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House & Garden 
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Economy in House Heating 
T housands of successful 
1917 garden-beginners are to¬ 
day praising Vaughan’s Seeds. Ten 
thousand City and National Gardens, 
successful with our seeds, already plan 
with enthusiasm their next year’s garden 
—bigger and better; we can help. 
For Over Forty Years 
we have gathered from the ends of the 
earth the Vegetables of quality and 
Flowers that bloom, and by our tests 
and trials we know and offer only such 
as will give results. 
The available garden seed supply is 
the shortest ever known. Plan care¬ 
fully and it will be safest to ORDER 
EARLY. 
Those planting in quantity, scarce seeds 
such as Onion, Cabbage, Beans, Peas, 
Pepper, Sweet Corn and Tomato, 
WRITE NOW for prices. 
1918 War Garden Collections 
(Include Garden Booklet Free) 
Na 1 Complete assortment of Vege- Cl Art 
I’O* I tables for 2 5 ft. garden, prepaid y A * uy 
Na 9 Complete assortment of Vege- Cl CA 
mb L tables for 50 ft. garden, prepaid 
Begin your 1918 garden — 
order one of the above 
Vaughan’s Catalogue “Gardening Illus¬ 
trated” goes with either, or by mail 
FREE. 160 big pages with colored plates . 
(30 Greenhouses, 120 acres Nursery ) 
VAUGHANS SEED STORE 
Dept. T, 31-33 W. Randolph St., CHICAGO 
Dept. T, 41-43 Barclay St., NEW YORK 
(U . S. Government License , No. G310 74) 
OSES NEW CASTLE 
—the most authoritative book on rose 
planting, cultivation and pruning ever 
published. It is the life-time experience 
of America’s largest rose growers. 
Gives expert advice. This valuable 
guide gives special prices and tells all 
about our famous roses, plants and 
bulbs. Tells how we prepay charges 
anywhere in the U. S. Send for copy 
at once—it’s free. 
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Morris Nurseries 
Order Norway Maples NOW 
Be ready to plant in early 
Spring. A most valuable 
ornamental tree that adds a 
distinctive touch of Beauty 
to lawn, street or avenue. 
Grows compact and devel¬ 
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tree. Norway Maples are 
notably free from in¬ 
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Send today for our 
free descriptive catalog, 
and price list of reliable 
Nursery Stock. 
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Box 801 West Chester, Pa. 
1 -SHE following suggestions are of¬ 
fered by the Federal Bureau of 
' Mines in cooperation with the Fuel 
Administration. In these times of coal 
scarcity their application is obvious. 
Careless use of coal in grates, stoves 
and furnaces during the war is an eco¬ 
nomic crime. Be sure the heat is doing 
what you want it to rather than need¬ 
lessly heating unoccupied spaces and the 
chimney. Weather strips, double win¬ 
dows, pipe covering, heating drums in 
stove-pipe and extra radiators ’ pay. It 
is cheaper to use a larger radiator in 
tire always chilly room or in the room 
to be kept specially warm than to force 
the fire. Do not let the house get too 
warm. Do not invest in Chemical Fuel 
Savers. By care, attention, and taking 
pains you will save more coal than by 
buying cheap accessories. There is no 
short cut to economy. 
Open fireplaces are inefficient. Use 
them sparingly. 
Let heat from the kitchen stove re¬ 
move the chill of the house as long in 
the season as possible. 
When stoves or furnaces must be 
started, see that smoke passages and 
chimney are clean and are kept clean. 
If soft coal is used the smoke passages 
should be cleaned every few days. 
See that the air supplied under the 
grate can be positively controlled. Tight 
ash pits, tightly fitting the floor and the 
grate section, must have tight-fitting 
doors and dampers which can be closely 
adjusted. 
Air above the fire must come in only 
through dampers, usually in the door. 
All other openings for such air must be 
closed. 
Study the directions for running your 
furnace. If you do not have directions, 
send to the maker of the furnace for 
them. 
Keep ashes cleaned from under the 
grate. The fire burns more uniformly 
and with less clinker with a clean ash 
pit. 
It is best to keep a full fire pot, level 
with the bottom of the firing door. If 
the draft is poor or the coal fine, thin¬ 
ner fires must be kept. In mild weather 
the fire can be carried thinner by allow¬ 
ing a few inches of ashes on the grate. 
In cold weather keep the grate free of 
ash. 
Attend the furnace at regular periods. 
Anticipate the demand for heat. Rapid 
pushing or retarding of the fire is uneco¬ 
nomical. 
If soft coal is used, break the lumps to 
fist size and do not cover the whole sur¬ 
face with fresh fuel. Leave a bright 
spot to ignite gases. 
