HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
LEAVENS 
MADE FURNITURE 
A mistaken impression concerning our furniture 
has apparently been given in some instances by 
our consistent advertising of COTTAGE FURNI¬ 
TURE or Straight Line Furniture. This is by 
no means our only line, but because of its great 
popularity and wide appeal to home furnishers, it 
has been more frequently presented in our 
advertising. 
Our complete stock includes several lines just 
as popular as our Cottage Furniture, and offers 
attractively de¬ 
signed, well made 
pieces to meet 
every need of the 
tastefully furnished 
home. 
By selecting from 
our large stock, it 
is possible to have a 
pleasing variety of 
designs and yet 
have every piece 
harmonious with 
the others, whether 
you select in our 
Cottage or Modern, 
with here and there 
a Colonial piece. 
And this harmony in the complete effect, with 
variety of design in individual pieces, can be made 
much more pronounced by selecting your own 
stains in which to have your furniture finished. 
To anyone with an appreciation of color values, 
our policy of finishing to the customer’s order, 
offers opportunity 
to impress distinct 
individuality upon 
the home. 
Our color chart 
of stains and fin¬ 
ishes offers sugges¬ 
tions and is of 
great assistance in 
working out the 
color schemes of 
your rooms 
We also furnish unfinished if so desired. Ship¬ 
ments carefully made insuring safe delivery. 
Send for complete set No. 4, of over 200 illustra¬ 
tions and color chart. 
WILLIAM LEAVEN560Q 
32 CA NAL 
BOSTON 
CURTAINS 
DRAPERIES 
AND 
FORTIERS 
Made to Measure 
after your own selection 
of style and materials. 
Ready to hang and 
guaranteed to fit. 
Writefor Catalogue of Draperies and Furniture 
SANFORD SHOPS, Inc. 
Dept. D: 49 West 45th Street, New York City 
Your Saturday Afternoon Garden 
(Continued from page 21 ) 
latter, discolor the foliage to such an 
extent. 
The sugar pumpkins, watermelons, 
musk melons, cucumbers, squash—both 
fruit and vine — will be injured by the first 
hard frost. They are too spreading in 
habit to make covering up feasible; but, 
fortunately, they make up for this to some 
extent in the fact that they will continue 
to ripen for a long time after being picked, 
if they are properly handled and stored. 
All the mature fruits, therefore, should 
be taken up before danger of frost, which, 
in the latitude of Boston, may be expected 
towards the end of this month. Melons 
that have ripened enough to be a little soft 
at the stem end and which may be easily 
twisted off may be picked in the ordinary 
way and put in any cool, dry place, to 
prevent their ripening too rapidly. Those 
not quite so far developed may be cut with 
a piece of the vine attached and put in 
straw in a dark, perfectly dry place and 
will there ripen up gradually. Water¬ 
melons should be handled in about the 
same way; the nearly ripe fruit, indicated 
by a hollow sound when rapped with the 
knuckle, or by the withering of the stems, 
being kept separate from the matured but 
less ripe fruits, will require a much longer 
time before they are ready for use. Squash 
and pumpkin, particularly the former, al¬ 
though they may seem to have shells hard 
enough to protect them from any injury 
which could be inflicted without a hammer, 
nevertheless easily receive bruises which 
at the time may be invisible, but which 
develop into decayed spots later — and one 
or two such fruits at the bottom of a 
good-sized pile will be enough to spoil 
them all when they are put into storage. 
Beans, tomatoes, peas, sweet corn and 
small beets that have to be thinned out, 
spinach, and numerous other perishable 
products which are usually allowed to go 
to waste, can be saved if the co-operation 
of the kitchen is to be had. f can hear 
some reader declare stoutly that he is not 
going to allow me to tie an apron around 
his neck, and that he has paid the price 
of admission to find out about gardening 
and not cooking; but before he enters his 
protest I would suggest his bearing with 
me a moment more. Certainly, finding 
a use for the garden products after they 
are grown is just as important as grow¬ 
ing them. If they cannot be stored in 
boxes, bins or pits by the usual method, 
the energetic gardener will make use of 
any other practical method available. 
Such a method is the new “cold pack” 
system of canning, which the Department 
of Agriculture has so widely recom¬ 
mended. It is not necessary for the gar¬ 
dener, who thinks his work stops at the 
kitchen door, to stand over a hot range, 
or even a cool gas or oil stove, and attend 
to the finishing details of the job; but he 
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CHICAGO, ILL. 
Ui 
PAINTED 
FURNITURE 
for the informal rooms in 
City homes and apart¬ 
ments and for all rooms 
of Country Houses — inex¬ 
pensive, sturdy and charm¬ 
ing. 
Choice of color scheme. 
Write for Booklet "A.” 
ERSKINE-DANFORTH 
CORPORATION 
2 West 47th St., New York 
Triple 
Table (X18) Top 40" 
22" wide; 29" high. 
