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GARDEN & HOME
BUILDER

Beauty Translated into Terms of the Practicable, the ‘Possible;
into Terms of your “House, your Lawn, your Garden

Volume XLIV
September, 1926, to February, 1927

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INDEX TO GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Volume XLIV—September, 1926, to February, 1927
Copyrighted, 1927, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., Garden City, N. Y.

An asterisk (*) signifies that the article is illustrated

Achillea, Pearl, 366*

Adams, Charles G., garden designed
by, 304*

Ailments, Common, of
Plants, 480*

Aldrich, Chester H., article by, 370*

Allen, James Roy, house designed by,

Common

384*

Allen & Collens, house designed by,
141”, 362 * 387"

Altman, ihe (2 (Oloy.
courtesy of, 466

Amemiya, photographs by, 306, 375,
455

American Face Brick Association,
photographs by courtesy of, 384

American Society of Landscape Archi-
tects, photographs by courtesy
of, 21

America’s First Real Garden, 228*

Among Our Friendly Neighbors, 51,
I52, 240, 481

Amos, Fred C. G., article by, 154

Annual, The Dependable Popular,
470°

Antiques, Care of, 234*

Apple tree, 128*

Architectural Forum, Competition by,

photographs by

375
Architecture, English Style, 131*
Mediterranean Influence in, 207
The Darby and Joan of, 376*
Armstrong, William L., house de-
signed by, 463*
Armstrong & Koch,
by, 205*
House restored by, 373
Artcraft Furniture Co.,
by courtesy of, 42
Artichoke Sugar, The New, 203
Auten, Edward, Jr., article by, 40*
Azaleas, Kurume, Success with, 51

*

house designed

photographs

Bee beraciicle bya

Beeba di wanicle Dye.00

Babcock, Mabel Keyes, garden de-
signed by, 458*

Bade, Dr. E., article by, 480*

Baker, Viroque, photograph by, 304

Barber, Donn, house designed by,
360*

Barberry, 147*

Barnes, P. T., article by, 51

Barron, Leonard, article by, 21*

Barron, Mr. Sam, garden of, 224"

Basset, Mr. J., home of, 141*

Bateman, Mrs. C. Shs article by, 481

Bates, Mr. Ralph ioe home of, 468*

Bathroom, Jade and Orchid for the,

481

Batten, Charles, house designed by,
I

Baum, Dwight James, house designed
by, 468*

Beals, 478

Beautification Campaign, City, 203

Beauty Doctors of the Gladiolus, 215*

Beaver Board Company, photographs
by courtesy of, 145

Bedding, Fine, 134*

Before and after photos, 474

Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 42

Bishop, Mr. Richard E., home of,
ZOO", 230°

Birches, 116*

Bird Bath in the Garden, The Joy of a,

240
Blake, Mr. Herbert S., home of, 475*
Blue oe 154
Book ends, Ship, 467*

Bookcase, Sturdy, 467*
Books, Housing, in Friendly Fashion,

Teo
Borax, Powdered, for Ants, 154
Border for flowers, Planting the

Herbaceous, 464

Perennial, 367*

Borer, Corn, 113
Iris, 113
Bossom, Mr. Alfred C., home of, 306*
Bottomley, William Lawrence, photo-
graph by courtesy of, 307*
house designed by, 307
Bougainvillea, Crimson, 380*
Box, 129*, 204*
Boxwood—The Living Antique, 223*
Boyd, Mr. James, home of, 296*
Boy’s Room, Your, 466*
Bradley, Miss M. T., home of, 122*,
r41*
Breed, F. Nelson, house designed by,

141*
Breeze Hill, Walks and Talks at, 476*
Brenner residence, 361*
Brick and your Building Budget, 392*
and Your Country Home, 353
as a Fireproof Material, 386*
Bonds, 382
Houses, Prize Winning, 374*
in the Garden Picture, 362*
in the Modern Home, 371*
Lengthening the Life of, 390
Through the Ages, 357*
Bricklaying i in Garden Ornament, 365*
Brickwork i in the Garden, 364*
Briggs, Loutrel W., garden designed

*

by, 456

Brown, Margaret De M., photographs
by, i

Brown, Warren Wilmer, article by,
TO

Brownfield, Marion, article by, 478*

Brundage, Mr. Wilbur, home of, 469*

Bryant, William Cullen, home of, 20*

Bubb, Jr., Mrs. N. B., home of, 140*

Buffington, Mr. A. L., home of, 145*

Building, Joyous, 121

Bulbs, Concerning various, 482

Burton, Mrs. C. W.., article by, 152,
garden of, 152

Buswell, Leslie, nee Ol, 141 oss

Butler & Corse, house designed by,

Tie i304 co)", 40a

Butterfield, Harold, article by, 376",
Sketches by, 383

Byers, John, house remodelled by,

304"

Calhoun, Mrs. Julian, garden of, 21r1*
Candles of Christmastide, 282
Care of Old Pieces, 234*

Possessions, 78
Carhart, Arthur Hawthorne, article

by; 23"

Carnation, Dwarf Allwoodi, 332
Carpenter, Warwick S., article by,

02

Carrick, Alice Van Leer, 282*

Casaurina trees, 380*

Cedar of Lebanon, Oldest, 228*

Celotex Co., photographs by courtesy
of, 145

Ceramics of House Building, The, 384*

Chairs, A Queen and Her, 472*

The Romance of, 217*
Chamberlain, John W., article by, 482
Chart, Vegetable Gardening, 451
Christmas Cruises, 292*

Gifts, 286*, 336

Gifts for the House, 336

in Colonial Days, 284*

Trees, Living, 277

Chrysanthemum Show, 113

Clark, Kenneth, photograph by, 34,
EES sey 125, 0151. 130.4%; 207,
357, 386

Clark, William E.,

Clove Pinks, 52

Coal, Getting the Most out of Your,
140°

Coffin, Marion, article by, 128*

Coleman, Laura H., article by, 154

Colonial Bequest, Our, 34*

House, The True, 141*

article by, 312*

Color in Table Decorations, 414
Roadside, 203

Colton, Amy Richards, article by, 31*

Common Brick Manufacturers As-
sociation, Competition by, 375;
yaaa by courtesy of, 357,
384, 3

Contest, ‘onaen Club Photograph,
484

Cooper, Mr. Sydney C., garden of,
6

495
Collinge, J. Walter, photograph by,

393
Color ier with Tulips, 225";
in Furniture, 42*
Colton, Amy Richards,
300*
Cone, Mrs. E. K., home of, 114*
Cook, George iD "house designed by,
22

article by,

Cornell Wood Products Co., photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 145
Copeland & Thompson, Inc., photo-

graphs by courtesy of, 208
Cram, Miss Lilly C., home Oily Aur
Crepe Myrtle, 52
Cridland, Margaret, article by, 212*
Croft, Mr. H. W., home of, 22*
Cupboards, Beauty and Convenience

in, 478*

Dahlia
Alice Whittier, 301*
Color Sargeant, 301*
Edna Ferber, 302*
Elite Peach, 301*
Grandola, 302*
J. W. Lee, 302*
Dahlia Roll of Honor, The 1926, 301*
Success, Wood Ashes for, 482
Dahlias for 1926, Doings in, 48
on the Pacific Coast, 302*
Damask and Silver, 388*
Dana, Richard H., Jr., house designed
Diy, UDO, aa
Darby and Joan of Architecture, The,
376"
Day, Mr. J. W., home of, 376
Dean, Ruth, garden designed by, 455
Decoration, Fall Plants for, 147*
Decorator Goes Window Shopping, 60
Delafield, Mrs. Edward, home of, 139*
Delano and Aldrich, house designed
by, 360%, 370°
Delphinium Food, Snail Shells for, 51;
seeds in a Sunny Window, 482
Delphiniums, Success with, 154
Derby, Colonel G., garden of, 231%,

Rey

Desks, Old, and Their Modern De-
scendants, 38*

Disease, Plant, article on, 480*

Dividend in Contentment, The Prize-
Winning, 212*

D’Olier, Colonel Franklin, home of, 49*

Dollars do their Duty, Making, 152

Donley Bros. Co., photographs by
courtesy of, 150

Donnaldson, H., article by, 154

Door-Knockers of Yesterday and To-
day, 308*

Doorway, 122, 220*

Dutch Colonial, 36*
Old Colonial, 36*

Draper, Mr. J., home of, 138*

Drawings, Working, How to read, rar

Drayton Hall, 356*

Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, house de-
signed by, 35*

Dull, Mrs. A. P. L., home of, 133*

Dunham, George Foote, house de-
signed by, 310

Duryea, Drix, photograph by, 131,

Sou
Dyer, Mrs. George J., garden of, 116*

Eddy’s Studio, photograph by, 131,
221, 207,

Edison Electric Appliance Co., photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 50

Egbert, George Drew, article by, 217*,

72

Ellerston, Mr. Homer, garden of, 211*

Ellett, Thomas Harlan, house de-
signed by, 126

Ellison, Thomas, photographs by, 362

Ely, Mr. M. S., home of, 462*

Embury II, Aymar, article loi) LES
296*

house designed by, eK

English style, 131*

Erskine Danforth Corp., photographs
by courtesy ola 466

Etching, 466*

Evans, Admiral Robley D., garden of,
362*

Evergreens and Vines, 22*

F., A. L., article by, 60, 240

Fall Planting from Four Points of
View, 21*

Fansler, P. E., article by, 44*

Ferargil Galleries, photographs by
courtesy of, 33

Field, Marshall, Garden of, 130

FE illebrown, A. Louise, article by, 82,
198, 229°, 272, 414, 504

Fireless Cooker, 50*

Fireplaces, 296", 504

Fischer, Sigurd, photographs by, 141,

143
Fly, White, Fumigate the, 203
Floors that are Trouble-proof, 238*
Wooden, and their Care, 252
Florida Garden, When You Plant
Your, 379*
Flower Shows, The New Note in, ra9*
Forster, Frank J., home of, 297*
house designed by, 27*, 233*, 297*,
376, 469*
Foster, Charles, garden of, 454
Foster, Olive Hyde, article by, 449*
Fowler, Clarence, garden designed by,

18*

Fowler, ee Jr., garden designed
by, 18*

Frohman, Robb & Little, house de-

signed by, 385*
Fruit, Pruning Fruit Trees for, 471*
Trees, Dwarf trained, 477*
Fruits Fail to Crop, Why, 188
Growing, Keep Home, 29*
Hardy, for Northern Gardens, go
Furnace Efficiency, 140*
Furnishing a Boy’s Room, 240
The Tranquility of True Spanish,
306*
Furniture, Color in, 42*
Fit, Making the Wrong, 229*

Gallohur, Mr. W. G., garden of, 448*
Garden, A Dollar-a- year, 514
America’s First Real, 228*
Blue, 154
Brickwork in the, 364*
Club Photograph Contest, 484
Florida, When you Plant Your, 379*
Gaieties for the Winter Season, 504
in New Orleans, Semi-Tropical, 231*
Into the Sunroom, Carrying the,
461*
Michigan, A Successful, 152
One Year Old, A, 484*
Reserve, Every Place Needs a, 277
Sunken Rose, 448*
Garpven & Home BUILDER Achieve-
ment Medal, 48
house, 37*
Gardening on a Lakeside, 295*
Vegetable, 451
Gardens, A Portfolio of Beautiful,

453
Freed from Rule o’Thumb, 52
of Tryon, Four, 210*
The Charm of Special, 4409*
Gardin, C. A., article by, 482

Gay, Mr. Herbert S., garden of, 19*

Gebelein, George C., photographs by
courtesy of, 368

Geranium, L’Aube, 45*

Geraniums, White, for Indoor Use,

45
Gifts at Small Cost, Attractive, 286*
for the Home Maker, 272
Too Large for the Stocking, 294*
Gilchrist, Edmund B., house designed
by, 209*, 236*
Gillespie, Harriet Sisson, article by,

maya”
Gillies, John Wallace, photographs by,
27, 34, 47, 139, 2079 297, 357)
362, 376, 390, 447, 448, 453, 469,

47
Gilmore, Mr. Earl, home of, 304*
Ginkgo tree, 228”
Gladiolus
Coronada, 312*
Crown of Gold, 216*
Genessee, 215*
Mary O’ Mine, 216"
Opalescent, 215 Le
The Orchid, 312"
Viola Bird, 215*
William Kent, aro *
Gladiolus Exhibitions,
from the, 214
Beauty Doctors of the, Part III,
25
Beauty Doctors of the, Part IV,
era"
that Prove Hardy, 51
Glendenning, Mr. Robert, home of,

Impressions

450

Godwin, Mr. Harold, home of, 20*
Goens, Olive M., article by, 52
Goldsmith, Margaret O., photograph

by, 207
Gottscho, Samuel H., photographs by,

376, 463, 468

Greenleaf, James L., garden designed
by, 22°

Gregory, chee house designed by,
AT

Griffith, |. °?., article by, 370"

Grill, Electric, 50*

Grunsfeld, Ernest Bg) |e
signed by, 374*

Guild, Lurelle Van Arsdale, article
by, 308*

Gunston Hall, 354*

house de-

Haig, Mr. Robert, home of, 47*, 226*
Hall, A. C. McC., article by, 482
Hamblin, Stephen F., article by, 154
Hammond, H. H., house designed by,
392°
Hardware, 176
Harebell Again, Trailing, 51
Harriman, Mrs. Lois, home of, 139*
Harshberger, John W., article by, 228*
Hart, Derrill W., article by, 48, 301*
Harvey, A. E., home of, 145*
Haskell, Mrs. J. A., home of, 362*
Haynes, Dorothy Doane, article by,

52
Hayward garden, 367*
Healy, ean Be photographs by,
LO 225,
Hearthstone Editor’s Chat, 78, 176,
252, 330, 410, 504
Heat, More, for Less Money, 28
Heating, 140*
Note on, 481
Plan, 28
Hemmye, E. F., article by, 152
Hewitt, Mattie Edwards, photographs
by, 20, 24, 29, 31, 41, 49, 128,
204, 220, 239, 449, 456, 404
Hill, Amelia L., article by, 298%, 401"
Hines, Linda Clement, article by, 223*
Hitchcock, Nevada iB) article by, 514
Hodge, F. W., article by, 33*
Holby, Mr. Frank, home of, 463
Honeysuckle for covering banks, 477"
Hooker, Miss E. R., home of, 371*
Houghton & Sawyer, house "designed
by, 238*
House
English Cottage, 117
Cape Cod, 120
Norman French, 118

INDEX DO GARDEN GO HOMES BUILDER

Southern Colonial, 119
18th Century, 131*
House Building, The Ceramics of, 384*
Colonial style, 113
in the Sierras, A Century-Old, 304*
Houses, Distinctive for Everyday
Living, 117*
Howard & Frenaye, house designed
by, 462*
Howe, Mr. George, home of, 361*
Hubschmitt, Elmer P., article by, 37*,

390
Aumphrey, Prof. John S., photograph
by, 207
Hunter, J.. Duncan, article by, 386*
Hunter, R. C., & Bro., house designed
by, 387*
Hunter, Mr. T. S., home of, 391*
Hurlburt, Leah Stanley, article by,

470"

Incinerators, 150*

Indian Art, and Present Day Homes,
iy 3 a

ee at Silver Co., photographs
by courtesy of, 298

Tris Enthusiasts, Help Wanted from,

154

James, Mrs. Wortham, home of, 360*

Jackson Co., photographs by cour-
tesy of, 136

Jackson, Edwin A., & Bro., Photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 150*

Jackson, Will, article by, 284*

Japanese Beetle, Quarantine for the,

277
Jeffray, Mr. Walter S., home of, 463*
Jerome, Mrs. H. C., article by, 154
Joern, Mr. Arnold, home of, 392*
Jonas, Mr. Nathan S., home OM, Hale
Jones, Mrs., garden of, 295°
Jones, Mr. Arthur, home of, 384"
Jones, Mr. W. S., home Oli, ge

Kauffman, Alice R., article by, 481

Kelleher, J. H., home of, 375*

Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A.,
home of, 221*

Kensington Mfg. Co., photograph by
courtesy of, 306

Kenwood Mills,
courtesy of, 134

Kerner Incinerator Co., photographs
by courtesy of, 150*

Kimball, Fiske, house restored by,

photographs by

Kitchen, New Servants in the, 50*
Kruhm, Adolph, article by, 451

Labels, Permanent, to Insure Correct
Varieties, 154

Landscaping, Success in, 52”

Langhorne residence, BGS

Larkspur, 21*

Lauck, Mr. Gerald M., home of, 138*

Lawson, K. W. article by, 51

Lay, Charles Downing g, garden de-
signed by, 22*

Leaven, William, & Co., photographs
by courtesy of, 42*

Leaves, Value of, 113

Leavitt, Charles’ Avclinuetord: X& Son,
garden designed by, 114*, 362%,

448*

Lee, Schuyler Carteret, photograph
by, 386

Lee, W. Duncan, house designed by,
387 *

oa of the Bells, 279

Lehman, Mr. Alan, home of, 357*

Lengthening the Life of Brick, 390°

Levison, Mr. J. J., home of, 143*

Libbey, Mrs. Annie E., garden of,
458*

Lilies, 21*, 40*

Lincoln, Bee Bates, house designed
by, 392

Lincoln, eeph C., home of, 36*

Lindeberg, Harrie, ie house designed
by, 143*, 390*

Linen Damask Guild, photographs
by courtesy of, 298

Linen and Damask Guild, Photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 388

Linens for the New Year, New, 388*

Litchfield, Electus D., house designed

by, 462*
Living Room Match
Making Your, 82
Lloyd, Dr., home of, 385*
Lutz, Mr. George W., home of, 145*
Lychnis coronaria, 366*
Lyman, Mrs. Moses, article by, 154
Lyons, Mr. J. C., home of, 205*
Lockwood, L. V., home of, 447*, 453*
Lockwood, Sarah M., article by, 38
234"
Logan, James, home of, 359*
Loring, Charles G., house designed by,

the Season,

Lowden, Mrs. Zennie, 52
Lowenfeld, Richard, Photograph by,

295

Mack, Clarence, house designed by,
359"

Magnolia, 20*, 129*

Majestic Co., photographs by cour-
tesy of, 150*

Making the Wrong Furniture Fit, 229*

Mann & McNeille, house designed by,

3

Manning Bowman Co., photographs
by courtesy of, 50

Mapleleaf Viburnum, 147*

Marquam, Mrs. Julia, Prize won by,
484

Marr, Thomas E., & Son, photograph
by, 141, 386

Mars, G. C., article by, 384*

Martin, Mrs. J. Willis, garden of, 24,
404*, 478 ~

Mass, The Power that Lurks in, 23*

Mattern, J. R., article by, 20°

McCrary, Culley and Carhart, gar-

dens designed by, 23*

McCreery, James & Co., photographs

by courtesy of, 388

McCune, Mr. W. G., home of, 115%,

207*

McCutcheon, James, & Co.,
graphs by courtesy of, 134

Mee lakh J. Horace, article byapeaee
366%, 476"

Mev Co., J. Horace, photo-
graphs by, 366, 460

McGibbon & Co., photographs by
courtesy of, 134

McGrath, Mr. Harold, garden of,

fs

photo-

144

McLean, Forman T., article by, 51,
ate

Mediterranean Influence, The, 207*

Mellon, E. P., house designed by, 208*

Mellor, Meigs & Howe, garage de-
signed by, 209*

house designed by, 361*

Merritt, C. C., house designed by,
387"

Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo-
graph by courtesy of, 278, 280

Middleton, Rena S., article by, 464*

Milligan, Harold Vincent, article by,
281

Minstrels of the Middle Ages, 280

Mockoranges, 476*

Monthor Bros., photograph by cour-
tesy of, 306

Moore, Mr. Jonathan, home of, 462*

Moore, Lawrence, article by, 362*

Moran, Mr. William Edgar, home of,

474*
Morrison, Mrs. J. A., article by, 482
Mosse, Inc., photographs by courtesy
of, 388
Mott Studios, photographs by, 362,

478
Mullein Pink, 366*
Murray’s, Mrs. Edward, Cathedral
Garden, 136*
Museum of Art, Baltimore, 235*
Museum of the American Indian,
photographs by courtesy of, 33
Music of Christmastide, 281

Narcissus, Pax, 154

Nash, Miss Dianne, home of, 206*

National Garden Association, 54, 148,
222, 300, 396, 488

Nelson, Mary H., article by, 231*

New Jersey Harvest Flies, 17

New Orleans, Semi-Tropical Garden
im, 230

New York Historical Society, photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 357

New York Public Library, photograph
by courtesy of, 279

News and Comment, 17, 113, 203, 277,

353) 445
Northend, Mary H., photographs by,

34
Northrop, Mrs. C. Lazelle, prize won
by, 484

O’Connor, James, house designed by,
359
Ogilvie, David A., house designed by,

375"
Qi] Burners, The Truth About, 44*
the New Heat, 410
Stove, 50°
Okie, R. Brognard, house designed by,
138
Old-fashioned Flowers, Plea for, 482
Oleanders, 380*
Olmsted Bros.,
362*
Orensigo Co., Inc.,
courtesy of, 42
Osato, S., photograph by, 207
Ovington Bros., photographs by
courtesy of, 368, 466

garden designed by,
photographs by

Pack, Roger, article by, 51
Paint, Information on, 37*
Palmer & Embury, photographs by
courtesy of, 42
Palms, 205, 379°
Coconut, 381*
for the House, 244
Path, Stone, 49*
Pax, What Color is, 154
Peabody, Wilson & Brown, house
designed by, 376, 463*
Peckham, Ethel Anson S., article by,
225
Pennsylvania Dept., of Forest and
Waters, photographs by courtesy
of, 460
Peonies Healthy, Keeping Your, 144*
on Parade, 40*
Peony
A. P. Saunders, 40*
Le Cygne, 40*
Modella, 40*
Peony Show, Notes on, 1926, 40*
Pepper, Mrs. B. Franklin, Home of,
405*
Perennials to “treat rough,” Per-
vasive, 366*
Perrett, Antoinette, photograph by,

114
Pewter, New, in old Design, 368*
Phlox, 21*, 40*
Phifer, Mary H., article by, 210*
Plan, Garden, 371, 454, 456
Heating, 28
HLOUSG; 20) 47,8 Diy eles.) Te 7oore
237, 311, 371, 372, 374, 375, 468,
409
Improvement contest, 53
Improvement, The Latest, 244
Prize Winning, 375

Plants, Fall, for Indoor Decoration,
147"

Common Ailments of Common,
480*

Pool, 114*, 447*, 453

Pope, John Russell, house designed
by, 357"

Poppy, Plume, 366*

Pratt, Mr. Charles, home of, 376

Prince, Mr. D. C., home of, 125

Prince house at Flushing, 228*

Prior, P. B., article by, 471*

Prize Contests, 53

Prize Contests, The Close of the, 156

Prize Winning Brick Houses, 374*

Prouty, Mr. Dwight M., home of, 227*

Pruning Fruit Trees for Fruit, 471

Pruning Shears Wanted, Good, 51

Quaratine, Bulb, 17
for the Japanese Beetle, 277
Quarantines and Plant Business, 445

Queen and Her Chairs, A. 472*

ke He article Dy, go

Rainsford, June, article by, 240

Randolph, F. H., article by, 28, 140*,
481

Range, Kitchen, 50*

Red Man’s Contribution to House-
hold Art, 31*

Reed, Dr. J. H., garden of, 456*

Reminder, 56, 160, 246, 313, 394,
486

Remodelling, Making the Most of,

*

474

Rhoad, Charles C., article by, 51

Richardson, Barott & Richardson,
house designed by, 35*

Richter Mfg. Co., photograph by
courtesy of, 306

Rie, Paul, home of, 375*

Roadside Planting, Community, 203

Rogers, G. B., house designed by, 391*

Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Co., photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 298

Romance of Chairs, The, 217*

Roorbach, Eloise, article by, 304*

Rose, Tausendschon, 154*

Roses at Ottawa, Hardy, 481

in the Fall, Some Real Reasons for
Planting, 24*
Old-fashioned, and Sweet Peas, 52

Royal Poinciana Studio, photographs
by, 379

Russell, Mr. Harry B., home of, 227*

S be ie article bys 152

Sabin, Charles H., garden of, 128*

Saltonstall, Mr. John L., home of, 35*

Sanderson, Mr. Edward F., home of,

*

Saunders, A. P., article by, 144*

Saunders, C. F., photograph by, 207

Saylor, Henry H., article by, 141°,
207*

Science, Plant, New Trails through,

113

Sellers. G. I., & Sons Co., photographs
by courtesy of, 42

Servants, New, in the Kitchen, 50*

Seyforth, Robert E., house designed
by, 391”

Shaw, Margaret F., article by, 147*

INDEX TO GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Sheldon, Mr. Waldo, home of, 233*,
297"

Ship model, 466*

Shockey, Gertrude, article by, 45*

Siebecker, Mr. Carl, home of, 209*

Signs and Portents for the Planter,
460*

Silver and Damask, 388*

Simonds, Elgin A., & Co., photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 42

Sloane, W. & J., photographs by
courtesy of, 42

Smilax, 147*

Smith, D. Vincent, photographs by,

149

Smith, George Washington, home of,
fo) *

Smith, Myron Bement, article by,

357
Snail Shells as Delphinium Food, 51
Society of Arts and Crafts, photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 368
Southern Living, Suiting a House to,
152
Spanish Furnishing, 306*
Spencer, J. B., article by, 154*, 240
Speyer, Mr. James, garden of, 362*
Spider, Red, Beating the, 203
Stain, Attractive, that Costs Little, 90
Stairways of Diversified Character,
226"
Star of the Three Kings, 278
Starr, Mrs. Isaac T., garden of, 29*,
204*
home of, 41*
Start, Cedric, houses designed by, 117*
Steenken, Miss Anna M., home of,
462*
Stein, Clarence S., house designed by,

374
Stephens, Neville, garden designed by,
6 *

393

Sternberg, Anna M., plan improved
by, 244

Stiles, E. C., article by, 365*

Sketches by, 364

Strawberry, A New, 17

Strohmeyer, H. A., photograph by, 30

Sundial, 455*

Sundrops, 366%

Sunroom, Carrying the Garden Into
the, 461*

Sunrooms, Charming, 462*

Swartzbough Mfg. Co., photographs
by courtesy of, 50

Sweet Peas and Old-Fashioned Roses,
52

Table Will Wear, What the Well
Dressed, 298*

Tamarind of India at Palm Beach,
381"

Tatham, Mrs. Edwin, Garden of, 18*

Tebbs & Knell, photographs by, 139,

I4I, 205, 207, 357, 373, 370, 386,

390
Terrace, Paved Outdoor, 41
Thanksgiving Decorations, 198
Thomas, C. W.., article by, 52*
Thompson, Miss Ann, home of, 25*
Theiss, Lewis Edwin, article by, 460*
Toaster, 50*
Tree, Native, New Use for a, 203
Trees, Gardening with, 128*

Give Solemn Grandeur to a Garden,

136°

Tuft, Peter, house, 355*
Tulips, 22*

Color Harmony with, 225*

in the Bible, The, 277

Naturalistic Planting of, 225*

United Arts and Crafts, photographs
by courtesy of, 368, 466

U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, photo-
graphs by courtesy of, 460

Van Anda, George H., photograph by,

207

Van De Grift’s Studio, photographs
by, 40

Vandeveer, Mr. S. L., home of, 391*

Vaughan, L. H., photographs by
courtesy of, 368

Vegetable Gardening on a Time
Schedule Basis, 451

Victory Garden at Newton, Mass., 446*

Villa Maria, 208*

Vincent, Richard, Jr., 318

Vine, Vigorous, of Great Beauty, 203

Vines and Evergreens, 22*

Virginia Creeper, 147*

Vitale, Ferruccio, garden designed by,
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Waffle Iron, 50*

Walcott, Russell S., home designed by,
207

Walker & Pratt Co., photographs by
courtesy of, 50

Walks and Talks at Breeze Hill, 476*

Wall, 376

Planned by a President, Century-
Old; 210*
Serpentine, 219*

Walls, New, for Old, 145*

Wallace, Philip B., photograph by,
34, 131, 134, 130, 207, 236, 207,
357

Wanamaker, Mrs. Rodman, home of,
225

Wangner, Ellen D., article by, 42*,
134*, 292", 368", 466*

Ward, Dr. Wilbur, home of, 475*

Ward, LeRoy P., house designed by,
301

Warburg, Mr. James, home of, 307

Warren, Knight & Davis, house de-
signed by, 361*

Weber, Paul J., photographs by, 366,
384

Weiss, John, photograph by, 19

Wellwood, Estelle L., plan improve-
ment by, 53

Whitman, Roger B., article by, 145*,
238", 302°

Whitehill, W., house designed by, 463

Whittemore, Prof. James K., home of,

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Wilshire, Mrs. Gaylord, home of, 145*
Wilson, Mr. Albert, home of, 463*
Wilson, Owen, article by, 34*
Window Box Problem, The, 240
Winkler, Mr. H. C., garden of, 363*
Wood Ashes for Dahlia Success, 482
Workman, Mr. F. L., home of, 391*

Yam, Wild, 147*

Yarnall, Mr. Charlton, garden of, 22*

Young, Mr. Chester F., home of, 27*

Yule Fire, 277

Yuletide Festivities in Oldentime
Fashion, 285*

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Karnaks — Aristocrat of
American Wiltons, Deep
piled chenilles. Axminsters
of quality. Tapestries and
velvets.

Rugs and Carpets

MOHAWK RU

Jewels and plate and gold, and bales
of rich carpets from the Summer Palace.
Plunder from the battered Chinese junk
whose Royal dragon-sails are no pro
tection from the swart Mongolian ban-
dits! These and many other fancies rise
from musing on the storied pattern of
this beautiful Koran worsted Wilton

—truly a Mohawk Masterpiece.
Long, sturdy wools from Aleppo and
Karadi and Kandahar. Classic tradition
or peasant folk-lore skilfully blended
into patterns made for today’s home
needs. Long years of wear made sure by
careful craftsmanship and rigid tests.
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W. & J. Sloane, the distinguished Interior Decorators, will advise you without
charge as to the proper floor covering for your individual rooms. Write today
for blank form for use in submitting your rug or carpet problem. Address

Mohawk Dept., W. & J. Sloane, 579 Fifth Ave., New York City.

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This beautiful rug is
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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Tuxedo Park Golf Club, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Bishopric was specified by Kenneth M. Murchison, Architect.

SWING TO COLORED

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GARDANS HOME BUILDER EE

An everlastingly Green Lawn

Those bare, worn spots that from time to time occur
in lawns are the result of impoverished soil.

The first sign of that sickly yellowish growth is the
forerunner of ‘‘Baldness’’—

Apply Hunt’s
LAWN DRESSING SEED

Thisisa mixture of carefully selected, quick-growing grasses, scientifi-

nisi PI t ] h | l cally blended with a harmless yet powerful chemical fertilizing element

AW Me an e S e ove y (not an ordinary Lawn-dressing preparation), that gives quick nourish-
Aiite i) ment to the impoverished roots of the grasses already there, while the
aA? new seed thickly and quickly covers the bare patches with a green ver-

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Wi Idling S N O W! dure. Use 25 lbs. to 250 square feet; full directions with every package.
They are now at rest. The dormant roots are
easily shipped and, when planted out in your
garden, will start root action, resulting in liberal
flowers next spring. They prefer moist shaded
situations. ;

Price 100 lbs., $40.00; 50 Ibs., $21; 25 Ibs. $11.

Fall Catalogue mailed on request

WILLIAM M. HUNT & CO., Inc.

148 Chambers Street Talaphone Walkuy 2146 New York City

Mertensia

(Shown above)

Mertensia virginica is
the lovely native Vir-
ginia Cowslip. Pinkish
buds develop into blue
or white flowers borne
in graceful panicles.
One of the choicest
early spring flowers.
25c each; $1.50 for 10;
£12.00 per 100.

RARE PLANTS FRO

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‘* Aristocrats of the Garden’

Many rare plants brought to America by Prof. E. H.
Wilson, and other explorers, have been tested and
propagated at Hicks Nurseries. Unusual native plants
spread their foliage and flowers before the visitor; so-
called common plants have been bred up until they are
fit to hold a high place in the modern garden.

(Shown

Trillium grandiforum “2x5

The prettiest form of the very popular 3-leaved Night-
Shade family. White, showy flowers average 2’ to 2)’
across. ‘They turn lilac as they age. 15¢ each; $1.00 for
10; $6.00 per 100; $40.00 per 1000.

Cypripedium pubescens

Is the yellow member of the charm-
ing tribe of our native Orchids, as

Among these rare and unusual plants are
Taxus media Hicksii, Meyers Juniper,
Chinese Cotoneasters, Enkianthus, Poten-

pictured alongside. The poe tilla, Sarcococca humilis, Pachystima,
are artistically curled. Blooms

: Barberries in variety.
during May-June, y

Hach 10 100

For the next three months most of Hicks’s rare plants

1-2 Crowns §$ .30 $2.50 $20.00 can be moved safely from our growing-fields. Dormant
§~aat* 50 4.50 40.00 plants will be carefully dug and securely wrapped; large
5-8 1.50 Evergreens will have ‘“‘platform and canvas,” all will be

packed so that they will reach you in good condition.

Write for our special list of rare plants
suitable for autumn and early winter
planting.

Hicks Nurseries

Westbury, L. I., New York

Instructive Catalog FREE

Gives a wealth of information on Ferns and wild
flowers, native shrubs, plants and trees seldom
found offered in nursery catalogs. Gladly mailed

on request,

Fern and Flower Farm

3 Main Street, Southwick, Mass.

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HIS is the principle which makes

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Peonies for little gardens
and for large estates

Experts and amateurs can satisfy their needs from the
Peonies growing in our nurseries. These two collections
are but a hint of the range of varieties that are available
for fall planting.

COLLECTION NO. 1 COLLECTION NO. 2
Albatre, white, shaded lilac. Mid- Baroness Schroeder, flesh-
season. white. Midseason.
Albert Crousse, rose-white and Lord Kitchener, carmine-red.
crimson. Late. Early. :
Edouard Andre, dark carmine- Mme. Jules Dessert, white,
violet. Midseason. shaded flesh. i
W Edulis superba, mauve-pink. Mons. Jules Elie, violet-rose;
Just hat Is The Early. ; fragrant. Midseason.
E Mlle. Leonie Calot, rose-white, Officinalis rubro-plena, dark
° 9 : carmine tip. Late. crimson.
Thing to Plant? | Officinalis rubro-plena, dark pater Bernhardt, mauve-rose.
: crimson. ate.

Some ask it about “that sunny Spotge : One plant of each for $5 One plant of each for $15
others about “‘a shady Dlacese still others We have many varieties of extra good Peonies and shall be glad to send =
wonder what to do in dry situations, or full details to those who intend to plant Peonies. =

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Are Japanese and Singles the
Coming Fashion Among PEONIES?

RANKLY, it looks that way! Not that the double Peony will win in popular favor, but rather that the gardener
whose collection embraces the best of them will want the Japanese and Singles for their utterly different character
and perhaps more exotic beauty. The Japanese and Singles among Peonies please above all with their airiness
and delightfully irregular style. Their individual petals have a sheen like that of the finest silk, while their
bizarre outlines are fantastic enough to please those in search of the unusual.

Our collection of both Japanese and single Peonies ranks among the foremost in the country. Collections offered
below are but an introduction to our vast collection and stocks. Please send for free Book offered below.

THE BIZARRE
6 Rare Japanese Peonies for $16.00

Curtosity—Color violet-red, central petals tipped
yellow. Tall grower; fragrant, $1.00

Departing Sun—Broad guard petals of rich crimson;
ae petals claret, suffused with rose and yellow,

5.00.

Snow Wheel—Broad outer petals waxy-white, cen-
ter of filamented petals a pure white without spot
or blemish, $5.00.

Petite Renee—Anemone type; midseason. Guards
carmine-purple; center petals of a beautiful light
magenta with golden extremities, $1.00.

Gypsy—Large, flat bloom, guards tyrian-rose beauti-
ful gold center, $1.00.

Rare Brocade—Pure white with a cream tint.
Early bloomer and a dainty bedding variety, $5.00.

Let “Glory Bloom” Help

Business friends and customers have told us that “Glory

THE FANTASTIC

Areos—Bright pink changing to white, 75¢.

Defiance—A veritable giant resembling an enormous
Red Poppy, 75¢.

Duchess of Portland—Large, rich pink and flesh,
$3.00.

The Moor—Rich, glowing crimson, $3.00.

Wild Rose—Large guard petals of richest satiny-
pink, broad silvery border, $1.00.

L’Etincelante—Cup-shaped flower, broad petals of a
rich, clear carmine broadly edged with silver, $3.00.

The Set of 6 for $10.00

Any Variety May Be Ordered Singly. Good

Strong Roots will be sent prepaid at prices

quoted.

THE STANDARD

Adolphe Ronsseau—Very large dark velvety red
with garnet hues, $1.50.

La Fayette—A lovely shade of salmon-pink, with
touches of heliotrope, $3.00.

President Taft—Delicate hydrangea-pink, with de-
lightful fragrance, $2.00.

Boule de Neige—Semi-rose type. Color milk white
with sulphur center, both guards and center prom-
inently flecked crimson, $1.00.

Festive Maxima—Rose type; early.
clear carmine spots, on center petals.
fragrance, 75c.

La Rosiere—Flowers pure white with prominent
golden yellow stamens, $1.00.

The Set of 6 for $7.00

White with
June rose

Bloom” ranks among the most inspiring pieces of business litera- oo
ture that reaches them. Originally it was the loving work of a ‘
man deeply in love with Peonies, the late Mr. John M. Good.
He felt that ic would be almost sacrilegeous to describe Peonies in
the sense of ordinary merchandise and to calculate their value as
is done in «he average catalog. “Glory Bloom” introduces to
you a collection of this greatest of all June flowers, in a fashion
that will delight those who look upon flowers as one of the

greatest joys in life.

INCORPORATED

World’s Largest Peony Growers
Springfield, Ohio
The Good & Reese Company, Sales Agents

Department 500

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Your copy of this deluxe booklet together
with price list for the best in Peonydom is awaiting your call.

The Good & Welsh Peony Farms

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Above is shown “Departing
Sun” the marvelous Japanese
Peony, included in “Bizarre”
Collection.

Alongside—A small part of the
85 acres of Peonies on our
farms, constituting the great-
est single Peony plantation in
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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926

Quantities of Roses
Next Summer!

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ALL PLANTING assures quantities of roses
FE next Summer if you plant Star Roses—the roses
that are guaranteed to live and to bloom!

Fall planting gives the roses time to become
firmly rooted, to start slowly and naturally when
Spring comes, and to have the vigorous growth that
enables them to withstand the Summer droughts.

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To enjoy them together in your own garden next season

Plant Schlings Bulbs This Fall

[Dae and Cottage, single and double, early and late,—
their lovely cups brimming with color and nodding a merry
“00d morning” to you every day for weeks—from early April to
June in fact—How can you afford to miss them!

You can’t have too many of them! Order now and generously,
plant them this fall and we promise you a winter of pleasant anti-
cipation, a springtime full of delightful surprises and years of happy
memories :—

To bring the joys of Tulip time to as many as possible we make
the following very special offers, all bulbs guaranteed top size and
very first quality,

Schling’s Special Border Collection

Every Star Rose is labeled with a durable star
tag. This tag gives the name of the rose and is a
symbol of our guarantee. Simple and concise in-
structions accompany every order.

Send for the ‘‘Fall Guide
to Good Roses.” It tells all
about the roses that will
grow best and bloom most
profusely in your garden.

Write to-day. Its) BREE:

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Of gorgeous Darwin and Cottage Tulips Box 24 West Grove, Penna.
(as pictured above in order from right to left)
Per 100 Per 1000
Clara Butt—Exquisite salmon-pink Darwin . . . . $4.75 $43.00
Picotee—White cottage petals edged with pink . . . 4.75 43.00
Pride of Haarlem—Darwin American Beauty color . 5.50 50.00
Dream—Charming lavender Darwin’ . ... . 6.00 55.00
Bronze Queen—Buff tinged with golden bronze . . . 7.00 65.00
Zulu—Enormous size Darwin of deep velvety purple. 6.00 55.00
Golden Beauty—Glorious golden yellow cottage . . 5.50 50.00

25 Bulbs at 100 rate; 250 Bulbs at 1000 rate

VERY SPECIAL—100 Bulbs each of 7 varieties above
(700 in all,) $34.00

SUIRGINIA GROWN

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Bulbs Our Old Dominion Collection in choicest mixture of Bulbs

airy and medium Trumpets, short cupped and lovely

$8.50 Poet’s varieties. All first quality bulbs grown in Virginia $82 00
where their culture has flourished since Colonial days. H
These bulbs, being native, are fully acclimatized and
none better can be grown anywhere. The supply will
not equal the demand. Order at once!

Eight Splendid “Get cAcquainted” Offers

Each a wonderful value—at present prices
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This is one of the 128 Houses,
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~build of FACE BRICK

URING the past ten years, a good many houses have been
built in your neighborhood —of Face Brick and of other
materials.

Ask these practical questions. Which homes have cost the least
for repairs and depreciation? Which are holding their value?
Which are the most substantial and attractive in appearance?

In every instance, the Face Brick homes. And they strikingly
show the wisdom of always considering the difference between
initial and final costs.

Exercise sound judgment in selecting the right kind of brick.

Those bricks with great variety of exquisite colors and tex-
tures to meet your individual taste are Face Brick. They add
beauty to permanence and economy in upkeep and depreciation.

Send for
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“The Story of Brick” is an

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SEPTEMBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

This charming entrance
beautifies any home

Entrances can be built to your speci-
fications, or ours. All are stabilized
by patented Koll Lock-Joint Columns.
They add value to any home far be-
yond their low cost. Investigate
before you build or remodel.

New 32-page catalog H-52, shows the above
entrance and many others. Sent free on re-
quest. Or send 30 cents for additional catalog
H-34 of pergolas, lattice work and garden
furniture.

Address Hartmann-Sanders Co., 2162 Elston

Ave., Chicago, Ill.; Eastern office and show-
room, 6 E. 39th St., New York City.

HARTMANN:SANDERS

Happily blending rich dignity and
warm hospitality, this beautiful en-
trance harmonizes perfectly with al-
most any type of architecture.

Itsturned urn, handcarvedrosettes,
classic entablature and trydeglyphs,
fluted pilasters, raised panels, moulds
and leaded glass—all are eloquently
expressive of the artistic, and create
a delightful ensemble. Built com-
plete, ready to set in place.

Sccres of other Hartmann-Sanders

Blue Ribbon Winners

Pergolas (= = Colonial
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The hundreds of choice Darwin, Breeder and Cot-
tage Tulips made a truly imposing showing in Tulip-
dom’s trial gardens, a very small part of which is shown
above. Here, too, is one of the Zandbergen Brothers,
hiding behind that marvelous new Tulip, Silver Wing,
easily the best white Darwin in cultivation to date.

We Can Still Accept Import Orders

The last orders to reach us in fate August and early September will
have to be cabled, at additional expense but—

So long as it assures our customers the choicest bulb product which
Holland affords, we are glad to do our part. For those who do not
have our catalog, we offer the following

Selection of Prize Winners

10 Choice Kinds, 15 Bulbs each
for only $10.60

Bought separately, the 150 bulbs would cost $12.00. One-half the
collection (75 bulbs all told) will be delivered for $5.50.

Here Are The Varieties:

A Dozen Yards of Tulips
To Deck The Garden With Color

Tulips are spring’s most welcome flowers. Their brilliant blooms give a radiance
not obtained from other early flowering plants. _ This collection of 80 bulbs, spaced
the usual distance, will make a border 12 yards long, or a double row 6 yards long,
or a circular bed 4 feet across.

Superb Darwin and May Flowering Tulips

Baron de la Tonnaye, clear carmine-rose. 30 inches.

Dream, heliotrope with silvery lilac margin. 26 inches.

Faust, deep purple-maroon. 30 inches.

Inglescombe Yellow deep yellow, globe shape. 23 inches.
Panorama, orange-red Breeder. 26 inches.

Pride of Haarlem, brilliant salmon-rose, shaded scarlet. 28 inches.
Prince of Orange, terra-cotta, edged orange. 25 inches.

Valentine, heliotrope, shaded violet. 22 inches.

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John Ruskin — Salmon-rose,
edged yellow. Cottage Tulip.
Doz. 90c; 100 $6.00.

Louis X1V—Magnificent
bronze-purple Breeder, with
golden margins. Doz. $2.60;
100 $20.00.

Dream—Pale heliotrope Dar-
win. Doz. 65c; 100 $4.50.
Pride of Haarlem — Rose-
carmine Darwin. Doz. 60c;

100 $4.00.

Princess Elizabeth — Deep
pink Darwin. Doz. $1.15;
100 $8.00.

Clara Butt—Finest salmon-
pink Darwin. Doz. 55c; 100
$3.50.

La Merveille—Orange-scarlet
Cottage. Doz. 60c; 100 $4.00.

Faust—Dark satiny purple
Darwin. Doz. $1.00; 100
$7.00.

Bronze Queen—Soft buff
Breeder. Doz. 70c; 100
$5.00.

Mrs. Moon — Golden Yellow
Cottage. Doz. 70c; 100 $5.00.

Five bulbs of each (40 bulbs) for $3 postpaid.
10 bulbs of each (80 bulbs) for $5.50 postpaid.
25 bulbs of each (200 bulbs) for $12 postpaid.

New Catalogue of Bulbs for Spring Flowers

Describes bulbs for the spring garden and for the house in winter. Perennials
and seeds for autumn planting also included. If you wish a copy please send your
name and address.

HOSEA WATERER Seedsman and Bulb Importer

714 Chestnut St.

‘*Bulbs in a Class All
Their Own’’

Zandbergen Bulbs are sold with the under-
standing that they bloom true-to-name or
money will be refunded. This applies to all
Tulips, Hyacinths, Crocuses and other Dutch
Bulbs as well as to our American Grown
nf ni Daffodils. Please let our free catalog acquaint
al ky you with all we grow. When writing, please
mention G. & H. B.

ZANDBERGEN BROS., “Tulipdom”

Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York

Nurseries at Valkenburg, near Leiden, Holland

Philadelphia Pa.

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for garden walks, for terraces, and for interior and this slate in any quantity, size and finish, and ina wide
exterior flooring. Taken from our Vermont Quar- range of colors. Send for a copy of our illustrated
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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Peonies

That Please

If you are contemplating a Perennial

garden or border you should begin with the
Rosedale booklet. Among a long list of Perennials, we
list one of the finest collections of Peonies to be found
at reasonable prices. For 25 years I have been collect-
ing, selecting and rejecting—and for the asking you have
the benefit of my long experience.

My list of nearly two hundred Peonies includes many of the
choicest varieties, a number of which were imported from France
several years ago, so that I have been able to accumulate sufficient
stock to offer them at quantity prices. Some of my customers have
been so enthusiastic over their results that they have come many
miles to see our collection in bloom.

Here is a paragraph from a letter from one who came 100 miles
in June after his own Peonies had bloomed, at that time he gave us
an order for 102 plants for shipment in September, 1926.

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For years it has been used by the most exacting
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harmless and clean—ideal for small homes.

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Waynesboro, Pa.,
June 10, 1926.

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‘Dear Mr. Harris:

We have been having wonderful peony blooms for the
past two weeks and, just at this time, Therese is in full blast
with 14 lacge blooms and Solange is soon to burst. These and
others were purchased from you in Sept. 1923 and they have
made a wonderful growth, some of the varieties being 53 inches
high.”

CORK ROK

FREE:

Write for a copy
of Wilson’s
Spray Calendar
(gives you cor-
rect month in
which to spray
your different
plants.) In writ-
ing mention
your dealer.

Order direct if not obtainable at your dealer,
Half Pint 40c One Quart $1.00

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We believe the fullest information our customers can have will
tend to their greatest success and we therefore offer the best book
published on Peonies as a premium, with $15.00 worth of Peonies and
other Perennials.

Our offer containing nearly 100 choice varieties of Iris and Phlox
at most interesting prices should be in your hands.

Many beautiful gardens in this section and elsewhere attest the
value of Rosedale stock. Our nurseries are replete with nearly all
the good things one would wish to use in planting a place.

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Rosedale Roses Succeed

Another leading specialty at Rosedale are the Roses, of which
we shall have the finest lot we have ever offered. On these we shall
make a special rate whether the order is shipped in the Fall or in the
Spring. Please note the enthusiastic letter from one of our customers.

PEONIES

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‘‘True to Name and Character’’

Gloversville, N. Y.,
July 2, 1926.

The Dahlia King

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That you may enjoy the most beautiful of all varieties of Peonies and
Tulips for your garden I have personally selected, from my prize growings
of hundreds of varieties, two special selections which will delight you with
their beauty. As a special introductory offer I have specially priced
these at figures much below my catalog prices.

“My dear Mr. Harris:

I received from you my usual spring order of roses,
amounting to 213. If you could see my rose garden as I am
dictating this letter it would bring you much joy and pleasure.
Of the 213 roses received from you all are blooming today with
the exception of one, which died.

I am impressed more and more of the wonderful strong
rootings of your plants and then again they all bloom to their
name and character.

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Selection No. 2
DARWIN TULIPS

aE (4 each) of the following excep-
tional varieties (all named). A super
collection of beautiful tulips to delight

Selection No. 1
PEONIES
7 beauties, giving a_ well-balanced
display in a full range of colors.
Admiral Togo,
flower. $3.00.

mahogany-red, large

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In our city garden I noticed today, plants purchased
from you by our Park Commissioner, that are simply wonder-
ful in foliage, bloom, etc.

I must compliment you in the manner in which the
roses were packed and labeled and thus with thanks it is my

Visitors are welcome at Rosedale any day except Sunday. The
Nursery is on the Saw Mill River Road, one and a quarter miles
north of the Westchester County Alms House at East View.

We issue two booklets, one described above and a General booklet
giving a complete list of stock for both Fall and Spring shipment.

S. G. HARRIS
Box A, Tarrytown, N. Y.

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Dorchester, pale hydrangea-pink. $1.00.

Duchesse de Nemours, pure white, tra-
grant. $1.00.

Edulis Superba, mauve-pink and lilac,
fragrant. $.50.

Felix Crousse, brilliant red. $1.00.

the heart of any lover of beauty.
Price 10c each

Baronne de la Tonnaye, bright rose
Farnscomb Saunders, fiery rose-scarlet
Gretchen, silvery pale rose

Loveliness, soft crimson-rose

Both collections for $11.00 postpaid

: sean : ” George Washington, light crimson-red Mrs. Cleveland, delicate flesh color
& pleasure to write you again in this matter. $2.00. ; : ; Painted Lady, cream and white.
ai Zest, beautiful soft, silvery pink. $5.00.
& Special price for Collection No. 1, Special price for Collection No. 2,
$10.00 postpaid. Value $13.50. $1.5¢ postpaid. Value $2.40.

By sending your order now for one or both of these great assortments you will be
joining the tens of thousands of enthusiastic customers that the quality, beauty,

and low prices of my plants have secured.

Write to-day.

Send for my free complete catalog of Dutch Bulbs, Peonies, Iris, Phlox, and many

other varieties.

J. K. ALEXANDER

The Dahlia King

28-9 Central Street

East Bridgewater, Mass.

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Charles McKellip
is Worth Knowing!

Considered by Brand, its
Originator, to be the most
perfect in form of all the deep
red varieties—and Brand has
given us many good ones. A
large, loosely built, semi-rose
that will be rated higher and
more appreciated as it be-
comes better known.

Strong blooming size divisions
$2.00 each. 3 for $5.00

Premium Offer below tells how to

get a Charles McKellip FREE

A Treat of Ten
for Ten Dollars

Here is a selection cover-
ing a wide range of colors,
plus a long blooming season.
We will supply strong divi-
sions that will bloom next
June if planted during late
September or early October:

Each
Baroness Schroeder - White $1.50
Mons. Dupont - - Late White 1.00
Chas. McKellip - - Deep Red 2.00
Karl Rosenfield - - Wine Red 1.50
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Just a Talk about
a Hobby of Mine

Autumn is here and with it my opportunity
to again address you on a subject that has been
dear to me for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury and which interests me to-day more deeply
than ever—The Peony.

Each Spring, when it is brought home to
them that roots should have been planted the
previous Fall, many people express to me re-
grets that they must wait another year for
Peony flowers, and so, lest you forget it again
until too late, may I urge you to action now—
during September and October.

And my appeal to you on behalf of the
Peony is not merely a commercial one. | It is
true that “Dearest” needs an occasional new
bonnet, the ‘“Seedlings’”” a new Sunday School
outfit, and father—oh well, never mind, almost
any old thing is good enough for him. This
phase of the business is, of course, a necessary
one to keep in mind, but outstanding above
and beyond all this, as so many now know, is
my unchanging love for this flower.

If you knew the Peony as I know it, you
would love it’ as Lplove it) “Lhe brusheorea
Corot, master of colors as he was, would falter
before the modern Peony’s wondrous range
and delicacy of shades. De Longpre (whom I
personally knew and frequently saw in action),
the greatest flower painter of our time, threw
down his brush in despair as he failed to catch
the elusive tints—the wondrous sheen of the
Peony.

And who can drink in the delicious perfume
of to-day’s varieties without wondering what
a Roger & Gallet—a Colgate would give to
match what Nature gives us so freely in the
Peony. And speaking of Nature, did you ever
stop to think how you and Nature working
hand in hand can produce /iving pictures of
beauty, such as no Rubens, no Corot, no Angelo
ever achieved ?

Understand ?

A very dear old lady, who herself gave most
freely of her time and wealth to the better-
ment of humanity, once asked me if I realized
how my own efforts were making mankind hap-
pier and more blessed.

Time passes—opportunity slips by. Soon
it will be a year too late. Send to-day for a
free 1926 copy of

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a tired man’s frame. Lights softly
shaded to rest weary eyes. The first
grateful puff on the cool Havana
when long legs stretch luxuriously

to the crackling hearth and pleasant relaxation comes

with the sense of duty done.

The “Elgin” occasional chair will make HIS half
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inviting arms, tapestried back and cushioned velvet
seat fit the body like an oft-worn glove. Men every-
where are allured by its satisfying comfort. Women
admire its distinguished style.

The “Elgin” is our 1760 arm chair. The burl walnut
coffee table is our No. 120. These and other Elgin
A. Simonds pieces are sold by dealers of distinc-

tion everywhere.—Ask for the names of the nearest.

