HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 
1914 
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crest such as fixes a seal of wax may be 
suitable. Various devices will suggest 
themselves, according to one's implements, 
and this is, of course, a matter of taste 
and ingenuity. 
Stick a pin or a large needle — a darning- 
needle is about right—through each bead 
as it is finished, and pin it to a board or a 
piece of pasteboard to dry. And when 
they are dry, string them in the regulation 
rosary groupings, or string them as a neck¬ 
lace, long or short. It is well, in rolling, 
to make a few larger than the rest, so that 
the string may be given variety. 'Phis, 
too, however, is a matter of individual 
taste. It is perfectly possible to graduate 
a string from beads as large as the string’s 
length will demand — or allow — down to 
little fellows at the clasp end, just as a 
rope of coral or a string of pearls is often 
graduated. 
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solicitude that they fairly burst forth in 
flower and fruit the very first year. Of 
course, spraying was inaugurated at the 
same time, and also the loose old bark 
crust was scraped from their trunks, and 
these were sprayed along with the rest of 
the tree at the winter sprayings, and smart¬ 
ly whitewashed in the early spring to in¬ 
sure freedom from lichens. All cavities 
were cleaved out down to the living wood, 
and where the tree was weakened and hol¬ 
low cement was filled in. 
Before the trees themselves received at¬ 
tention, however, the ground wherein they 
stood was nourished. The orchard was 
plowed and sown with a cover crop early 
in the fall, and had been dynamited to 
break up the subsoil and also to root prune 
the old trees and get them a new start be¬ 
low ground as well as above. A stick of 
dynamite divided into four charges, put 
three feet down into the ground just at the 
edge of the tree’s roots—which is just at 
the edge of the spread of its branches— 
was what they had used. Then the ground 
surface had been worked over and soy 
beans sowed broadcast to form the cover — 
which they plowed under in the spring. 
They did not make use of much com¬ 
mercial fertilizer, it being Mr. Gladden’s 
wish to see what might be accomplished 
without resort to anything save common 
sense, scientific handling. A dressing of 
potash — muriate of potash — was applied to 
the earth the first spring, but this sparing¬ 
ly, he said. Someone asked him what 
would be considered “sparingly,” and he 
said it amounted to about twelve pounds to 
every apple tree. Lime they used also, 
dressing the earth with it at about a half 
ton per acre when the plowing was done 
early in the first fall. 
Quiet and order 
mark the home where 
Inter-phones are used 
How much more in keeping with the appoint¬ 
ments of the modem home to quietly Inter¬ 
phone from bedroom to the maid in the kitchen 
than to have to call to her through the halls! 
An Inter-phone connecting the kitchen with the 
upper floors will save much tiresome stair climbing, 
do away with unnecessary confusion and add to the 
general efficiency of home management. 
Western Electric 
Inter-phones 
are so inexpensive and so easily installed that anyone 
who can put up a doorbell can do the work. They 
are placed in position where you want them, the 
connecting wires are run and attached to the doorbell 
battery—then you can talk. 
You should be able to get the set here illustrated 
at your electrical dealer’s store for $ 15 . If not there, 
we will supply you direct by parcel post. 
Upon request, we shall be glad to send you our 
illustrated booklet, ‘ The Way of Convenience.” 
Ask for booklet No. 32 -A. 
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