exceptionally strong in Fiction. There is a good instalment of 
^^Salthaven/^ by W. W. Jacobs 
Mr, E. P, BELL, a new author, is introduced who at once takes front rank as a short 
story writer His story is called “Zory’s llacc.” W, HAMILTON OSBORN 
is splendid in “Inside Information,” a story having stock market affiliations, 
“Tlie Cliop House,” by DOROTHY DEAKIN, and the “Hast Hope,” by 
JOSEPH KEATING, will be enjoyed by the reader. There is also a very enters 
taining bunch of Dog stories. 
The Articles include a second instalment of 
Reminiscences and Reflections of Sii* John Hai^e 
the Actor. Written with a force and style that 
compels the interest of the reader in every line. 
My African Jotitney. III.— The Highlands ol East Africa. 
By the Rt. Hon. Winston Spencer Churchill, M. P. 
We have also some talk of the champions who compete at the forthcoming 
Olympic games. Also an article telling how artists "compose" their pictures. And an 
item for nature lovers that deals wdth "Catkins," 
The House of Arden. Puzzles From Games. Curiosities, Etc., Etc. 
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for them. If your soil is stiff or limy 
dig it out and make a bed two and a half 
feet deep on a shaded northern slope, 
with an under layer of gravel to insure 
drainage; then fill in with the made soil 
that is to feed the plants. Carloads of 
rhododendrons and laurel are brought 
from the mountains and planted in 
woodlands on estates in the Northeast¬ 
ern States. In trained hands the per¬ 
centage of loss is very slight. 
In winter protect the foliage from sun 
and wind, both of which rob the broad 
leaves of moisture at a time when the 
roots are unable to make good the loss. 
It is a good plan to stand boughs of 
conifers among the clumps of rhododen¬ 
drons, which give partial shade and act 
as a wind break. Bank the roots with 
leaves and hold them down with ever¬ 
green branches. 
Use the low shrubs like fetterbush for 
bordering beds of the tall kinds, like rho¬ 
dodendrons. Their foliage will conceal 
the spindling bare branches of the taller 
shrubs and bring the mound of green 
down to the sod whatever the time of year. 
It is worth a pilgrimage to the South 
just to see its broad leaved evergreens, 
and a very impressive time to make the 
trip is in the dead of a Northern 
winter, when other glorious members 
of this group which we can never hope 
to grow in the North burst upon the 
delighted vision of the visitor .—New 
Tork Herald. 
WOOD PRESERVING IN SWITZERLAND 
A SIMPLE, effective and cheap way 
^ of preserving wood from decay 
is practised in Switzerland in the prepa¬ 
ration of posts for the telegraph service. 
A square tank, having a capacity of some 
two hundred gallons, is supported at a 
height of twenty feet or twenty-five feet 
above theground by means of a light skel¬ 
eton tower built of wood. A pipe drops 
from the bottom of the tank to within 
thirty inches of the ground, where it is 
connected with a cluster of flexible 
branches, each ending with a cap having 
an orifice in the center. Each cap is 
clamped on to the larger end of a pole 
in such a manner that no liquid can 
escape from the pipe except by passing 
into the wood. 
The poles are arranged parallel 
with one another, sloping downwards, 
and troughs run under both ends to 
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