| August, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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and comfort are sustained by the owner’s 
vigorous warfare waged on squirrel ma¬ 
rauders. 
Such warm and friendly relations sub¬ 
sist between the inhabitants of both house 
and garden at “Wychwood” that the close 
connection between the dwelling and its 
environment, one might almost say the 
merging of one into the other, seems per¬ 
fectly natural. The bond that links them 
together is so strong that the “toot and 
scramble,” as a local Mrs. Malaprop puts 
it, is absolutely congruous and consistent. 
One might not unreasonably expect this 
should be in a place where the architect- 
owner has had always in mind the inherent 
unity that ought to exist between a dwell¬ 
ing and its surroundings, tying each more 
closely to the other with each succeeding 
year. As a result of careful thought and 
planning, the growth of “Wychwood” into 
its setting is sufficiently felicitous to cause 
surprise when visitors learn that the union 
is only of six years’ standing. 
Quality Crops for the Home 
(Continued from page 96 ) 
being to get one or two big fine crops and 
then discard the plants. In the latter way 
the “beds” are left for three years or more, 
until the plants become so crowded as to 
produce poor fruit; then a new bed is 
formed either by planting in a new place, 
or by forking up the soil between the beds, 
allowing the runners to root there, and 
then cutting out the old rows. By setting 
runners in the usual way, either in the 
spring or fall, to form matted rows or 
beds, a whole season or more is lost before 
a good crop of berries is obtained. By 
setting out potted plants in the fall, grow¬ 
ing by the hill system, there is a full crop 
the following season. 
With a hundred or two small clay pots, 
one may grow his own potted plants each 
season with little trouble, and it is no more 
work to set out a new bed, with the potted 
plants on hand, than to clean the weeds, 
grass, and surplus plants out of an old 
one. The pots are simply sunk or buried 
up to the rim and filled level full of soil. 
The runner is pushed slightly down into 
it, where the plant is forming, and helped 
in place with a clothespin or a small stone, 
which served the additional purpose of 
marking where the pot is. In a few weeks 
the pots will be filled with roots and strong 
plants, disturbed practically not at all by 
transplanting, which will be ready to set 
out in the new bed, or in regular rows in 
the vegetable garden. 
Whichever method is followed, the soil 
in the rows and between the newly set 
plants should be raked over as soon as the 
plants are set, and gone over frequently 
enough with the wheel hoe to keep the 
surface loose and dry and free from 
weeds. The newly set plants, as soon as 
they become well established, will begin 
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