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

SEPTEMBER, 1926

Volume XLIV, No. 1

Contents of this Issue

October Building Annual

CoveER DESIGN ee eee | BS St Planagan
ee The forthcoming October issue, always a
News & ComMENT Ved 17 special building number, offers this year to the
prospective home builder a gold mine of sug-
Pace Pictures: Garden of Mrs. Edwin Tatham mite gestion for the small and medium-sized house.
Home of Mr. HerbertS.Gay. ..... . 19 Drawings and plans of four attractive and
GardemomNvireiarold,Godwin .. 5. «=. 3 20 Se aula types of Rae all sacs
, 315,000, have been specially designed for
FALL PLANTING FROM Four Points of View . . . Leonard Barron 21 eee eee aby Cednepe tare,
f Brick, concrete, stone and wood are repre-
THE Power THAT Lurks IN Mass... . . Arthur H. Carhart 23 sented; some with attached garages and some
without, and all desi | 5 iV-
SoME REAL REASONS FOR PLANTING ROSES IN THE FALL ing Beka cat stele ae Re Tae te ae
J. Horace McFarland 24 of space. Detailed information about specifi-
mome OF MRI CHESTER F..- YOUNG © |. . 4 Frank J. Forster 206 So Se eae crOUR Ol nousss May
- be had upon application to the editors. Also
More Heat ror Less Money. . . . . . . . F.H. Randolph 28 we are offering eight pages of houses and plans
; by leading architects, including the adapted
iteeP HOME FRUIts GROWING. ... ... . si « =&. J. Mattern 29 French style, the pure 17th Century type,
THE Rep Man’s CONTRIBUTION TO OuR HousEHOLD ART Se eee ac desley
Md tah Reniond Gol Beds and Bedding by Etten D. WANGNER
Amy Kichards Colton 31 discusses those subjects of ever-present inter-
WHAT THE INDIAN Says IN ORNAMENT . . . . . « F.W. Hodge 33 est to housekeepers—the various types of beds
and their appropriate use in different styles of
aire B : TE eee
PeeeerONIAL DEQUEST 2a. |. js 6» )©6©6 Owen Wilson, 34 bedroom, new designs and ideas in bedding,
and their correct use.
INSIDE INFORMATION ON OuTsIDE Paint . . . Elmer P. Hubschmitt 37
Bepiecne any Tuer DE “Trees are to gardens what architectural
SCENDANTS Ss Sarah M. Lockwood 38 accents such as spires, towers, and even Doric
Bee BONSEARADEMG lee lg Paul B. Sanders 40 porticoes are to buildings,” says Marian
re ites - CorFIN, Landscape Architect, in Gardening
ors Gy IM TS VO Geet er Al with Trees, and their placing and choice should
C be one of the fundamental concerns of the
OLOR IN FURNITURE oe. hCl.!lCtwtCt«w:~é«S:«~SC*é«CL en DD. Wanner 42 designer. Especially should we Americans
harken to such advice, for our country is
THE TRUTH ABOUT OIL BURNERS . . . : . . . P: jal Fansler 44 singularly fortunate in possessing a vast
Waite GERANIUMS FOR INDOOR DecoraTION . . Gertrude Shockey 45 ie es eee ye ee ne and
shade, trees for the cunning builder’s trade”’—
oMesOrsvk. Ropery M. Haic . . ..-. . Julius Gregory 46 all of which, flowering and otherwise, are
satisfactory accents for the garden plan.
BiGmOINGS IN DAHLIAS FOR 19260. . . . ... Derrill W. Hart 48 Keeping Your Peontes Healthy, by A. P.
y, by
eee FRANKLIN D’OLIER 49 SAUNDERS considers first how to plant the
m é i Peonies so that they will maintain their sound
Ew SERVANTS IN THE KITCHEN 50 health and vigor, and, secondly, how to bring
the plants back to. health and strength when
AMONG OuR GARDEN NEIGHBORS 51 they have become the subjects of any one of
ee GUNCEMENTS 53 the various forms of disease which sometimes
attack them.
NATIONAL GARDEN ASSOCIATION 54
THE Montn’s REMINDER—SEPTEMBER 50
THE Home Decorator Goes WINDOW SHOPPING .. . 60 CS er es
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News and Comment

Tie ENERALLY speaking, magazine
Aw writers outside the field of pure
Wie fiction fall into one of two groups—
7A (1) those who are in the “writing

game” as a profession and whose
dicta must almost inevitably be somewhat
superficial since by the very nature of their
craft they are called upon to cover many sub-
jects and often upon short notice; (2) men, or
women, whose days and energies are focussed
in some specific channel of endeavor, who set
down with difficulty perhaps their findings but
whose words come nevertheless with authori-
tative ring out of an actual contact and wide
experience of the things of which they talk.
Both have their uses and there is no need to
belittle either—the pleasantly told tale some-
times proves for the reader an open door to
pastures fresh—but from the very beginning
Garden & Home Builder has inclined the
other way, has sought out pioneers in various
fields and coaxed them into authorship be-
cause we believe that our particular audience
wants above all else facts and fundamentals.
Happily, in our search we have sometimes
come upon that rather rare combination of
gold mine and golden pen. Authors whose
names are familiar household words to-day
wherever gardening is done—Mrs. Francis
King, Mrs. Louise Beebe Wilder, ‘‘Chinese”’
Wilson, F. F. Rockwell, Adolph Kruhm—to
mention a few of the outstanding figures—
first made their début on our pages in the days
when we were still plain Garden Magazine
with interests concentrated upon the garden,
that essential aspect of all genuine home-
making.

Since progress is an ever-moving stream of
which building problems and gardening prob-
lems are a profit-sharing part, we are still going
out and finding folk who have something real
to say. On many occasions our readers are
fortunate in getting in the form of an article
the essence of many years’ extended research,

for “big business” to-day has a wide lens on *

the future and large companies frequently
employ scientists and experts who devote their
lives to the development and perfecting of
products used by us all. In this issue we are
fortunate in including among our roll of such
writers F. H. Randolph of Cornell University
who in his capacity of Associate Professor of
Rural Engineering is competently equipped
in both theory and practise and whose article
on “More Heat for Less Money” (page 28)
will be a godsend to the uninitiate house-
holder and a sure guide for the man who
wants to eliminate waste. A rather illumin-
ating sidelight just here, which utterly refutes
the current notion that colleges and every-
day exigency have little in common, is the
fact that Prof. Randolph’s advice is sought
by the hotels and that one of his classes was
constituted entirely of hotel men interested in
running their great domiciles on an efficient
economical basis. Mr. P. E. Fansler too has
spent many years in an allied field and presents
further phases of the oil burning question

(page 44), the cream of his experience as
electrical engineer with wide contacts, personal
and official. Mr. Fansler is the Secretary of
Public Relations of the American Society of
Heating and Ventilating Engineers, also one
of the editors of the Heating and Ventilating
Magazine. To most of us paint is merely
paint—a fallacy clearly pointed out by Mr.
Elmer P. Hubschmitt on page 37. As a civil
engineer who for a number of years past has
turned his energies to the testing of paints
for practical purposes and whose conclusions
are not mere dogmatizing but sound fact based
on thousands of tests, Mr. Hubschmitt’s
“Inside Information on Outside Paints”’ will
be eagerly read by all home owners.
INDIAN ART AND PRESENT-DAY HOMES
O ACCUSTOMED are we to turn our eyes
Europe-ward for aesthetic inspiration
that our own true American art, the art of the
American Indian, is—so far as popular con-
sciousness goes, at least—yet to be discovered.
Happily for the world at large and these
United States in particular, a discerning group
of men have had the wit to cherish this little
appreciated treasure dropped on our doorstep
by the Red Man whom we, in the hideous ig-
norance of bygone border warfare and fear,
ruthlessly shut out from his rightful heritage.
We cannot be too grateful to such institutions
as the Museum of the American Indian, to
such men as Mr. Frederick Webb Hodge,
ethnologist and author, for keeping alive the
precious fire of primitive Indian art, for dis-
seminating its warmth. Perhaps we think of
the Red Man as a creature remote from our
everyday lives, an echo merely of dead pioneer
days—scarcely at all do we realize that the
Indians of our Southwest do to-day weave and
paint and fashion wood and stone into beauti-
ful shapes of their own devising and that these
things can be had and used in homes. Mrs.
Colton’s article on pages 31, 32 of this
present issue shows how fitly they furnish
certain types of house, and since the joy of
most things is doubled by knowledge of their
meaning, we turn eagerly, too, to Mr. Hodge’s
interpretation of Indian decoration (page 33).
No better interpreter could possibly be found,
for Mr. Hodge has devoted his life to the study
of the Indian, especially the Pueblo tribes of
our Southwest, both in the field (spending six
seasons, for example, in the excavating of
Hawikuh, one of the famed “Seven Cities of
Cibola” inhabited by the Zufi Indians in the
16th century) and as chief of the Bureau of
American Ethnology of the Smithsonian In-
stitution at Washington, founder and presi-
dent of the American Anthropological Associa-
tion, and now at the Museum of the American
Indian. Among his many published findings
probably the most outstanding is his “ Hand-
book of the American Indians” frequently
referred to as ‘‘the Indian Bible.”

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A NEW STRAWBERRY

ey Strawberry (not yet named nor
available for distribution) has been
selected by Samuel Holdridge of Ledyard,
Conn., according to Albert E. Wilkinson of
the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment
Station. The selection was made from an old
everbearing sort, Superb. The berry is very
large, three fourths to seven eights of an inch
in diameter, blood red and glossy. Twenty-
five or more are borne in a cluster on four and
one half to six-inch arms. On one plant 172
berries of various sizes have been counted.
The plants seem to be resistant to the “birds-
eye”’ disease. This item is not published with
the idea that everybody will rush to secure
some of the plants. Rather it is to stimulate
one’s interest in creating new things. Under
the intensive cultivation which plants get in
our gardens the types break, creating sports.
If the gardener will watch for these things and
save them, many new things of interest may
be found. We know one gardener who grows.
Golden Bantam Corn, and who by careful
attention has produced a larger ear of an
even sweeter type than the real Golden
Bantam type. He takes great pleasure in
presenting corn connoiseurs with an ear from
which to get seed for their gardens. That is
one of the pleasures of gardening.

DOMESTIC BULB QUARANTINE
fae Ae Narcissus bulb quarantine
to prevent the spread of bulb flies and
eel worm went into effect July 15th. This
quarantine is quite different from the general
quarantine affecting imported bulbs as it in-
volves only the American grown crop and

applies to the product in every state.
Domestic grown Narcissus bulbs can be
moved inter-state only after inspection and
certification. Any bulbs that are to be so
moved this season are subject to inspection
by the quarantine inspector of the state con-
cerned. This order applying to the place of

origin leaves the movement in the retail trade
to the ultimate consumer free from restriction.

NEW JERSEY HARVEST FLIES

E ALL know the song of the harvest

fly. Its shrill, harsh buzz announces
that the summer days are here. We always
thought there was only one harvest fly, but the
New Jersey Department of Agriculture has
just published a bulletin describing seven
different kinds occurring in New Jersey, with
pictures of each. It also has a description of
the 17-year cicada, a close relative of the
harvest fly, and maps showing where the next
brood will appear in New Jersey in 1928,
1932, 1934, 1936, 1940, and 1941.

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“We have a secret kingdom of our own!
Its walls not even the cohorts of the storm
Can capture; in its little space we keep
Wonder alive and loving kindness warm. . .
Leslie Nelson Jennings

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Garden of Mrs. Edwin Tatham at Lincolndale,
New York, designed by Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr.

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“This is the time when earth prepares to meet
Winter, and with a peace that pain allays
Each hour is with quiet happiness replete,—
There is a golden glamour on the days . . .

Elizabeth Scollard

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The long border at the home of Mr. Herbert S. Gay,
Orange, New Jersey; Clarence Fowler, Landscape Architect

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“Even the green trees

Partake the deep contentment; as they bend A beautiful old Magnolia in full flower at Cedarmere,

: 2 Roslyn, L. I., once the home of the poet, William Cullen

To the soft winds . . . Bryant, and now enjoyed by his grandson, Mr. Harold
William Cullen Bryant Godwin

Fall Planting from Four Points of

1. Why
2. What

View

Leonard Barron

3. When
4. Where

Photographs by courtesy of American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter

HE “why” is easily answered. The
biggest argument for fall planting
is that it relieves spring pressure
and anything that can be done to
simplify the work at that time is a
twofold game, for not only is the work itself
achieved but there is the gained time for
tasks that cannot by any chance be done in
the fall. But fall planting has its limitations.

The expert planter will plant or transplant
almost with impunity at any time of the year.
Hicks, who has for years specialized in the
moving of big trees, transplants at all times
of the year. There is not a single month
when transplanting cannot be done, but it
has to be done with regard to the conditions
and the previous state of preparation of the
plant. You can’t go out into the woods in
midsummer and just yank up a shrub with
its roots devoid of soil and successfully trans-
plant it into the garden. Specimens for mid-
summer transplanting must have been pre-
pared carefully by previous successive trans-
plantings or root prunings which amounts to
the same thing. At all events you get a
compact mass of vigorous fibrous roots. Fall
planting has this great advantage when done
early enough—and there is the rub—when
done early enough—that the soil is still warm
and the roots are induced to continue growth
and get themselves really established in the
new place. Contrast that with spring plant-
ing. Perhaps it is an early spring and a dry
one, and the plant puts on a mantle of full
leaf growth before the roots are active. That
spells serious danger—almost sure death in
June or July.

A danger in fall planting
is that the ground may be
too dry; therefore, fall
planting is not always ad-
visable in dry upland soils.
The best time to trans-
plant in autumn is when
the bulk of the leaves are
shed from the plant and
yet just before it reaches
its dormant state. Plants
in this condition will not
make a top growth but
will make a root growth
and with a warm soil that
holds sufficient moisture,
Success is practically as-
sured.

Some plants are notori-
ously difficult to trans-
plant except in their
period of active spring
growth—Magnolias, Cher-
ries, etc., generally in-
cluded in the group of
spongy-rooted and _ thin-
barked trees. To be sure,
they can be transplanted

in the fall, for | have done it; but where there
is any doubt as to conditions, it is better to
wait until spring.

The secret of fall planting then is to get it
done early enough. It would be much better
indeed if we would call it late summer planting,
and it must be done at a time when there will
be sufficient warm weather yet to come for
underground growth to be continued. This
cuts out the extreme northern region. Also as
a corollary it is not always wise to get stock
from a region considerably to the south. In
such cases better wait until spring. Fall
planting is not confined to woody material
(trees and shrubs), however, but a great deal
of herbaceous work is possible. Again with
the proviso that it is done early—before the
ground gets cold.

The most important after-attention to fall-
planted stock is the mulch. The mulch
keeps in moisture and prevents undue cold
from penetrating, thus giving the roots the
longest possible opportunity to make new
growth and get in contact with the new
soil.

The time to transplant is just as the
leaves are falling. Stripping the leaves so as
to make the branches bare (as is sometimes
done) is not exactly the same thing. The
leaves should remain until they have finished
their summer’s work except in the case of
young, vigorously growing plants which are
inclined to be somewhat late in shedding
their leaves. In such a case the index must
be taken from the surrounding trees of the
same kind.

Phlox, Larkspur, Lilies, and other perennials brighten this doorstep. Home of Miss
Lilly C. Cram at Katonah, N. Y.; Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr., Landscape Architect

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I. THE PROBLEM OF THE REGION

iNew all parts of the country afford equal
| opportunities for fall planting. Wherever
there is a long open fall, the practice is success-
ful and in the warmer sections work can be
continued all the winter. This is sometimes
possible on the Atlantic Coast. There is no
hard and fast rule; everything depends on
conditions.

In the East the months of October and
September are usually good planting times
and the advantage of doing work now is the
time gained for other work in the spring.
South of Boston fall planting is possible except
in the cases noted below. If the summer has
been hot and dry, mulch heavily and see that
the plants do not suffer for moisture during
the winter.

In the Middle-west states and arid regions
generally fall planting is not practised except
in the case of bulbs. In all other cases, it is
advised to defer planting till the spring.
The fall season in the West is so short that
plants set out now are killed before they can
become established. This is due to the fre-
quent absence of snow and the prevalence of
strong cold winds.

In the South, fall and winter is the heaven-
appointed time for the planter. Although
vegetation above ground may be inactive in
this region during the winter, yet the produc-
tion of new roots continues. Trees heeled-in
in the fall, when lifted for planting in the
spring will have developed a great number of
roots. Evergreens may be safely lifted in the
early fall period following
a sharp frost lasting until
December, the work being
resumed by the end of
January. Broad-leaved
evergreen plants may be
shifted with equal safety
after they are defoliated.

In the extreme South
(Florida) all deciduous
fruits are planted during
the fall andwinter. Spring
and fall merge so gradu-
ally into the other seasons
that they are of no impor-
tance. Do orchard plant-
ing as soon as deciduous
trees drop their leaves.
Plant citrus trees at any
time.

II. FOREST AND SHADE
TREES

T IS a good opportunity
to plant trees at this
time on large tracts for
shelter or screen purposes
because the work can be
done at leisure without the

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

SEPTEMBER, 1926

MAGI
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Tulips lift their cups of cheer and lend a final touch of grace to this garden designed
by Charles Downing Lay for Mr. Charlton Yarnall at Newtown Square, Pa.

anxiety that attends spring planting in order
that everything may be rushed through before
the summer arrives. However, all large trees,
moved now need heavy mulching to insure suc-
cess. They may succeed without, but it 1s
better to be on the safe side. The loss of
moisture from recently disturbed soil which
is not covered by snow 1s great.

III. FLOWERING SHRUBS AND HARDY ROSES

N many regions Roses can be planted safely
in the fall particularly
the hardier kinds, rugosa

precautions during fall and winter; broad-
leaved evergreens are risky, except in the
warmer regions and even then should have
their leaves stripped off.

V. IN THE FRUIT GARDEN

LANT everything but the stone fruits,

even including Strawberries. Procure
stock from your own latitude or north of it
rather than go far south, unless the fall
long and warm. Strawberries, even layer

and its hybrids. The
reader keen about Roses
will do well to turn to
pages 24, 25 of this issue
where the whole matter
is authoritatively pre-
sented by the editor of the
American Rose Annual,
Dr. J. Horace McFarland.

Throughout the Eastern
coast plant out all early-
flowering shrubs or trees
that do not flower on the
terminal.

IV. EVERGREENS

NLY in the South
may coniferous ever-
greens be handled without

A nicely balanced planting of evergreens and vines which ties but does not obscure.
hampton, the Connecticut home of Mr. H. W. Croft; James L. Greenleaf, Landscape Architect

22

plants, can be lifted into beds the early part
of October and will fruit next spring under
high cultivation.

VI. IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

S MOST of the vegetable crops are raised
from seed each year, there is very little
opportunity for fall planting in the garden.
Some of the hardiest seeds may be put oution
the chance of anearly crop. Such are Lettuce,
Round Peas, Corn Salad.

VII. PERENNIAL BORDERS

OW is the time to buy
from the nurseries all
perennials in large clumps
before they are divided up
for spring planting. Sure-
ly plant Peonies, but not
Anemones.

VIII. BULBS FOR SPRING

FLOWERS

[eee must be planted
in the fall and at no
other time. Buy your sup-
ply of Dutch bulbs as soon
as possible and plant im-
mediately upon receipt.
The earlier they are in the
ground the better the roots
they will make. Hyacinth
bulbs will not endure frost.

Gray-

The Power that Lurks in Mass

Arthur Hawthorne Carhart

x4N THE study of
- gardens we are
ba all ‘subject to
f the tremendous

appeal of detail.
Individual flowers, bits
of tile or terra-cotta, in-
dividual shrubs, specimen
trees, all beckon the gar-
den lover to give them
first attention because of
their interesting details.
Because they are really
alluring they often re-
ceive that attention be-
fore more primary funda-

mental elements of design. It is well known
among discerning designers, that the reason
many who try to plan gardens fail is because
they get enmeshed in a maze of detail before
they consider the groundwork of the entire
garden plan.

The disregard of mass and its part in the
foundation design of a garden is merely one
example of a somewhat widespread neglect of
basic plan factors. Have you ever looked
at your garden with an idea of separating
out its materials simply as masses? Have
you ever given thought to the fact that one
mass may be misplaced or too small or large
or out of balance with another in the scheme?
Have you ever eliminated from your vision
the consideration of the color of some in-
dividual flower or the texture of a tree and
looked at these solely in terms of mass?

Fog will aid you. Or enfolding dusk that
blots out all of the intricate filigree of the
garden will accomplish the same thing. Or
even squinting your eyes until all you see
through semi-closed eyelids is the bulk of the
shrub masses, the volume of foliage, without
seeing the color, texture or shape of individual
leaves. When fog or darkness permits the
eye to see only the hunk of mass where before

WHEN MASS
SPEAKS

Three photographs de-
liberately focussed to
eliminate all detail and
give opportunity to dis-
cover that “quiet
garden eloquence’’
which lies in right rela-
tionship of mass to
mass, of mass to open
space, of mss to line
and form. Gardens in
Denver, Colorado, de-
signed by McCrary,
Cully & Carhart

stood a group of flowering shrubs or bright
green trees, then that quiet garden eloquence
found in the siagle unit of design called mass,

speaks more clearly. At the next opportun-
ity look at your garden in this manner. It
will take on new meaning.

There is a sort of unmeasured giant power
in that quiet design element of mass. The
color element of design is talkative. The line
element of design is spirited and dances away
with your vision leading it hither and yon.
But mass tells tremendously for it is much of
the flesh that is hung around the skeleton of
the garden scheme.

For the purpose of studying design in mass
there is not a great difference what the mater-
ial may be. It might be a haycock instead
of a planting of Spirea; or a mound of earth
instead of a Mugho Pine; or a brick obelisk of
squat form instead of the spire-y pinnacle of
the Juniperus scopulorum. Still the relation
of mass to mass would remain the same. That
is the important thought when the unit of
design in mass is considered separately from
other design elements.

It might be possible to make a chunky
model of your garden if you wished to study
the design of its mass elements alone. With

a sponge, or clay for
modeling, you could put
dabs or bits of clay or
sponge here and there
until even in the crude
blobby forms, you would
find a relationship of mass
to mass that would be
intrinsically pleasing no
matter what the medium.
If you are able to ac-
complish this then you
have achieved one of the
most difficult elements of
a garden or any other
design, namely the right

relationship of mass to mass, of mass to open
space, of mass to line and form.

The power of mass in design as compared
to a spotty, disconnected arrangement of
elements in the garden masses, might be
likened to the difference between humans
standing alone or in bulk. A regiment of
soldiers scattered singly over a thousand acre
field does not represent the force sensed
when that same number is massed in one solid
block.

So it is with the elements of your garden.
Shrubs planted about in isolated numbers,
produce an effect which will be spotty and
without power. Bunch the shrubs you have
in your yard or garden. There will be the
force of mass evident at once.

The massing of plants is quite consistently
preached by all types of landscape propo-
nents. But a bewildering bulk of this
preachment has missed the vital point.
And that point is that there is great power
element of design in the ungarnished mass
of any unit.

It is difficult to lay your finger on that de-
sign power that lurks in the bulk of a thing.
But the very inertia force of a mass is a power
in garden design.

Some Real Reasons
for Planting Roses in the Fall

J. Horace McFarland

SZELL, why not plant Roses in the
fall? The answer to this query is
“various. Someone says the ground
J) is not ready; another says the winter
will freeze them out; yet another
says he hasn’t time; and there is the constant
objection that it is hard to get the Roses from
the nurserymen.

No one of these objections is good, and the
last of them is rapidly being removed, for a
good many nurserymen are coming to realize
that it is better to get the Rose plants into
the customer’s hands than to store them over
winter.

As I have observed the Rose, with rather
more than the usual interest that | have in all
plant life, it is peculiar in its disposition to
start growth very early in the spring. Wholly
unscientific as I am, | have absorbed the
knowledge that this growth is by root hairs,
delicate, Slintie
thread-like struc-
tures springing from
the anchor roots of
the plant when the
mysterious influence
of the new season,
plus moisture and a
very little warmth,
induces growth.

Now when these
Foot Waits are
sheared off through
handling of the
plant after growth
has begun, the pro-
cess has to be re-
newed, and not
always is there
strength in the
plant to renew it,
whereupon there is
a dead Rose plant
and the nurseryman
is cussed out for it.
I need here to tell of
a nurseryman who
recently, after urg-
ing in vain a certain
customer to buy and
plant in the fall or
early in the spring,
sold that same cus-
tomer certain plants
in the spring, later
than he thought was
right, but at the cus-
tomer’s insistence.
Patronizingly as he
left the customer
said: “Well, I’m

Editor, American Rose Annual

Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt

“No.” answered the nurseryman, “‘you are not
trying meatall. J am not ontrial; you are!”

O STOP making a short story long, let

me say at once that fall planting is desir-
able in all sections of the country in which
the Roses can be had dormant in time to plant
them so that there may be a little root action
begun in the fall, before the ground freezes.
It is desirable in all other sections, for the
Roses can be obtained and carried over in
the planter’s garden better than they are ever
carried over in any nurseryman’s cellar or
other storage.

The proper place tor the roots of a Rose
plant is in the ground. The Roses one buys
in the spring have all been plowed out in the
fall, more or less gently and properly, more or
less capably handled from the field to the
storage where they are held over, sometimes

trying you again.”

A charming profusion of climbing and bush Roses in Mrs. J. Willis Martin’s garden at Chestnut Hill, Pa.

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in soil, sometimes not, and all the time, as |
see it, losing that vitality which is so desirable
for Rose prosperity. )

So I make this urgent suggestion to those
who want the best assurance of Rose success.
It is that the ground for the Rose planting
be prepared in late September or early
October in the latitude from Washington to
Boston; that the plants be bullied, coaxed
or worried out of the nurseryman just as soon
as the first frost will permit him to dig them;
that in the more southern part of this region
they be permanently and carefully planted,
being cut back only about one-third of the
eventual pruning desirable before the spring
growth starts, and protected over winter
first by soil heaped around the stem (which
has been planted no deeper than it was in the
nursery) for at least three or four inches, before
any later protection, such as evergreen boughs,
is applied after the
ground freezes.

For those pre-
vented from doing
this there is a most
excellent plan,
which involves buy-
ing the plants as
above hinted, and
then burying the
bundles, freed from
the moss and other
wrappings put on
by. the scareiul
nurseryman, in a
trench which will
receive the whole
bundle, roots, tops
and all, probably
inclined in the
trench at an angle
of 45 degrees and
covered all over
completely with
earth, to a depth of
six inches or more.
This should be in a
part of the garden
which will not per-
mit water to stand
about the Roses,
and it is just as
well, for the sake of
the early spring
planting I am about
to preach, to give
some rough protec-
tion above so that
there shall be less
freezing than in

the completely
open ground. It ts

SEPTEMBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOM«é BUILDER

Garden vista delightfully framed by climbing Roses which swing great loops of scent and cclor
from post to post beside the sward. Home of Miss Ann Thompson at Bryn Mawr, Pa.

also desirable to mark this burial piace
with stakes at each corner, so as to know
where to dig in the spring.

Roses so treated usually come through the
winter sound and safe, and in infinitely better
shape than they can possibly be in any storage
cellar, no matter how careful the nurseryman
is. There is a caution necessary where the
soil is a heavy clay, which should be mixed
with sand or humus. In any case, drainage
must be thorough.

Having the Roses thus at hand, it is possi-
ble to plant them very early in the spring.
While it is undoubtedly preferable that the
ground shall have been prepared early—the
fall before if that can be managed—it is by no
means essential, for | have ceased to believe
either in the ultra-deep-preparation hokum of
past years or the ultra-rich-soil theory. If it
has been possible to dig the Rose beds 18
inches to two feet deep, independent of any
drainage that may be required in swampy
places, and to incorporate in the soil such a
reasonable quantity of well-rotted manure as
would be required to produce good Corn or
Potatoes, this incorporation being thorough
and not in any big clods or “gobs,” then the
next thing is to plant those Roses just as soon

in the spring as the ground can be worked.
It is impossible to plant too early; it is very
possible to plant too late, after the production
of root hairs above referred to has begun,
and after the vitality of the Rose plant has
been depleted.

AOR here as to potted Roses may not
be amiss. The practice exists of crowd-
ing the roots of field-grown Roses into pots,
which are then carried along in coldframes
outdoors, starting to grow at the usual time
and actually blooming in the pots, not infre-
quently. Theoretically these Roses ought
to be just as good when transplanted from pots
to the ground as if they had been originally
and early planted in that same ground.
Practically, however, they are not so good,
because these roots which are thus cramped
in the pots never do straighten out and get
the root range necessary for real Rose success.
] have dug up many of them and have never
yet seen one which grew away from the little
ball encompassed by the pot. The pot-grown
outdoor Rose is a good filler for use in Rose
merchandising, but it is not a good thing for a
permanent Rose garden.

One nurseryman does produce pot Roses

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that do well in the spring, because these are
grafted—not budded—in the winter on
potted multiflora stocks with fibrous roots.
These are in a totally different class from the
field-grown potted plants or from the own-
root material sold while very small and re-
quiring not infrequently a year or two before
they can be compared in strength and real
value with the outdoor-grown budded Roses.
I have the feeling that these apparently cheap
little own-root slips are the most expensive
Roses one can buy, because so frequently the
survivals out of an average dozen, grown a
year or more before they get anywhere, make
the cost of the final result higher, independent
of the loss of time, than the completed dor-
mant field-grown budded plant.

There is another very good reason for fall
planting. It is that stocks are complete at
that time, and therefore the first and freshest
and best plants are obtainable. Still another
good reason is that the planting is closer to
the time when the Roses have been observed
and is likely, in consequence, to be better
done, or rather to be better placed in reference
to color, habit, and the other relationships
which should be taken into account in in-
telligent planting.

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Second floor plan

Home
of

Mr. Chester F. Young

at

Pelham Heights, N. Y.

Frank J. Forster, Architect

Photographs by John Wallace Gillies

Amply proportioned and conveying pleasant repose in

the manner of an earlier day, this house meets too the

demands of present-day convenience and from the street

side (see above) no one would guess that back of the

porch, with its air of shaded leisure, lies a two-car garage
(shown at left)

More Heat for Less Money

EDITORS’ NOTE: This article on up-to-par equip-
ment and the possibilities of the various types
of fuel will be followed in Octcber by a second
cn “How To Get the Most Out of Your Fuel”

y/2U PPOSE someone should ask, “Do
m2 you know how to run your furnace?”
cy, You would immediately answer
2 “Yes.” B he 1 :
< eS: ut suppose the next ques

tion should be, ‘‘How did you learn
to do it correctly?”? You might find it awk-
ward to give a satisfactory answer.

Most of us have picked up our knowledge of
handling the furnace by our own unguided
experience. We feel quite sure that our
method is correct because we have done it
that way for years. We keep the furnace
from going out and succeed in getting the
house warm, so we believe we are doing all
that might be expected. But on thinking it
over carefully, are there not other questions
to be considered? Is the house warm in the
morning, or is it usually cold until after break-
fast? Do rooms ever become overheated?
Is the house kept comfortable at the lowest
possible cost? These are questions that
warrant consideration.

Your reward for learning how best to run
your furnace will be in actual dollars saved.
Usually from ten to twenty per cent. can be
saved, sometimes considerably more. This
depends upon how poorly the furnace was
previously run, your selection of an economical
fuel and upon your skill in burning it. The
air supply and depth of fuel bed are clearly
very important factors.

Before the heating season starts, have
everything in readiness. There are certain
things that cannot be done conveniently after
the furnace is started. Possibly repairs are
needed. Do not wait until cold weather
when the furnace men are rushed with more
jobs than they can properly handle.

MAKING READY FOR WINTER FIRING

See That Grates Are in Good Order.
should operate freely and not be
warped or broken. You may need
new ones.

Seal All Air Leaks in Ash Pit and
Flue Connections. It is absolutely
essential that the draft be under
positive control for satisfactory
operation. If there are air leaks
in the ash pit joints it will be im-
possible economically to check the

They

200R CHIMNEY
MWAIPROPER SMOKE PIPE

ae FUEL
43 ENOUGH AIR ENTERING BOILER ROOM?

GLA33 DIATY

should be done before the furnace is started.
Asbestos furnace cement is readily obtained at
the hardware store or furnace supply shop. A
one pound can costs about fifteen cents and
is usually sufficient. The final sealing should
be done when a good brisk fire is going. Take
a lighted candle and closely explore all possible
leaks. An air leak will draw the flame of the
candle into the leak. Apply some cement
and try the candle test again.

Cover Pipes to Prevent Unnecessary Radt-
ation, Steam pipes, hot water pipes, and hot
air pipes to registers should be covered to
prevent waste of heat. The insulation should
be sufficient to keep the outside of the covering
from feeling hot. Corrugated asbestos paper
is generally used.

Cover the Furnace with Good Insulation.
Very often insufficient asbestos is originally
applied to the boiler. If the boiler insulation
is too hot to keep your hand on it, you are
wasting heat unnecessarily. More asbestos
can easily be applied. It is best first to make
the existing surface rough by scratching it with
a knife. Then the asbestos cement is mixed
with water and applied with a trowel or putty
knife.

This insulation of pipes and furnace costs a
few dollars, but means the saving of about a
ton of coal per season. It is simply a question
of whether you prefer to buy extra coal every
year, or buy the insulation just once.

Provide Suitable Firing and Clean-out Tools.

The shovel should be of convenient size for

CONNECTION
MOT 41a TIONT Ss

WRONG ASSEMBLY
REAR UPTAKE eo Seicconeo
SECTION MISPLACED

POORLY ADVUsTaD
REGULATOR

POE PROJECTS
INTO CHINE

by
F. H. Randolph

those who will have to use it. Remember
that a woman should not be expected to
handle a full size coal scoop. At least one
poker should be on hand. A slice bar is often
necessary readily to break up clinkers. One
can be made from a short length of one-inch
pipe by flattening out one end. To properly
work almost every kind of fire, a hoe is es-
sential. One with a short handle is generally
best.

Clean-out tools such as wire brushes must
be in good condition. It is especially neces-
sary to keep flues and other heating surfaces
clean. Manufacturers agree upon this, al-
though most of them hesitate to give any
specific instructions on how often flues should
be cleaned. Possibly they fear that this would
hinder the sale of their furnaces. Soot insu-
lates against heat about as effectively as
asbestos. In fact, one-sixteenth of an inch
of soot reduces the heat absorbed by twenty
per cent. So even if you only remove a cup-
ful of soot at a cleaning, it is worth the few
moments and slight trouble to do it.

Prepare for Supplementary Heat in Mild
Weather. Use fire-places, gas logs and port-
able heaters—it is obviously more economical
to use these supplementary heaters for an
hour or two than to run the furnace. These
should be put in order so that their occasional
use in spring and fall will shorten the season
for running the furnace.

Prevent Excessive Air Leakage Around Win-
dows and Doors by Weather-strips and Storm
Windows. Unless rooms are overcrowded,
sufficient air will find its way around the
weather-strips in the average home where
connecting doors are kept open. These de-
tails should receive attention before cold
weather sets in and we start wasting coal.

If a Hot Air Furnace is Used, Provide for
Recirculating the Air. Convenient
slides in the pipes should be used
to proportion the amount of fresh
air taken in from outdoors and

that recirculated from the house.
friars roe If all the air is taken from out-
doors, it means that your furnace
is asked to do at least a third
more work than necessary, and
that you have to buy and shovel

FLUE LiIMine
YOINTS NOT

fire at night or in mild weather.
Ash pit doors and dampers must
fit tightly. Smoke pipe joints must
also be tight, especially where the
pipe enters the chimney. Onacold
winter’s day you will need all the
draft you can get, so do not permit
these unnecessary leaks into the
flue or chimney. Seal them up.
Sometimes clean-out doors fit so
poorly that they should also be
sealed.

The preliminary work of sealing

eaves
4NO UNOELIAGLE

ARE GAUGE OLASS
VALVES OPEN?

OIRTY FLUES
SI

‘p
IN

fs NO CLEANOUT
10 MOOD PROVIDED
WATER SURFACE COVERED
= WITH GREASE AND O/L
> AIR ENTRANCE CHOMED BY ASHES
i mT

OnATES BURNED
WARPED “~— BROKEN

(Ff ROUND BOILER
CEMENT MISSING
AROUND FRAMES
FRAMES LOOSE

ve

OIRTY WATER

ASHES NOT REMOVED
BULARLY FROM
ENTIRE ASH BHT.

AIM LEAKS IN LEAKY CHIMNEY

CLEAN- OUT 0008

ANDO FRAME

If you expect good service from your furnace you must keep it in good shape; be
sure to check up on points indicated above and eliminate needless handicaps.
Though a sectional boiler is pictured here, the same possibilities may arise
with any boiler. (Illustration by courtesy of the American Radiator Co.)

28

that much more fuel.

Make Sure that the Chimney 1s
Satisfactory. It must be high
enough, large enough, smooth
enough—and tight. If the furnace
is the heart of the heating system,
the chimney is certainly the lungs.
Remember that draft is not in the
furnace, but in the chimney. Poor
chimneys are responsible for poor
heating.

The top of the chimney should

(Continued on page 60)

=

Mattie Edwards Hewttt, Photo.

Fruit trees attractively used as part of the general garden planting at Mrs. Isaac T. Starr’s home, Laverock, Pa

eep Home Fruits Growing

Six Good Reasons for Planting This Fall

NWARD through summer and au-
tumn every market where the finer
fruits are sold is an inspiration to
those of us who might plant fruit
of our own. Observations that can

be made quite casually during this period go

far to eliminate guess work and chances of

Serious errors in planting. For these reasons
and in other respects the fall of the year is the
ideal time to begin creating a garden.

J. R. Mattern

What the dividends are from a home garden
is an old story. When well planned, a fruit
planting can be made as attractive as strictly
ornamental settings. Nothing else on earth
is more beautiful, it seems to me, than a tree
bowed down under its load just before harvest

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time. Of the various major factors that con-
tribute toward making a home satisfactory
or valuable, a fruit garden generally proves
as effective as water, light or heating systems,
and really should be considered just as indis-
pensable.

Among my acquaintances are families living
in apartments who lease land to plant fruit,
from farmers on the outskirts of their cities.
So long as the place can be reached as easily

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

as a country club, the garden can be made a
SUCCESS.

The garden is better, naturally, where you
can step into it whenever the plants and trees
need you and your mood inclines you, or
when you have twenty minutes for the healing
influence of contact with honest, producing
earth. A vegetable garden doesn’t give quite
the same reaction. A tenting Arab or
leisurely auto camper can almost have a
lettuce or onion bed. To enjoy a fruit
garden you must take root yourself in a neigh-
borhood, belonging to it as it belongs to you.
If we fail to plant fruit we invariably regret
it each strawberry and cherry season, each
plum, peach, grape and apple time.

OW, certain angles of view are im-

portant in obtaining the unusual yields
and qualities of fruits a home garden should
produce.

Consider Apples. During one hundred and
twenty years nearly fourteen thousand variety
names have been listed in the United States.
Of these, half are mere duplicates. Since
1915, about five hundred varieties, or one in
each fifteen known, have had merit enough
to be propagated in one or more nurseries.
And yet the 1926 catalogs of a prominent
nursery list only fifty-six varieties, while
another firm just as large catalogs only twenty-
four varieties. Advanced orchardists will
tell you that ten of these cover every need in
any one location—and that it is better to
grow only three than all ten.

In narrowing down a field of fourteen
thousand names to ten or three, season of
ripening, color and flavor. preferences play
their parts, but other big factors are adaptabil-
ity of a variety to prevailing range of tempera-
ture in any locality, to amount of sunlight, to
soil type and fertility, as well as the variety’s
growing and bearing habits and disease re-
sistance. Even the best of varieties are good
only under certain conditions.

The valuable Stayman Apple, to illustrate,
does not color well or even yield well in very
rich soil, while Grimes Golden requires heavy
feeding for the sake of both tree and fruit.
Both freeze in extreme north and fail to bear
well in extreme south. Northern winter
varieties like Fameuse and McIntosh, thrive
in the wide extremes of New
England and Canadian tem-
peratures and ripen gloriously
in that brief sunlight, but in
the South they ripen fruit of
poor quality in summer or fall
and become shy bearers.

Strawberries do well in very
rich soil, but some of the
bramble-berries and most of
the Pears grow too fast and
usually are damaged by dis-
eases when given extra ferti-
lity and cultivation. Peaches
are light feeders most of the
year, but during midsummer
demand much nitrogen and
water every day, hence suc-
ceed most when fed nitrogen
in thin soil. Peach and Straw-
berry varieties are sensitive
to small differences in eleva-
tion above sea level and in
soil—to grow them well, find
the sorts at home in your
conditions.

These examples show why it is not wise to
describe or recommend varieties too closely,
or for gardens in general.

They also show why new varieties of proved
value and adaptability are rarities. It takes
two generations of men fully to test an Apple
variety; or two thousand separate plantings of
a Strawberry in as many localities to learn the
conditions under which it succeeds and fails.

URSERYMEN must sell, first, last and
all the time—must get our money.
They usually can make us more enthusiastic
over new sorts than old ones. Some nursery-
men therefore offer anything new that grows,
regardless of value. Other firms, more broad
minded, base their propagation and offerings
on the permanent results noted in our gardens
and orchards. While a new sort stimulates our
planting interest and the nurseryman’s sales,
responsible firms find ninety-eight per cent.
of their business in the wonderfully good old
standard varieties of all fruits, and this is an
index of what we should plant in our gardens.
There is an increasing conviction that
capacities and limitations of individual plants
and trees have as much to do with their future
success as variety and care. Such qualities
as inherent resistance to diseases and to cold
and heat, strong habits of growth and abun-
dant bearing are much dependent on root
stock used, manner of propagation, matching
of scion or bud with roots and the like.

When we devote our time and money and
center our hopes in a garden, therefore, the
only nursery worth patronizing is one that
ceaselessly and intelligently exerts its effort
toward giving us the utmost in plant vitality
and inbred production. ‘Trueness to variety
name is important, but we must go beyond
that. Price is*secondary to vigor. There
are carelessly propagated plants and trees
available, with futures in doubt, and others
sure to yield quantity and quality of fruit.
What trees and plants I buy will be produced
and guaranteed by some thoroughgoing and
responsible firm that has achieved a reputation
in horticultural and garden magazine circles.

HE home gardener has a wider choice
than a commercial orchardist to work
miracles without prohibitive expense. If the

H. A. Strohmeyer, Photo.

Blossom time on a New Jersey Farm,
where Apple-trees edge the driveway

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SEPTEMDBER, 1926
soil is not right for a desired fruit, it can be
drained with tile, lightened with ashes or
made heavier with clay. It can be built up
in tilth and fertility as much as 1s needed, and
in sections. Fruit varieties requiring coddling
can be given special attention. Winter and
spring frost protection can be given if needed.

For fall planting you can proceed without
rush to do things wisely and well. Take all
the autumn to make up your mind just how
the garden is to be arranged. By watching,
handling, and tasting ripe fruit in the markets,
and by asking owners of orchards and gardens
about growth and bearing of their plants and
trees, you get a grasp of realities in your neigh-
borhood that is in distinct contrast with
undiluted catalog “information.” Read a
few government bulletins and two or three
text books to get the general view and theory.

In October provide drainage of your garden
area as need was indicated by spring and
summer rains; and what deep tillage, manuring
and fertilizing, the grass, weeds or vegetables
on it may show is required. You can do this
in the fall in a way not possible in spring. Dig
the holes and get mulch material ready. Then
set the trees (with a few exceptions detailed
below) in November at a latitude 41 or 42
degrees; in December at latitude 38 or 39
degrees; or in January in the South. If you
are in Minnesota, Maine or Canada, prepare
the ground as for fall planting, order trees
held at the nursery, and have them shipped
and planted when winter breaks in March or
April.

Insist on trees fully dormant, with leaves
off naturally. If you can visit the nursery
you can select the best of the season’s entire
crop before it 1s culled over.

In very small space set larger and taller
fruits to the north and lower ones to the south.
With more area available, plan the garden as a
place of rest and beauty. Make a narrow
walk, perhaps with grassy edges. If there is
a pleasing vista, frame it by massing higher
things at the sides and behind. Mark the
boundaries with vines. Include a Grape-
covered pergola or at least an arch.

Your garden space, and the latitude and
altitude of your location will determine how
many and which of the thirteen standard
temperate zone fruits to select. As to va-
rieties, check your home ob-
ervations, first withanursery,
second with your state ex-

periment station. Describe
your soil. Dwarf Apple and
Pear are desirable. Set trees

and plants with minimum
spacings, and then prune with
care and make the soil do its
utmost. Provide for cross
pollination.

APPLES. Select for July-
August, September, November
and winter use, three or more of
such quality varieties as: Alber-
marle, Bethel, Cortland, Deli-
cious, Early Harvest, Grimes
Golden, Gravenstein, Fameuse,
Jennings, Jonathan, King David,
Lowland Raspberry, Magnum,
McIntosh, Northwestern Green-
ing, Oldenburg, Red Astrachan,
Red June, Rhode Island Green-
ing, Northern Spy, Stayman,
Starr, Shockley, Pearmain,

(Continued on page 74)

The Red M

The finest of the old designs are

being repeated by the Indian

weavers of to-day and harmonize

well with furnishings of the Spanish
type

&O INCLUDE the
various crafts of
our American In-
dians under the
heading of deco-
rative art seldom occurs
to any of us, yet there are
infinitely more decorative
possibilities in these crafts
than most people are aware
of.

Any one who has grown
up in New England remem-
bers occasional wandering
or stationary groups of In-
dians who made and peddled
baskets, moccasins and toy
canoes, thereby introducing
us to their crafts of weav-
ing, carving and embroi-
dery; but these Eastern In-
dians are rather run-out
descendants of formerly
more or less warlike tribes
with no settled habits, and
their surviving art, such as
it is, has little suggestive
value for modern household
uses.

To become aware of the
finer possibilities of Indian
art, one must go to our own
Southwest, to Mexico, or
still farther afield into South
America. In any of these
regions one may come in
contact with a great variety
of household objects, hav-
ing real decorative value,
designed and executed by
living Indians, whose lives
are peacefully spent in vil-
lages or pueblos, where they
live an agricultural life and
carry on many traditional
crafts. The cruder, more

Our

Interesting
bell-pulls may
be made of
woven ceremo-
nial belts

Amy
Richards
Colton

Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt

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Decorative and
out of the or-
dinary, Indian
pottery can be
successfully
used for flower
vases, garden
pots, and lamps

ans Contribution to

ousehold Art

One of the striking rug designs
available in very good colors

commercial side of the art
of our Western Indians has
been thrust so unattrac-
tively upon travelers who
pass through Arizona and
New Mexico, and in our
Eastern department stores,
in the form of Navaho
blankets and Pueblo pot-
tery, that the very name
of American Indian art has
become anathema, and the
thought of combining it
harmoniously with other
art objects, in any discrim-
inating person’s home, has
seemed too absurd to con-
template.

A variety of causes, work-
ing together, have gradually
made many people aware
that genuine works of art
were still made traditionally
by the descendants of the
Indians whocame in contact
with the Spanish missionar-
ies in the 16th and 17th cen-
turies. Among these factors
have been the ethnological
departments of some of our
museums, the increasing
numbers of artists and writ-
ers who have been settling
in New Mexico, Arizona,
and California, and the
awakening world interest
in primitive or aboriginal
art of all kinds.

The Indian note is every-
where evident—in jars,
primitive capitols, table
and chairs which carry the
Spanish note as well. Home
of the Misses White at
Santa Fe, New Mexico

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Civilized life as it be-
comes more complex
brings its own reactions,
and one of these reactions
is toward simpler forms of
living, including a leaning
toward and interest in the
more naive and elemental
forms of decorative art.
When the Spanish mis-
sionaries first settled in
our Southwest and in
California, they found a
variety of crafts flourish-
ing among the Indians,
particularly weaving and
pottery. Indian pottery
of our day is much the
same in form, pattern, and
color as in those early
days, and so in most re-
spects is their weaving.

THREE BEAUTIFUL
INDIAN CABINETS

Indian copy of an old
Spanish-Indian cabinet
decorated in geranium
red, yellow, blue, and
gray-green (above.
Built-in cabinet, copy of
fine old Spanish mission
style, executed in pine by
Indians (right)
Cupboard adopted from
the Spanish and made re-
cently by the Indians
(left).
All three pieces are part
of the furniture .in the
Santa Fe home of the

Misses White

Aboriginal Indians had no furniture in our sense; but their
symbolism and craftsman’s skill were turned to good account
by the Spaniards in the making of furniture on the general lines
of the Spanish furniture of that period, also in carvings for the
churches, especially their beams. The result is now known as
Spanish Colonial and relics of that time can still be seen in several
old New Mexican churches; notably at Laguna and Acona, and in
private houses. There were some especially interesting 17th Cen-
tury treatments of the ceilings of the churches in Mexico and
New Mexico, executed by the Indians under the Spanish. The
heavy pine beams were carved and afterwards stained with earth
colors in polychrome effects. Between the beams the flat, open
spaces of the ceilings often had patterns woven with thin saplings
interlaced, and these again had the woven patterns brought out
by touches of color.

These early ceilings are very suggestive to any one building
a Spanish Colonial house either in Florida, California or New
Mexico. Some of the group of artists living in New Mexico
have already discovered this and made use of the decorative ideas
that have survived in these ceilings of the old Spanish-Indian
churches. The lines of the furniture are simpler than most pure
Spanish furniture of the same time, and the wood is usually pine.
This fact, in addition to the simpler forms and geometric,
incised ornament, suggests an analogy between it and the 17th

Antique Zufii jar (Indian reds, ochres, and black on
beige ground) and modern Navaho rug (gray, black, and
white) perfectly in keeping with 17th century Spanish
chairs and 16th century Spanish cabinet. Entrance
hall at the New York City home of the Misses White

SEPTEMBER, 1926

century Colonial furniture of our English forefathers, now
popularly known as Early American.

Unfortunately all the solid, unlovely features of this
Spanish Colonial style of the missions was seized upon
some twenty-five or thirty years ago and developed into

the heavy, ugly and
cumbersome so-
called mission furni-
ture—any one
studying the lines
of the true missica
furniture can see
what a travesty it
was.

In addition to the
decorative crafts
which the Indians
carried on before
the Spaniards came
there were genuine
painters among
them, the remains
of whose work are
still to be seen on
the walls of caves
in both North and
South America.
Some of these artists
were employed by
the Spanish Fathers
in the 17th century
to paint frescoes on
the walls of some of
their missions and
one set of them, on
buffalo hide, can
still be seen in the
church at Laguna.
The Indians often

(Continued on page 62)

What the Indian Says in Ornament

Decorative Motifs and Their Meaning Among the Red Men of Our Southwest
F. W. Hodge

Illustrations
by
courtesy of the Museum of the Amer-
ican Indian and the Ferargil Galleries

me EARLY all primitive art is an ex-

i

pression of religious concepts. This
is especially true of much of the
decorative art of the Pueblo Indians
of our semi-arid Southwest, for
living for centuries in a land characterized
by scant rainfall, the very religion of these
sedentary people is based to a great extent on
the desire for rain; hence rain and its causes,
together with everything that is supposed to
symbolize or to influence it, are depicted on
sacred paraphernalia, in pictographs and wall-
paintings, and especially on pottery. Perhaps
no other interpretable motives have been
employed so largely in Pueblo decoration as
those pertaining in one way or another to the
ever-present desire for rain.

During the last thirty years many thousands
of earthenware vessels have come to light
through excavation of ancient Pueblo village-
sites, and much has been done toward elucidat-
ing the significance of their decorative devices.
As no handicraft is so well preserved as pottery
the chief medium for the study of Pueblo
symbolism in all of its mutations is afforded
by the well-nigh imperishable and often
beautiful vessels that have been recovered
from ancient dwellings and graves. They
form the only written “literature” that has
survived from early times.

In Pueblo belief there is close association
between birds and rain-clouds, not alone by
reason of their manifest relation as creatures
of the air, but because downy feathers, espe-
cially those of the high-soaring eagle, bear
close resemblance to fleecy clouds, and there-
fore are used on prayer-sticks and on various
other sacred objects as messages or supplica-
tions to the deities which control the clouds,
or as symbols of the clouds themselves. Light-
ning too is often symbolized in decoration,
and the rainbow as well. Of related signifi-
cance are the tadpole, the frog or toad, and the
dragon-fly which is wont to hover over damp
places. Thunder, being invisible, of course,
is simulated ceremonially by the whirr of a
wooden slat on the end of a string rapidly

Buffalo dance painted
a by Awatsireh, a gifted
modern Tewa of San

Sp Ildefonso pueblo. Gar-
den-minded readers
will be interested to
note that the leading
warrior is carrying a

——) sprig of Douglas Spruce

=

ea

BIRD MOTIFS

a Various render-
ings of birds from
ancient Pueblo ves-
sels.

b Conventionalized
birds in the form of
a fret border, an-
cient Hopi.
c A continuous bor-
der with the bird as
its theme, ancient
Zuni

Mountain lion,

eagle, double

birds and stars,

on the inside of

a bowl, ancient
Zuni

Wing motive adapted to the
ornamentation of a bowl bya
potter of the Gila valley
(Arizona) in very early days

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Rain cloud pat-

tern (below)

from an ancient
Zuni bowl

Birds within
feathers, an-
cient Zuni —a
strange form of
motive

Bird and tad-

poles on the in-

terior of old
Zuni bowl

Parrots perched on
the corners of em-
bellished rectangles
—a favorite motive
of early Pueblo pot-
ters—this example
is prehistoric Zuni

A striking zigzag pattern found
in Navaho weaving and pos-
sibly dating back a century

Basket woven by Pima Indian
(Arizona) with geometric de-
sign suggestive of lightening

CLOUD MOTIFS

One of the often repeated expressions
of the desire for rain which charac-
terizes most of the decorative art of the
Indians of our semi-arid Southwest.
a Cloud terraces arranged in geometric
pattern from an ancient Hopi bowl. b
Typical cloud, rain, and lightning sym-
bols of the Pueblo Indians. c Cloud
terraces and lightning

swung in circles and commonly known as a
bullroarer.

Among various peoples of aboriginal Amer-
ica the great Plumed Serpent is of vast im-
portance in the native mythology. The ex-
istence of this cult in ancient times is attested
by representations of the mythic monster
both in pottery decoration and in pictographs
cut or painted on the walls of cliffs, and it still
forms the basis of an important ceremony at
Zuiil.

In the earlier pottery decoration in which
animate objects are represented, they are
usually drawn with great simplicity, although
realistic forms are not uncommon in some
parts of the ancient Pueblo domain. Indeed
there are examples of bird and mammal
figures depicted by both modeling and painting
with such fidelity that they are not difficult
to identify. Painted insect and reptilian
forms are also found. But the most common
representations of animate creatures in pottery

(Continued on page 68)

Our Colonial Bequest

Owen Wilson

Photographs by Mary H. Northend, Kenneth Clark, John Wallace Gillies, Philip B. Wallace

AA HE first pro-
Z fessional
> native born

Sy architect in

the United

States was Charles
Bulfinch of Boston.
He practised from
about 17 Sy cunei!
his death in 1844.
Thomas Jefferson was
an architect but he
confined his designs
to the University of
Virginia and his own
home. Before Bul-
finch there were a few
foreign architects in
America, but in the
main Colonial archi-
tecture was the result
of the owners’ desires
and taste translated
into structures by
Jocal builders or car-
penters. These men
drew on similar ex-
periences and worked
from books of design
either brought over
from England or cop-
ied from English
models: . Gonse-
quently their methods of building and their
ornamentation were pretty much the same
from one end of the country to another.
They departed from English practice and
differed from each other chiefly as climate and
available materials dictated. The houses
in the South early began to have higher ceilings
and a more spacious air than the Northern
houses, where the summer heat did not last so
long, but some of the Southern houses (even
including a house built as tall as Mt. Vernon)
had bedrooms which are unbearably hot to our
modern tender sensibilities. And in many of
the Northern farmhouses there were no fire-
places on the second floor and they must have
been desperately cold in winter.

But whatever the discomforts which accom-
panied these old houses, their lines have now
taken firm grip on our affections and they tend
more and more to become the basis of Ameri-
can domestic architecture. It makes little
difference whether that affection arises from
an accurate standard of the beautiful or from
a satisfaction with a familiar form that awaken,
sentimental reflections; it has gripped the
American mind.

HILE these old houses give to the archi-
tect a wide variety of accepted forms
from which to draw his pleasing variations, they
provide him many difficult problems. He has

A modern adaptation carrying the best traditions of theColonial
and bespeaking dignity and comfort. Prof. James K. Whittemore’s
house at New Haven, Connecticut; Charles G. Loring, Architect

to keep the old flavor and yet provide his
house with ventilation, heat, running water,
bathrooms, pantries, and perhaps sleeping
porches, while his model had none of these.
To keep the low lines of old houses and still
have a modern second floor is not easy. Nor
is there any obvious way to put a sleeping
porch on a Colonial house and make it look
as if it belonged there.

Moreover in our enthusiasm for Colonial
architecture it 1s not safe to assume that all
of the old work is either beautiful or well done.
They made some houses in Colonial days
that even age cannot hallow, and a good deal
of their construction would not pass a modern
building test. There seemed to be no fixed
rule about how the second floor beams were
supported about the chimney. I have re-
cently seen two old houses where the beams
supporting the first floor were placed flat
instead of on edge and, what is worse, although
the beams were a foot wide and eight inches
thick, they were morticed at the end with a
tenon that was not more than three inches
wide at its smallest point. It had naturally
rotted away.

Whether these old houses were tight when
they were built is questionable. Certainly in
their old age they provided plenty of ventila-
tion without the use of windows.

Neither in their design nor in their method

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of construction, then,
can we accept the old
models without ex-
amination and adap-
tation. Wecan learn
much from our ances-
tral builders, but we
shall not progress if
we take great pains
to acquire artificially
the limit ations in
building from which
they could not escape.

The brick houses in
Salem, Mass., in An-
napolis, Md., on the
James River and in
Charleston are adap-
ted to modern use,
but Homewood, in
Baltimore, perhaps
the most beautiful
piece of architecture
of the Colonial period,
has a second story
which no one in the
Baltimore climate
would choose to-day.

Many of the old
square Connecticut
houses are as livable
now as modern
houses, yet the com-
mon type with the long sloping roof that
shut off all the light on the north side of the
second floor is not imitated now.

There is nothing more attractive to the eye
than the brown stone Dutch farm house of the
Hackensack Valley, yet here again the low
roof gives a poor second story according to
modern standards.

