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Chicory can be 
forced outside in 
winter by the aid 
of hot manure 
and stable litter 
The November Vegetable Garden 
(Continued from page 78) 
which soon suffers in the event of un¬ 
favorable weather. Plow deep, spade 
deep, and cultivate deep. 
Protecting the Cane Fruits 
Raspberries and blackberries are typi¬ 
cal cane fruits. These plants sucker 
each year, the old canes dying to the 
ground and the young ones producing 
the following season. This rapid growth 
denotes surface roots which must be 
protected if the plants are to produce 
abundantly. Heavy mulching with well 
rotted manure is the best sort of pro¬ 
tection, besides supplying the soil with 
quantities of plant food washed into it 
by the winter and spring rains. Plants 
that grow as vigorously as these soon 
exhaust the soil, and this annual appli¬ 
cation of manure will keep the fertility 
up to a productive point. As a matter 
of mere protection, other materials such 
as loose litter, seaweed, salt hay, and 
leaves may be used. While protecting 
the roots during winter, these mulches 
do not in any way feed the hungry soil, 
so it is better to use the manure if 
possible. 
The tops of the cane fruits will often 
kill back, and in some exposed places 
in the latitude of New York it is ad¬ 
visable to make some provision against 
this. The simplest way is to lay some 
cornstalks so they will act as a buffer 
against intense freezing and strong sun¬ 
shine, but in heavy soils and exposed 
situations the canes should be buried. 
Do not attempt to lay them flat, or you 
will surely break them; about T of dirt 
placed between the plants will relieve 
the angle of bending, if they are laid on 
it. They can be covered with about T 
of earth. Leaves or litter placed on 
top will reduce the penetration of the 
frost. 
Mulching Strawberries 
The strawberry bed should always be 
covered with a good manure mulch to 
protect the plants. Any suffering of 
the roots during the winter is certain 
to be reflected in a reduced crop the 
next season. 
Most strawberry beds die a slow 
death from starvation. Mulching them 
is advisable for two reasons: the pro¬ 
tection afforded the plants, and the up¬ 
building of the soil. It is also a good 
practice to scratch some coarse crushed 
bone into the surface, so it will be 
available for the plants in spring. 
When covering the plants, make sure 
that no manure—or rather, lumps of 
manure—lie on top of the crowns, as 
this is certain to cause decay. A light 
covering of hay or straw is also helpful 
in keeping the sun from scalding the 
leaves. 
Shall We Keep to the Colonial? 
(Continued from page 21) 
Latitude of choice in this respect is 
not in the least restricted. In England, 
the small, simple house has unques¬ 
tionably attained a higher and infi¬ 
nitely more satisfying level of archi¬ 
tectural merit than the corresponding 
domestic development in America can 
exhibit for some generations past. This 
phenomenon is not due to any inherent 
blindness or incapacity on the part of 
the American architect but attributable, 
rather, to some of the causes previously 
noted. 
The British small house development 
is represented, from time to time, in the 
pages of House & Garden by admirable 
examples from which both architects 
and clients may profit much. Then, 
again, the lesser villas and the farm¬ 
steads of Italy are pregnant with in¬ 
spiration and afford an exceptionally 
wide diversity of choice. The minor 
chateaux and small manor houses and 
the farmsteads of France are also re¬ 
plete with suggestions for those whose 
minds are elastic enough to grasp and 
adapt new ideas at their face value. 
But while all these examples are ad¬ 
mirable and have much to contribute 
to our current requirements, there is 
a rich field of precedent and inspira¬ 
tion much nearer home to which it is 
the main purpose of the present paper 
to direct attention—the goodly heritage 
of American domestic architecture of 
the Colonial period. In the unpreten¬ 
tious houses of that day and genera¬ 
tion, many of our worthiest forebears 
found a setting in which the necessary 
simplicity of their establishments proved 
not incompatible with dignity and sub¬ 
stantial comfort. 
In considering this subject we must 
differentiate between the Colonial and 
the Georgian types of architecture. The 
Georgian tradition in architecture was 
the outcome of a considerable degree 
of social and domestic complexity. It 
implied and required a due measure of 
formality in manner of living and was 
not embraced by our American fore¬ 
bears until they had sufficiently pros¬ 
pered to support a becoming estate and 
(Continued on page 82) 
