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small rustic table. There were on the 
neighboring place some buildings which 
were in full view, and I planted flowering 
shrubs to serve as a screen. These rooms 
are conveniently near the house and have 
what is most desirable of all — the distant 
stretch of our beautiful view. If the soli¬ 
tude of the woods, with hushed gurgle 
of brook and love twitter of bird, calls one, 
it is not surprising if this comfortable 
room is forsaken and moss and fern be¬ 
come your couch. 
We will wander down the line of trees 
by a foot-path and pass from the sunshine 
into the gold-flecked woods. Still down¬ 
ward we go by winding path beneath tall 
forest oaks and maples. We must resist 
the invitation to rest in the laziness of 
spring fever upon the moss-covered rocks 
by the side of the path. We come to the 
brook and take our choice of gliding across 
a fallen giant oak or slipping from stone 
to stone moist with the splash of tiny rip¬ 
ples. We reach the edge and glance 
ahead. I11 a gradual sweep upward rise 
crags and boulders adorned by masses of 
rosy, dawn-tinted laurel on ledge and slope. 
Neither heaven nor earth could hold a 
more lovely picture, and we revel in the 
aroma of forest pine and blooming flowers 
till our reluctant return. 
Editor’s Note: The concluding chapter in this ex¬ 
perience in home making will appear next month. 
A New Way to Succeed with 
Dahlias 
( Continued from page 280) 
dominance. 
The flowers may be kept perfectly for 
four or five days by cutting them at night 
and plunging the stems in a vessel of boil¬ 
ing water for a few minutes. Then put 
them into cold water and put them away 
in a cool place — the cellar if necessary — 
•over night. By morning the stems will be 
found to be strong and stiff. 
The plants are grown for three pur¬ 
poses : First, for garden decoration; sec¬ 
ond, for cut flowers; and third, for exhi¬ 
bition. Varieties should always be chosen, 
therefore, for the purpose of the grower in 
mind. There are the cactus forms, dis¬ 
tinguished by the long twisted or pointed 
petals; show dahlias, large, round and 
•quilled, well formed and in solid colors, 
though sometimes shaded at the tips; the 
fancy dahlias, which are really just the 
variegated quilled varieties ; the decorative 
•dahlias, which are loose flowering and full, 
•or nearly full, to the center with broad, 
nearly flat petals; the peony flowered or 
■art dahlias, of immense size, with two or 
three rows of petals; the pompon dahlias, 
which are round and miniature, and usu¬ 
ally of dwarf habit; the collarette type, 
which has one row of petals and a collar¬ 
ette of small petals around the yellow cen¬ 
ter; and the single dahlias, which is just 
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