S MIGHT naturally be expected, with

our early American building activities
spread over a wide latitude, under climatic
conditions that varied accordingly, and em-
ploying workmen of several nationalities who
must needs draw upon their own traditions
for their methods and architectural forms, the
Colonial period gave birth not to one type
but to many. Although the “accepted
forms” from the same books controlled every-
where, every isclated community had its own
pleasing variations therefrom giving it its own
distinct peculiarities of style, its architectural
mannerisms. To-day, with our wider and
quicker dissemination of knowledge, our build-
ing text books, our national magazines, we
have ironed out all but the differences that
climate demands. A builder in Los Angeles
frames a house and turns it just as his brother
workmen in Atlanta and Bangor. Under
these conditions it is hard to realize that in the
early days of this country the work of a Salem

SEPTEMBER, 1926

Fine in its restraint is this
Massachusetts dwelling
designed by Richardson,
Barott & Richardson for
Mr. John L. Saltonstall,
and a worthy descendant
indeed from those old
houses of Colonial days
which “have taken firm
grip on our affections”

builder, a Philadel-
phia builder, and a
New Jersey builder
were as unlike as
the French chateau,
the Italian villa,
and the English
thatched cottage.

A local style would
spread beyond the
borders of its own
village or township
when the workmen
were persuaded to
migrate temporarily
or permanently. It
Besaid that the
President’s House
of Williams College
was built in Salem,
carried piecemeal
across the moun-
tains on mule back
and floated down the river to its site, thus
establishing an example that in its turn in-
spired many others near by. Then there was
the slow interchange of ideas brought about by
travelers—as idea or a motif gleaned here and
there and built into the traveler’s own house.

Nor were the factors of climate and nation-
ality of workmen the only governing ones.
There was the important question of materials.
What was available had to be used, architec-
tural styles, personal preferences and crafts-
men’s traditions to the contrary notwith-
standing.

The houses of Philadelphia, Germantown,
and their vicin-
Wty bear this out.
Ledgestone was
plentiful—a very
effective mica schist.
Naturally there
evolved a square,
solid house type, with
few deviations from
the rigid square or
simple rectangle im-
posed by the stone
walls. Perhaps ‘even
without the influence
of the stonework, the
houses of the Quakers
would have reflected
in any other material
the owners’ dislike
of ostentation, their
sturdy uprightness,
their penchant for a
building in which
craftsmanship and
materials must be of
the best, with the
emphasis upon a fit-
cing neatness and en-
during dignity
rather than display.

The Dutch settlers in northern New Jersey
with the French Huguenots and the English
also had stone in plenty—a brown sandstone
that was easily cut to rectangular shape and
smooth face—yet their houses are totally
unlike their near by Quaker neighbors. Sel-
dom did they carry their thick main walls
above the first story, and frequently they
used the stone only for the gable end walls,
filling in the front and rear with clapboards,
stucco, jointed boarding or shingles. They
could use these less enduring wall coverings
because of the wide overhang of their roofs
on the sides parallel with the ridge, afford-

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

ing a protection
from the weath-
er that other stytes
did not possess.
They originated a
peculiarly — distinc-
tive American form
—the gambrel roof,
apparently in an
attempt to make a
one-story house
afford better head
room, ventilation,
and light in its attic.
These Dutch build-
ers showed an amaz-
ing versatility in the
use of materials. In
addition to their cut
stone, usually re-
served for the front
or for the sturdy
quoins, they utilized
the smaller pieces
and off-color stone
in a random rubble
with wide flush mor-
tar joints; if the re-
sult was not to their
taste theysometimes
plastered the whole
face and white-
washed it. Brick,
their traditional
building material, was used sparingly, usually
only for chimneysand greatovens. Clapboards,
shingles, and flush-jointed boarding they used
freely. Nor were they content to select any
one of these materials and stick to it on a
house; instead, they apparently delighted in
using most or all of them in the most sur-
prising and altogether pleasing combina-
tions.

On Long Island we find still another style
variation. Near the western end, in closer
touch with the Dutch settlers, the New
Jersey type is followed to a degree, but with
the difference that we are no longer in a stone
country. Here is an
architecture of wood,
with brick enough
only for the chimneys
and fireplaces. Going
eastward on the
Island, the Dutch
influence wanes and
the English increases.
The gambrel gives
way to the roof of
straight pitch; the
wide overhang dis-
appears; two stories
and an attic become
the rule, with few or
no dormers to break
the simple roof mass.
White painted shin-
gles, with wide
weatherage, cover the

Reminiscent of the earlier
period in both design and
furnishing is this break-
fast room at Mr. Lang-
horne’s Pennsylvania
home; Duhring, Okie &
Ziegler, Architects

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walls. In plan the houses usually start with a
square—a hall and two rooms—and additions
are made in a series of lessening gables running
in the direction of the main ridge but of less
height, with perhaps a shed leanto at the di-
minishing end.

Across the Sound to the north, Connecticut
developed still another manner of building
her settlers’ homes. Curiously enough they
had plenty of stone here—as the miles of

carrying down the north slope of the roof
to shelter more space below, or by raising
the roof, or by flattening its pitch some-
what in covering the area parallel with
the main ridge. Curious how this way of
making additions differed from that of their
neighbors just across the Sound. In Con-
necticut, too, there is a freer and more skilled
use of wood in the moldings, mantels, paneling,
doorways, and entrance porches—due perhaps
to their closer touch
with Massachusetts
where the woodcarver
reached his highest de-
velopment, but also be-
cause the Long Island
settler had in fewer in-
stances the means to gra-

tify his tastes in_ this
regard.
In Massachusetts the

greater concentration of
population produced the
great bulk of what we
have come to call New
England Colonial archi-
tecture. It varies from
the low simple cottage
of Cape Cod, huddling
close to the sand dunes
—the acme of simplicity
—to the stately Georgian
mansions of brick in
Boston and Salem and
Portsmouth. The seaport
traders gained wealth
early: in life; their
travels had given them
the incentive to build
and possess beautiful
surroundings; their means
enabled them to employ
the most skilled work-
men of the Colonies—a

A beautiful old doorway at the Lewis house,
Brookfield, Massachusetts, where the woodcarver
of Colonial days reached his highest development

picturesque stone walls attest,
dividing road from field and
field into a very strapwork of
borderlines—but they preferred
to use wood. Not even for their
necessary masonry in chimneys
and fireplace facings did they
use stone, preferring the more
easily handled brick. Here
again the original frame was
seldom far from the square, but
the additions were made by

Delightful Dutch Colonial door dating back to 1773.

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Origin-
ally built in the Hackensack, N. J., valley by the Terhune
family and now the home of the novelist, Joseph C. Lincoln

SEPTEMBER, 1926
Samuel McIntire to carve their mantels and
doorways, a Paul Revere to make their silver
service, a John Goodard to fashion their
mahogany furniture.

HERE was, of course, a vast difference

between the houses of the 17th century—
reflecting very strongly the influence of
England in its massive skillfully joined timber-
ing—and the houses of the early Republic,
when the material prosperity of the New
World communities came to a real flowering.
The earliest types—the real Colonial—we
know very little about in these days. What
we miscall Colonial is largely the work of the
Early Republic, when the Colonies were no
longer such but rather States of the new
Union. And the architecture they produced
is our own version, expressed chiefly in wood,
of the Classic Renaissance. Our carpenter-
architects copied the proportions of their
columns and cornices out of books, but those
men had in themselves something without
which all the faithful copying in the world
would have availed them nothing. They
had a feeling for beauty of proportion, an
innate sense of the fitness of things; else they
could never have translated an architecture
of stone into one of wood and made it beau-
tiful.

In the South of those early days it is harder
to pick out definite styles and label them.
The plantations were far apart and self-
contained. Each was in effect a community
in itself; with its own grinding-mill, blacksmith
shop, its weavers, its tailors, it shoemakers.
The labor was less skilled, less likely to learn
quickly of new methods, new devices. It is
not surprising therefore that every plantation
is a law unto itself. Even along the James
River, where the places were near enough to
permit of considerable inter-visiting, we find a
Westover, a Shirley, a Brandon and a Teding-
ton—all distinctly individual types. If there
are any characteristics com-
mon to all they are very few
indeed—the wide spacious cen-
tral hall running completely
through the house; the high
ceilings usually found in warm
climates, and a distinct relega-
tion of the kitchen and service
quarters to another building
rather loosely connected with
the main house. The high
square rooms for the family
use, each with its own fireplace,
looked out through large, deeply
embrasured windows into a box-
lined garden of rather formal
lines but rather informal plant-
ing.

Inside Information
on Outside Paint

Selecting a Paint
that Will Last and

How to Tell the
Gold Karat Can

PAINT for exterior use should be
enduring, protective, and decorative.
It is possible to formulate paint that
will have these three qualities whole-
somely embodied in its make-up.
A paint so made, when properly applied, will
give maximum service.

The base pigments and binding oils consti-
tute the body and life of a paint. The latter
are the essential ingredients in so far as the
enduring and protective qualities are con-
cerned. Coloring matter for decoration, ex-
cept for the extremely dark colored paints,
is not an essential element in the make-up
of the paint as far as life and service qualities
are concerned. Coloring pigment in most
instances imparts beauty rather than perma-
nence.

How many of us in the past have gone to
the painter’s shop and asked for a certain
quantity of paint, stressing the color but not
the base pigments and binding oils which are
so necessary to fulfill the service requirements
imposed by the particular paint problem at
hand. Such haphazard selection of paint is
the cause of most of the unpleasant exterior
paint failures such as checking, blistering,
peeling and discoloration which are not only
distasteful to the eye but heavy on the pocket-
book, for they create surfaces which must
be entirely removed when refinishing. Our
neighbors judge us by the appearance of our
homes. A well-painted exterior, like a well-
kept garden, conduces to beauty. The next
time we buy paint let us make our selection on
the basis of service qualities as well as color.

ee OR paints are preparations de-
signed to be applied as surface coatings
for the purpose of protection and decoration.
The paint consists essentially of a mixture
of mineral pigments, oxidizing oils, driers,
and thinners.

The liquid portion, known as the vehicle,
dries by oxidation rather than evaporation.

Exterior paints dry dust free in 18 to 24 hours
and harden sufficiently for recoating in 36 to

48 hours. As we know, atmospheric con-
ditions modify the drying action of paint
films; cold and damp weather retards, while
warm and dry weather accelerates drying.
The liquid portion of an exterior paint must
be of such a nature as to dry or harden upon
exposure to the atmosphere, and when re-
inforced with pigment form a thin, tough,
elastic, water-repellent and protective film.

For all exterior house painting except on
porch floors and steps nothing but pure raw
linseed oil and a small percentage of Japan
driers and turpentine should be used. Boiled
linseed oil should never be used in exterior
painting as it shortens the life and durability
of the film, since in the processing of the oil
certain metallic preparations are put in so-
lution with the oil which cause its drying
and hardening action to continue progressively
until finally the paint coating becomes in-
elastic and disintegrates. Raw linseed oil in
its natural state dries in 4 to 6 days. This
is too slow for practical use, but the addition
of a very small amount of Japan driers hastens
the drying without materially injurying its
durable qualities. The addition of a small
amount of turpentine, while it does not de-
tract from or impart to the paint any pre-
servative qualities, improves the working
qualities, increases the spreading, secures
better penetration of the paint into the pores
of the wood, and in an indirect way causes the
paint film to dry quicker as a given quantity
of paint spreads over a larger area, thus
exposing a thinner film to the oxidizing in-
fluences of the atmosphere. The amount of
turpentine and driers should not, in any case,
exceed 15 per cent. of the total vehicle content,
which is about 6 per cent. of the total weight
of the paint.

A raw linseed oil vehicle as recommended,
the vital constituent of an exterior house
paint, has no equal as far as exterior exposure

37

by

Elmer P. Hubschmitt

This house specially de-
signed for Garden &
Home Builder by R. C.
Hunter & Bro. (plans and
detailed specifications
available to the reader
upon application to the
Editors) has a very pleasant
color scheme, the body of
the building being light
ivory offset by sky-blue
shutters and a roof of deep
weathered brown

is concerned on account of its favorable drying
properties, its extreme elasticity, its body
which tends to hold the pigments in suspension,
its lustre, and its quality of imparting freedom
of working as well as durability to the paint film.

POk painting porch floors and steps a paint
vehicle considerably different from that
recommended for the rest of the exterior is
required. Floors and steps are subjected
to extreme surface abrasion, frequent washing,
and in general a more severe wear and tear
than any other portion of the building. In
addition to hard usage a floor and deck paint
must be impervious to moisture and reason<
ably elastic. The paint film must harden or
oxidize from the bottom up, or uniformly
throughout its film. A varnish oil vehicle
is needed to fulfill these requirements. The
chief varnish constituent, the resins, provide
hardness and lustre, while the oils furnish
durability, elasticity, and waterproofness.
The vehicles of floor and deck paints vary
widely. This variation may be _ expected
wherever varnish making is involved, as the
paint manufacturer has many resins and oils
with which he may produce a desired result.
A vehicle consisting of a mixture of linseed
oil, chinawood oil and a medium hard resin
is durable, waterproof, and elastic. For
painting porch floors and steps use a floor and
deck paint having a varnish oil vehicle. If
thinning is required use only pure turpentine.

I have pointed out that the liguid portion
of an exterior house paint should be pure raw
linseed oil with a small amount of turpentine.
and Japan driers, except in paint for porch,
floors and steps where unusual wearing con-
ditions must be met. In this gase, a varnish
oil vehicle is required.

HE pigment portion of an exterior paint

functions to hide, give color and increase

the protective qualities of the paint film.
(Continued on page 72)

Old Desks and Their Descendants

ebecuor IML IL ferelicysteyene!

Epirors’ Note: It is a far
cry, of course, from the simple
“Bible boxes” of Pilgrim
times to the elaborately con-
structed modern-day secre-
tary, and yet both are linked
—opposite ends of a long
chain forged by \man;, to meet
his changing needs. The story
of their variations is interest-
ingly set forth by Mrs. Lock-
wood in her book on “An-
tiques,” from which the
present account is taken and
which is a fascinating store-
house of information on fur-
niture of the Early American
period so popular to-day.

ESKS were very
simple things in
Colonial times,
just a pine or
oak box with a
slant top. While some of
them were crude and plain,
they were more often than
not much decorated with

carving or with mouldings,

as would be natural with so
small and personal a piece
of furniture. Writing ma-
terials and paper were kept
in them, and also that most
precious of all Pilgrim pos-
sessions—the Bible. They
were made of a size to hold
the big book, and were
called Bible boxes. After

a time they were made
larger and set up on a
turned frame like the

chests, and the lid, instead

of opening away from the
writer toward the wall,
was made to
drop toward
him. Pigeon-
holes were
added. This
was the be-
ginning of the
slant-top or
drop-front
desk. William

Penn’s desk
was one of
this type.

By 1710 the
space below

the desk box (a7 =="

had been filled
up with draw-
ers, the drop-
d Owl mld:
which rested
on two little

wooden “pull” Slant-top Desk

a sit

Secretary DeskK_

A modern-made secretary—this type of desk developed about
1730 and is ‘‘a most beautiful and important piece of furniture’’

Various familiar styles of desk which de-
veloped from the old original ‘‘Bible box’”’ of
Colonial days as the need for convenient
writing arrangements gradually grew greater
with the demands of increasingly sophisticated
living

AN
Ay" ti |

Tamlour Secretary

38

Sketches by Ernest Stock,
photographs by courtesy of
W. T. Hathaway, Erskine-
Danforth Corp., W. & J.
Sloane, A. H. Notman &
Co., Lord & Taylor, Gins-
burg © Levy, R. H. Macy
& Co:

supports when open, closed
on the slant. Behind the
lid was a simple arrange-
ment of small drawers and
pigeon-holes. This fami-
liar slant-top desk was the
foundation of every desk
that has come since and
is with us in much the
same form to-day. They
were made all through the
1700’s in pine and maple
and cherry, some of them
crude, some painted. Some
of the later mahogany ones
were beautifully carved,
and the maple ones inlaid
with bird’s-eye veneer and
ebony. The late maple
ones usually have an ebony
or mahogany star inlaid in
the center of the lid, and
little stars appear on the
tiny drawers inside. Shera-
ton says, in his book of
designs published in 1792:
“These com-
mon desks
with drawers
made under
them are near-
ly obsolete in
London.” So
it is probable
that most of
the old ones
you see (and
they are not
hard to find)
were made
not later than
1800.

About 1730
a bookcase
was set on top
of the drop-
front desk.
This soon de-

Empire Des: veloped into

SEPTEMBER, 1926

he handsome type of desk called the “secre-
ary,’ a most beautiful and important piece
yf furniture. Except for simple ones made in
he country of pine and more rarelv of maple,
he finest of these were walnut, and later on
nahogany. By 1770, when Chippendale’s fine
lesigns were everywhere, this type of secretary
iad reached its highest development and was a
all, handsome piece of furniture with a
yroken-arch top and the drawer fronts
locked or bowed from the solid mahogany,
ike the high-boys and chest-on-chests. The
loors were solid panels of wood or looking-
dass and the interior was finished with num-
rous and carefully fitted little drawers and
vigeon-holes. There were few banks or safe-
leposit vaults in those days, so in nearly
Jl of these important desks there were
ecret drawers for the safe keeping of valuable
apers. These were usually concealed behind
little door in the middle of the interior. Be-
und that door were tiny drawers, and by
aking out certain ones of these the whole nest
if little drawers came out, revealing still
inier ones behind. These, in turn, slipped
ack, revealing others, until sometimes eight
ir ten were found, and as the first little door
youldn’t open in the first place until you
oked a certain secret spot, they were pretty
yell concealed. In fact, sometimes the re-
notest of them were unsuspected for years,
nd when at last discovered were found to
ontain wills and suchlike papers that changed
he current of many lives. These secretaries
Iso had little candle stands that slid out from
etween the desk and the bookcase, and in
he wooden pulls that supported the lid there
vere little places for pens. All of these tiny
rawers and compartments were carefully fin-
shed and fitted with the care and pride that
forkmen took in their work in those days.
here were, of course, fine slant-top desks
imilar to these but without the bookcase.
When Hepplewhite and Sheraton came in,
esks as well as all other furniture became
ghter in design. The grand broken arch gave
fay to the simple horizontal top, glass was
ut in the doors, and light woods, much ven-
ering, and inlays were used. Bird’s-eye

A half-dozen desks of present-day make re-
flecting old influences and fashioned for
convenience. It is interesting to note the
variations of shape and finish which offer wide
choice to the modern householder furnishing
upstairs or down. The well known Governor
Winthrop is shown at the extreme top; be-
neath it the knee-hole type, simple and sturdy;
then a pair of table desks for Chinese room
and boudoir; at left and right two variations
of the secretary or combination bookcase and
desk

39

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

maple trimmed with mahogany veneer and
outlined in ebony inlay was a favorite com-
bination in this country, and exquisite it was,
too. We will not go into the slight differ-
€nces between Hepplewhite’s and Sheraton’s
designs for secretaries except to say that
those called Sheraton were, perhaps, daintier
because of the delicate ‘“‘tambour’”’ sliding
doors that were used to conceal the pigeon-
holes. Washington had such a tambour desk.
His will reads, “my bureau (or as cabinet
makers call it, tambour secretary).’’ The
“tambour” was made of tiny strips of wood
mounted on cloth so that it was flexible and
would roll. The roll-top office desk of to-day
is based on the same idea. I know of one
such tambour secretary that is exquisite be-
yond words. It is tiny, not more than six feet
high!—and it has thirty-six secret drawers
of sandalwood, each with a tiny ivory knob
concealed under the moulding at the top and
in the desk part.

Then there were book cases also built into
or standing against the wall, great pieces usu-
ally in three sections, the desk in the center
section. Hepplewhite’s designs for these were
masterpieces, the huge things being positively
graceful. They cannot properly be called
desks, however, although they contain a desk.

Of course, all the while the tall secretaries
were being made there were low desks, too.
There was, for instance, the handsome flat-
topped desk with the blocked front, the middle
block receded to give place for the knees.
This came in about 1760. They are called
“knee-hole” desks and were made of mahog-
any splendidly carved. Then there were the
little “ladies’ writing tables’ elaborately
inlaid and having the appearance when closed
of a small flat-topped table. Sometimes they
had a few drawers on top behind a dainty
tambour.

Under the influence of the Empire, desks
changed with the rest of the furniture. They
became massive and square with heavy posts,
carved with pineapple and acanthus design up
the sides, like bureaus. The lid folded back
on top like the lid of a piano or dropped down
straight like the early Dutch desk.

Peonies On Parade

Impressions of the 1926 National Show at Fort Wayne, Indiana

JSS FTER practically a two years “fast”
a A ‘) due to the disastrous weather of
WA) 1925, Peony lovers awaited the

8 prospects of a feast in 1926 with
an impatience equalling that of the
small child just before Christmas. And the
National Show of the American Peony Society,
held at Fort Wayne on June 15 and 16, sup-
plemented by the trip through the Van Wert
gardens of Wassenburg, German, and Bonne-
witz made the season one glorious “‘gorge”’
of color, fragrance, and beautiful form.

A Peony show cannot entirely take the
place of trial in one’s own garden, yet it Is
more than a mere display of varieties—it is a
sporting event, where condition tells as well
as breeding, where the skill of the gardener
can augment the good qualities
that the breeder has_ provided,
where a dark horse may prove a
winner, and a favorite be left be-
hind. However, a study of win-
ning varieties will prove helpful to
one seeking for the best or for some-
thing of value which is also new.

The most impressive feature of
this year’s exhibition was the
absolutely unbeatable quality of
the white Le CyGNe when well
shown. Mr. Mead’s prize-winning
bloom in the ‘‘one bloom”’ class
also won the Brand Cup for the
“best bloom” anywhere in the
show, and stood in impressive per-
fection. Second in the “one bloom”’
class, first in the ‘‘six bloom” and
two firsts in the “three bloom”
amateur classes also went to Le
Cygne. KELWaAyY’s GLORIOUS,
Mrs. EpwaArD HARDING, ENCHANT-
ERESSE, JUBILEE, and Mont BLANC
were well shown, but could not

MODELLA

by

Edward Auten, Jr.

challenge Le Cygne. At least one bloom of
the new A.ice HARDING was shown, but I
would not rate it until I saw blooms from an
older plant. Nina Secor seems definitely
established as a very fine white, 1s early,
and plant habit is good. Grace Loomis
seems better than Enchanteresse, both late
varieties; and ADDIELANCHA is worthwhile.
D. M. Andrew’s new Nimsus shows good
stem and a bloom developing to high crown
type, a variety well worth watching.

First in the ‘twenty bloom,” white or cream,
went to Mr. Inslee’s display of SOLANGE,
second to FRANCES WILLARD. There seems to

be no fixed rule dividing the paler pinks, and
several varieties were entered in two color
Very remarkable was the absence

classes.

LE CYGNE

A NOTEWORTHY TRIO OF
PRIZE WINNERS

Le Cygne (above), a beautiful white,
shown by Mr. F. B. Mead and not only
prize-winner in the ‘‘one bloom”’ class
but also of the Brand Cup for the ‘“‘best
bloom”’ of the recent National Show.
Modella (left), Betscher’s fine new light
pink, one of the winners in the ten va-
riety classes; and (right) Thurlow’s ex-
cellent white, A. P. Saunders, exhibited
by Wassenburg who won third

Photographs
by
Van De Grift’s Studio

40

of THERESE from any prominent place in the
winnings. One can hardly say that this
was not a Therese year, for if flowers are left
on the plant till fully opened, Therese is
about as sure and as fine as any variety we
have, but in order to stand shipping and
storage for a show, it must have cool moist
weather.

First in the class for light pinks went to
Mr. Gumm on his new variety LILLIAN
Gumm. Some might call ita dark pink. Itis
a large full double flower, which looks better
every time I have seen it. Second went to the
old but fine ALBERT CrousseE. Therese,
Walter Faxon, Elwood Pleas, Lady Alexandra
Duff, and Mme. Jules Dessert did not achieve
their accustomed honors on the boards yet per-
haps the last two only can be passed
over. The Peony is making rapid
progress, and some presentday fav-
orites must eventually go.

First in dark pinks went to Ameri.
can Plant & Rose Co. on SARAE
BERNHARDT, which also showec
marvelous quality in several othe
classes. Souv. DE Louts Bicor took
second. In the reds, the new variety
Mr. L. VAN LEEUWEN, introducec
and shown by the American Rose é
Plant Co., led, large blooms in perfec’
condition when judged, an unusua
shade of medium red, with some sta
mens among the petals. Second wen
to Davip Harum, a Brand variety
Almost every good red was entere
except PHILIPPE RivorreE, and bot!
the winners are of shades which ar
“oood if you like them.” | muc!
prefer ADOLPHE RoussEAu, Mons
MARTIN CAHUZAC, KARL ROSEN
FIELD, RICHARD CARVEL, GROVE)

(Continued on page 64)

A. P. SAUNDERS

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

SEPTEMBER, 1926

Photograph by Mattie Edwards Hewitt

The paved outdoor terrace at the
Laverock, Pa., home of Mr. Isaac
T. Starr continues comfortable out-
door living well into Indian summer

4l

The simplicity of

the painted design

makes this stand

unusually attrac-
tive

ONE of the
most inter-
esting of
modern de-
corative re-
vivals is that of
painted furniture.
The gaily painted
rush-bottomed chairs

and tables of our
grandmothers’ day
are again in favor,

for we are at last be-
ginning to read and
understand and value
many of the lessons
that our ancestors
have passed on to us in their furniture and
furnishings. One of these is the need of color
in the home. Another (and by far the most
important lesson any home-maker can learn)
is that simplicity is the keynote of the well-
furnished home. The simpler the house, the
more should this note be stressed and furni-
ture be selected the standards of which are
comfort, usefulness, and fitness.

The too ornate, too-richly upholstered piece
of furniture is very apt to be out of harmony
with its companions in the simple home and
can spoil the entire effect of a room just as can
the wrong color. It is this growing demand
for harmonious treatment of a room, for
furniture that is an honest expression of our-
selves that has brought us to an appreciation
of the value of painted fur-
niture, valuable alike from an
artistic and from a serviceable
point of view. This is the day
of the servantless small house
whose dominating note is liv-
ability plus charm and
convenience and the easily
cared-for, colorful surfaces of
present-day painted chairs and
tables, of beds and dressers,
fill these requirements. Inthe
matter of design, these modern
painted pieces may be had in
all periods and styles: 18th Cen-
tury English, Louis XVI Colo-

Color in Furniture

Ellen D. Wangner

Photographs by courtesy of William Leaven & Co. Inc., Erskine Danforth Corp., G
L Sellers € Sons Co., Artcraft Furniture Co., Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., Elgin
A. Simonds Co., The Orsenigo Co. Inc., Palmer & Embury, W. & J. Sloane

In either plain wood to be colored at home or in designs and color
to order, a breakfast set such as this is most hospitably inviting

nial, Early American, etc., while the lacquered
cabinets and shelves hold all the beauty of
those earlier pieces brought from the Orient
by sea-going merchants from Nantucket and
New Amsterdam. Pieces of this kind are not
out of place in the most formal or richly
decorated room, and more and more are they
being used as color accents in hall and living
room or, in fact, to lighten up dark corners
and walls in any room.

Some of the new bedroom ‘sets may be had
of walnut, maple, mahogany or birch with
flower motifs in dull colors that are softened
under a glaze until they blend with the rich
brown of the wood, while the spindles and
legs have been shaded and touched up by
hand. One particularly pleasing suite that

For a small hall
nothing could be
more pleasing than
this butterfly table
and mirror that may
be had in all colors

took the quaintl:
splayed legs of it
dressing table an
oddly shaped bec
rails from an_ earl
Cape Cod set, he
been developed in
velvety black enam:
with panels and bo
ders marked in
blue-green and goli
Still other pieces |
walnut have only tl
edges of the tops |
the dresser and dre
sing table, the be
rails and edges
drawers lined in color to relieve the plain ton
of the wood and to bring another color not
In all these pieces there is the finest workma
ship; the drawers are dust and warp pre
and guaranteed to glide in and out easily.
Walnut seems particularly to lend its
to this new furniture, and what could
lovelier than a bedroom set made of this ri:
wood with the top drawers of dresser a!
chiffonier, the foot-board of the bed and 1?
front apron of the dressing table of maj>
burl, with a small inset panel in each pi>
this with a hand-painted center, all desigr!
in the simple style occasionally to be found}
French furnishings! Still another attract °
set is of French gray enamel with dull b®
borders and drawer mouldings in old ivo-
If there is, perhaps, great!
variety in bedroom sets tl?
in other pieces of painted {*
nishings, this may be =
counted for by the fact tt
although there is a grows
knowledge of the need for cc'f
in each of the other roo}
the average home-maker 1%
it more freely and dariny
in the bedrooms than in ‘y
other part of the house.

Distinctive in design and quality th
chair and settee need only cus]
ions to bring the acme of comfo)

SEPTEMBER, 1926

Not for bedrooms alone, however, is this
new-old furniture made. Halls, living rooms,
dining rooms, sunroom, breakfast nook, yes,
even the kitchen has its specially designed,
well-made tables and chairs, either new
designs or reproductions in all colors and
finishes.

For the hall with walls of gray and wood-
work in a deeper shade, there are small gray

An exact reproduction of
the chairs of an earlier day

hall tables and settees, as well as beautiful
and exact reproductions of the beloved butter-
fly table in almost every color—Chinese red,
rust, mulberry, old blue, jade and maple.
Nothing could so easily bring a note of cheer
and sparkle to a hall or breakfast room or to
living room and library for an occasional
table. Still other tables are there in these
and other colors—a kidney table in old blue
and tan; a mulberry gate-leg table with
flower motif and fine border line in dull
yellow, an end table with four legs in jade
green;.one with book trough in tan; a nest of
tables in green and gold while a console table
in red, gray, or mulberry would lend dis-
tinction to any hall.

The mirror, too, has not been forgotten and
may now be had with its upper section so
painted as to prove just the brilliant spot that
will give character to a room or hall. In one
dark hall with walls of yellow-tan, the console
table and mirror frame in red lacquer with

A utility chest this might well
be called since it is capable
of many uses and fitted alike
to dining room or bedroom

To bring color and charm
to a dark room or corner
nothing could be’more at-
‘ tractive than this Chinese :
cabinet in gay lacquer oe

chinese motifs in yellow turned that once
dismal place into an entry cheerful and wel-
coming.

And who would not desire a Boston rocker
of chestnut, its broad back-rail gay with
flowers and, to accompany it, a hanging book-
shelf and magazine rack of birch with yellow
roses? Then, too, there are low chests to be
had and Martha Washington sewing tables
and queer little portable mirrors, with a drawer
beneath, to be set on table or chest of drawers,

The well-loved tip top table of an earlier
day achieves added loveliness in color

43

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

all colorful and gay. Lovely things are these
and carefully made for long, hard usage with
all colors put on by hand.

For the breakfast nook and sunroom all of
the well-loved types of Early American pieces
have been reborn and those quaint old dish-
cupboards, drop-leaf tables, and sturdy chairs
may be had in colors to suit every taste and
cecorative plan as well as in plain wood to

With all motifs put on by hand this
gateleg table is highly decorative

match any other pieces one may have, these
to be stained, painted, or enameled as desired.
This is of especial interest and value since colors
in draperies, rugs, walls, woodwork, and
other furnishings can be faithfuily produced.
Ready-to-finish furniture may be had in entire
sets or as individual pieces in period styles
for every room in the house and in solid ma-
hogany, mahogany veneer, walnut, birch,
chestnut, or gumwood.

To the manufacturers producing this furni-
ture, one can send the color tone to be dupli-
cated and its shade will be exactly matched.
Where flower or other motifs in chintz and
wallpaper are to be reproduced these are done
by skilled artisans who see to it that no two
articles are exactly alike, thus lending variety
and added interest.

URNITURE of this kind offers many
possibilities to the woman who wishes
to do the work herself, the manufacturers
even going so far as to aid her with suggestions
to develop harmonious color effects. In this

(Conicinued on page 84)

The charm of this unusual low boy
lies in its gaily colored Chinese
motifs on drawers and apron and
the design that reproduces so care-
fully the art of Chippendale

The Truth About Oil Burners

Associate Editor, Heating and Ventilating Magazine; Secretary of Public

O MANY misleading and inaccurate
statements are found in oil burner
advertising, and so many more made
by individual salesmen. relative to
the adaptability of oil burners to any

particular boiler or furnace, and to the effi-
ciency and performance that may be expected
from the burner, that extra-careful study
should be made of any burner for which ab-
normal claims are made before parting with
your money for one.

Just as there are many good burners avail-
able to-day, so there are many very poor ones,
put on the market for a “clean-up,” while
the public enthusiasm for this new “heating
service” is on the increase. While it is diffi-
cult to definitely indicate the kinds of burners
you should not buy, it is possible to point out
some of the characteristics of those to be
avoided. At the same time we can see what
it is that makes your boiler or furnace desirable
or undesirable for any particular type of
burner.

TWO TYPES OF BURNERS

HERE are many ways in which burners

may be classified, but, for our purposes
we shall group them according to the method
of securing air for combustion. We call them
“atmospheric” or ‘natural draft” burners,
and “mechanical draft” burners. The first
group depends entirely upon the natural
draft induced in the chimney for the air
supply; the other group uses fans or blowers
for this purpose driven by small electric
motors.

It is easy to see that the first group is a
dependent one dependent upon the whims
of the weather for the quantity of air that will
flow through the chimney. If the outside
temperature is low, the air still, and the
burner in operation, the production of a large
quantity of hot gases in the lower part of the
chimney will be followed by the flow of a
comparatively large quantity
of air, or gas, through the
chimney. If, now, a heavy
wind comes up, the flow
may be increased, if the
chimney top is free from
any influences of adjoining
buildings or if it has a
“suction head”; or it may
become less if a steady wind
is blowing and the chimney
is under certain influence
from a near-by wall; or if
the wind is “puffy,” an ob-
jectionable or even dangerous
condition may arise through
the production of ‘“back-
drafts” or blasts of air down
the chimney. In other words,
the element of control, so
desirable, or perhaps neces-
sary, in oil burners, as well as
in all utilization of natural
forces, is lacking. It may be

| |B, JBsapalleare

Epitors’ Note—House heating is one of
the moot questions of the day’and house-
holders everywhere will be glad of this plain
statement of fact from competent authority.
Mr. Fansler is thoroughly conversant with the
field and keenly aware, too, of the difficulty
of the average man in ascertaining the truth
about the multitude of burners—good, bad.
and indifferent—being thrust upon his notice.
Garden & Home Builder will gladly respond
to any reader’s request for further light on
this important subject.

possible to control the flow of oil to meet the
needs of your home, but the air supply that
should be proportional to the oil, is beyond
the control of the burner or of its control
system

On the other hand, the mechanical draft
burner meters the oil supply at a rate de-
termined to be the best for the particular
boiler in which it is installed, and the air is
adjusted to such an amount that the best
possible efficiency of combustion is obtained,
and the ratio remains constant, regardless of
the temperature, or wind, or any other outside
variable.

From the foregoing | do not want you to
sweepingly condemn the atmospheric burner;
there are many more of these in use than of
the other type, and literally tens-of-thosands
are giving “satisfaction” to the owners.
You must realize that satisfaction is a relative
term, and that your neighbor might be willing
to nurse and be constantly adjusting a burner
that you would not have in the house. Again,
you must remember that there are two bases
of comparing the results of oil burning; with
another oil burner, and with coal, the domestic
fuel usually replaced.

After having used, in my own home, burners
of the cheapest. most inefficient and least
stable type, | am frank to say that | would

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Relations, American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers

continue to use one of this class rather than
revert to coal; and there are several coal yards
near by getting coal by tidewater.

In other words, if you are not too exacting,
if you are willing to watch the burner as the
weather conditions change, if you have a home
of eight or nine average rooms, or less, and if
your chimney is of reasonable height, size, and
not influenced by neighboring buildings, one
of the better class of atmospheric burners will
probably make you an oil fuel enthusiast, with
very little outlay.

But, if the expenditure of a few hundred
dollars is not a vital matter, and if you buy
one of the better class of mechanical burners,
and have it properly installed, you are almost
certain to be able to go through winter after
winter with a uniformity of temperature
unobtainable with coal, and with almost noth-
ing to suggest that you have a heating plant
in the house.

And, if you had first used an atmospheric
burner, the contrast would be similar to that
of a “tlivver” and a Cadillac.

THE BATILE OF THE 1YRES

HERE are so many conflicting statements

afloat as to the superiority of various
burners, that it may be well to bring out some
of the important points of oil burner design
and operation. You will see, for instance, in
a catalog, the statement that the shape, or
type of flame of that particular burner 1s
“right”? and that all others, also thoughtfully
illustrated, are wrong; or that only funda- |

‘mentally correct principles of combustion are

utilized in this burner, and that any other
method of securing results is wrong. _ Fre-
quently one of these so-called “laws,” or
two, or all, are entirely erroneous, or mislead-
ing. The curious thing about it is that many
of the burners so burdened with too foolish
verbosity are pretty good burners, and have
so many good points to
justify them that the piffle
is not needed.

The “pot” type burners
are claimed to be superior
because there is no need to
line the combustion chamber
with fire brick. Next you
find a burner that claims to
be high in efficiency because
of the use of the same
refractories (fire brick) that
the other eliminates. Then
you will find the burner with
the flat circular flame for
which claims are made that
it ‘‘produces the heat where
it is needed” or the burnet
with the flame that “just
burns” and “does not force
the heat up the chimney tc
be wasted.”

This domestic oil burner, installed in a small New Jersey home, was
manufactured in California and carried to New York on a steamship
which has huge burners of the same make and general type firing its boilers

(Continued on page 88)

White Geraniums
for Indoor Decoration

¥eEAUTIFUL Geraniums are always
m™ acceptable as gifts and there are
times when we wish for them in
our own homes. Simple, cool, ap-
pealing—yet graciously alive—the
white Geranium has a fetching, a snowy charm
completely its own and is very attractive
indoors. Whether as a centerpiece—I never
let mine grow bulkily large—for luncheons, a
decorative note on the library table, the buffet,
or the bedside stand, such a plant is invariably
good looking, and more dependable than cut
flowers whose fadings
are so fleet.

The one shown in
the picture is lovely,
L’AuBE (so cata-
logued) type. It is
always popular, with
its great, exquisite
snow-white blossoms
and rich green foli-
age. Where this
particular plant,
which I grew both
as a pot and bed-
ding plant, got its

“peppery” touches
of softest lavender,
(of Mme. Landry,

a picotee, aureole
white) I have never
been able to ascertain
—they are so pleas-
ingly harmonious,
making it still more
of an ornament.
SNowprop is another
fascinatingly sugges-
tive single white, ab-
solutely tintless. |
like single white
Geraniums best—and
in the house.

One may have
white Geraniums
with double white
blossoms if one pre-
fers. La FAvorRITE
is all that its name
Suggests and a purest
white with blooms of
surpassing loveliness.
Mme. Ré&camier is
an equally satisfac-
tory double white,
too, with enormous
trusses of spotless
white flowers.

White Geraniums
dre not a whit whim-
sical in their tastes.

Gertrude Shockey

They are the least difficult, for me, of all plants.
Merely a bit of morning shine in a sunny
window, a fresh drink when necessary, and fot
splendid blooms and foliage too, a monthly
dessert of good plant food. [ use only poultry
droppings—a generous spoonful to each pot;
taking care that these nuggets do not burn
with their caustic nudging.

I keep them in small pots. Which is a two-
way joy; being less burdensome to care for and,
my experience proves to me, they bloom best
if the rocts are kept confined in close quarters.

Becoming really pot-bound is no serious mal-
ady, so long as the food and drink supply
doesn’t run out. I make the root bed of
rather rich garden soil atop an inch or so of
charcoal, pebbles. or broken crockery, for
drainage.

When potting, I place the plant in about
two-thirds of this loam; firm it into nice
position, gently pour in a bit of water, and
then fill the pot to the top with soil and firm
again. Seldom do I| ever have a plant to wilt—
which | ascribe to this root dampening. |

never permit ihe
rocts—or a_ freshiy
made slip—to be

exposed to either air
and sun when pot-
ting.

Rooted cuttings
give delightful blos-

somy results. This
rooting should be
done in the very
late fall. I have
started them in late
winter and had

them blooming by
May. lempera-
ture must be kept
warmly even both day
and night for this,
however, and only
thrifty strong slips
used.

They'll thank you
too, noticeably, for
an occasional dew
and gentle rain bath
—Geraniums are
noted bath-lovers.
The thus dust-freed
leaves are so fresh
and sumptious a
green and how the
buds swell after-
ward! Never subject
white Geraniums in
full bloom to dash-
ing, pelting showers.
That utterly wrecks
their pure, be-
witchingly dainty
selves.

I let them rest
during the winter;
when my scarlets
just naturally be-
come more colorfully,
and essentially,
cheering, when _ all

An exquisite snow-white Geranium catalogued as L’ Aube, grown by the author both as pot
and bedding plant and which has developed unexpected ‘‘peppery”’ touches of purest lavender

ay

is so icy and drab
outdoors.

MERICAN architecture, like the American

people, is not all of a piece—Europe, even
the Orient, has trickled, keeps trickling in, by big
bits, by lesser bits, but each bringing new notions
that eventually mould the whole. Many people
feel that ‘Colonial’ architecture, the forthright,
simple-lined mansions of our fathers, are the true
expression, the only true American expression It
is an understandable feeling and certainly those
early houses had, still have, both meaning and
charm but there are other currents running these
days! Latin blood, Norman blood, Scandinavian
blood, each craving its own angles, its roofs peaked
or flat, its walls trowelled to catch sunrise or moon-
set, a touch of its own particular brand of romanti-
cism. Uncomfortable are they, these new-old-fangled
houses which pitch sharply skyward? People who
design them, people who live in them tell us not,
for they are planned with air spaces, insulation,
every present-day comfort. And despite their
comparative recency in our land, are they not, after
all, quite as genuine an answer to the more diversi-
fied mood of these times as were the simpler solutions
of the simpler Colonial period?

Three views inside Mr. Robert M.
Haig’s house at Riverdale, N. Y.,
designed by Julius Gregory (plans
and exterior opposite). Arched
doorways, plain unpapered walls,
simple built-in bookcases, and ab-
sence of unnecessary detail give
refreshing effect

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Mr. Robert M. Haig’s Home

at Riverdale, N. Y. =

Julius Gregory, Architect

Photographs by John Wallace Gillies

‘st floor plan indicating furni-
ré as well as room arrangement

plan showing loca-
pieces of furniture

Big Doings in Dahlias for 1926

What the Enthusiast May Look for in New Varieties—Show Suggestions for the Amateur

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staged of any other one flower.
Looking toward the promise of the Dahlia in
1926, Mr. Richard Vincent, Jr., President
of the American Dahlia Society said, “With
the increased interest in Dahlias in the many
garden clubs and affiliated societies we may
look in 1926 for the best year in the history of
the Dahlia. There are more Dahlias planted
throughout the United States than at any
time since the flower has been grown in this
country.” And the reader needs only to look
around his own neighborhood for a_ local
confirmation of this observation.

A Dahlia show is a liberal education and
especially valuable in giving you a direct com-
parison of the hundreds of good varieties. If
you have never seen a “big time” show, a
visit to such a show will more than repay
you, especially to such shows as the Amer-
ican Dahlia Society, in New York City; the
Dahlia Society of California, in San Francisco;
or the special show to be held in September
at the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, in Phila-
delphia. Herewith we are giving dates of
several of the larger shows where both com-
mercial and amateur growers exhibit, and
where the best standard varieties and the 1926
novelties will be shown. In addition you will
see Dahlia exhibits at these shows that will
give you not only new ideas, but some im-
pressive pictures of the decorative possibility
of the Dahlia.

New York (American Dahlia Society Show)

104th Artillery Armory, B’way & 67th St.,
Sept. 28, 20, 30.
San Francisco (Dahlia Society of California),
Alig) 26,423> 20:
Boston (New England Society Show),

Sepia et, 12:

Philadelphia (Sesqui-Centennial Show),
Sept. 14, 15, 16.

Camden (New Jersey State Show), Sept.
20n gin ee.

New Haven, Conn. (New Haven Society),
EPL. 21, 22:

Red Bank, N. J. (Monmouth County
Hort. Society), Sept. 20, 30.

Los Angeles (Southern California Dahlia
Society), Sept. 17, 18.

Trenton (Trenton Dahlia Society), Sept.
IO, 148

New Brunswick, N. J. (New Brunswick
Society), Sept. 10, I1.

At four of these shows the Garden &
Home Builder Achievement Medal will be
awarded to a Dahlia of especial merit. The
shows receiving this medal are: the National
at New York, Sesqui-Centennial (Philadel-
phia), the San Francisco, and the New Jersey
State Show at Camden. There have been two
previous winners of this medal and in each case

Derrill W. Hart

they are truly good Dahlias, namely the varie-
ties Robert Treat and Herald-Tribune Elite.

HAT may we expect in 1926 in the

way of new development in the Dahhiar
For one thing the Dahlia has not yet
reached its limit of color possibilities, and
judging by the 1925 seedlings which will be in
these 1926 shows, the public will see new
shades in what we might term “metallic reds
and oranges:”’ One variety which was ex-
hibited last year (Firefly) showed a new
brilliance of color, and 1926 will see several
varieties shown which will exhibit a brilliancy
greater than anything seen to date. We will
see good new Cactus varieties. The Cactus
class has a long way to go before it duplicates
the number of good varieties of the Decorative
and the Hybrid-cactus classes. In watching
the people at the big shows last year, it was
interesting to note how they were attracted to
in the Cactus varieties and it would be well
for the sake of the Dahlia if several new
Cactus varieties are shown this year.

In the Decorative class we have already
mentioned the brilliant new colors in addition
to which we will also see new shadings in what
we might call “blended color.’”’ Especially is
this true of pinks, burnt orange, and salmon.
It would be exciting if a really deep orange
Decorative should make its appearance; some-
thing approaching the brightness of a Calen-
dula in color. We will also notice that
practically every flower exhibited this year
will be on long stems. It is certainly a definite
step of progress indicating more sturdy plants
and better keeping quality.

Most of the present-day standard varieties
are the result of chance pollination—a hit-or-
miss question of luck. Some of the growers
are now breeding along definitely selective
lines and, therefore, it is fascinating to specu-
late upon what the future development may
be and whether such definite blood lines in

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Silver medal to be awarded by Garden & Home
Builder at four of this fall’s shows for Dahlias of out-
standing merit. Previous recipients are Robert
Treat and Herald-Tribune Elite, both fine flowers

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color and form will give us new “breaks” i
the Dahlia.

Perhaps you—the present reader—are go
ing to exhibit this fall and would lik
to have a suggestion or two regarding increas
ing your opportunities to carry off a first priz
in your local garden club show, especially
last year you cut the choicest bloom in yot
garden and it wilted before you could get
to the show room. If you play in luck an
find that your plants will reward you at sho
time with some good blooms, proceed thu
cut them the night before the show and pi
into a bucket of water in the cellar. If yc
have no cellar put them in a cool dark plac
but not in the ice-box. Cut the stems
least 18 inches long, and longer if possib!
Take care that you do not bruise the flowe
because perfect condition counts a long w:
toward winning a prize. It is better to s
cure a large commercial florist’s box
carry your blossoms to the show than to t
to carry by hand or in vases. Many tim
has an exhibition’s prize blossom fallen |
the back seat of the car. Secure a box de
enough to protect the large blossoms a.
long enough to enable the flowers to be pack:
in the box face up, stem horizontal on botti:
of the box. When you reach the show roi!
stage your flowers strictly in the classes |
which they belong. If any have wilted |
route, put the stems in hot, but not boill,
water. Put a handful of salt to a gallon!
water and leave the stems in the hot war
bucket for 15 minutes. Then remove )
cold water and the chances are that &
blossom will revive. Try to have yt
exhibits staged on time and as uniformly s
possible. If your show committee is furn «
ing vases then of course you are at its mel’;
if not, use uniform vases. In any class cal §
for more than one blossom match your flovs
in size as nearly as possible. There is a te}
tation to show the biggest blooms with'!
regard to uniformity. Providing other po’
are equal, 3 blooms uniform in size even tho ji
not so large, will win over an entry with %
monster blossom with two smaller ones ai!
teammates. Be sure to label every var
and make certain you have proper show t

Remember the judges do their best to p
the awards fairly and a frank question or /®
after you’ve been defeated will teach y¢ ¢
lot more than an unspoken criticism of ht
judges’ decision. Showing Dahlias is a
sportsman’s proposition and should be ti®
in that attitude. It is the flower that
brought more men into garden shows 4!
any other and lends itself to exhibition «™
petition in the same personal way it g¥
in the garden. Each flower presents its ¥!
personality and individuality. i

All in all, it looks as though the Dit
enthusiast has an entertaining time a’!
of him in the 1926 show room and garden.

EPTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Photograph by Mattie Edwards Hewitt

HOME OF COLONEL FRANKLIN D’OLIER AT WYNNEWOOD, PA.

Native stone in dwelling and path makes of this Pennsylvania house
and garden a pleasing unit. Phlox and Lilies, with dwarf Alpines
between the stones, furnish abundant bloom at this time of year

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Where a kitchen must have its coal range in winter the
question of a cool kitchen in the summer is answered
by this range for use with either wood, gas or coal

Ae i eos aor ala ae New Servants
in the Kitchen

Photographs by courtesy of Walker © Pratt Co., Edison Electric Ap-
pliance Co., The Swartzbaugh Mfg. Co., Manning, Bowman Co.

The modern waffle iron makes four waffles at a
time done on both sides without smoke or odor

Toast need not be touched by

hand when made on this toaster

that has a rack for keeping it
hot when browned

Working on the plan of a thermos bottle this conven-
ient electric fireless cooker, will be found invaluable

whole meal for a small
family can easily be
prepared at the table

op Soe cleat e With a grill like this a en

Clean, sanitary, efficient and cool is
this electric range that bakes and
broils, roasts and stews at slight cost

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AMONG OUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS

Readers’ Open Column for Exchange of Comment and Experience

Gladiolus that Prove Hardy

O THE EDITORS:

In view of the discussion stirred up
about hardy Gladiolus last winter, it may be
of interest to record my experience this season.
Eight sorts were planted in an exposed bed,
open to the north and west, and were pro-
tected by a light mulch, such as I have been
advising. Of these, Gladiolus atroviolaceus,
a bell-shaped little purple sort, has blossomed
and faded; G. tristis is in bloom; G. byzan-
tinus and G. segetum showing color. G.
communis and G. Colvillei both wintered
in fine shape, but have not yet (June
27th) shown flower buds. The bed in which
these are growing and were wintered was
frozen solid the first of April, when I re-
moved the mulch. The only serious casual-
ties are two of the G. tristis, which started
growth under the mulch in early winter, and
were frosted back. These survived, but have
made a poor growth and failed to bloom.
The more exposed ones, which did not sprout
until April, are blooming nicely —ForMAN T.
McLean, Kingston, R. I.

Snail Shells as Delphinium Food

1B THE Epitors:

For some time the Garden Neighbors
have been laying stress in their letters on a
lime soil as an essential for growing fine
Delphiniums. Last year I suddenly awoke
to the reason for my comparative failure to
produce large, open florets on strong spikes;
the bed where my score or so of plants were
growing was in the first place poorly drained
and, secondly, completely devoid of lime.
The obvious remedy was to raise the bed by
considerable filling-in and to add a quantity
of lime to the soil. And herein lies my dis-
covery, a way of doing both in one operation.
For the filling-in | used several basketfuls of
marl, a substance composed largely of car-
bonate of lime, to be found on many lake
shores in this vicinity. It is apparently pro-
duced by the moldering away of myriads of
tiny snail shells, and I hope that it is in the
cause of “Better Delphiniums’”’ that they have
unwittingly abandoned their spiraled houses
year in and year out.

The plants that received this treatment
show a decided improvement this year in size
of the spikes, which are about to open (June)
and in freedom from blight; but of course
some of this improvement is merely a matter
of natural growth, and the result so far can-

not be regarded as a perfectly conclusive
proof of the potency of marl for Delphin-
iums. However, I intend to repeat the
method, and | suggest that those Neighbors
whose beaches are unsuited for bathing be-
cause of the marl, recoup their loss by using
it as a dressing for their Delphiniums. That
it has fertilizing value of some sort is un-
doubted, as a Mr. Schumacher of Ann Arbor
raises Dahlias, Hibiscus, and other flowers
to extraordinary size on a strip of lake shore
the soil of which is a mixture of marl and rich
muck from continued rotting of marsh hay.—
RoGerR Pack, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Wanted—Good Pruning Shears

O THE EpIToRs:

Recently | lost a pair of pre-war pruning
shears—an imported pair, light, strong, of
excellent material, and which did not tire one
nor interfere with rapid work. To replace
them is an exceedingly hard task apparently.
Several hardware stores in various Eastern
cities have been visited, also seed houses. So
far only American-made pruning shears have
been found. None of them anywhere ap-
proach that pre-war imported pair. Of
course, it is exceedingly unpatriotic to criticise
home-made products and I was severely cri-
ticised by a southern New England seedsman
for saying the American-made pruning shears
leave much to be desired. If the desinger
of the American-made article had to work
with them all day, and, as some of us have to
do, day after day, at certain seasons of the
year, they would be extremely exasperated
with their own products. They contain
poor material, the catch which closes them
has poor springs, or is a clumsy device. When
really good material and workmanship are
found the shears are either so small as to be
easily carried in the vest pocket, or are en-
tirely too heavy.

For some time I thought maybe | was too
particular, but recently one of the very large
nurserymen asked pointblank where he could
get some good pruning shears. “Well,” |
said, “the only good pair of pruning shears |
know is a pair of Henkle shears | had for years
and lost. Looks as if | would have to import
another pair.” “That’s the trouble,” he
said, “I cannot find a decent pair of shears
that a man can work with all day without
importing them,” and started off enumerating
all the troubles already described. I shall
visit every seed house I can, looking for a
real pair of shears. In the meantime let us

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hope that some American manufacturer will
turn out real pruning shears for the man who
has to use them all day. The only way we
can get them is to make a kick.—P. T.
BARNES, Philadelphia, Pa.

The Trailing Harebell Again

dre THE EpitTors:

Let me add my testimony to the pool
of experiences with Campanula isophylla. |
bought my plant from John Lewis Childs in
1914, and grew it as a house plant until nothing
remained but a few stubby shoots. I then
planted it in the open ground on the east side
of the house and thought that would be the
last of it. We had a severe winter, very little
snow and very dry ground. In the spring |
was surprised to find, when digging the ground,
dozens of healthy shoots coming up. The
plant grew and bloomed, and was a mass of
waxy white star-shaped flowers.

I started a number of cuttings and gave
them to a local florist who used them in porch
boxes. Since then he has always had them
in stock.

I have heard that there is a blue variety
but have never seen it. Carl Purdy of Ukiah,
California, has it listed. It would be a very
fine plant’ for rock gardens as it stands heat
and drought.—Cuar_Les C. RuHoap, Greeley,
Colorado

[Campanula isophylla is normally blue; the
white form is a variety of the former.—Ed.]

Success With Kurume Azaleas

iz THE EDITORS:

Two years ago in August | bought a
dozen small plants of Kurume Azaleas in
different colors. As soon as the plants came
I prepared a box four inches deep, filled it
with sand and bedded them in it.

| placed the box in a sunny but sheltered
location and sprayed the plants several times
a week with a brisk shower. They grew well
and soon needed shifting to larger pots. Just
before taking them indoors in early October |
inspected every ball of earth and shifted all
that were root-bound. I used a mixture of
leafmold, some rotted wood from an old
stump, good garden earth, and a little fine cow
manure.

The pots were bedded in sand in a larger
box at a sunny east window, and on November
2nd the first blossom opened on Snow, a clear
pure white. Every plant bloomed and there
were flowers up to the middle of May when

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the plants went out-of-doors again. They
were nearly all repotted before being settled
for the summer and the spraying was contin-
ued as in the previous summer.

Last fall the plants were all in four- or five-
inch pots and in luxuriant foliage when
brought into the house. A considerably
larger box was needed to accommodate them,
but the same arrangement was made as before.
The blossoms began to open again in Novem-
ber and completely covered the plants, form-
ing miniature trees almost hidden by blos-
soms. Christmas Cheer, Salmonea, Snow,
Sweet Lavender, Saimon Beauty, Pink Pearl
and Hinodegiri are the most profuse bloomers.
Coral Bells has smaller flowers and not in
large clusters. Appleblossom was rather a
shy bloomer the first winter, but did better
the second. Sweet Lavender and Snow broke
all records and were still blooming in June.

They need frequent watering and it is most
important that the foliage be kept clean.
Plunging the pots in sand prevents the fine
roots from drying out and the plants have
more vigorous growth and richer foliage under
this treatment. They do not like being
root-bound and do better when sheltered from
the hot afternoon sun in summer.—K. W.
Lawson, Edgewater, N. J.

