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forms. requires place where it will have
sun practically all day long Give 1t
room. for new growths come from it.
BY cutting sweet william back a little
after the f.st bloom it is generally pos
sible to second bloom
Annual peoples need q good deal of
moisture. They thrive best in a damp
climate. The Shirley variety is the most
sat :sfactory.
If the bloom obtained from the dahlias
is NOT as good as it should be dig a
richer soil in around them and allow only
one stalk to grow from each tuber.
Crowd the water them.
BE sure 10 provide stakes for both dab
las and golden glow al an early stage of
growth. They break easily and in high
winds
Cut back corecpsis after each successive
bloom and YOU will have flowers till
frost
Never let the blossoms on sprasa
Anthony Watemr fade on the shrub. 1t
will check the bloom at once. Cut the
blossoms each day at they appear and the
bush will remain in glorious bloom TIL
frost and sometimes till the snow flies.
Chrysanthemums grow best on the sun
ny side of a house. planted close to the
walls. To make them bushy pinch their
tops Off.
Feed the annual asters with wood ashes
al least twice during the summer.
Trumpet vines. wistara. hOneysuckle,
Boston ivy and most other hardy vines
need deep soil. Each vine should have
bed prepared for il not less than three
feet square and two feet deep Annual
vines need not more than foot square
and a foot OF depth.
Give sweet peas liquid manure. during
the summer to get continued bloom. They
will respond to something which acts
quickly and conveys food to them di-
reotly.
Ferns may be transplanted from their
Wild homes at any time If care Is taken
TO lift them out with big lot OF earth
around them. Plant them mined lately in
shady place. soak them with water and
continue TO water them. Give them mulch
10 hold the moisture in the soil
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SHRUBS FOR APRIL.
II You Are Making a New Gar
den, TRY Some of These
den, Try


Nv TX III ~ IN
IT he following are some of the harder
and most nearly "bugproof'' peren-
MAI shrubs. If set out this month
II she FORM OF growing plants some Of
them VIII flower during the coming sum
ner by next spring they will all he in
nun vigor. and within three years they will
make surprising masses of foliage.
ABOUT the only care they will need will
be Judfcious pruning. free cultiya tton ~
the soil around their roots and generous
fertilizing
Corchorus Japonica blooms from June
I'LL October and often till November One
OF ls good points is that il has bright
green park That stays green all winter
lis leaves are fine and beautifully cut and
the blossoms are like small roses very
double and brilliant yellow or white, ac-
cordlng to the variety selected
DeutZia. which comes in many varie-
ties. Is one of the fast growers All its
sorts except the Crenata are pure white
HoWerlng. The Crenata is "A tender white
flnged with rose color. One sort has va
riegated leaves. and there are kinds With
single and others with double flowers In
some parts of the country the rose chafer
loves its blossoms too we'll In other
places the plant is almost free from
enemies. 1t blooms through June and
July.
Hydrangea in one or more of its many
sorts is almost necessary in a garden
The shrub variety that is most to be rec
commended is hydrangea paniculata
grandiflora, which has flower heads thar
amaze one by their size. rich cooring and
number. These flower heads come in
panicleS-that is. they are almost cone
shaped. They are as big as a large pine
apple. with glorious white tint shading
to a shell-pink at the base.
This shrub blooms practically through
the entire late summer and the fall. Its
blooms can be cut off before frost and
will keep perfectly in the house all win
ter without any care. They VIII dry,
but not wither. and will assume rich
bronze shade.
The hydrangea hortensis Is the finest
of the ld-fashioned forms. This is low
growing. with a deeply ribbed green leaf
large and odd that ii IL almost tropi-
cal III it's effect If planted at corners with
dark shrubbery for Il background The
flowers ares pink. shading TO a unique
blue. I" which they finally change en-
tirely. Often the same plant will bear
flowers Of both colors simultaneously.
Tile flower heads are often greater in
diameter than plate.
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Growing AppIes.

