House and Garden 
is of whitewoocl, painted cream white, with a simple 
cove blending into a warm yellow ceiling. A generous 
serving-room is oft' the dining-room and thence to a 
large and airy kitchen where all woodwork is stained 
hrown with a blue tinted ceiling. The kitchen con¬ 
tains a pantry in which are many shelves and an ice 
box, a dresser and sink. An entry and rear porch 
lead to the service yard. 
An ample piazza with concrete ftoor oft living- 
room looks into a cjuaint old-fashioned garden. 
The second floor has its chambers well located, airy 
and of comfortable size, all woodwork is stained a 
deep hrown and walls and ceilings tinted cream 
white. In the attic is a servant’s room and store¬ 
room. In the basement is a laundry, a toilet, coal 
bins, storeroom and preserve closet. Floor through¬ 
out the cellar is of concrete. Fhe house covers an area 
of about twelve hundred square feet, is two and a 
half stories above grade and its cost ^ 5160 , not 
including the fee of the architect, which was five per 
cent on that amount. The rooms of this house while 
Second Floor Plan 
not large are well proportioned and well planned for 
the purposes for which they are to he used. Ample 
closet room is provided, a very luxurious bath-room, 
fireplaces of generous dimensions, while the finish of 
wood and walls is most attractive and harmonious. 
The Art of Pruning 
By C. L. MKLLFR 
I 'i' is often heartrending to observe the manner 
in which so many people disfigure and impair 
their trees and doubly aggravating is the air 
of self-complacency with which such people view 
their finished barbarity. How sure they are of com¬ 
mendation when nothing would fit their case better 
than a sound thrashing. Had they restrained their 
ardor it would have been better for the tree and their 
appreciation of a tree. Sawing cordwood and 
pruning are two distinct operations between which 
the average man does not appear able to discriminate. 
'Fo such, wood is wood whether it is green and sappy 
or dead and dry. They know nothing of the struc¬ 
ture of a tree, yet take it upon themselves to correct 
faults of which they cannot possibly know the cause 
nor is their knowledge of how to proceed anything 
more than a vague and foggy generality. A dogged 
belief seems to possess some people that a vigorous 
cutting back of its branches will stimulate the 
growth of a tree. The trees are numerous that have 
been rendered permanently unsightly because the 
man with the saw lacked all knowledge of their 
nature or needs and could not appreciate the dif¬ 
ference between lumbering and pruning. 
Pruning is an art that must be learned by practice 
and study. These are a few fundamental principles, 
a thorough knowledge of which is positively essential 
to a rational exercise of this art. If you meddle with 
a thing of life, then it is of vital importance that you 
know at least where the seat of life is, so that you do no 
harm where your endeavor is to do good. Few, when 
they saw a limb realize the necessity of the wound 
healing properly, yet hereon rests the success of the 
greater part of the pruning. There is a right and 
many a wrong way of cutting off a branch. To clearly 
comprehend this it will be necessary to have at least a 
somewhat definite idea of the structure of the tree. 
The vital part of a tree resides in what is known as 
the cambium layer directly underneath the bark, 
which is in function somewhat analogous to the veins 
and arteries of an animal. It is proportionally a 
very small part of the entire tree, yet if it be seriously 
injured the tree must die. The wood on the inside 
of this cambium layer or ring is not necessary to the 
life of the tree, acting merely as a support. A tree 
can live almost entirely without it, which makes it 
possible for a completely hollow tree to leave out 
year after year. It is this cambium that shows up 
green when a twig is peeled. An inherent function 
of the cambium layer is to heal each wound inflicted 
upon the tree by growing over it a bark-like callus, 
but it can only perform this beneficent office where 
the necessary conditions have not been interfered 
with, as where the sap can flow directly past a cut. 
In a normally healthy tree the cambium layer 
envelops the rest of the wood in a manner similar to 
that in which a glove encases the hand and it is there¬ 
fore impossible to cut into any part of the tree without 
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