Gardens Freed from Rule 0’ Thumb

Ape THE EDITORS:
It was with great pleasure that | read
the comment by Agnes Fales Huntingdon
and the letter from M. E. H., Elizabethtown,
N. Y., in the June Garden & Home Builder.
I have often wondered why certain things
were considered so neccessary to a beautiful
and successful garden plan. One of these
things is the almost inevitable axis. It seems
so absurd to put Nature in the straightjacket
of geometry, and | could never quite see
what would be the determining feature.
Most of the small houses of to-day are not
perfectly symmetrical anda far greater per cent.
have only one egress from the house to the
garden and that one is the kitchen door.
That leaves the small garden divided primly
through the center and on this are strung
arches, gates, sun-dials, poois or bird baths.
And that is another point. Why, oh, why,
must we fill our tiny gardens with so many
white wooden things?
Our town fairly bris-
tles with lattices,
arches, etc-—all a
glaring white, on
which it seems to be
impossible to grow
vines of any sort.
And seats! One sees
seats in places one
feels sure no sane per-
son would enjoy sit-
ting. And why should
it be a hard and fast
rule that aseat should
be the goal of every
path. I can imagine
almost any other
place that I’d rather

sit than staring back along the way I came.
I really can’t see why every path must have
some object at the end.

As to calling a garden a “living-room,’’—
this sort of label certainly does sound silly,
though I know that mine is lived in far more
than the house is, in the summer. I really
live when I am there and in the house | merely
do the things that must be done every day so
that we may eat, sleep comfortably, and do
both in a fairly sanitary environment. Every
spare moment, and many stolen ones are
spent living in the garden, digging, watering,
transplanting or just walking around loving
the things that grow there. I can’t say I get
much out of books in the garden, for there are
so many things to distract one’s attention.
About the time I find my place an oriole
comes to bathe or a catbird begins to sing or
a posy nods at me and the book is forgotten.

I am glad, too, that someone else likes mille
fleurs also, for sometimes I feel a bit piggish
that I should have so many kinds of flowers
growing in my tiny garden. But try as |
may, I can’t resist their appeal. Every year
I add a few new faces and somehow | can’t

give up the old ones that I love. They stay
and the new ones find a place too.
That brings me to the letter. I, too, love

the old forms best, though of course there are
a few exceptions to the rule. I can’t see any
beauty in Delphinium whose single flowers
are the size of a cup or Petunias ruffled
fantastically, or Peony-flowered Dahlias. In
fact | don’t want any flower to be bred to look
like another, the exception being Dahlia-
flowered Zinnias and the reason being that
Zinnias are easier to grow in my garden than
Dahlias! I am not old enough at gardening
to know many of the older forms, but I do
prefer the ones not bred all out of shape and
to sizes quite monstrous.—DoroTHy DOANE
Haynes, Winfield, Kansas.

Clove Pinks—Crépe Myrtle

O. THE EDITORS:

I wonder if Mrs. R. M. Davidson, Boise,
Idaho (page 368, January, 1926), has ever
had the double, pink, hardy Clove Pink? I
think it by far the most beautiful of all
Pinks and I have never had the calyx split.
A neighbor of mine tells me of a pink and

-more Belle Rose.—Mnrs.

SEPTEMBER, 1926

white variegated dcuble. Who has tried out
this one?

Will some Garden Neighbor tell in the Open:
Column what to do to Crépe-myrtle growing
in a tub to induce it to bloom? The one I have
is three years old and a fine shrub. | winter
it in a light cellar—OLiveE M. Goens, Bur-

dett, N. Y.

—The Crépe-Myrtle must have its wood
thoroughly ripened in the summer sun. Your
location is doubtless too far north for the
plant to flower.—Eb.

Old-Fashioned Roses and Sweet-Peas

‘|e THE EDITORS:

In the June number of your magazine
M. E. H. of New York asks for information
about certain old-fashioned Roses and other
flowers. The Climbing Rose Baltimore Belle,
also the Roses Bon Silene, Cornelia Cook, and
Safrano may be obtained from the Dingee and
Conard Co. of West Grove, Pa. It is rather
late for Sweet-peas but the grandiflora variety
may be found in the catalogue of the Lou S.
Darling Seed Co., Petoskey, Mich. Thee
are no separate colors offered, only the mix-
ture.—M. Woop, Loganville, Wis.

Te THE EDITORS:

In answer to the question of M. E. H.
about Sweet-pea seed, let me state that you
can buy the old-fashioned kind froin the
Henry Field Seed Co., Shenandoah, lowa.
From the same source you can buy the Balti-
ZENNIE LOWDEN,
Chattanooga, Tenn.

Success in Landscaping

"lig THE EDITORS:

It might interest you to know that in
reading a copy of. your magazine about four
years ago I was so impressed with the beauti-
ful illustrations and excellent text that it oc-
curred to me | also might do a little landscape
work. Handicapped by my complete lack of
knowledge of flowers and other things which
go to make up a garden, I| found it difficult tc
make a beginning. I had a keen desire tc
work out my own garden problems and it
has taken quite some time to produce any:
thing in the way of worth while results
I have grown a fey
things taken from thi
grounds of my olc«
northern New Yorl
home and raised :
fine lot of mountair
trout in my lily anc
fish pond, fed by
natural spring—quiti
a rare thing in thi
part of Ohio, by th
way. -

The accompanyin;
picture is of m
sunken garden—fron
a cow pasture to :
garden in four years
—C. W. THOMAS
Findlay, Ohio.

Mrs. C. W. Thomas, the maker and owner of this garden at Findlay, Ohio, writes that it
was literally a transformation “‘from cow pasture to garden in four years’’ (see letter at right)

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Prize Contests and Announcements

The Latest Plan Improvement

ZR HE June award goes to Miss Estelle
L. Wellwood for the suggestion
which seems the most essential and
the most practical, selected from
nearly half a hundred entries from
nearly half the states in the Union ranging
from Massachusetts south to Texas and out to
the Pacific Coast—another straw which indi-
cates that the zest
for home building
blows pretty much
all over these
United States.
The winning sug-
gestion follows:

First Floor

ae THE plan of
Mrs. Albert F.
M. Chandler’s
house, appearing
on page 354 of the
June issue of GAR-
DEN & HOME
BuILDER, there are
several convenient

alterations that
could be made
with little diffi-
culty.

On the first
floor, if the closet
under the stairs
were made smaller
and the door laid
at a different an-

gle, an entrance foom orkifchen

_-CloseFunder

Entrance from dining room info
hall undesirable to enter
dininoroom throwgh living

would be gained from the dining room to the
hall, saving the inconvenience of having to
pass through either kitchen or living room in
order to reach the dining room.

On the second floor the changes I would sug-
gest are somewhat more elaborate, but I do
believe they would improve the arrangement.
A second bathroom seems to me essential in a

THE ORIGINAL PLAN

——

Livin:

house of this type—a house which is willing
to devote space to two staircases. This bath-
room could be inserted next to the one already
existing, thus making plumbing arrangements
as simple as possible. This would demand a
change of the entrance into bedroom No. 3,
but with little trouble a door could be cut
through at the back of the room as indicated.
As this would open into the closet of
bedroom No. 2, a new entrance to
bedroom No. 2 must be made and the
closet built in on the other side of the
room. This would reduce the size of
bedroom No. 2 slightly but this would
not be objectionable since the other two
bedrooms are very large. French doors
cut from bedrooms No. 1 and No. 2
leading to the upper porch would

bring more air in-

SUGGESTED CHANGES

f Second Floor /
Sfairs /

209 Bath’

JEntrance

Liloser

us

7

to the rooms and
would permit the
use of the porch
for sleeping pur-
poses. A_ closet
could be added in
the space beside
the entrance door
of bedroom No. 1
as the one closet
allowed to that
room is rather
small.
ReTeLete’ Ly
WELLWOOD,
New York City,
NEY

Cre nch Door
_ Slee ping Porch

eae
French Door

$100 in Prizes for Garden Photographs

ao prizes of $50 each are offered to
Garden Clubs for the most attractive
and interesting photograph (or photographs)
of a garden made this year. Contest closes
October ist, 1926, by which date all photo-
graphs with explanatory details showing how
the garden was made must reach the Editors.

ee offer of $100 as a prize for a little
human interest story of an adventure in
going back to the land has, we are gratified to
state, brought out a number of really interest-

| BEGINNING last January and having run
to a successful finish with the August
issue, this monthly offer of $25 for ‘‘a simple,
practical improvement on any plan of either
garden or house, or both, appearing in each
number” brought conclusive evidence of the
widespread interest in plans, particularly
those of the house. The reasons for this pre-
ponderance of interest are fairly obvious: (1)

(Entries close October 1st)

A club may submit one or more photographs
of any garden in its district. The photo-
graphs must be suitable for reproduction and
should have about a thousand words of ex-
planation as to how the garden was worked,
what it accomplished, and some account of the
most interesting features. We reserve the

Awards Still to Be Made

Dividends in Contentment

(Contest closed August 1st)

ing accounts of experience. Entries closed on
August first, and the duty of adjudication is
begun. The winner will be announced in the
first issue possible after this, but as our office

Two More Plan Improvements

(Contest closed August 1st)

The fact that garden design has not yet fully
come into its own in this country. People
in general recognize the necessity for well-
planned houses but are only just commencing
to realize that plan in the garden is quite as
essential for final beauty and fitness. (2) The
fact that gardens are such extraordinarily
personal expressions, such sensitive and fluctu-
ating things, dependent upon so many factors

53

privilige of purchasing at regular rates any
material submitted. Unsuccessful entries will
be returned only when requested and stamps
are enclosed for postage. Address: Photo
Contest, % The Editors, GARDEN & Home
BuILDER, Doubleday Page & Co., Garden
Citys Nee Ys

schedule is about three months ahead of the
appearance of the issue it must be October or
November before the award can be announced
on this page.

beyond the wish of their creator and often-
times outside his control—sunshine and temp-
est, heat and cold—all of which make it diffi-
cult, much more difficult than with houses,
to arrive at any sort of widely applicable plan.

The award for July will appear in October
and will be followed in November by the
announcement of the prize-winner for August
with which the contest closes.

D. SHERMAN.

Tee VEN though some of the societies
} coéperating in the work of the
National Garden Association may
weave have their activities localized in
great measure, they are still of great
interest nationally as showing the way to
developing and carrying on similar work in
other communities. One such organization
is The School Nature League of New York
City. The program carried on each year by
this society could be emulated in other cities
and the support given this League by civic-
minded folk and members of garden clubs in
and around this congested locality should be
given in even greater measure in other com-
munities where the opportunities for gather-
ing nature material are greater.

Organized in 1917 in one school, the work
of this League has grown until there are now
27 nature rooms in the various schools
throughout the city. Broad in the extreme
is the aim of the League: ‘A nature room in
every school,’ and based on the sincere con-
viction that it is the right of every child to
know a little something about nature.

That first nature room opened nine years
ago 1s a typical one. It is indeed unlike most
class rooms, since there are no desks and the
blackboards seem to be made as a background
for vines, snake skins, etc. The tables in this
best of class rooms hold displays that change
from month to month as the young natural-
ists bring in treasures they have found or that
have been contributed. Such a room to any
city neighborhood is better than a museum:
it is the neighborhood’s own treasure-chest.
In this and those other nature rooms there are
regular lessons given on seeds and fruits,
common evergreens, on grasses and sedges
and shrubs, these lessons being supplemented
by good charts and the many collections of
wild things. Who can estimate what this
glimpse of a bigger, sweeter, broader life can
mean to the city child, born and brought up in
a city canyon, his only playground cement
streets!

Material is always needed for this work;
there is never enough. Right here is where
each garden club can help so materially,
and each individual will find it an easy matter
to aid such work. Books and magazines are
needed; charts, aquariums, jars or tanks, sea-
shore sand, rich garden soil, shallow pans or
trays for displaying mosses, animal cages,
oilcloth or burlap for covering walls and tables,
small, neat boxes for holding specimens, small
cans, twigs, flowers, seeds, nuts, cocoons,

The National Garden Association

Formed to promote the annual observance of National Garden Week

LEONARD BARRON, F.R.H.S., President

Honorary Vice-Presidents: J. Horace McFarianp, Mrs. Francis Kinc, Mrs. RusseLt Tyson, Mrs.
Tuomas G. WInTER, Mrs. SAMUEL SLOAN, Mr. FREDERICK Newso_p, Mr. RosBert PyLe, Mrs. JOHN

Coéperating Societies: Socl\ETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HorTICULTURISTS; NATIONAL
PLANT, FLOWER AND Fruit GUILD; AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY; AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY; ONTARIO HortTI-
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN ForesTRY ASSOCIATION; WoOMEN’s NATIONAL FARM AND GARDEN
ASSOCIATION; WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION SoclETY; NATIONAL HorTICULTURAL SOCIETY; THE AGASSIZ
ASSOCIATION; THE SCHOOL NATURE LEAGUE; SOCIETY OF LITTLE GARDENS.

moths, mosses, etc. are just a few of the
many, many articles such a room can use.

This work of supplying material should not
be spasmodic, and the surest way of preventing
this is to have a garden club or an individual
or group of people “adopt” some nature room
in a certain school and see to it that this room
is abundantly supplied with the many natural
wild things that are of such interest to the
eager minds of children. The League will
send to all interested in this a list of sugges-
tions for collecting material, this list arranged
month by month. The suggestions for
September are: common wild and garden
flowers, grains, grasses and sedges, Thistle,
Clematis, Bittersweet, Cat-tails, Milkweed
pods, Sumac, acorns, nuts, autumn leaves,
caterpillars with the plant or branch on which
they have been feeding, grasshoppers, locusts,
crickets, katydids. Not only will the League
send these lists but also specially prepared
boxes for packing the material in.

In addition to the 27 nature rooms which
the League has started, there are also 19
clubs which meet after school for study and
walks and talks. Nor is this the only use
made of these rooms. They are open after
school hours, and the children from the streets
are free to wander in, to come and go as they
please, learning informally from the teacher or
volunteer worker in charge. In this way a
widespread interest has been aroused.

The work of caring for these rooms and
their precious material has fallen on the
various teachers and an occasional volunteer,
entailing many hours of extra work; but so
great has been the interest aroused among
the children that these hours have been gladly
given. As an incentive to do their best in this
work, the League gives a button to the boy
or girl who has shown by means of a test, a
wide-awake knowledge of the objects in his
or her nature room. The League also gives
each year a desirable medal to the boy or girl
who, in the estimation of principal and teach-
ers, has done the best nature study work dur-
ing the year. Twice during each school year, a
whole school district is invited to a flower show
on a large scale held in a public school, a play-
ground or assembly room usually being set
apart for this exhibition that means so much
to these children from all parts of the city.

Out of all this work there has grown some-
thing particularly fine—a nature camp in
Massachusetts, a summer school in honor of
Alice Rich Northrop who started the first
nature room. At this camp in the Berkshire

Hills ‘‘school children who have shown a
genuine liking for nature study may, with ideal
surroundings and under competent leadership,
enlarge their vision of a world but dimly
glimpsed in the nature room.”

Last year at this camp was “Boy’s year”
with about 44 boys ranging in age from 12 to
15 years. The girls have held the camp this
past summer, putting in happy, well-filled
days in nature study, in hikes and sport,
with plenty of time for play.

For further information about this society
that is working so earnestly and so quietly to
help the city’s children to a fuller realization
of what life may be, send inquiries to The
School Nature League, Public School 62,
25 Norfolk St., New York City. Aid this
League or start one in your own community.

@i SPECIAL interest to Southern gar-
deners is a small book issued by the
Garden Club of Jacksonville, Florida. The
booklet is the first of its kind and is an
authentic textbook for the use of all inter-
ested in the gardens of the South, covering
(as its title shows,) ‘Annuals and Perennials
for Florida.” It is in fact a compilation of
interesting material gathered by this far-
visioned organization and covers the very
things that gardeners in the South wish to
know. Such topics as Perennials in Florida,
Flower Seed Planting Guide, Plants for Sun
or Shade, Succession of Bloom, Hardy
Plants, Summer Blossoms, Native Annuals
and Perennials, are among the thirty subjects
considered. In a state with such a range of
climate that in its northern part gardeners
plant Zinnias in the spring and early summer
months, while in the South at Palm Beach
these flowers are planted in the fall and winter,
such a book as this will be found most in-
structive. It is for sale at a very slight cost
and may be obtained from Miss Meigs, 1450
Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida.
Another book that holds much for lovers
of outdoors everywhere is ‘‘Nature’s Pro-
gram, a book that will help each one to en-
joy nature’s year-long program to the utmest,
since it covers the story of flowers and birds.
month by month. There is only a postage
charge of twenty-five cents for this guide.
For full information about it or for free con-
stitution, program and by laws for organizing
a garden club, address
The National Garden Association,
Garden City, Nov
Ellen D. Wangner, Secretary-

Three Travel Stories of ““Tulipland” Showing Canals and Castles, Bulb Fields and Gardens, Windmills and Other Pictur-
esque Features. Films of Special Interest to Gardeners and Available for Clubs or Individual Groups upon Application —

FIFTH ANNUAL NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK, APRIL 17th—24th, 1927

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Gardening for the Beginner

As to Time and Place:

vary and local conditions will have some influence.
level and a normal season is taken as standard. J
miles a day, thus Albany would be about ten days later than New York (which is latitude 42).
The latitude of Philadelphia is a week earlier. Also allow four days for each degree of latitude,
for each five degrees of longitude, and for each four hundred feet of altitude.

through Philadelphia, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Richmond, Indiana; Quincy, III.; Denver, Col.

ZAEXN ALMOST every
Mae town where I have
lived—and I have
been and livedin many

In gardening practice a date can only be approximated as seasons

The Month’s Reminder—September

Generally the latitude of forty degrees at sea given in this department so as to “‘remin

Roughly, the season advances or recedes fifteen

immediate question.

Latitude 4o passes 1 é
advice by mail.

Who Writes This: The advice and instruction in this department are the gleanings of many
years’ experience in practical gardening matters by competent amateurs and others who have
“been through the mill.” The contributions are made from various sections of the country: for
example, Mr. Jesse A. Currey contributes from Oregon; Mr. Theiss from Pennsylvania; Mr. Henry
Gibson from Pennsylvania (formerly from New York); Mr. Sherman Duffy from Illinois; Mr. P.
T. Barnes, out of a world-traveled experience; Mr. A. Kruhm, from an extensive Eastern acquain-
tance: Miss Ethel Hutson from the far South; Mrs. E. Urquhart from California and, in addition,
occasional notes from elsewhere and by the editorial staff and associated contributors of experience.

How to Use This Guide: Suggestions as to the most important things of the month are
1 ind” the gardener of the current duties.
tails of such things reference should be made to standard handbooks and guides. _
to make a complete manual of practice in each number of a periodical magazine.

For routine de-
It is impossible
Yet timely

articles will be found elsewhere in each issue, and references to back numbers will often solve the
i Moreover, the editorial staff stands ready to help any reader with personal
A self-addressed stamped envelope should be enclosed with the question.

Even the bog Lily bulbs must
not be set in wet places, but
close enough to the water so
the roots can get down into the

places—I have found
one or more window gardens
worth going a considerable distance to see, not just once but at fre-
quent intervals during the winter. A winter window garden is a great
pleasure to the grower—there is the fun of growing it, the pride: of
achievement, and the great delight it gives others. ~

A winter window garden need not be an expensive affair: Geraniums,
Heliotrope, Coleus, and such common plants well give a riot of color.

Start that winter window garden now, or at least make plans for it.
From the greenhouse get Geraniums, Heliotrope and Lemon Verbena.
This last for its lemon scented foliage. Abutilon (Flowering Maple)
is prized because of its attractive bell-shaped flowers. For vines to
train up along the window on strings sow seeds of the Cypress-vine
and Mina lobata; you can purchase from the florist, or beg from a friend,
a slip of the English Ivy; Hoya carnosa, is a thick leathery-leaved vine
with a large pink cluster of flowers from which nectar appears to be
dripping. Then there are the foliage plants—the Kentia palms, Boston
and similar Ferns, also the Maiden-hair ferns; the Rubber plants, either
the most common one, or the lesser seen ones like Ficus pandurata,
with its fiddle-shaped leaves. The old stand-by, the Norfolk Island
Pine is not so common these days, but some growers are now growing a
Japanese tree, Cryptomeria japonica, which takes its place very well
indeed.

Cinerarias, and the various Primroses, are usually started earlier
than this, but it is not too late to start now. They are very welcome
plants because of their bright colors and the great length of time which
they remain in bloom. If you do not want to raise them from seed,
no doubt small plants can be purchased from the florists.

If Tulips, Hyacinths, Narcissus, Crocus, etc., have not been ordered,
do so at once. They certainly are a great addition to the window
garden. Buy a good selection, and by timing the bringing them
into heat their blooms may be enjoyed from Christmas to the blooming
of the bulbs outdoors.

The number of flowers each bulb will produce is determined by
the care with which they were grown. The buyer has no control over
that, but the size of the blooms will depend upon the richness of the soil.
Provide good soil by mixing together some good garden loam, well-
decayed stable manure and sand. Vary the quantities of each depend-
ing upon the character of the loam. More sand if it is clayey. If
available, some good woods earth or leaf mold improves the soil wonder-
fully. Get this ready now, or buy it from a greenhouse man so that it
will be available when the bulbs arrive.

“THE LIGHTS OF SPRING’

AP at is the heading of the chapter on small bulbs—Chionodoxa,
Early Crocus, Eranthis, Galanthus, Scilla—in Scheepers’ Cata-
logue. If our gardens are to be lighted next spring with the beautiful
blooms of bulbs we must get busy right now, order our bulbs immedi-
ately, and get them in the ground as soon as possible. Crocuses and
Daffodils can be planted in the lawn. The smaller bulbs referred to
above may be put along the foundations of the house. Here they get
the warmth of the building which brings them into bloom considerably
earlier. There should be beds of both early and late Tulips; some
Hyacinths, too—and although prices are higher—do not forget the
Narcissus.

JUNE TO AUGUST LILIES

ILIES!—Ah, when you succeed with them, then like Little Jack
Horner you can truly say ““What a great man am |!” for the
average grower of Lilies meets with an abundance of disappointment.
On general principles, provide a deep, moist, cool but well drained soil.

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moisture. Most Lilies’ delight
is some shade, like open wood-
lands. Many, like browni, tenuifolium, henryi, auratum, speciosum,
will do well in a border where the stems are shaded with the tops and
flowers exposed to the sun. A planting of Rhododendrons when the
plants are not too high, offers suitable environment. A selection of
species brings a three-months’ display of bloom—June to August.

For the window garden start bulbs of Freesia and Oxalis and
from California it may be possible to get Anemone and Ranunculus
bulbs.

KEEP THE BORDER TIDY

ie THE tops of the plants in the herbaceous border die, gather
them up and either destroy them or put them in the compost pile.
It is a pity to waste any of this material, but Peony and Hollyhock tops
should be burned. As most of the other plants do not carry over disease
they may be composted. The hollyhock rust persists over winter on the
leaves so every vestige of old foliage must be picked up and burned or
buried deep. Fork the earth so as to turn under any bits of leaves
which were not picked up.

August and early September is the very best time in the year to move

or divide Peony roots. Big old plants that have not been blooming
well will be benefited by digging up and dividing the roots into pieces
having five or six eyes. Some growers seem to think they get
better results with their Peony roots if they are surrounded with
sand.

Early September is also a good time to divide the Iris, for they will
not give the best results when too crowded. Any other perennials
which are not just where they thrive or show to the best advantage can
be-moved now; it is a good time.

If the Catalpa leaves had many dark spots on them, gather the
leaves and burnthem. These spots are caused either by a small insect
or a disease. The same treatment reduces the trouble in either case.

PLANTING FOR FRUIT

ATE in the month, or as soon as the foliage has dropped, is a fine
time to make new plantings of Currants, Gooseberries, and the
brambles—Raspberries, Blackberries, and Dewberries. These plants
begin to get contact with the earth before winter sets in and so
are in position to start growth immediately with the advent of
spring.

If the brambles were not pruned as soon as the crop was harvested
do it now, for all the old bearing canes must be removed. They will
not bear anything next spring. The new wood, this year’s growth,
does that.

Every person with a tree or two of Peach, Plum, or Apricot, sooner
or later finds the fruits rotting just before they ripen. This is caused
by brown rot. If every rotten fruit and all the seeds are picked up and
burned or buried six inches deep there will be less trouble from this
disease. We know an owner of a ten-acre Peach orchard who did this
and he found it was an excellent preventative. His trees had less

disease with practically no spraying than his neighbors’ trees which

were well sprayed.

Now 1s the time to kill the peach borer, and it is easy, too. Examine
the trees, locating the highest hole from which gum is exuding. This
will probably not be more than six or eight inches above the ground.
Bank earth about the trunk to an inch above the top hole, use an abun-
dance of earth and pack it down solid with the back of the shovel.
This mound should extend out six or eight inches from the trunk. Then
around the trunk of the tree put about three-fourths of an ounce of

PDB (paradichlorobenzine). Get this at the seed store. It costs 40
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cents a pound. (Put that not used in a Mason jar with a rubber
band to seal it tight). The PDB must not touch the tree nor must
it be more than four inches from the tree; put it in a narrow band
about an inch wide and about one inch from the tree’s bark. Cover
with twelve or fifteen shovels of earth packed down. Leave it for
two weeks unless there is cold rainy weather. This must be done
early in September, just as soon as the Elberta Peaches are picked,
for it requires a soil temperature of about 65 degrees to volatilize the
crystals. At this temperature the crystals will have turned to gas in
the fourteen days and the gas which is heavier than air, will have sunk,
entering the peach borer runs, killing the borers. Well done, you can
count on a 95 per cent. kill. Trees under three years of age should
not have more than one half ounce dose of PDB; very old trees, eight
to ten or more years, may need an ounce.

VEGETABLES FOR HARVEST AND STORAGE

ess up the vegetable garden, burning all cabbage, cauliflower
and similar stumps and rubbish, also the vines of Cucurbits, for
they harbor insects which will attack next year’s crops. Just as soon
as the ground is cleared sow Rye to turn under next spring.

Upon the approach of freezing weather harvest Beets, Carrots,
Turnips and other root crops. Better results will be had if the root
crops are stored in damp sand; they are not so likely to shrivel. Par-
snips may be left in the ground and covered with litter to keep the
ground from freezing.

Unless one has a specially constructed place for Celery it will keep
better outdoors in a trench. Dig the trench as deep as the Celery is
tall. Dig the Celery with roots, pack it in close then put an inverted V-
shaped trough made from twelve inch boards over it to shed moisture,
and cover with litter. As the cold increases put on more litter.

California Garden Calendar

WEET-PEAS may be shown now for early spring blooming. The
early spring varieties are best adapted to the interior sections
where the summers are warm, as Sweet-peas do not like too much heat.
Along the coast region, where cool summer fogs abound, the summer
flowering varieties are most successful and these may be sown from
December to March. Sow the seeds in the open ground in a sunny
location in a trench, dug at least one foot deep and well fertilized with
old manure or bonemeal, as Sweet-peas take much food from the soil.
When. the coatings of the seeds are hard, soften by soaking or file on
the side opposite the eye, to break the skin; protect from birds with
netting or wire.

In Southern California Petunias may be sown in this month for
winter blooming, as well as Lobelia, Nemesia, and Linaria (Toadflax).
All seedlings sown last month, if sufficiently advanced, should be trans-
planted into larger boxes, where they will make good root growth, until
time to set them out in the spring. Where Cyclamen grows well out
of doors, they may be set out now in a shady location.

If Roses have been given a rest, as advised, during July and August
they should now be lightly pruned, the beds well dug and irrigated
to promote autumn blooming. Irrigate and fertilize the Chrysan-
themum beds and keep the plant disbudded.

Most of the spring bulbs may be planted now: Freesias, Snowdrops,
Bride Gladiolus, Watsonias, Callas, and the Narcissus family (Daffo-
dils, Jonquils, and Chinese-lilies). Narcissus polyanthus, if kept watered,
will bloom by Christmas. It may also be grown like the Chinese-
lilies in shallow bowls, half filled with water and small stones. Crocus
bulbs may be planted in beds, or on the lawn and will bloom in Decem-
ber and January: also plant in pots (six in a pot) for winter house
blooming. Plant also the Dutch, English, and Spanish Iris; they are
all related but have different requirements, the English and Dutch
thriving best in a cool, moist location, while the Spanish prefer a dry
sunny situation, resembling their native Cordillera habitat. If
European Iris has not yet been moved or set out, it may be done now.
If too crowded take up, separate, and replant with the rhizomes near
the surface so as to get the full benefit of next summer’s sun. Keep
manure away from the roots.

Cuttings may be made now of Cotoneaster, Barberry, Rhododen-
dron, Myrtle, Daphne, Veronica, Camellia, and Japanese Privet.
The cultivation of the Barberry, if near the wheat region should not
be encouraged, as the common Barberry (not the Japanese) is the host
plant for the spores of the wheat blight, Black Rust, which are some-
times carried by the wind for many miles before alighting on the
wheat where the parasite takes root.

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September in the Far South

EPTEMBER is really the beginning of the garden year in this

section of the country, where the breezes from the Gulf of Mexico
keep the climate warm and moist. It may be quite hot and dry the
early part of the month, but cool days, with possibly a storm, will
follow and certainly high winds will blow down the dying leaves.

“Spray your place twice a year with lime-sulphur, about 20 to 1,
in September, and in March, and you will have very little trouble
with insects,”’ advises a state entomologist.

Thoroughly clean the garden, getting rid of all the dead wood on
vines and shrubs, cut back all the overhanging branches and rake
up all dry leaves so there will be as little foliage to spray as possible.
The leaves should be put in a muck-heap to rot and form leaf-mould
for enriching the beds next spring, but this leaf-mould should be sifted
before using as it may harbor the larve oftcutworms and other injurious
insects.

Plant almost all the annuals and perennials recommended in the
catalogs for April planting elsewhere. Marigolds, Calendula, Stock,
Dianthus (all varieties), Phlox, Larkspurs, Sweet Alyssum, Petunias,
Calliopsis, Candytuft, Poppies, Pansies, Crimson-Flax, Delphiniums,
Zinnias, Lupins, Forget-me-nots, Mignonette, Verbena, Snapdragons,
and many others may be planted from seed now; all but a few of these
will give better results if planted in seed-flats rather than in the open
beds. Pansy seeds, for example, are so fine that they frequently wash
away during a hard rain, or if they have come up, they will be up-rooted
and even after they are beyond this stage they mildew when the season
is very damp. Pansies make a large root system if given plenty of
room and loose earth in a deep seed-flat, and watered lightly each day,
but protected from the driving rains by glass. They transplant easily
when four or five leaves have formed. Lupins, on the other hand, will
not transplant easily, as they have a deep tap root. It is best to plant
Lupins in the same way, but use small pots instead of seed-flats, putting
two or three seeds in each pot, and after they have come up, thin out
until there is only one plant to each pot. When this plant has become
well established it may be removed from the pot by gently tapping on
the side, and planted out without disturbing the root system. Poppies
and Larkspurs should be sown in the open.

Nasturtiums planted in September will be blooming in December
and January, but will probably be killed by cold in February, although
if protected from the cold winds by an angle of the porch or chimney,
they may live through and be beautiful until late in April.

Stocks are greatly admired when in bloom and nothing grows more
easily. Instead of pulling up the old stalks when the blooming season
is over, cut them back and enjoy their loveliness another season. In
fact, Stocks and Snapdragon seem to make larger heads if they live
over the next season.

Oxalis does unusually well here and should be planted more, for
cover-plants under oaks, or for borders or for window-bexes. Besides
the two common pink species, two winter-blooming sorts, Bermuda
Buttercup (a bright lemon-yellow), and Grand Duchess (rose, white
or lavender), should be planted now.

Other roots that can be planted now are the early blooming Hemero-
callis; and the tubers of Iris should be set now or replanted if they have
not been moved for two or three years. Tulips and Hyacinths will
come up too soon if planted early.

Chrysanthemums should have much care now to be in their prime
for All Saints’ Day. Pick off all foliage near the base of the plants,
stake and tie each stem carefully, leaving but one head to each stem,
work and water daily, and if there are any signs of aphis, spray with
soap suds. Toward the end of the month cover the Chrysanthemum
rows with white cheese cloth, if perfect blooms are desired, to keep the
dust and driving rains from spoiling them. If they are just to brighten
the garden, simply tie up in bunches to stakes and keep free of aphis
with soap suds.

There are two varieties of Sweet-peas, the ordinary or late-flowering,
and the early or winter-blooming. To have Sweet-peas for the
Christmas table, plant the winter-blooming now. Dig a trench a
foot or more wide, removing a foot of earth. Then spade up the soil
at the bottom to a depth of another foot, adding some well-rotted
manure, potash or bonemeal, two to three pounds to a twenty-foot row.
Replace the top foot of soil and add one pound of lime, and work this in
thoroughly. Now make a drill about six inches deep and plant the
seeds about one inch apart. Cover not more than one inch deep.
When the plants are eight to ten inches high the rest of the trench
should be filled in. This forces a long root stem and will make the
plants bloom longer and stand more cold. The plants when well
started should be thinned to three or four inches apart.

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ACRES AND ACRES OF BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS

A view of one of the Brand Peony Farms seedling beds. This bed contains

over 17,000 plants—and every one different.

Why Brand’s Peonies

are the World’s Best

RAND’S PEONIES, justly celebrated the whole
i world over, are grown from a long list of prize
Winning plants, the blooms from which have received
many awards.

Most notable is the award of the American Peony
Society, of a silver medal and two gold medals at one
National show—an achievement gained by no other
grower.

Brand’s Peonies captured the three highest
prizes at the greatest National Peony Show ever held,
and with the keenest of competition.

__ Wherever exhibited, Brand Peonies are almost
invariably prize winners. A Brand Peony took the

rands/eontes

first prize at the Northwestern Peony Show, the next
largest to the National Peony Show. The Grand
Sweepstakes prize at the St. Paul Peony Show was
taken by the Phoebe Cary, a Brand Peony. We
could cite many more instances.

With records like these back of the plants, you
surely will want some of this stock. This has been
an exceedingly favorable growing season with us,
and roots will be well matured and full of northern
hardiness. For fall sales we believe we will have
by far the largest stocks of the choicest of the
world’s most beautiful Peonies ever offered the
public.

Some of the Choice Varieties

LeCygne, Solange. Lady Alex. Duff, Tourangelle, Longfellow, Luetta Pfeiffer, President Wilson, Mme. Jules
Dessert, Kelway’s Glorious, Therese, Frances Willard, Martha Bulloch, Jubilee, Judge Berry, Walter
Faxon, Phoebe Cary, Kelway’s Exquisite, Richard Carvel, Mary Brand, Sarah Bernhardt, and many others.

We are also offering this year, for fall 1927 delivery, those new
Brand Peonies: Mrs. A. M. Brand, Mrs. Romaine B. Ware,
Myrtle Gentry, Hansina Brand, Mrs. Frank Beach, Ella Chris-

tianson, Blanche King, Hazel Kinney, Mrs. John M. Kleitsch,
and Victory Chateau Thierry. This is the finest collection of
new seedling Peonies ever sent out at one time by any originator.

WE ISSUE TWO CATALOGS

Our 1926 Peony Price List the finest Price List ever issued on the
Peony and Iris will be mailed free to you for the asking.

Our Peony Manual which we consider the most complete and up-

to-date work ever written on the peony, a 64-page book that tells
all one wants to know of the varieties, the culture, and the history
of the peony, we are mailing free to those of our old customers who
do not have it, and to all new intending purchasers this fall.

THE BRAND PEONY FARMS

Growers of Peonies for nearly 60 Years

Box 23

Faribault, Minn.

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More Heat for Less Money

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be at least twenty-five feet above the level of the grate. Furthermore,
the top of the chimney should be two or three feet higher than any
object within a distance of thirty feet. Otherwise, when the wind
comes from the direction of a near-by tree or roof, the air will be coming
down on to the chimney like a cataract. The low chimney should be
extended.

The chimney must be large enough for the furnace. While it is not
feasible for most of us to rebuild our chimneys, we can at least keep
them clear from obstructions of soot which often accumulate. A good
way to clean a chimney is to wrap several bricks in burlap or in an old
piece of carpet, tie these securely together and lower them down the
chimney with a clothes line or rope. Then disconnect the smoke pipe
from the base of the chimney and shovel out the soot. Even if the
chimney is not swept down, it is always well to clean out the smoke
pipe before the start of each heating season. In replacing it, do not
push it into the flue opening any further than the thickness of the
chimney wall or you will obstruct the draft.

During the heating season, soot may be disintegrated to a certain
extent by a simple method. The fire should be burning brightly with
a good bed of live coals on top. Take about one pound of well-dried
common salt and scatter it over the fire bed. Leave the dampers open
so as to maintain a hot fire and allow the fumes half an hour to do their
work before firing fresh coal. The process may be repeated if deemed
necessary.

Leaks in the chimney are responsible for poor draft and serious
fires. The leaks may be discovered by first starting a smoke fire using
damp paper, straw or tar paper, and then covering the top of the
chimney with a heavy wet cloth or a board. ‘The effective height of a
chimney is not much greater than its lowest leak, so it is important that
the chimney be tight.

No other heater, range, fireplace or ventilating register should open
into the furnace flue. The flue should be tightly closed off about a foot
below the bottom of the smoke pipe opening.

VARIOUS FUELS AND THEIR ADVANTAGES

Anthracite Coal in Large and Medium Sizes. Stove and chestnut size
anthracite are the best grades of coal for heating the home. They
are clean, the fire is easily controlled and the full heat value may be
generally realized. These grades burn with a relatively steady output
of heat and less attention is required than with other solid fuels. The
chief disadvantage is the slow response to change in draft. It is not
surprising that these grades of hard coal have become so popular in the
East that the price has risen to a point where those seeking economy
have turned to other fuels.

Anthracite Coal in Small Sizes. These grades of coal can be satis-
factorily burned if there is sufficient draft and if the furnace is of ample
size for the house. They pack more closely than do the larger sizes and
therefore offer more resistance to the flow of air. It will probably be
necessary to carry a thinner fuel bed. The draft may be increased by
extending the chimney or using a blower. By maintaining two or three

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inches of ash on the grates at all times, coal will be less likely*to fall
into the ash-pit. A screen of quarter-inch mesh, cut to fit the grate
surface, is an effective way of assisting to prevent this loss. If a thin
bed of ash is kept over this screen, it may last a season. If desired,
special grates can usually be bought.

Semi-Bituminous Coal. This is the best “soft coal” substitute for
anthracite. With proper firing and draft regulation, very little smoke
or soot is produced. This grade of coal is generally available in the
Eastern markets. It is higher in heat value and cheaper in price than
anthracite. Because of the higher heat value, if sold at two-thirds the
price of anthracite, the purchaser gets almost twice the heat for his
money. Even with careless handling considerable savings will result.

Medium and High Volatile Bituminous Coals. These are well adapted
for domestic use. In fact, they represent the bulk of the fuel used for
domestic purposes in many of the Western and Southern states.
Bituminous coal demands more attention than anthracite to give an
equal amount of heat. Most satisfactory results will be obtained where
the furnace is rather large for the house so that the fire does not have to
be pushed. Flue passages should be large and easily cleaned and
grates must not have too small openings. To burn high volatile coal
without serious smoking may require changes in equipment.

Coke. This is a clean fuel having a relatively high heating value per
pound. It requires but little draft and responds quickly to changes
of the dampers. It is difficult to ignite and readily goes out if used
alone in banking the fire. Furnaces with deep fire-pots are best
adapted to burn this fuel. It is advisable to maintain a layer of ashes
on the grates to protect them from the intense heat. Coke should be
bought in chestnut size when possible. Good results can be obtained
by using coke together with a small size of anthracite. It is possible, —
but difficult, to burn coke alone.

Wood. \n some places, wood is plentiful and other fuels relatively
expensive. A cord of dry wood is equivalent in heat value to about
three-quarters of a ton of coal. Wood requires very little draft. Diffi-
culty is usually found in sufficiently reducing the air supply to hold the -
fire in check. Ample space for combustion is desirable above the fuel _
bed. The furnace may be better adapted for burning wood by using -
special wood grates. These consist of metal plates containing holes
about two inches in diameter. The plates are readily placed on top
of the regular coal grates.

Fuel Oil. This is becoming more popular because of its advantages
of cleanliness, high heat value, immediate control and small storage
space. In recent years manufacturers have succeeded in producing
reliable apparatus. They have also greatly reduced the fire risk con- |
nected with oil storage. The installation sometimes requires an in-
vestment of about one thousand dollars. With relative prices as they |
are in the neighborhood of New York City, no savings in fuel cost should |
be expected. However, for those who can afford it, a dependable oil
burning installation is a great convenience. It requires very little
attention and eliminates the handling of coal and ashes with their
attendant evils.

The Home Decorator Goes Window Shopping

MBSA N A charming model bedroom recently on display we saw a
y Vy quaint and yet pleasing bedspread made out of yellow and
~Y white checked gingham. It had the usual plain gingham

tinctive the bottom of the flounce had been scalloped and
trimmed with vermilion rick-rack braid. The rest of the room was
gray and yellow with every now and then a touch of the brilliant red
that was very smart.

Any one furnishing a home in the Colonial spirit feels an inconsistency
in using modern lighting fixtures with the lovely old furniture. There
are many reproductions of the old-fashioned wall brackets, but the
mirror sconce is one of the most delightful. This may be found with
round, oval, or star shaped reflectors made up of tiny sections of mirror
fastened together. We can imagine that they served their original
purpose well in reflecting the light from a flickering candle; however,
they are charming behind electric candles also, and fit perfectly into a
purely Colonial setting.

Another charming lamp is the ship floor standard made out of ham-

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mered iron. The standard itself is delicate and graceful of line, but the |
decorative motif—two sailing ships under full canvas—which is set |
between the two candle fixtures, is delightful and very original in this |
day of too many climbing vines and flowers. It is particularly appro-

priate for use in a room where there is one of the popular ship models as |
a mantel decoration.

A novelty especially useful in the summer is a small porch pillow
made out of bright oilcloth. In the center we find a floral design
painted with oil colors, and the edge is bound with a wool braid in a.
contrasting shade. Though small they are really useful for the new oil-
cloth does not crack easily.

There is something particularly fascinating in clear glass. We have
many uses for the lovely colored glass that has become so popular, but |
one of the best is in the modern reproductions of the small Colonial’
lamps. These are only about ten inches high, but their sturdy lines
make them solid and practical. They come in several colors but the
most attractive are the sage green and Colonial red. These make
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The Red Man’s Contribution to
Household Art

(Continued from page 32)

combined their folk-lore and symbolism with the legends and symbolism
of the Spanish Catholic Church. Their paintings resembled genuine
frescoes and were executed with ground vegetal and earth colors,
mixed with water.

Their ancient art of painting has continued unbrokenly to this day,
and the descendants of the earlier artists are now making water-color
paintings on modern paper (using commercial paints), but keeping to
their own range of colors, symbolism, composition, and general tech-
nique. The most successful of these young artists have as a rule had
school training in art. These paintings are usually descriptive of
various Indian ceremonials (see page 33), treated decoratively as to
color and design. They have the same beauty of pattern and defini-
teness of line that one finds in Persian miniatures and Japanese
prints. There is an essence of the character of both animals and
human beings in the paintings which is almost realistic, but along
with this is a rhythmic and decorative sense which no merely realistic
work of art could ever have.

It is astonishing what a wealth of Indian objects one can draw from
and successfully use in furnishing several kinds of American homes,
including paintings to hang on the walls, or to set in panels on them,
First of all the pottery can be used decoratively for pure form and
color, as one might use that of Persia, Spain, or the so-called slip-ware
of our Dutch Colonial forefathers. It combines the same rich earth
colors that we are all familiar with in the early Greek vases, with crisp
touches of black to give definition to the patterns. There is also a
pure, polished black pottery that may often lend a much needed dark
accent in furnishing a room. In addition to its purely decorative value
Indian pottery can be successfully used for flower vases, lamps, and for
garden pots. The large storage jars are best for the latter purpose.

Next to the pottery, Navaho rugs are doubtless most familiar to those
of us who have not made a special study of Indian art, but of recent
years they have been so woefully commercialized that one thinks of
them as garish things in crude reds, hard grays, blacks, and whites,
woven with hard geometric designs and only bearable, if anywhere, in
a rough camp. It is not easy to acquire genuinely antique Indian rugs
that were woven before cheap commercial dyes were available, but this
is no longer necessary, as the finest of the old designs are being repeated
by the Indian weavers, in rugs made of the choicest wool and dyed with
the original home-made dyes. There is at least one shop in New York
Where a fine collection of these replicas can be purchased, and by en-
quiring of the right people, they can also be acquired in New Mexico
and Arizona. Many of the colors characteristic of the best of the pot-
tery appear in these rugs, and I have seen a few rare ones that have a
clear Spanish yellow, combined with black and cream, that would hold
their own in a room with fine Spanish furniture and hangings. Nearly
all the rug patterns came from the Navahos, who learned weaving from
captive Pueblo women. The Zufi and the Hopi are now the only
Pueblo rug weavers.

The original Indian use of these rugs was for blankets, and before the
Spanish conquest they were woven of cotton, there being no sheep in
North America till the Spaniards came. In South America a sort of
wool was always used, from the fleece of thellama. In addition to the wool
rugs, there is an interesting plaited mat, made by northern Indians, of
strips of cedar bark. They have the ruddy color of cedar with borders
of darker tones in checked patterns, and sometimes the whole mat is
plaided like a Scotch tartan. They look extremely well in a small camp
or house when one wishes to avoid the care of wool rugs.

Indian baskets can be so closely woven that they will hold water, and
as scrap-baskets they combine lightness and tightness, with more decor-
ative charm than one usually demands of a scrap-basket. Besides
blankets and rugs many Indians have always woven belts and scarfs for
their ceremonial dances and these make interesting bell-pulls, borders
for curtains, valences, and runners for narrow tables. Sometimes these
belts and scarfs were embroidered with porcupine quills, beads, shells.
or feathers. Not only were the simpler forms of weaving and embroid-
ery known and practised before the Spaniards came, but in South
America the Incas wove tapestries that are considered among the fines*
early examples of this art.

There should be a great future for the young Indian artists of New
Mexico and Arizona who are painting pictures inspired by their age-
long traditions. These paintings are worthy of the same use to which
one might put Japanese prints, Persian miniatures, or Chinese paintings.
A series of them on a neutral background might well be set in panels”
around a small or medium-sized room with a moderately low ceiling.

(Continued on page 74)

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SEPTEMBER, 1926

Peonies on Parade

(Continued from page 40)

CLEVELAND and Puiipre Rivoire, the last still in a class by itself
among the reds. A few good blooms of it were shown in other classes,
For some reason Adolphe Rousseau and Mons. Martin Cahuzac
this year came pretty generally little more than singles, and this
was quite apparent in the blooms shown at Fort Wayne.

Winners in the ten variety class were LA TENDRESSE, SARAH
BERNHARDT, CHARLES McKeELtip, REINE HorRTENSE, MODELE DE
PERFECTION, KARL ROSEN®IELD, LA LorrAINE, MopELLA (Betscher’s
fine new light pink variety), SAMoseET, another fine seldom seen Peony,
and CHESTINE Gowpy shown by Good and Welch. Mr. Buechley’s
second was notable, including KELwAy’s GLorious, MARTHA BULLOCK,
PRESIDENT WILSON (now established as a fine variety), LE CyGNe,
KARL ROSENFIELD, SARAH BERNHARDT, TOURANGELLE, SOLANGE
and Rosa BONHEUR.

The class for one hundred varieties provided a real contest, with
seven entries. First went to American Rose & Plant Co. Among the
winning varieties were MARGUERITE GAUDICHAU, bright rose, extra
good; an unusually large and fine BAayADERE; Lemoine’s RACHEL, good,
the first time I ever saw a good bloom of it; MopEsTE GUERIN, old as
the hills, but a beautiful variety; GLorious (Kelway)—not Kelway’s
Glorious—a distinct and fine white to palest flesh, open cupped center,
fragrant; GIGANTEA, large and fragrant; PaAsTEUR; SyLvia (Krelage
1917); PHitippe Rivorre; Mme. pe GALHAU, fine color when good
blooms can be obtained; VENUS; COQUETTE, a 1915 Lemoine introduc-
tion, light clear flesh; and ARMENDINE MEcHIN introduced in 1880, a
brilliant red. Bonnewitz came a close second, including in his display
a perfect SARAH BERNHARDT, very large PHYLLIS KELWAY, THERESE,
Jupce Berry, RICHARD CARVEL, SAMUEL HENSHAW, a good full |
double pink, GRovER CLEVELAND, Mary BRAND, KARL ROSENFIELD,
WALTER Faxon, Lapy Emity, a tall, loose semi-double light pink; |
Mrs. Epw. Harpinc, a magnificent bloom of La Fee, and Epwin C.
SHaw. Wassenburg took third, showing, among others, a fine ViR-
GINIE, an old variety; A. P. SAUNDERS, ELwoop PLEAs and Mary BR
KING. |

The show afforded good opportunity to compare the three yellow
centered varieties PRIMEVERE, LAURA Dessert, and IsoLine. The
first two have green carpels, and are not extra large. Laura Dessert
seems definitely superior in color to the other two, and while Isoline
is a large flower, the yellow is paler, and the carpels are red, which!
leaves it to bring up the rear. I was sorry that there was no bloom of
Gumm’s GoLDEN Dawn shown, and no characteristic one of FANNY
Crossy, these varieties both being worthy of consideration among the.
yellows.

Among newer varieties shown, and which | liked, were Jonn M..
Goop, a large flat virtually white bloom; MABEL L. FRANKLIN, KATHER-
INE HAVEMEYER, Neely’s FLOwERET OF EDEN, MATILDA LEWIS,
Louisa Branb. Mr. Mead displayed a remarkable collection of early,
flowering species and hybrids, and the ‘‘oh, the little dears” overheard)
tells all one could without going into painstaking details.

I take no great pleasure in reporting on the Singles. So many ol
the popular varieties are to my mind spoiled by having red tipped or all
red carpels. Prip—E oF LANGport and Le Jour are two of the mos!
outstanding in this regard. EcGLANntTiNE, pale pink; Lapy GODIVA
white; LA FIANCEE, quite pink in the show, really a fine old white
and La FRAICHEUR I liked. VERA and BLAck Prince are very high clas:
dark reds. MARGuERITE Dessert and Kelway’s WiLp Rose are fol
those who like dotted pinks and do not object to the red on the carpels

The display of Japs was unusually good, and a fancier could deriv
pleasure from practically all those shown. One desiring to limit hi
number could not go wrong on the following: IsAn1 Gipur and Toro
NO-MAKI in the whites; AUREOLIN, INNOCENCE and one of the followin;
three—TomaTBAKo, Tokio, and AMANosopk, in pinks. Of the three
Tomatbako is highest in price, and a well finished bloom, but it has re‘
tips to the carpels, which the others have escaped. I prefer Amanosod
because of better color, but all are very fine. In reds Fuyajo, SOM!
Ganoko, MixKapo and for an oddity, the carmine TorPILLEur. Other
which were good are Karatsu, lighter than Tomatbako; KUKEN
JisH1; ONAHAMA; Lapy RENNy Watson, a cerise; and Kino-Kimo.

New seedlings were shown, several hundred of them, and there wer
some outstanding blooms. For the first time, the seedling committe
is working under a rule to observe a variety for three years before mak
ing an award. This seems rather tough to the patient hybridist, bu
any one with persistence enough to raise Peonies from seed can prot
ably resign himself to the rule with good grace. Mr. A. E. Kunder¢
the Gladiolus hybridist of world-wide fame, has entered the ranks as
raiser of seedling Peonies, and had at least one variety noted for furthe
trial.

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individuality and, most particularly, its
joyous use of glowing, exotic color—
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Woven at Felletin, near Aubusson,
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Yet its lofty mountain peaks, its luxuriant
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A TAPESTRY

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Field-grown ROSES
for Fall Planting

* le man or woman who succeeds best in any undertaking
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Full details in the 1926 edition of “A Little Book About
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Plant Rare New Lilacs

This Fall

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A fine Lilac so grown, and transplanted in the fall, will grow and
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What the Indian Says in Ornament

(Continued from page 33)

painting are derived from birds in some form or another, in man
cases the intention of the artist being evident; but were it not for t
fact that thousands of pottery vessels and fragments afford a great
range of bird forms illustrating every degree of esthetic development
from the obvious to the highly conventionalized, it would be difficult
indeed to determine that the latter are other than mere geometric
patterns.

In instances of the use of these avian forms as decorative motives
feathers are often represented more or less conventionally, heneg
when combined for the pur-
pose of producing a harmon-
ious pattern, their resem-
blance to feathers is remote
indeed. In depicting a bird
with a high degree of conven-
tionalization, it seems as if
the artist sometimes had also
in mind its intimate relation
to the clouds and therefore
merged the two, the result
being a terrace, or stepped
figure, with a mere suggestion
of head, legs, or tail, and often
without appendage, so that
it is only by association of
gradually changing motives

TWO RENDERINGS OF THE GREAT
PLUMED SERPENT

a As represented on an ancient Hopi vessel,
b A modern adaptation on San Ildefonso p ots
tery of this strange creature so important in
Pueblo mythology, suggestive too of the

that the intention of the e
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these people that, whether or not a given village spoke the language
of its neighbor, it tenaciously preserved tribal tradition by ornamenting
its pottery in its own distinctive way. For this reason we often find
on modern ware decorative devices seemingly as old as the hills, de
vices that had real significance once, but which gradually became §
simplified down the centuries that their makers to-day, unless given a
suggestion of the original meanings, will tell you that they apply them
because they have always done so, or else render interpretations from
fancied resemblance to objects well known.
The conventional cloud symbol we have mentioned, with its pendent |
lines indicating falling rain and with darting lightning terminating in |
an arrow-point, is everywhere recognized. Usually colored to represent |
four of the six world-regions whence come the beneficent showers (for
the cardinal directions have their respective color symbols as well as |
their symbolic animals), clouds are depicted on dance tablets, in dry-|
paintings in association with altars made up of symbols of me |
significance, and on medicine and prayer-meal bowls. The step from)
the circular cloud-bank to one outlined with angles to produce a
stepped figure is a short one, yet were it not for the accompanying
lightning shafts this cloud terrace would not be so apparent. We
thus find that the terrace, used so commonly in major decoration, as
well as for filling spaces and for supplying decorative borders with
various modifications and additions,
is not always interpretable as a cloud
or a bird pattern, although the Zufi,
the Hopi, and the Navaho (who prob-
ably derived it from the Pueblos)!
invariably regard it as such. Indeed»
Rokent gare. there is no doubt that, of symbolic
significance when anciently employec|
in pottery decoration, the bird-cloud|
b designs in course of time often wert
used merely as a decorative expedient
until now they are frequently definec
as something far removed from the original conception. For ex
ample, among Rio Grande Tewa potters, who do not always agret)
among themselves, the single terrace is interpreted as a many-storiec
pueblo in profile, or a kiva (ceremonial chamber), while the sam¢
pattern doubled is said to signify a mountain. Again, the rain lines
pendent from the bank of clouds are everywhere recognized as such
but once detached and used separately have become the fringe¢
woolen armlets worn in dances, while a line of feathers used either alone
or as the tail of a bird on ancient ware is now regarded as “distant fall
ing rain” or as “ladder poles,” according to the fancy of the Tew
artists.

a The butterfly
as depicted in
aacient Hopi
decoration and
b as found on
an old Zuni
bowl. c Drag-
on-fly, sym-

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>TEMBER, 1926

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What the Indian Says in Ornament

(Continued from page 68)

It will thus be seen that there is probably no greater pitfall than that
which awaits an attempt to read meanings into Indian symbols unless
their history is known. There are women of various tribes who stil]
produce marvels of handicraft in pottery, basketry, weaving, and quill
and bead embroidery, but owing to the exigencies of shape, the spaces
to be filled, or what not, life forms have been dissected and component
parts employed as independent motives for so long a time that their
original associations have long been forgotten. If this is the case
among such conservative people as the Pueblos, we may well imagine
how much greater has been the drift from distinctively primitive con-
cepts by the artists of those tribes which have been so greatly modified
by civilizing influences.

That each artist gave expression to her individual mood seems eyi-
dent from the fact that although similar motives were used repeatedly,
it may be said that the complete design was never duplicated in all the
hoards of ancient pottery that have been recovered. Certain symbolic
motives were tribal in concept, but individual treatment rendered
them into original designs expressive of the artist’s own ideals and
feelings.

