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House & 
Plan Now to Give Your 
Lawn Better Care 
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House & Garden 
How to Make Livable Rooms of Green 
(Continued from page 82) 
associates painted surfaces with green; avoid the pink and green idea of child- 
solt, smooth-finished light weight ma- hood; the rose should be surrounded by 
tenals, such as linens, taffetas, pongees, areas of white, cream, or palest gray 
rarely anything heavier than a velvet- there must be some contrast of black 
een; one thinks of green in its rare and a few notes of yellow do but.en- 
tones, the leaf greens, jades, apple hance the schemeT Silver and pewter 
greens and pickle greens, with occa- blend better with green than do gold 
sionally a dull olive and sage. One brass, or copper 
relieves green surfaces with adorable If green is handled lightly and deli- 
splashes of rose and yellow, blue, black, cately, there is no room in the house 
gold, and silver: one weaves in the story in which it may not be used, if de- 
of green the joy of living, the power sired. Olive green woodwork and but- 
ot new growth. . . tercup yellow, curtains make a charming 
> u j} e in ' lne j w *th this principle is kitchen; green furniture and rose- 
this bedroom furnished in green: the sprigged chintz delight the kiddies in 
walls are oyster white, the floor mauve, the nursery; in the dining room it is 
four or live tones darker than the fur- refreshing, in the living room it is rest- 
niture, which is also of this color but ful, in the hall it is calm and spacious 
heavily trimmed with black and jade in the bedroom it is full of peace. The 
green, the interiors of the chest draw- only thing one must do, however, to 
ers are bright jade color; the mirror obtain these results is to approach the 
gold framed The hook rug is of green, color from the proper angle: which 
black and lavender, the bedspread of means to surround it with a neutral 
dull jade green taffeta quilled in mauve, pale tone, to combine it with the bright 
the cretonne window drapes are pre- colors and sober masses of spring 
dominantly green, mauve and rose. and invariably to select for its interpre- 
Kose is another delightful color with tation delicacy of texture and slender- 
which to combine green, but one must ness of line. 
Rejuvenating 
A GRAPEVINE is one of the very 
few forms of vegetable life which 
will immediately and satisfactorily 
respond to a little attention on the part 
of the gardener, even if this attention 
is not given until the vine has shown 
actual signs of decay. In this respect 
a grapevine is unusual; and I should 
say that its powers of recuperation bor¬ 
der on the wonderful. What tree, for 
example, if cut off short to the ground, 
will send up a new tree as fine as the 
old, and as heavy a bearer of fruit? 
Yet the grapevine will do this. 
Often, after a vine has borne for a 
dozen years, and is full of old, hard 
wood, the thing to do is to cut it off 
a few inches above the ground, and then 
take care of one or two of the finest 
shoots that are sure to appear from the 
stump. But there is another method 
which is less drastic and which does not 
rob the grower of a season or two of the 
vine’s bearings. I mean the rejuvenat¬ 
ing process, which can be applied to any 
vine anywhere. And this process should 
be applied every three or four years to 
A Grapevine 
any vine, so that the forces of decay 
will not have an opportunity to attack 
it in a weakened condition. 
During the autumn or early spring, 
clear the ground thoroughly in a 10' 
circle about the root of the vine. Rake 
away a little of the top soil; the fibrous 
grape roots will not be injured enough 
to hurt them. Then apply a heavy top¬ 
dressing over the entire space. This 
dressing should consist of a light cover¬ 
ing of good loam to replace the earth 
removed; then pack down rather tightly 
V of rich, strawy manure. When this 
is in place, a further light dressing either 
of bone-meal or of nitrate of soda will 
supply further valuable fertilizer. 
Having thus taken care of the roots, 
trim the vine back severely, removing 
all dead wood, and at least' half of the 
bearing canes, cutting back the bearers 
retained at about two buds. 
This rejuvenation of a grapevine is 
no experiment. It is an easy and a 
pleasant task; and its results are cer¬ 
tain and gratifying. 
A. Rutledge. 
oses for Arb 
T HE character of the foliage and 
hardiness should be important 
considerations in choosing types of 
climbing roses for covering arbors, 
trellises, pergolas, ’pillars and similar 
structures. Roses used in this way are 
usually in conspicuous places and 
flowers can be depended on for orna¬ 
mental effects for a relatively short 
period only during the year. Climbing 
roses with a poor leaf development or 
those especially liable to attack by in- 
sects and diseases, therefore, make but 
a poor appearance. 
The climbing roses are divided 
roughly into two divisions. The pillar 
roses are those not growing more than 
6 or 8 feet high. The more vigorously 
growing roses of the group are the 
climbers or ramblers. 
Of the trellis and arbor roses the 
members of the Wichuraiana or Me¬ 
morial group are among those most 
resistant to disease and insect attack. 
They have foliage pleasing to the eye 
throughout practically all seasons. The 
blossoms are white and single. The 
or and Trellis 
Multiflora climbers flower in clusters. 
Many of them, however, especially the 
so-called ramblers, are subject to mil¬ 
dew and insect attacks. They are rea¬ 
sonably hardy in the North. Roses of 
the Laevigata group, represented by the 
Cherokee, on the other hand, require a 
warm climate. This is true also of the 
roses of the climbing Noisette group 
represented by the Marechal Niel and 
Lamarque. These roses are suitable for 
culture only in the warmer sections 
where the winter temperature seldom 
falls below 10° F. above zero. 
Climbing roses require large quan¬ 
tities of plant food. The body of good 
soil available should be equal to a mass 
3 feet square and 30 inches deep. A 
hole of this volume should be dug and 
filled with good garden soil mixed with 
well-rotted manure. Climbers, like all 
other roses, require good drainage. No 
roses will thrive where water stands 
about their roots. Planting should be 
done carefully, as in the case of roses 
for landscape purposes. 
—U. S. Dept, of Agriculture. 
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