HOUSE AND GARDEN 
199 
Creating a New Art 
March, 1915 
which is something to be greatly desired 
in the case of a house dog. I would sug¬ 
gest he pick out a bright, husky pup, with 
good, straight legs, a shortish back, small 
ears, dark eyes, and a red, wiry coat. Six 
months later his dog may have developed 
into a “world beater," fit to win at any 
bench show in the land, or he may, as the 
fancier says, have “gone wrong.” In 
either event, I will wager that whether he 
cost twenty-five dollars or two hundred 
and fifty, my friend will not take a hun¬ 
dred per cent profit on his bargain. 
Forty years ago no one dreamed of 
spraying. That was because Nature took 
care of us—her birds and mammals 
thrived on the pests that would otherwise 
have spelled ruin to crops. Since then 
men have thrived on the wild birds and 
mammals. Hence spraying is a necessity 
— a necessary evil, perhaps, yet a part of 
garden work that is vital. Read “Re¬ 
pelling the Pest Invasion." in the April 
House and Garden. 
My Suburban Garden 
( Continued from page 153) 
with trunks about i x 4 inches in diameter. 
They cost 35 to 50 cents each; surely a 
diminutive outlay for all that future 
wealth and pleasure ! Orchardmen always 
buy one-year trees, which are mere 
“whips,” costing about 20 cents apiece. 
They do this partly because of the reduced 
cost (which runs into money on 10,000 
trees) and partly because they can head 
the little whips of trees themselves, and 
every orchardman has his own notions as 
to the proper height to head. For a 
suburban garden, the two-year tree is best, 
for it already has been headed at the nur¬ 
sery better than you could do it yourself. 
Three-year trees are sold by some nur¬ 
series, but buying them is a great gamble. 
Some of my three-year Baldwins are four¬ 
teen feet high, and must have by this time 
roots at least eight feet long, but if you 
were to dig up such a tree at the nursery 
your top and roots would be far out of 
balance, for most of the big roots will 
have been shorn off by the spade, and it 
would take years to get on its feet again, 
if, indeed, it lives at all. Our two-year 
trees came to us with a ball of roots about 
two feet long, and simply needed cutting 
the tops back about one-half. Thev should 
go in the soil to above the graft joint, for 
all these nursery trees are shoots of Bald¬ 
win, Winesap, etc., grafted onto stock 
apple roots, and this root will send up out¬ 
law shoots of its own unless the soil comes 
up well above the graft scar. 
In this first planting I did not dare put 
them in very deep because of that wet 
soil, and I think, on the whole, for ama¬ 
teur gardeners, the mound system of 
planting is best, anyhow — set the roots a 
little below garden level and mound up to 
cover the graft joint. All my later plant- 
At the Centennial Exhibition at 
Philadelphia, the exhibit of the Bell 
System consisted of two telephones 
capable of talking from one part of 
the room to another. 
Faint as the transmission of speech 
then was, it became at once the 
marvel of all the world, causing 
scientists, as well as laymen, to ex¬ 
claim with wonder. 
Starting with only these feeble in¬ 
struments, the Bell Company, by 
persistent study, incessant experimen¬ 
tation and the expenditure of immense 
sums of money, has created a new art, 
inventing, developing and perfecting; 
making improvements great and small 
in telephones, transmitter, lines,cables, 
switchboards and every other piece of 
apparatus and plant required for the 
transmission of speech. 
As the culmination of all this, the 
Bell exhibit at the Panama-Pacific 
Exposition marks the completion of 
a Trans-continental Telephone line 
three thousand four hundred miles 
long, joining the Atlantic and the 
Pacific and carrying the human voice 
instantly and distinctly between New 
York and San Francisco. 
This telephone line is part of the 
Bell System of twenty-one million 
miles of wire connecting nine million 
telephone stations located everywhere 
throughout the United States. 
Composing this System, are the 
American Telephone and Telegraph 
Company and Associated Companies, 
and connecting companies, giving to 
one hundred million people Universal 
Service unparalleled among the na¬ 
tions of the earth. 
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