HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1910 
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A Holiday With the Birds. By Jeanette 
Marks and Julia Moody. Illustrations by 
Chester A. Reed. Frontispiece in Color. 
Cloth, i6mo, 211 pp. New York: Harper 
& Brothers. 75 cents net. 
This is the story of three children who 
go swimming, picknicking, berrying, sail¬ 
ing, motor-boating, breakfasting out-of- 
doors, and on all such jolly romps, on 
which occasions they see the birds and 
learn tbeir habits with the help their eld¬ 
ers give them. It is a good way to pre¬ 
sent nature-study to a child. 
Greek Lands and Letters. By F. G. and A. 
C. E. Allinson. Illustrated. Cloth, 8vo, 
pp. Boston: Moughton Mifflin Co. $2.50 
net. 
With this book in hand there would 
scarcely be a spot in all Greece where the 
traveler would not know just how he 
ought to feel and why, for the entertain¬ 
ing writers have presented in this volume 
matter of the greatest interest to the stay- 
at-homes as well as to the have-been- 
theres. 
Mr. Carteret and Others. By David Gray. 
Illustrated. Cloth, i6mo, 218 pp. New 
York: The Century Co. $i net. 
Here is a new book of “Gallops’’ stories 
by David Gray, and like the author’s pre¬ 
vious book, they touch on sport of various 
kinds. Mr. Gray’s characters are delight¬ 
ful creations. 
The Process of Layering 
(Continued from page 44) 
Stool or mound layers requires a little 
longer time, as they must have due prepa¬ 
ration. The shrub from which new plants 
are to be produced is pruned back severe¬ 
ly in the spring — "headed in" to nothing 
but low, short stubs, to induce a free 
growth of sprouts. When these strong 
young shoots are well grown—usually by 
the middle of summer — a mound of earth 
is piled entirely over the old plant and 
brought up some distance on the stems of 
the young shoots. This induces them to 
root freely, and by another spring they 
■are ready to be dug up, separated and 
planted as individuals. 
Air layering is simply an adaptation of 
the process to branches which, for one 
reason or another, cannot be bent down 
to the ground. It consists in applying 
earth to a stem that has been cleft as al¬ 
ready described, or girdled, by means of 
a divided pot holding earth clasped around 
it and held in place by binding. Sphag¬ 
num moss is wrapped around the whole to 
retain moisture, and the pot is supported 
in its unnatural position by a stand of 
stakes, if the work is being done out-of- 
doors. Inside in a conservatory or green¬ 
house, where the air is constantly moist, 
a paper pot enclosing the sphagnum alone 
may be used. 
Tip layering is exactly what the name 
•implies — the laying down of a tip alone 
'which, bent to the earth, is buried for a 
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