Book/Printed Material How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in making attractive homes and beautiful cities,
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Image 1 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 2 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 3 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
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Image 4 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
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Image 5 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
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Image 6 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 7 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
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Image 8 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... A School Garden Exhibit.- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 9 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... HOW TO MAKE HOME AND CITY BEAUTIFUL PREPARED TO HELP THOSE INTERESTED IN MAKING ATTRACTIVE HOMES AND BEAUTIFUL CITIES BY H. D. HEMENWAY NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 10 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... Copyright 1911. By H. D. Hemenway. ©CI.A289134- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 11 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... PREFACE. This little book is written with a view of furnishing inspiration and help to those who want to make their homes attractive and the city a cleaner, healthier, better and prettier...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 12 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 13 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Introduction. CHAPTER II. How to Plan thk Garden. Selection of Garden Plot—Enriching it—Selecting the Crops to Grow —Selecting the Tools. CHAPTER III. Soil, Tieeage. Objects of Tillage—Implements used in...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 14 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... CHAPTER XI. How to Beautify the Home Grounds. Simple Landscape Rules—Grading—Fertilizing—How to make the Layout or Plan—Harmony—Condition. CHAPTER XII. What to Plant. Tall Plants for Shade and Sun-Medium Plants for Shade and...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 15 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION. IN America, garden work and elementary agriculture as a means of education has been successfully demonstrated for nearly a score of years. Many of its enthusiastic advo¬ cates believe...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 16 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... An unsightly yard. The same yard three months later. What was once unsightly, unsanitary and unproductive, becomes a resort of beauty, of health and of utility for a whole family. Photos by...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 17 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 9 Establishing a School Garden may change the entire healthfulness of a neighborhood. The school grounds, themselves may be better planned and more healthful, but the best effect may...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 18 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... CHAPTER II. HOW TO PLAN THE GARDEN. T HE first thing in planning a garden is to decide upon the location. If there is sufficient land so a choice •can be made...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 19 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 11 r“- CVbw vFL A 0\ cliL. cL J /C/f. Qli.a-tvi/ Jr.aniJ ff, vdudL IfsdJlt/vO- 1 vrfXtf-CUYlAJ Ola *a Av/ (’bn.d.ccL.J JuuTXkAA. Jt- X So-y^^oSto (^|cu4a x 4 ^CL-ci^k)...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 20 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... 12 HINTS AND HELPS cost more at first, they are cheaper in the end. With good tools, the beginner should begin to handle them correctly. One of the modern harrows.- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 21 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
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Image 22 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... Plan of the Gardens, Observation Plots, and Grounds at the School of Horticulture, Hartford, Conn.- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 23 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... CHAPTER III. SOIL TILLAGE. T ILLAGE is the working or stirring of the land in order to improve it for agricultural purposes. The term cultivation is sometimes used but tillage is a...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 24 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... HINTS AND HKD PS H IMPLEMENTS USED IN SOIL TILLAGE. The spade and the plow are the first implements to be used in tillage. The Spade, is made for entering the soil,...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 25 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 15 be done. On sod or heavy land a disc, wheel or spading harrow should be used to be followed with a smoothing harrow. The harrow is the best...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 26 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... i6 HINTS AND HELPS rows. The soil mulch consists of a soft loose condition of the top soil. It should be two to three inches deep. The weeder is used about the...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 27 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... FOR YOUNG GARDENED. I 7 well, it will leave the soil finer than the plow does. In fact it does the plowing and part of the harrowing. lo Rake the land, begin...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 28 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... iS HINTS AND HELPS but the handle is allowed to slide through the hands more. When not in use all tools should he cleaned and hung up. Have a place for everything...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 29 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... CHAPTER IV. HOW TO TEST SEEDS. ING to the great importance of having good seed to plant, it is wise to test the seed before planting, to determine the percentage of live...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 30 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... 20 HINTS AND HELPS The seeds that are last to germinate in the germina- tors often fail entirely in the soil. Germination is the sprouting of the seed. It is not complete...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 31 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... CHAPTER V HOW TO PUNT. A GARDEN should not be planted until the soil is thor¬ oughly prepared. It is better to plant a few days late than to put the seed...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 32 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... 22 HINTS AND HELPS a pint of wood aslies or one-half pint of sulphate of potash or bone dust, into the furrow to every ten feet. Mix this into the soil with...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 33 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 23 Beets. Crosby’s Egyptian, or any table variety. Beets can be planted in rows one foot apart. If the ground is not rich, hoe a half-pint of market-garden fertilizer...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 34 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... 24 HINTS AND HELPS served similar to it. They are purple instead of white. They are ready to eat in about twenty-one weeks after planting. Cabbage. All Seasons and Jersey Wakefield, are...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 35 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 25 window-garden or hot-bed, any time from March 1st to June 15th. When the fourth leaf has formed, the plants should be set out in rows, two feet apart...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 36 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... 26 HINTS AND HELPS can be grown the same as celery or the seed may be sown in the garden, in rows two feet apart and the plants thinned to eight inches...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 37 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 27 should be planted in the garden about April 30th, and the crop will be ready to eat in about five or six weeks. The leaves are eaten as...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 38 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... 28 HINTS AND HELPS used in the early spring, they should be kept mowed to prevent their going to seed as they may become a trouble¬ some weed. They are used not...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 39 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 29 It is cultivated for the leaves which are used for salad. When well grown, tie the ends of the leaves to blanch the center with a soft material....- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911
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Image 40 of How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in ... 30 HINTS AND HELPS heads are well formed. The heads are ready for the table in from eight to twelve weeks after being planted. Let¬ tuce in the summer is not quite...- Contributor: Hemenway, Herbert Daniel
- Date: 1911