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House &° Garden 
It’s Never “Out of Season 
to Plant Trees or Shrubs 
October and November are ideal months 
for moving Hicks’ Big Trees and Shrubs. 
You need evergreens — Pines, Spruces, 
Hemlocks — for a screen or windbreak. 
Come to the nurseries, pick out the trees 
you want, and have them moved before 
snow flies. 
Shade will be welcome next summer, but 
you won’t have it unless you make a start 
this fall. Big Maples, Lindens, Oaks, can 
be moved just as easily as little saplings— 
and you get results next summer; no long 
waiting for the trees to grow. 
HICKS’ BIG TREES— 
GUARANTEED TO GROW 
ON YOUR GROUNDS 
We send only trees that fit your soil and 
your climate. Such trees are worth much 
more than we ask for them, because with 
them goes Hicks’ Hberal guarantee. You 
take no risks, for we have proved that “it’s 
never out of season” for transplanting 
Hicks’ Big Trees. 
Car-loads, bargedoads, truckdoads, and 
single specimens of big evergreens and 
shade trees are ready now to go to your 
place. Write, or wire for si2;es and 
prices—or better, come to the nursery and 
see the trees. 
HICKS NURSERIES 
Box H, Westbury, L. I. 
New York 
COSMETICS from the GARDEN 
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white heels from rose and carnation petals. 
In making rosemary cream the young 
pale green shoots can be used as well as 
flowers. Cut off as much of the stalks as 
possible from all flowers, then melt the 
fat and put in as many of the flowers as 
the fat when melted will cover. Half a 
pound of fat will cover several large hand¬ 
fuls of flowers. Then simmer the fat 
gently either by the side of the fire or in 
the oven for about fifteen minutes. By 
this time it will be thoroughly impreg¬ 
nated. Strain through a fine piece of clean 
muslin into a small jar and leave tiU cold. 
Then cover with paper and tie down 
firmly. This cream will keep quite a year 
in perfect condition. 
Rose cream can be prepared in the 
same way, and it is perhaps superfluous 
to point out that for this cream modern 
scentless roses are useless. Strictly 
speaking, it should be made from the old 
cabbage rose or the damask rose. Another 
rose preparation useful for town-dwellers 
who cannot get the old-fashioned rose is 
made in the following way. Put a quart of 
the best olive oil into an earthenware jar 
and stand the jar in boiling water. Stir 
gradually and very slowly into the olive 
oil four tablespoonfuls of refined potash. 
Stir continuously and keep the water out¬ 
side the jar, boiling aU the time. Go on 
stirring until a spoonful of the mixture 
thickens like jelly, when put on a saucer 
and leave to cool. The stirring must be 
done with a wooden spoon, and when 
ready to remove from the &e, but not 
before, add essence of rose or' any other 
essence that may be preferred. No 
essence, however, should be added until 
the mixture is taken off the fire, otherwise 
the volatile oil escapes. This preparation 
should be poured like the other creams 
into small jars and covered when cold. 
These delicious creams can be made from 
any sweet-scented flowers, and if these 
directions are followed they keep per¬ 
fectly. It is also important to remember 
that the flowers should be picked when the 
dew has dried off them, and preferably 
after several days of hot sun. 
It is curious how seldom the modern 
woman makes the “sweet waters” so 
beloved of her great grandmother, but 
they are well worth the little trouble in¬ 
volved. For they are made simply by 
putting several handfuls of sweet-scented 
petals—rose-leaves, carnations, violets, 
jasmine, or flowers which can be found in 
any garden—into a quart of cold water 
and bringing them slowly to the boil. 
They should be closely covered during the 
process, and strained before using. These 
sweet-scented waters do not keep for 
more than a day or two, and should be 
prepared freshly every day. The softer 
the water—rain water is ideal—the more 
fragrant these sweet waters will be. 
