February 1924

THERE is nothing I enjoy more than visiting with someone about. Fruit, Garden and Home.

THERE is nothing I enjoy more than visiting with someone about Fruit, Garden and Home. So this afternoon I went down the hall to Sherlock's office. He is just as enthusiastic as the rest of us, and I wish every reader of Fruit, Garden and Home could visit him in his office and go over his file of material with him as I have just done.

The Evolution of My City Lot Garden

"A Garden Makes a Home Out of a House for Us"

Trusty Shrubs for Trying Sites

This Article Will Aid You In Planting That Unruly Spot In Your Yard

Dahlias as a Hobby

This Business Man Takes His Play in Growing Them

New Vegetables for Your Garden

These Varieties Come Highly Recommended for Home Use

Getting the Most From Your Bathroom

Getting the Most From Your Bathroom Equipment That Will Increase Your Convenience and Comfort

Our First Garden a Success

''Nothing Could Give Us as Much Beauty and Pleasure as Flowers"

Homes of Famous Americans

POETS are, and commonly have been, alone and apart from the rest of mankind. The world has had little time for their flights of fancy, or even for their nuggets of philosophy... until too late. It is a material world, a world which believes or values little that it cannot see, or feel, or touch; being a material world, it cannot get over the idea that men who do not work with their hands do not work at all.

How To Succeed With Annuals

This Article Anticipates and Answers Your Questions

Climbing Roses for Every Clime

"Of All Flowers, Methinks the Rose Is the Best"

Have Flowers from Frost to Frost

IF you begin with pansies in the spring and continue until the hardy chrysanthemums bloom in the late autumn, you can have flowers practically from frost to frost. And that is as it should be. The well-ordered garden is one in which color is to be found on any day when one may feel inclined to walk therein.

Mrs. Kitchener

THE kitchen has been the stepchild in our home, and yet it is the most important room-- next to the bathroom-- in our lives! We have taken it too much for granted and it has "just growed," like Topsy.

How To Succeed With Perennials

This Article Gives Complete Information on Growing Perennials

The Care and Culture of the Gladiolus

SO great is the improvement of the modern gladiolus and so important its future that anyone not familiar with its rapid development in recent years cannot realize its value. Varieties and forms considered beautiful not many years ago are today with few exceptions considered commonplace compared with hundreds of magnificent newer kinds. It is now easily the king of the summer flower garden and its friends, which are legion, can rest assured that many grandly beautiful new kinds from the hands of the skillful hybridist are yet in store for the future.

Where Comfort Is Built In

THO our newer homes may be smaller than the houses of an earlier generation, they are immeasurably more comfortable, thanks to the inclusion of the many modern contrivances that spell economy in labor, time and steps.

Landscape Planning Service

ON a lot where so little room is left after the house is built, a one-story house that spreads over the ground, there is especial need for a carefully considered arrangement that all purposes may be served and still an attractive and livable result obtained.

Plain Walls and Painted Furniture

PAINTED furniture unquestionably deserves very richly all that widely-distributed vogue which it enjoys today, for probably no other type of furniture is quite so marvelously adaptable. The variations in color, design and purpose now available are, indeed, innumerable; ranging all the way from the simplest sort of American Colonial and European peasant styles to the delicately-elaborate period forms of France, Spain and Italy.

Income-Producing Houses

SUPPOSE, now, you own a good-sized lot in a good neighborhood. You are tired of paying rent; you want to build a comfortable little bungalow for yourself and your family on this lot.

Hotbeds and Their Management

Hotbeds and Their Management Easy Directions to Insure Success for the Small Gardens

Getting a Start in February

FEBRUARY is the banner month as to the appearance of that most fascinating literature-- the seed catalog. To the garden lover there is nothing more alluring; and during many of the long February evenings you may find him-- and his wife-- poring over the various compendiums issued by different florists, their covers and contents picturing hues, shapes, and sorts of vegetables and flowers that may grow in that horticultural paradise, the seed nursery, but which we certainly cannot expect to emulate in the home garden.

