August, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
49 
other evergreen so facile under the shears 
as boxwood. 
In moving antique boxwood an expert 
should always be employed. The secret 
of moving it is to lift it in such a way 
that all the roots remain undisturbed in 
their original soil. In box-bushes a hun¬ 
dred years old it has been found that the 
active roots, instead of going straight 
down as they do for the first twenty-five 
or thirty-five years, run out horizontally 
four or five inches under ground. The 
only way to locate these roots is to dig 
a hole about six feet from the outer edge 
of the bush to a depth of, say, eight feet 
and then to run a tunnel under the bush, 
removing the dirt by hand from beneath. 
When the bush is lifted a board may be 
run under it so that the soil will not fall 
away from the roots. It is sometimes 
necessary to take as much as eight feet of 
soil with a bush. The proper preparation 
of the bed to which the bush is to be 
transplanted is of the utmost importance. 
Boxwood grows best in a light, loamy soil 
where the drainage is good. The ground 
should therefore be carefully prepared 
with six or eight inches of sand for drain¬ 
age and with about eight inches of rich 
compost of sand and manure on top. A 
foot of rich soil should also be filled in 
around the roots. Box can be trans¬ 
planted successfully from March to 
November. 
Arts and Crafts in the Home 
of Good Taste 
(Continued from page 14) 
should be mentioned the Mercer tiles and 
the very effective combination with con¬ 
crete. Many beautiful things are pro¬ 
duced in individual studios, sometimes by 
craftsmen with assistants and pupils. 
Silverware from Baltimore; from Chi¬ 
cago and Boston articles in brass and 
copper. So we begin to have character¬ 
istic work from here and there able to 
stand with the world’s former produc¬ 
tions, each in its own field. An arts and 
crafts exhibition room can show almost 
any material and every craft; metal, 
woodcarving, china decoration, pottery, 
glass, architectural brasses, textile weav¬ 
ings or printings — an endless array. And 
all of these are but as specimen copies 
from the artists: the true method is for 
the home-makers to meet the craftsmen 
and that they should together carry out 
such results as are suitable and beautiful 
in the special place and use and needs and 
pleasures of the family. 
From the foregoing, it is plain that a 
home is a composite thing, for which all 
members of the family are in their degree 
responsible, and that it rests upon certain 
conditions. They who must live in a hired 
apartment are obviously at a disadvantage, 
for the true home can hardly be conceived 
without a base upon the earth. Indeed, 
there have been craftsmen of note who 
have announced just this: “The problem 
of the land and the problem of arts and 
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