A PPLE trees do best in a fertile clayey
loam or white oak" soil and on a
southeastern slope. Varieties should he
CHOSEN which are known to be hardy in
the locality 80
me trees should not be planted closer
iiah thlrty-two feet each way Dirt
should be well packed about their roots
ana cultivation practiced for several |
Years Between the trees crops OF pota-
toes or small fruits may be grown Clean
culture IS essential to prevent infection
ny insects and fungus diseases The trees
should be watched carefully for borers
winch eat In the trunk. These can be
aug out with a knife or killed by pokinx
wire into the aperture. The trees give
pes' satisfaction when headed low so
careful pruning is essential. 1t is well To
see that the trunk is shaded on the south
west by healthy limb which will pre-
vent sunscald
When the tree is coming into bearing
spraying with paris green Bordeaux mix
ture is recommended This should he
done before the blossoms fall and again
three weeks later. This treatment kills
broods of the cooling moth and keeps
fungi in check.
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TT HERE is a very good reason for
the popular leaning to rockery
in the garden. Few forms of
flower and plant culture offer more
chances for beautiful effect
But the average ''rockery" which is
made Of piled-up cobblestones. is hideous.
1t never looks like anything except just
what 1T is-h mound of round stones that
belong In heap on a vacant lo'. They
offer NO foOthold to the plants that should
grow over rocks. either. 1t is absurd to
have a ''rockery'' with geraniumS and
other flowers that belong to earth
garden and would never consent to grow
among stones.
A rockery does not belong in the middle
OF front lawn. Its position should be
such that it will seem quite natural that
a rock should be there. Instead Of let
ting 1t rise BADLY out OF nothing. 1t
should have a few scattered stones lead
ing up to it-just as rocky ground nat
urally would look. This principle can be
applied as well with tiny rockery as a
big one.
The stones must be jagged Sandstone,
GRANTEES. weather-worn limestones. etc.
are desirable. If you have nothing but
smooth boulders of cobblestones, fracture
Old paving stones fractured SO they will
have Jagged edges will make excellent
lodges. but If you put them in so that
their fat faces are perpendicular, they
will look hdeous.
Remember that rock garden depends
for beauty on the rocks themselves as
much as it depends on the plants. There
fore You will lose the entire object of one
if you merely pile the stones together
helter-skelter and aim to cover them with
vines and other plants they can't be
seen. If that is the whole object. you
can achieve it more easily with a big
stump or a picturesque tree root
A rock garden need not be a mound Of
rock at all. If the slopes are striking in
shape they will make an irregular group
that will be- far more striking than the
average rock pile.
If high rockery is wanted. it must
be built up so that there shall be crevices
pockets. lodges, overhanging shelves and
little pinnacles everywhere.
Each plant should have it's own space
and ample room. most rock plants
will spread over the stones as they grow
Baby's Breath. the common Coumbne
Fox Glove. A1yssum SaXatile. Moss Pink
Phlox Subulata). Rock Cress. Blazing
Star. Snowy Sedum (stonecrop). and
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pots established by the philanthropy Of
one man. This terrible infant mortality
does not occur among well-to-do, intelli-
gent people. OF babies we'll cared for in
private practice. not five in thousand die
In their first year. 1t is the tenement
house babies that die. In the records
kept last year by the superintendent Of
the Rockefeller Institute 1t was proved
that 10 per cent Of ba bies fed on the loose
or condensed milk from the common
stores died, as against per cent Of those
fed on the milk obtained from the milk
depOts.
Settlement workers are now pushing
their propaganda Of sterilized milk in
ster!lized bottles with sterilized nipple
all ready 10 put in the baby's mouth. and
many or the tenement mothers are learn
ing the lesson very thoroughly.
To Sterilize Milk.
Fill half pint smail-necked bottles to
within an inch and q half OF the top with
milk. Plug with clean absorbent cotton
and stand in boiler of cold water rest
ing the bottles on Il square piece of wood
about an inch thick. Let the water sur
round the bottles to three-Quarters OF
their height Heat gradually, cover close
~ and let the milk steam in this bath at
"A temperature of between 155 and 40 de-
grees from ten to fifty minutes. Cool the
milk quickly, then set away in a cool
dark place. closely corked. for no matter
how thoroughly sterilized the milk is
ii may easily become contaminated again.
while milk heated to only 1877 degrees
Fahrenheit Ia sterilized sufficiently to Kill
harmful bacteria without making any un-
desirable changes in the natural proper
ties Of the milk. higher degree. say I12
Fahrenheit. may occasionally be used in
cases of Journeys or where it Is positively
necessary TO keep 1t over twenty-four
hours. Several bottles of milk may be
sterilzed at the same time.
