December 1922

A CHAT WITH THE PUBLISHER

I AM sure one of the articles appealing to you most in the November Fruit, Garden and Home, was Frances Jewell's "Why Not Have a Wild Garden?"

Where Your Christmas Holly Grows

Facts About Your Holiday Decorations You'll Appreciate Knowing

Jack Frost Not So Bad As He Is Painted

Many Beneficial Results are Due to Action of Frost on Fruits and Plants

New and Useful Ornamentals

Newcomers In the United States To Grace Your Lawn and Garden

How To Be a Plant Breeder

Plant Breeding Is a Worthwhile Hobby for Amateur Naturalists

"Kitchen Efficiency"

IF you are a Lady-of-the-House and have ever spent two years on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific ocean-- as I have no doubt most of you have-- you will think as I do about your housework in general and your kitchen work in particular. You will remember how delighted you were when the ocean cast you up on the lovely tropical island and discovered that your husband could make a really lovely and satisfactory house by leaning eight of the giant leaves of the bongo-bongo palm against a stake.

Winter Protection In Cold Climates

THERE is nothing that is of greater concern to everyone interested in growing things at this season of the year, than the proper protection of shrubbery, bulbs, perennial plants and rather tender trees. All vegetation has climatic limitations in a natural state. But under artificial conditions these have been extended to a considerable extent. The vast extent of country from the Atlantic to Pacific, also north and south, makes the question of hardiness a difficult matter to consider, as practically all climates are embraced in this area.

Pottery, The Art of The Ages and Today

Guideposts in Selecting and Placing Pottery

How To Handle Moles

Pointers On the Habits and Characteristics of a Common Pest

Weed Pests You'll Find In Your Lawn

Simple Methods of Control Which Will Give You a Better Lawn

How To Grow Tomatoes Successfully

Expert Advice on the Culture Of An Old Garden Favorite

Practical Hints For the Small Home Builder

How to Build Your Own Home and Save Money

Petsai, a New Salad Vegetable

LETTUCE is our great American salad vegetable. It is grown around the year in various parts of the country to supply the demand for it for this purpose. As long ago as 1918, more than 40,000 tons of it was grown under glass in order to supply it out of season for our salads.

The Original Delicious Tree

Plants With Nerves

Bulb Gardening

Raising Queen Bees

IT is my judgment that the three-band Italian bees, known as the 'leather-backs,' are the best for people living in the middle west to keep," said Dr. A. C. Baxter, President of the Illinois Bee Keepers Association.

Mrs. Bohen's Holiday Gift Suggestions

Mildred Meredith Bohen, in charge of our Chicago shopping service, makes these advance gift suggestions for the holiday season. It is none too early to be thinking about the gift problem and making your selection.

Winter Protection of Perennials

The fly in the ointment for the average grower of perennials perhaps is the fact that he is not able to carry his plants successfully thru the winter. I know from experience that it is a discouraging spectacle to see plants which have been laboriously cared for during the summer laid low by the first frost in winter.

Ornamental Oranges

The Double Service Trellis

Anyone who is handy with hammer and saw, may construct the practical trellis shown in the illustration.

Planning the Christmas Dinner

Well Chosen Menus Feature the Yuletide Feast

Save Steps

Use Rye Flour

How to Be Better Looking

A Good Skin Is a Valuable Asset

Persimmons

Winter Care of Backyard Flock

THE first severe weather of winter will bring a tendency to slight the backyard flock, because the heaviest burden is upon the attendant. But this is the time when proper and systematic care pays its largest dividends. By care we refer to regular and proper feeding, watering and keeping the quarters clean, dry and sanitary.

The Wild Strawberry

Isaak Walton, in "The Compleat Angler", makes a Dr. Boteler, in speaking of strawberries, say: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did," to which the serene Isaak replied: "Doubtless God could have made a more innocent amusement than angling, but doubtless God never did."

A Greenhouse Without A Heating Plant

This is a greenhouse which I made last fall, and will say I would not be without it for many times its cost. The size is 12x21 feet; the highest point, eight feet, and room to stand up anywhere. The glass is ordinary cold frame sash adjusted from the inside by hooks for ventilation.

Wants Weatherstrip

RIBBON INITIALS

What to Do With Spots and Stains

Methods for Removing Common Stains

What Is Your Favorite Flower?

THE other evening four flower gardeners commenced to plan their spring plantings; all of them were specialists after a sort. That is, they had their favorite flowers, and each was trying to convince the other that he should plant some of their favorites.

Last-Minute Gifts for Christmas

A Christmas Spider Web

IT was Christmas eve! Tommy and Matilda were having the best time you could possibly imagine. They had been wrapping Christmas presents and candy and getting ready to help Mumsey decorate the Christmas tree.

What Shall I Do?

The Informal Dinner

Notice the position of the napkin, silver, china and glassware. Each cover should be carefully placed as the general impression of the table has much to do with the success or failure of the dinner. Next in importance to the placing of each cover is the selection and arrangement of the centerpiece.

Grandmother's Platter

My mother gave it to me when she broke up housekeeping. She took it down from the top shelf where it had lain for years.

Along the Garden Path

THOSE of you who love stories of the Great Outdoors; strong, virile, throbbing stories of animal and wild life, will do well to read "The Heart of Little Shikara," a volume of short stories by Edison Marshall. These stories of the wilderness are among the best I have ever read, and I have read most of the authors who attempt to speak with authority on the subject. Marshall is still a young man, barely twenty-seven years of age, but he has five novels and numerous short stories to his credit.