HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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March, 1911 
Free Book on Home Refrigeration 
It tells you how to select the Home Refrigerator—how to know the good from the 
poor—how to keep a Refrigerator sweet and sanitary—how your food can be prop¬ 
erly protected and preserved—how to keep down ice bills—lots of things you should 
know before selecting any Refrigerator. 
Don’t be deceived by claims being made for other so-called' 
“porcelain” refrigerators. The “Monroe” has the only real por¬ 
celain food compartments made in a pottery and in one piece of 
solid, unbreakable White Porcelain Ware over an inch thick, 
with every corner rounded, no cracks or crevices anywhere. 
There are no hiding places for germs—no odors, no dampness. 
GKMonroe” 
The Lifetime Refrigerator 
The leading hospitals use the ‘ ‘Monroe’ ’ 
exclusively and it is found today in a 
large majority of the very best homes. 
It is built to last a lifetime and will T — 
save you its cost many times over in ® andT^Faclory Prices, 
ice bills, food waste and repair bills. Cash or Monthly Payments. 
The “Monroe” is never sold in stores, but direct from the factory to you, freight 
prepaid to your railroad station, under our liberal trial offer and an ironclad 
guarantee of “full satisfaction or money refunded.” - 
Easy Payments We depart this year from our rule of all cash with order 
- and will send the “Monroe” freight prepaid on our 
liberal credit terms to all desiring to buy that way. 
Just say, “Send Monroe Book,” on a postal card and it will go to you by next mail. (10) 
MONROE REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, Station 16 , Lockland, Ohio 
i Don’-t spoil expensive 
woods with cheap finishes. 
Specify Glidden’s Green 
Label Varnishes and White 
Enamels. They cost no more 
at the store and a little less on 
the job. Sold everywhere. The 
Glidden Varnish Co., Cleveland, O.; 
Toronto, Ont. 
Open Fireplace Fixtures 
Andirons, Fenders, Firetools, 
Fire Screens and Smokeless Gas Logs 
We display a large selection of Period 
Andirons; also an assortment of reproduce 
tions in Old Colonial Andirons, Hob Grates 
and English Settee Fenders in Brass, 
Bronze and Wrought Iron. 
FranK H. Graf Mfg. Co. f£Sw ry Ho a 0 ^ 
323 Seventh Ave., Cor. 28th St., New YorK 
Copyright, 1908 by The J. L. Mott Iron Work 
G a r d e n 
Ornaments 
We issue separate 
catalogues of 
Electroliers, Drinking 
Fountains, Railings 
and Entrance Gates, 
Lawn and Park Foun¬ 
tains, Settees and 
Chairs, Flower Vases, 
Statuary. 
The J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS 
(Continued from page 192) 
supports. GuffboughsThat have plenty of 
twigs on them r either in the fall or early 
in the spring,, and insert them in the ground 
for at least a foot, so that the tops are 
wider rathefc than narrower than the bases. 
This will afford space for the vines to 
"spread out at-the top. If you really have 
not room for the brush supports, wire mesh 
will serve very well. The six-foot width 
will be sufficient for the latitude of New 
York, but in the northern States and Can¬ 
ada the width will have to be increased. 
Here are just a few points to remember 
in cultivation : In case of very hot and dry 
weather apply a mulch of manure or grass 
cuttings, extending for a foot on either 
side of the lines. Water two or three 
times a week over this. • - 
Apply .liquid manure only , after the first 
blossoms appear, and then sparingly, alter¬ 
nating .wit-h .clean water. Strengthen this 
food when the vines are in full flower. 
‘Put about a peck, of soot in a bag and 
let 5 it' dissolve for- a few hours in a barrel 
. of water. ; The: resulting solution will 
serve both as a plant food and insecticide. 
In watering da not neglect spraying the 
"vines themselves. It serves not only to re¬ 
fresh the foliage_but helps to keep it free 
from insects." 
. The only -pests; that are likely to bother 
the sweet pea are the cut-worm, the red 
spider and the green aphis. Soot will help 
to keep the cut-worm away and a spraying 
of whale-oil soap "or kerosene emulsion will 
rid the vines of the other two enemies. 
The greatest enemy of all, however, is us¬ 
ually the amateur gardener himself, in not 
working the soil deeply enough at the start 
and in not keeping it cultivated along the 
rows. Starting with a well-worked and 
well-enriched soil to a depth of three feet; 
keeping the seedlings six inches apart; hoe¬ 
ing the row every few days until the vines 
are well grown; and cutting the flowers 
daily — these are essentials to success. 
Hotbeds and Coldframes. 
(Continued from page 153) 
sash to provide fresh cool air every day 
after danger of freezing is over. In some 
types of hotbeds, the sash slide in grooves, 
but ordinarily they can be lifted up and 
blocks of wood placed under the comers to 
hold them up. 
An amateur will probably have better 
success with a cold frame than with a hot¬ 
bed, as its care does not involve quite so 
much garden knowledge. There is really 
nothing complicated about either, how¬ 
ever. The principal thing is to keep the 
growing things well watered and to give 
them a maximum of sunlight and the nec¬ 
essary amount of fresh air. 
A hotbed is really a greenhouse on a 
small scale and practically the same possi¬ 
bilities are open to it in the hands of an 
expert. Violet and pansy culture is ex¬ 
tensively carried on by this means, and 
flowers are obtained in the winter and 
early spring that are the equal of those 
grown in large commercial hothouses. The 
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