The few patterns here reproduced give only a faint impression of thi
beauty of the vessels from which they are taken, with their infinite
shades of red, yellow, orange, brown, and black, and, in those of thi
periods in which glaze was in vogue, with tones of green. When it i
considered that the designs were always applied freehand with brushe:
consisting of strips of yucca-leaf shredded at one end by chewing, anc
that the only patterns were those pictured in the mind of the artist, oni
wonders at the perfection with which many of the elements of the decor
ation were disposed over curved surfaces.

There are those who have no hesitancy in relating the whole imagin
ary story a Navaho weaver had in mind while fabricating a blanket
but, if the truth were told, most of the hundreds of patterns with whic)
Navaho blankets are beautified are decorative merely, their only inter
pretations being read into them by their weavers in much the manne
of the Tewa women with many of their pottery designs. Now, |
chances that the art of blanket weaving was not original with th
Navaho, but was introduced by Pueblo women captives, from whot
the industry spread throughout the tribe until the pupils excelled the
teachers. Again, Navaho symbols are for the greater part religiou
too sacred indeed for incorporation in such a worldly affair as a blank
or a robe, unless designed for ceremonial use as in the case of the si
called Yébichai blankets whose patterns reproduce various sacr¢
personages and ritualistic objects often seen in the dry-paintings mac
by Navaho shamans in performing ceremonies. The swastika, 1
unknown to ancient American art, to be sure, is now a favorite figu
in the blanketry and silverware of the Navaho; but they were ni
acquainted with it until a few years ago, when it was introduced |
whites as a ‘“‘good-luck symbol” and is therefore as foreign to tn
Navaho art as the atrocious ‘‘choo-choo trains”’ woven into their bla
kets of a couple of decades ago, which for a time threatened to sout
the death-knell of Navaho weaving.

During the last few years some of the Tewa Indians, especially
San Ildefonso, have been encouraged to abandon the cheap and tawd
pottery vessels manufactured to meet the demand of tourists, and
reproduce the ancient forms and decoration. The success of this ¢
periment has been marked indeed, owing in no small measure to t
interest of Mr. Kenneth M. Chapman of the School of American k
search at Santa Fe. The result has been a complete change in t
style of earthenware produced at San Ildefonso; but the change b
greatly enhanced the esthetic quality of the ceramic art of that puet
and has reawakened the pride which their ancestresses must have h
in the product of their skill. The criticism that Indians should
allowed to follow their own tendencies without interference falls fr
the fact that a poverty-stricken people will be bound to meet the,(
mands of trade, whether or no, and of all things trade spells the dee
of primitive art. The change at San Ildefonso has been for the be
since the shapes of the pottery of this renaissance follow those of anci¢
times, while the decoration is far more in accordance with the desig
of old than that of the bizarre and totally un-Indian pieces wh

threatened the ruin of an industry that has mirrored the souls 0
virile people for a thousand years or more. f

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conceived the idea of adapting the decoration on the pottery of |’
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SEPTEMBER, 1926

Inside Information on Outside Paint

(Continued from page 37)

The selection of pigments for an exterior house paint is a matter of
considerable importance. The pigment combination must have good
capacity, chemical stability under atmospheric exposure, and not
exhibit a tendency to react with the oils and thus stimulate oxidation
to the point where the paint film becomes inelastic and cracks under
the influence of the temperature changes of the atmosphere.

White lead (basic lead carbonate) is the base pigment from which
most of the exterior house paints are made. It is a good white, has
good hiding power, absorbs oil well and makes a paint of good work-
ing qualities. White lead when used alone has the tendency to cause
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the paint disappears and the surface becomes powdery. This is due to
the fact that the pigment at the surface is not bound to the film by the
oil. A paint in this condition is not weatherpoof. It collects dirt
readily and deteriorates rapidly until finally the entire paint film is
washed away by rain and wind.

The chalking tendency of white lead is beneficial from the standpoint
of the nature of ultimate destruction it causes in the paint film. It is
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paint film remains. The chalking of white lead promotes this de-
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To increase the life of a lead and oil film, the chalking of the lead must
be counteracted by a hard pigment. Zinc oxide is used for this purpose.
Zinc oxide is extremely white, has good hiding quality, and is an
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bined with a softer pigment such as lead, for when used alone it ac-_
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other and vice versa. A mixture of lead carbonate and zinc oxide is
considered the ideal pigment combination for exterior paints.

Pure lead and zinc paints settle badly when left standing on the
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should not exceed 15 per cent. of the total pigment content in the light
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The pigment content of an exterior paint should consist of basic’.
carbonate of lead and zinc oxide with a small amount of anti-scta
material and the necessary coloring pigments. The percentage of
coloring pigment in the light and medium-colored paints varies from 2.
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Dark Coors |
Bottle green,

Meptum Coors
Light brown,buff,

LicHtT Cotors
Cream, light

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*Total Pigment Content 58-63 58-63 50-60 40-50
*Total Vehicle Content 37-42 37-42 40-50 50-60
Pigment: a!
Basic Lead Carbonate 50-60 50-60 40-50 0-30 |
Zinc Oxide 35-50 35-50 25-35 0-300. |
Coloring Pigments I-5 5-30 30-10 a |
Inert Pigments O-15 O-15 O-15 10-50 — |
Vehicle 5 |

Raw Linseed Oil 80-90 eal
Turpentine and Japan i”
Driers 10-20

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*All figures in above tables are expressed as percentages by weight.

5 These figures appear in the manu-
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EPTEMBER,

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want to feel that if you decide to rent
ot sell, you can get the maximum
price.

Association Tiles,inbathrooms, kitchens
and elsewhere, represent that kind of
envestment. They add from two to three
times their cost to the real estate value
of the house. Homes with Tile in them
are the ones a// homeseekets want.

The original cost of tilework is reason-
able. The dividends returned in lasting
beauty—easy cleaning—freedom from
refinishing troubles and expense—per-
manent service—make Association
Tiles profitable in evety way.

Please write for complimentary copy
of Beautiful Association Tiles booklet.
Address

ASSOCIATED TILE MANUFACTURERS

1087 SEVENTH AVENUE BEAVER Fa tts, Pa.

OLEAN TILE CO., Olean, N. Y.
PERTH AMBOY TILE WORKS, Perth Amboy, N. J.
THE C. PARDEE WORKS, Perth Amboy, N. J.
UNITED STATES ENCAUSTIC TILE WORKS, Indianapolis, lad.
WHEELING TILE CO., Wheeling, W. Va.

ALHAMBRA TILE CO , Newport, Ky. MATAWAN TILE CO., Matawan, N.J.

MOSAIC TILE CO., Zanesville, Ohio
NATIONAL TILE ©O., Anderson, Ind.
OLD BRIDGE E. B. & TILE CO., Old Bridge, N.J.

BEAVER FALLS ART TILE CO., Beaver Falls, Pa.
CAMBRIDGE TILE MFG. CO., Covington, Ky.
GRUEBY FAIENCE & TILE CO., Perch Amboy,N.J

22 ASSOCIATION TILES

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

pee 1D Pl zamps & Ft res

COLONIAL
CHARM

THE Handel reputation for
craftsmanship in lamps and
lighting fixtures of note-
worthy beauty is worthily
maintained by the simple
charm of the newer Handel
Colonial designs.

The restoration of the
old Wayside Inn at Sud-
bury was the inspiration for
the Handel Wayside Inn
Floor Lamp — here illus-
trated. Done in brass with
lines that are purely Colo-
nial, it stands 59 inches
high. The 23-inch oval
parchment shade illustrates,
in imperishable colors, the
Wayside Inn at its best.
The six-light pendant and

side wall brackets pictured
above are also interesting
examples of true Colonial
designs.

The Handel line offers a
pleasing choice of floor
lamps, electroliers, pen-
dants, wall sconces, boudoir
lamps and torcheres, to add
the final touch of artistry to
any interior of Colonial
motif. They, and other
Handel styles and designs,
may be purchased at stores
of the better sort.

If you will send plans of
your home—or rooms—
giving color schemes and
dimensions, the Handel
Service Department will
outline suggestions for
lighting fixtures without
obligating you in any way.
Address

THe. HaAnpEL Company,

MERIDEN,

iE Unmmmmeeenememeememmmeaeae eee

Conn.

PTA

SEPTEMBER, 1926-

Keep Home Fruits Growing

(Continued from page 30)
Winesap, Williams, Wealthy, Winter Banana, Wagener, Yellow Transparent

and Yates; also Crabapples.
Pears. Quality varieties: Bartlett, Fame, Seckel, Worden Seckel, Anjou,

Clapp’s Favorite, Winter Nelis.

CHERRIES. Sweet, sub-acid and sour varieties, the latter more generally
adaptable: Gold, Montmorency, Early Richmond, Dyehouse, Suda, Black
Tartarian, Bing, Lambert, Napoleon, English Morello and Royal Duke.

Peacues. Select for early, midseason and late ripening, for white or yellow
flesh, for clingstone or freestone. Varieties: Mayflower, J. H. Hale, Alton, Red
Bird Cling, White Heath Cling, Captain Ede, Krummell, Slappy, Solway,
Crawford Late, Chair’s Choice, Fox Seedling, Eureka, Champion, Ray, Iron
Mountain. Set Peach in the fall south of Mason and Dixon line; in the North
wait until spring.

Piums. Select for hardiness and bearing in your locality; also flavor and
color. Varieties: Gold, Shiro, Omaha, Tatge, Damson, Bradshaw, Green
Gage, Abundance. ;

Grapes. Select for color, hardiness and bearing. Varieties: Eclipse, Brigh-
ton, Campbell, Diamond, Worden, Lutie, Lucile, Delaware, Green Mountain.

STRAWBERRIES. Select fundamentally for productiveness, vigor and quality
in your soil and locality; also for cross pollination and season of ripening. Set
extra big potted plants in August or September, but ordinarily plant Straw-
berries in the spring, in ground enriched the fall before. Varieties of quality in
many locations (ask the nursery, describing soil conditions). Gibson, Brandy-
wine, Marshall, Aroma, Chesapeake, Lupton, New York, Americus, Jucunda,
Success, Dunlap, Big Joe, Premier, Gandy, William Belt, Mascot.

Various. Gooseberries, Mercereau Blackberries, Red and Black Raspberries
and Van Deman Quinces are advisable in the average garden.

For the more intensive and extensive worker there are novelties of
value to add interest. They require widely varying soil conditions for
success. Such are Loganberries, Dewberries, Apricots, Elderberries,
Blueberries, Cranberries, Mulberries, Juneberries, Goumi, Buffalo-
berries, Hawthorn, Medlar, Paw-paw, Black and English Walnuts,
Butternuts, Pecans and Hazelnuts.

For Florida and the South, well, the sky is the limit! Peaches,
Plums, Grapes, Strawberries, etc., do well. The citrus fruits are
standard, and in addition there are at least two dozen semi-tropical
fruits of delicious flavor that we Northerners never see, and that are
entire successes in home gardens. [A comprehensive article on this
subject appeared in this magazine for November, 1925.—Ed.]

PL? ew

The Red Man’s Contribution to
Our Household Art

(Continued from page 62)
A room treated in this way could be entirely paneled in pine, slightly
stained and oiled, with touches of color on the mouldings which immedi-
ately frame the paintings. In another treatment the paneled walls
could be painted neutrally, with touches of color here and there on the
mouldings to correspond with some parts of the color scheme in the
paintings. A third plan would combine plaster walls and a beamed.
ceiling like the adobe houses in New Mexico—the paintings set into the |
rough plaster and mouldings tacked around to define them. They
could also be framed decoratively in simple bands of color and hung
in groups on the walls. In Schéenbrun Castle, Vienna, there is an
18th Century room in which Persian miniatures are set in paneled walls, |
and, if so, why not Indian miniatures? |
There are two utilitarian ways in which these modern Indian paint |
ings can be used—i. e. for lampshades in the manner of 18th Centu
color prints and mounted on screens as these prints are sometim
mounted. Altogether there is an almost unexplored field of painting
and craftsmanship waiting to be combined with the present vogue for’
Spanish Colonial architecture, or with the early forms of English
Colonial. Indian rugs of the better kinds are generally interchangeable
with hooked rugs and well chosen Indian pottery with Pennsylvania
slip-ware. Replicas of the original Spanish-Colonial-Indian furniture
may well become substitutes for genuine Spanish, or used in combina- |
tion with it. If
To become aware of the everyday possibilities of these Indian crafts —
may be an undiscovered pleasure and it will also help preserve and —
perpetuate a genuine and beautiful art, indigenous to our own soil, |
which otherwise might tend to disappear and finally survive only in
museums. |
l

ALLAS- NOW ADDS BEAUTY TO CONCRETE'S STRENGTH

.URPASSING in scope and freedom
b any other material now in use,
{tlas White Portland Cement trans-
orms concrete into a creative archi-
=ctural medium. Distinguished form,
olor and surface textures can now be
hited at reasonable expense with per-
qanent stability and strength.

‘he ease of handling and moderate
ost of At/as restore the balance between
eauty and economic value. With
qual facility, it shapes rugged masses
t exquisite details. With Atlas White,
efined or radiant color can be achieved,

Le

Tae Great ee J

NitTy COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

oe

and textures can be produced as deli-
cate or bold as any architect’s desire.

Made with Av/as, concrete returns full
value for every dollar spent. The Gothic
beauty of the Great Gate of Trinity
College, Cambridge—built by Tudor
kings —could be reproduced today
with ageless solidity and strength in
concrete made with Ad/as.

An American parallel is supplied by the
cadet barracks at West Point. Atlas Port-
land Cementwasusedto mould cast stone
which satisfied the needs of the archi-
tects as completely as it met the exacting

AND ECONOMY

THE CADET BARRACKS, EAST
WING, WEST POINT MILITARY
ACADEMY. CANOPIES, BAY
AND 103 GROTESQUES OF CAST
STONE MADE WITH ATLAS.
CRAM, GOODHUE & FERGUSON,
ARCHITECTS. C. T. WILLS, CON-
TRACTOR. CAST STONE MADE
7. “BY ECONOMY CONCRETE CO.

demands of the Army’s engineers as
to quality of materials. The properties
for which Atlas Portland Cement was
chosen for use at West Point make it
equally desirable and economical for
all types of concrete construction, and
establish it as “the standard by which
all other makes are measured.”

~ ~~ ~~

Between the Atlas plants and the user there is but
one distributor—the building material dealer—who
brings Atlas to the public cheaper than by any other
method. Any architect, contractor or prospective builder
is invited to write to this Company regarding the pos-
sibilities of concrete made with Atlas Portland Cement.
Address all inquiries to 25 Broadway, New York.

PORTLAND
CEMEN [efit

The standard by which all other makes are measured

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Makes your walls an investment

Styles for every
room in the house

Plain and Pastel Flat Finish

tints that can be hung as they come, or
stenciled, frescoed, or Tiffany blended.

Decorative Flat Finish
conventional and foliage patterns, neu-
tral toned designs of vague formations,
stripes, mottled effects, and reproduc-
tions of tapestry, grass-cloth, leather
and various fabrics.

Brocade and Metallic Finishes

in embossed effects for panel and all-
over wall treatments.

Enamel Finish

plain colors, tile effects and decorative
patterns, for kitchens, bathrooms, etc.

ay for this
trademark on the
back of the goods.

Style illustrated
is reproduction
of No. R4142
Q/5 actual size)

‘

The price you pay, or the time it lasts? |

Hew much you pay to decorate

your walls, or the time or
thought you give the subject, isn’t
half so important as how long it
will be before you have to do it all
over again. The cost of upkeep and
the fuss and muss of redecorating
are well worth thinking about.

But suppose you cover your walls
beautifully now, so that there won’t
be any upkeep or redecorating to
think about for many years, say a
dozen or more? Better, isn’t it?

And that is just what Sanitas
covered walls mean.

Think of applying several coats
of fine, durable oil paint all at once
and having them dry immediately

See the new Sanitas styles at your decorator’s, now.
Write to us for samples and illustrated booklet.

THE STANDARD TEXTILE Propucts Co.
Dept. 30,

320 Broadway,

—no waiting between. That is
what hanging Sanitas really does.

Imagine a wall covering so strong.
in itself that it not only doesnt
crack, tear, peel, or blister, aim
also. keeps the plaster from crack:
ing or small cracks from spreading.
That’s the way the cloth back of
Sanitas does protect the walls and
preserve the wall covering.

Put Sanitas to the severest test.
—try it in the children’s Toame
Dirt and finger marks cannot harm)
it. Can be kept clean and fresh
for years, just by wiping occasion-
ally with a damp cloth.

Sanitas is an investment, not an
expense.

-~New York

When you visit Atlantic City, see our Sanitas Exhibit at 1410 Boardwalk, Central Pier.

PTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

The GC See
Garden

Cleanser—

Besuayet

birch

CSINC

becomes the pride of the
owners and the admiration
of their friends. The use of
Northern birch for interior
trim, veneer paneling,
doors and floors adds to
the worth of your property.
A birch trimmed home is
always in popular favor
and a preferred purchase
with judges of values.

Used liberally in the
garden insures cleaner
plants, better able to re-
sist disease. It insures /
freedom from leaf chew- #4
ing insects—including the
nefarious Rosebug and

Black Aster Beetle.
It kills Aphis and pro-
motes general garden wel-
fare.
At your dealer’s or
direct — instructive leaf-
let mailed free on request.

Which Interests You

GARDEN ©
CHEMICAL = The $1650 Greenhouse
COMPANY Or The $585 Conservatory?

Park Avenue & 146th St.
New York, N. Y.

Happily for you, we have a special circular
on each. Not just the usual kind, showing
a picture or two and considerable talk about
what a wonderful concern the makers are.

No, not that kind, but ones showing several
photos, and a plan, along with full par-
ticulars.

By full, we mean just the facts you want to
know, without bothering towrite any question-
asking letters.

We might say right here, however, that the ee ee ees canal ene

price on each is for the complete materials = ae ree eee eae een Pallenbather,
: é = hicago, Architects.

and the entire equipment. :

Everything so far as possible, is cut and fitted, S birch affords a perfect base

ready for quick, easy erection. for enamels. It takes stains

The frame work on both is iron; the wood uniformly and is beaw

entirely of high grade cypress. tiful when finished natural;

a versatility of treatment
that enables you to have a
different finish for every

They are strictly a Lord & Burnham top SS
notch job from start to finish.

Send for the circulars.

See for youself.

< (se) .
SHED 1810 a = room, all equally attractive.
S WY)

“ALLO ey. gout = The close grain and practi-
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cally mar-proof hardness of

POip ERY | “4 birch make it one of the

é» | most enduring and perma-
alloway Pottery adds cir ord & O, nently beautiful interior
| interest to the gar- finishes—also, furniture.
_ den, sun room and hall.
Th East Fact Western Factory Canadian Factory . ce ;
: ese high fired strong and Pee aor ae a Cleese Write for your copy of Beautiful
urable terra cottas include ; es Birch for Beautiful Woodwork.” It’s
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This is a department for every one who has a house to build or decorate,

a new interior to finish, or an old familiar room to make more attractive.

It is planned for just one purpose: to bring to each home maker all

the aid and advice so freely offered by the men and woman of the business

world to-day. It is a meeting-place where the manufacturers, the decorators, the craftsmen may place their helpful booklets, their free bureaus of service in|
hands of those who value such help. Additional booklets will be listed each month.

This department is for all of our readers. Each Booklet listed may be had upon request.

Order by number only and as many as you wish.

PLEASING, restful
home _ atmosphere
does not depend on
a constant succes-
sion of new furnishings, variety and
Rather does it come from taking

change.
such care of our good chairs and tables, our
silver, rugs, etc., that they develop the subtle
richness and beauty of use and association.
The patina on old wood is lovelier than the
newest polish; the colors of a fine rug but

mellow with age. What, then, must one do
to add years of life to these familiar home
things? Fortunately no great knowledge is
necessary, just a little thought given to the
kindsof wood and finish in the furniture, care
as to cleaning polishes used and frequent clean-
ing of upholstery and hangings. That is all.

There are five most commonly used finishes,
—enamelled, polished, dull-rubbed, lacquered,
and waxed. For each of the first four, only
a good, reliable polish should be used,—one
that will not prove sticky and dust-collecting.
Pure soap and water will often prove to be the
best cleaner of all and by pure soap is meant
one free from strong alkalines and “‘patent”’
cleaning preparations that are mostly grit.

Pure soap and water Is the very bést cleanser
for all enamelled furniture. Most enamel
finishes are covered with a clear varnish or
shellac from which all dirt can easily be re-
moved with a piece of cheese-cloth wrung
out of clean soapy water. The entire surface
should be gone over lightly, then rubbed at
once with a dry piece of cheese-cloth.

Furniture with a highly polished finish
means that it has been heavily varnished.
Such pieces if badly soiled may also be washed
as if enamelled, then dried and polished with
a good furniture polish. Sometimes the
varnish on furniture will become “‘checked”’
and nothing can repair this damage except
refinishing. The best plan therefore is to
prevent this condition by keeping the furni-
ture away from radiators and registers where
the heat will damage their surface. Even
sunlight, where it shines steadily on a polished,
varnished surface will check it so that the
wise homemaker keeps her lovely chairs and
tables away from both heat and sunlight.
The hospitable fireplace has been the cause
of many a marred chair and table.

A dull rubbed finish is easily cared for by
waxing, then polishing to a soft glow or by
dipping a piece of cheesecloth in either crude
oil or paraffin oil, wiping off all the oil possible
with a clean piece of cloth; when dry, polish
with a fresh piece.

A lacquered finish seems as if it would be
too delicate to stand much wear and might
be hard to clean and care for. The contrary
is the case; by dipping a dry piece of cheese-
cloth in paraffin oil and rubbing until clean,

Address: Hearthstone Editor, Garden & Home Builder, Garden City, N. Y.

Care of Our Possessions

then applying a coat of wax which should not
be allowed to dry on but rubbed off at once,
lacquered surfaces will keep their original
beauty for years.

A waxed finish grows more beautiful each
time it is cleaned. All wax should be al-
lowed to dry before polishing for this finish;
it is then ready for polishing with cheesecloth

Home Beautifying Booklets
for the Asking

Ask for booklets by number only

3 THE FLOORS FOR YOUR HOME.
Maple Flooring Mfrs. Asso.
KEEPING OUT DUST AND RAIN,
Chamberlain Metal Weatherstrip Co., Inc.
YOUR HOME AND THE INTERIOR

DECORATOR, F. Schumacher & Co.
46 DECORATOR’S METHODS OF WINDOW
CURTAINING,
uaker Lace Co.
Se re OS WOODWORK &

FURN

The A. S. Boyle Co.
BEAUTIFUL FLOORS & HOW TO CARE
FOR THEM,

Murphy Varnish Co.
PROPER TREATMENT FOR FLOORS,
WOODWORK & FURNITURE,

S. C. Johnson Co.

. 1330 A NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR THE OLD

HOUSE,

Creo-Dipt Co.
. 156 THE PROPER ‘CARE OF RUGS & CAR-
PETS:

Clinton Carpet Co.
a7 HOW TORUSE VALSPAR ENAMELS
Valentine & Co.
. 207 THE CORRECT ‘CARE OF HOME
FURNISHINGS,
Peck & Hills Furniture Co.

which is the material par excellence for clean-
ing or polishing. All furniture should be
cleaned and polished at least twice a month,
while once a week is even better. Fnishes
are put on primarily to preserve and protect
the wood and not only for beauty. If, then,
such finish is kept in good condition by careful
cleaning, the wood underneath will last just
that much longer. If the finish be scratched
and broken through, then the wood itself is in
danger; to save it, the article should be
refinished.

To clean willow or reed furniture, whether
enamelled or stained, a thorough dusting is
usually sufficient plus a little soap and water
on badly soiled enamelled parts. A vacuum
cleaner can be used to remove the dust from
both this furniture and its cushions unless
they be filled with down in which case the
cleaner is apt to draw the down through the
fabric. The enemy of all upholstery as well
as of rugs or carpets, is grit and dust that
gets into and cuts the fibres so that frequent
cleaning is absolutely essential. With a
vacuum cleaner, this is an easy task. Whether

78

this or a hand brush be used
(never use a beater on any
upholstery) all seams, under-
arm and back pieces, crevices,
pockets, etc. should receive especial care as
it is in these dark places that moths find an
abiding place. To eliminate all danger from
these pests in furniture, or to get rid of them
if once they have found a lodging place, use
a good insecticide guaranteed not to harm
upholstery or finish. Any drug store will
have this.

Silt COVERS are very apt to prove
moth-covers as well and once a week
these should be removed and the furniture
examined. Where protective covers have
not been used and the upholstery has become
soiled, the vacuum cleaner should first be
used and then it will be frequently found
that a little soap and water carefully applied
as suds may be all that is necessary to freshen
the fabric. When this is used, another cloth
wrung out of clear water should serve to rinse
out any soap, after which a vacuum cleaner
should again be used to raise the nap and
hasten drying. Where greasy spots still
remain, carbon tetrachloride such as is used

in renovating one’s gowns, may be used. In _

all cleaning, the first step is to have clean
cloths to work with.

To clean a leather chair, couch or fire
screen, a damp cloth and absolutely pure soap
should be used. A fresh damp cloth is then
used for rinsing and the surface polished with
a dry cloth until dry. No greases, polishes
or oils should ever be used on leather.

In cleaning draperies, various fabrics re-
quire different treatment, and the tubfast
materials that come in such variety of color
and quality aid in solving this problem.
After all, there is nothing much more satisfy-

ing than clean soap and water and a room>

with hangings that can be tubbed always
seems to hold a most wholesome air of clean-
liness. Even silk may now be _ washed,
provided it be the rayon silk that is so wear-
able, and sunfast as well as tubfast. Where
velour is used, the safest course is to send this
to a professional cleaner. This is apt to bea
costly operation if the curtains have been
permitted to become badly soiled and here
again
used regularly each week, dirt and dust can
not become embedded in the fabric, neither
can it settle where hands may have left
grease spots. To merely hang curtains on the

line and brush them is not to really clean |

them.
In cleaning rugs or carpets, we repeat the
warning given previously,—“ No rug or carpet

should be swept with a broom, as this pounds ©
the grit into the material and cuts its fibres.

(Continued on page So)

the vacuum cleaner enters in. If.

EPTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

F “|

When you buy drapertes
ask. definitely

fone THEY ORINOKA?”

To suy draperies and hangings for your home without inquir-

ing into their genuine color-fastness is, today, unthrifty buying.

Draperies often contribute more to the appearance of a room

than any other item in your home. The cost of making-up draper-

ies 1s frequently as much as that of the fabric itself. It is

economy, therefore, to be assured that their original love-
~ liness will last.

With Orinoka draperies you have an absolute assurance of
this. They can be depended on for unqualified fadelessness. Not
fast color for a limited-time, but for the life of the fabric.
Orinoka draperies are so carefully dyed in the yarn that sun-
shine or washing cannot in any way change the marvelous
beauty and quality of their colors.

You may buy Orinoka draperies without fear or misgiving.
Your purchase 1s accompanied with a guarantee. But to save you
possible inconvenience it is the earnest ideal of the makers of
Orinoka fabrics to make each yard so color-fast that the guar-
antee need never be used.

Quite naturally, the cost is more, but like anything of supe-
riot worth, the colors of Orinoka have the value of unqualified
permanence. On the plain merit of quality and design, Orinoka
draperies recommend themselves to women who furnish their
homes with an eye to beauty, but beauty based on thrift and
intelligent buying.

On every bolt of Orinoka a tag reads: ‘These goods are guar-
anteed to be absolutely fadeless. If color changes from exposure
to sunlight or from washing, the merchant is hereby authorized
to replace with new goods or to refund the purchase price.”’

Are you interested in ways and means of using color to give charm to your home?
Orinoka has prepared a new booklet, “The Importance of Color in Curtains,”’
which we will send free on receipt of coupon below with name and address.

APC MOMENI E te Ve JOM

()rinoka

COLORS GUARANTEED SUN AND TUBFAST

THE ORINOKA MILLS
215 Fourth Avenue, New York City
Please send me complimentary copy of new Orinoka
booklet, *‘The Importance of Color in Curtains,"* con-
taining interesting suggestions for window and drapery

treatments,

79

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

SEPTEMBER, 1926

Continued trom bape 78) The floors of the house are among its into the wood, while a clean, damp cloth will
Any spot or stain on a rug should be removed choicest features and to keep them in good easily remove any spots from the Surface.
at once, otherwise dust will be sure to settle condition, there is nothing better than wax- Where linoleum is _used, this wax finish is es-
in it. Soap and water will often be the only ing whether the floor be painted or var- pecially pleasing. In fact, waxing is the proper
cleanser needed; if the spot be one made by nished. By doing this once a week for a time, way tocare for linoleum and it is well to remem-
grease, carbon tetrachloride or pure spirits a hard wax-like finish will soon be built up that — ber that linoleum should never be washed with
of turpentine will remove it. will prevent any stain or moisture fromsoaking any strong soap or cleaning powder.

Building Materials Helpful Booklets for the Asking

1. STORY OF AMERICAN Mas a
American Walnut Mfrs. Assn.

2. BEauTIFUL TILES ORDER BY NUMBER ONLY, USING COUPON BELOW
Associated Tile Mfrs.

3. THE FLoors ror Your Home

Maple Flooring Mfrs. Assn. 148. THROUGH THE HomE oF TaPEstTRY BRICK 196. THE INSTALLATION Cost OF PIPE
9. WALLS oF WorTH Fiske & Co., Inc. - The A. M. Byers Co.
U.S. Gypsum Co. 149. THE New VocuE In AWNINGS 209. Firrincs For Your FIREPLACE
14. COLOR IN ASBESTOS SHINGLES Andrew Swantfeldt 3. M. Howes Co. ae
Johns-Manville Inc. 157. THe Home BuiLpEer’s ENCYCLOPEDIA 210. Hor Water Service—Humphrey Co.
15. Distinctive HARDWARE Truscon Steel Co. 211. InvisiBLE RADIATORS
Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co. 159. WuicH HEAT AND Wuy? The Herman Nelson Corp.
16. Brnco oF FLATHEAD, STORY OF PoNDOSA Richardson & Boynton Co. 212. RADIATOR CUPBOARDS
Pine—Western Pine Mfrs. Assn. 160. SHINGLE Starns—Samuel Cabot, Inc. Home Radiator Cabinet Co.
17. Story oF Brick 161. A ReaLt Home 213. RapiaToR Covers
18. A New House For THE OLD Copper & Brass Research Assn. Art Metal Radiator Cover Co.
American Face Brick Assn. 162. HEATING SATISFACTION 214. Purttiye CoMFoRT IN THE HOME ;
20. Copper STEEL RooFiInG TIN The H. B. Smith Co. National Warm Air Heating & Ven-
American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. 164. WALLBOARDS & INSULATION tilating Assn. is
21. PossiBILiTIEs OF CONCRETE The Upson Co. 215. Comrort—Monarch Metal Products Co.
Atlas Portland Cement Co. 165. THE Low Cost of Dicnity & BEAUTY i Pky
25. PORTABLE Pauses snp Ourpeae Furn- 4 Plate Glass Mfrs. of Am. Decoration and Furnishings
ISHINGS—E. F. Hodgson Co. 166. WHEN Waite Is WHITE a
26. RapDIATOR VALVES ROCKING THE Door The New Jersey Zinc Co. 43. eae ie aes Dininc Room
AGAINST THE Heat THIEF 167. KEEPING Out Dust & RAIN Be accte)c d
Hoffman Valve Co. Zi Chamberlain Metal Weatherstrip Co., 44. Your Home Ane ids eu ice DeEcor-
27. SCREENING Your Home 168. Tupor SToNE FLAGGING & Roors ATOR—F. Schumac er é Y 0. se AP
The Higgin Mfg. Co. Rising & Nelson Slate Co. 45. SEL RUNG ase FORTHE nee NG BRID
28. Hetprut Hints on CHoostnc HEATERS 169. Buitp THE CASTLE OF YOUR DREAMS Rogers, Be ONE a8, Ginioe
The Thatcher Co. Lehigh Portland Cement Co. 46. DECORATORS BrODS OF - /INDO
29. THE CoLontaL Book (HARDWARE) 171. Warm Air HEATING CurTAINING—Qua er Lace Co.
Sargent & Co. Kelsey Heating Co. 47. Home Vee Fs
30. BETTER WIRING FOR BETTER LIGHTING 172. A Mopern HousEWARMING Elgin a Imonds wh Sj C
National Metal Molding Co. U. S. Radiator Corp. 48. RESTFUL EPROOT ES e Simmons Co.
31. Makinc Peron riche ATTRACTIVE 173. THE Woop THat Nature ARMED 49. Tee eee
C. F. Church Mfg. Co. AGAINST DECAY : -
32. BATHROOM ARRANGEMENT Red Cedar Lumber Mfrs. Asso. 50. BEAUHEUE! FUpORs. pocorn AND
Crane Co. 174. Home BurL_pinc ey :
84. THE CoNsTRUCTION OF THATCH RooFs g Northwestern Expanded Metal Co, 54. PROPER ae FOR Foors,
Weatherbest Stained Shingle Co. 175. INSULATED Homes WoopWorRK oe URNITURE
102. Woven Woop FENCING Universal Gypsum Co. Se Jonnsen ane
Robert C. Reeves Co. 216. BeautiruL Homes oF STONE TILE 58. THe Bripe’s oe One
105. Macic Toucu oF Preston SHINGLES National Stone Tile Corp. International Silver Co.
Keystone Roofing Co. 61. DECORATING THE HOME
106. TAPERED SHINGLES y National Lead Co.
Asbestos Shingle Co. Equipment 66. LivasBLte Rooms
108. LIGHTING S. Karpen & Bros.
Mankel Lighting Fitments, Inc. 36. THE Book oF FIREPLACES AND ANDIRONS 67. SUMMER FURNITURE
109. THE CHARM OF THE SOVEREIGN Woop The Donley Bros. Co. B. Altman & Co. A
Oak Service Bureau 37. RapDIATOR FURNITURE 69. THE Heart oF THE Home Is THE RuG
110. THE RENAISSANCE OF COLORED STUCCO Schleicher, Inc. Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co.
The Bishopric Mfg. Co. 38. Book oF Deticacies | 73. AsouT Rues ;
111. Distinctive Houses Kelvinator Corporation James M. Shoemaker Co. Inc.
Indiana Limestone Quarrymen’s Assn 39. INCINBRATOR INFORMATION 74. THe Attractive Home, How To Pan
112. BEAUTIFUL AGECROST BRICK Kerner Incinerator Co. Its DECORATION
The Medal Brick & Tile Co. 40. COPPER SCREENS Armstrong Cork Co. she :
113. ApBoutT CasEMENT WINDOWS New Jersey Wire Cloth Co. 75. Tie IMPORTANCE OF COLor IN CURTAINS
The Casement Hdw. Co. 41. ELectric REFRIGERATION (FRIGIDAIRE) _ Orinoka Mills
116. RUNNING WATER Delco-Light Co. 77. COLONIAL REPRODUCTIONS IN Manoc-
Flint & Walling Mfg. Co. 119. Brick FIREPLACES ANY AND MapLe
117. Pine Homes Colonial Fireplace Co. Winthrop Furniture Co.
California White & Sugar Pine Mfrs. 120. OiL As FuEt—Caloroil Burner Corp. 78. WaALt CoverinG (SANITAS)
125. BEAuTy BEGINS IN THE FOREST 135. THE PRopER OPERATION OF THE Hone Standard Textile Products Co.
Wm. Ritter Lumber Co. HEATING PLANT 79. CREATING A CHARMING HoME
136. Betrer Burtt Homes Minneapolis Heat Regulator Co. Congoleum-Nairn Inc. v
R. H. Bennet Lumber Co. Inc. 151. COLONIAL HARDWARE & MANTELS 80 UseFuL Girts By THE MASTER CRAFTS-
137. THouGHTs or Home—The Vitrolite Co. Arthur Todhunter MAN—The Gorham ‘Cot
138. BEAUTIFUL BATHROOMS 182, TAKING THE Quest OuT OF THE QUES- 81. Wat Makes A House « Home
: Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. TION—May Oil Burner Corp. Wallpaper Guild of America
140. SUGGESTIONS FOR INTERIOR TRIM 183. MANTELPIECES & FIREPLACE FITTINGS 82. Historic MAHOGANY
Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau Edwin A. Jackson & Bro. Inc. _ Mahogany Assn.
141. FENCES FOR PROTECTION AND BEAUTY 184. How To PLan THE NEw Sty Le KitcHen 87. KitcHeN Matp STANDARD Units
Page Fence and Wire Products Assn. Standard Gas Equipment Corp. Wasmuth-Endicott Co.
142. WHAT CoLor FOR THE ROOF? 105. Ott HEATING : ‘ 89. THE Simpce ART OF WALL DECORATION
The Richardson Co. Williams Oil-O-Matic Heating Corp. Baeck Wallpaper Co.
143. SMALL Homes oF Merit. 16. Goop Bipcs.DEsERVE Goop HARDWARE 91. Hanpweavinc—A New OLp ArT
; California Redwood Assn. P. & F. Corbin The Shuttlecraft Co.
144. Homes AND GARAGES 187. SERVING A GREAT Known NEED 92. Hanp Wroucut [RON
National Fireproofing Co. American Metal Products Corp. Ford Hdw. Co.
145. BETTER PLASTERING 188. Space SaAviNG WALL FIXTURES 93. You anp Your LAUNDRY
Milwaukee Corrugating Co. Masterbilt Wall Fixture Co. _ Hurley Machine Co.
146. A PERMANENT WALL FINISH 189. THoucHts ABout LiGHTING FIXTURES 95. KITCHEN DRESSERS
Craftex Co. Tork Lighting Co. Janes & Kirtland Inc.
147. BATHROOMS OF DurRocK 1900. MANTELS OF CRETAN STONE 096. LINEN Rucs : f
Thomas Maddock’s Sons Co. Wm. H. Jackson Co. The Klearflax Linen Looms, Inc.
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BATHROOM BooKLeETS
Speakman Co.

Beauty THAT ENpuRES
L. C. Chase & Co.

SPACE SAVERS
The White Door Bed Co.

Biue Book oF Livinc Rooms
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BETTER PorcHEsS
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TABLES
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A New LEAseE on Life FoR THE OLD
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Tue LittLe Book ABout GLASSWARE
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FINISHED TO ORDER FURNITURE
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THE ETIQUETTE OF ENTERTAINING
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ForGcep IRON HARDWARE
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THE STORY OF THE STEINWAY
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THE PROPER Care oF Rucs & CARPETS
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CLotTH WALL CovERINGs
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How To Use Vatspar EBAMELS
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ORIENTAL ART IN WHITTALL Rucs
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Rooms WitHout WALLS
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Cotor Harmony CHART
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Dininc Rooms oF DistincTION ’
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WHEN Your TREES NEED THE TREE
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Wuat To Do anv How To Do It
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THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT IN
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The B. F. Nelson Mfg. Co.

THE BEAUTY OF UNFINISHED FURNITURE
Hearthstone Furniture Co.

FRAMES FOR KEEPSAKE PICTURES
Foster Bros.

CoME INTO THE KITCHEN
G. |. Sellers & Sons Co.

ETIQUETTE, ENTERTAINING AND Goop
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THE Correctly SET TABLE
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CorReEcT SERVICE
Oneida Community, Ltd.

THE Book oF Souip SILVER
Towle Mfg. Co.

CANDLE GLow
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RESTFUL SLEEP
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CHINESE RuGs IN THE AMERICAN HoME
S. & G. Gump Co.

Tue Macic oF ORIENTAL BEAUTY
C. H. Masland & Sons, Inc.

Correct Care oF Home FurnisHINncs
Peck & Hills Furniture Co,

THE FLoor FoR THE MopErRN Home
The George W. Balbon Co.

A GARDEN OF CoLor IN Your HomE
The Glidden Co.

PAINT AND VARNISH Facts
McDougall—Butler Co. Inc.

Foop SurpRISES
Aluminum Goods Mfg. Co.

THE CHARM OF THE COLONIAL
Nichols & Stone Co.

TEN Years HENCE
The American Brass Co.

Hot WaTER SERVICE FOR THE HoME
Riverside Boiler Works, Inc.

DuraB_e Douc as Fir
West Coast Lumber Extension Bureau

SEWAGE Disposat—How To INSTALL
Aten Sewage Disposal Co.

THE CHARM OF THE COLONIAL
Nichols & Stone Co.

Cook WITH THE Gas TURNED OFF.
Chambers Mfg. Co.

BUILDING FOR PERMANENCE, COMFORT
AND VALUE
Mason Fibre Co.

PorTABLE Gas SERVICE
Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp.

WARMTH & COMFORT CONVENIENTLY
The Bryant Heater & Mfg. Co.

WATER SySTEMS
The Deming Co.

RADIATOR SCREENS & REGISTERS
Tuttle & Bailey

PATTERNS IN SILVER TABLE WARE
Reed & Barton

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EN Young Mr. Chub has his bath, he wants
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eT Maton Gone Living Room
SILHOUETTES Match the Season

Charming
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make seem cool and dark for summer must change its charac-
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emptiness in our summer living room, for when it was very warm we
put away all the small unnecessary bits of furniture, and tried to create
an almost Japanese simplicity that seemed cool and restful. The soft
green walls were almost bare of pictures, the winter draperies had been
replaced by sheer theatrical gauze with little color. All summer we
used pleated chintz lamp shades of cool light colors and linen slip-
covers of a soft yellow for the furniture.

To make our room warm and comfortable again we need warm color,
and it is really quite simple to change the whole character of the scheme
when you have a cool neutral background.

Floor: The bare polished floors had small woven rugs for the hot
weather, now to be replaced by two rich Oriental ones that belonged
there with their deep mulberry, blue, and gold design.

Walls: On the soft green walls around the window and door casings, is
an interesting wallpaper border in mulberry, blue, and orange. * It
happened that both door and window are particularly lovely in line,
so the added design accentuates the charming proportions, as well

as supplying eae color and interest.

Draperies: Deep Chinese blue silk is chosen for the autumn draperies
and, lined with gold, they make the windows rich in color. The scrim

(Continued on page 83)

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(Continued from page 82)

glass curtains give place to lighter gold gauze, which warms the light as
it enters and makes an effect of sunshine even on a dark day.

Lamps: Lamp shades and glass curtains determine the lighting of a
room, so at night warm colored lamp shades do much to create the
cheerful effect we are trying to achieve. In the living room described
here gold is the obvious color for the shades, but to create just one spot
of brilliant color, the largest one—on a lovely Chinese blue porcelain
lamp—is of gold and orange changeable taffeta. Bound with Chinese
blue velvet at top and bottom it is striking but most attractive. The
side brackets are of gold silk with green georgette over it. The green
matches the green of the walls so in the daytime they are inconspicu-
ous, but at night the gold silk casts a warm sunny light. The other
shades are of parchment, with gay orange, blue, and green in the
designs, which are rather bold in drawing. One in particular I like—
it shows a pirate ship with a billowing orange sail, skimming over a
deep blue ocean with most unusual purple crests on the waves.

Orange silk cushions, a deep blue velvet table-runner bound with
green velvet, a floor pillow of mulberry and gold, with long tassels
before the dancing fire—all these small touches of color make the room
richer and more inviting. The screen that had concealed the fireplace
all summer is removed and shining andirons installed with a fire laid
ready tolight. The chairs that had been placed near the open windows
are grouped near the fireplace as'a center, and the tea-table that has
been on the porch during the warm weather has received a coat of new
paint and is installed in its usual corner. In this house the delightful
institution of afternoon tea still holds sway.

With the exception of the curtains there 1s little expense in the new
fall furnishings for such a living room. Bits of bright color properly
spread about, a re-arrangement of the furniture, and a selection of
materials with sheen and richness in such furnishings as had to be
bought—these things make the winter living room look different in-
deed! It is restful to change the appearance of the rooms we live in
and should be done once or twice a year. It does not necessarily mean
much expense, and the comfort you wil! get out of furnishings that are
suitable for the season will more than repay you.

The House of
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Built in Ipswich on the King’s
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SEPTEMBER, 1926

a Ron.
Y Glorious Spring Garden

SUMMER’S heat and flowers are nearly
gone—perhaps a few Asters or ““Kentucky
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garden. Spring seems far away with the
first of the Autumn leaves falling—but
it’s time to plan and plant your Spring
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“Kentucky Bred”’ Irises

This year we are offering a larger variety
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“Kentucky Bred’”’ Peonies

Hardy, vigorous plants. We sell only
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Special Gardens

Our new Spring Garden circular is ready.
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Send for our Spring Garden Circular

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Color in Furniture

(Continued from page 43)

way, the home-maker can bring to her rooms all the lovely coloring
that they need; and her guest room may have the longed-for violet
tones of walls and rugs repeated in the lines and decorations on
dressing table and bed in gray-green enamel and ivory, giving an
inviting sense of repose and charm.

It is not difficult to do this work. The market is filled with reliable
paints, enamels and varnishes that will fulfill all their makers’ promises.
If in doubt just how to proceed one can always consult the decorative
bureaus maintained by these firms where all puzzles will gladly be

To sun room or breakfast nook this gaily
painted well made set will bring color and cheer

solved. The makers of brushes, too, will advise just what kind to
use and when and where. Old furniture that has become a jarring
note can be so easily refinished in this way that the only wonder is
that there is ever an unattractive chair or table. It is possible to re-
enamel an old bedstead so that it will match any kind of wood or color-
ing and this will bring a new charm to many a sleeping room the furni-
ture of which has seen better days. |

In this new painted furniture now being offered to the home-maker
by the modern skilled worker in wood, there is one place where his
touch is seen at a glance and that is the finish. The manufacturers
are making this equipment for the livable home both in painted finish
and in the natural wood. To each is given the same craftsmanship |
and the same skill in each step of the work. To each is given a finish |
that is made to last and that will grow lovelier with age.

Truly do these modern chairs and tables, these beds and desks and
mirrors bring to us once more the days of those older craftsmen when
good workmanship governed the making of each piece no matter how
small. The workmen of to-day have gone even further, for they have
the work of these other men as a guide and example, and with the
wonderful strides made in paints and enamels and varnishes and in
the advanced ways of using them, this furniture of to-day is even better
than that of long
ago.

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EPTEMBER, 1926 | GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

How to Build a
Real Fireplace

F course, you’ve seen

a real fireplace. It
fairly outdid itself to give
generous warmth, sent all
its smoke and gases up the
chimney, kept its mantel
free from soot smudges
and was easily regulated.

Such fireplaces are not
hard to build. Send for
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Become yours when you plant some of the
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to be freed from the drudgery
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There is a Hoosier Water Serv-
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For over half a century we have been constantly improv-
ing and perfecting the rarest and best varieties that could
be obtained both in this country and abroad. In addition
we have originated some very choice seedlings which rank
with the world’s best productions.

But that is not all, for we have other seedlings not yet
introduced which we feel will take their place in the ranks
along with the best productions of the old and new world
propagators. These we shall introduce as soon as we can
develop a sufficient stock.

What bette’ proof of our quality is needed than to know

that at one of the best peony displays ever staged in Boston
we were awarded in June the following:

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ow and where to plant and care for
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ist. Silver Medal for not more than one hundred varieties, one
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Many gas companies
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Bryant Automatic Gas
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. The, Truth About Oil Burners

(Continued from page 44)
THE BEST BURNER TYPE FOR YOUR BOILER

OU have a boiler in your home, and it may be a “round’’one, or

a rectangular “sectional” one, or a steel type. In any event,

it was designed for use with coal, and now you want to select the best
type of oil /ourner to suit its characteristics.

Your boiler transfers the heat liberated through the combustion
of the coal, or oil, to the water, in two ways. Anything that is in the
fire-pot of your boiler that is hotter than the boiler itself gives off
radiant heat. This form of heat is really a vibration of the ether, just
like radio waves, but of a different wave length. The hotter the
surface, and the larger, the more radiant heat is given off. If you have
a brisk coal fire, with the entire surface covered with “live” coals, your
water will heat faster, or more steam will be generated than when the
surface of the fire is Covered with fresh, black (non-radiant) coal. So
all of the inside of the boiler that is within “view” of any part of the
red-hot coal, or of the white-hot flame of the oil burner, will absorb this
radiant heat. This surface of the boiler is called the “direct” area.

But the greatest part of the heat liberated, both with coal and oil,
is in the form of hot gases, the “products of combustion.” These gases
pass through the devious ways in the upper part of the cast-iron boilers
and around and between the tubes in the tubular boilers, rubbing along
the iron as much as the skillful design of the builders can provide.
And as they rub, the heat they contain is gradually transferred to the
iron, and through it to the water. Naturally, the longer the “gas
travel”’, and the more efficiently placed, the more heat is taken from
the gases; by the same token, if this ‘indirect surface” is insufficient,
much of the heat is not taken from the gases, and escapes up the
chimney to heat the atmosphere above the house.

There is a wide diversity of opinion as to just what the proportion
of direct and indirect surface should be when burning oil, but it is fairly
accurate to say that the majority of house-heating boilers do not have
enough indirect surface to properly take the heat from the gases of an
cilflame. There are two possible remedies; to add a section or sections,
in the case of a round type of boiler, which is the common type in small
homes, or to have the burner flame so adjusted that it burns at a lower
rate than would be desirable where the boiler is of the proper size. In
this case the passage of the gases through the boiler is not so hurried,
and there is more chance for the heat to transfer to the iron.

If you have a burner of any type installed in your boiler and burn,
say, ten pounds of oil per hour, the amount of heat transferred to the
water, or steam, will depend upon the ability of your boiler, as de-
termined by the amounts and disposition of its heating surfaces, to
absorb that heat, more than upon the shape of the flame that produced
the heat.

The advocate of the flat flame that licks the walls of the boiler may
claim that this flame “puts the heat low down as it is produced in a coal
fire, instead of shooting it out into the combustion chamber,” forgetting
that, for instance, if a “jet”’ type burner is installed in your boiler, it
probably will be set to operate through the ash door, the ash-pit will
be lined with fire-brick, and the heat will be generated much below the
level of the other type of flame.

Then, the partisan who has no use for the “pot” type burner, where
the burner incorporates its own combustion chamber, says that this
type is not efficient because the fire is produced in a little clay or iron
pot instead of in the entire space usually occupied by coal. He forgets
that this ball of flame has a large surface area and is very hot, due to
the confined combustion, and that the large amount of radiant heat
generated travels outward, and downward, and in all directions, and
so hits all of the walls of the boiler against which coal might lay.

Many tests are being made in laboratories of manufacturers, and
claims are being published to prove efficiency on the basis of these tests,
but the fact remains that, for your own boiler, the type of burner, or the
shape of its flame, is of much less importance than the matter of seeing
that your boiler has sufficient heating surfaces so that the heat gener-
ated by the burner, at the rate at which it is set to burn, will be absorbed
and not rushed through the boiler to the chimney.

You see, it requires just so-many pounds of oil to provide heat for
your home for any given twenty-four hours, and you may set your
burner so that it will operate for a total of three hours during that period
and burn that amount of oil, or you may set it to burn oil at just half
that rate, when it would, obviously, have to run six hours during the
day. Or you may choose any other rate within reason. If you have
a large boiler with liberal surfaces, the high-rate setting may be effi-
cient, but if the boiler is small, possibly put into a house “built to sell,”
it would be well to burn the fuel at a lower rate.

Continued on page 90)

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SEPTEMBER, 1926

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ape produce only the Peonies approved by the American

Peony Society has been our desire.

This year sees the

desire gratified, the object achieved.

Many new and valuable varieties have been added; many
good varieties have been replaced by better Peonies. Of
the thousand or more now in commerce we have selected
only those rated at 7.4 and above.

Farr’s Special Peony Selections

An exceptional opportunity to obtain fine Peonies,

whether you are starting a collection or adding to your
treasures.

AMATEUR (Junior) COLLECTION

Adolphe Rousseau, red.
Albatre, white.

Augustin d’Hour, red.
Festiva Maxima, white.
Marguerite Gerard, pink.
Mons. Jules Elie, pink.

Two reds, two whites, two
pinks (amounting to $6.50)
for $5 complete. Add socts.
for parcel post; otherwise ship-
ment will be made by express
collect.

AMATEUR (Senior) COLLECTION

Adelaide Hollis, white.

Admiral Togo, red.

Claire Dubois, pink.

Duchesse de Nemours, white.

Francois Rousseau, red.

Reine Hortense, pink.

Two of each color (amounting
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lect.

Junior and Senior Collections together for $12.95. Add $x for
parcel post handling; otherwise shipment made by express collect.

BETTER PEONIES—By FARR

Our catalogue for Autumn, 1926, is now ready, and will be mailed
on request to all who are interested in Better Peonies. The booklet
also contains unusual offers of good Peonies for mass plantings. Write

to-day for a copy.

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

SEPTEMBER, 192

Right now you can have your
choice of more than 1000 va-
rieties of Peonies—the largest
collection of Peonies in the
world. Their delicate fragrance, *
elegant shape and form, and
their great variety of shades
make them favorites every-
where. And we are offering
these gorgeous flowers at
prices surprisingly low. The
combination listed below con-
tains the most popular and
beautiful peonies grown. They
are all splendid, strong divis-
ions, with from two to five
eyes. OrJder Today.

Old Garden Collection

Should be planted by the entire nation.
Vigorous growth and lots of bloom.

SUPERFINE MIXED

Mons. Jules Elie—pink ............ $1.25 WwW

President, Taft=pink’ (Feeecceecneens 2.00 DAR IN TULIPS

James Kelway—white ............-. 1.50 LONG-STEMMED VARIETY—

Felix Croussé—red | sJece0n qeecee wens 1.00 ; , : : :

American Beauty—red ......s.s000s. 1.00 This new family of Tulips is of state-

Mons. Dupont—white ...........e0s 1.00 ly, noble and dignified character. They
$7.75 grow 3 feet high and bear unusually

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You’ll get a choice selection of healthy bulbs, pro-
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Send your order TODAY for either the peonies or tulips, or both—at
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Better Peony Offer

To give our friends a chance to purchase some of the better Peonies we
are making the following offer: All are choice varieties and some very re-
cently introduced. See catalogue for complete description.

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Octave Demay $1.00 Avalanche $1.00
President Roosevelt 1.00 Festiva Maxima A
Princess Beatrice 1.00 Mons. Barrall 1.00
Prince of Darkness 1.50 Gen. Custer aD

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We have one of the largest stocks of
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Your choice of any of the
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8 Peonies all different—labeled, strong 3 to

. 4 $2.00 2 Lilium Regale—New white trumpet......... $1.00
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10 Iris—all different—labeled Bbeenterl ceusers 1.00 proved tiger Lilyi0,22 eee ee 1.00
25 Tulips—mixed, either early cottage or 1.0 6 Lilium Longiflorum—the Easter lily......... 1.00
Darwins FG -00 10 Lily (of the Valley—New large Fo
25 Tulips—named varieti 1.50 Giant aoe 1.00
$0 Croctis “ell miixed se 1.00 10 Trilium or Wood Lily—mixed. Fine for
10 Hyacinths—mixed ated 1.00 shaded places , 1.00
aoe Feeder ened epee re ae oo 10 Columbine—Longspurred hybrid 1.00
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3 Lilium Speciosum Rubrum .......... 1.00 10 Delphinium—Kelway’s hybrids... 1200
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10 Superbum--Our wild meadow lily ......... 1500.1 ee. OR ae a iets aaa ce eee 1.00

If your order from the above list amounts to $5.00, we will give you one extra peony, the American Beauty,
free. Send cash,gmoney order, or check with your order. We do notsend goods ©. 0. D., and if you want
your bulbs sent by parcel post, send postage to cover. Most lots of 25 bulbs will weigh about 3 pounds—the
peonies about 8 to 10 pounds for eight roots,

_ Babcock Peony Gardens, Jamestown, N. Y. |
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The Truth About Oil Burners

(Continued from page 88)

In this discussion I have not considered the atmospheric burners, a
they are not controllable to the degree common to the mechanical typ¢

Look more to the ability of the local representative of the burner yo
are interested in than to the type of burner or the shape of its flamy
If you have not been able to heat your entire home to your satisfactior
in the coldest weather, with coal, go to a heating engineer, or to you
local heating contractor, who probably retains one, and have you
heating system looke 1 over just as you would have a physician look oye
your sick body. Get the heating system right, and, within reasor
almost any type of burner properly installed will give you the sati
faction justified by the price you pay for it. e

An Attractive Stain That
Costs Little

| AM in love with this cheap stain,” remarked my brother as he finishe
staining the lattice work around the front porch.

“Tt looks fine,” I said, ““How do you make it?”

