February, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
139 
Sketch shows the Dodson Sheltered Food 
House, Tree Swallow House, Bluebird 
House, Bird Bath, Wren House and 
Purple Martin House. 
Get Mr. Dodson’s New Book 
About Birds—It Is Free 
Don’t you want bird friends living in your 
garden? Bluebirds, Wrens, Martins, Swallows? 
You can win back our Native Song Birds by put¬ 
ting out Dodson Bird Houses. Thousands of 
these houses all over America are inhabited by 
birds. 
Mr. Dodson builds more than a dozen kinds of 
Bird Houses, ranging in price from $2 to $70. Among 
the most popular are: 
The Dodson Purple Martin House—3 stories and 
attic; 26 rooms. Price $12, or with all copper roof, 
$15, f. o. b. Chicago. 
The Dodson Bluebird House 
—solid oak, cypress shingles, 
copper coping. Price $5, f. o. 
b. Chicago. 
The Dodson Sheltered Food 
House for Birds—saves many 
birds’ lives in winter and 
spring — $8; or with all copper 
roof $10, f. o. b. Chicago. 
Sheltered Feeding Table, $6, 
or with all copper roof $7.50, 
f. o. b. Chicago. Shelter Shelf, 
$1.50, or with all copper roof 
$2, f. o. b. Chicago. 
The famous Dodson 
Sparrow Trap is doing great 
work in banishing this 
national pest. One trap 
catches as many as 75 
sparrows a day. It works 
automatically—you remove 
sparrows once a day. This 
trap is of tinned wire, elec¬ 
trically welded, strong and durable. Has needle 
points at mouths of two funnels. Size 36 x 
18 x 12 inches. Price $5, f. o. b. Chicago. 
Mr. Dodson’s beautifully illustrated book 
explains all about his many houses and other 
devices for helping our Native Birds. Write for 
this book. Address 
JOS. H. DODSON, 1201 cwcago!°ni. Bldg '’ 
(Mr. Dodson is a Director of the Illinois Audubon 
Society.) 
The Dodson Wren 
House—solid oak, 
cypress shingles, 
copper coping. 
Price St5, f. o. b. 
Chicago. 
INGEE RoseC 
\ (Sturdy as Oaks. Founded 1850 kJ 
Our Rose Plants are strongest 
and best. They are always 
grown on their own roots. 
More than 60 years of “knowing 
how” behind each plant; that 
fact is your guarantee of satisfac¬ 
tion. Under our special low price 
order plan we will prepay all express 
charges and guarantee safe delivery—our 
guide explains. No matter where you live 
you can depend on getting D & C roses in 
perfect condition. Write for 
Our “New Guide to Rose Culture” 
for 1914—-Free 
This is absolutely the most educational work on rose 
culture ever published. It isn't a catalog—it is the 
boiled-down, hietime experience of the 
oldest rose growing house in tt 
United States. The guide is 
free. It is profusely illus¬ 
trated in natural colors 
and the cover pictures 
the new Charles 
Dingee Rose, the best, 
hardiest free-bloom¬ 
ing rose in the world. 
This guide will be treasu. 
long by rose lovers—write be¬ 
fore issue is all gone. It’s free. No other 
rose house has our reputation. 
Established iSSO. 70 Greenhouses . 
THE DINGEE & CONARD CO. 
Box !J74 West Grove, Pa. 
about a foot wide. The former method 
usually gives the most crisp and best-fla¬ 
vored celery, and can be easily employed 
in the home patch. 
Seed for the main part of the crop for 
fall and winter use should be sown early 
in April. Two of the best varieties for this 
planting are Big Queen and Boston Mar¬ 
ket. They are of excellent quality and 
much easier to blanch than the old tall- 
growing sorts, such as Giant Pascal. If 
the weather permits, seeds for this crop 
may be sown outdoors directly in the seed 
bed, instead of in flats. But they should 
be transplanted once before being set into 
the garden. It is well in transplanting, of 
course, in case the celery has to be done in 
hot, dry weather, to plant just after a rain 
or on a cloudy day or late in the afternoon. 
If water has to be used, pour it into the 
holes before setting the plants, half a pint 
or so to each one, and shade them from the 
direct midday sun for a few days with 
newspapers or a few old boards. The 
plants can then he taken care of in just the 
same way as the early crop, except that 
they are banked up just enough to hold 
them in a straight upright position, as the 
blanching process is finished when they are 
put into storage. For the portion to be 
kept over winter provide boxes about a 
foot wide and nearly as deep as the celery 
is high. Cover the bottoms of these boxes 
with two or three inches of sand and wet 
thoroughly. Upon this, stand the celery 
upright and packed close together. In 
taking up the celery for storing in this way, 
the roots and whatever earth adheres to 
them are kept on, not cut, as if bought in 
the stores. The boxes are then stored in 
a cellar or other dark, dry, cold place 
where the temperature will not go more 
than five degrees below freezing. The 
celery will be ready for use after Christmas. 
If a long succession is wanted, store from 
the open two or three different times, say 
at the end of October, first part of Novem¬ 
ber, and the latter part of November. 
Whitloff, a variety of chickory, is 
coming into favor where it is tried. It is 
sown in drills, eighteen inches or more 
apart, and thinned to six inches or so be¬ 
tween the plants. In August or early Sep¬ 
tember, earth up, as with early celery, to 
blanch the stalks, which can be used as 
salad or boiled. The full-grown roots, 
taken up just before freezing weather, 
trimmed back, and planted in boxes of 
sand, and then placed as needed in a mod¬ 
erately warm, dark place and watered, will 
send up rapidly a growth of tender leaves 
which make excellent salad. 
Endive is at its best when grown for fall 
use, but even then, to most people’s taste, 
it is not equal to good lettuce. Tt is sown 
in late June or July in drills eighteen to 
twenty-four inches apart, and later thinned 
to ten or twelve inches. It requires blanch¬ 
ing, which is done by tying up each head 
in a loose bunch with raffia, or covering 
with wide hoards placed in an inverted V 
over the rows. 
‘‘Pepper grass,” or upland cress, makes 
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