For an "At Home"
Specially dainty and artistically ar
ranged were the refreshments served last
week at a fashionable but honey lat
home" 1t was in one of the new anart-
ment houses. but the dining room being
at the far end of the long hall, refresh
ments were served in the little library off
the drawing room. The library table pro-
tected top and lower shelf with renais-
sance scarfs and tWined with smilax
about the rim and down the legs. held in
It's center the big cut glass bowl of punch
This had a smaller wreath of smila
about its base. but the rim was encircled
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FIGHTING INSECTS.
minute Warfare on the
Blights With Sprays and
POiSonS
PoiSonS.

TH HE wors, enemies OF the ordinary
garden are the smaller, almost in
visible, insects such as scale and
plant lice. and the blights such rust
and miIdew. The amateur usually does
not suspect their presence until ii is an
nounced by the harm they have done.
Caterpillars. slugs. rose bugs, etc, are
not so dangerous because any one can
see them when they come.
To prevent the others from doing their
work. every gardener should be ready
early in the season with the three great
acknowledgements emulsion. whale Oil
soap and Bordeaux mixture.
The emulsion and the Bordeaux mix
ture can be bought in quart cans for 40
cents each. Five pounds Of whale oil
soap cost 10 cents. The quantities named
will suffice for garden for the whole
season.
Full directions are on the cans The
Bordeaux and the emulsion must be
diluted with from % to ID times their
own quantity OF water By mixing a
small portion Of each with the maximum
quantity of water early in the season and
spraying all plants with this weak solu-
ton. you will often prevent disease and
insect attack until comparatively late in
the summer, when the plants will be so
vigorous that they will hardly suffer and
be needed to keep them free entirely.
III the enemies get foot hold before
the plants are strong, YOU may calculate
continuous task of spraying all the
season. So do some of il now and keep
4 small quantity OF the three solutions
ready mixed.
Half a cupful OF each. mixed with
twenty-five cupfuls OF water. will make a
great quantity. and il will keep until YOU
need il. The Kerosene emulsion mixture
can be kept in any old receptacle. The
Bordeaux mixture must be kept in a
wooden or earthen vessel. for after the
water has been added to II. ii will at
tack metal.
For the what" 81 SOAP mixtures use
half pound o. SIa.I In half Il gallon of
boiling water 10 u.s. for scale OH tender
plants. such young fruit trees and
Towering shrubs. For stronger plants or
where the scale has a very strong foot
hold use one pound Of soap to a gallon
Of hot water. For plant lice on flowers
and other delicate srowths use half a
pouud of the soap la three even four
gallons OF water. The simplest way to
have II convenient is TO make small
amount Of the strongest solution now and
thin il down according TO necessity when
ever you use il. This is much quick r
than waiting for the soap to dissolve in
fresh mixtures.
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ABUNDANT LETTUCE.
What Sorts to Plant and How
to Treat Them.
YE7N II n NJ 7vz'NN NN7F !

- EEDSMEN distinguish lettuces gen
orally as black-seeded and white
- seeded. The latter are for forcing
under glass. The black-seeded sorts are
for sowing in the open, and. therefore.
the kind that the amateur kitchen gar
dener should be sure to specify when buy
ing seed.
Lettuce is an early plant. because its
seeds can go in soon as the ground
can be worked. Successive sowings can
be made weekly. If you have time you
can SOW them very thickly and then
transplant any desired quantity. thus
making so much successive sowing I'M
necessary.
Plenty of manure. we'll rotted. should be
spaded into the lettuce patch. When
the leaves come up. be exceedingly care
full never to let any earth get on them.
and do not let fertilizer touch them.
Feed with little nitrate of soda If the
plants do not appear to thrive as they
should.
II cabbage worms attack the plants
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with small clusters of white grapes ar
ranged to hang carelessly half outside
and half in the bowl. A vase of Amer
lean beauty roses. plates of nuts and may
onnaise and cheese and mayOnnaise sand
wiches a loaf of home made chocolate
cake on silver plate. low glass dishes of
bonbOns each in its f1uted paper case. and
other plates OF delicate chocolate and nut
waters. occupied the top of the table.
The undershelf held the reserve of plates.
punch glasses and napkins. The wheeled
tea table on the other side of the room
was also wreathed with smlax. handle.
wheels and ALL On this was the coffee
service and plates of sailed English wal
nuts and olives.
Pomelo Punch.
