June 1923

Fruit, Garden and Home

THE other day I met friend whom I had not seen in a good many years. In the course of the conversation that followed, he told me of buying a copy of Fruit, Garden and Home on a news stand last February.

An Interesting Entrance to a New England Yard

Our Vacation By the Gasoline Route

A Week In Your Car Will Give You An Inexpensive Vacation

How I Built My Home in Spare Time

The Work Was Financed on an Income of $12 to $21 per Week

How to Grow Asters Successfully

How to Grow Asters Successfully Improve This Season's Results With These Practical Suggestions

Perfect Privacy With Lattice Fences

How to Plan Fences to Secure the Utmost Privacy at Reasonable Cost

Have You Tried These Vegetables?

Here Are Many Old-New Varieties You'll Want To Grow

The Wee House Electrified

"Brass Tacks" Discussion Of Electricity In the Small Home

The New Theatre of the Home

The New Theatre of the Home Radio Is Making the Home the Most Interesting Place To Be

The June Bride's House

How We Furnished Our Dream House and How You May Furnish Yours

Homes of Famous Americans

THE Romans had a strong sense of national security. No matter what they might do, Rome would endure. "There will always be a Caesar," a proverb ran, "to save Rome." So they surrendered their sense of individual responsibility and sowed the seeds of moral corruption which finally ate the heart out of their vaunted civilization.

A Backyard Garden In June

Deeply Suggestive of the Things One Can Do On a City Lot

The Society of Little Gardens

An Organization Fostering the Correct Improvement of Yards

Growing Sweet Corn Successfully

Home-Grown Corn Is The Best For Your Tables

Tips To Make Your June Work Count

TOMATO vines should be staked up and all sucker shoots regularly pinched off. Persistent cultivation will conserve the moisture in the soil and give you better fruit.

Successful Home Canning of Vegetables

Successful Home Canning of Vegetables Make Your Garden Serve You the Year Around by Proper Canning

How To Adjust Your Lawn Mower

A Problem Often Perplexing Is Here Made Very Simple

How To Build Your Own Garage

Every Detail Is Fully Explained In This Worth-While Article

Has Music Led Us Astray?

HAVE you noticed that "Home, Sweet, Sweet Home" isn't sung any more? You haven't heard it in the last few years. Formerly it dropped in on us once in a while in concert encores and in quiet social and family gatherings. And every rendition of it reacted on the cerebral tissue of those who sang and to a less extent of those who listened.

A Practical Wild Flower Club

A WILD FLOWER CLUB that teaches hundreds of people to know, love and preserve wild flowers is the Southwest Museum Wild Flower Club of Los Angeles.

The Novel of the Year

SPECULATION is very common these days among serious-minded people as to the direction in which we are traveling. With our jazz, our recklessness for the old conventions, our seeming disregard for traditions and apparent disrespect for the law-- we have reason, sometimes, to stop and consult the signboards.

Summer Care of Growing Stock

NOW is the best time in the whole year in which to buy baby chicks or bring off hatches, especially if you have selected a variety of the "egg breeds." Even if you have decided to keep the larger or general purpose fowls, it is not too late to have the young pullets matured before winter sets in, and this is necessary if you want winter eggs.

Two Comfortable Homes You'll Like

SPRING building season is in full swing, and more and more inquiries are coming every day for attractive, comfortable homes that can be built at a moderate cost.

Use Rainbow Backgrounds for Vacation Embroideries

REFRESHING and most attractive are the new colored embroideries that the summer season has brought forth. The simple but highly decorative stitches and the bright colored backgrounds are most unusual and pleasing to the eye.

Overcoming Cucumberblight

TO raise cucumbers successfully is a problem that confronts not only the amateur, but the professional gardener as well, owing to the blight disease which destroys the crop. Cucumber blight is a plant disease brought about thru several agencies, viz: Too early planting, drought, improper watering, insects and heat producing commercial fertilizers, to which we might add, improper cultivation and improper preparation of the ground.

Along the Garden Path

WHEN, if ever, come perfect days," wrote Lowell, of June. And now, as we pause on the threshold of another glad season, with the whole panorama of Nature's gorgeous dress spread out before us, how true his words are! There is no place where we want to be so much, as in our own gardens and backyards. Every finger points a command to us.