July 1923

Fruit, Garden and Home

JUST recently a subscriber wrote me: "I sometimes wonder if you realize how far-reaching what you are doing is? You are printing articles encouraging people to plant more trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables You show them how to build attractive fences and to decorate their homes; or build this cabinet or that bird house.

The Lure of the Open Trail in Midsummer

Washington, the Tree City of the World

Our National Capital Is Famous Around the World for It's Great Trees

Have A Heart In Pruning Shade Trees

July Is Pruning Time For Many Lawn Shade Trees

Hydrangeas Are Old Lawn Favorites

How To Propagate, Plant and Grow These Old Friends

Science Supports the Gospel of Greens

New Responsibilities for the Public Health Fall Upon the Gardener

Homes of Famous Americans

SOME twelve or fourteen miles from Louisville is the home of General Zachary Taylor, the great hero of the Mexican War and the twelfth president of the Republic. As I made the drive early in March, out thru Cherokee Park and along the old pike, it was hard to realize that I was not on my way to visit The Hermitage again. For Taylor's home is situated from Louisville much as Jackson's home is situated from Nashville.

Bring Your Flower Garden Indoors

THE folks of "many lands, many climes," have learned to revel in the succession of flowers, wild and cultivated, which follow the spring-beauty and crocus, thru April, May, June and into July. They well know that a lean time is coming to their gardens, and that even the roadsides may have little to offer thru the extreme heat of late summer.

Making Your Pocketbook Produce

Income Is Not So Important As the Way It Is Spent

Pickles You'll Like

Income Is Not So Important As the Way It Is Spent

Making a Successful Living Room

Proper Arrangement Is As Important As Proper Furnishings

The Wee House Electrified, Part II

How Electricity Will Lighten The Busy Woman's Daily Work

Making a Backyard Garden For $30

Native Shrubs Combined With Hard Work Gave Us Good Results

Warm Weather Suggests the Fireless Cooker

How to Cook With Greater Comfort and Less Expense

It's Really Worth While to Have Grapes

Every Detail In Grape Culture Carefully Considered By An Expert

How We Won Our Own Home

We Financed the Building So That It Costs Less Than Our Rent Did

Hedges Are Good for Small Lots

Secure Privacy In Your Yard With Living Fences of Green

Small Homes With Plenty of Room

IF you are seeking a truly artistic home-- the kind of home that holds your attention the minute you see it, and one you can possess at a modest outlay-- then you'll be interested in the two designs we are submitting this month.

Prize-Winning Landscaping Plan For City Lot

Plan A, shown below, won first prize in our recent contest for a design for a city lot 50x150 feet in size, containing residence and garage. Plan B is given as a suggestion for those not desiring a vegetable and fruit garden.

Backyard Beekeeping, Part II

How to Handle Your Bees Properly for Best Results

Simple Irrigation for Your Gardens

Inexpensive Methods You Can Install Yourself

How My Backyard Flock Paid

TO the many readers who may have a desire that they would like to keep poultry as a side line I should like to submit in this article a record taken from my annual poultry account, beginning February 28, 1922, to February 28, 1923. It is often to my advantage to come in contact with back-lotters, living, in and around the numerous suburbs of the capital city, who are more or less, and for various reasons, interested in poultry.

Tips To Make Your July Work Count

ASTERS when transplanted should be separated as to color and variety in different rows. Have a corresponding plat on paper so that you can distinguish each kind.

Seasonable Rose Tips

The Perfect Jelly

JELLY just naturally fits into a meal and nothing else can quite take its place. Lamb with mint or currant jelly and pork with apple jelly are every bit as practical as gloves with suits and hats in church. This is a definition of a perfect jelly: It is clear, bright and tender and when you cut it with a knife or spoon a clean surface should be left.

Colorful Embroidery Designs for the Bedroom

Novel Stitchery for Your Dining Room

FERTILIZERS FOR LAWNS

PRUNING AND SPRAYING GUIDE

KEEPING the gooseberry bushes well open to admit air will help prevent mildew damage. It may be necessary also to spray with potassium sulphide in water, using a half ounce to a gallon. You will note this is the same formula as for the mildew of roses.

Along the Garden Path

A WORD to landscape architects: There is more of a desire to make our places things of beauty than ever before. You have noticed it, no doubt, and have felt merry because of the good business it forecast. It is a hopeful sign. Architecture, decoration, landscaping are all striving towards a common end-- beauty, comfort, contentment-- within reach of the greatest number. Remember this; the greatest number.