Garden Reminders

Asparagus will produce big tender shoots early in the spring if the bed is given a good dressing of manure now. It is immaterial whether the manure is well rotted or not if placed on the ground now.

Modern Versions of the Dutch Oven

POTS and pans of many a kind may come and go, but the old Dutch oven of the past generations is still holding its own. When one considers its great usefulness it is indeed right that it should hold a cherished place in our kitchens.

Advertising Contest

All cane fruits require drastic thinning...

Mrs. Williams Built a New Garden

Her "Child Garden" Is the Most Popular Spot In Her City

A Model Backyard Rose Garden

THE correct planting of small city back yards is being fostered in many localities by public parks, botanical gardens and other public organizations having a real opportunity to reach the garden-loving public. This work is to be highly commended and encouraged, because it quickens interest in the subject of home improvement and lessens the chances of individual failure.

When Will Your Lilies Bloom?

MOST people content themselves with a very few varieties of lilies, which after they bloom are soon gone but not forgotten until another year. But a selection of varieties can be had from which there will be some in bloom all the way from May to September.

Permanent Mulch Not Best for Fruit Trees

AMATEUR orchardists are frequently advised to apply a permanent mulch to their trees where the condition of the soil makes cultivation difficult, and a great many have jumped to the conclusion that this is a practical solution to the problem of keeping the orchard soil in an ideal state for maximum production.

PRUNING AND SPRAYING GUIDE

WHY does our hedge appear so ragged when we prune it carefully every winter?" asks a reader. The chances are, severe pruning in the dormant season, coupled with no pruning at all the balance of the year, is the cause of the trouble. A hedge should grow thickly, and be uniform thruout its length.

Preparing Insecticides and Fungicides

WHEREVER plants are grown and health and production are to be maintained it is necessary to spray.

Housing and Feeding Hens

EVERYBODY who keeps hens should give the subject of housing and feeding for the winter special consideration. First I prepare the house. My poultry house altho plain is storm proof, clean and well-ventilated. The roof and sides are covered with good roofing material.

My Poultry Record

Last spring I set an incubator with 120 Single Comb Rhode Island Red eggs and on Easter morning I had eighty-seven of the finest and healthiest baby chicks that I had ever seen. After thoro culling thruout the summer, I still had twenty of the finest pullets that I had ever raised. At the age of five and one-half months I received the first egg from these pullets.

Sweet Pea Pointers

THIS is our most popular annual, altho many people have difficulty in obtaining results. Failures are generally caused by late planting and heat. Sweet peas should always be planted as early in the spring as the ground can be worked.

MY HOMEMAKING EXPERIENCES

I recently subscribed for Fruit, Garden and Home and have received three copies-- September, October and November numbers. To say I am pleased and also surprised with them, is putting it mildly. It is so different from anything I have seen and so much better.

Music For Every Home

WE speak of music as the "universal language," but we rarely treat it as a language in our homes. How did we teach our children to talk? Did we not try to give them at once the names of the most important objects with which they were associated and teach them to say correctly those sentences which pertain to their daily life?

Simple Stitchery for Homes of Good Taste

Dishwashing becomes much more interesting in a kitchen made bright and cheery with attractive, colorful curtains. This pair, one of which is shown at right, is made of fine white voile finished with narrow Delft blue lace.

For Better Garden Results

Those who have never tried the liberal use of leaves, supplemented by acid phosphate, have missed an inexpensive way of making rich garden soil, begin next spring by getting hydrated lime on liberally, after the garden has been spaded, raking it in lightly with the top soil.

If You Can't Have a Maid

Substitute "Brown Betty" Who Asks Neither Wages Nor Board

Along the Garden Path

AND now you've come to the last page! The greatest collection of practical information ever assembled together for the average homemaker is found between the covers of this issue. Turn back over the pages again; look at the wealth of garden material-- brass tacks stuff-- presented this month. All thru 1924, as you work among the flowers, you will have occasion to come back again and again to this number, for we have tried to make it answer every question that will come up.