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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1915 
Get Ready for the Song Birds 
, Including 3-Hole 
Entrance 
Pat. 
Applied 
For 
The“Ridgewood” 
Improved Bird House 
Very artistic; attracts Blue Birds, 
Chickadees, Wrens, Woodpeckers, etc. 
Can be hung anywhere. Has metal 
squirrel-proof opening. Is self-cleaning. 
Stained brown and green. Order direct. 
“Three-Hole” Entrance 
Keeps birds with you all the year ’round. 
Leave up large hole for Woodpeckers, 
Great Crested Fly-Catchers, etc.; me¬ 
dium size for Blue Birds, Nuthatches, 
Chickadees; small size for Wrens. 
Give Our Song Birds Food 
and Shelter 
They Will Repay You! 
Enlist for the protection of our native 
song and insect-eating birds. A few bird 
houses erected on your place will invite 
the birds to stop on your premises. 
Proper food will keep them there all 
the year ’round to protect your trees, 
shrubs and garden. 
The birds are our best friends, as they 
kill our enemies — the insects who des¬ 
troy plant life. Besides they please us 
with song and beautifully influence the 
children for good. 
Birds need shelter and food right now. 
Order several of the beautiful bird houses 
shown here and a few suet baskets. 
All shipment charges prepaid. Money 
back if not satisfied. Address 
CHARLES E. WHITE 
Who believes in befriending the Wild Birds 
—our friends and neighbors 
Box 4S-A Kenilworth, Ills. 
White’s Suet Basket 
Pat. April 7, IQ 14 . ^ GS _ 
Get some of these baskets and 0 
keep the song birds home. Are 
strongly made of Brown Japanned Metal. Back 
curved to fit any tree or Dost. Used in parks, 
golf links, private grounds, etc. Howe’s Cres¬ 
cent Shaped “Suet Grain” Cake fits basket. 
Price 25c per cak e. Order with basket. 
Robin and 
Phoebe 
Hang It Anywhere 
Fill with grain or crumbs and attract the 
birds.They will repay you with their singing. 
Order from advertisement. 
ings have been done that way, and all have 
succeeded splendidly. For filling the 4- 
foot border around the garden in between 
the fruit trees I ordered a quantity of 
small fruits at about 8 cents a root. 
The raspberries and grapes, and later 
currants and blackberries, were planted in 
a 4-foot bed along the back fence, with an 
overflow along the west border of the gar¬ 
den. 
My original vegetable layout is open to 
a good deal of criticism. It has the usual 
beginners’ defect — “too much of every¬ 
thing and not enough of anything.” If 
there was a single kind of standard vege¬ 
table that 1 overlooked in that layout, the 
oversight was entirely unintentional. 
I also overlooked the important fact 
that all the plants of any one vegetable do 
not come ripe simultaneously. In fact, only 
about one-third of the plants of any plant¬ 
ing will be ready for picking at any time, 
and this must be allowed for in figuring 
quantities. My first plan contemplated' 
100 strawberry plants, 1 x G feet spac¬ 
ing, along the east border of the garden; 
a row of eight bush muskmelon hills ; three 
25-foot rows of potatoes; five 25-foot 
rows of asparagus; one 25-foot row of 
BEST and 
BIGGEST 
BERRIES 
Everybody’s. 
Joy. The best and most 
prolific Blackberry. 
Jumbo. Biggest and best 
Raspberry. 
Van Fleet Hybrids. Won¬ 
derful Strawberries. 
Caco. Best and most beau¬ 
tiful Hardy Grape. 
Best Currant for everybody. 
Carrie Gooseberry. Succeeds everywhere. 
MY CATALOG No. 1, an illustrated book of 64 
pages tells all about them and describes, with prices, 
all the good old varieties” of Small Fruits as well. It 
gives also full instructions for planting with cultural 
notes, and tells about the giant Jumbo raspberry that I 
am giving away. It is free. 
J. T. LOVETT, Box 152, Little Silver, N. J. 
For 36 years a specialist in Berry Culture. 
Garden and 
Hall 
Furniture 
Guaranteed to 
stand any climate; 
Marbles, Terra 
Cotta, Stones, etc.. 
Vases, Benches, 
Sun Dial Termin¬ 
als, Tables, Foun¬ 
tains, Flower 
Boxes, Mantels, 
Statues, Reliefs, 
etc. 
Send 25c for Illus¬ 
trated catalog of 
295 pages. 
The best copies of 
the best originals. 
EUGENE LUCCHESI 
748 Lexington Ave. 
and 121 8. 59th St. 
NEW YORK 
Est. 26 years 
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kept clean and sanitary. 
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finest type both in construction and efficiency. They are used in the U. S. Pure Food Laboratories, 
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clubs, restaurants, public institu¬ 
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Planting a young nursery peach. Mound system 
is best. Dig a shallow hole, set in roots, tramp 
rich soil about them, next a shovelful of manure, 
and top off with ordinary field soil piled up 
above the graft joint as shown. 
rhubarb, spaced 3 feet; one of eggplant, 
spaced 2 feet; one of lettuce, three of peas, 
two of radish, two of beets, one of spin¬ 
ach, onions, carrots, parsley, a tomato gar¬ 
den of 15 plants, 100 feet of string beans, 
forming a garden border, and 60 feet of 
corn along the back fence, in front of 
the raspberries. With extremely rich, mel¬ 
low soil this arrangement might have 
given fair results by making the east gar¬ 
den all permanent plants; i. e., rhubarb, 
asparagus and strawberries, all requiring 
rich soil and coming up year after year 
undisturbed. 
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