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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 
1914 
T HE value of lamps as a useful, 
decorative factor in the furnish¬ 
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to be appreciated by those who seek 
comfort with culture and fashion with 
good taste. The 
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is made in 48 different styles — a lamp 
for every period of decoration and every 
mode of furnishing. 
We design, model and manufacture 
reading lamps for living room or library; 
candle lamps for the desk, bedside lamps 
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Write for catalogue No. 6 
Maxwell-Ray Company 
411 Milwaukee St. Milwaukee, Wis. 
A Garden of Small Fruits for $10 
You can have an abundance of fruits for 
years to come for $10, consisting of the fol¬ 
lowing varieties: Strawberry, Raspberry, 
Blackberry, Dewberry, Currants, Goose¬ 
berry, Grapes. For complete and simple 
instructions how to plan this little garden, 
read MAKING A GARDEN OF SMALL 
FRUITS. By F. F. Rockwell, author of 
Home Vegetable Gardening, etc. Illus¬ 
trated. 50 cents net. Postage, 5 cents. 
McBride, Nast & Co., New York 
ing them outside, try to select a time 
when there is least likelihood of rain for 
a day or two, and, if planting in hills in 
rather heavy soil, put a shovelful of sand 
on top of the hill before planting, and 
cover with light soil. 
But the easiest and surest way of 
starting the pole litnas is to use square 
paper flower pots or dirt bands. Pack 
these in a flat, filling them with light, 
rich soil, and filling in the crevices be¬ 
tween with moss, sand or soil to prevent 
them from drying out too rapidly. Give 
a thorough watering, and a day or two 
later plant the beans, shoving them eye 
down, three or four to a pot. Keep in a 
warm place without watering, and in a 
few days practically every one, if the 
seed was good, will be up. As soon as 
well started they should be thinned to 
two plants to a pot, as that is enough for 
a hill or pole. They may be planted in 
this way two weeks or so before they 
could be sown outdoors, and with much 
more certainty of results. Before setting 
out in the open, keep them for two or 
three days in an open frame, uncovered 
day and night, so that they will be thor¬ 
oughly hardened off. 
As soon as the plants are well started, 
whether sown in drills or hills, they 
should be thinned out to the proper dis¬ 
tance, which is two to four inches for 
snap and wax sorts, four to ten for the 
bush limas; two to four plants for the 
pole sorts in each hill, and one or two 
plants of the limas. You will get not 
only poorer quality, but fewer beans by 
letting the plants crowd each other too 
much. Cultivate regularly with the wheel- 
hoe between the rows to maintain the 
soil mulch, and don't let the pods ripen 
on any plants until you are ready to let 
them stop producing. Keep them picked, 
whether you can use them or not, as long 
as you want the plants to keep on bearing 
new pods. Never hoe or pick or disturb 
the vines while they are wet, as this is 
thought, upon good authority, to induce 
injury from “rust,” which is the disease 
most likely to cause trouble with your 
garden beans. If you have trouble with 
it, spray with Bordeaux mixture. 
Garden Suggestions and Queries 
(Continued from page 390) 
Feeding the Plants 
Of course, most of the plant-food was, 
or should have been, put into the ground 
before planting. Nevertheless, it is often 
advisable to “speed up” the rate of 
growth. The reason is that most plants 
need proportionately more nitrogen dur¬ 
ing the early stages of growth, and the 
nitrogen in manures and many sorts of 
fertilizer becomes available only grad¬ 
ually, so that just when it is most needed 
there is least of it. It is for this reason 
that top-dressings with nitrate of soda 
give such excellent, sometimes almost in¬ 
credible, results with many garden crops. 
It is a white crystalline product resem- 
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Cure night-restlessness by cool night air. Banish glare 
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Their wooden strips admit light and air, exclude heat and 
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They measure a drop of 8 ft. when in use, instead of ft. 
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Send for Booklet 
of Vudor Shades and Hammocks, and receive name-plate 
to identify genuine Vudors, and the name^f nearest Vudor 
ealer. 
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261 Mill St., Janesville, Wis. 
Makers of Vudor Hammocks 
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