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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1914 ~j 
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City 
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Beautiful Books on 
GARDENING 
Now offered 
for flie first time 
to House & Garden 
Readers 
Unusually Elegant Books 
Prepared at Great Expense — Beautifully 
Illustrated in Colors 
OdrdCH HOfTIP ^ Thomas. A most 
NNi , l UK beautiful and lavishly illus- 
trated work containing 12 full-page colored plates, and 9G half-tones. 
“ d «al s With and thoroughly explains innumerable ways of adding 
U deiiftht of the garden at home, and shows how it may be 
a i d . outflowing with luxuriant blossoms, fruits and vegetables. 
Almost 3U0 pages, cloth bound, beautiful cover design. $2.00 net; 
by mail, $2.1o. 
The Ideal Garden By H. H. Thomas. Asump- 
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■ 1 beautify your library table, and at the same time to fully set 
fo li every practical phase of ideal gardening. Decorated with a beauti- 
ul cover design in colors and gold, and illustrated with 10 colored plates 
nd almost a hundred half-tones, all full-page in size. Almost 300 large 
pages. Cloth bound. S2.00 net; by mail, $2.14. h 
The HapDV Garden U M °ry Anseii. 
y i c m* ms A story depicting the 
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and gold. Illustrated with colored frontispiece and 22 full-page 
half-tones. Large 12mo , cloth. $2.00 net; by mail. $2.10. 
Beautiful Gardens How To Make ° nd Main- 
fom Them By Walter P. 
wrignt. Modern artistic flower gardening, with plans, designs, 
ana photographic illustrations and colored plates. Directions are 
given tor cultivating all kinds of flowers, fruits and vegetables, 
particular at tenti o n being devoted to the designing and laying out 
ot the garden atristically and economically. Six colored plates and 
almost a hundred black and white illustrations. Large 12mo, cloth 
bound. $2.00 net; by mail, $2.12. 
Rock Gardening for Amateurs 
B y H. Thomas. All about rock gardens, what they are, how 
cared tor Natural rock gardens, made rock gardens; an alphabetical 
list oi all the best flowers for the rock garden with descriptive and 
cultural notes. A beautiful book of almost 300 pages, illustrated 
with 12 direct color photographs, 64 full-page half-tones, and 
numerous sketches. Large 12mo, cloth bound. $2.00 net; by 
mail, $2.14. (Ready in March.) 
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OF COURSE! Lasts and Lasts and Lasts 
your efforts, when the time for flowering 
comes in June. 
While this is the most trying of our 
winter months, it is always wise to begin 
the spring garden-making under cover at 
this time. Seeds of tomatoes, pepper, let¬ 
tuce, cabbages and eggplants should be 
started at once. The salvias, snapdragons, 
verbenas and other delicate annuals should 
be put in boxes. Sweet peas and nastur¬ 
tiums that should have been started in 
November may be put in now and good re¬ 
sults obtained. Plant both in trenches and 
tend carefully, and June blossoms will re¬ 
pay your care. If untoward conditions 
have prevented the making of a lawn, begin 
it at once. 
Planting of gladioli and iris must not be 
postponed another minute. 
If there is any time left over after the 
busy day's work is done, the blue skies, 
the robins that nest in the tree-tops, and 
the wonderful beauty of the waking 
world will gladden your eves and rejoice 
your heart, for March is the resurrection 
month in the land of cypress, corn and 
cotton, below Mason and Dixon’s line. 
Which Eggs Shall I Set ? 
I T is worth while to be careful. The 
eggs one sets may transmit to next 
year's brood all the desirable characteris¬ 
tics of this year’s flock, or they may 
convey faulty physique and susceptibility 
to disease. The first consideration is 
selection of parentage, according to the 
best traits that are visible. This selec¬ 
tion should be made some time before 
setting the eggs, so that family relations 
in the brood colony are firmly established 
and the members content with one an¬ 
other. These parents must have sensible 
care. Food not too stimulating and fed 
not to favor “loafing,” fresh, pure water, 
green food, grit, cleanliness, fresh air 
and room are the essentials of ideal 
parenthood. 
Further than that, there should be 
selection with regard to the eggs them¬ 
selves. Naturally we choose those of 
good appearance. Personally, I choose 
the best-looking eggs and the largest, 
barring double-yolked eggs and freakish 
shape. 
Beware of chalky, brittle-shelled eggs. 
Often they will not last through the 
hatch. They indicate an excess of min¬ 
eral matter in the shell, due to an un¬ 
balanced ration, a defective nutrition in 
the hen. 
I would not keep eggs longer than two 
weeks for setting, and I perefer them 
fresher. When kept, it should be in a 
cool—not cold — dry place. A room in a 
cellar adjoining a furnace room seems 
to be satisfactory. The eggs should not 
be shaken, nor should boughten eggs be 
set for at least twenty-four hours after 
a journey. 
Keep a sharp eye for disease in a 
parent bird. Hens stricken with violent 
diseases cease laying, but there are slower 
chronic conditions which I have found 
do not immediately affect egg production. 
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