July 1922

How an Accident Made a Famous Apple

THERE is only one reason why a monument can be erected to keep the memory of the old original Delicious green, whether the tree bears leaves or not, and this is the fact that a dozen "might have beens" never became "weres."

A Little Garden In the City

How an Ideal Was Achieved In a Tiny Backyard

What $50 Will Do In the Backyard

A Few Dollars Will Transform the Place

The All-Mighty Sprayer

You Will Come to Depend on This Great Garden Ally

Summer Dress for All-Year Furniture

Lowering Room Temperatures With Cool Colors and Fabrics

Flowers That Will Bloom On Hats and Gowns

THE flowers in the seed catalog and the garden are not the only ones that catch the eye these summer months. The millinery counters are full of them and they appear in countless variety on the new summer dresses this year.

How I Won My Garden In North Dakota

A Story of How a Farmer's Wife Succeeded In Spite of Difficulties

Around the Fruit Trees in Summer

What to Do and Points to Watch

The Glory of the Rose

THE rose has been known to man from the earliest hours of history. It has been mentioned in story and song in all ages. It is the eternal flower of love, the emblem of sentiment. "All the world loves the lover," said Emerson. And it is true that all the world loves roses, probably for the same reason. Cherished in the palaces and gardens of the rich and mighty, it is, nevertheless, the flower of all classes and stations in life.

Let's Give Our Garden a Drink

WHEN the heavens become less bounteous of their stores of moisture, and the heat from the summer sun becomes more and more intense, such are the days when a garden needs a friend. This time is usually discouraging for those who depend on nature alone for moisture in the garden. But the fortunate man or woman who has a friendly irrigation plant and who can "make" rain reaps a harvest in crop returns that pays huge interest on the equipment, both in cash and pleasure.

Uncle Sam's Testing Garden

A Place Where Resistant and High-Yielding Plants Are Bred

Cannibals in the Orchard

IN all the forty years since the San Jose scale made its first appearance in this country in the fruit gardens of the late James Lick, near the California city whose fair name it pilfered, probably we have endured no one worse pest.

Federated Fruit Growers

The Art of Transplanting

There is not a gardener but who will have an opportunity to transplant at some time during the season. Generally he will have to set his tomato plants, celery plants, cabbage plants, and so on, early in the season and then later there will be transplanting in between rows of vegetables that have already been taken care of and that permit of the second crop between the rows.

Important Horticultural Meeting

The Wilt Resistant Tomato

A Few Things to Plant Now

The art of getting the most from the ground is simply planting something to take the place of a crop that is harvested just as quickly as the harvest is complete.

Shasta Daisies for Clumps

The Window Garden Now

Sure a Garden Pays

For a good many years we have had a small garden on a plot about 50x100 feet and it has always seemed to require more care than it ever amounted to, so last summer we kept record to find out where we stood. You know how the garden goes! Just as you ought to be doing something else, lo and behold! the garden must be hoed or weeded or watered or the insects poisoned or something.

Farmers' Bulletins of Interest to You

Keep a supply of lime sulfur, bordeaux mixture, nicotine, arsenate of lead, paris green and slug shot on hand all the time...

Do You Like Pickles?

A camera handy at all times adds to the pleasure and enjoyment of the dooryard activities...

Cold Storage Improves Grape Fruit Flavor

It has been the prevalent opinion that citrus fruits such as grape fruit will not satisfactorily ripen off the trees, but the United States department of agriculture has found that in common with certain pears and apples, the grape fruit will develop a much better eating quality after a period of a month to three months in cold storage.

Summer pruning is as necessary as winter or spring pruning...

Cross Pollination in Strawberries

Combatting Fruit Tree Borers

Starting a Backyard Flock

TWO good laying hens for each member in your family will more than keep you in fresh eggs the year around. This is allowing sufficient leeway for the usual mistakes of the beginner in housing and feeding. Six laying hens have kept a family of four in eggs thruout the year.

July Reminders

Your tulip selection for autumn planting should be made now. Look over the catalogs, or visit the neighboring nurseries, and determine the varieties you want for next spring. We are advised that those who come in late in the fall with their orders are often disappointed. The demand for choice bulbs and varieties is increasing every season.

Preserve Eggs Now

It is extremely good business to preserve eggs during the summer months for use during the winter. If any considerable number of farmers and others engaged in egg production could be induced to do this, it would do much to increase, up to a certain point, the profit which could be realized from the yearly egg production.

When To Cull

Keep the poultry yards sweet thru hot weather by spading twice a month...

Don't Forget the Birds

Place Bird Houses Now to Insure Spring Tenants

Using Lawn Clippings

Lawn clippings are entirely too useful to be burned or thrown away. The gardener and the backyard poultryman can find many uses for them, rendering their conservation well worthwhile.

July Fun For the Little Folks

A Patriotic Picnic Party Out In Your Own Yard

Why You Need a Vegetable and Fruit Budget

The Necessity of Fruits and Vegetables In the Family Diet

Currants and Their Uses

Your Extract Bottles

Did you ever taste a bit of cake or pudding that had such a delicious flavor that your curiosity was aroused? If so, you may depend on it, the one who prepared it was on intimate terms with her extract bottles, for therein lies the secret of many tasteful culinary concoctions.

What Are Good Manners

The little courtesies and accepted forms of conduct for various occasions, that impress others favorably and give one a feeling of ease in so-called "polite society" have their deserved place and add to the satisfaction of all concerned. It is entirely possible, however, to be wellbred and know none of these rules, and it is also possible to know all the rules and still not be wellbred.

A Trunk-Rest

Along the Garden Path With the Editor

HERBERT QUICK, author of the season's best seller, "Vandemark's Folly," returned to Iowa for a few days recently. In the course of his visit, he revealed the fact that "Vandemark's Folly" was first discussed with his publisher on a park bench fifteen years ago.