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House & Garden 
Above: AiR-Way installa¬ 
tion consisting of two series 
of four sash each. One series 
opens to the left; the other 
to the right. Right: Showing 
how the AiR-Way link opens 
each window. In each series 
of sash, the sash hinged to 
the window casing open 
first. Then the remaining 
sash slide toward this end 
as they are opened. Below: 
Showing all sash in an open 
position, affording an unusu¬ 
ally wide and unobstructed 
opening. 
Summer and Autumn Vegetables 
(Continued from page 118) 
or in a seed bed located in a sheltered tall two ties should be made to each, 
spot, and to transplant the plants into The plants thus temporarily staked 
another frame or bed just as soon as grow erect and are in better shape for 
they are large enough to be handled, a later permanent, stronger stake or a 
which will be when they put on their frame. 
second or character leaves. When the We prefer not to water or have our 
proper time comes they may be moved garden watered with a hose from over- 
into the open garden; there to grow head at all. On the whole we do not 
on. All of these plants may be trans- think it beneficial. Water under heavy 
planted into the garden during the pressure applied with a hose when to- 
period between June 15 and July 10, mato, especially, and also egg plants 
except the tomato, egg plants and and peppers, and even beans to some 
peppers which should be set out as extent, are in flower will surely shorten 
soon as all late frosts are over, gener- the crop. In place of watering we 
ally from about May 10 to June 1. practice very frequent and thorough 
The early, mid-season, and late tomato shallow cultivation, using mostly a 
plants should all be set out on about narrow steel garden rake, and we are 
the same date, otherwise the late va- quite satisfied with the result. When 
rieties may not mature their fruit early using a hose we feel as if we were a 
enough to escape the first Autumn fireman, but when plying a hoe and 
frosts. The season in the latitude of rake we know that we are a gardener. 
New York City', between late Spring 
and early Autumn frosts, is none too cover crops for the garden 
long for the growing, maturing and 
ripening of pepper, eggplant, and the A cover crop in late Autumn and 
late varieties of tomatoes. through the Winter is a benefit to the 
garden, even if it cannot be sown be- 
transplanting fore the middle of October. This- crop 
keeps the rich, top soil from being 
Transplanting is best done in the blown away in autumn and winter, and 
afternoon of a rather warm day. To us when dug under in spring both aerates 
transplanting seems to be a work which and fertilizes the soil and helps to 
needs to be performed with much care, make it friable. Rye makes a good 
It is our custom to make with hoe or cover crop, it is easy to obtain and 
trowel a hole several times larger than sow, and quick and sure to germinate, 
is actually necessary to receive the Since you are not growing this for a 
plant, then pour into each hole about crop of grain, it will be sufficient to 
a pint of water. After this has settled clear the garden of litter, and burn it, 
into the soil, the plant is put into the then dig over the garden shallow with 
hole clear up to its seed leaves; in the a hoe or any convenient tool with 
case of tomatoes, higher up, if the which the work can be done easily and 
plants are very tall, since tomato plants rapidly, and then sow the rye thickly 
will put out roots all along their stems, and rake it into the soil, 
no matter how deep they are set. The Gardening is a most interesting occu- 
soil then is returned to its holes, and pation. Our heads and our hands both 
made firm around the plants till the enter into the work; when the former 
holes are nearly full, then about a pint is well stocked with garden knowledge 
more water is poured in around each and wisdom and the latter follow its 
plant, and when it has settled away, the direction, there is little chance of any 
rest of the soil is put back around the total failure in gardening, whether the 
plants and left loose. Plants so trans- season be too dry or too wet or we 
planted will need no further watering, have late spring or early autumn frosts 
In the case of tomatoes, a small stake and the bugs be numerous, and there is 
is placed firmly in the ground close to a strong probability of large success, 
each plant directly after the transplant- but there is little hope, though all the 
ing, and the plants are tied to these garden stars in the heavens be auspi- 
rather closely with a strip of soft cloth cious for satisfactory crops from a gar- 
or soft twine; if the plants are over den cultivated by ill-guided hands. 
Where To 
Look For Curios In London 
New things become simple when once we understand them. 
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AiR-Way ecptipped windows open or close at a touch, but are 
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inward without interfering with the screen, which may be installed 
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directly to each sash. 
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name for half a mile, you begin to 
pass between shops of the kind you 
seek almost all the way to Gun- 
nersbury Station. To take the 
Metropolitan railway to Shepherd’s 
Bush is another good start, and 
to hunt in the shops under the arches 
of the raised railroad is almost sure 
to be fruitful. From Baker Street, 
near Madame Tussaud’s to Oxford 
Street, passing through the by streets 
near the Wallace collection, gives a 
stroll full of interest to a collector, 
and provides him with many chances. 
For the point is that there, as in 
most of the other regions I have 
named, a collector may pick up 
something really good at a moder¬ 
ate price, or something collect¬ 
able at next to nothing of a price. 
Things are both dearer and cheaper in 
London than in provincial cities and 
towns. Thus at Gloucester I was asked 
fifteen dollars for an old oak coffin- 
stool—excellent for modern use as a 
stand for your glass or after-dinner 
coffee by your favorite armchair. I 
bought one, of first-class quality, in 
London, for less than two dollars—not 
a seventh of the Gloucester price—the 
other day. 
Every Friday forenoon, from about 
10:30 to 1, a great chance occurs. You 
take the Tube train to Caledonian 
Road Station; five minutes walk away 
is the Caledonian Market, a vast cattle 
market empty on a Friday except for 
the things which hundreds of small 
antique brokers carry there to spread 
out on the open flagstones. This is an 
opportunity which no American col¬ 
lector visiting London should miss. 
Hanging on a wall near me as I write 
is an oil sketch, a portrait by Rossetti 
of his wife, which I bought there for 
thirty-five cents, and I own at least 
two-score finds which became mine at 
the Caledonian Market. 
Editor’s Note: This is the first of 
two articles on collecting curios and 
antiques by Sir James Yoxall. The next, 
published in the June number will take 
the reader on pilgrimages to some of 
the notable places of provincial En¬ 
gland , Scotland and Wales. 
