March, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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and two wagon loads of manure. This 
whole dressing was then plowed under 
with the wheel hoe. 
The stumps of two big maples which 
stood side by side in tbe garden were next 
taken out. burnt, and their ashes spread 
over the soil. I stood aghast at the hole 
they left, as it was about eight feet by six 
and three feet deep, and I was at a loss 
how to fill it. However, when people 
want a hot frame in their garden they 
usually begin by digging just such a hole 
as I already had, so I simply filled it with 
two wagon loads of fresh horse manure 
and put up a frame 6 feet x 7 feet of 7 /%- 
inch x 12-inch yellow pine boards, and on 
them put two hot-frame sashes, thereby 
making me a hotbed out of a vexatious 
hole in the garden ! The mill size of these 
sashes is 6 feet x 3 feet, and they cost 
$3.00 each. A headboard and footboard 
made up the difference between my frame 
and sash size, after which six inches of 
rich manure and field soil went in on top 
of the manure fill. The hot frame re¬ 
ceived two coats of white paint, and was 
sown to lettuce forthwith, which soon 
came up, and we enjoyed fresh lettuce all 
that winter. 
This job was hardly finished when the 
new fruit trees arrived. T made up my 
mind that it was a mistake to plant such 
large trees as apples along the south 
border of the garden, because of the shade 
they would inevitably cast, so we decided 
on a line of peacb trees spaced 10 feet 
apart, with a bed of dahlias in between 
each peach tree, making a solid wall di¬ 
viding the garden from the rear lawn. 
This, with a rose arch over the garden en¬ 
trance and a solid border of pansies in 
front of the dahlias clear across the gar¬ 
den, would give a pleasing effect as viewed 
from the rear lawn (as this latter is al¬ 
ways a favorite camping ground for my 
family). So these peaches went in first; 
two Elbertas (a splendid fall market va¬ 
riety), two Crawford lates (white and 
juicy) and the two Crawford Earlys flank¬ 
ing the garden gate, which, having been 
planted on an ash fill, had survived from 
the first garden. Half way down the main 
garden path and ten feet apart went in 
two new cherries — Black Tartarian and a 
Governor Wood. The former we used to 
call “Oxhearts” when T was a boy, and 
the latter is an early red-and-yellow sort. 
Along the west border of the driveway 
I put in two Ivieffer pears and a Champion 
Quince. Kieffer does splendidly all over 
South Jersey, a rich, juicy pear, larger 
than Bartlett. Mine grew to be ten feet 
high their first year. 
All these trees and brambles were 
planted mound style; that is, a shallow 
hole in the soil, good, rich earth packed 
tight about the roots, next a shovelful of 
manure, and finally a mound of garden 
soil piled up to cover the graft joint onto 
the root. 
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