HOUSE AND GARDEN 
112 
February, ign 
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The Real Meaning and Use of 
Architectural Detail 
(Continued from page 97) 
a stucco which they used on their houses. 
Unfortunately this has not withstood the 
ravages of time, and a great deal of their 
work, some of which was doubtless very 
interesting, has fallen into disrepair. 
While the Adams’ work was in no 
sense virile, and to a great extent merely 
fashionable, they did some really charm¬ 
ing things, more especially in interior fur¬ 
nishing and decoration. 
A Vegetable Garden and Its 
Lessons 
(Continued from page 100). 
The Newcomer went on, however, and 
put out just one hundred plants in ridges 
three feet apart and eight inches apart in 
the row. He was going to win or lose on 
sweet potatoes in that way. 
When his Lima and Kentucky Wonder 
beans were ready to begin climbing the 
Newcomer unlocked his barn and brought 
out his first surprise, in the shape of a lath 
frame. Each was composed of a seven- 
foot piece of plank with seven laths nailed 
crosswise at regular intervals, fastening 
them in the middle. The plank was sharp¬ 
ened at one end so that it could be driven 
a foot in the ground. The planks were 
then set up with the ends of the lath just 
touching and making a continuous row. 
One row after another was placed in this 
way and then stiffened by nailing light 
strips crosswise, making the entire work 
strong enough to resist the winds of sum¬ 
mer thunder storms. Mr. Dunlap, other¬ 
wise the Newcomer, had allied himself 
with the anti-pole school of gardeners. 
His theory was that beans need all the 
sunlight and air that they can get and that 
poles bunch and crowd them too much. 
His remedy for the “pole evil,” as he 
termed it, was to give the beans an oppor¬ 
tunity to grow all over his trellis-like 
framework and not limit them to climb¬ 
ing single poles. The inspecting public 
was favorably impressed with this new 
idea and did not hesitate to say so. 
The Newcomer's second surprise was 
a new way of training tomato vines. 
When his beans had been supplied with 
climbing surface he again went to his 
barn and brought out a lot of contrivances 
which very much resembled drop-leaf 
kitchen tables. The framework was made 
of oak strips, an inch thick and three 
inches wide. Two laths were nailed on 
each side and five on top, making a table 
forty-eight inches long, thirty inches wide 
and thirty inches high. These tables he 
placed with a tomato plant at each leg, 
four plants to the table, and so arranged 
that he could walk all around each table. 
The young plants were first trained up the 
legs and then permitted to spread out on 
the top lath surface, giving them light and 
air from all sides and from below. This 
was an assault on the pole theory for toma- 
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