“By using about a quarter of a pound of burnt umber anda pound an
a half of yellow ochre to a gallon of crude oil that has a paraffin bas
I put the two stains in a bucket with a little of the oil and stir to.
smooth paste; then | add the remainder of the oil and keep on stirrir
until the whole is thoroughly mixed.” ‘|

“That sounds easy,” I encouraged; ‘‘but what is there about it th:
you like so well?”’ |

“Well, in the first place, when it is once mixed, it stays mixed as the
is no white lead in it to settle. Then it does not show dirt, and insec|
are not attracted to it while it is drying as they so often are to fre
paint. But best of all, it looks well and it is durable. You see, fl
lighter ingredients in the oil penetrate the pores of the wood, while t]
paraffin remains on the surface and gives a gloss. One coat does #]|
work, but a coat of straight oil over the color after it has dried som
what helps out both looks and wearing qualities.

“Of course, this stain would not stick well to wood that had be
painted; but for shingles and unpainted wood of any sort, it is fin|
That which | put on the roof last fall, however, was somewhat differer
In it I used a little linseed oil that was old and “fatty,” as the painte
say, but all right for shingles. Then instead of burnt umber and yell
ochre, I used equal parts of graphite and mineral red, putting in ju
enough to give body. I wonder that more people do not use this stai
It only costs about thirty cents a gallon, Crude oil, burnt umber ai
yellow ochre are too ordinary. If it were put up in tin cans and a

cal
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| vertised at fancy prices, it might become very popular. The on

thing for the home painter to look out for in mixing his own is to ma
sure that he gets an oil with a paraffin base.” —E. R.

Hardy Fruits for Northern Garder

Fok thirty years or more Prof. N. E. Hansen, Horticulturist of t

South Dakota Agricultural College, and Experiment Station, t
been working, breeding fruits for the northern prairie country th
will be hardy without protection.

Although the desirable varieties are not hardy, still they must
grown in order to get pollen with which to cross flowers of hardy nat
or Siberian species. All these things must be grown in tubs, brous
into the greenhouse in winter and flowered. Then hybridization tal
place. Already Dr. Hansen has produced some good fruits—so ge
and so hardy that they have been introduced.

Prof. Hansen’s latest introductions are Grapes that will live in 1
Dakotas without winter protection. Thirty-two varieties were —
troduced in 1925. Nearly a dozen Gooseberries have been original
by crossing some of the finest European Gooseberries with a nat.
species. There are several very attractive Plums and the Chinc.
Apple is the first of a series of hybrids of the standard Apples whict'
of great promise for the far north.

A good hardy Pear, resistant to blight is Prof. Hansen’s aim. He °
turned from his sixth agricultural exploration trip in Asia in Octok,
1924, bringing with him sixty-eight pounds of Pear seed from the No!
China mountains. This comparatively small amount of seed mei:
the collection of thousands of pounds of fresh fruits from which to °
tract the seeds. These North China and Siberian Pear seeds are ?
starting point; the end to be achieved is a hardy, blight-proof Pear.
hope Dr. Hansen succeeds!—P. T. B. |

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PTEMBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Novel Western Plants
For Eastern Gardens

Sie of the loveliest landscape effects in the East are made with native
plants grown on the western slopes of the Pacific mountain ranges.
In hundreds-of gardens, from the prairies of Kansas to the coast of Maine,
my Erythroniums, Calochortus, Lilies and other hardy plants are thriving and
giving the utmost pleasure to the gardener. Erythroniums especially, with
their wonderful colors, give unusual satisfaction and are winning friends
wherever they have flowered. One of my customers in Virginia writes that
‘Lilium Humboldtii magnificum was resplendent with eighteen full flowers at
once.”” You will be equally enthusiastic after these lilies have bloomed in
your garden.

These Native Californian Bulbs are described in a beautifully illustrated cat-
alogue that is yours for the asking.

GORGEOUS TREE PEONIES

This year my most interesting offering is a
b splendid collection of Tree Peonies in many
: colors. Since Quarantine 37 has been in
force Tree Peonies have been exceedingly
difficult to obtain. I have a limited
quantity of extra fine plants at $5 each.

STATELY EREMURUS

No other plant is quite as dignified as the
Eremurus. Notice the tall spikes filled with
bloom and the broad yucca-like foliage
shown in the picture. The plants are extra
fine and I shall be glad to give full details
and quote prices on request.

ROSES

for Fall Planting

The best New Roses
The best Old Roses

_ FIELD GROWN

All Successful Rose grow-
ets advocate Fall plant-

| ing.

| Many prefer “Rose Farm

Roses” for their proven

My new catalogue of Perennials is ready.
Rock and Border plants, woodland beauties and endless other fine things. This
catalogue will be sent free on request.
All plants are shipped parcel-post, prepaid. Years of experience have taught
me how to pack plants so they will reach you in the very best condition.

GAR PRU RD Box go, Ukiah, California

PEONIES TULIPS
NARCISSI

Many varieties. Modest prices.
Send for lists

Peony Specials. Mixture, 25 plants in
7 varieties, $6.00; 50 plants in Io varieties,
$11.00; 100 plants in 15 varieties, $20.00;
always my selection of varieties, express
not paid. 7, all different, postpaid, $2.00.

Tulips. Mixed Late, all colors, post-
paid, 100 for $2.40; 250 for $5.40.

Narcissi. Fine Mixture, postpaid, 100
for $5.00.

Irises. 10 or more varieties in mixture,
postpaid, 100 for $8.00; 10, all different,
$1.50.

Oronogo Flower Gardens
Carterville, Mo.

New Single Peony

MISCHIEF, (Auten, 1925) $5.00

A lovely pink, with stiff stems and
exceptional keeping qualities. Its re-
ception by the public shows it to be
one of the most valuable of all singles.
Order now, supply is limited.

Send for Auten list: Melody, Fantasy,
Alaska, Humoresque, Presto, etc., also
standard varieties, quality roots.

Special. Your own individual Peony,
exclusive stocks of new varieties, 1200
to select from. Singles, $10. and up,
Doubles and Japs, $50. and up. Write
me.

EDWARD AUTEN, Jr.

Princeville Illinois

STOCK TAKING TIME

he fall brings an ideal time to study the “‘gaps’’ in the
Wherever you find that color is

hardy perennial border.

lacking, supplement

HARDY PERENNIAL PHLOX ROT 534

_ For early September shipment, so
Special Offer they can get well rooted $5 00
before winter, thirty strong, thrifty plants of Phlox for *e"*™’

prepaid to you. Five plants each of the following six striking

E ee kinds:
all round good qualities Bridesmaid, white, crimson eye; B. Compte, Amaranth-
Describti . 3 red; Mrs. Jenkins, tall pure white; R. P. Struthers, rose-
escriptive List, mailed on re- carmine, red eye; Siebold, orange-scarlet with crimson
| quest. center; Widar, lavender-blue.
| Twenty-five cents each or $2.50 per dozen ordered
| The R oP Gitar ot other Vandy Phivstend
Write for my Fall Planting Offers of other Hardy ox an

| 2 € OSE FARM many other Choice Hardy Perennials.

urchase St. Near Rye Lake -
| Box G. White Plains, N. Y. W. A. TOOLE Garry-nee-Dule

Baraboo, Wis.

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Nursery
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Scientifically Collected
Native American Shrubs

Rhododendrons

Azaleas Kalmias

Old English Boxwoods

(pees of highest quali-

ty, at interesting prices.
Shipped from the Appalachian
Mountains in small quantities,
or big carload. For specimen
and special planting we have
splendid nursery grown stock
at our Stroudsburg Nursery.
Send for our latest catalogue
and price-list.

LaBARS’

Rhododendron Nursery

Box 65 Stroudsburg, Penna.

SEPTEMBER, I:

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

HINUIVOOQVOOUUQOOUVNEUUUNOLYUELLUOEOOUEUOEE UOC OUOOETAYO ATE

PEONY, Lady Alexandra Duff, FREE

GOOD strong root of Lady A. Duff will be given absolutely free to
each purchaser of Gumm’s surprise collection of Peonies, composed

of the following 10 superb varieties, good, healthy stock and truly labeled.
My object in making this low price is to get you started in the peony

LILIUM CANDIDUM

(Madonna Lily)

Plant in August and September
HIS beautiful Lily of our Grandmother’s garden then called
“Cottage Lily” is to-day as beautiful and desirable as ever.
4 to 5 ft. in height with 15 to 20 snowy white fragrant flowers.
Can be left for years in same position. Thrives in either sun or
shade. Plant them with Foxgloves,.Delphiniums and, for a bold
effect, with Primrose and white Hollyhocks.

TYODUIVOOOUYOOOTYOEOOLUUEUOCUOUOUOUOOOLUOUOOAOUO ASOT

Our Candidum bulbs are grown in Northern France and we E 2 :

pride ourselves on their superior quality. game. The roots will be as fine as any grown in the U.S.
POSTPAID (7th and 8th zones add 10%) Baroness Schroeder, white...... $1.75 Fresh crop of Gumm’s Hoosier Beauty
3 12 50 100 M. Jules Elie, pink............. 1.00 Delphinium seed, some of the flowers
Jumbo Bulbs $1.50 $5.50 $22.00 Marie Lemoine, white 52 eee 1.00 93" in diameter. | Package eS
Monster Bulbs _ 1.25 4.25 16.00 $40.00 Sarah Bernhardt, pink .......... 2.50 Long Spurred Aquilegia. Package.. .25
Selected Flowering Grade .90 3.40 12.75 24.00 President Roosevelt, red Serer 1.50 Oriental Poppy, named varieties,

Do you want to grow, or are you searching for AMARYLLIS Georgiana Shaylor, pink........ 4.00 Packige ...-. apls. yes vate. Te
HALLII, the HARDY AMARYLLIS, IRIS SUSIANA, IRIS Rosa Bonheur, pink. ........... 4.00 __ Peony seed from best varieties
PAVONIA, EUCHARIS AMAZONICA, the RARE Botanical Elwood Pleas, violet-rose........ 3.00 Mixed, per 100 ..................... 50
Tulips, Crocus, Lewisias, Anemones, the “BYZANTINE WON- Mary Brand, red)... .)..peme nee 2.75 L.A. Duff, per 1002 eee
DER LILY.” We have these and many other Unusual Bulbs $21.50 Japanese, ge BRAIN ao Sh
and Seeds, listed in our 1926 Bulb Book. Send for it. All of the above for $10.00 Yellow, per « Avtiré.s. mosis ee ee ee

with L. A. Duff, free. W. L. GUMM, Peony Specialist
E H. H. Bee ~ er N York Send for free Peony Catalogue. Remington as Indi
st. 50 yrs, 02 Par ace, New Yor

DELPHINIUMS
Kelway’s latest. Twilight; Sir W. Leth-
bridge; Smoke of War; Splendour; Monarch
of All; Lovely Coronation, Mrs. J. Kelway.
No blight.

ORIENTAL POPPIES
Perry’s White: Lord Lambourne—Orange,
fimbriated petals; Victoria Louise—Pink;
Rembrandt—Scarlet; Beauty of _Liver-
mere—Crimson; Queen—Light Salmon.
Established pot plants.

CAMPANULA PFITZERII
Double silvery lavender bell shaped flowers-
One of the finest perennials.

SHASTA DAISY
(New) Marian Collier. Everybody should
plant it. Introducer says: Semi-double,
fringed, very refined and distinct.
Price of above strong plants 20c each, delivered.
North Attleboro, Mass. ‘More than satis-
fied, never had better plants.” Marshfield,
Oregon. ‘‘So well pleased with plants want
to send for some more.’” New Bloomsfield,
Pennsylvania. ‘Delighted with plants.”

Descriptive List.

VIEW ACRES, H. E. Jones, Prop.

HODGSON

‘In the center of a hurricane—
no damage’”’

Portable
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IN ALL parts of the world Hodgson Houses are
standing, undergoing all sorts of climatic conditons

and giving complete satisfaction.

Hodgson Portable Houses a
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re made of sturdy
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a few hours and the

larger ones ina few days—with unskilled labor.

Hodgson Houses offer an e
making vacant land pay for itsel

xcellent method of
f. For the coziness

SUMAN ITO TTT

Rolandhurs
Nurseries

Fine Peonies & Standard Ik

Large stock of Therese, Lac
Duff, Tourangelle, Solang
Primevere, and Mme. Jul
Dessert. |

Limited amount of new
varieties with high ratings

Guaranteed true to name

ROLAND J. BAILEY

Hebron, Maryland.

Hamilton a Montana On the Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shor
and attractive appearance of these houses enable as)
you to rent them for a decidedly worth-while er
figure. —

b] ° Ww shows many beautiful Hodgson
Kemp s New Orchid Ht garages, pees ihe pouline

houses, garden furnishings, etc. Write for your free

copy today.

E. F. HODGSON COMPANY

1108 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,
6 East 39th Street, New York City

Florida Branch—Bradenton

Flowered Japanese Irises

A new strain of hybrid seedlings
superior in color and form to any
existing strain. The result of many
years of breeding and now offered
for the first time. New colors in
spectacular large flowers.

Mass.

Rae
Ipling’s
Verse
Inclusive
Edition
1885-1918

Send for New Iris List

It will give you the history of these wonder-
ful new Japanese Irises, with color descriptions
of each variety. It also illustrates and de-
scribes Laevigata Alba Purpurea, the dark blue
Iris from Japan—the most unusual Iris in-
troduction of recent years.

J. A. KEMP, Plant Breeder
LITTLE SILVER NEW JERSEY

Olde Stonesfield

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Interesting shapes and choice ||)
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Send for circulars:

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‘Uheremis 2 no Ruler 2 aaseLn
writing, forget the public.”

But the public has not for- ree 25 Graduated Jide Stonesueld Rect : Oxford India Bible
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Perennial Border Plants

We have a complete list of hardy, old-fashioned perennials
with many new hybrids, of the more valuable varieties, as
well as some that are distinctly rare and interesting, such as:—

Hardy Orchids
Trollius
Dictamnus

Viola, Jersey Gem
Hardy Carnations
Siberian Wallflower

We shall be glad to mail you a copy of our catalog which
offers also shrubs, vines, roses, evergreens and fruits.

3EO, D. AIKEN NURSERY Putney, Vermont

“Grown in Vermont, It?s Hardy’’

NATIVE LILIES

From the Carolina Mountains

a | EW Lilies equal in fragrance,

color and charm the native
Lilies of the Carolina mountains.
Here, in Nature’s lovely gardens
they grow to perfection. Best of
all, the bulbs develop so well that
, the glory of the native varie-
{ ties can readily be transferred
to your garden.

Gray’s Lily bell-shaped;
deep red, spotted yellow,
$1.75 for 10; $15 per 100.

Turk’s Cap (L. superbum). In-
side of flower bright orange.
Often 40 flowers on a stem.
Extra large bulbs, $3 for 10;
$27.50 per 100.

Royal Lily (L. regale). Large,
fragrant, white bloom, $7.50 for
10; $70 per 100.

Snow Trillium (T. grandiflor-
um). A lovely spring flowering
plant for naturalizing; blooms

oye to perfection in borders. $8 per
D 100; $75 per 1,000.
X IN L 1 Native Plants and Bulbs
WWet pe My catalogue for Autumn is now
ready. I shall be glad to mail a copy to those who are inter-
ested in Lilies, Perennial Plants and Broad-leaved Evergreens—
all grown in my nurseries in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

E. C. ROBBINS, Gardens of the Blue ‘Ridge

Box 7, Ashford, North Carolina

USE BUCKWHEAT HULLS
SUPERIOR TO COMMERCIAL HUMUS

Especially satisfactory for winter protection as a mulch around shrubbery, or
Perennial flower beds and borders, on strawberry beds and other small fruits.
Will not pack or mat to the ground. Will lighten heavy soil or add humus to
sandy soil. Protects but does not smother small plants or Dutch bulbs. Holds
soil moisture in summer when used as a summer mulch. Almost black in color,
makes attractive bedding material.

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS

Ammonia 1.6%, Phosphoric Acid .06%, Potash .75%.

Sheep Manure: Ammonia 2.25%, Phosphoric Acid 1.5% Potash 2%.

will see that Buckwheat Hulls also furnish considerable plant food.
Prices, f.o.b Towanda— 100 lbs..$ 1.50

Py 1000 lbs.. 12.00

Shipped during milling season, October and November.

Compare this with
You

300 lbs...$ 4.00
2000 lbs... 20.00

Terms—Cash with order

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Peony Lovers!
Here’s Your Opportunity

‘‘Six-of-the-Best” Collection, $20.00
(CONE PEONIES are of such distinct and out-

standing quality that they are essential to every gar-
den that pretends to have the best. Six such Peonies
have been selected to make up this collection. Each
holds a prominent and undisputed position in any list of
the finest varieties. If you want the best, you will be
pleased with these.
FRANCES WILLARD—White. Midseason...
MME. JULES DESSERT—Creamy white.
Late midseason
LADY ALEXANDRA DUFF—Light pink.
Midseason
MILTON HILL—Light pink. Late
RICHARD CARVEL—Red. Very early....
MONSIEUR MARTIN CAHUZAC— Dark-
est red. Midseason

$3.00

This $25.00 value for only $20.00; or you
may select one or more at the list price.

THE “HIGH-.NINE” SEXTETTE, $50.00
A Collection of High-Rated Peonies

This superb collection is made up of six of the very
finest Peonies in the world. Not only do they rate high in
the American Peony Society Symposium, but they are among
the prize-winners in almost every Peony Show. They are
the highest rated varieties in their respective classes, and
any gardener may well be proud to have them growing.

9.9 LE CYGNE. The World's finest white
peony
9.8 KELWAY’S GLORIOUS. A wonderful
white, distinctly different from Le Cygne... .
9.8 THERESE. The largest and finest of all
the p 5.00
9.3 WALTER FAXON. A beautiful flower
of distinct bright pink color
9.7 SOLONGE. Deep cream witha salmon
reflex from the depth of the petals
9.2 PHILIPPE RIVOIRE. The best of all
the reds

$12.00

20.00

This $62.00 value for only $50.00, or you
may select one or more at the list prices.
FREE CATALOG OF APPROVED PEONIES
This represents our selection of the tried and true
“aristocrats” of the peony world, based on personal expe-
rience in growing hundreds of verieties. Every root from
our plantings must also be of Approved Quality. Stocks
are selected both for vigoi and quality of bloom, and are
grown to maturity before being dug.
Write for this Catalog today, before you forget.

Visitors always welcome at our Farms, one mile west
of Baldwinsville on the Rochester-Syracuse highway.

INDIAN SPRING FARMS, Inc.
Box G Baldwinsville New York

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Success with Flowers

Comes to those who know plant needs in

intimate detail. Year in and year out,
Gardeners’ Chronicle has stuck to its job
of giving dependable concrete information
for those who garden. [Its articles are
from the pens of experienced gardeners,
who are qualified to give sound counsel.

The August Issue Contains:

Where the President Is Summering —
Frederic Heutte; Difficulties Arising from
the Bulb Embargo—Walter Reinhardt;
Phases and Fashions in English Garden-
ing—F. A. Hampton; The New Delphin-
iums and their Cultural Needs—William
Milne; Full Summer in My Garden —
Arthur T. Johnson.

FREE with Six Months’ Order

Send us $1 for six months’ trial subscrip-
tion, and we'll include the August issue
free, while the supply lasts. Or send $2
for full year’s subscription.

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RONICLE’

286 A Fifth Ave.
NEW YORK

EONIES

and

IRISES

Plants cultivated
from the _ selected
roots obtained from
the famous Wassen-
berg Gardens will as-
tonish and delight
you with their great
beauty. We specialize
in furnishing Irises
and Peonies to cul-
turists who demand
the best at low prices.
Write for details.

Send for
Illustrated
Catalog

WASSENBERG
Van Wert, Ohio

Ey INGEE ROSES

Pot-grown rose bushes on
their own roots. Old favor-
ites and new, rare sorts. Safe
delivery guaranteed.

Also Tulips, Hyacinths, Nar-
cissus, Crocus, Lilies, Shrubs,
etc., shown in natural colors

Our “New Guide to Rose Culture” for 1926
Autumn Edition

Send for copy to-day. It’s free. Illus-
trates the wonderful “Dingee Roses”
in natural colors. A practical work on
rose and flower culture. Offers the
leading varieties of bulbs and plants
for winter and spring blooming. Estab-
lished 1850. Oldest Rose Growing Estab-
lishment in America.

The DINGEE & CONARD COMPANY
Box 937 West Grove, Pa.

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Malicious intruders, trespassers
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A PAGE distributor near you willren-
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For detailed information see any Dodge Broth-
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Peony Noveltie

If you are interested in Peonies
send for my 1926 list. All thy
best of the Standard varieties
Also the new Lemoine novel
ties: Alice Harding, Argentine
Denise, Dulcinea, Genevieve
Mme. Escary, Odalisque; anc
the new Doriat novelties: Char
lot, Mme. Edward Doriat, Nan
nette, Inspecteur La Vergne
and many others.

O. L. RINGLE.

| Wausau, Wis. P. O. Box 9

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Send twenty-five cents for
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Orchid Growers and Importers

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-PTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

High Grade Stock ||| A= 20 a For Spring
of Ornamental G H Se — A Garden of Beauties
Trees and Shrubs ot ‘ at reasonable cost

bey Here are five beauties that will de- Darwin Tulips Rainbow

mixture, 20 colors. 40 for
$1 or 100 for $2, 1000 for

Catalogue on Request light any connoisseur.

.; Le Cygne—This Peony received the
highest ballots of all peonies rated

JUN 5 by the American Peony Society—9.9. BIS. , ;
: It is an extra large, perfectly Darwin Tulips Giant size,
°4 formed, milk white globe, no mark- assorted or separate colors.
€ @ ings or stamens. Mid-season white. 30 for $1 or 100 for $3, 1000
ANDORRA NURSERIES, Inc. . ° President Wilson—rated 9.3. A for $26.
CHESTNUT HILL PHILADELPHIA ; \ rose-pink, late bloomer, of true Knee ?
: e recrdcncalet ie ssorted Crocus. 100 for
e : Sarah Bernhardt—rated 9.0. <A $I.
. es e large, ates sera, pple bee Bedding size Hyacinth. 15
< frais - som pink with silver tipped petals. for $1, or 100 for £6.
The Glen Road Iris Gardens heat: A late season bloomer of exceptional

ga le hanes Potting size Hyacinth, all

‘% ae 4 Oy) Elwood Pleas—rated 8.7. <A very colors. Io for $I or 100
large compact light pink that blooms for $7.

in midseason. Exceptionally fra- Paper Whites or Yellow

grant and a great favorite. Trumpet Narcissus T2
I. i Gidui—ra iho rge sea- i
sani Gidui ted 9.3. A large for $1, 100 for $7.

son flower with a tuft of golden

Wellesley Farms, Mass.

Specialize in rare and fine varieties

of Bearded Iris
American and European

Send for Catalogue.

stamens. Considered the best of all German Iris. Plant now,
7 Japanese whites. bloom in the spring.

ry You will find them all, together : St :

& with a host of other members of Red, White or Pink Peonies.
e the Peony aristocracy, in our 1926 3 for $1 or 12 for $3.

e Master List. All Postpaid.

e

e

Last year hundreds of peony en-
thusiasts purchased our quality

groups. They found them very dif- ROBERT & STANLEY

ferent from the old style collection °
in that they are grouped for a pur- Laurel Springs, New Jersey

pose, and consist of nothing but the
finest stock to be purchased. Here
is (one of 9) Quality Groups at a
low price. You may order it di-
rect from this ad:

Quality Group “D” (Doubles)
Three Baby Pinks for Long Season

- Strong 3-5 eye Divisions, each with
rat embossed metal labels.

2.1ndle HUMUS

For the Price is the Best and Cheapest
Aerrility “Maker

DO YOU WANT
More Vegetables - Better Flowers
Larger Shrubs - Bigger Trees
A Finer Lawn

also Watkin Samuel’s

WREXHAM

(“‘Hollyhock” Delphiniums)
The two outstanding strains

USE “NEW SEEDS 2°.
IDORLESS AND WEEDLESS 8.6 Eugenie Verdier, early ae oe : heat :
1 - athered trom hnest specimens only, out o |
F HUMUS ; p 8.9 Reine Hortense, $ 25 many thousand selected plants.
It isa permanent investment in soil midseason Hoodacres, large packet $1.00
enrichment

8.8 Grandiflora, late

Delivery guaranteed in good condi-
tion and Prepaid.

NORTHBROOK IRISES

’ In response to the large demand, we
are listing Northbrook Irises for the
first time, this year. ‘They are of
the same high quality as North-

brook Peonies. Only strong, healthy Up-To-DATE HOUSE OWNERS

rhyzomes oat souk Se are particular about having no disreputable cor-
For the discriminating flower lover, | ners on the Estate.

Peonies and Irises from Northbrook x
Gardens offer an opportunity to
possess the best. Send for your
copy of the Master List. It is ar-
ranged for intelligent selection of
fine flowers.

WREXHAM, large packet 1.00

PLANTS

Order promptly for early shipment. Catalog.
Now located on famous Columbia River High-
way.

(Note new mail and wire address)

CHARLES F. BARBER
TROUTDALE OREGON

$5.00 for 5, 100-Ib. bags
$18.00 per ton
f. o. b. Stanhope, N. J.

Send for cultural directions

H. B. PRINDLE
70 East 45th St. New York

Some Interesting
Suggestions

: he

on how to conceal and
coverRadiators through-
out the house may be
had without charge by
addressing the

The Master List ~ “‘America’s pees :
Blue Book of Fine Peonies” Does YOUR Backyard look like this?

SQ Ze

THE STEPHENSON JRSUUNIOYN aD)
Northbrook | = <43"

UNDERGROUND GARBAGE RECEIVER
keeps the garbage away from Flies, Sun, Frost
and Prowling Cats and Dogs. The inside bucket

Gardens is protected by the Metal Receiver. A PERMA-
NENT INVESTMENT.

Sold Direct—Send for Catalogue

she

READERS SERVICE BUREAU

|

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER Paul L. Battey, Proprietor Cc. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr.
285 Madison Ave. New York 28 Farrar Street Lynn, Mass.
Box JB Glencoe, IIl. Established 1899

o5

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

SEPTEMBER, I9

America’s

Finest Collection NURSERIES
fawbe rth Ba.

Japanese Rose Flowering

and Weeping Cherries

Flowering Crab

All varieties and sizes

&

A. E. WOHLERT

224 Montgomery Ave.
Narberth, Mont. Co., Pa.

Order Holland Bulbs Now

PROMPT DELIVERY

Darwin Tulips—No others com-
pare with them in size or beauty.
We offer a grand mixture, 40 for
$1.00, or 100 for $2.00. First size,
in separate colors or assorted, 30
for $1.00, or 100 for $3.00.

Assorted Crocus, too for $1.00.

Assorted Hyacinth, bedding size,
15 for $1.00, or 100 for $5.00.

Assorted Hyacinth, potting size,
10 for $1.00, or 100 for $8.00.

Postpaid

P. S. BIRCH
Laurel Springs New Jersey

SIANT TULIPS

Our own importations
from Holland, these
Giant Darwins are
the aristocrats
among tulips—big,
gorgeously colored
flowers on tall,
Grow _ successfully

strong
anywhere.

Fine Book Free. A post card will bring
you our fall catalog, illustrated in natural
colors and describing the finest varieties
of tulips, narcissus, hyacinths, crocus and
other bulbs—all sturdy, dependable, im-

stems.

ported stock. Don’t risk unknown stock
—buy from the importer. Send to-day.—
It’s free!

S. M. ISBELL & CO.
308 Mechanic St. Jackson, Mich.

Colorful Combinations
for Your Garden

Considerable space in our 1927 Catalog will
be devoted to the most effective grouplng of
colors when planting dahlias and gladiolus.
The fascination of these royal flowers is greatly
increased when they are properly massed or

grouped.

Our Catalog lists the finest new creations and
the best of the standard varieties. It is acom-
plete guide in selecting the best. Reserve
your copy now. It will be mailed free on request.

CARL SALBACH

Originator and Grower

305 Creston Road

Ccoms Creeping Bent
Makes Lawns Like Velvet

Sod in six weeks! A rich velvety stretch of lawn that
chokes out weeds before they can grow. Scott’s Creep-
ing Bent will produce thicker turf than other grasses,
meaning that it offers greater resistance to weeds.
With proper care no re-seeding is ever necessary. You'll
have a deep, thick, uniform turf that’s everlasting and

Berkeley, California

Makes Your Home a Beauty Spot

Creeping Bent—long recognized as the ideal grass .for golf
putting greens—is now producing Super Lawns. Instead of
sowing seed, you plant stolons or the chopped grass—and in
a few weeks you have a luxuriant lawn like the deep green
pile of a Turkish carpet.

Read all about this unusual grass in
our illustrated booklet “Bent Lawns”
which will be mailed you upon request.
We will also gladly give you any further
information you may want about
‘Scott's Creeping Bent.”

Q. M. SCOTT & SONS CO.
504 Main Street Marysville, Ohio

Grow Rhododendrons

successfully by reproducing conditions which
these sensitive shrubs enjoy in native environ-
ment. After exhaustive tests conducted at the
famous LaBar Rhododendron Nursery, Strouds-
burg, Penna., we offer

RHODO-GRO

for Rhododendrons Azaleas, Laurels
100 lb. Trial Bag, $5, Your Station.

A trial will convince you that your Ericaceous
Shrubs (Broad-leaved Evergreens), need Rhodo-
Gro. Send check today. We'll ship promptly,
prepaid east of Mississippi River.

HYPER-HUMUS COMPANY © wore for FREE booklets
Newton Dept. 18 New Jersey “Rhodo-Gro”—today.

96

ROCK PLANTS

Now is the ideal time for building
and planting rock gardens. We
grow alpines and rock plants ex-
clusively. _Our beginners’ collec-
tion containing one each Alyssum,
Arabis, Aubrietia, Campanula,
Gypsophila, Alpine pink, Rock
Rose, Iberis, Lychnis, Phlox, Sedum
and Tunica. 12 plants postpaid
for $3.25. Catal gfree on request.

MAYFAIR NURSERIES
Highland Ave., & Orchard St.
Bergenfield, New Jersey

“Rock Plants Only”

Dignified, Exclus
ive Profession no
overrun with competi
tors. Crowded with
opportunity for money
making and big fees. $5,000 to $10,
000 incomes attained by experts. Eas
to master under our correspondenc
methods. Credentials awarded. W
assist students and graduates in gel
ting started and developing their bu:
iness. Established 1916. Write for in
formation; it will open your eyei
Do it to-day!

AMERICAN LANDSCAPE SCHOOL
77-GA, Newark, N. Y.

Help your
Songster

'
|
New and
reliable BOOK On Canat
—that every bird-ownerchould!
especially the amateur. Covers¢
subject. Breeding and mating; ct
for young birds; treating loss of y
roper diet; feeding for color. |
reds of suggestions. 65 pages; 19)
trations—15 in color. Written and |
piled by successful breeder and fan
At your dealer’s or sent POSTPA\ |
Teceipt of 85c. Write today. Th
T. French Company, Rochester,,
Makers of French’s Bird Seed and Supplies fork |

j

@ JoszpH Conrap:
--A SKETCH~

Send 10 cents for this 48
page biographical and bibli- |
ographical booklet, illus —
trated by Edward A
Wilson. |

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

YOUR RUBBISH

GarvEN refuse, such as leaves, cutting
stalks, pea vines, etc., can be converted in|
excellent manure by the use of ADCO. Dri
leaves make excellent manure. Don’t was
them.

ADCO isa powder. Mixed with almost at
non-woody vegetal le waste and kept moist, #|
mass gradually becomes changed into rei
manure, fully equal to the farm-yard pre
uct in fertilizing power, but free from foul od¢
flies, etc. The process ts perfectly simple a!
not at all laborious. Gardeners now can ha’
plenty of manure at low cost and little troub
Farmers, by utilizing straw, corn stalks, et
can secure their manure without the expen
of maintaining live stock.

Your seed hou’e can supply you with |
ADCO, or it can be had direct from
us. Drop usa card and we will gladly
send full particulars free.

DON’T BURN

1738 Ludlow St., Philadelphia, Pa

ADCO

\ PTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Sae Sewage Disposal

for your suburban or country home or camp is a vital problem.

It’s easy to protect health and increase property values with

arkquip Septic Tanks

for water toilets without sewers. No cost to operate. Follows
U. S. Public Health Service design. Thousands in use. No
failures. Fully guaranteed. Easily installed.

. Before You Order

sh ANY eats 39

Shumway’s “Pedigreed” Bulbs oa Any System
Produce the Anticipated Results E 3 e write for San-Equip folders and prices.

Contracts with the Holland growers specified largest sizes. Therefore :
in ordering you are assured the choice of their stock. dom cK co eae will provide San-Equip

Plant bulbs in quantity this fall for a gorgeous display of radiant Ls fe
blooms next Spring. For your consideration a selection of a few of eee Write for Free Plan
the outstanding varieties of Darwin and Breeder Tulips are listed below. = 4 Sheets

Price per
Name Color Hondesd

Clara Butt =." Siimon Pak = °42g | Superfine Collections | _ Chemical Toilet

Valentin - - - - Light Violet - 6.50 H Nl | e
ican --2-- Delicate Lilac - 4.50 Largest Size Bulbs HI : Corporation

Bartigon - - - Carmine Crimson 5.75 :

Baronne de La OF ond Varieties 100 50 s : 838 Free St. Syracuse: N. Y.
Tonnaye - - - Vivid Pink - 4.50 Darwin Tulips 15 $3.75 $1.95 BSRGs

~:InglescombeYellow Clear Yellow - 4.50 | Breeder Tulips 10 -4.00 2.10 ‘ j Makers also of San-Equip Im-

Golden Bronze- - Golden Hue - 5.00 i NG ;
Cardinal Manning Rosy Violet - 5.00 ou es z Be mee 5 x pigs per Ural ees

Zulu - - - - - Almost Black - 4.25 Narcissus . Sos 5D LOO
Special collection of above:

1000 bulbs—100 of each . $42.00 All Prices Include Transportation
500 bulbs— 50o0feach . 21.50 Charges to Your Home

Catalog illustrated in colors lists a great variety of Tulips, Narcissi, Hyacinths,
rocus, Peonies, Lilies, etc. Sent free on request. Write for it today.

R. H. SHUMWAY, Seedsman, Department C

(Established 1870)
118-122 So. First St., Rockford, Ill.

WY

This shows a set-
tion of the garden
on one of Long
Island’s most
princely estates,
with Dubois asthe
background.

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g kennel with partition. Walls and
roof of cedar. Yellow pine floor.

LayING-HouUsE for 12 hens. Complete with nests, Cea
roosts and feeder, Carefully constructed of durable and ee details of
vermin-proof red cedar. Neatly painted. Quickly and ations, details 0.
easily cleaned. There are Hodgson Poultry Houses for construction, and
every size flock. Let us send you catalog X to-day. a partial list of
Hodgson gateways and pergolas lend an _ artistic prominent users
touch to the grounds or garden. Write for free are contained in
iDustrated booklet No. 2 on furnishings for your coun- our portfolio, free

try home. Dee
on request. Sim-
E. F. HODGSON CO. ly mail coupon

1108 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. ane

6 East 39th St., New York Ciry

HODGSON ‘sists power ae
¢ es

BULBS "itt DUBOIS not only";
= 2A HEARED NTS protects ~it frames
eee ee te caine oe ae the pic ture inside

before off red at these low prices. Our

T= by estate owners to prevent that fits in with shrubs and flower-
DARWIN TULIPS trespassing and insure privacy, ing plants of all types. Vines cling
Dubois is also the choice of garden to iteasily. Unlike wire fences it

are of highest quality, gigantic, bright blooms on long, strong lovers because it forms exactly the requires no paint, so that the vines
stems. Immense in size, exquisite in form and coloring. kind of background the modern need never be taken down.
P nl od th landscaping trend requires. Dubois is made of young, split
Special Offer We will mail postpaid the It has the rustic charm, the chestnut saplings, closely woven
following mixed varieties: naturalness, the quiet, neutraltone together. It is moderate in cost.

50 Darwins, 17 Prize Varieties for $1.77 50 Breeders, 20 Prize Varieties for $2.58
100 Darwins, 17 Prize Varieties for 3.24 100 Breeders, 20 Prize Varieties for 4.86

DUBOIS Woven Wood Fence

ROBERT C. REEVES CO.
187 Water St., New York

Special prices on larger quantities. Mail your order today. Prompt shipment guaran

teed. Write today for free copy of our new Fall Bulb Catalog. Tells all about Buckbee’s

Full of Life” Tulips, Hyacinths, Narcissus, Peonies, Jonquils, Crocus, Lilies, Hardy
Perennial Plants, Decorative House Plants, Seeds, Etc.

Hew. BUCKBEE, Rockford Seed Farms Bulb Dept. 17, Rockford, Illinois
= = ome iabeaba halle : on

Please send, without obligation, your
new portfolio illustrating the many -
interesting ways Duboisis beingused.

97

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

SEPTEMBER, 192

>... =

(ed en cp i : I ‘HAT means you can have your greenhouse
at once, so it can be all ready, filled with flow-

ers, when Jack Frost begins using his pincers.

There are a number of things like roses, chrysan-
themums, and carnations, that have to be
started in the next month or so, to give you of
their bloom bounty all winter.

This Sunshine Shop, as it has been called, gives
you 487 square feet of flower-filled June, for
365 days of every year.

$1,700. gives you the complete materials and

402 Coal Exchange Bldg.

Balance In 12 Payments

Hitchings eh Gmp any

General Offices and Factory

New York : Oak Lane, Philadelphia J
101 Park Ave. Elizabeth, N. J. 6701 N. Broad St. —
Wilkes Barre Albany, N. Y. Boston )

P. O. Box 921

Se SSIES

‘

$1,700
$565 In Cash

entire equipment, ready for easy, quick erection.
Everything is furnished right down to putty,
paint, nails and screws, also benches and heat-
ing system. There are no extras. All you
need add is the slight cost of concrete filled
holes for the few posts and the cost of erection,
which any carpenter and plumber can do, but
we will gladly quote you our price to erect the
house.

Send at once for the booklet giving detailed
facts and additional views of the Sunshine
Shop.

161 Massachusetts Ave.

I

a
Phloxes

Over 300 Varieties

Conrad’s First Command

RUDYARD
KIPLING.

( Who is able to
reach you, talk to
you in your own

For many years I have
been collecting and breed-
ing Hardy Phloxes. I now
have the most unusual
collection in America.

SEND FOR LIST

There is no flower in the
Garden to compare in bril-
liance or variety of color
with these beautiful Phloxes.
Many of them combine fra-
grance with rare and un-
usual colors.

W. F. SCHMEISKE
Hardy Phloxes My Specialty
Hospital Station
Binghamton New York

HE illustration shown above is one of those

prepared by Mr. Edward A. Wilson, who
illustrated Iron Plen and Wooden Ships, for the
booklet, Joseph @onrad-.A Sketch.

This booklet contains 48 pages of interesting and
little-known facts about Conrad’s life and about
his books, together with many critical estimates
of his work.

Write for Joseph (@onrad---A Sketch, enclosing ten

cents to cover costs.

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
GARDEN JCITY, N= Y.

98

language, portray
your own emotion,
convulse you with
laughter or hold you
spellbound __ before
pathos or power

like Kipling?
Buy his books.

ATA |
BOOKSTORES}

architects

Clhree

reaSONS

why

Microscopic Enlargement

THE wearing qualities of
Preston Brinctes depend
not only on the quality
but also on the quantity
of asphalt which each
shingle contains. If you
examine the edgeofa
Preston Shingle you will
notice that it is practically
a solid body of asphalt.
This feature of Preston
Shingles accounts for their
remarkable wearing qual-
ities.

House designed by Mr. Le-
land H. Lyon, Architect, 402
Madison Avenue, New York
City, showing Preston Mas-
sive Rectangular Shingles.

select PRESTON SHINGLES

RESTON Shingles harmonize per-

fectly with any type of architec-
ture. Foursoft color tones— Red, Blue-
black, Green and Sunset—are pro-
duced by the slate particles with
which they are surfaced.

endurance. This is due not only to
this thickness but because they are a
solid body of asphalt.

Whether you are planning to build
or re-roof you will find many valuable
suggestions in our free book ‘‘The
Magic Touch of Preston Roofing.” It
is beautifully illustrated to show the
color effects of Preston Shingles. We
shall also be glad to give you the name
of a dealer in your neighborhood who
can supply you with Preston Roofing.

Preston Shingles produce a distinct
shadow line. Preston ““Massive’’ is the
thickest flexible asphalt shingle on the
market, and one-third thicker than a
standard No. | Slate Shingle.

Preston Shingles have remarkable

KEYSTONE ROOFING MANUFACTURING COMPANY .- Dept. f-5 YORK, PENNSYLVANIA

Preston

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PAR OH HS

Dont delay the pleasure of smoking
Lucky Strike —learn now what
‘It's Toasted’ really means to you

LUCKY STRIKE

“IT’S TOASTED”

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FALL PLANTED
ROSES SUCCEED

More and more each year, keen Rose amateurs are convinced

that autumn planting 1s best.

The ground is mellow and the days are pleasant to work in.
The plants are fresh from the ground, not withered warehouse
stock, are full of vim and vitality, eager to take hold
on the soil and to snap into vigorous growth at the first

command of spring.

Carefully written instructions for fall planting are

embodied in the 1926-1927

Supplement to

OSES

By Bobbink & Atkins

A colorful, illustrated booklet describing ac-
curately, and with strict impartiality, all the
latest and rarest NOVELTIES OF RECENT YEARS.

The Supplement is now ready to be mailed to our friends and to those
it. Other recent Roses and standard varieties will

who write to us for it.

be found in the original ROSES BY

will be sent upon request to interested people who do not have it, and
who mention Garden & Home Builder.

Novelties are the spice of Rose growing.
Quick and Economical means of keeping in step with modern Rose progress:

Ariel

Betty

Comtesse du Cayla
Edel

Killarney Queen

Los Angeles

Miss Lolita Armour
Mme. Butterfly

Mme. Edouard Herriot
Mme. Jules Bouche
Mrs. Franklin Dennison
Red Premier

Red Radiance

Red Star

Silver Columbia

This group of 15 Modern Roses
specially Priced at

¥12

These special prices are for Fall shipment by express only

Write for information if you are inter-
ested in Chinese Magnolias, Japanese
Maples, Japanese Cherries, Azalea Pontica
and Mollis, Koster’s Moerheimi Blue
Spruce and other Evergreens for fall and
early winter planting.

Many old-fashioned flowers, in old and
new varieties, are described and priced in
our catalogue “Hardy Herbaceous Plants.”
If you intend to plant perennials, write
for a copy.

BOBBINK & ATKINS, which

These two groups of Roses offer a

Capt. F. Bald

Eldorado

Etoile de Hollande
Independence Day
Innocence

Mme. Alexandre Dreux
Mrs. Henry Morse

Padre

Pax Labor

The Queen Alexandra Rose
Rev. F. Page-Roberts
Souy. de Claudius Pernet
Souv. de Georges Pernet
Souv. de George Beckwith
Venus

This group of 15 novelties spe-
cially priced at Pen? $90

BOBBINK & ATKINS

_ Reverend F. Page-Roberts, the Rose
illustrated above, is a supremely georgeous
flower with immense buds of gold and
coppery yellow, and blooms of luscious
sweetness.

The great demand for it has proved the
soundness of our judgment that it is one of

Ask for
Catalog

Visit
Nursery
the finest Roses of late years. The pic-
ture is from Roses by Bobbink & Atkins.

Strong plants $2 each.

Rutherford New Jersey

In writing for catologs it 1s important to stale what you intend to plant.

ee

-TOBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Wherever the Mediterranean influence enters nothing can take the place of colored stucco

YOUR HOME IN COLORED

STUCCO

Now, at low cost, you can have this beauty—with
complete assurance of strength and durability

To almost every type of home colored
stucco brings an added charm.

For the popular Mediterranean
style—Spanish or Italian—and the
English or French cottage no other
material is so beautifully fitting.

You will be surprised to find how
economically you can secure the charm
of colored stucco plus great strength
and permanency of construction—
with Bishopric.

Bishopric is a wnit-wallconstruction.
It consists of (1) a patented reinforcing
base, (2) a stucco, and (3) an attrac-
tive color finish. All three materials
are designed and made to be used to-
gether. They combine to form a
unit-wall—not a wall made from mis-
cellaneous materials mixed together.

The result is a coherence and
strength of construction obtainable
only with Bishopric. The diagram at
the right illustrates why this is so.

Bishopric is also economical. The
base may be applied directly to stud-

THE BISHOPRIC MFG. CO.

WATERPROOF
FIBER BOARD

LAYER OF
ASPHALT

NAIL GOES
THRU TO STUD} |

SEE HOW BASE
AND STUCCO
INTERLOCK

ESS LS abe Ee GaN TT oWwAL L

Its insulating reinforcement is Bishopric
Base, nailed fast to the studdings.
Bishopric Base consists of finest quality
fibre-board (with felt for insulation),
heavily coated with asphalt mastic. Into
this, bone dry creosoted wood bars are
embedded under great pressure. Bish-
opric Base comes complete to the job
and can be applied by one man. Its
special insulation keeps the house warm-
er in winter and cooler in summer.
Over this base is applied Bishopric
Stucco, locking into the grooves pro-
vided by the Bishopric Base and form-
ing a complete wall unit. Note how
stucco and base lock together.
Bishopric Stucco is mixed in exact,
scientifically determined proportions and
is shipped in air-tight metal drums.
Finally, Bishopric Sunfast Finish is
applied, adding the charm of lovely
color. There are many attractive tints
for the home-builder to choose from.

310 Este Avenue, Cincinnati, O.

Enclosed find 10 cents (stamps

dings, producing a stronger, warmer
wall than sheathing, metal base, and
stucco—and the cost 1s less.

In addition, Bishopric provides ef-
fective insulation, keeping your home
warmer in winter and cooler in sum-
mer. It reduces your fuel bills and
increases living comfort.

Bishopric Stucco is also applied
with excellent results over hollow tile,
concrete blocks, and similar materials.

Send for New Booklet

Our new deluxe booklet, ‘“The Ren-
aissance of Colored Stucco,” contains
page after page of valuable informa-
tion and interesting suggestions.
Fully illustrated in color. Before you
make further plans send for this auth-
oritative and helpful book. Enclose
IO cents with coupon below.

ke BISHOPRIC MANUFACTURING &@

ESTE AVE, CINCINNATI, OHIO
CJke BISHOPRIC MFG. CO, OF CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES

Print NAMEAND ADDRESS PLAINLY

or wrapped coin) for which please

send me your new booklet, ““The

Renaissance of Colored Stucco.

”

99

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER OcTOBER, 19

STEA7= te,

<EL

Uy ee NS

Dogwood, Planted in October, Will Bloom in May

20 /HEKO. 1OWVARO, TONRNO. (0 ZRIRO. OMIT CVENEO, 0 Ae. oe. ORO: 22)

Lovett’s---Headquarters for

For Fall Plantin
5 Rambler Roses---To be planted NOW!

SIX GOOD REASONS

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ALL planted climbing roses should make a modest showing of flowers next

. & June. Moreover, their early start next spring will cause them to make a
are given on page 20 of , very much larger cane growth during the summer, resulting in greater bloom-
P ing power the following year.
ROSEDALE B EL . We grow over a score of the best varieties. Among them we value particularly the various
é Van Fleet Hybrids. And among those, the prize goes to
s THE LOVELY LOVETT SISTERS
° ¥ Alida Lovett: Bright shell pink with sulphur yellow base. Quite fragrant.
which offers a wonderfully ; Hee bee ae ooo flowers of a clear bright red. Profuse bloomer,
. 5 4 Sa peme eee $1.00 each; fay oe aa ie
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‘ complete List for the Planter : Maite climbing too im cultivation, $1.9 each; 10000 Gem |
F] | Special Offer: One strong, field grown plant of each of above
* | three lovely climbers for $3.00.
i HERE are still two months, October and November, |B Segiatag 1 Soa
for safe planting of many Perennials, Roses, Shrubs and | LOVETT’S NURSERY Box 125, Little Silver, N. J.
Trees. 3 -
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| Be on the safe side! Place your order now, even though 3) S$) |
: your ground may not be ready for planting until Spring. | : RARE PLANTS FROM HICKS |
; Rosedale has a great reputation. Out of an order this | Nl : |
; Spring, of 213 Roses, only one failed. Of a landscape | Ni Unusual Plants Brighten
‘i planting of $4,159, less than $10.00 failed. fe i
i Al Home Grounds for Years |
; Shade Trees—Fruit Trees Fi 2 Every year rare plants should be added to your garden |
‘ . * treasures. This fall you may replace some older things, as
We offer fine specimen Deciduous Trees in sizes up | St you replace home furnishings; you may discard less desit-
ta to: 35 ce These Trees have repeatedly been transplanted | & able varieties for those that add value to the garden. Hicks
| or “root-pruned” in the Nurseries; planted now, they Hy Si Nurseries have a great collection of rare plants—unusual
: will start to grow with the first warm days of Spring, | Si plants—that will give the results you are looking for.
| and the larger ones will at once produce definite land- : Si :
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2 | Gh Spreading Cotoneaster (C. divaricata) feeds the birds all win- .
R For many years, we have made a specialty of supply- i Ni ter with little apple-like fruits; extra good plants $2.50 each.
*. ing carefully grown Fruit Trees which are old enough *| Si Vernal Witchhazel (Hamamelis vernalis) blooms in Febru-
Hi} to bear. These Trees will pay for themselves in time a | leap oe red and yellow flowers. Plants 2 to 3 feet
| saved. . eae a
. | 3 Cornelian Cherry (Cornus mas) a glow of yellow in early 1
‘ Our Catalog abounds in planting suggestions. Write | Gi April. Plants 2 to 3 feet high, 75 cents each.
i for your copy. » Asiatic Sweetleaf (Symplocus paniculata) known also as
* y PY ® Si Turquoise Berry, has robin’s-egg blue berries in autumn. A
5 Visitors are welcome at Rosedale any day but Sunday. E Gy rare, oe Se growing 12 to 15 feet high. Good plants, |!
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: ie 66 : : : z ts alfa score of new Barberries are available; a collection O! {
: terial. “5 Prices as Low as Consistent with Highest | Ss) Cotoneasters; a new Yew (Taxus media Hicksi) which is
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Ie | Ni ver and crimson foliage; Scotch Heather in variety. 7
le ¢| S We shall be glad to send you further news about the rare plants at
; D OSEDALE N URSERIE + Nil Hicks Nurseries. For almost 75 years we have been trying new i
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1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

CErOBER,

Here they are, in all their Glory—
and You may enjoy them, too

Certain varieties among the late or May flowering Tulips we consider stand-
ards. We generally grow these in large enough quantities to fill all requirements.
But last year we had to report ‘‘sold out’ long before the end of the planting
season, for there ts a limit to

‘“‘Bulbs in a Class All their Own’’

The pictures of our Show Grounds above and below illustrate what Zandbergen Bulbs will do
a go We ntge prompt orders because the supply of top notch bulbs of the kind we offer is
ways limited.

Holland’s Pride—the Glorious Darwin Tulips

The perfect cup-shape of the substantial flowers together with their tall stems and bright colors
make Darwins deservedly the most popular Tulips.

Pride of Holland—Brilliant carmine-rose with blue
base. Dozen 60c.; Hundred $4.00.

Clara Butt—Pink flushed salmon-rose. The most pop-
ular in its class. Dozen 55c.; Hundred $3.50

Faust—Enormous satiny purple flowers with white base.
Ee for exhibition purposes. Dozen $1.00; Hundred

7.00.

Baron De La Tonnaye—Bright rose, margin flushed rose.
Superb border variety. Dozen 60.; Hundred $4.00.

Dream—Pale heliotrope, inside deep violet with blue
base. Dozen 65c; Hundred $4.50.

Euterpe—Silvery mauve lilac, edged paler lilac.
65c.; Hundred $4.50.

Mr. Farncombe Sanders—Brilliant rosy red of great
size and perfect shape. Dozen 65c.; Hundred $4.50.

Dozen

6 Magnificent Breeders

The so-called art colors as well as bronze,
brown and buff tones predominate in this class.

Bronze Queen—Soft buff, tinged golden bronze within.
Dozen 70c.; Hundred $5.00.

Turenne—Purplish brown with broad margin of soft
yellow. Dozen $1.35; Hundred $10.00.

Panorama—One of the most brilliant—a deep orange
shaded mahogany. Dozen $1.15; Hundred $8.00.

Don Pedro—Coffee brown with golden brown edge. Mag-
nificent planted with tall light colored varieties. Dozen
$1.35; Hundred $10.00.

Jaune d’Oeuf—Lively apricot with broad stripe of lilac.
Dozen 90c.; Hundred $6.00.

Cardinal Manning—Dull wine red flushed rosy bronze.
Dozen 90c.; Hundred $6.00.

Personal checks acceptable.

prompt delivery.

Five per cent. discount where cash accompanies order.

Flamingo—Flushed tinted rose; of graceful form. Dozen
70c.; Hundred $5.00.

King Harold—Brilliant purple-red with
Dozen 70c.; Hundred $5.00.

La Tulipe Noir—Very dark maroon-black. The famous
black Tulip of history. Dozen 75c.; Hundred $6.00.
Princess Elizabeth—Stately upright clear pink. Grand

bedding variety. Dozen $1.15; Hundred $8.00.

Prof. Rauwenhoff—Ripe cherry-red, inside golden scar-
let with a brilliant blue center. Dozen 90c.; Hundred
$6.00.

Rev. Ewbank—Soft lavender-violet, tinted lighter at
edges. Dozen 60c. Hundred $4.00.

Psyche—Silver rose, edged soft rose.
Hundred $4.50.

white base.

Dozen 65c.;

Lovely Cottage Bulbs

Perhaps the longest lasting of all late flower-
ing bulbs and of particular value, therefore, for
the hardy border.

Mrs. Moon—Rich golden yellow with recurving petals.
Dozen 70c.; Hundred $5.00.

The Fawn—Rosy fawn, brilliant flushed rose with edge.
Dozen 65c.; Hundred $4.50.

Picotee—The ever lovely Maiden Blush; white margined
rose. Dozen 60c.; Hundred $4.00.

Orange King—Deep orange, shaded rose.
grant. Dozen 60c.; Hundred $4.00

Sirene—Easily the most popular of all the Lily-flowering
Tulips. A rich cerise-pink with pale pink margins on
each petal. Dozen $1.25; Hundred $9.00.

Slightly fra-

Write for Free Catalogue—But Order Direct from this Advertisement

The bulbs offered above are all the late Tulips on hand here at Oyster Bay.
you make up your order from this advertisement.
Please do not ask us to open an account for less than $10.00.

We suggest that
Our free catalogue is yours for the asking.

Early ordering is urged and we promise

ZANDBERGEN BROS., “Tulipdom” Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York

Nurseries at Valkenburg, near Leiden, Holland

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

OcTOBER,

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Sptreas

Astilbes, or Herbace-
ous Spireas have always
been objects of admira-
tion in the hardy bor-
der. A specialist par-
ticularly fond of them
has been doing great
work in creating new
varieties of extraordi-
nary vigor, some of them
22 of exceptionally graceful

: habit of growth. The
new Arendsi Hybrids of Astilbes will truly glorify any
situation during late June and early July when they
bear tall spikes of delightfully colored flowers. Some
are of most graceful drooping habit, as for instance Gran-
dis Rosea Maxima, shown in field above. All these
new hybrids are amazingly drouth and heat resistant,
hence are particularly valuable for sections having trying
climatic conditions. And, of course, all are ‘‘as hardy

as Oaks.’ So, plant them NOW!

Here are some Outstanding Leaders:

Betsy Cuperius: Plants 5 feet tall are covered with lovely drooping plumes
2 feet long. Pale pink, with pink center.
Brunhilde: Thick, clear lilac flower spikes.
Ceres: Fine, rosy lilac. Showy garden variety.
Freule Van Den Bosch: Magnificent dark pink, about 3 feet high.
Grandis, Rosea Maxima: Drooping spikes. Flowers creamy white with
pink centers, 4-5 feet.
Gruno: Of graceful spreading habit. Color, a beautiful tint of salmon pink.
Marguerite Van Rechteren: Four feet tall, with flower spikes 3 fect long.
Bright red tinged with dark lilac.
Meta Immink: Dense spikes of pleasing pink.
Prof. V. D. Wielen: Enormous stems of small, pure white flowers. Each
$1.00; 3 for $3.00; dozen $10.00.
Salland: Five foot stems. Fine red flowers. Each $1.00; 3 for $2.75; dozen
$10.00.
Vesta: Tall, lilac-rose flowers. Each $1.00; 3 for $3.00; dozen $10.00.
Any of above, 80 cents each; $2.25 for 3; $7.00 per dozen; except the three
last vcrieties priced individually.
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3 each of above fine sorts... -....- .2.2+..5.5. 22.50
6 each of above fine sorts. ....... Rennes LOY)

Transportation Charges Extra

Besides the varieties offered above, we grow a dozen or more different kinds in va-
rious colors and different habits of growth. All of them are fully described in our
new fall catalogue offering the greatest collection of Hardy Perennials grown in
America. Your request for a free copy of this catalogue will be appreciated, and
please mention this magazine.

