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House £ 5 ? Garden 
Deane's Gas Range designed for 
Andrew Morrison, Montclair , N. f. 
Wm. E. Moran, Architect 
A Tailor-Made Range 
You have your specially-designed automobile bodies. Why not 
a specially-designed kitchen range—one that is built with due 
regard to the size and demands of your family and the particular 
fuels—coal, wood, charcoal, gas, natural gas, gasolene gas and 
electricity—you wish to burn? This capable-looking 
Beane's French. R,an^e 
was built to order to fit the recess it occupies, to provide ample 
cooking, baking and roasting space, and to burn gas exclusively. 
The left-hand section has conventional gas burners under a top 
made of interchangeable bars. The top of the right-hand section, 
like that of a coal range, has reducing ring covers heated by blast- 
type burners for long slow cooking or where great heat is required. 
There are two large ovens with platform-drop doors and a broiler 
in the plate shelf. A ventilator in the hood draws all food vapors 
into the flue. 
The best cook is handicapped with an indifferent range. Install 
a tailor-made Deane’s French Range in your kitchen to insure the 
enjoyment of your meals because they are cooked as they should be. 
A more detailed description of this and other ranges installed 
in prominent American homes is shown in “The Heart of the 
Home” our portfolio of unusual ranges. Shall we send you a copy? 
Bramhall, Deane Co. 
263*265 West 36 th St,NewYoih.N.Y 
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J. H. ELLIS 
P. O. Box MILWAUKEE 
882-J WISCONSIN 
Do not scrape the trees to destroy 
insect eggs and moss; use a stiff 
scrubbing-brush 
December Garden Work 
(Continued from page 76) 
This is an excellent time to build melon 
frames for the garden. They may be 
made so a single light of glass will cover 
them, occasioning only the making of 
the sides; but, generally speaking, the 
best type of frame is one where the top 
sash is divided into two parts with a 
wooden frame. 
The common melon frame is about 24" 
square, 12" high in front and about 18" 
in the back. This type of frame is much 
too small, however, as in most cases it 
must be removed too soon in order to 
make room for the plants’ growth. If the 
melon frames are not large enough to 
harbor the plants until all danger of cold 
spells is positively past, they are of little 
value. If I were building frames for my 
own purpose, I would have them not less 
than 30" square, and 36" is still better. It 
is surprising how much extra protection 
this additional space will give. 
The proper trenching of the soil is one 
of the most important of all garden prac- 
Just as long as the ground remains 
unfrozen you can plant deciduous 
trees and shrubs 
tices. By giving the frost a good oppor¬ 
tunity of freezing the earth in one solid 
mass, it destroys myriads of insect pests. 
It increases fertility as it brings to the 
surface the lower subsoils, with their 
abundant chemicals, which are quickly 
converted into plant food by the action of 
the weather. It makes a garden vastly 
more retentive of moisture, which surely 
stimulates production as it reduces the 
evaporation of the soil moisture. 
All gardens would be vastly improved 
by deep trenching at this season of the 
year. Make trenches 2' deep and as 
close together as you can possibly pile the 
soil on the space between the rows— 
usually about 2}4' between the rows will 
be adequate. This means that 1' 3" of 
frost will freeze the earth solid to a depth 
of 3'; and of course the frost does not 
thaw out as quickly in the trenches as it 
would on the surface. This prevents in¬ 
sects escaping by working their way 
deeper as the cold increases. 
Plants that flower on the terminals 
of new wood, like hydrangeas, 
may be pruned now 