The punch. which was especially deli
cious. was made after this formula: TO
one quart orange juice and pulp add the
juice of a half dozen lemons and the
pulp and juice of half dozen grape
fruit Add to this one grated fresh pine
apple and pour over the whole hot
sirup made by boiling together two
pounds sugar and three quarts water I'M
til the consistency Of honey. Let stand
three hours. then pour in the punch bowl
with half gallon ice water and shaved
ice. pint Maraschino cherries and a pint
seeded and sliced Malaga grapes.
Nut Kisses.
Nut kisses especially popular for after
noon teas. are made as follows: Put
through a meat chopper one-half cup pc
cans. a dozen English walnuts and two
dozen blanched almonds. Beat the whites
OF six eggs to stiff broth. using a wire
whip and not the dover beater for this
purpose; then fold in gradually three
quarters OF a pound of powdered sugar
and the nuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls on
waxed paper laid in a dripping pan and
bake in a moderate oven.
Aunt Sarah's Conserve.
Add to one quart canned cherries Cor in
cherry time two quarts fresh fruiD the
Juice and thin yellow grated peel from
four oranges and four pounds granula ted
sugar. Cook all together until uuite
thick, and just be fore taking from the
fire add one-half pound English walnut
meats.
Cheese for Macaroni.
Cheese for nacaron or a dish Of eggs
according to Miss Barrows in a recent
talk at Teachers College on the disesti-
bility of foods, will be found much more
easy, Of digestion II cut up in small pieces
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fine and loose. Sprinkle some SCOT over
all if possible. Let it lie for few days
before putting the pansies in.
When YOU buy them see that they are
thoroughly protected from the sun on the
way Cover them with paper and leave
them thus protected till they are in the
ground.
Each pansy will have some earth at
tachcd to its roots. Do not shake this off
under any circumstances. Make hole
Just deep enough to contain the ball of
earth and press the plant in gently.
Press more earth around it and pour
water on literally.
SIT the plants nine inches apart each
way. Whether to plant all of one color
toget her in masses. or whether to make
A diversified bed by scattering the various
tintS may be left to individual taste
Diversified beds are gay and pleasant and
sufficiently striking to suit most persons.
1t is certain however that beds or mass
es of single color. such as the deep blue
Emperor William. the violet -blotched
white President Carnot. or the Velvety
royal purple Atropurpurea make dis
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Home Croft and individual industrial independ
ence for every worker In a home of his own OF
the land.-Slogan OF the Home Crofters.
My pallid friend is your pulse beating low:
Does the red wine Of life sluggshly flow:
Set IT spinning through every tinCling vein
BY outdoor work. till you feel once again
Like giving CHEEKY schoolboy shout.
Get out.
Are You morbid and. like the owl in the tree,
DO you gloomily hoot ar what you can't see:
Perhaps now instead of being wise
You are only looking through tsundiced eyes.
Perhaps you are bilious or getting too stout.
Get out.
Out in the air. where fresh breezes blow.
Away all the cObwebs that sometimes grow
In the brains of those who turn from the light
To all gloomy thoughts instead Of the bright.
Contend with such foes and put them TO fight.
Get out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
MENU. SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Baked rhuharb.
Dat flakes.
Baked eggs in croustades with cheese.
Coffee.
DINNER
Cream OF potato soup with parsley.
Rsdishes. Young onions.
Roast veal with dressing and baked prnnes
Rornaine salad.
Orange shOrtcakr.
SUPPER
Srslloped oysters
Whole wheat bread and butter. Pickles.
Mocha tart.
Chocolate.
HERE is marked tendency
among all people OF intelli
gence these latter days to leave
81 the cities and get out on tt
the land. The wealthy. those
able TO keep up two or three establish
ments come into the city. IL Is true fol
the midwinter round of gayety, but thei,
country seats hold them later every fal
and call them back earlier every spring
AS for the great middle class. the back
bone of the nation. they. too. are moving
to the suburbs for an all-year-round resi-
dence, or in many cases flying out to some
little inexpensive box" or bungalow as
soon as the schools close and vacation
begins. II is the tenement dweller atone
who still feels no call 10 the open. no de-
sire In get in touch with growing things
After infinite trouble last summer some
women interested in sociology succeeded
in getting poor woman and her hig fam
lily Of punH. riCkety children clothed ur
and out and into little place i'm the coun
,Gx where they could have little garden
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CASTOR OIL BEAN.
