March, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
221 
A Bounteous Garden From One 
Plant 
(Continued from page 175) 
don’t plant them in the same place two 
years in succession. 
With the practical matter out of the 
way, all the fascinating study and hy¬ 
bridization and aim for new types and va¬ 
rieties is your opportunity. 
If you are an amateur gardener the 
sweet pea is one of the best flowers with 
which to begin work, as it is easily grown 
in almost any kind of soil and yields read¬ 
ily to cultivation, being, as a German doc¬ 
tor whose avocation is flower growing- 
says, “A thankful flower” — thankful for 
slight attention. In the garden it gives 
pleasing decorative effects when planted 
close up to buildings, walls and fences, and 
trained up against them on wires and 
strings, or grown in long rows and sup¬ 
ported on wire netting or boughs. By 
picking the blossoms daily plants can be 
kept in flower continuously for months. If 
vou are an amateur experimenter it an¬ 
swers equally well; and whether you ac¬ 
complish much or little the work is well 
worth while, for the new light the experi¬ 
ence throws on the world of living things, 
the problems with such men as Mr. Luther 
Burbank are struggling in an effort to 
make this world a better place in which to 
live. 
The following are simple directions for 
"crossing,” the process through which all 
changes in form and color are produced. 
Use seeds of the Spencer varieties and 
plant as directed. If you wish chance to 
play as large a part as possible, plant two 
selected varieties close together and watch 
the flowers as they develop. 
With all the Spencers, the keel, which 
encloses the organs of reproduction, being 
quite open, in many cases the stigma pro¬ 
trudes from the shield long before the 
anthers are ripe, and because of this in¬ 
sects, wind and unexpected means easily 
effect pollination—an impossibility in the 
older varieties, in which the keel is entirely 
closed and self-fertilization the only means 
of reproduction. If you get a natural 
cross it may prove a prize. If you wish 
yours to be the directing hand, begin with 
the small buds of a selected variety as soon 
as they can be handled. On examination 
you will find the stamens united by their 
filaments to form a tube and the ovary in 
this tube. The anthers are free and the 
stigma at the extremity of the pistil is 
placed just below them. When ripe the 
pollen sacs on the anthers burst, and the 
pollen falls, completely covering the stig¬ 
ma with minute grains, and thus effecting 
fertilization. As the pollen sacs ripen 
early, the work must be done before the 
flower has a chance to mature. Use a 
very sharp knife, slit the unripe keel open 
and remove the unripe anthers to take 
away all possibility of self-fertilization. 
On the stigma place the pollen of the 
chosen flower. One effective way is to 
m, 
WHY KELSEY HEAT IS SO FLEX¬ 
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f) 
S TEAM or Hot Water radiators are not only in 
the way, but are ugly. Tint them, paint 
them, or gild them; still they are the same 
unsightly radiators. _ 4 . 
In order to get heat from them, you must first heat 
the water in the boiler, or convert it into steam; then 
heat your radiators, which finally, after much loss of 
time and excessive burning of coal, begin to heat your 
r °With the Kelsey, the heat from the fire promptly 
warms the fresh air which comes to your rooms— 
practically all the heat of all the coal is directly 
available. , . . , .. 
It’s just the difference between going in a bee-line 
between two points and that of wandering around 
among the winding walks and shrubbery of a park. 
A Kelsey Generator system does not require valu¬ 
able furniture space in the rooms. 
In early Fall and late Spring, when your house is 
uncomfortably cool mornings and evenings; the 
Kelsey has a distinct advantage. 
To start up a water or steam boiler is a task- in 
fact it is a good husky job. After the radiators have 
finally become hot, they continue hot long after 
the sun has warmed things up, making the 
rooms uncomfortable. You are helpless, you must 
wait for them to cool. 
With the Kelsey you can make a little wood fire 
and at once get direct heat returns. Or you can 
keep an easily controlled slumber fire of coal. But 
always you can get heat quickly and shut it off at 
once. No waiting for a heat-loaded mass of iron to 
cool down. , , . , 
The Kelsey heat is a flexible heat. It both heats 
and ventilates. It’s an economizer and healthizer. 
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