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House & Garden 
This New Range 
Is AWonder 
For Cooking 
Although it is less than four feet 
long it can do every kind of cooking 
for any ordinary family by gas in 
warm weather, or by coal or wood 
when the kitchen needs heating. 
There is absolutely no danger in 
this combination, as the gas section 
is as entirely separate from the coal 
section as if placed in another part 
of the kitchen. 
Two Gold Medals—Highest Award 
at San Francisco Exposition, 1916. 
Note the two gas ovens above—one 
for baking, glass paneled and one 
for broiling, with white enamel door. 
The large oven below has the Glen- 
wood Patent Oven Indicator, and is 
heated by coal or wood. 
See the cooking surface when you 
want to rush things—five burners 
for gas and four covers for coal. 
The entire range is always avail¬ 
able as both coal and gas ovens can 
be operated at the same time, using 
one for meats and the other for 
pastry. It’s the range that 
** Makes Cooking Easy” 
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that tells all about it 
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Planting Things to Grow and Live 
{Continued from page 58) 
be shipped at - a suitable time, be 
ready to plant these things as soon 
as you get them. Order early—the 
people who wait until the last gun is 
fired before ordering their plants 
are the ones who make the biggest 
row about not receiving satisfactory 
stock. When plants are being select¬ 
ed, from either the nursery stock 
or the greenhouse benches, naturally 
the first orders are filled with tlie 
finest plants, and the smaller ones 
are left to the last. It is always best 
to have plants sent with the soil on, 
even though the express charges may 
be a little more. If there are some 
of the new things which you would 
like to have, but feel are too expen¬ 
sive to set out in large quantities, 
get a few plants this year from which 
to work up your own supply for next 
season’s bloom. 
Do not make the very common mis¬ 
take of spading up your gardens just 
as yon need them for planting, a 
little at a time. Not onh' to get the 
work out of the way, but also be¬ 
cause of the actual benefits there¬ 
from, have all your gardens plowed 
and spaded up as soon as possible 
after the ground is in good condition 
for working. 
Your success with the things which 
yon plant will depend upon the thor¬ 
oughness with which yon prepare the 
soil. If manure or sod is to be 
plowed under for the vegetable gar¬ 
den, see to it that the furrows are 
not turned under “flat,” leaving a 
layer of porous material between the 
subsoil and the surface soil to in¬ 
tercept the upward action of the 
moisture in the soil when needed later 
near the surface in dry weather. 
They should be laid up against each 
other at an angle, so that tire harrow¬ 
ing will thoroughly pnherize both 
soil and manure and mix them as 
much as possible, while at the same 
time leaving the surface free and 
clean, with all foreign matter far 
enough below so as not to interfere 
with raking and planting. The flower 
gardens and small vegetable gardens 
are, of course, prepared by hand; 
but forking and spading require a 
strong bade plus intelligence. If 
there is much manure to be worked 
under, spread it evenly over the sur¬ 
face first, then remove a spade’s width 
and turn over the next row into this, 
tlioronghly mixing the manure with 
the soil during the operation. If the 
soil is deep and heavy, it will pay to 
work it two spades deep, although 
this involves considerably more labor. 
It should be dug or forked to a depth 
of 6" at least, and preferably 8". 
When the Plants Arrive 
In spite of doing all that is possible 
in advance, it frequently happens that 
one’s plants cannot be set out im¬ 
mediately upon receipt from the nur¬ 
seryman. It is very important to 
keep them in such a way that they 
will not be injured during the interval 
between their arrival and planting 
time. Keep all plants in flats or pots 
in a place where they will be shaded 
from the direct sun, and water fre¬ 
quently ; in sunny or windy weather, 
twice a day will usually be required 
to keep them from getting drier than 
they should. If plants in clay pots 
are to be kept more than a day or 
two, plunge them to the rim in loose 
soil, to prevent drying. 
Plants that have been shipped from 
a distance should be opened up im¬ 
mediately, loosened up if they have 
been pressed tightly together, and the 
roots carefully examined. If they are 
beginning to get dry, gKe them as 
much water as they will readily ab¬ 
sorb. This may be done by placing 
them temporarily in a shallow pan 
or tub, and putting in a little water, 
or by saturating sphagnum moss simi¬ 
lar to that packed around the roots 
and placing it dose about them. Such 
plants should be kept in an airy shed 
or a sheltered corner of the veranda, 
protected from the sun and wind. 
Shrubs, small fruits and similar nur¬ 
sery stock shipped with little or no 
soil on the roots should be unpacked 
and “heeled in” as soon as received. 
Just dig a narrow trench 1' or so 
deep, and bury tlie roots in moist, 
fine soil sufficiently to cover them; 
for convenience they are usually 
placed at an angle of 45° or so, close 
together. Plants that have been re¬ 
moved from the pots just before 
shipping and wrapped in paper to 
keep the root ball intact should be 
slipped into pots of similar size, add¬ 
ing a little fresh soil if necessary, 
and in this way kept for a week or 
two if watered frequently enough. 
The right way of planting is little 
if any more difficult than any of the 
many wrong ways beginners find of 
doing the job; but a slight error or 
omission may result in the loss of 
many valuable plants. As the first 
seeds are planted before the first 
plants are set out, we rvill discuss 
them first. 
Planting Seeds 
First of all, the soil should be in 
proper condition, neither too wet nor 
too dry. The first seed may be sown 
in the spring as soon as the soil has 
dried out enough to crumble readily 
when it is worked, and to dry on 
the surface without any hard lumps 
shortly after it is worked over smooth. 
Soil that is still so wet and sticky 
that it remains in hard clot's which 
will not crumble readiljr in the fingers 
is in no condition to work, and may 
he permanently injured if that is at¬ 
tempted. In soil that is too dry, the 
seeds will not sprout at all or, hav¬ 
ing sprouted, the germinating root 
will perish before it can become es¬ 
tablished ; this condition, however, 
is not likely to prevail at this time 
of year. Having your soil worked up 
so that it has a chance to dry out and 
warm up on the surface for even a 
few days before planting will make a 
material difference. 
Always plant on a fresh surface. 
W’hile it is always advisable to have 
the whole garden worked up as soon 
as possible, in planting “finish off” 
only as much as you expect to plant 
at one time; a fineK raked surface 
dries up very quickly, but it is essen¬ 
tial to get moist soil close up around 
the seed at planting, and the smaller 
t'ne seed the more important this is. 
Do not consider the soil ready for 
planting until it is perfectly smooth, 
fine and free from trash. 
Be careful to get your rows per¬ 
fectly straight; a little extra pains 
in this matter will make a great dif¬ 
ference in the work of cultivating 
your garden. Where seeds are to 
iie planted in hills or in rows of vary¬ 
ing widths, be careful to mark off 
carefully before you go ahead with 
the work, as mistakes are not easily 
rectified by later efforts. 
One of the most important points 
in planting is to get the seeds in at the 
proper depth; this depends first of 
all upon the kind and size of the 
seeds, and secondly upon the time of 
the year, and thirdly upon the charac¬ 
ter of the soil. Earlier in the season 
and in light soils, plant shallower; 
later, if in dry, light soil, plant deeper 
than the average depth given in the 
planting tables which are now gen¬ 
erally available. 
{Continued on page 98) 
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UR catalogue is- really 
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wealth of pictures and de¬ 
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flowers. 
For instance, we will send you, 
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(Assortment “A”) 
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Spinach, Vlroflay 
I Turnip. Snowball 
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