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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1914 
In the April SCRIBNER 
The first article by 
Theodore Roosevelt 
on his experiences as 
A Hunter-Naturalist in the 
Brazilian Wilderness 
Up the Paraguay .—It gives an account of the first stages 
of his journey up the Paraguay River, impressions of the bird 
and animal life, of the picturesque country, of the river teeming 
with fish, among them schools of the ravenous man-eating 
piranha, and of the people. It is permeated by the author’s 
inimitable qualities of enthusiasm, of ob¬ 
servation, and vivid description. Short StOI*i6S 
Abundant illustrations from photographs by 
KERMIT ROOSEVELT and other members 
of the expedition. 
Another of George E. Woodberry’s brilliant, 
poetic African articles: 
“On the Mat” 
Worse than Married 
by Henry and Alice Duer Miller 
The story of a wreck and what hap¬ 
pened to two on a small island. 
Soldiers of Time 
by Barry Benefield 
is an analysis, a revelation of the religion, the soul, the 
very spirit of the desert and its people. 
Artist and Public 
by Kenyon Cox 
This distinguished artist sums up the Cubists and the 
whole “ shock-your-grandmother ” school. 
The Fair in the Cow Country 
by W. Herbert Dunton 
Illustrated by the Author. Bronco busting, cow-girls, 
cow-punchers, ropers, are all in vivid and hilarious ex¬ 
citement and the competition of a typical Western fair. 
The old clock-maker and Decora¬ 
tion day. 
Sparks of theWireless 
by Walter S. Hiatt 
The life aboard ship of the young men 
who send out the S. O. S. call and 
others. They have brought a touch 
of the old romance back to the sea. 
Her Friend 
Sergeant John 
by Wolcott LeClear-Beard 
An army story of the Mexican border 
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inches or si in diameter; split this care¬ 
fully across the middle and insert one (or 
two) of the scions, having cut them care¬ 
fully to a wedge shape on one end. Suc¬ 
cess will depend upon getting the cambium 
or living under-bark layer of growth, in 
both scion and stock, held firmly together 
and protected from decay. Each scion 
must be held firmly in place and the whole 
wound covered over with grafting wax; in 
applying which, as it is sticky, the fingers 
should be greased with tallow. New suck¬ 
ers and sap growths must be kept off the 
stock plants, and it should be pruned back 
quite severely each year to throw the 
strength of the tree into the new growth. 
Very small stock, such as seedlings one 
to three years old, instead of being split, 
are cut off diagonally, and the whip graft 
employed. The surfaces of stock and scion 
must match evenly, and a tongue is cut 
down in each at the center so that one may 
be inserted in the other, thus holding them 
more firmly in place. They are then bound 
tight with raffia or cord and waxed over. 
In budding, a single healthy bud with an 
elliptical section of bark is used instead of 
a scion, and this is inserted into a T-shaped 
slit made in the bark of the stock tree, 
where it is bound tight with raffia. Bud¬ 
ding is usually done in August or early in 
the spring. 
Grafting Wax can be bought from your 
seedsman or nrseryman, or made by break¬ 
ing up and thoroughly melting together 
four parts of rosin by weight, two of bees¬ 
wax and one of tallow. When thoroughly 
melted pour into a pan of cold water, and 
as soon as it hardens work, as you would 
molasses candy, until the proper consist¬ 
ency and a light color. 
Weeds 
T roublesome weeds that persist 
in gravel or earth paths and very 
often those on lawns or about the grounds 
or in pasture hav and grain crops can be 
controlled by spraying with herbicides. 
For walks, drives, tennis courts, etc., use 
common salt, either sprinkled on freely 
dry, or with a watering can at the rate of 
one pound to one gallon of hot water. 
Crude carbolic acid, one part to ten to 
thirty parts water, may be used as a spray, 
provided the mixture is kept well stirred 
up. 
Individual weeds which can be got at 
without injuring other plants near them 
may be treated with carbolic acid pure, or 
if this is not effective, although it usually 
will be, sulphuric acid — -the latter, how¬ 
ever, should be handled very carefully 
and only in glass containers. 
Poison ivy and other wild vines should 
be cut off, preferably in mid-summer, close 
to the ground; the main trunk and stems 
grubbed up, and a strong solution of 
caustic soda poured into the holes wher¬ 
ever the remnants of the vines or roots are 
visible. 
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