Across the Editor's Desk
THIS month an army of men larger than the American Expeditionary Force, armed with spades, shovels, hoes, rakes, trowels, and other implements is out in the open, stirring the soil, raking and burning rubbish, making their home grounds more attractive.
Read ArticleThe Diary of a Plain Dirt Gardener
The spring-propagating work has been long delayed by rain, but I just had to get some done. So I made a beginning today by first spading up a bed in the propagating part of the garden and mixing into the sou two loads of compost and one load of sand.
Read ArticleIT'S news TO ME!
"The trouble with your lawn?" said Alfred Hottes to Nick. "It's hungry! Do you ever feed your grass? Give the ground some plant food right now, about four pounds to a hundred square feet is the correct proportion.
Read ArticleThere are Better Shrubs Than Spirea
LIKE some modern radio songs, beautiful tho they may be, the Vanhoutte Spirea has become far too common. Everybody for miles around has it growing in their yards, around their homes, in the foundation planting, as a hedge, or even as a specimen to break up the lawn areas.
Read ArticleWeek-ends in the Open
HAVE you ever caught the aroma of fresh cut pine logs as the axe bit deep, or felt the cut of pack straps as you walked thru pungent leafmold, or listened to the laugh of a loon on some mirrored mountain or pine forest lake, or owned a log cabin hidden in the spruce on some unfrequented stream?
Read ArticleBESIDE THE NEW POOL
THE last shovelful of concrete was poured. Even before I had washed my hands, I turned to the family and asked: "When do you think we can put in the fish? What shall we put the waterlilies in? Don't you think it would be fun to have a tropical variety?"
Read ArticleA Parade of Permanent Perennials
HOW eagerly I look forward to spring, when everything in Nature is pulsating with new life, but my strongest desire is to keep the garden resplendent with color from spring until frost. Countless perennials are available from the catalogs, but I have found it possible to create pleasing pictures using only 10 kinds.
Read ArticleThe Charm of a Cottage The Comfort of a Castle
ALMOST any one of us, when we think of an ideal gardened home, has visions of an attractive living-room and dining-room, a distinctive hallway, a smart, well-planned kitchen, two luxurious bathrooms, and several airy bedrooms.
Read ArticleGet Out Your Paints and Brushes
When my young friend Kathleen decided to throw financial discretion to the winds and marry her struggling young doctor, she knew just about as much about homemak- ing as might be expected of a girl who had held an interesting library position ever since leaving college in other words, very little.
Read ArticleLearning to Live in This New Day
FOR a child to develop happily and normally he needs to feel sure of his world, of the love of his parents for him, of the stability of his home, all child psychologists agree.
Read ArticleANNUALS Fill the Gaps in the new Rock Garden
NEVER knew there was so much space in a rock garden. It surely takes a lot of plants to fill it. I find that I am an impractical optimist concerning the growing power of some of my rock plants-- each year certain cherished plants turn up their toes and some gaps are sure to appear.
Read ArticleCharlotte and I Recommend These Books
IT'S as hard to find a good girl's book as to come upon a patch of four- leaf clovers," say teachers and librarians morosely. But I'm coming to believe that the problem is rather made by us unimaginative adults who don't recognize a four-leaf clover when we see one.
Read ArticleMay Reminds You What to Do in the Garden
MAY is an inspiring month in the garden. We are thrilled with the way our plants respond to our care. I shall jot down some of the things I am doing; perhaps they will serve as reminders to you in this busy season.
Read ArticleThe Bobbie Burns COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE
NOT very long ago, but a few short years in fact, a New York businessman stood at the door of his New Jersey suburban home in deep thought. He had once hoped to be an artist, but Fate had stepped in with a negative shake of her head.
Read ArticleSchool-End Parties
IT'S boys first this time, girls-- all because Dick had intimated that girls always "got the best of everything first."
Read ArticleI Save Some Things Seven Long Years
WHEN I was a little girl, my grandmother used to tell me, "We learn things by sad experience," and I have never forgotten it.
Read ArticleUnder the Kitchen Sink
UNDER and around your kitchen sink, if it is situated like Mrs. Zehner's and mine used to be, is some of the most valuable space in your home. With a little careful planning we made at small cost these additions under and around ours, and you can, too:
Read ArticleMiss Stegner Counsels on Ovens
BEFORE I acquired my oven with a thermostatic temperature control I used a portable thermometer in the oven to obtain, as nearly as possible, a slow, moderate, or hot oven-- but how the temperature did vary during the baking process.
Read ArticleExploring Enchanted Galleries
MAGIC is in the air! Why? 'Tis May, the month of Flora, goddess of flowers. Pan is playing his most enchanting tune. Excitement reigns among the Junior Garden Club Aces of The Green Triangle Chapter, for this is the month in which they are going to bring back to Queen Flora a part of her lost kingdom.
Read ArticleJust a Neighborhood AFFAIR but it was fun to plan our flower show
"HEY, Jimmie, gonna' take your birdhouse to the flower show, Saturday?"
Read ArticleCOMING in the JUNE
Another wonderful issue is being prepared. There will be an abundance of fascinating articles, timely reminders, and helpful information on homemaking.
Read ArticleNew Homemaking Books We Recommend
WHOLE chapters are devoted to uses for left-over egg whites and egg yolks in Coral B. Smith's new book New Dishes From Left-Overs, (published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, price $1.50). Left-over prune juice goes into jelly. The book is inspirational in that it gives a lot of other ideas about what to do with left-overs.
Read ArticleMothers! JOIN THIS Baby-Health Service
ARE you expecting a baby at your home? If you are, you will want the Better Homes & Gardens Bahy-Health Service. You will want us to send the prenatal part of this service--Course No. I-- to you at once. Then, after your baby arrives, we will mail you Course No. II, which comprises detailed letters of expert advice about his care, sent to you at regular intervals, for a period of two years.
Read ArticleAlong the Garden Path
THE year was about 1806. Ohio was still a wilderness. A few lake and river towns had been established, but most of the broad plains and hillsides were still covered with native forests. A few hardy pioneers had pushed inland and established homes away from the centers of population. There were few means of communication except by boat, horse, or foot.
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