October 1922

A CHAT WITH THE PUBLISHER

THE interest shown by Fruit, Garden and Home readers in the editorial contents of the magazine is most gratifying. It indicates that Fruit, Garden and Home is filling a distinct field of its own, one that offers an outstanding opportunity for service.

When Captain Heckel Fell Out of a Peach Tree

Hard Falls Are Sometimes the Source of Worth-While Ideas

Why Not Have More Roses?

Newer Roses and Cultural Methods Discussed by a Recognized Authority

A Few Points About Dutch Bulbs

Now Is the Time to Plant Bulbs But Be Sure It Is Done Right

What to Do With the Garden This Month

HOME gardeners often suffer a noticeable loss of morale at the end of the season. As soon as the vegetables, bulbs, or tender shrubs have been taken up, harvested and stored in a safe place, the garden plot is apt to be ignored and left to shift for itself during the long winter.

What to Listen For in Music

A Word About Music Appreciation

How to Grow Head Lettuce Successfully

An Expert Tells You How to Succeed With This Difficult Vegetable

Odds and Ends

Interesting Items Worth Knowing

October Reminders

This is the time of the year to look for opportunities to better the garden. As the present garden fades put into effect new plans and new arrangements that have occurred to you thru the past season. Walks or paths may be laid out, new beds arranged in the garden, new shrubbery and other plantings planned, and if not executed, the plans may at least be put on paper while you are sitting beside the fire these October evenings.

Did This Ever Happen to You?

Did your shrubbery border fail to thrive? See that it has plenty of plant food, and mulch it early next summer, or else maintain a dust mulch to conserve moisture. Destroy leaf-eating insects with lead arsenate.

SOME FACTS ABOUT HUMMINGBIRDS

In the springtime, just about the time the red currants are in bloom, one is almost certain to see that little fairy among the birds, the ruby-throated hummingbird, busily engaged on the blossoms. From then on, they are in evidence till after the first frost. Most people like to watch them, as they are poised in air at some favorite flower, presenting an airy grace and shifting kaleidoscopic colors that are indescribable.

The Friendly Nighthawk

The friendliest of friendly birds is the busy nighthawk found most everywhere and commonly known as the bullbat. Often in droves they are seen in the summer evening's sky, flapping their wings, darting here and there in their pursuits of food among the insects that rise above our heads.

What Are Birds Worth to You?

Insect Craftsmen

On February 4, 1922, while leading a crowd of boy scouts and scoutmasters across Raccoon Mountain in Eastern Tennessee on a nature study hike, I came across a wonderfully beautiful little earthen pot, about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, fastened securely to the end of a maple twig.

Carve a Chest in Your Spare Time

Chip Carving Is Not Difficult and Requires Only Two Tools

Why Iron Rust Appears

How to Care for Linoleum

The Story and a Half House

Making the Odd-Size House Comfortable

Under the Library Lamp

Many of the new books will create discussion, some will entertain, some will carry the reader far away to other lands and peoples and some of them must be read or one feels behind the times; and yet out of the vast number of new publications how is the average person to know just what is worth while and what can be ignored?

SUN MFG. CO.

Where We Get Bordeaux Mixture

Some of the things around us in nature we take for granted like the air we breathe but few have been so universally at our disposal. The primal things alone are ours without thought or effort on our part. The great majority of things used by us in our battle against the forces of nature have come to us, in the first place, as a result of some lucky accident, and in the second place to the ingenuity of man in turning this lucky accident to account.

About Hollyhocks

"Patricia's Perfect Pantry"

AFTER having a delightful luncheon with Patricia, I went with her into the kitchen to see if I could be of some assistance in getting the dishes out of the way. The first thing I saw was the tiniest egg beater, about six inches long and exactly like the large ones.

MY HOBBY

Strawberry growing is no easy thing as some people would make you believe. First to begin with you must select a well-drained fertile piece of land rich in humus with a gentle slope to the south so the sun may get at it in early spring and warm it, in order that the plants may get an early start so as to come on when the prices are high.

STORING PUMPKINS AND SQUASH

BULBS REQUIRE MOISTURE

SAVE WOOD ASHES

Getting Ready for Winter Eggs

Winter Eggs Depend on Care Flock Receives in Early Fall

Wild Garlic Hard to Destroy

American Pomological Society

Cushions for Service and Beauty

Their Shape and Color Must Add Charm to the Room

TWEESERS VERSUS POETS

BEAUTY draws us by a single hair," so said the poet, but ask any woman whether "the single hair" appearing on chin, lip, cheek, is anything to be coveted!

Glass Jars

Penny Peep Shows

MATILDA came bobbing up the porch steps, one at a time. She had to walk carefully in order not to fall because she was carrying three large shoe boxes in her arms. Tommy saw her from the window and opened the door for her.

Have You Up-to-Date Kitchen Equipment?

It Will Save You Time, Steps and Labor

Gathering and Decorating the All-Year-Round Bouquet

How often we have been attracted to the florist's window display by the artificial or Seed Pod bouquets that are so much in vogue at the present time.

Along the Garden Path

DOES it seem rather odd to be talking about "How to Grow Head Lettuce Successfully?" (see page 12) in October. It may seem so to a good many people, on first thought. Why should Fruit, Garden and Home be so far out of season on cultural articles? The answer is entirely logical and we feel sure that our readers will appreciate thus distinctive characteristic of Fruit, Garden and Home's editorial matter when they understand it.