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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1910 
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Blount or Yale Door Checks 
close doors quickly and gently, firmly and silently. 
Protect your health from drafts, your nerves 
from odors and noises. 
No more doors carelessly left open by Mr. 
Never-Close-the-door. 
No more doors idly banged by Mr. Alwavs- 
Slam-the-door,or by old-fashioned spring hinges. 
No more double swing doors with their flip, 
flap, flopping. 
We make door closing devices that control 
all these things in the best way. Thirty thousand 
hardware dealers can supply them. 
Blount Door Checks : Close ordinary doors gently, 
quickly, firmly, you only hear the click of the latch. 
Blount Holder-Checks : Like ordinary Blount Checks, 
but hold the door open when you wish. 
Yale Double-Acting Door Checks: For double 
swing doors. 
Yale Checking Floor Hinges: A Combination Check, 
Spring and Hinge applied under the floor. 
Ask your hardware dealer for the Blount or Yale Door Checks for your doors. 
The prices vary for different types and sizes, from $ 3.00 upward. Send your name 
for an interesting illustrated story called “The Peace Makers.” Free of course. 
The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. 
Makers of Yale Products 9 Murray Street, New York 
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Highlands Nursery & Salem Branch Nursery' 
( 4,000 ft. elevation in the Carolina Mountains) 
The largest collection of Hardy American Plants in the world. 
Rhododendrons, Kalmias and Andromedas for August and September 
Planting give splendid results the following spring. 
Our tried native species are the best and the only absolutely hardy ones. Write now 
for Beautifully Illustrated Catalogue which tells how to grow these things successfully. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, owner 
Salem, Mass. 
The roots of Sweet Peas will some¬ 
times go to a depth of three feet, so that 
the most thorough preparation of the soil 
is of the utmost importance. Work heavy 
soils in the fall, light soils in the spring. 
Manure heavy soils in the fall and light 
soils in the spring. 
If you want to make a specialty of 
having the finest Sweet Peas in your 
neighborhood, plant the seeds in October 
in pots set out in a coldframe, sowing five 
seeds around the edge of each six-inch 
pot. Don't coddle the seedlings—keep the 
frames open as much as possible. 
A pane of glass over each pot will 
prevent mice from eating the seeds. Af¬ 
ter the seedlings appear, remove the glass 
and protect the frame from birds by cov¬ 
ering it, when the sash is off, with a 
wire-mesh frame. 
The best soil for the pots is made up 
of three parts of sound, fibrous loam, one 
part refuse manure, one part sweet de¬ 
composed leaf-mould, and one-tenth part 
sharp sand. 
The mauve varieties of Sweet Peas 
have small, spotted and wrinkled seeds. 
These and the white ones are apt to rot 
in the soil if it is kept too moist or if they 
are set too deep. Use a lighter soil for 
these seeds, setting the n one-quarter of 
an inch under a covering of sand. For 
the brown and black seeds increase the 
depth to from one-half to an inch, cov¬ 
ering with fine soil. 
Set out these pot-grown plants in 
April, using every care not to injure the 
roots. Allow the soil in the pots to be¬ 
come fairly dry, when the separation of 
neighboring plants will be easier. Water 
the ground where these are to be set in 
advance, and afterwards as well, to settle 
the soil about the roots. 
Nearly all amateurs who grow Sweet 
Peas crowd them too closely together. 
Plants having three stems should be set 
in a space of fifteen to eighteen inches. 
If the plants are to be set in parallel lines 
let these lines run northeast and south¬ 
west if possible, not due north and south, 
and have six feet of space between the 
rows. 
Place the supports, whether of brush 
or wire-mesh, in position before the plants 
are four inches high. Wire-mesh is per¬ 
haps the best all-around support, and if 
taken up in the fall may be used repeat¬ 
edly. If brush is used set the branches 
so that the tops are more spreading than 
the bases. 
In watering Sweet Peas rain water is 
far better than that which comes from 
the supply pipes and is too frequently 
hard. Delay watering until the soil is 
becoming really dry: then give the plants 
enough water to moisten the soil to a 
depth of three feet, three to five gallons 
to a square yard. Do not water again 
until the soil has almost dried out com¬ 
pletely. 
Assist the plants when they are in full 
bud with liquid manure, given when the 
soil is moist and in the same quantity as 
watering. Water between two doses of 
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