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ing Dog’s Tooth Violets (Erythroniums).
While natives of California they readily become
acclimated anywhere, thriving in any soil and
situation. Bulbs now ready for immediate plant-
ing, in the following varieties :-—
Americanum—cream colored flowers, foliage richly mottled.
Americanum Albidum—the white flowered form, with plain
green foliage.
Grandiflorum—with bright yellow flowers.
Hendersonii—a lovely light purple flowered sort.
Revolutum—white, tinted lilac and occasionally turns purple.
Any of above 10 for $1.00

I will supply 20 each of above 5 splendid

Special Offer: sorts (100 bulbs in all), all properly labeled,
for $8.00.

Lilies, too, and Azaleas

And the two go well together! The most charm-
ing picture can be created, for instance, by scat-
tering clumps of our native Lilies (Canadense,
Grayi, Philadelphicum and superbum) among
Azaleas. Rhododendrons, Laurel and other broad-
leaved evergreens. The shrubs shade the Lilies,
while young. They in turn lend color late in
the season.

Offer: 37, cing i bulbs is 00g aa
Azaleas continue to be one of my leading special-
ties and I never had a finer lot, in the six leading
varieties, than those to be sold this fall. All are
shipped with a substantial ball of earth to insure
success in transplanting.

A Catalog of Special Appeal
to Nature Lovers

It is unlike any other. The greater part of its 40 pages
are devoted to wild flowers, ferns and other plant mate-
rials especially adapted for creating naturalistic gardens.
Whether you go in for rockgardening or water gardens,
for ‘“‘old-fashioned”’ gardens or the ultra-modern type—
I believe my catalog will prove helpful. Free, of course,
and please mention Garden & Home Builder.

EDWARD GILLETT

Fern and Flower Farm

3 Main Street, Southwick, Mass.

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TULIPS

BURPEE'S

TULIP GARDEN COLLECTION
100 Tulip Bulbs for $4.50, delivered.

This is a real opportunity to have a showy display of stately mammoth-
flowered Tulips, turning your spring garden into a riot of colors.

We will send you ten good strong bulbs each of ten different varieties
our selection. Each variety will be accurately labeled and we shall in-
clude Darwin Tulips, Cottage Tulips, Breeder Tulips, Early Single
Tulips, and Double Tulips of our own choice. There is a place in al-
most ae garden where a hundred tulip bulbs of various types will fit
in well.

Order No. 9799 Tulip Garden Collection, delivered, for $4.50.
Write for a free copy of Burpee’s Bulb Catalog.

W. ATLEE BURPEE CO.

Seed Growers Philadelphia

Plant Roses
this Fall!

For quantities of roses next summer, plant “Star Roses”

Fall!

Fall planting gives the roses time to become firmly established,
the opportunity to start slowly and naturally with the first
warm days of Spring, and the vigor to withstand the drought
of Summer.

this

“Star Roses” are the roses that are GUARANTEED to live
and to bloom. Just plant as usual and give the regular Win-
ter protection. Every ‘Star Rose” is labeled with a neat
celluloid star tag—the symbol of our gusrantee—which carries
the name of the rose. Simple concise directions for planting

and care accompany every order.

Send for the “Fall Guide to Good Roses”
colors the sensational! prize-winniny
tose, ““Souv. de Georges Pernet”’
—and over 100 other varieties for
Fall planting.

and see in natural

Write today. The “Fall Guide to
Good Roses” will be sent FREE.

THE CONARD-PYLE CO.
% Star Rose Growers

Box 24 West Grove, Penna.

To enjoy them together in your own garden next season

Plant Schlings Bulbs This Fall

pat and Cottage, single and double, early and late,—
their lovely cups brimming with color and nodding a merry
“good morning” to you every day for weeks—from early April to
June in fact—How can you afford to miss them!

To bring the joys of Tulip time to as many as possible we make
the following very special offers, all bulbs guaranteed top size and
very first quality, ;

100 Single Early Tulips in 10 named varieties . ES O.50
100 Double Early Tulips in 10 named varieties . . 7.50

*100 Darwin Tuli »s in 10 named varieties. Immense flowers
on stems 2} feet tall . . 5.50

*100 Cottage Tulips in 10 named varieties. The Tulips of
randmother’s garden . . 5.50

*100 Breeder or Art Tulips in 10 named varieties. In form
like Darwins, wonderful pastel shades . 8.50

100 Grape Hyacinths, Heavenly, Bos Delightful i in the
Border or Rockery . 4.50
100 Daffodils for Naturaticing : 8.50

100 Glory of the Snow blue (Chionodoxa) ‘loveliest earliest
Spring flowers for naturalizing . ..... 4.00
100'Poet’s Narcissi = 5 5 2 2 3 ss 3 es 10.00
100:Crocusin 4:colorssmie) co a) 6 Gee ae en 4.00

1000 Total Value . - . $64.50

Order any variety above at prices listed or the entire col- 85 5:00
JectiontofelOO00ichoice bulbs eee ee eee

*Bloom in May and June. All the rest bloom in April and May—the
Crocus earliest of all, as soon as the snow melts.

Three Very Special Bulb Offers

Very exceptional values at these prices

Offer d—100 Darwin Tulips $4.00

Choicest, first class bulbs, sure to bloom. Special mixture made
up especially for us from ten of the finest named varieties—not
at all the ordinary field-grown mixture usually sold.

A $6.00 value for only $4.00 or if you prefer, 50 bulbs for $2.50

oo} <n) Gap

Offer B—The Heralds of Spring

2 @) @) of these lovely Spring beauties, 25 each of the 87.00

following 8 named varieties for

Snowdrops (Single) ; Glory of the Snow, Blue; Grape Hyacinths,
heavenly blue; Biue ’Squills (Scilla sibirica); Blue Bells (Scilla
campanulata); White Blue Bells, Wood Hyacinths | (Scilla Nu-
tans); Winter ’Aconites.

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Offer C—Virginia Grown
DAFFODILS and NARCISSI

FOR NATURALIZING and LAWN PLANTING

Our Old Dominion Collection in choicest
100 mixture of airy and medium Trumpets, short
cupped and lovely Poet's varieties. All first
Bulbs quality bulbs grown in Virginia where their
$8 50 culture has flourished since Colonial days.
These bulbs, being native, are fully acclima-
tized and none better can be grown anywhere.
The supply will not equal the demand. Order

at once!

Send for Fall Bulb List—Many other enticing values

Schlings Bulbs

MAX SCHLING SEEDSMEN, INC.,
Madison Avenue, at 58th Street, New York City

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

The ‘Divine Sarah”
A FIRST PRIZE WINNER

Al pst above vase of twenty blooms of Sarah Bernhardt was
one of our first prize winners, decided by expert judges
the most perfect deep pink peony at the National Peony
Show June, 1926.

This exquisite variety was also very prominent in our Grand Gold
Medal Class, this medal being awarded us for the largest and finest exhibit,
in-keen competition:with‘other growers-from:all parts of the United States.

Only Peonies of Unequalled Quality—Color—Form and Fragrance can
win these special prizes, and in the combinations offered below, we have
selected varieties possessing all of these superior qualities.

There are no flowers that will add greater value or more beauty to
your home than Peonies and we offer you the opportunity to secure for
your own garden the finest grown, Real Gold Medal Winners at a nom-
inal cost.

5 Fine Peonies for $3.00

Adolph Rousseau, garnet-red ..................0.-

Felix:Crousse,pruby-red seme rece eee ath:
Festiva Maxima, whitesenoe ooo ee eee -50
Germaine’ Bigot, lilicpinks-pee eee nee lee ee 1.00

Suzette, carmine-rose...... Raseas lrckagiras
Value

5 Exquisite Single and Japanese Peonies $7.50

Each

L’Etincelante (single,) brilliant carmine.............. $2.00
Rosy Dawn (single,) white tinted blush.............. 1.50
Ruigegno (Japanese,) rich deep maroon............... 4.00
umagoe (Japanese,) deep violaceous pink striped white 1.00
Weso Gjapanese,) tamtublish, ogee een crease tine 50)
Value $11.00

4 Gold Medal Peonies $5.00

Karl Rosefield, dark crimson....................... $2.00
Lady Alexandra Duff, flesh pink.................. 3.50
Mme. Emile’ Lemoine, whites -. 50-00.) -00--0 1200
Sarah Bernhardt, deep soft pink ............ 2.00

; Value $8.50

5 Gold Medal Peonies $10.00

Dr. H. Barnsby, deep red

Mme. Jules Dessert, blush, Smee ie eas 4.00
Rachel (Lemoine,) sparkling pink .................... 4.00
Solange, deep creamy white ............. 5.00
Venus, soft hydrangea pink, .c.- ase ee ee. 1.50

Value $17.00

We ship strong 3 to 5 eye divisions which bloom the first year and
guarantee them true to name and free from disease. Prices cover Delivery
Charges to YOU.

Our illustrated catalog “Peonies for Every Purpose,” a complete story
of the finest varieties of double, single and Japanese peonies, mailed free on
request.
American Rose & Plant Company

Producers of Plants that Grow and Bloom

Dept. E Springfield, Ohio

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Conspicuus—Broad soft yellow petals and short wide mouth cup of darker yellow edgec
with red, lasting in water longer than any other Narcissus

Ever Think of an

Income from Flowers?

There are among Garden & Home Builder readers
hundreds, yes, thousands, who live within 24 hours
of the highest paying markets in the East. Even as
small a piece of land as roox120 feet will yield
thousands of flowers worth so many cents each,
And money invested in bulbs from which to grow
the flowers may be likened to a gold bond—the
flowers pay the golden interest while the bulbs rep.
resent the capital investment which, too, is multi
plying beneath the soil.

Two good varieties for outdoor cut flowers are

|
Barri Conspicuus and Poeticus Recurvus |

bloom next Spring if planted during September for $25.00 pei

Cash with the order.

1,000 or $5.00 per 100. Do not hesi:

tate to order at once.

Three Other Fine Kinds

Those whose space is rather limited may be interested in th«
following choicer kinds: |
Doz.
Alba Plena odorata—Double pure white flow-
ers Ol pronounced fraprance sys eee $1.00 $7.50 $50.00
Leedsi, Mrs. Langtry—White perianth, dainty
Canatyayellovscup). cameron ean ee 5
Leedsi, Minnie Hume—Broad, white petals
wideiy expanded pale lemon-yellow cup...... 75

100 1000

6.00 50.00

6.00 50.00

Please ask for Free Booklet

A modest 24-page ‘“‘printed” salesman serving as index to the
largest collection of Daffodils in the United States. Also of
fers American grown Tulips, Iris of many species, Lilies, etc.

etc. Please write for your copy, mentioning Garden & Home
Builder. ;

GEORGE LAWLER Bulb Grower

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Gardenvilk, Lacoma, Wash_

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These can be bought in flowering size planting bulbs that wil
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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Garden Full
of Darwin

Tulips
for $290

1% anticipation of again placing before
our customers a collection of Darwin
Tulips we have had a sufficient quantity
grown so that we can offer

50 Giant Darwin Tulip Bulbs
Finest Mixed, for $2.00

Selected from fifteen named varieties

Few Spring flowering plants rival the Darwin Tulip.
They are a wonderful addition to the flower garden.

Plant any time before the ground becomes frozen, and they
will bloom from the middle of May to Decoration Day.

Mention this advertisement and send Check, Money Order, Cash or Stamps, or
call at our store, and secure this exceptional collection, sent prepaid to any pointin
the U. S. east of the Mississippi. For points West and Canada, add 25c. ($ 2. 25).

For those desiring Darwin Tulips in separate varieties, so the colors may be studied,

we offer a Collection of 10 each of 10 varieties separately labeled for $5.00.

Our Fall Bulb Catalogue containing a complete list of High Quality Bulbs
for Autumn Planting sent on request.

Simp Wale

30-32 Barclay Street New York

Aran as [Ee Ones”

Acres of Beautiful Blooms

The ahove view of one of the Brand Peony

Farms was taken the last week in June, 1924,

@ week after the National Peony Show at
Des Moines, Iowa.

The World’s Most Beautiful Peonies

NEVER before in our more than fifty years growing peonies have we had such an
unusually large assortment of wonderful choice varieties as we are offering for this
fall planting. Flowers from this stock, competing with those entered by all other
growers, won the three highest prizes at the greatest National Peony Show ever held.

Brand’s Peonies awarded Gold and Silver Medals at National
Peony Show.

Brand’s Peonies awarded Grand Sweepstakes at St. Paul
Peony Show.

Brand’s Peonies awarded American Peony Society Medal at
Minneapolis Peony Show.

You will want some of these, the world’s choicest and most beautiful peonies, for your
fall Planting, therefore, write to-day for Brand’s Free catalog of Peonies and Iris, giv-
ing varieties with full description, and prices. BRAND’S BIG PEONY MANUAL,
which we consider the most complete and up-to-date work ever written on the Peony,
gives the history of that flower, its culture and varieties. This also will be sent free
to all who intend to purchase roots this fall who ask for it.

Growers of “Peonies for nearly 60 years

THE BRAND PEONY FARMS
Box 23 Faribault, Minn.

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Graceful and Lasting—
May-flowering or Tu li ps

Cottage Garden
le blooming season these fit happily in between

the early Tulips and the late flowering Darwins
and Breeders. They are of most graceful form, with y
pointed petals charmingly recurving and exposing, in
many instances, differently shaded centers. Asa class
they are particularly long lived hence most valuable for
the hardy, old-fashioned border. The following are ex-
ceedingly showy, averaging from 18 to 24 inches high.

The Fawn—Fawn or
color suffused with rose.

Le Reve (Hobbema)—A

masterpiece in old rose.
Moonlight—The finest pale

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Gesneriana Spathulata Ma-
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Inglescombe Pink—Salmon

buff pink. yellow.
Inglescombe Yellow— Fine Mrs. Moon—The finest golden
globular yellow. yellow.

Orange King—Brilliant
orange, shaded scarlet.

Picotee or Maiden Blush—
pure white, edged with pink.

John Ruskin—Apricot-rose
with pale yellow margin.

La Merveille—Salmon-rose
blended orange-red.

The best way to get acquainted with these charming tulips is to
take advantage of the following advantageous

Collection Offer

$2.00 $ 6.50
3.50 12.00

If wanted by Parcel Post, add 5% to value of order to rst, 2nd and 3rd zones;
10% to 4th, 5th and 6th zones; 15% to 7th and 8th zones.

Fall Catalogue Now Ready &

12 each of above 12 sorts.
25 each of above 12 sorts.

3 each of above 12 sorts.
6 each of above 12 sorts.

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this catalogue for which please ask, mentioning this publication. Took

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Eaten Enclowe the Summer Porch
Reproductions fo r E all

A. Louise Fillebrown

The House of |
Oak and Pin

Built in Ipswich on the King
Highway (Old Bay Roa
about 1690.

4% E HAVE enjoyed the small side porch all during the hot
weather, but now the nights are chilly and even during the
= day it seems too cool for comfort. It is time to consider
LOAN making it equally useful for the colder months. In many
honees this porch is about ten feet square, with an enclosed

rail about three feet high all the way around it. The three sides are
open and usually there are double glass doors opening into the living
room. It is really very simple to make this into a lovely sunroom, and
since it adds another room to the small house it is well worth the

This house, one of five, is 1
setting for

FURNITURE OF
AMERICAN
OAK AND PINE

expense.
Colonial Fireside First get a good carpenter to plan the glass enclosures. They should
Wing Chair be gee wid a epee pe ee and ere we oe oa HOOKED RUGS.
we pratt oC an aetna Ne Paeegs| D Teresa cert 1 Mente place should @on atten ee ee eee |
manship by. skilled craftsmen. All exposed ft they are circular, t nen t e glass should go inside 0 them, using them Our collection of New En
and-law, feet, Upholstered, in. smart, durable pee a pees Beene: Personally | like Bs: glass panes land Hooked Rugs is at i
Seured denim, solate, | bine Serovar erence to be the small oblong type about 8 Tiles with small mouldings best. Many hundreds
Dury hai et pee oe ae between. It gives a charm to the exterior, as well as making it a little choose from.
48 inches high, 23 inches deep, 27 inches wide. easier to plan curtains. It is not so necessary to have many curtains,
Price $49.50, F. O. B. Boston with these cross lines to add interest to the openings. Send for Burnham’s Hook

Sent on_ receipt of price or C€.0.D, with
$20.00 deposit.

We have shipped our furniture to all parts of

Rug book, mailed for on

In the porch, use a corn yellow cotton voile for the draperies, as it é
25c in stamps. Fifty desig

the United States—furnishing homes com- harmonizes well with a house of brown shingles or any other neutral

plete. We pack carefully and_ guarantee do- . * . in illustration and com le
livery in perfect condition. Every Winthrop color. It also gives a cheery, sunny effect that 1s very good for winter. F

Reproduction is guaranteed to be exactly as : e z, r instructions.

represented. Money | returned without ques- These draperies hang only at the corners of the porch, and at the ends

10n on any purchase. rite or our ort - .

folio R-10 of other Colonial Reproductions in where it meets the house wall. That means four lengths, of the full

Maple and Mahogany, also Banjo clocks. . Fi é J B h 9 .

WE HAVE A FEW OPENINGS FOR REP- width of the material. To make them a little wider and to add urnham s Antique

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bi te sides of the draperies. A ten-inch shirred valance goes all the way

WINTHROP FURNITURE CO. around the top of the porch and may be of a figured glazed chintz, green, Ipswich Massachuse

424 Park Sq. Bldg. Boston, Mass.

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yellow, orange, and black, in a small design. Bind this with the plain
green, but only about a half inch binding this time.

If the floor is stained and rather worn from the storms, cover it with
a green and tan linoleum, in a charming tile pattern that closely re-
sembles a real tiled floor. Over this an oval grass rug, preferably the
type made in India, which is much heavier and rougher in texture than
the usual run of porch rugs. A warm tan color with lines of dark brown
would fit.

Ii the furniture is to have a new coat of paint choose bright orange,
like the design in the chintz, and trim it with touches of brown, so dark
that it is almost black. The seat cushions and other pillows may be
made of chintz like the valance, and the design may be copied for a
decoration at either end of the green oilcloth table runners. This is
painted on the oilcloth with regular oil colors.

The electric fixture in the middle of the ceiling may be tapped with
an extension wire to permit a floor plug. With a double socket in this,
you may have an iron bridge lamp, and use the other outlet for heating
the electric coffee pot, when the porch does service as a breakfast room,
or for the teakettle at afternoon tea time, or achafing dish in theevening
for late suppers.

The shades for the center fixture and bridge lamp may be made of
parchment, and again the chintz does duty asa motif. Paint the chintz
design on them two or three times, depending on the size of the shade,
and after the paint dries cover them with two coats of white shellac
to make them more durable.

Unless you are lucky enough to have an enclosed porch already, you
have no idea of the pleasure you will receive from it. It is sunny and
bright in the day time, yet warm enough in all but very severe weather.
It is pleasant at night when you can still see large expanses of sky
and dark trees outside, through the big windows. Yet the little room
itself is warm with glowing lights.

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crackling open fire whose flickering light
makes shadows disappear, even in farthest
corners. A deep-cushioned sofa and a wing
chair with wide-spreading arms which reach
out an invitation to well-settled comfort.

All the blasts and chill of winter hold no

terror for the family so provided.

In the whole range of Elgin A. Simonds pieces, none has
greater symmetry of line or more innate distinction than this
sofa and wing chair in walnut. They reflect, in feeling, furni-
ture produced during the reign of Charles II in England, but
they are essentially creations of our own designers. Their
great comfort and smart tailoring are products of today.

These and other delightful Elgin A. Simonds pieces are

shown by Dealers of Distinction everywhere. To identify

pieces shown ask for our Sofa and Wing Chair numbered
1773. End table 2509 is also shown.

THE ELGIN A. SIMONDS COMPANY
New York Syracuse, N. Y. Chicago

SIMOMDS

Individualism —in Good Curniture

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

OCTOBER, 10926

Volume XLIV, No. 2

Contents of this Issue

JSOVER DESIGN

News & COMMENTS .

-4GE PicTURES: ‘‘When we plant the tree’.

“Green temples”

“The dancer of the wood”
JisTINCTIVE LITTLE HousEs For Everypay LIvING Cedric Start
oyous BUILDING ne a -
Miss M. T. BrRADLEY’s House Richard H. Dana, Jr.
Thomas Harlan Ellett
Martian Coffin
Aymar Embury I
Ellen D. Wangner

VHERE TREES GivE SOLEMN GRANDEUR TO A GARDEN
Warren Wilmer Brown

fee). Ge Prince’s Home
,ARDENING WITH TREES
‘HE ENGLISH STYLE

‘INE BEDDING

lousING Your Books In FRIENDLY FASHION me i Soe
F. H. Randolph
Henry H. Saylor
A. P. Saunders
Roger B. Whitman

SETTING THE Most Out oF Your CoAL
‘HE TRUE CoLoniAL House

<EEPING YouR PEonies HEALTHY

NEW WALLS FoR OLD

“ALL FLOWERS FOR INDOOR DECORATION Margaret Shaw
NATIONAL GARDEN ASSOCIATION

NEW SOLUTIONS OF OLD PROBLEMS
\MONG OUR GARDEN NEIGHBORS
RIZE ANNOUNCEMENTS

"HE Montu’s REMINDER—OCTOBER
TEARTHSTONE Epitor’s CHat
‘NCLOSE THE SUMMER PORCH . A. Louise Fillebrown
Vuy Fruits Fait to Crop

LEONARD BARRON, Editor LUCY E. HUBBELL Associate Editor

Jack Manley Rosé

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November— Southern Number

Our November number, always of special
interest to our Southern readers, is this year
particularly rich in its abundance of things
practical and aesthetic, with a strong appeal
to home owners everywhere as well as to those
of the Southland.

In The Mediterranean Influence, HENRY H.
SAYLOR, Editor of Architecture, discusses
briefly the outstanding characteristics of three
distinct styles, the French, the Italian, and
the Spanish, and the appropriateness of their
adaptations in our own country. Although
they are being built in increasing numbers
everywhere, these colorfully picturesque styles
seem inherently to suit best the living condi-
tions of the warmer climate.

Wood, like anything else, needs feeding and
attention, and in Care of Old Pieces, Mrs.
SARAH M. Lockwoop, author of the recently
published and very fascinating book “An-
tiques,” tells how the life of furniture may be
definitely prolonged by a little thought and
the “knowing how.”

In Floors That Are Waterproof and Wear-
proof RoGER B. WHITMAN gives authoritative
information on the various types of modern
flooring which are particularly practical for
sunroom, dining room, kitchen and bathroom,
including tiles as well as rubber, cork, and
other up-to-date types of material.

Southern gardeners especially will enjoy
Mary H. Puirer’s account of The Gardens of
Tryon—those naturalistic South Carolina
plantings which reflect the spirit of the over-
shadowing peaks of the Blue Ridge range.

Boxwood—the Living Antique by Linpa C.
Hines is a delightful talk about this storied
tree of our grandmother’s gardens, the one
“antique” of which there can be no fake re-
production!

In November also will appear the winner of
the Dividends in Contentment Contest—the
story of an adventure in going back to the
land by people who have re-discovered
“earth’s undersong of comfort.”

The happenings of the Gladiolus Societies’
Shows will be reported—and Grafted Grapes,
Beauty Doctors of the Gladiolus—Part III, and
Altering Old Grounds are but further sugges-
tions of the wealth of material in store for
garden minded folk in November!

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INDIVIDUAL PIECES

Just as the art connoisseur gradually builds
up a priceless collection of well-chosen, in-
dividual pieces, so the thinking home-owner
selects his furnishings leisurely, giving due
Wal eiasmokingeCabe thought to the importance and significance

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of each article. Chair, covered in Red
and Gold Brocatelle

Unless one desires to make a large initial
expenditure, it is the better part of wisdom
to acquire a few distinctive pieces at first
and as time goes on to add to this nucleus
of accepted style and charm.

Even the Dining Room will benefit from
such a judicious method of attaining
p artistic perfection. It is indeed the logical
ipirau Dower Chermrn way of consummating a beautifully fur-
Walnut and Hand Decorated nished home and effecting true economy
without sacrificing good taste.

W.& J. SUOANE,

47TH STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE
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Vol XLIV, No. 2

OCTOBER, 1926

News and Comment

IVE me the picturesque English
house,”’ we hear people say, or, if
they happen to live in Florida or hail
= from the Pacific Coast, Spanish is the
only thing. Again peaked roofs are
anathema to some folk who asseverate that the
Colonial is the one true American style.
Why all this pother about styles anyway?
Isn’t it really a sort of ancestor worship, a
straining backward because we are afraid
to stand on our own two feet, the feet of
present-day achievement in house building?
Of course, there are recognizable strains in the
architecture of America just as there are
recognizable strains among its citizenry—
obviously, too, it is interesting and _ enrich-
ing to scan past performances, to dis-
cover how and whence things came. There
is a genuineness about the origins that points
a lesson—building, in the beginning, wasn’t
a fancy affair, an imitation of this and that,
but a straightforward meeting of conditions
and needs. Out of its sincerity beauty grew,
a beauty whose lure persists to this day so
strongly that sometimes we are lead astray
and, in attempting to grasp its shadow, forget
our Own opportunity to create new beauties
borne of our own times and conditions. Our
facilities and our knowledge of materials,
mechanics, and so on are, naturally, far greater
than those of our forebears—our achievement
ought to keep pace and, as a matter of fact,
in many cases actually does. From a con-
structive point of view, from the point of
view of equipment and comfort no better
houses are being built anywhere in the world
to-day. Artistically, too, the American house
(we are referring, of course, to the thorough-
breds and not to the Topsies of architecture)
can hold its own—it is no longer a copy, a
hybrid, but a merging of varied inheritances
into a distinctive and unmistakable style.
Whether British, or Norman, or out of Spain
by Sicily matters little; whatever its parent-
age, Whatever influences and bloods have gone
into its making the American house has be-
come a person in its own right, developed
individuality—an individuality which runs
through all the diversified forms dotting our
widely diversified countryside.

“SING A SONG OF SEASONS’”’

"THERE is something about a bonfire that

makes children of us all. For although
we may rake and retain our dignity, may even
gather up baskets full of sticks and leaves and
remain staid and serious, it is quite impossible
to light the garden fire and stay grown-up.
Perhaps that is the reason that we lose our
heads when we are cleaning up the garden
and let our enthusiasm for bonfires run away
with our better judgment—and onto the fire
§0 our baskets full of leaves! In garden
cleaning time, we would do well to heed the
Perennial advice of all good garden maga-
zmes—Save the Leaves! “Leaves are falling
in October. Rake them up but do not burn
them. Pile them in an obscure corner and let

them rot. Rotted leaves make one of the best
of fertilizers.” Another good thing to re-
member, when we are enjoying the magic of
autumn bonfires, is to save such bits of the
garden as may prove useful to our fall and
winter bird visitors. The row of old Cosmos
or Sunflowers along the back fence, hides
many an enticing tid-bit for seed eating birds,
long after other things have gone. And the
brushwood from our tree trimming, if piled
up and kept for our fires in the spring, will be
greatly appreciated by the birds all through
the winter months. Garden cleaning time
is a good time, too, in which to take thought
for the future. The joys, the surprises and
the disappointments of the recent harvest, are
clearly pictured in our minds. We can see
just where lay the greatest charm of our
garden, and just what changes should be
made, which things gave the most delight,
where the garden was crowded and where too
sparsely settled, and we can make all sorts of
golden plans for the next season.—P. B.

THE CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOWS

HE Annual Flower Show of the Chrysan-

themum Society of America will be held
this year at Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Noy-
ember 8th, 9th and roth, in connection with
the State Florists’ Association. As in previ-
ous years Chrysanthemum shows will he held
in the leading cities, such as New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and elsewhere under the
auspices of the local horticultural societies.

NEW TRAILS THROUGH THE JUNGLES OF
LEAN D SCIENCE

HREE events occurring during the past

summer have made 1926 a “red letter
year” in horticultural annals, said Professor
Arno H. Nehrling in reporting as its Official
Botanist to the Society of American Florists.
The first of these, already chronicled in these
pages, was the visit and lecture tour of M.
Henri Correvon, whereby a new vista of the
possibilities of rock gardening was spread
before us; the second was the International
Conference on Flower and Fruit Sterilities
held in New Yorkin August, and the third—and
probably the most far-reaching and significant
of all—was the First International Congress of
Plant Sciences which followed close upon the
heels of the other meeting, being held at Cor-
nell University during the entire week of
August 16 to 23.

In one sense a “postponed”’ meeting—since
it really took the place of the Fourth Inter-
national Botanical Congress scheduled to
be held in London in 1915 and again in
1920,— this gathering of more than one
thousand delegates representing more than
twenty-five nations, not only provided a
long sought opportunity for plant students
and investigators to mingle, compare notes
and trace the developments of the past decade,
but also threw beams of revealing light far
ahead into the murky and mysterious depths
of undiscovered truths in the field of horticul-

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ture. Indeed, in its conjectures and sug-
gestions of facts yet to be disclosed it offered
generous consolation for those who regret that
so little of the world—geographically—re-
mains to be explored; beyond all question it
appears, within the world of plant science
and its application lie many vast continents
as yet unexplored, fabulously rich in hitherto
undiscovered, unrealized, unutilized truths.

First of all, it brought horticulture nation-
wide, even worldwide, publicity, upon which,
of course, even the least of us and our interests
thrives mightily; secondly, through the
remarkable address of Dr. Erwin F. Smith,
veteran plant pathologist of the United States
Department of Agriculture, it visualized and
emphasized the tremendous advances that
have been made in plant knowledge during
the last score of years; Thirdly, through the
paper presented by Dr. B. M. Duggar of the
Missour1 Botanical Gardens, it prepared our
minds and whetted our intellectual appetites
for new disclosures, new discoveries concerning
plant life and its relation to the rest of the
universe which are likely soon to be forth-
coming. Lastly—and possibly most practical
of all—through its discussion of the compli-
cated subject of plant pests and their control,
it gave promise of, and even laid the sub-
foundations for, a new conception of the
problem of plant protection; a conception
that realizes the ultimate dangers as well as
the present benefits of quarantine and plant
exclusion policies; a conception that recognizes
the essential internationality of plant culture,
plant knowledge, and plant commerce.

The International Congress of Plant Sci-
ences lasted for eight days; we look for the
appearance of new evidence of its value, for
the ripening of its fruits, for years to come.

The Conference on Plant and Flower Ster-
ility sponsored by the Horticultural Society
of New York, August 12th to 14th, was the
third of the series of International conferences
called by that Society, and resulted in a sur-
prising wealth of material on a subject that,
though at first sight seemingly highly special-
ized, does in fact bear closely on the work of
every cultivator of plants. Crop failure is
often very serious, and if we can get to an
understanding of the underlying causes there
is some hope for control. Apparently vegeta-
tive vigor breeding (heredity), and nutrition
are intricately involved. Those interested in
pursuing the subject further will turn to the
official ‘‘ Memoirs,” published by the Society
under the Editorship of the Conference
Secretary, Dr. A. B. Stout, himself a deep
student of the subject.

HE corn borer is not the Iris borer, not-

withstanding the unfortunate statement
made on page 546 of the August issue both in
the subtitle and asan_ interpolation of the
text for which the author is not responsible.
The article truthfully describes the work of
the Iris borer.

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“What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the houses for you and me,
We plant the rafters, the shingles, the floors,
We plant the studding, the lath, the doors,
The beams and siding, all parts that be;
We plant the house when we plant the tree”
Henry Abbey

HOUSE OF MRS E. K. CONE, COLONIA, NEW JERSE

Trees and houses—what kin they are!
Many a house was once a waving bit of
woodlamd; and what is any house that stands
stark on the landscape without enfolding
green? Trees hold the key to the beauty
and hominess of this scene. Charles Well-
ford Leavitt & Son, Landscape Engineers

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Of noontime’s blinding glare and heat,
Open to any pilgrim’s feet”
Theodosia Garrison

COURTYARD AT MR. W. G. McCUNE'S,
GREENS FARMS, CONNECTICUT

Curious how comfortably the Mediterranean
style seems to fit the New England country-
side and wholly upsetting any preconceived
notions as to the localization of certain types
of architecture. Very charming is this house
with its shaded courtyard and its frame of
trees among which the Black Walnut strikes
a note. Butler & Corse, Architects

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GARDEN OF MRS. GEORGE J. DYER AT NORFORK, CONNECTICUT

Where the keynote of beauty is struck by Birches
about whose shining slenderness lesser things cluster.
Marian Coffin, Landscape Architect. (See article on
“Gardening with Trees” by Miss Coffin, pages 128-130)

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Distinctive Little Houses for Everyday Living

Four Pleasant and Practical
Types Especially Planned for
Garden &° Home Builder

Designed and rendered
by

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Detailed plans and spectfications with changes

o suit individual needs will be supplied, upon

ipplication to the Editors, at a reasonable figure
by speciai arrangement with the architect.

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INCE “‘life determines the true character
D) of a building,” as Owen Wister delight-
ully puts it, the problem of planning a
jouse for unknown clients is manifestly a
lifficult one as it is the idiosyncrasies, the
1obbies, the needs, the wants of each indi-
vidual family that endow a dwelling with
ndividual charm and distinction. How-
‘ver, these four houses (see three succeed-
ng pages also) present a variety of prac-
ical solutions to fit different localities.
[he figures given are based on present-day
suilding costs in the metropolitan district
or A I equipment and on the basic average
f 50 cents per cubic foot. Naturally costs
yary somewhat in different regions depend-
ng upon the availability and quality of
naterials and labor and usually tend to be
inywhere from 25 to 35 per cent. less in
sections well away from the big cities.

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I. English Cottage Type

Estimated Cost, $10,000

Six rooms and bath, very compact plan (24 x 42 ft. over-all) with
large porch having garage underneath and sleeping porch above.
Frame construction, with cream-gray stucco over metal lath. Stone
foundation worked into the stucco. Oak half timber; and rough,
irregularly sawed siding. Entrance door oak, trim elsewhere cypress.
Root of shingles laid irregularly to give wavy effect and sloping down
very low on front of dwelling. Upper part of chimney brick.

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Il. Norman French

Estimated Cost, $13,500

Whitewashed stone with shingle hip roof and brick chimney.
Trim, timbering, and entrance door of oak, natural finish;
garage, service door, and cornices of cypress creosoted with
gray stain. Garage attached at the side, sleeping porch
over it down a few steps from main house. Plan of first
floor simple with kitchen to the front leaving rear un-
obstructed for garden. Six-foot head room at the walls
before the ceilings slope but thickness of walls enables
cornice line to be low. Walls 1 ft. 6 in. thick with 1 in.
stripping before lath and plaster to keep out moisture.
Stone more expensive but gives much more permanent and
pleasing effect. Over-all measurements 31 x 48 ft.

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III. Southern Colonial

Estimated Cost, $15,500

Frame, veneered with handmade, kiln-dried brick (less ex-
pensive than solid masonry construction and more apt to
settle evenly). Roof shingle but might be slate at added
cost. Porches, trim, and dormers simple and solid in
detail; painted warm white. Six-foot walls before ceilings
begin to slope give ample headroom and with cork
insulaticn the rooms are kept cool in summer and warm in
winter. Two windows in each room insure abundant light
and air, and dormer treatment lends picturesqueness both
inside and out. Central hall plan with dining or breakfast
bay, also small den and lavatory on first floor. Maid’s
toom and bath in garage wing. On second floor three bed-
tooms (dressing room off owner’s) and two baths placed
above lavatory on one line of piping. Linen closet over
stair well. Over-all 273 x 75 ft.

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IV. Cape Cod Type

Estimated Cost, $14,000

Central brick clustered chimney and weathered,
gray-stained shingles, walls, and roof. Trim,
blinds, and door apple-green or dark green-blue.
Plan shows good-sized living-room, porch and
dining-room, with small hall and coat closet.
Large pantry and dining alcove connected with
conveniently arranged kitchen; refrigerator in
entry where easily accessible to iceman. Maid’s
room and bath opening off kitchen but this space
may be used for garage as shown in alternate
plan below. Ample sized attic offers place for
maid’s room and bath at additional cost of $800.
Over-all measurements 33 x 37 ft.

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Joyous Building

MPOMETIMES we sit with toes on
me fender, puffing smoke rings, and
OD: dreaming dreams. Then all of a

<= sudden perhaps we decide we will
actually do it—build the house
we’ve been thinking of off and on for seasons
past. The family waxes enthusiastic, we see
4 plan somewhere, run to the builder, ground
is broken, and too often alas! our castle in the
air comes crashing down when bills begin to
flood and the house shapes slowly into some-
thing quite unlike the home of our dreams.
Building which ought to be an altogether
zolden spinning of desires into actualitv ends
as a drab and worrisome affair. Nobody’s
fault but our own either, worse luck, for
impetuously jumping ahorseback before we
were really ready to ride! Disappointment
can be eschewed and satisfaction snared if
only we will take the trouble to consider
and inform ourselves on certain essential
points.

1) Ways of Financing. Few houses are
paid for outright at the start; very many—
either by choice or by necessity—are pur-
chased on some sort of instalment system.
In most growing communities to-day there are
reliable companies whose business it is to
finance the prospective home builder. Of
these, some of the codperative building loan
associations of the better type are profit-
sharing institutions primarily philanthropic in
character, organized and run for the benefit
of the home owner who also becomes a stock-
holder in the company or corporation; more-
over they are operated under the state bank-
ing laws. Then there are straight mortgage
companies who make a business of lending
money on building mortgage security. Look
around your own town, investigate the various
possibilities, don’t be temped by some super-
ficial bait but be sure
you are financed by
responsible people
who will fulfill their
obligations. Make

expect success at court without competent
advice; yet people persist in entering the far
more permanent and frequently more costly
venture of home building with equally scant
personal knowledge of the difficulties to be
met and conquered and without any advice at
all. Just from the mere dollars-and-cents
point of view (and ignoring aesthetic con-
siderations for the moment) it seems little wise
to set aside skilled assistance on such an
occasion, for the architect’s job includes not
only his primary duty of getting “your rough
ideas as to the number and sizes of rooms,
and materials of construction into the most
economical, practical, durable, and beautiful
form he can,” but superintendence of the house
during its construction. The owner is thus
assured of getting the materials specified and
of an altogether shipshape and well made
dwelling which means minimizing future
expense in the way of repairs, etc. In other
words the architect’s fee is actually economy in
the long run for you must have plans and,
obviously, these cost money no matter who
draws them and, if badly drawn, “you will
also pay in loss of space and of appearance
which an architect is trained to avoid.”

3) Know What You Want. Changes after
construction has begun are always costly,
even minor changes, and are one of the
commonest causes of overstepping estimates.
Think things out thoroughly, talk them over
with your family and your architect at the
start; don’t be too greatly handicapped by
traditional usages; decide what you want for
your own particular brand of comfort. What
about ceilings, shall they be high or lowr
Whether seven, or eight, or nine, or twelve
feet or anything between must be determined
by the size of the rooms they are to crown.
Shall spaciousness or coziness be the keynote of

HOW TO READ YOUR ARCHITECT’S WORKING DRAWINGS

the interior? Need the house face streetward;
why not break loose and put the main rooms
on the garden side where privacy and pleasant-
ness linger?

4) Courtesy and Fair Play. In this con-
nection let us quote the suggestions of a man
who has designed and superintended the build-
ing of many countrv houses and whose words
carry the weight of long acquaintance with the
matters of which he speaks: “Another: thing
that the owner should never do, and which
very many owners do do, is to give instructions
to individual workmen on the job. If you
want something done, tell the architect if there
is one; if there isn’t, tell the builder. The
individual workman or even the foreman has
not any authority to do what you want; he is
not your employee and you have no business
to direct somebody else’s employees. You
are entitled to inspect your house as much and
as continuously as you please. Your contract
provides for what you shall do when you change
your mind; follow that and you will be con-
tented in the end; but walk about the job
telling the plumber’s man to move the bathtub
to the other side of the room and the tinsmith
to put that down-spout around the corner, and
youwill either find your instructions are not fol-
lowed or at the end of the job you will have a
bill for extra work which will make you sorry
for yourself, and you will have ordered every
item without realizing that you were authoriz-
ing an extra. The best sort of client is the
owner who understands plans, reads his speci-
fications, knows what the builder has agreed
to furnish him and insists on it, but does not
insist on the builder doing something he has
not agreed to do or that is foolish in itself.
Meet your builder with confidence and good
temper, and he will respond with an especial
effort to give you not only the value of your
money but a little
more for kindness—
you can capitalize
courtesy, and you will
enjoy doing it.’”*

certain, too, before
going ahead that your
title to the property
is clear (and prefer-
ably guaranteed by a
reputable guaranty
company). People
are sometimes badly
stuck by beginning
to build on property
which they have con-
tracted to buy on
monthly payments
and to which they do
not hold title. Far
better to own your
land before starting
to build.

2) Why an Archi-
tect. Scarcely any
one involved in legal
dispute—to use a
rather unpleasant
analogy by way of
bringing our point
home—would be
So foolhardy as to

Ceiling fixture for
electric light

Wall bracket for elec-
tric light

Combination gas and
electric light

Electric base plug
One-way electric
switch

Two-way electric
switch
Three-way electric
switch

Toilet

Pedestal basin with
medicine closet in
wall

Basin hung on wall

Bathtub of
built-in type

Sink in kitchen

Drain board with
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Bathtub on legs (old
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Laundry tubs

Radiator as shown

Hot air floor register

Hot air wall register

Steam or hot water
boiler—or hot air
furnace

Storage tank for hot
water

Gas water heater

Hose faucet with in-
side shut-off

Fireplace as shown
Ash dump in hearth

Flue with flue lining

Arch as shown

Door as shown

Frame partition

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Floor beam spacing

Concrete block chim-
neys

Double-hung window
in elevation

Casement window in
elevation

Cellar window, show-
ing grade line

Stairs showing num-
ber of steps up,
handrail, and newel
post

Hatch to attic or
cellar

Square and round
columns

Refrigerator drain in
floor

5) How to Read
Working Drawings.
After initial sketches
have been gone over
and approved, work-
ing drawings, details,
and specifications are
then completed and
blue prints made, usu-
ally three sets—one
for filing with the
town or county clerk,
one for the contractor
to work from, one for
the owner’s reference.
Though they may ap-
pear complex at first
they are really quite
simple to read as
may be seen by the
customary symbols
given here.

*Pages 69, 70, “The
Home of Beauty,”’ Chap-
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a House,” by Aymar
Embury, II.

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So successful an adaptation is this of
the true Colonial that the casual
observer fancies it may have been
thus ensconced for decades, serene
under the assaults of sunshine and
storm during a long flight of years.
In general spirit and outline it harks
back, of course, to the single-chimney
type of early Connecticut days, but
in inside arrangement completely
meets modern needs (see plan at left, al-
so views of hall, livingand dining rooms
on page following, and on page 142 a
picture showing fireplace detail); and
out-of-doors the shed has been adroitly
utilized as garage. Extremely in-
teresting is the treatment of the face
of the house with doorway slightly off
center and windows distributed to give
an effect of perfect balance without
the monotony of exact repetition.
Readers for whom the Colonial has
strong appeal will find character-
istic types, their development, and
present-day possibilities illuminatingly
discussed on pages 141-143 by Mr.
Henry H. Saylor, Editor of Architecture

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER OcTOBER, Tam

Inside
Miss Bradley’s

Home

(Plans and exterior
on preceding pages)

A close-up showing details of the fire-
place may be found on page 142

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Sincerity is the keynote of this dwelling and the
owner’s appreciation of the Colonial, coupled with
the architect’s skill in re-creating the best of bygone
days, has resulted in a harmonious whole. Much
of the interior woodwork—such as doors, mantels, and
flooring—was actually salvaged from old buildings
and put to new life and use in this Connecticut house
designed by Richard H. Dana, Jr.

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GARDEN & HOME

BUILDER

Interiors

at the House of Mr. D. C. Prince

(Plans and exterior views on following pages)

125

The panelled end of the dining-room
(shown in upper illustration) with
cupboards and door adroitly linked in
one design, the stair-rail and hand
carved post, and the simply treated
chimney-place (in living-room at left)
are all attractive features of this
Schenectady, N. Y., home of which
Thomas Harlan Ellett is the architect

With nothing ephemeral or fanciful to detract
from its dignity, this house exemplifies the best
in modern American building—a happy merging
of tradition with individual expression. Materials,
too, have been interestingly blended, the body
being of brick, whitewashed, with shingled exten-
sion (see topmost cut), and facing of shingle and
stucco (see above at right) along the garden side

Mr.

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(Interiors shown on preceding page)

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Garden of Charles H. Sabin at Southampton, N. Y.

Gardening With Trees

OST of us are apt to think of a garden
in terms of flowers and seldom real-
ize the part played by trees in a
really well designed scheme. Trees
are to gardens what architectural
accents such as spires, towers, and even
Doric porticoes are to buildings. A garden
without trees is apt to be flat and without
interest, and a lawn to lack shadows and
variety. Too much emphasis has been laid
by gardening books on the ephemeral value
of color and color schemes and too little on
the enduring value of the sculptural form of
trees. In England and on the Continent,
they understand far better than we do in

Marion @ottin

Landscape Architect

Photographs of Miss Coffin’s plantings by Mattie Edwards Hewitt

this country the importance of trees in their
pleasure grounds, and strange to say they have
not half the variety and beauty that we
have from which to choose.

In any landscape scheme the designer
should think, as an architect does, not only
of his plan, but also of the elevation and the
inter-relation of the two. To work out the
elevation, aside from some possible use of
walls or other architectural features, trees
are the most important materials we have
at our command. Trees are used in every
phase of landscape composition, as_ free-
srowing plants or in trained forms. They
screen out unsightly objects, camouflage the

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service quarters and form the backgrour,
to lawn and garden. They are planted ©
give the effect of distance, to frame in f,
views and to create vistas. They are plac
to form the setting for a house, and to ca
an illusive shadow on a too exposed streti|
of lawn or flower planting. They may !
added to a scheme to give the necessary tou’
of formal or informal balance, or planted
make interesting walks or alleys from 0—
part of the property to another. A tree |
picturesque shape may serve as the foc
point of a garden scheme, or one of a droop!
or spreading habit shade a paved sitting spa’
used as an outdoor living room. But ?

PPCTOBER, 1926
matter how we use trees we must choose
them so that their size, shape and general
mass adds value to the rest of the composi-
tion—in short, they must give proper scale
to the whole design.

Quite as important as the use of trees in
our gardening schemes, is the choice of the
individual tree for the position it is to fill, as
well as its right planting and spacing. Sup-
pose we have a new place of a few acres,
rather bare and shadeless, and have just
built a Colonial or Georgian house. Trans-
plant a couple of medium-sized Elms (which
can be accomplished with little risk and not
too prohibitive cost by the aid of professional
tree movers) and at once the house becomes
a home. Move in three or four other trees
of an appropriate character and place them
about the grounds at strategic points and im-
mediately the bare place begins to assume
shape and form, or in other words has achieved
a feeling of design. It is far better to use
(where there is no existing planting of impor-
tance) a few well chosen trees that will be
properly placed, when they attain maturity,
and of a size large enough to give shape to
the scheme, than to plant a hundred or more
small ones indiscriminately, which will grow
up into a straggly mass with no relation to
the plan, nor value as individuals.

Of course it will often be necessary to plant

effect of Magnolias.

trees in masses to serve as backgrounds, or in
some cases to create a woodland. With such
a problem, study the native tree growth of
the country and plant these varieties, starting
the individual plants in small sizes. It is
always in keeping, however, to introduce
such wood-loving things as our Native Hem-
locks, Dogwoods, Shadbushes, Witch-hazels
and Red buds along the edges, but care
should be taken that there are no stiff lines
and that the smaller things run in and out
among their taller neighbors. Also see to
it that there is enough space between to
allow for the play of light and shade on leaf
and branch. Among the distinctly woodsy
trees are the native Gray and Canoe Birches,
which never seem at home or rightly placed
unless foregathering with quantities of their
own kind, or fringing a northern forest of
Hemlocks, Pines, or Spruce. The sculptural
quality of gnarled Beech trees growing close
together, or spreading out into individual
specimens, as they do on the Kentucky hill-
sides will remind anyone strongly of the Oaks
in some great English park. The poise and
outline of the trees is so fine that any other
form of tree or shrub growth seems obtrusive
and the great trunks are at their best when
emerging from a carpet of wild flowers or a
naturalized planting of Narcissus.

The problem, however, of the average

THE SIMPLICITY OF PLANTING WITH TREES
Only three things enter into this picture—the Arborvitae hedge, the Box edging, and the avenue

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country place, is rather that of the proper
placing and choice of individual trees than
their use in masses; for this purpose, pictures-
queness of outline must often be considered.
We have not in this country the dark pointed
Cypress or spreading Stone Pine, both so
telling in the Italian landscape, but we now
appreciate the pictorial value of our native
Cedar where a tall evergreen accent is needed,
or where vistas are to be created. This
tree 1s invaluable in garden work as its roots
remain within bounds and it casts but a nar-
row shadow on the plants at its feet. It is
invaluable too for screening purposes where
a dense evergreen mass 1s required and there
is little space for more branching varieties.
It must have sun, however, and is really
intolerant of shade. Even more interesting
than the pointed form, is the shape of the
mature tree which spreads out horizontally,
a characteristic that is most valuable where
a windswept note 1s desired or where an effect
of age is required in the setting of some un-
usual type of building. The native Haw-
thorns, among the smaller trees, have this
poise and swing of the branches; as, among
the larger trees, have the Oaks, the White
Pine and in a lesser degree our native Pitch
Pine.

Hardly a country place abroad but has its
tree walk which may be of formally trained

Garden of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, Wheatley Hills, N. Y.

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Linden, Plane, Beech, Maple, or Mul-
berry, connecting one part of the property
with another, or, cut through dense woods,
leading one’s eye down the vista of green,
away to the distance beyond. Such a treat-
ment is seen in many of the old estates in
Maryland and Virginia. How restful and
delightful they are, and how much character
they give to a place. Such a walk may be
accentuated at intervals by the introduction
of specimen or flowering trees. In the pic-
ture of the Magnolia Walk (page 129) only
some ten to twelve large Magnolia trees
were transplanted, but their effect {SUESO
important both in and out of bloom, that
they create the impression of a continuous
avenue.

We are wont to think of the so-called
flowering trees (of course all trees have
flowers) as of small or medium size, forgetting
the great height attained by the Tulip tree,
the native Magnolias, the larger Chinese
Magnolias, the Horse-chestnuts, the Catalpa
and its more unusual relative, the mauve

flowering Paulownia, to say nothing of the
swamp Red Maple, aglow all over in April
with red bloom. Any of these presents a
superb sight when silhouetted against the sky
line. Those of medium or small stature are
invaluable in garden schemes and much
more showy in bloom than our most telling
perennials. They can be used to accentuate
the color scheme of an herbaceous planting,
to shadow a paved sitting space, or a garden
wall, or to droop over a natural pool, or to
soften by their reflection some more elabor-
ately designed piece of water. Of the quanti-
ties of charming things at our command,
nothing surpasses our common Apple for use
in connection with gardens and informal
grounds, giving to such situations just the
“homey” touch required. The various va-
rieties of Flowering Apples are unsurpassed
for beauty and hardiness. Also we are only
just beginning to know and appreciate the
Weeping and Drooping Japanese Cherries,
so passionately beloved by the Japanese.
Other additions to our gardens from abroad

An excellent illustration of elevation in the garden plan.
land effect attained by Dogwood, with a background of forest trees and

undergrowth of Rhododendrons,

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are the yellow blooming Goldenrain-tree
(Koelreuteria) and Laburnums, the white
Japanese Tree Lilac, and the improved va-
rieties of the true Lilacs and Altheas which
can be easily trained into true tree form:
Lovely as these things are, they only share
the admiration we feel for our own native
beauties, such as the Silverbell, the Dog-
wood and the Judas-tree, to mention but
a few.

In gardening with trees one has the satis-
faction of planting for the future as well as
for the present, and of adding to the beauty
of the garden by form as well as by color,
though when one considers the individual
bloom of, say a Magnolia, what herbaceous
plant can compare to its exquisite texture
and general effectiveness?

Now that the autumn planting season is
at hand, it is time to study one’s individual
requirements and to see that one’s place is
furnished with just the right quantity and
variety of trees to express its special quality
to the best advantage.

A naturalistic wood-

Garden of Marshall Field, Huntington, N. Y.

if

A delightful 18th century
house in Surrey, the Eng-
lish equivalent of our Amer-
ican Colonial farmhouse

The English Style

Jasrinicue enlerwiesy UI

Photographs by Drix Duryea, Kenneth Clark, Eddy’s Studio, Philip B. Wallace, and the Author

SEFORE discussing the application
# of the English style to our country
@ house architecture, it will be neces-
‘tga sary to define what we mean when
we speak of a house as “English,”
since with the exception of those houses roughly
classified as “ Mediterranean,” practically all
of our houses are derived from English sources.
To an English architect the description of a
house as ‘‘English”’ would mean nothing; to
him English architecture is that long chapter
of the history of civilization from Roman
times to the present day which is concerned
with the art of building in the British Isles;
and to extract from the splendid story of the
rise and fall of one great architecture after
another—Roman, Gothic, and Renaissance—
a single obscure paragraph, and label that
alone as English, would seem absurd. As
indeed it is. Yet, since in the last few years
to describe a country house as “English”
does bring up to the American mind a certain
more or less definite picture which no other
word produces, it will very likely continue
to be used even if it is as little exact as it is
to call the Amerindians by the name Colum-
bus used—Indians.
_ What we call the “English” style the
British architect does not call by any name,
although it is Occasionally spoken of as the
Cottage” style. In general he describes it

by locality, as for example the “Cotswold
Style georthe; Comishrstyle | Yer imethe
very fact that to the Englishman the style
has no name lies our best excuse for calling
it English; since a style so completely taken
for granted that in its own land it does not
need a name, indicates how completely it
belongs to that land, and inexact as the name
may be, it is still far from inappropriate.

It has been a sort of habit for all great styles
to arise in one locality, and be adopted by
others as fast as their qualities are perceived
and conditions are ripe to receive them.
Thus the Classic style arose in Greece, was
transplanted to Rome, and spread all over
the Roman dominion. The Gothic was de-
veloped in northern France and conquered
sooner or later the whole civilized world, to
be succeeded in its decadence by the Italian-
born style of the Renaissance, which, spread-
ing slowly and taking everywhere strong root,
produced in England at its end, the style we
know as “Georgian”’ and here in the United
States our own Colonial. Now each one of
these styles has flowered in England no less
than elsewhere; and especially the strong
influence of the Renaissance, with its easy
adaptability to modern modes of living, and
to buildings for all sorts of purposes, very
deeply impressed itself (and still continues so
to do) upon English civilization; but for as

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many centuries, as we know, beside these
imported styles, there has continued to
flourish a humble native sort of domestic
architecture from which has evolved the sort
of country dwelling we are describing as
English.

It is a sort of hedgerow architecture, spring-
ing up of itself along the English country
roads, and lovely as are the English hedge-
rows; not formal and exact as if its seeds had
been brought in books from some foreign land,
and planted and tended and pruned and
clipped into the ordered beauty of a garden.
It is a home-grown product, and has been
affected amazingly little by the far grander
styles which it has outlived; probably because
houses of this type have always been con-
structed by the neighborhood mason or car-
penter, whose knowledge of precedent is
limited to that within a day’s walking dis-
tance of his own home, and until the last
few years, it has not been recognized by
architects as a distinct style, or rather has not
been even noticed at all. It is likely that the
style has varied less from age to age than it
has from one English county to another; for
it has been more affected by available ma-
terials than by the modish architectures of
different periods; and though it cannot claim
to be strictly and only an English style, since
there are many small houses in the northern

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part of France, in parts of Flanders, and
even southern Germany, which have a
strong family likeness to the English cot-
tage, its development has been fullest and
most varied in England; so when we de
sire a picturesque, informal, steep-roofed
cottage, we turn to England for precedent.

