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House 
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Garden 
The Bossert Price Not a “Cut-Lumber’* Price 
Bossert prices cover the greater part of the labor of con¬ 
struction, the fitting and attaching of all hardware, the hang¬ 
ing of all windows, doors and blinds, painting, etc. The only 
additional cost in erecting is for the simple and inexpensive 
work of assembling which can be done quickly by unskilled 
labor. Work which must naturally be done on the ground- 
such as masonry and plumbing— is, of course, not included. 
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manufacturing. The price of the Bossert 
House shown above is only $1610, F. O. B. 
Brooklyn much less than its cost would 
be were vou to attempt to duplicate it 
yourself by the expensive, old-fashioned 
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Architect, W. C. Zlmmermann, Chicago. Ill. 
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Corners in the Decoration of a Room 
(Continued from page 48) 
full of umbrellas, 
raincoats, a broken 
chair waiting for 
the repair shop, and 
the inevitable chil- 
d r e n’s overshoes. 
Where does father 
come in? Father 
doesn’t come in at 
all. He goes right 
to the library where 
there is a bright 
fire burning and the 
prospect, on Satur¬ 
day night, of bridge 
or poker and maybe 
a “good song ring¬ 
ing clear” even if it 
does wake the chil¬ 
dren. The pater 
isn’t going to trans¬ 
act any business in 
a den; he is, after 
his wife has studied 
the problem for 
three years, going to 
write out his 
monthly checks at 
just such a desk as 
this, where he can, 
quite in the gentle 
atmosphere of books 
and portraits, dis¬ 
cuss the extravagant charges of the 
butcher and the candlestick maker. Here 
is every appointment he requires; a 
comfortable chair and desk, a telephone 
(both external and internal—if you will 
note the push buttons on the wall box 
connecting the principal rooms and the 
' a clock, ledgers for accounts, a 
his grandfather’s portrait and 
above all the ship 
model that reminds 
him throughout the 
winter of the joys 
of boating. 
Libraries are es¬ 
sentially hook rooms 
but they are so 
much more human 
where they are con¬ 
versation rooms and 
card rooms and 
rooms with desk and 
old portraits in cor¬ 
ners, where the mas¬ 
ter of the house can 
rule without too 
much pomp and 
ceremony. 
The dining room 
corner has a service 
table as the feature. 
Buffets have gone 
—thank Heaven— 
and given way to 
modest sideboards 
or consoles for the 
family silver, while 
square tables are 
placed near the pan¬ 
try door for holding 
the tea things, the 
coffee set and the 
toaster. The table in this corner does 
all these things. 
Study your comers. Don’t follow any 
fixed rule. Try them. If the chair 
in the living room corner is always in 
use; if the serving of your dinner goes 
more smoothly because of a well placed 
corner table; then you have solved the 
question of corners. 
There is no better place for 
a grandfather clock than in 
a corner of the hall 
ting the Garden for War Service 
(Continued from page 32) 
etables which may be most 
grown in a small garden are 
: the table. 
the most satisfactory use to 
he very small garden is to make 
ien of specialties, without any 
to have a complete list. Even 
space, for instance, devoted to 
nts of various kinds, will keep 
well supplied with this delici- 
important class of vegetables 
ire always hard to get in best 
n the retail market. A continu¬ 
ity of beans of the various de¬ 
sirable kinds may be produced in 
abundance in a very small area. 
A Garden of Completeness 
To make it worth while to attempt a 
complete garden in which a full list of 
all the common vegetables is to be grown, 
at least 2,000 square feet (a garden 40' 
by 50', or its equivalent) should be 
available, with part of it at least in 
good shape from previous cultivation. 
Even with a plot this size, it will hardly 
be advisable to grow such space consum¬ 
ing things as winter squash, watermelons, 
pumpkins, potatoes and the large, late 
varieties of sweet corn. 
In general terms, it may be said that 
an able-bodied man or woman with two 
hours a day, regularly, can care for a 
moderate sized garden—say 50' x 50' to 
50' x 100'. But a good deal of emphasis 
should be laid upon the word “regularly.” 
If you are going to be away week-ends, 
or to take an occasional vacation, or 
allow other interruptions, the garden 
may be more or less of a failure. Garden 
work is of such a character that it can¬ 
not be put off until tomorrow without 
fatal results; for the job of transplant¬ 
ing or weeding that could be done in half 
an hour today will take two or three 
days if delayed until after a rain or a 
couple of hot days. 
If you expect to be away for a regular 
summer’s vacation, the garden should 
be planned especially with that fact in 
view. Numbers of gardens are planted 
each spring which come to full bearing 
about the time the family is leaving, 
and are nothing but wrecks of weeds and 
passe vegetables by the time they get 
back. By planning carefully for early 
stuff, with a break during the vacation 
period, to be followed by late vegetables 
—which may be planted just before the 
vacation—a good early-and-late vegetable 
garden may be arranged for. 
In working out the details of the plan 
of your garden, you will want to know, 
in addition to the general principles, the 
amount of each vegetable it will be neces¬ 
sary to plant to supply the number of 
mouths you have to feed; how many 
plantings of each should be made; how 
much room the different vegetables re¬ 
quire, etc. 
First, put down the vegetables which 
you expect to grow. 
Second, figure out the number of 
lineal feet of each you will need. 
Third, make a plan of your garden 
showing the size, and fit in the things 
you have to grow, keeping in mind that 
the first plantings of beans, beets, car¬ 
rots, lettuce, onion sets, early peas, rad¬ 
ishes and turnips will be removed from 
the ground and out of the way between 
the middle of June and the middle of 
July, in time to make succession or late 
plantings of these same things as well 
as of cabbage, Brussels sprouts, endive, 
celery, cauliflower and rutabaga for 
winter use. If these early maturing 
things are grouped together, it will facili¬ 
tate the late plantings. 
Fourth, figure out the amount of seed 
you will need and order accordingly. It 
will be wise .o order early this year, as 
seed crops of all kinds are exceptionally 
short. 