THE GARDEN IN THE TWILIGHT 
G. E. HUNTINGTON 
I T is the ambition of every gardener to 
prolong the season of his garden’s 
beauty and to keep advancing autumn at 
bay with all the devices his skill and fore¬ 
sight can suggest. From this ambition 
may arise another—to prolong the garden 
day into the arbitrary bounds of sunset, 
fading light and falling dew. 
Most flowers are children of the sun, 
and many gardens at twilight lie in an en¬ 
chanted, almost forbidding silence. Oth¬ 
ers, like pale ghosts, awake only at night 
to show their delicate beauty and send out 
their sweetest perfumes. Others, again, 
are equally generous by day or night. 
'Walking in the garden in the cool of the 
evening it will be through no fault of the 
flowers if a modern Adam cannot believe 
himself in Eden once more. 
We shall not, however, plan the entire 
garden mainly for enjoyment in the even¬ 
ing hours. Even the man who looks for¬ 
ward through the busy day to the peace 
and scented beauty of his garden in the 
evening, if he is a true garden lover, 
would not readily sacrifice its morning 
welcome. This seems to suggest that we 
should set apart some quiet corner of the 
garden for the evening. There could be 
many interpretations of such an idea, but 
some essentials would be common to all. 
Its size woifld be unimportant. It might 
be as small as necessity demands, or as 
large as extravagant fancy can suggest. 
It must have shelter and privacy, but be 
in no sense enclosed or shut in. Rather it 
should form a point of vantage, where we 
may sit in quiet enjoyment, gazing down 
vistas of loveliness cunningly devised to 
lead imagination wandering while we sit 
at rest. 
Its season would last from the first 
warm days of May, throughout the sum¬ 
mer, until the chilly evenings in late Sep¬ 
tember drove us indoors to the fire. Its 
hour of supremacy, “the dimpsey dusk”, 
is sacred to romance under many charm¬ 
ing names. Moonrise would reveal secrets 
hidden by day, and velvety shadows cast 
mystery over the commonplace. 
The presence of water in or near the 
twilight garden is a debatable point. The 
charm of flat disks of water lily, reflected 
flower forms, and “drowned stars” will 
not, perhaps, compensate for the almost 
inevitable consequence of mosquitoes. A 
fountain, however, is without this disad¬ 
vantage, and has the additional charm of 
musical silvery spray. A compromise 
might give us an arrangement which 
would show the lily pool a gleaming slip in 
the distance, a rippling pathway to the 
moon. 
Considering the form of the twilight 
garden, it is essential that the lines should 
be good, so that the objection against 
special gardens—that they are unsightly 
except at their particular seasons—may 
not be brought against it. An elaborate 
architectural scheme is no more desirable 
than a mere haphazard planting of night- 
scented flowers. The more simple, the 
better. The terraced walk, hedged recess, 
or small platform, with its seat or stone 
bench, must be easily accessible from the 
house and dry underfoot. Grass paths, 
however .desirable elsewhere, have no 
place in the twilight garden, for by now 
they are heavy with dew. The paths, of 
stone or brick, must be clearly defined, 
with no unexpected steps, no pitfalls for 
carelessly straying feet. Small aromatic 
herbs may be planted in the chinks to 
yield their fragrance as we walk, while 
lavender, rosemary, balm of Gilead 
(Cedronella triphylla) and lemon-scented 
verbena, lean over from the borders so 
that as we brush against them their 
delicate perfumes are released. 
The importance of the seat will be con¬ 
ceded, for the twilight garden is, above all 
things, a place of rest. The cold surface 
of a stone seat is a disadvantage when its 
chief use would be after sundown. This 
difficulty can be overcome to some extent 
by a wooden trellis made to fit exactly 
over the stone. Flat Japanese straw cush¬ 
ions can also be used, but would have to 
be brought in and out every day. A plain 
wooden seat of good and simple design, 
especially if made so that the back folds 
over, is perhaps the best. For a surround¬ 
ing hedge privet is rapid in growth, if not 
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