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THE GOOD & REESE COMPANY 
DEPARTMENT 101 SPRINGFIELD, OHK 
Largest Rose Growers in the World 
Modern Pansies and Their Culture 
(Continued from page 38) 
Unless you have a very large garden 
and plenty of gardeners, or wish to 
specialize in pansies, you will hardly 
find it worth while to buy individual 
varieties separately. The best mixtures 
sold by seedsmen who have a reputation 
to maintain, usually include the best 
varieties. These mixtures of the choicest 
up-to-date pansies are rather expensive; 
but to buy cheap pansy seeds is about 
as wise as buying the cheapest medicines 
you can get when you are ill. The 
finest pansies are, in the seedsmen’s 
jargon, “shy seeders”. Among humans 
it is the same way: proletarians usually 
have the larger families. 
Pansies are like humans in still an¬ 
other way. Some are over-big and loud 
and commonplace and vulgar—I posi¬ 
tively hate them. Strange to say (or 
isn't it strange?) these coarse yellows 
and purples are the ones which, in full 
bloom, take up most of the room in the 
boxes of plants sold by the thousands 
in early spring. Fortunately, most peo¬ 
ple are not so fussy as I am. Whenever 
I see one of these vulgar pansies in my 
garden, out comes the whole plant. Its 
room is more desirable than its presence. 
Tastes differ, and doubtless some per¬ 
sons honestly admire the glaring, inso¬ 
lent yellows I detest; but I am glad to 
say they and the dull purples are seldom 
to be found in the most expensive mix¬ 
tures, which shows that the pansy epi¬ 
cures who raise the choicest seeds share 
my taste. Some yellows are lovely— 
especially those with a light greenish 
tinge. These are gems, ranking in value 
with the snow white and coal black and 
sky or dark navy blue and blood red 
and pink and rose and bronzes and cop¬ 
pers and their endlessly varied combina¬ 
tions—blotched, flaked and veined in 
contrasting colors. I know few garden 
experiences so exciting and fascinating 
as watching the pansies in a new mixed 
bed successively unfolding and surpris¬ 
ing us with novel faces and color shades 
and contrasts. 
There are two reasons for not trying 
to raise your own pansy seeds. If you 
let the blossoms change into seed cap¬ 
sules you will soon have no more, for 
every plant thinks it has done its duty 
as soon as it has provided for the next 
generation. That’s one reason; the 
other is that in the hands of non-pro¬ 
fessionals pansies run down quickly in 
size, color and all that makes them 
lovely. Therefore, I repeat, plant noth¬ 
ing but the most expensive seeds from 
the most reliable firms. Don’t balk at 
the price. It takes 25,000 seeds to make 
an ounce; and the best, to say it again, 
are “shy seeders”. Let the artists—for 
artists they are—who originate and raise 
the choicest varieties have a reasonable 
profit. 
The best time to start pansy seeds is 
in August. Plants born in midsummer 
(in cold frames or boxes) and trans¬ 
planted to the garden when the fierce 
heat abates, grow big enough to bloom 
a month or so before the snow comes 
to cover them. In spring these same 
strong young plants burst into full 
bloom as soon as the snow melts away, 
vying in earliness with crocuses and 
Iceland poppies. 
The almost universal American habit 
of letting pansy plants die in July or 
August is deplorable. To be sure, the 
scorching sun mercilessly diminishes 
their size if allowed to have his way. 
But he can be thwarted. You can keep 
your pansies big and fragrant and happy 
all summer if you will. Three things 
are necessary: frequent stirring of the 
soil, thorough weeding, and daily water¬ 
ing. A little liquid sheep or hen manure 
added to the water two or three times 
a month will do the rest—provided you 
pick the blossoms every day or two. 
Hens keep on laying only when you 
take away the eggs. 
It is not best to grow pansies in the 
shade of a tree or a building. Noonday 
shade may be an advantage when the 
plants are not freely watered; but when 
they are, the best location is in the 
open, where the wind can sweep over 
the bed, wafting the pansy fragrance 
toward your piazza. 
A last word. Why do the seedmen 
in their catalogs never mention that 
pansies are fragrant, as they do in the 
case of other flowers? 
Building the Smokeless Fireplace 
(C ontinued from page 45) 
never be less than 3" nor more than 
4J4" and its length the entire width of 
the fireplace opening. If a patented 
damper is provided it will govern the 
size of the throat. When the throat is 
too wide the air passes up the flue with¬ 
out being warmed first and checks the 
draft, causing the fire to smoke. The 
throat should begin 6” above the bot¬ 
tom of the arch at the top of the open¬ 
ing, should never be more than 3" to 
4" wide, as a greater width tends to de¬ 
flect smoke into the room. This can 
be remedied by beveling off the ma¬ 
sonry to 4" across the bottom of the 
arch. 
The smoke chamber, starting at the 
top of the throat or damper, should slant 
about 60 degrees from both sides, until 
the flue size is reached. The bricks form¬ 
ing the slant in the chamber should be 
chipped or laid so as to present a 
smooth surface that will not retard the 
draft. No parging mortar or plaster¬ 
ing should be permitted in the smoke 
chamber. Forms of metal or terra cotta 
can be built in to insure this smooth¬ 
ness. 
The flue should be led off directly 
above the center of the smoke cham¬ 
ber. If this is not done the draft will 
be strongest on the side nearest the 
flue and the fire likely smoke on the 
other. When diverting! the vertical 
direction of the flue on its course up 
through the building, in order to insure 
a good draft, this should be done at 
an angle of 60 degrees and never less 
than 45 degrees. The steeper the angle 
the less possibility for soot and ashes 
to form a deposit and clog the flue. 
For this reason when building the chim¬ 
ney, holes should be left in the ma¬ 
sonry at the points of changes in di¬ 
rection, and at the bottom of the flue, 
so that droppings of mortar, bricks and 
other rubbish can be cleaned out be¬ 
fore they set too hard. After these are 
removed the holes should be closed with 
masonry. It is understood that all 
flues in every building should be 
cleaned, all rubbish removed and the 
flue left perfectly smooth on the in¬ 
side upon completion of the building. 
Once a year all flues should be prop¬ 
erly cleaned from top to bottom. 
To eliminate the danger of fire each 
fireplace should have its own separate 
flue, lined with terra cotta flue lining 
for its entire height, built in when the 
chimney is being constructed, in order 
to insure a smooth interior. No more 
than two flues are permitted in the 
same chimney space, in which case the 
joints of the lining should be broken 
or staggered at least 6". When more 
than two, each third flue must be sep¬ 
arated by a 4" withe or division wall. 
In fireplaces where the flues are ex¬ 
pected to run three stories or more, the 
flue area at the top of the smoke cham- 
(Continued on page 66) 