Small charges of coal frequently ap¬ 
plied are more economical than infre¬ 
quent firing, but tire fire bed should be 
disturbed as little as possible by shaking 
and poking. Convenience usually deter¬ 
mines periods of firing. Shaking and 
cleaning tire grate twice a day is usually 
enough. Stop shaking as soon as it be¬ 
gins to be bright under the grate. 
If the fire gets very low, open the 
ash-pit damper and add a little coal, 
not too fine. Do not disturb the grate 
or ashes. When the fresh coal is well 
ignited, shake the grate and add more. 
A fresh fire or a large fire requires 
air over the fuel bed as well as through 
it. The damper in the door is for this 
purpose. 
To check a fire, close the ash-pit door 
and open the check draft in the smoke 
pipe. Never check by leaving the firing 
door open. 
The main damper in the smoke pipe 
should be partly closed if the draft is so 
strong as to make checking and control 
of the fire difficult with the check draft. 
There will be little good coal or coke 
in the ash from a carefully managed fire, 
but if there is much recover it by sift¬ 
ing the ash. 
Success With Heliotrope 
H ELIOTROPE, that unobtrusively 
lovely and most subtly fragrant 
of plants, is universally beloved. 
Few are the gardens, great or small, 
where its growth is not attempted with, 
alas, varying results. In some localities 
—that of Southern California for ex¬ 
ample—it grows apparently of its own 
volition and without coaxing. There 
are those who claim to have no difficulty 
with, it in less favored climates, and 
these call it a plant of easy culture; but 
such has not been the experience of 
many who obey cultural rules to the best 
of their understanding. 
To attain success, when the time 
comes for setting out the bedding plants, 
prepare a bed of rich, well drained, light 
soil. Select plants which are young and 
stocky rather than tall. Those which 
already show a woody growth should be 
rejected whatever the inducement to buy, 
for heliotrope blossoms on the green 
shoots. 
Set rather closely, the young heliotrope 
plants reward you with a profusion of 
bloom as lavish in its way as that of the 
daisies and buttercups of the fields. 
“Cut and come again” is not only permis¬ 
sible, but the rule, for no plants respond 
more speedily to cutting back, and the 
more one plucks the more one has. 
Even among the abundance that a 
well cared for heliotrope bed supplies, it 
is pleasant to know that the all too short 
life of the gathered blossoms may be 
prolonged by placing them, immediately 
after cutting, in very hot water, and by 
picking from the stems as many leaves 
as possible without sacrificing the effect. 
Fine specimens of heliotrope are hard¬ 
ly possible in winter to any save those 
who have greenhouses. Therefore the 
greater number of the plants must go, 
but cuttings are easily made from two or 
three goods plants set in suitable sized 
pots of rich, light, well drained soil. Put 
these where they will gradually accustom 
themselves to the change from outdoor 
to indoor conditions, and do not worry 
over their loss of leaves. When you have 
them under cover, keep in warm, sunny 
windows and soak daily, for moisture is 
essential at the end of every tiny root 
filament. 
If by chance you succeed in getting 
blossoms from these plants, great indeed 
will be the reward; but you should be 
well content to keep them sufficiently 
healthy to give you cuttings. These 
should be taken from the plant with a 
sharp knife. Cut diagonally just below 
a leaf joint, and root by what is known 
as the “saucer method.” Simply enough, 
this consists in setting the shoots in a 
deep dish of fine, clean sand which must 
be kept not only wet, but almost like 
mud, and never once allowed to dry out. 
If set where there is bottom heat, as on 
a radiator, the result is quick and cer¬ 
tain ; but this calls for watering some¬ 
times twice and three times a day and a 
sunny window and slower rooting may 
be preferred. When the shoots have 
good roots, put in small pots and trans¬ 
fer to larger as they increase in size. 
Rose geraniums and lemon verbenas— 
in fact, almost all bedding plants—may 
be rooted in the same way. The two 
latter plants fit well in the heliotrope bed 
and may be saved from year to year. 
Dig them up before frost, set in boxes 
of earth, water moderately, and then 
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Fresh Fruit as Food | 
is a Real Economy | 
Food for our families, for 1 
our men in France and in | 
American camps, is the im- | 
portant thing for every red- | 
blooded patriot to think about. | 
And it means thinking and 1 
planning for several years to j 
come. 
Fruit Trees and Berry Bushes Set 
This Year Are Food Insurance 
Fruit trees set this spring 
will not prevent the use of the 
ground for other crops—in 
fact the cultivation you give 
the vegetables helps the trees. 
Fruit is always in demand— 
it is healthful, nourishing, re¬ 
freshing, and when from your 
own garden or orchard is a 
real economy. 
We offer for spring planting several 
special collections for small or large 
liome gardens. A request from you 
will bring full details. 
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46 MAPLE AVENUE, 
West Chester, Penna. 
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sure heading, delicious. Radish Vick s Scarlet 
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