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House & Garden 
Garden Time 
Is Right Here! 
Are You Ready? 
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The Legends of the Modern Nursery 
(Continued from page 96) 
A doll’s house, perhaps 5' high, 
with a little door and two rooms 
could easily be built in the nursery 
corner, and would prove a delight 
to the children. A tiny door bell or 
a knocker, two suitable chairs and 
table in one room and a doll’s bed 
in the other. The windows should 
be large and without glass, to insure 
plenty of ventilation. 
The floor of a nursery should have 
rugs large enough not to slip around 
and small enough to be easily cleaned. 
The floor should be smoothly finished 
to avoid splinters, and a wide border 
constantly cleaned should be left on 
all sides. A speckled or small pat¬ 
terned rug is best. It does not show 
spots. The paint should all be fin¬ 
ished in gloss enamel, not to show 
finger marks. Oak should be avoided 
in furnishing a nursery, as it is too 
stolid, heavy-grained a wood for 
childhood use. 
Little low seats or hassocks are a 
good nursery accessory, as children 
like to sit on the floor, which is apt 
to be draughty and dusty. A low 
platform 18" wide and 3" high built 
around the bay-window for the chil¬ 
dren to sit on, supplements the chairs. 
Old-fashioned wire plant-stands 
are suitable for the nursery as chil¬ 
dren love to tend plants. The fact 
that a potato will sprout and a carrot 
grow delicate leaves is of the utmost 
surprising interest. Begonias and 
geraniums that will blossom in win¬ 
ter, if carefully tended, will be much 
better in the nursery than a fern 
which must be avoided like a lace 
sofa cushion for fear of blighting 
one of the fronds. The’sturdy, eas¬ 
ily tended plants are best. The flower 
pots may be painted and decorated 
by the children themselves. 
The bath and bedroom connecting 
with the playroom should be fur¬ 
nished in miniature. The beds, bu¬ 
reaus, wash-stands and tubs should 
be low and small. There are so 
many bathroom accessories for chil¬ 
dren that the greatest effort should 
be made in planning a house to have 
one bathroom fitted exclusively for 
children. While the children will 
eventually outgrow it, it is not a mat¬ 
ter of great expense to change the 
children’s fitments for larger sizes. 
A Nursery in Green 
A nursery that was a great joy to 
the child as well as to the decorator 
had a soft tone, green wool rug. 
The walls were painted white with a 
border of spring fairies in delicate 
greens. The room is a sunny nursery 
in the country. The furniture was 
painted light green with stripes a 
shade darker. It consisted of a day 
bed, a chiffonier, two long padded 
benches to match the day bed, shelves 
and a plaything box. For supper, 
were two green wicker chairs and a 
little low iron table painted green on 
which was used green and yellow 
floral china. The curtains and bed¬ 
cover were of dotted Swiss with a 
ruffle edge with rickrack braid in 
green. The room was as fresh as 
Spring, a lovely domain for the tiny, 
black-haired lady who presided there. 
Continental Color for American Homes 
(Continued from page 32) 
around the windows and doors and 
along the second story string course. 
Or it may be elaborated at certain 
spots where the shape of the wall 
space lends itself to a larger decora¬ 
tion. The simpler forms will be very 
inexpensive and any painter can carry 
them out; the cost of the more elabo¬ 
rate, of course, will depend upon the 
artist and the designs selected. 
In planning for such murals, it 
might be well first to study photo¬ 
graphs of the peasant cottages of 
Bavaria and Switzerland, and to note 
the character of the decorations. In 
those countries whole villages are 
decorated. Here in America this is 
scarcely possible. Naturally we con¬ 
clude that exterior frescoes are as 
yet not suitable for the town house, 
save it be in some corner of Bohemia 
where colors run rampant. On the 
other hand, exterior murals are per¬ 
fectly suitable for the small country 
house that has either English cottage 
architecture or Continental peasant. 
If the house is well surrounded by 
trees and shrubbery the pictures will 
have an environment that shows them 
to their best advantage. 
Carnations and the Open Border 
(Continued front page 56) 
only protection given is the cold- 
frame or pit, and I have frequently 
found the plants frozen like /bricks 
without ill effects. 
The soil for planting out need not 
be of any special nature although 
if it is loamy so much the better. If 
light or very sandy, a heavy dressing 
of manure, preferably cow manure, 
will give better results. Road sweep¬ 
ings from clean country gravel roads 
or cinder ashes, are good to lighten 
a heavy soil. To check the trouble¬ 
some _ wire-worm, and at the same 
time improve the soil, a heavy dress¬ 
ing of equal portions of lime and 
soot is advisable. This is best applied 
in the spring and worked in when 
the ground is dug a second time. 
Perpetual Carnation Beds 
In planting a bed of perpetual car¬ 
nations a few simple details must 
be considered. The plants, which are 
at least ten months old, are best 
planted not less than 1' apart, so that 
in summer the indispensable Dutch 
hoe may be used at intervals of three 
weeks to keep the soil loose and 
thereby encourage root action. When 
planted they should be staked and 
tied in the usual way. 
Charming beds may be made of 
perpetiials by using for the center 
old plants which were in bloom the 
previous autumn and winter; others 
from 5" pots may then be planted 
around them. The old plants being 
tall and the younger ones short, a 
bed of good shape is thus formed, 
the shorter plants being in front and 
covering up the somewhat leggy na¬ 
ture of the old ones. 
Perpetual carnation growing out¬ 
doors offers some pitfalls. I have 
seen failures through the use of 
young plants from 3" pots struck 
early in the year of planting. To use 
such plants is to demand too much 
from them, and, tempting as they 
sometimes appear when cheaply of¬ 
fered, for the purpose they are dear 
at any price. Such plants are useful 
only for blooming in the fall or win¬ 
ter under glass. 
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So matter how pretentious or how 
srnall your grounds may be Hicks 
Big Trees will make them more beau¬ 
tiful at small cost. Thousands of 
Hicks’ Big Trees 
of all sizes are awaiting the call to 
beautify your property and enhance 
its value. Each tree is dug with a 
large ball of earth around the roots, 
then canvas wrapped and roped to 
a wood platform. We ship success¬ 
fully 1000 miles. 
Send for catalog of trees, flowering 
shrubs, roses and hardy flowers. 
Hicks Trees are guaranteed to grow. 
Hicks’ Nurseries ~ , 
Westbury, L. I. . 
Box Q 
Phone 68 
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