July 1955

Latest Garden News

Danish scientists have discovered interesting new facts on the growth and flavor of cucumbers. Their tests show that good taste goes hand in hand with even temperatures.

Now we really know our house

They're putting more blame on ALLERGIES!

An allergy can take such forms as choking the breathing passages, erupting on the skin, pounding at the head-- that's an old story. The new story is here-- and it's full of hope for thousands of men and women who've had previously unexplainable and untreatable problems.

NOT BOMBS BUT BRAIN POWER

American industry today has in its hands a vast new power for raising man's standard of living twenty-five-fold! The power of nuclear fission will within our lifetime transform our ways of living, our social customs, our economics, our politics, our biology, our medicine, our agriculture.

Color is"busting out" all over!

Montreal, Quebec, and Maine

Tired of vacations that turn out to be marathon races? Want to relax now and then by a cool, northern lake, or look out to sea while the burdens of a 50-week working schedule drop from your shoulders? Then the tour my wife and I took last year is tailor-made for you-- a tour that has just enough of everything to make it worthwhile.

"Why didn't I think of that?"

ARCHITECTS' SKETCHBOOK

Today's gardening at its best . . .

Western garden is an outdoor room

Here's a new way to build a two-story house

Here, in this month's Five Star home, you're seeing a two- story house that looks like a long, low one-story house. It is neither long nor low. It is a full two stories high, but elevations lengthwise hug the ground.

Modern in a mellow mood

Summer beauty with daylilies

Remember Grandmother's orange corn lilies with their straplike foliage, so sturdy that they grew unattended?

Ways to cure room-atism

Three new tables from one

Build in your room air conditioner

Personal help in home building, remodeling, and decorating

When you're looking for ways to make your home more comfortable and attractive, look for this seal. It identifies the Better Homes & Gardens Home Planning Center, where you can get personal counsel on your home-planning problems.

How to make invisible joints with gypsum wallboard

Home is where you find it

Confession

Do you know The best way to water?

JULY GARDEN REMINDERS: Now's the time to . . .

Divide and reset crowded iris clumps. Look for signs of borer damage and iris rot. If present, cut out damaged parts and dust cut surfaces with gypsum.

Complete pesticide shelf

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener.

At breakfast on this sunny beginning of a new month, Maggie had a big bouquet of roses on the table. As I ate my bacon and eggs, I took inventory.

Help them beat the heat

The skin lesions you describe are a form of moist, weeping eczema, commonly called "hot spots" by dog owners. These occur mostly during the summer months; apparently the hot weather aggravates them.

Give glamour to an ordinary basement

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

"Economy," said my teen-ager, after a parental lecture last night, "seems to be a way of spending money without getting any fun out of it."