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House & Garden 
No One Enjoys the Annual “Repainting”— 
No One Has to Undergo It! 
Dont paint your home at all—enamel it this 
year. Enamolin, the whitest and most dura¬ 
ble enamel in the world, will beautify and 
protect your woodwork, doors and furniture 
for years without the need of refinishing. 
Enamolin has a finish so smooth and porcelain-like as 
to make a painted surface seem positively rough and 
harsh in comparison. No dust can settle on the 
Enamolined surface, while finger marks and dirt can 
be scrubbed off with Sapolio and water without fear 
of cracking or marring. 
AA'dien you have protected and beautified your wood¬ 
work with Enamolin, take care of your floors with 
Nanilac Eloor Einish —give them a lustrous surface, 
so elastic as to withstand the tramp of feet, the drag¬ 
ging of furniture and even the spilling of hot liquids. 
Enamolin and Namlac are on sale at the better paint and 
hardware stores. If you cannot secure them, write to us. 
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The Truth About Dwarf Fruit Trees 
{Continued from page 82) 
aim. We must have a short jointed, 
stubby growth of a healthy type, and 
the best means of securing it is by 
summer pruning. If the tree is al¬ 
lowed to grow unmolested it devotes 
its energy to building a large frame¬ 
work; by checking this growth at the 
right time, the sap is utilized in pro¬ 
ducing fruit buds. 
This applies more particularly to 
trees of the spur bearing type, such 
as the apple and pear. The peach, 
plum, etc., fruit on new wood, and 
their pruning should consist of the 
removal of weak interior shoots, and 
not the stopping of leaders. Summer 
pruning must be practiced at the right 
time: if too early, it starts the tree 
off in renewed growth, and if delayed 
too long the result aimed at is lost. 
You can’t make any fixed date, for 
seasons differ: the growth is the only 
guide, but usually around the middle 
or the latter part of July is the proper 
period for the work. 
Undue growth is stopped by pinch¬ 
ing out the tops. If you wish to try 
it, it is an easy matter to grow your 
own dwarfs; the time involved is the 
only drawback, but it is interesting 
work and there is a lot of satisfac¬ 
tion in having something produced by 
your own efforts. Buy one-year-old 
grafted stock—“whips,” they are com¬ 
monly called—cut them almost to the 
ground and place a stake at each tree. 
After growth starts, they must be 
kept trained in the desired shape. In 
six or seven years you will have full 
fledged fruiting trees. 
Dwarf fruit trees should be trained. 
For small orchard work the standard 
type of dwarf is, of course, adaptable, 
but the trained forms can be used for 
so many other purposes besides sup¬ 
plying fruit, that, they are strongly 
recommended. A trellis of some kind 
is necessary, a good one being made 
of posts 5' above ground, set 12' apart 
with a strand of wire about every 
foot. Use spring coil wire which will 
not sag, or lacking this, a small turn- 
buckle should be placed in each strand. 
Tomatoes and other vegetables that 
require training can be used on the 
trellis until the trees require all the 
space that can be provided. 
Pr.\ctic.\l Varieties 
A number of these miniature trees 
are from imported stock. Some of 
the French varieties, although of e.x- 
ceptional quality, are not what we 
would term ironclad in the latitude of 
New York. Farther south they may 
be tried and found satisfactory. 
In apples. Golden Harvest, Yellow 
Transparent and Duchess of Olden¬ 
burg are all good early varieties; 
Alexander, Gravenstein and Reine des 
Reinettes are good mediums. Among 
late apples. Beauty of Kent, Bismark, 
Baldwin and Calville Blanche are 
good dependable varieties. 
Bartlett, Clapp’s Favorite and Sou¬ 
venir de Congress are satisfactory 
early pears. Medium ripening va¬ 
rieties of good quality are Louise 
Bonne de Jersey, Belle de Flanders, 
Nouveau Poiteau and Conseilleur de 
la Cour, while Beurre d’Anjou;, 
Beurre Diel, Le Lecteur and Directeur 
Alphand will be found very satisfac¬ 
tory for late varieties. 
Among peaches, Hale’s Early, 
Early Rivers, De Hogg, Alexander, 
Dymond, Sterling Castle, Amsden 
and Barrington are all good quality 
varieties. Nectarines, while requiring 
considerable protection in this lati¬ 
tude, are worth the effort. Stanwick, 
Victoria, Lord Napier and Elruge are 
good standard varieties. 
Cherries make a typical trained 
tree. Bigarreau, Napoleon, Black 
Tartarian, May Duke, Cov. Wood and 
Bigarreau White are all good sorts. 
Apricots can be grown in the lati¬ 
tude of New York if properly pro¬ 
tected during winter; strawing in the 
branches is all that is needed. Breda, 
kloorpack and Royal are the best 
fitted varieties. In plums, Victoria, 
Early Favorite, Jefferson, Kirkes and 
Reine Claude de Bavay will prove 
satisfactory. 
Dwarf trees are no more subject 
to disease or the attacks of insects 
than any other class of fruit tree. 
Spraying with poison when in flower 
to kill the codling moth is recom¬ 
mended, as is also frequent spraying 
with Bordeaux Mixture during the 
summer to keep down fungous dis¬ 
eases. Borers can be controlled by 
preparations which are sold for this 
purpose. If they get started, kill them 
by thrusting a steel wire in the holes 
they make. 
It is perfectly safe to plant apples 
and pears in the fall; in fact, this is 
to be recommended. The stone fruits, 
generally speaking, are best planted in 
the spring, but with protection they 
may be set in the fall. These trees 
should be ordered early, as in most 
cases they are imported and the pro¬ 
cess of getting stock is a long and 
tedious one. Don’t be caught nap¬ 
ping; order now. 
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Rich Color in the New China and Glass 
{Continued from page 49) 
again shown in a new design in 
the salad bowl and plates of domestic 
porcelain illustrated at the left of page 
49. A salad set is always interesting 
to the up-to-date hostess, and the 
salad set shown is one of extreme 
smartness. The bowl and six indi¬ 
vidual plates are octagonal, and a 
large flower design is of red, yellow, 
blue and green on a white ground. 
The top of the bowl and the edge of 
the plates has a narrow border of the 
green. $6.50 complete. 
A more conservative design, and 
one which is quite inexpensive, is 
shown at the lower right of page 48. 
The border of the plate is spotted at 
regular intervals with large decora¬ 
tive ovals in black and dark green. 
On either side of these spots are small 
red conventional designs which con¬ 
tinue in a line around the plate. The 
narrow border at the top combines 
the red, green and black. The vege¬ 
table dish is decorated similar to the 
plate and comes in a very attractive 
shape. This is an open stock pattern, 
and the shapes of the small pitchers, 
tea pot and other small articles are 
very attractive in design. The dinner 
set can be had for $57.20. The plates 
are $6.75 a dozen. 
A beautiful color is always welcome 
in any home, especially when shown 
in the gracefully shaped and inexpen¬ 
sive flower bowl, such as shown at the 
lower center of page 48. This little 
Japanese bowl is of a bright blue 
green shade and also comes in a topaz 
yellow. It stands on a small teakwood 
rest. A green china dolphin is made 
to hold the flowers in this attractive 
bowl. This little dolphin hooks on to 
the i edge of the ■ bowl by its curved 
tail. 'The bowl and holder may be 
had complete for $1.25. 