One Of the Cheapest and Most
Common Of Our Garden
Friends and One Of the
Best.

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Copyright. 1905 by Associated Literary Press)
~ ECAUSE it is so cheap and com
n mon" many gardeners are afraid to
grow what is one Of the most beau
tiful and satisfactory foliage plants in the
north temperate zone. This is the castor
oil bean. or ricinus. which Is the name
under which seedsmen prefer to carry it
perhaps to take the curse Off
The castor oil Plant reaches a height OF
from five TO ten feet in a few months.
1t is almost free from enemies II is SO
easy to grow that anybody can have a
good one with leaves three feet across,
even if it is the first season in gardening.
with no previous experience.
Sow the seeds soon the soil is
warm If possible to get some marsh
earth. mix 1t in the soil. but lots OF
manure will answer quite as well. Give
plenty of water.
1t is magnificent in the center Of beds
especially IL so planted that two or three
will grow leaning slightly away from each
other.
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and work enough for the neighbors to sup
port them. In less than month the tene-
ment house visitor making her rounds
found the same family back in their old
miserable quarters. The reason. whining
ly given by the mother was TOO lone
some: when l sat on her piazza there
wasn't anything to hear but BIRDS There
Is great difference, however In national-
ties in this respect. The Italians. while
keeping together, strike for the country
or suburbs where they can have their own
gardens or bit OF land to cultivate. The
POlacks follow suit. and many of the fine
old farms of Long Island have gradually
gone into their possessions. The Scandi-
navians bring their love of outdoor life
with them and lose more time in the
crowded cities than they can help
In spreading this gospel of getting a
whole or partial living straight from the
ground. the vacation schools and school
gardens have already done Il beautiful
work. and it is hoped that in time home
craft and garden training schools will be
established by county. municipal state
and national governments, where every
person out of work can learn how to
make IA home and TIL the soil and get his
or her living straight from the ground
Many Of the WOmen's clubs are now do
ing pioneer work in this direction. In Il
talk Il few days ago before the WomenS
Municipal League by Mr.. Parsons head
assistant at the Dewitt Clinton Park he
come to a city backyard in the most sur
prising way. Children learning how
under the direction OF the garden school
have frequently returned to their own
yards previously used for dumps. cleared
away the debris. spaded up the earth and
planted seeds. which they had secured
gratis from the director. If their efforts
were rewarded by even q single fnwer or
bit of salad green they will never again
be content to live in dump instead of
flower garden.
Pure Milk for the Baby.
The demand OF the consuming public
for proper safeguards around the milk
supply. which is so essential for the health
and comfort of the millions of little peo-
pie in our land. is daily becoming more in
sistent. People now being educated
to understand how sensitive milk is TO
infection and how deadly a poison il may
become under certain conditions. In a
talk last week before the newly organ
lied New York food committee il was
stated by one scientist that in the last
seventeen years the mortality Of infants
in their first year in New York has drop
ped from $40 to lO4 in the thousand de-
creasa largely. due to the seven milk de.
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play that is splendid as a flower bed
can ever he. 1t is a much more eXpen-
sive thing however. to achieve a COM
mensurate result in Vna-color ma ssing.
You need lot of plants. for the one
cc:or beds must be fairly large to be i'm
pressive.
There is bitter difference of opinion AS
TO whether pansies should be planted in
martial shade or in situations that give
them full sunlight The writer has tried
both ways ard confesses that he doesn't
know yet. 1t seems fairly certain that
the flowers in partial shade flower longer
and grow larger: but panSy bed in the
sunlight is a beauty. and on the whole 1t
is probably as wei To plant Your pansies
where YOU want them
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st. Helena.

From 10 Petit Parsieu
There are now hardly any souvenirs of
Napoleon | at 81. Helena. Fhe tomb no
longer exists. and the house which is
shown to tourists today is not the one
where he died. The real house ended by
being a pigsty. At the utmost there still
exists a st. Helena willow tree planted
by Napoleon, but that Is not certain.
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Siuebells are rock plants suitable for
small rockeries
suitable shrubbery to flank a rockerv
Is furnished by the Creeping Barherrv
ana the Mountain Laurel Typical shrubs
such as these. evergreen like arbor
vitae should by all means be planted as
part of the rock garden.