February 1923

A CHAT WITH THE PUBLISHER

I AM sure that the finest thing about the articles which we are printing in each issue of Fruit, Garden and Home is that they suggest something we can do in our own gardens both interesting and worthwhile. For instance, Mr. Cooper's article on peony culture in the September issue proved so interesting and compelling when I read it that I determined to have even more peonies in my gardens at Meredith Farm.

"Dolly Madison's Garden" Behind the White House

Martha Washington's Garden

This Old Shrine for Garden Lovers Has Endured to This Day

What We Grow in Our Old-Fashioned Garden

How an Unattractive Spot Made a Garden and What Was Used

Van Fleet Roses for America

SOME great men are kept in memory thru their great deeds. Others shine to posterity in their works of art. either of painting, sculpture or building. Great engineers leave us bridges, canals, or the like, as memorials of their skill, ability and energy. One man I know who deserves but has never been accorded fame at least equal to that accorded to Luther Burbank, is worthy of that fame because he took the strings out of string-beans, making a good vegetable easier and better to use by reason of his patient genius-- and like most true geniuses, this man Keeney's success came only thru his persistent and unremitting application and care.

Homes of Famous Americans

AT Nashville, I was amazed to discover that the only way one can reachThe Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, is by taxi. There is no trolley service, no trains. You are simply at the mercy of the taxi barons and you pay their price, or else you don't go. The Hermitage is some fourteen miles out into the country.

Careful Home Planning Saves Money

Important Details Are Pointed Out in This Worth-While Article

The Old-Fashioned Goodies

Fruit Cakes and Cookies Will Never Go Begging

How To Grow Strawberries Successfully

This Article Makes It Easy To Have Strawberries In Your Garden

Fences For Privacy

THE use of picket, paling and lattice fences within the past few years as screens or enclosures on small places has increased to such an extent as to be a positive mania. "Latticitis" we might very aptly term this popular craze for the construction of all manner of wooden structures on boundary lines; around laundry yards and numerous other objects on private places to shut out ugly views, enclose a garden or keep the delivery boy from crossing the lawn.

How To House Your Bird Friends

What Birds Want and How to Attract Them to Your Garden

Your Garden Furnishings

A FEW years ago, when the garden movement took America by storm, we began to think about furnishings for the garden. We realized that a garden at its best does not consist merely of masses of flowers, however beautifully arranged they may be.

How To Make The Old-Fashioned Hooked Rug

OF the oldfashioned rugs none enjoyed more lasting and deserved popularity than the hooked rug, made by drawing or by hooking strips of material thru a burlap foundation.

Your Backyard Fruit Spray Calendar

Grandmother's Favorites

The memories of sitting on grandmother's front steps of late summer afternoons, looking down the walks lined with these "pinks" growing right up to the foot of an old gnarled pear tree from whose green retreats, every now and then, great luscious pears fell with a soft thud and on across the road thru the old palings their bright faces peeped up outlining the strawberry beds in the vegetable garden.

LAWNS, TREES AND SHRUBS

How about the mulch on your tulip beds, the perennials and the shrubs? These days of early thaws may play havoc with them. The idea is to mulch to prevent thawing, to keep the ground around the roots frozen. It isn't the freezing that does the damage; it's the alternate freezing and thawing. If your mulch is too thin, or has blown away, replace it before a thaw comes along.

Growing Fine Pansies

How to Succeed With These Old Favorites

Our Friend the Toad

The toad is inoffensive and of great service to man in destroying troublesome insects and their larvae. Toads usually lie hidden during the day but come forth at dusk in gardens, fields and woods in search of food. They also like to reside in damp places and the one seated on the toad stool was found in my neighbor's cellar calmly sitting in the water-meter pit.

PRUNING AND SPRAYING GUIDE

When February comes, so does pruning. A sharp knife, a pair of pruning shears, and for a fruit tree, a pruning saw, provide all the equipment needed besides the victims.

Feeding Baby Chicks Properly

Chicks Are Easy to Feed If You Follow These Tips

Tomato Vines Sixteen Feet High

Casserole Cookery

So many things when cooked in a casserole seem more wholesome and palatable than when cooked in any other way. The following recipes may be new to some:

Our New Fancywork Service

Contest Announcement

Small Fruits You Should Have

HALF of his taxes are paid by a neighbor of mine from the fruit which grows in his back yard. And it is safe to say that he has plenty of fruit left for his own use. This is not an argument for growing to sell, however; it simply illustrates the possibilities of a back yard in the way of fruit production and confirms my personal experience that the average family can raise all the small fruit it requires in the average-sized back yard of the average city or town.

Your first season's results in the flower garden discourage you...

Seeds planted early in the spring in open ground chill easily at night or bake in the middle of the day...

Fruit Trees You Should Have

How To Plant and Varieties To Choose

Garden Reminders

A standard rule for beautifying the place is to plant medium sized shrubs around the stone wall foundation of the house. Few things are better than the spirea, Bridal Wreath. It is of a graceful drooping habit, covers itself with bloom and is not bulky enough to interfere with other things.

Mrs. Bohen's Shopping Suggestions

In the above illustration is shown how a Los Angeles, Calif., man raises cucumbers after the manner of grapes...

Crochet Designs for Nimble Fingers

IN response to the many requests that Fruit, Garden and Home offer simple crochet work we have prepared these designs suitable for varied purposes. The edgings shown at the top of the page and at the lower right-hand corner were designed with towels and pillowcases in mind. They are especially usable because they are not difficult to make yet are sufficiently decorative to be desirable.

Meat: Its Second Appearance

WITH meat at the present prices the thrifty housewife hesitates to throw away the smallest leftover.

Along the Garden Path

MY goodness, how interested all you folks were in defending your favorite flowers! We never dreamed when we put that little contest announcement in the December issue that so many letters would come into the office. When the first letters came, we put them in a tiny compartment of a large desk drawer; the next day they had outgrown it and were sweeping over the whole drawer.