HE characteristics of. the style are
not easy to describe. Words like
“quaint,” |.picturesque,” and)™ charm
ing” are those which spring naturally
to mind; but these are not genuinely
descriptive and mean only what each

of us thinks they mean; it is perhaps
easier to describe it negatively, to tell the
things it is not, rather than those it is. The
English house is as different from the Colonial
as possible; it is not symmetrical; it has no
cornice remotely suggesting the Classic; its
windows are neither large nor widely spaced,
but small and arranged in groups; it 1s rarely
of two full stories; its roof is steep, not flat;
it has no porches; its doorway is seldom em-
phasized by a decorative treatment more
emphatic than that of the rest of the house;
in fact, it seldom has any ornament applied
for purposes of decoration, but depends for
its effect upon the material and texture of its
walls and roof, and not least upon a certain
quality of unexpectedness.

It is comparatively easy to understand how
it happened to develop, iff we bear firmly in
mind that the English cottage was not an
urban architecture, but the dwelling of a
peasant farmer whose means were as small as
his knowledge of the current fashions in archi-
tecture. It was always the cheapest house
that could be built of the required size, and
its characteristic features arose from the
limitations imposed by cost and by the avail-
able local materials.

The small windows, for example, are a
reminiscence of the time when there were no
windows at all; nothing but holes in the wall
which had to be small to keep out rain and

Typical half timber, tile roofed
house (above), English, late 16th
century, whose picturesqueness
makes strong appeal and has
left its impress on present-day
American architecture

An old Kentish house (left)
near Maidstone, probably
early 17th century, showing
an extremely interesting use
of half timber with brick fill

OcTOBER, 192m

cold; and when glass finally came to be
made cheaply enough so that it was pos-
sible for the peasant to afford it, the cheap-
est glass came in the smallest sizes; there-
fore the small panes; and since the larger
a sash, the harder to make it weather-proof,
small windows already sanctified by tra-
dition, became inevitable, especially since
the difficulty of construct-stone or masonry
lintels over large openings is considerable,
and was often beyond the abilities of the
village masons. [Undoubtedly, too, the tax
on glass levied in those early days played
its part in keeping windows small.—Ed.
The steep roof tells its own story: the ori-
ginal huts of the British in Roman times,
and of the peasants in Saxon and Norman
times were for the most part of wood
plastered with mud and thatched with
straw. Heavy over-hangs were necessary
to keep the rain from washing away the
mud in the walls, and thatched roofs
must be steep to be weather-tight. Later
when the forests had been destroyed, and
lumber had become so expensive that it
was cheaper to build the walls of stone,
and slates began to be used on the roofs in-
stead of the foul and rotten thatch, the re-
quirements of overhang and steepness were
not changed, since the stone was laid in poor
and soluble mortar (often in mud) and the
rough uneven slates had to be laid on a steep
slope to keep the water out. The tradition
crystallized into an architectural form so
rigid that to-day the housing board of the
British Government is building houses in the
country districts with grouped small windows
of many panes, and steep roofs with big over-
hangs in spite of the fact that the walls are of
brick laid in insoluble mortar, and the roofs
of machine made tile.

“A sort of hedgerow architecture, springing up of itself along
the English country roads, and lovely as are the English hedge-
rows.”’ A 17th century example of brick with stone quoins on
the main house and a timber ell covered with small shingle tile

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JcTOBER, 1926
HE materials of
which these cot-

ages were bullt,

aried with the
ycality, and the
yethods of con-
truction were only
imilar in that they

ere primitive to a

egree. The con-

truction was very
ften of timber filled
ith masonry; that

;, a heavy timber

rame was erected,

nd the space be-
ween the uprights
lled with brick or
mall pieces of stone

iid in mortar, a

orm of construction

ommonly used
ven in America in

‘olonial times, evi-

ently because of

he emigration of

ountry mechanics schooled in the traditional
ountry manner of building. Now the wall
lling of this style of building had to be pro-
ected from the weather because of the ma-
erial of which it was composed, but the
aethod varied according to the materials
vailable. Where good lime could be had,

t was not unusual to plaster over the filling

nly, leaving the beams exposed, so that what

; known as half timber houses were evolved

type common in southeastern England, and
cross the channel in Normandy; sometimes
lapboards were used so that the masonry

lid not show at all; this was the common rule

n Colonial America, and was probably more

ommon in England than we realize, for there

till exist many of these wood covered houses
ainted white which to an American suggest
ur Colonial so strongly, and the surviving
xamples constitute probably but a small
raction of those thus built, since this covering

S$ in itself impermanent. Sometimes the

vhole surface was plastered, like the stucco

ottages of Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset,

's well as of Flanders and Picardy; and, most

urious of all, the walls as well as the roofs

n slate quarry districts were covered with

lates, as along the Welsh border of England

ind in Brittany in France.

The surviving frame built houses are how-
‘ver in the minority; wood framing even if
t be of air seasoned English oak, rots out in
‘few hundred years, and fire has probably
iccounted for many more of this type than
f the stone or brick dwellings. You will re-
nember that during the border wars, the raid-
rs used to “‘burn the thatch,” not burn the
louse, and it is likely that the walls at least of
nany of the English cottages are seven or
‘ight hundred years old. Certainly in north-
m France it was the common practice for
he peasant hut to be built of stone and
hatched with straw as early as the thirteenth
entury, for Froissant speaks of “ Knollys’
Miters,” referring to the resemblance to a
ishop’s cap of the twin pointed stone gables
eft standing when the houses were burned
vy Knollys, the famous leader of free com-
anions under the Black Prince. No rule
"an be laid down as to the type of stone em-
loyed, or its method of laying; people used
vhat was handiest, and laid it in the way it

Nothing could be less alike
than England’s verdant coun-
tryside and the sparsely clad,
pine-crowned slopes of our own
South, yet brick-patterned
walls, timbered ceilings, and
other traces of British ancestry
are perfectly in keeping with
the general spirit of this North
Carolina house designed for
Mrs. A. P. L. Dull by Aymar
Embury II

split most easily; the one
feature common to all be-
ing the horizontal beds
necessitated by construc-
tion without good mortar;
the stone below supported
the stone above; cobble
stone or “crazy pattern”
walls of stones of irregular
shapes stuck together by
adhesive cement were,
fortunately, impossible in
the time when the cement
had not been invented.

Sometimes an attempt
was made to decorate
the wall surface by laying different sorts
of stones in patterns or on occasion by laying
a pattern of alternate squares or diamonds of
brick and stone; sometimes long horizontal
courses of small stones on end were introduced
to emphasize the line of the floors or tops of
windows, but in general no such attempt was
made. The houses were not designed; like
Topsy, they “just grew.”

And it is the very quality of natural growth
which gives them their quality of unexpected-
ness. In our modern houses we very rarely
find anything but right angles; in the old
houses this was important only so far as it
facilitated construction, and many of the old
buildings are curious combinations of curves
and angles, not put in because somebody
thought “it would look cute,” but because
the house was squeezed up against the boun-
daries and the boundaries were crooked.

Land covered by a house or wasted around
it was not valuable to a farmer, so his house
was generally put where it could be easily
reached from the highway and would not
take up cultivable space. He built his house
as close as possible to his boundaries, or
set it on some rocky spot where crops could

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not be grown; and
while the primitive
methods of con-
struction which
made second stories
difficult, often re-
sulted in a much
larger area of build-
ing than we would
plan to-day, he did
build as economic-
ally as possible
without letting a
little thing like a
curved wall or an
obtuse angle in-
fluence his selection
of a site.

OW the very
qualities which

so attract us in the
English house are
precisely those
which make it diffi-

cult to use in this country with success. Its
economic reason for existence is gone; the
greatest charm of the old work is in its
freshness and naiveté, and the imitator can-

not be naive. We can build two stories
more cheaply than the same space in one
story, and being built thus the house is
much easier to get about in and keep up
than would be the same space on one
floor. There is less room wasted in halls,
and more rooms can have two or three
exposures. We require large and many
windows; the English yeoman, because of
the soft English climate, either did not
need them, or did not know he did; and
where the English farm laborer slept in
an A shaped attic with a tiny window at
one end, we require a second story of full
height and thoroughly ventilated. But if
we introduce either a full second story or
many large dormers into the English cot-
tage, the long low wall line and unbroken
roof which gives it the rambling pictur-
esque effect is gone. So, too, with the rough
textured walls and curious angles of the
old farm house; to reproduce these in our

(Continued on page 174)

Luxury and comfort are expressed by satin-
covered lamb’s wool comforts which are deeply
quilted and light in weight

¥4aACK of the development of each
piece of household equipment lies

sf history and romance of thrilling
iba import did we but seek for it. The
things we accept as necessities have
come a long, wearisome journey from the day
of their crude beginnings. Particularly is
this true of the bed.

Man has always needed sleep; a place to
rest was one of his earliest necessities and his
first bed was probably a hollow in the earth,
covered by boughs or skins. That this did
not long answer as a couch is shown by beds
(with coverings of braided flax curved to fit
the body) that have been dug up in Egypt
in tombs sealed up three thousand years
B. C., beds, by the way, that bear a striking
resemblance to the day-beds we think of as
modern.

It is a far cry from those Egyptian couches
back to the beds of the early days of mankind
and the story is not so clear to read as it is
in the time of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors.
In their chilly old castles, the bedroom was the
most comfortable room in the house, with its
richly carved bed shrouded in heavy, costly
draperies to keep the winds away. Small
wonder that the Kings
and Queens stayed in
bed while giving audi-
ence, since it was
doubtless the only
place where they
could be warm.

In our own pre-
Colonial days, the bed
was held to be one of
the most valuable of
furnishings, its place
of state being the
parlor and, later, the
main hall. Those
early pioneers liked to
lie soft and their great
feather beds were
family treasures, the
beds being built up so
high that, in Shera-
ton’s time, a small
flight of steps at the
bedside was neces-
sary.

All this has given
way before the plain
statistics of modern
science which has
shown that one third
of each lifetime is
spent in bed and has
proved the part this

Fine Bedding

Ellen D. Wangner

Photographs by Philip B. Wallace and by courtesy of The Kenwood Mills,
James McCutcheon & Co., McGibbon & Co.

“Bed! That miraculous word!—why had there never
been lyrics about beds as well as roses and winer Oh, the
dull fools that we had been in our old years of ease, to take
as mere matters of course these exquisite heirlooms handed
down to us by the sane brooding ingenuity of all the
generations.” ‘Rough Justice’? by C. E. Montague.

plays in the health of the individual. There
must be now no feather beds, no blankets so
heavy as to be tiring. Springs, mattress, pil-
lows all must be sleep-producing, health-
bringing. The modern bed is therefore prob-
ably the most carefully equipped piece of
furniture in the house.

Of styles and makes of the bedstead itself
there 1s no end, and each is good. All kinds
of wood are used, metal is finished to accord
with any color or other furnishings; four-
posters reproduce the beds of Chippendale
and Sheraton and of early American days.
There are beds with cane insets in head and
foot boards, beds with and without curtains
and valance, all in twin, three-quarters or full
bed size. But after all, it is not the material
of which the bedstead is made that really
matters most—it is the spring and mattress,
the sheets and quilts and blankets.

In buying a bed, then, the first point to
consider is the spring. The best springs are
of two kinds: spiral, box-springs enclosed or
the same spring uncovered and costing only
about one third as much. While the latter
may collect more dust in its spirals, it is
slightly more durable as there are no cords to
break and the dust is easily removed with a
vacuum cleaner. The need of good springs

Nothing completes the picture of an Early American or Colonial room as does
the old-fashioned pieced quilt that may be had in twin or full bed size

134

~

Blending with any decorative note are th»
new moth-proof, pre-shrunken blankets t+
are made of the finest grade of wool

cannot be over-estimated in the matter
comfort. Indeed one authority states 12
it is better to have an uncovered box sp}
and a fifteen dollar mattress than a fifty dca
mattress and a cheap woven wire spring ‘a
will sag and get out of shape.

Of the mattresses, that filled with ha |
probably the most costly and will give ¢
portionately long service. If it is sometie
found to be rather hard and unyielding, ji
can be overcome by means of a soft quis
pad over it. Still another mattress is 5
made of hair but has the spiral springs 1
closed in it. This is extremely comfort)!
and durable. An all-felt mattress is soft 1
holds its shape well but is inadvisable o
homes near the seashore as it collects 1
holds dampness.

There are many other fine makes of 11
tresses on the market at reasonable p
and the best guide any purchaser can ly
is the name of their manufacturer, but a2
times it must be realized that good mater |:
and good workmanship are worthy of a })
price and that to secure a good mattress
must pay well for it.

With the spring and mattress selecte .
mattress cover ish
next necessity for h
well-dressed %
This is of good cc 0
cloth and buttn
snugly over the
tress; it can bee il
removed for Jaur =!
ing. Over thi
placed the qui ©&
pad, either sinl
most inexpensive 1
washable, or as de
as one wishes. 14
bedding, it is we t
remember that 1°
is nothing morew lé
some and pleat.
than bedclothes 4
show they car)
washed, and sim Ic
ity should be the *y
note of every be

The bed is »'
ready for the pi.W
of finest feathers ©
down if desired; 19
coming with a vil
lating vent so 14
feathers may be °P
fresh and sw?!
Down pillows arch
best wearing wil

YCTOBER, 1926

nose made of half down and half feathers are
oth soft and durable.
In the matter of linens for the bed, the
pusekeeper casts all thoughts of economy
» the winds and buys things to the limit
f her purse, yes, and beyond! Sheets
' finest quality, hemstitched, embroidered,
jonogrammed, or with, possibly, real lace
set. If of linen, this price will be found to
epend on the fineness of their thread and of
ye weaving. Linen sheets may be had at as
w a price as $6 but the wise house-
eeper looks askance at them. They are
ot to be either coarse as to thread or
sely woven and they will muss up so
isily that they are most unsatisfactory.
At this same price, fine percale sheets
iay be had that hold the same quality
‘ coolness and refinement as does linen,
id like linen, these sheets and pillow-
ises come with either scalloped, plain,
amstitched or monogrammed borders.
hemstitched sheet of percale 90 x 108
ysts about $6 or exactly the price of

1e cheapest linen. Any authority on these
latters will always advise buying the best
rade of cotton sheets rather than the
reapest grade of linen even though they be
t the same price. This cotton bedding will
nd an air of richness to any bed in any
ome. Percale sheets are light in weight,
ne in the above size weighing about one-
alf pound less than the ordinary cotton
reet. Tests have proved, however, that it is
tuch stronger and far more serviceable than
ther sheets, due to the fact that they are
lade of the best Egyptian cotton with more
ireads to the square inch than

that is sometimes added to poorer sheets to
lend a suggestion of quality—a quality that
will disappear at the first laundering. When
in doubt about there being dressing in any
cotton cloth, a test can easily be made by
scratching it. If a white powder like starch
appears, the tale has been told.

Blankets for the bed may be of softest,
purest wool or of half wool and half cotton.
These latter make very good summer blankets
since they are not only light and fleecy but

The new “throws”’ for
the daytime nap are
distinctly decorative
and simulate hand
woven fabrics in shades
of tan, gray and brown

Smooth and firm are the im-
ported sheets of pure linen
decorated with hand hem-
stitching and embroidery. The
center design is also hand-
drawn

of the beautiful

will wash well and are not as apt to shrink
as is the average wool blanket. In this con-
nection it is very welcome news that wool
blankets are now being made that have been
pre-shrunken at the mill and will thus hold
their size and shape when washed, such blankets
being also moth-proof up to the time that they
are washed. These modern wool blankets
do not come in sober plaids or in plain cream,
but they are dyed in soft colors to complete
the color plan in any bedroom. Downy in-
deed are these satin-bound blankets and their
more useful sisters that are bound in washable

- usual. Such sheets may
em an extravagance at first,
ut the best is always the
leapest in the long run.

This does not mean that ex-
allent sheets may not be had
wrless. One such sheet made
» sell at half the above
mount is being made expressly
or one of New York’s largest
nen houses while there are
hy number of good, heavy
dtton sheets of standard, well-
nown makes to be had for
bout $2. For the average
umily use, these serve all pur-
oses admirably as they are ex-
remely well made and of good
uality, In buying all bed
nen the old rule of relying on
te manufacturer stands. In
Ss Way one can be sure that
he firmness of the sheets is not
ue to “dressing” or “glazing”

Sheets and pillow cases from

Spain afford lovely examples

hand em-

broidery and drawn work done
by the Spanish women

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art fabrics! For a throw or slumber robe for
the day bed or chaise longue, there are most
attractive single wool and silk and wool
blankets in soft tans, grays and browns, in
weaves that suggest old homespun or ratine.
These are bound in self-colored satin and
lend an added touch of charm and richness
to the room.

Of bedspreads for this modern bed, their
kinds and colors are legion. Every kind of
material seems suitable for a spread and they
range from hemstitched or ruffled voiles
in soft colors to delicately embroidered
spreads of finest, sheerest lawn with rare
fine lace used as insets. Or, the spread
may be entirely of lace all handmade
and spread over a matching-color satin
spread. Such spreads are not in keep-
ing with a chintz-hung room or with
the little four-post beds so beloved
to-day. Rather should one seek the

handmade candlewick counterpane that
comes in all colors with écru tufting and
for the room hung with simple plain

draperies, one should select one of the attrac-
tive and colorful hand blocked spreads, or a
printed one with dainty gay design that sug-
gests an India print and that costs but a
song! These spreads are so practical for the
room that is much in use. Patchwork quilts,
too, make lovely spreads for the bed in the
Colonial room.

Speaking of quilts, could anything be more
inviting than the satin comfortables so deeply
quilted as to look heavy and that yet are so
light because of their pure lamb’s wool filling!
These make a rich note in the room when
folded at the foot of the bed
or placed ready for use on
couch or chest at the foot of
the bed. All quilts should be
light in weight as nothing is so
conducive to restless sleep as
too heavy coverings. And here
again the patch-work quilts of
our grandmothers’ day come
in as they are warm yet light
and are usually wide enough
and long enough to tuck in all
around.

The final touch of luxury
and convenience in the well-
equipped bedroom is wired
furniture. From a convenience
outlet in the baseboard, a self-
contained wiring system with
a lead wire of ample length to
supply the electric current will
bring vibrator, curler or lights
to the dressing table at the

135

place where it is most conven-
(Continued on page 190)

The beauty of Colonial furniture is accentuated by a hand-blocked printed
spread. To relieve a plain wall a second spread may be used as a gay panel

The nave of the Cathedral, more than two hundred feet long, supported by rows of American Elms.
As they mature the arching branches are destined to have all the character of the Gothic arch

Where Trees Give Solemn

Grandeur to a Gardem

Mrs. Edward Murray’s Cathedral Garden of Trees at Relay, Maryland

Weayrirciay Wolves IBiceravryal

between that city and Washington,
there is a garden which in grandeur

gether so unusual that one feels, so
far as this section is concerned, at least, it
must be unique.

It is a Cathedral Garden and is the result
of work started twenty-five years ago by Mrs.
Edward Murray at her home, Elibank. The
estate, which comprises eighty acres or so, is
magnificently located on the crest of Lawyer’s
Hill, Relay, and is surrounded by a landscape
that ranks with the most delightful of a state
celebrated for its ingratiating and quietly
lovely scenery.

On all sides the land falls away in expansive,
woodland-softened sweeps from the big
chateau-like residence. Here it sinks into
gentle valleys; there, into steep declivities
where rugged cliffs, draped with Lichen and
Fern, broke asunder epochs ago at the bidding
of the Patapsco River, then, perhaps, a
mighty stream but now scarcely more in

Photographs by A. Jackson Co.

volume than a mountain torrent. The resi-
dence stands at the north end of the tran-
sept of the Cathedral Garden, the long
grouped windows of the fagade affording a
splendid ensemble view of the chancel and
upper part of the nave. In winter this sun
alcove is filled with flowering plants and so
applies a realistic substitute for a rose window
of warm and glowing colors.

The plan for this garden was not of over-
night growth. Mrs. Murray states that at
first her intention was simply to plant a long,
widely spaced avenue of trees. Gradually the
idea of creating an open air Cathedral entirely
of trees, shrubbery, and flowers took form and
through all the succeeding years it has been
carefully and logically carried out. One dis-
covers immediately that the object was not
by any means to achieve literal description,
but rather that it was to give the conception
expression in terms of symbols and suggestion.
While there is a total absence of architectural
accessories, all of the traditional details of
the Gothic cathedral are there—nave, trans-

136

ept, side windows, chancel, baptistry, ©!
confessional, reredos and so on. Outsidi-hi
“wall,” there is a sunken garden all |
cloistered walk.

Everywhere one turns there is some if
that subtly captures the imagination, sne
thing that invokes a mood of prof in
thoughtfulness. To the understanding ‘0
sympathetic observer there is no more °€
for labels and explanations here than thi?!
when paintings, poems, or musical coms!
tions of spiritual or symbolic content a 1
question.

qpe nave is reached by several low im
very wide steps built of field stone: be
tween which grass and other things are \)¥
ing, making, as it were, a curious and fasi\at
ing mosaic of gray and green. The ent ne
is guarded by two groups of American /m
each consisting of three trees in close
panionship to simulate fluted columns.
The nave itself is more than 200 feetot
and is “supported”? by rows of trees- lst

JcTOBER, 1926

merican Elms—forty feet apart. There is
mple space for side aisles, and the outer
walls” are thickly set masses of white
lowering Dogwood with slender Birches to
yrm the pointed windows. A huge Copper
seech is a Confessional whose inspiring and
rotecting beauty alone opens and assuages
he heart, and just beyond are the chancel
teps—another low, broad flight in natural
josaic. The baptismal fount is of Boxwood
lipped in pedestal and tall vase form and it
onceals a bowl in which a jet of water bubbles.
everal children have been baptised here.
A grove of evergreens of different shades
ncloses the baptistry—Junipers, Cedars and
hree superb specimens that | at first took for
arches but which closer inspection revealed
> be Deodars. Robust young Pfitzer Junip-
rs are on the Gospel and Apostle sides of the
hancel, the rail of which is another planting
f Boxwood. Sheared Arborvitae of varying
eights make choir-stalls that echo from dawn
9 dusk with sweet bird anthems.

Annunciation Lilies and white Digitalis,
ke kneeling nuns, crowd the sanctuary,
yaking room here and there for vividly robed
Yelphiniums. The azure note was intro-
uced, Mrs. Murray told me, in souvenir of

Blue Nuns’ Service she attended in Rome
ears ago.

Dwarf Apple trees, trained espalier fashion
nd cut close to the ground, provide a com-
qunion rail exquisite in design and as authen-
ic in style, almost, as if it were a carved
eplica of some ancient Gothic foliation. The
eredos is of lofty evergreens with Koster
slue Spruce sounding the dominant tonality.
‘he central tree is pruned in a way to make
t vaguely recall a high altar.

At the base of the reredos, Cerastium and
Vhite Alyssum are massed and no marble
ould be anything like so softly beautiful.
Lut-leaf Birches stand on each side of the
igh altar like slim and delicately wrought
andelabra.

The outer “walls” of the apse are banked
vith white Dogwoods, conifers and broadleaf
vergreens, with Pachysandra as a ground
over where it is needed, and an edging of
Narcissus. An oddly twisted dwarf Spruce
ntroduces a note of Gothic grotesquerie and
apanese Maples in the less vivid shades flash

a baptismal fount is fashioned of Box,
ee in pedestal and tall vase form, con-
cealing a bowl in which a jet of water bubbles

delicate but none the less revealing color
accents and contrasts.

While this garden in its present development
is very beautiful in its balanced proportions,
its masses, and its color arrangement; while
it is now very impressive, too, in its dignity
and its quietude, it is obvious that it only
hints at the majesty which will belong to it
in its maturity. A quarter of a century, after
all, is hardly sufficient time for a tree, even
the quick growing American Elm, to find
anything like adequate self-expression.

The branches, nevertheless, are already
beginning to meet in places over nave and
transept and it looks as if they will not have
to be pleached to “build” the groined arches
of the ceiling. Pleaching, however, will
govern the growth of the Birches of the side
windows and also the Hornbeams of the
cloistered walk. H. Clay Primrose, Balti-
more landscape architect, executed the later
planting details of the scheme which was de-
vised entirely by Mrs. Murray.

This actually living and growing Cathedral
arouses a quick response of emotions that
are as religious in the most real sense of
the word as they are aesthetic.

It was on a marvellously brilliant day in

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The treatment of a ‘“‘chapel’’—Flowering Dog-
wood against a background of Hemlock

Sheared Arborvitae of varying heights make choir stalls
that echo from dawn to dusk with sweet bird anthems

mid-May that | first saw it and the memory
of that experience is as indestructible, as
much a way of refuge and escape, as the
recollection of youthful discoveries in the
beauty that summons the immemorial ecsta-
sies and mysteries.

Besides its undulant background of hill
and forest, the Cathedral Garden has an
enchanting immediate entourage. At its
portal lies a Rose garden designed in long
straight lines around a circular motif of
Wichuraianas trained in low festoons about
asun-dial. Here many varieties of the Hybrid-
perpetuals and Teas flourish in happy com-
panionship with the Hugonis Rose, the Ru-
gosas and the beloved old varieties, including
the now seldom-seen Daily Rose.

At one end, a stone gateway and pergola
of heavy cedar logs is half hidden beneath a
Rambler Rose that apparently has the fixed
idea that it can, in a year or so, make the
enormous Liquidambar tree near by, look like
a mere pigmy. At the other end, conifers
weave a thick screen and in the next plane

ay

there is a grove of Loblolly Pines over which
Wisterias are clambering in wild and fantastic
abandon.

The day I have in mind the whole place
was a revelation of ineffably blended and ac-
cented color. Wisteria blossoms fell from
their lofty summits in frothy, ethereal cas-
cades that, from a distance, were like clouds
of amethyst mist caught in a mild breeze.

Numberless Dogwoods were in spectacular
procession through the woods, and in sunny
spots, Lilacs, grandly dressed for the occasion
in colors ranging from the daintiest of the
whites and French tints to the richest of the
Persian purples, stood closely massed as if
in rapt attention.

Turning back for a final glimpse, the effect
was that of some silent and gorgeous Masque
of Springtime played against a sea of foliage
where the greens of jade, of emerald, and of
peridot mingled with the yellow fires that
dwell in the heart of amber and of topaz—
a sea into which had fallen great clouds of
silver and of mauve.

Bookshelves and chimneyplace form a very interesting unit and focus

attention immediately upon this end of the room. Mr.

Gerald M.

Lauck’s home at Montclair, New Jersey, designed by Frank J. Forster

Housing Your Boo

Part of the general design and of

a classic simplicity is this built-in

case at the Atlanta, Georgia, home

of Mr. J. Draper; Hentz, Reid &
Adler, Architects

Shelves and more shelves

lend friendliness, in this

small Colonial library at

Beach Haven, New Jersey;

R. Brognard Okie, Archi-
tect

138

A place for books is one of the indispensable pieces of equipment for every child’s room
and in this particular instance the toy problem too has been attractively solved.
Mrs. Edward Delafield’s house at Riverdale, N. Y.; Dwight James Baum, Architect

Friendly Fashion

Photographs
by
Kenneth Clark
John Wallace Gillies
Tebbs & Knell
Philip B. Wallace

Bee

ss

es

Delicate pilasters and concave
crown make this bookshelf treat-
ment more than ordinarily charm-
ing. Living-room of Mrs. Lois
Harriman at Bedford Hills, New
York; designed by Butler & Corse

Reminiscent of the Gothic
and suggestive of quietude
is this alcove with its
books and reading benches.

139

Getting the Most Out of Your Coa

A Second Practical Article on Everybody’s Everyday Problem

N*% N STARTING the furnace, first clean
“4y* out the ash-pit. See that the check
PWLZ damper is closed and the smoke-
pipe damper wide open so as to take
advantage of all the draft.

Place a half a dozen or more crumpled sheets
of newspaper on the grates. Add a layer of
fine kindling wood and then a layer of larger
pieces. Close the firing door. Two or three
sheets of crumpled newspaper are then put
into the ash-pit and lighted. Close the ash-pit
door as soon as the fire is going well. Admit
air by having the ash-pit damper wide open.
The slide in the firing door should be opened
after the fire is started. Smoke may come out
through the slide if it is opened too soon.

Some prefer to put a layer of coal on top of
the wood before lighting the fire. Quicker
results are obtained by getting a good wood
fire burning well before adding coal. Coal
should be added a thin layer at a time. Let
one layer ignite thoroughly before adding the
next. Do not keep the firing door open any
longer than necessary. Give the fire as much
draft as possible. Opening:a cellar window
may help, especially if one can be opened on
the side from which the wind is blowing. Do
not try to run the furnace with cellar windows
sealed tight. A fire must have air. In fact,
the average furnace uses over 2,000 cubic feet
of air per hour when the fire is being rushed.

In starting the furnace, some fuel usually falls
through the grates into the ash pit. Shovel it
into the fire-pot. There is no need to waste it.

aT

How To

Tris 18 WronG

Firing, Door ,
rae a way

to check fire:

Ash pit’ door open; Bees eee ‘
wrong, way to : We ee a et
create draft. ea if FULL OF ASHES || ?

Out of 1O%ons of Coal, Tk tons were wasted.

Loss of heat up chimney due
to thin fire and bad regulation
of dampers, 40%,or 4tons

F. H. Randolph

[we

Twelve Steps to Success in
Furnace Efficiency

1. Carry a deep bed of fuel at all times.

2. Regulate intensity of fire by dam-
pers in smoke pipe and ash pit.
Keep firing door and ash pit door
closed.

3. For quick results, add only a thin
layer of fresh fuel.

4. Do not permit the fire to burn too
low.

5. Never shake live coals into ash pit.

6. Keep flues and ash-pit clean.

7. Do not heat unused rooms.

8. Do not overheat the house—65 to
yo degrees should be ample.

9. Let in plenty of sunshine. It helps

in many ways.

to. Pull down shades early at night.
The air pocket between the shade
and the window is an effective in-
sulator in reducing heat loss.

11. Do not ventilate unnecessarily all
night and let the whole house grow
cold. It takes extra coal to quickly
raise the temperature in the morn-
ing.

12. Have two convenient thermome-
ters, one for outside and one for
indoors. Watch the wind and the
weather, and govern your furnace
accordingly.

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SeMMUMNONN LN

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Remember that soft coal ignites more eas,
than anthracite, while coke requires an
ceptionally hot fire to start it. Medium <;
pieces of fuel are best for starting a fire. F,¢
pieces pack down and retard the flow of a

Some people believe that coal should be 1s
down before firing. Tests have shown that
heat is gained by this method. In fact, sc\
of the heat is wasted in changing this wey
into steam which is lost up the chimney <<
high temperature. Even though the fire r)
seem to burn more brightly, do not be mi: ¢
into thinking it is any more efficient. In 5
ing soft coal, wetting down the coal befor i
is put into the bin, and also throwing wi»
onto it before it is shovelled from the bin x
the furnace is generally recommended. 1
this case, the avoidance of coal dust is (1
sidered to offset the loss in heat duet
moisture.

Ashes may well be sprinkled carefully wi :
garden hose before they are withdrawn fn
the furnace. Use only enough water to |»
down the dust.

Using the furnace as a refuse burner is 1
to deaden the fire.

Does it pay to sift ashes? Let us see va
happens. Sifting is a process that discn
inates between sizes and not quality. M1
of the larger pieces will be ash. If these r
thrown into the furnace they cannot pos:)l)
burn, but will only serve to choke the fuel e
and reduce the iniensity of the fire. Ate

(Continued on page 182)

SAVE COAL — AND DOLLARS

Tris

lue ‘damper opened
, wide; bad practice

_ | Check damper:
\j2inevs closed ,
bad practice Clean Flues
Firing, Door .

always closed “4

leave air re

in door Mis

to |

or hee

; Ash pit door ~- i

pees ee iJ
repetes

1s RIGHT.

fuel used. Ae nearly

closed as possible.

Loss of heat ap Chimney

reduced to S%or Ik tone.
abecauce of thick fire and >
° pod regulation of dampers.

Out of 10 tons of Coal, 2% tone only. were lost.

Heat. of coal which actually went into rooms
was only 25% of the total heat.

Heat of coal which actually went intc rooms
was tHhb of the total heat.
Clean flues reduce the loss to 5% or lets. tae

Dirty flueS caused 15%

Furnace and Pipes not covered 15% loss, 12° tons.

loss, 1Z tons of coal. *

Furnace and pipes covered reduce loss to 24% or 4 ton.

Thin fire 1s wasteful, Thick fire saves coal,

Ash pit full of ashes; burns and warps the grates, Ash pit clean, lengthens life of-
Shaking, grate until lve coals fall, drops too much
unburned coal into ash pit» This often amounts

to a loss of 5% or £ ton

ates.

reduces loss to. 24% or less than ston.
Stop shaking, before live coals fall mto ash pit.

Proper shenlere

From the A. S. M. E. Ns
140

Very charming is this chimney corner with its patterned floor and delicate paneling reminiscent of earlier

centuries, in the Gloucester, Massachusetts, home of Mr. Leslie Buswell;

Allen & Collens,

Architects

Bene true Colonial House

The Architectural Styles of Early Days Come Into Vogue Again

Henry H. Saylor

Editor of Architecture

Photographs by Kenneth Clark, Sigurd Fischer, Thomas E. Marr & Son, Tebbs & Knell

ROPING our way out of the Dark
Ages of 1850-1875, after descending
to what was possibly the lowest ebb
in architectural expression recorded
in all time, it was but natural that

Our eyes should fall upon the white painted
houses of early New England. Their simpli-
city of mass, the restraint and delicacy of
their carved ornaments, the restfulness of
their white walls and green blinds—these
things must have been anodyne to eyes
dizzied by jig-saw ornament, raucous color
and mansard roof.

These houses of Salem and Boston and
Lyme and Portsmouth proved to be veritable
beacon lights to guide our nearly blind eyes
Sut of the murk and slime. We called them

Colonial”—and the term persists, though
Sur Colonial days ended in 1776 and these
houses were for the most part built after that,

centering about 1800. “Early Republic’’ is
a far more accurate label, but it will probably
be a long time before it overcomes the long
start of the more euphonious name.

Fifty years have passed since we first began
to appreciate the heritage bequeathed to us

The first step toward expan-

sion—and incidentally the pro-

totype of our common central

hall plan of to-day (sketch
below)

Typical plan of the

17th century house

in its simplest form
(above)

by the men who formed this nation, yet it is
only in the last year or so that there has ap-
peared any evidence of an understanding and
appreciation of the houses that came before
those of the Early Republic—the houses of
the Seventeenth Century and the first half
of the Eighteenth, which are the true Colonial
types of our Eastern seaboard; we think of
our Early Republic houses as versions of the
Classic Renaissance, transitions into wood of
the stone motives brought from Italy through
Georgian England.

If I were to venture a minor prophecy it
would be to the effect that we are about to
witness something of a revival of these Early
American forms. It has already proclaimed
its coming by the eagerness with which the
furniture collectors snap up anything that is
presented in the form of pine, leaving the
antique shops glutted with the infinitely finer

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cabinet work of mahogany that was until re-
cently in such demand. Themoresophisticated
collector has for the moment an eye focussed
solely on painted or unpainted pine, the more
primitive and full of knotholes the better.

INCE we are apparently in for the earlier

primitive forms in furniture, china, glass,
textiles, we shall be wanting the right sort of
houses in which to give them a background.
It would be a pity if we should ride this hobby
in our usual, headlong, over-enthusiastic
way. It deserves a better fate than that.
There is a rare beauty in the few houses that
remain from those far-off days—the Parson
Capen house at Topsfield, Massachusetts,
built about 1640; the Harrison-Linsley house
at Branford, Connecticut, built about 1690; the
Fairbanks house at Dedham, Massachusetts,
part of which was built in 1636; the House of
the Seven Gables in Salem, part dating from
1669; and the Paul Revere House in Boston,
dating from about 1676—to name the better
known examples. They are distinguished,
first of all, by a downright austere simplicity.
The simplest of cornices crowns the wall at
the eaves line; sometimes the hand-rived
shingles project slightly over a single, un-
adorned, horizontal board nailed over the
siding that covers the frame, and this same
unmoulded board usually extends up the slope
of the gable to afford the last nailing for each
course of roof shingles—the earlier thatched
roofs having not long survived.

Simple steep roof lines, substantial central chim-
ney, second story overhang, anda pleasant austerity,
characterize this dwelling—a direct descendant ct
Mr. J. Basset’s home at Rye, New

Colony days.
York; F. Nelson Breed, Architect

Mantel in the liv-
ing-room at Little
Bleak House, an
extraordinarily fine
modern expression
of the true Colo-
nial; Richard H.
Dana, Jr., Archi-
tect. Other views
of Miss M. T.
Bradley's house
appear on pages
122-124

There are no dormers to break the simple
steep roof slopes, though minor gables were
used where further headroom upstairs was
required. A single great chimney reared its
head above the center of the ridge, sometimes
marked by more vertical lines in the brickwork
than the necessary four corners.

Windows were sparingly used—glass being
an expensive luxury, obtainable only in small
pieces. The casement was the invariable rule,
opening out, the double-hung sash not ap-
pearing until early in the eighteenth century,

142

OcToBER, 19

and these casements were usually divided i
small diamond panes in leading.

A characteristic feature was the overhi
of the second story along the front, but
across the gable end. In the rear the r
usually continued on down to form a lean:
This front overhang, which has been occasi:
ally and erroneously ascribed to the nee |
of defense against the Indians, comes of cov!
directly from the similar device in Eng|
half-timber work. Many of the old pre:
types, when built close to the street in |
towns, projected their gable ends out over |
first story to gain space. It is an interest|
fact that these English craftsmen, wl
building their houses in the new coun
with no necessity for gaining space at |
expense of the community, though follow,
the new custom of aligning the long |
instead of the gable end with the street, c°
tinued to frame the buildings with an oy|
hang on the front.

Without going too far into the technicali>
of this outstanding characteristic, it will)
readily understood that when the heavy bez?
at the level of the second floor were laid dc?
it was as easy to have them project sligt!
and build the upper posts on this cantile¢
end as it would have been to carry the upe
wall directly above the lower. The ure
posts were mortised into the horizontal be:)
and this naturally brought about the deca
tive scheme of having the mortise end czf
down through and carving it in the forne
the “drops” that are such an unmistak:]
earmark of the style.

This overhang with the drops at the corit
and sometimes also flanking the entrance, 8
by no means the only point of similarity to }
English half-timber houses. If we weret
strip off the external covering of clapbo:4
we should find a sturdy frame of ax-hili
oak, mortised, tenoned and pinned toget?
with diagonal bracing and all the other e
vices utilized by the English framers to mk
of the uprights and beams an integral whe
This accomplished, they filled in between
timbers with “cob” or “pugging” of cly
chopped straw, a little lime, stones, br:
and whatnot. But the rigors of the Dip

(Continued on page 172)

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Keeping Your Peonies Healthy

HE Peony is sometimes praised as a

plant without pest or disease. Such
a wholesale attribution of virtue is
of course not entirely merited.
Nevertheless it is true that the
Peony has no general insect enemies, and that
the list of its diseases is certainly as small as
that of any other cultivated plant.

The problem of having healthy Peony
plants ought therefore to be capable of an
easy solution. And generally speaking, it Is.
For the plant has a strong constitution and a
patient disposition and will uncomplainingly
suffer much neglect before it shows signals
of distress.

I should like to consider the health of our
Peonies from two different angles. 1 will set
up two problems. The first 1s how to plant
Peonies so that they will maintain their sound
health and vigor, assuming that they are sound
and vigorous plants to begin with. The
second is that of bringing our plants back to
health and strength when they have become
the subjects of any one of the various forms
of disease which sometimes do attack them.

RULE I. GET SOUND, STURDY ROOTS

She prime desideratum in starting a Peony
planting is to have sound and sturdy roots.
Most nurserymen who specialize in Peontes
are now keenly alive to the danger to their
own business if they send out unhealthy stock,
and take every care that their plants should
be in the best of health. The purchaser on
his side should carefully inspect the roots he
receives and should not put into his garden
any that are not smooth, well-grown and
vigorous looking. It takes some experience,
however, to recognize just what a smooth
well-grown root should look like. I would
counsel the beginner, who in any case should
buy only roots of the standard and cheaper
sorts, not to be mis-
led by the bargain-
counter prices of the
so-called “small divi-
sions.”

It may not be amiss
to say a word for the
uninitiated as to the
way in which Peonies
are propagated. Sup-
pose you as a nursery-
man wish to increase
your stock of some
new and lovely kind
—say a Lady Alex-
andra Duff —with a
view to offering plants
for sale. Assuming
that your present
plants have grown to
respectable clumps
with eight or ten
stems. Each one
should be lifted in au-
tumn and washed
clean of earth. You
would see then that
it had a “‘crown”’ be-

A. P. Saunders

neath the surface of the soil; from this crown
there sprang the stems of the present year,
and upon it are already formed the buds for
next year; and from the crown there spread out
in all directions into the deeper earth a com-
plicated system of big fleshy roots.

The crown may with a knife be cut up into
“divisions,” each of these being a smaller
system in itself, containing a part of the
crown with one or more buds on it, and having
one or several of the big roots attached to it.
If these divisions are promptly planted, each
of them will send out during the autumn and
spring a mass of tender white rootlets, and by
the following summer will have made some
further addition to its stout fleshy root system.
If such a plant is sold one year from the date
when the original crown was cut up, you
would be offering “one year plants.”

Now, you may say, | will save myself, the
trouble of cultivating these plants through the
following year by offering the divisions them-
selves for sale immediately when made. But
with the inevitable delays involved in the
work of division, marketing, packing, ship-
ping, transit, unpacking, and replanting in
the purchaser’s garden, these divisions, still
suffering from the shock of the operation,
have time to become considerably weakened.
It follows that divisions are not likely to
‘take hold”’ so well as one year roots, and it
must be expected that they will more easily
fall a prey to any weakness inherent in them
or to any disease they may encounter in their
new home. It is for this reason that I advise
the beginner to buy only established plants
either one year or two years old.

RULE 2.

SSUMING then that we are making a
start with a Peony garden by the pur-
chase of a dozen or two dozen roots of good

TAKE PAINS WHEN FIRST PLANTING

Peonies growing naturally in the garden of Mr. Harold MacGrath at Syracuse, New York

144

clean stock, the next question is the prepai
tion of the place that is to receive them.
will not do to take a spade and simply ma.
a hole in a garden bed, put in the root, a,
then shovel back the soil. People who pla:
Peonies in that way soon join the gre:
army of complainants who make the life |
the Peony expert a burden with their consta|
cry, ‘Why don’t my Peonies bloom?”

I had a neighbor once who had decided :
have a glorious bed of Peonies in a piece |
new ground. He had bought fifty roots, hi
brought in several wagon-loads of soil fri
the woods, and when I arrived upon the sce:
the bed was all made; beautifully mounc:!
towards the centre, rich and black, it lool:
like a veritable plant paradise. I though!
would make sure it was right before the ro:
were set, and asking one of the workmen |
a spade I dug in near the edge of the bed. ¢
my horror I found that below about th¢
inches of fine loamy soil there was nothi¢
nothing but our impenetrable clay subiil
into which no Peony could ever send its re §
unless it were provided with a pick or a cr’
bar with which to open up a passage. “ ¢
bed had been made upside down. For ¢
cardinal principle of Peony culture is ti
the plants should be fed from below rat”
than from above. So far as that bed ’&
concerned it got some different preparatn
before the roots were set; and they flouris «
there for many years.

So when we make the bed for our ne¥
acquired treasures we will dig out for eac])
them a cavity say two feet across and as di}
and if we have encountered some bad suk i
in the operation we will wheel it off and di!
it into our neighbor’s lot. Then into the!t
tom of the hole we will put half a wheelbar ¥
load of well rotted manure, or about as mii
mixing it with some of the good top soil, i
then fill up to thel ¢
again with the &
soil we have at if
command; or rath @
couple of inches al
the level to allow
sinking.

Here comesif
cardinal princ}
No. 2. It is bett
take a little ex
pains with the
setting of a plant,
get it well done ra’
than to cond¢
yourself to perpé
tinkering afterwa
surface applicatio
bone meal, liquid
tilizer, and so or.
have always b
rather chary in
use of leaf m/
though my soil isi!
naturally very ric ™
humus. But [if
coming now to a °6!

(Continued on page 1)

Sun porch successfully
panelled in one of the
newer materials; home
of Mr. A. L. Buffing-
ton, Fair Haven, Mass.

New Walls for O

Roger B. Whitman

Photographs by Courtesy of the Beaver Board Co., Celotex Co., Cornell Wood Products Co.

Modern Materials for Interior Use Which Are

SHROUGHOUT the construction of
a house, from the making and prepa-
ration of the materials to the last
touch of the decorator, the principal
expense is for labor, and if costs are
high to-day it is because of the steady in-

Tuterior finish and ing i ivi

A sheathing in fibre giving an attrac-

Whepane! effect. Home of Mr. George W. Lutz at
ling, West Virginia; Charles Batten, Architect

1. Time Saving
2. Easily Put On
3. Fire Resistant

crease in the wage scale that has been going
on in every branch of industry.

The normal American way of meeting such
a situation is to make materials by machinery
and to develop methods by which work can
be done in less time; to substitute for high
cost hand work the speed, accuracy, and
economy of mechanical manufacture. This
process has been going on in house construc-
tion, and there is no more striking example
of the machine age in which we live than a
comparison of the materials of which we
build houses to-day and what was used only
two or three generations ago. Sawn lumber
and pre-finished flooring are examples, and
brick, plaster, paint, roofings, and practically
everything else is made by machinery where
formerly they were produced by hand labor.

Until recently, and even now in very great
extent, the assembling of the materials into
the finished house was hand work pure and
simple. The modern builder, however, mixes
concrete by machinery, cuts his lumber with
a power saw, hoists materials with a derrick,
and in other ways is doing his work by me-
chanical power, the saving in time going far
to offset the increased cost of labor.

But of all of the trades, that of building is
one of the slowest to adopt new things, so
while inventors produce materials and meth-

145

ods that will save labor, owners and builders
hesitate to take them up until time and
practical use have proven them worth while.
It was this frame of mind that held back
the general adoption of labor saving materials
for the making of inside walls.

Modern materials’offer a smooth surface which can be dec-

orated in any fashion. Mrs. Gaylord Wilshire’s house at
Santa Monica Beach, Calif., designed by A. E. Harvey

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Coming down from centuries of
use, plaster seems more nearly than
anything else to meet our ideas of
what inside walls should be in
smoothness and in adaptability. It
is by far the most generally used
wall finish, and there is no better
example of the conservatism of the
building trades than in the fact
that we apply it to-day about as
our ancestors did a century ago.

The process begins with the nail-
ing of wood or metal lath to the
studs and to the under edges of
the floor beams. On this is spread

a coat of plaster that is forced through the
lath and that, hardening between and behind
it, binds itself into position. When this coat
has set a second coat is spread on it to level
the uneven places, and this is usually followed
by the familiar white finishing coat.

These processes take time, and there is
often an additional delay because in many
parts of the country one group of workmen
cannot carry the walls through to completion;
the carpenters who build the frame are not
allowed to put on the lath, nor are carpenters
or lathers allowed to apply the plaster. And
after the plastering is finished, weeks must
pass before the walls will be thoroughly dry
and ready for decoration since, if applied too
soon, paper and paint will stain and peel.

Considering time as money a_ lath-and-
plaster wall is thus an expensive thing, and
it is almost a matter of course that substitutes
would be devised that could be put up by
carpenters and that would reduce the time
interval between start and final decoration.
Such time-saving materials have now been
in use long enough to have demonstrated
their worthiness and to have become recog-
nized as materials for good construction.

Where the parts of a lath-and-plaster wall
are put together as the house is being built,
these new materials are walls ready made
and needing only to be nailed to the frame.
Properly put on they are stiff and firm, and
they fulfil all of the needs of an inside wall

not only time and labor saving but very adaptable as well

in helping to make the outer walls wind-tight
and heat-resisting. Made in stiff sheets in
several sizes and of different textures and
qualities, they fall into two classes; those to
which ordinary wall plaster will adhere and
those to which it will not. This distinction
is of interest because it determines the char-
acter of the decoration that can be applied
to the finished wall.

It is usually the case that new materials
cannot be used in the old ways, and that
methods must be developed for the bringing
out of their fullest possibilities. Where
lath-and-plaster walls are continuous and
unbroken, there are joints between the sheets
of prepared wall materials, and successful
application was attained only when ways
were found to treat them and to keep them
from opening. Of the two methods that are
in use, one conceals the joints completely
while the other makes them the basis of the
decorative treatment in dividing walls and
ceiling into panels. Where one class can be
treated either way the other is suitable only
for panel effects, and selection therefore de-
pends on the intended finish.

With the class to which plaster will adhere
the joints are filled with a plaster preparation
and concealed so completely that the finish
coat is exactly the same as that of the ordinary
lath-and-plaster wall; a smooth and unbroken
surface that can be decorated in any desired
fashion. Such materials are either sheets of
plaster covered with tough paper or are made
of vegetable fibre so prepared that the sur-
face is sufficiently porous for plaster to strike
in and to cling.

Herein is the difference between the two
classes, for the other is so dense that plaster
cannot form a bond with it, and there is no
simple way of filling and hiding the joints.

Prepared wall materials are usually four
feet wide and of a length to reach from floor
to ceiling, the joints between the sheets
therefore being vertical. By covering the
joints with molding of any desired form and
adding horizontal pieces there can be de-
veloped a paneled design that is open to the

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Three interesting uses of prepared wall materials which are

OcTOBER, 1@

widest possibilities, from the sim
and unpretentious to the m
elaborate. Paneled spaces ;
moldings can be of the same oj}
harmonizing color, the spaces |
be papered, stenciled, or othery
contrasted with the painted mc
ings, and in general there is offe
the simple achievement of eff¢
usually associated with great ef}
-and expense.
Some of these wall materials |.
be obtained in lengths as great
sixteen feet, which permits .
sheets to be laid horizontally ;,

Se ies CSat Sella.
san nmprcereesieneeei

eliminates vertical joints. There will tn
be a joint four feet above the floor, which
be covered with a chair rail, and another rit
the ceiling, where a plate shelf or a brd
picture molding would be appropriate.

There is a wide variation in the surie
textures of the different makes of these 1+
terials, from rough to a smoothness tha is
almost polished. All will take paint, id
any finish is possible from the sheen of ena +
to the roughness of grass cloth. Many i
be had marked off in squares or oblongs if
an enamel finish that has all of the effecti!
tiling.

By their composition, prepared wall ile
terials possess in greater or less degree i
ability to withstand the passage of heat .d
of sound, and in this respect all of them ©
superior to lath-and-plaster. Heat proo) lf
is known to be of great value in reducing 11
consumption and in freeing a house fr
drafts, and these materials are excellent |
this purpose; they also offer the simp))t
remedy for a house that is difficult to h)
because of lightly built walls and roof. Nai)
to the inside plaster surfaces of outer Ww.
and with the upstairs ceilings lined wit
them, the loss of heat will be so greay
reduced that the saving in fuel for only a W
winters will be sufficient to cover the cost.|

Another use for them is in repairing cracld@
plaster, through which they are nailed 0

(Continued on page 188)

all Plants

UR associations with plants are often
a linked with special occasions, the
ri Holly with Christmas, for instance,
and there are naturally flowers which
mean different seasons of the year
to us, as Pussy-willows for spring and the
wealth of Asters and Goldenrods for the fall
of the year. For this article | have made ar-
rangements of a few of the more interesting
fall plants to illustrate possible effects which
may be produced.

Every arrangement of flowers or fruits
ultimately fills some definite space or occupies
a particular position. This space acts as a
boundary for the design. It is well to plan a

decoration for its final position, so that it will
add by its color or form to the finish of the
room. So often the design is spoiled by the
intersecting lines of moldings or

picture

The Mapleleaf Viburnum, whose graceful foli-
age and berries are ideal for the winter bouquet

Berries of the Virginia Creeper
silhouetted against a window

for Indoor
Matcaretel veohaw

Photographs by Margaret De M. Brown

frames, or the distracting influence of other
objects. Keep the design itself simple and
the surroundings also; isolation tends to
emphasize the beauty of the design and gives
full value to the colors and lines of the plant.

Lighting is another important factor in the
effectiveness of an arrangement. Any part
may be featured by placing it where it catches
the light, while another portion may be sup-
pressed by being shaded. Just the other day
I saw an arrangement charming in itself which
lost its interest by being wrongly lighted.
The container was fully illuminated while
the flowers were so tall that they were in
complete shadow. Other interesting effects
are gained by placing flowers near a window
where the direct light will intensify their colors
and bring out differences in texture. Shadows
and reflections often detract from the composi-
tion, but can be made to supplement the lines
of the design, as in the arrangement of Maple-
leaf Viburnum pictured at left.

Decorations are usually planned from one
of the two following points of view: either
they are to create an effect gained by masses,
or they are to bring out the particular beauty
of the form used. The chief danger in mass-
ing is overcrowding. Some space must be
given individuals or clusters; the amount
usually depends on their habits of growth.
If their peculiarities are not considered the
resulting design is artificial. The heavy
clusters of the common Barberry used in the
mantel decoration below are arranged similar to
the habit of growth of the shrub. In this the
curves of the branches repeat the lines of the
bowl, while variety is gained by the length
and placing of the sprays. Variety may be
found by showing different positions of similar
parts. Often the profile of a leaf or a cluster
of berries is more interesting than the full
front view. Examples of this are seen in the
Mapleleaf Viburnum and Wild Yam.

Added care must be taken in the selection
of material when the second type is used,
emphasizing the natural grace of the plant.

Only the most interesting branches are effec-

tive enough in themselves to warrant being
featured alone, but nothing ts more lovely

Branches of the native Barberry
weighed down by clusters of red berries

Decoration

than this natural grace in its simplicity. Have
you ever noticed the charm of the Witch-
hazel’s slim twigs brightened by the airy yellow
flowers? Any one who has come upon this
lovely shrub in the fall would realize the fasci-
nation of each branch, and not spoil its effect
by overcrowding. Part of the beauty of the
Wild Yam is due to its climbing habit, while
an added attraction is its interesting seed pods
so curiously placed, and golden brown with a
beautiful sheen to catch the light.

So many arrangements are hampered by
the formality and symbolism of the Japanese
art. Why not use these principles of design,
but apply them to the use of our own native
and garden materials? In this way we

can create new forms of design, without
copying those which to us have no real
symbolic meaning.

A native Smilax arrangement in which simplicity and
natural grace are the only elements of design necessary

Seed pods of the grace-
fully growing Wild Yam

D. SHERMAN.

2BP2R HERE is something more to a flower-
, show than just flowers and that is
the community spirit which it en-
genders, an arousing of a public
interest which is of untold value
to any locality. Because of this worth-
whileness of all flower shows, they are being
held in increasing numbers each year wherever
there is a garden club or a group of civic-
minded folk interested in bringing the people
of their locality together in closer bonds of
community friendliness.

It might seem as though all flower shows
would be of a distressing similarity but just
as no two communities hold the same quali-
ties of beauty, so each flower show differs
from all others. Because each holds some-
thing of value for garden clubs everywhere,
we are glad to publish the story of the unusual
show given by The Garden Club of Williams-
port, Pennsylvania, this story having been
sent us by one of its members, Reba White-
man Hough.

The Williamsport Garden Club, in its first
competitive Flower Show for members, held
in June, achieved results in flower arrange-
ment and other interesting features which
would rival the most magnificent of the larger
shows. New York will, of course, always
dominate and outclass all other flower shows
in magnitude of material as well as in popular
attendance. But the natural beauty of back-
ground in Williamsport, a broad valley be-
tween the lovely Allegheny Mountains, re-
moved all semblance to artificiality and gave
the exhibition perhaps more genuine beauty
than can be realized by metropolitan flower
shows.

The lovely home of Mrs. N. B. Bubb, Jr.,
was chosen for the Flower Show, because of
it’s beautiful and quaint old-fashioned garden,
an ideal setting for the show. The display
of June garden flowers was especially effective
in shades and arrangement

Honorary Vice-Prestdents:

The National Garden Association

Formed to promote the annual observance of National Ga-den Week

LEONARD BARRON, F.R.H.S., President

J. Horace McFar.anp, Mrs. Francis Kinc, Mrs. Russet Tyson, Mrs.
Tuomas G. Winter, Mrs. SAMUEL SLOAN, Mr. FREDERICK NEWBOLD, Mr. ROBERT PYLE, Mrs. JOHN

Coébperating Societies: SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HorTICULTURISTS; NATIONAL
PLANT, FLOWER AND FRuIT GUILD; AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY; AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY; ONTARIO HortTI-
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION; WOMEN’S NATIONAL FARM AND GARDEN
ASSOCIATION; WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION SOCIETY; NATIONAL HorTICULTURAL SOCIETY; THE AGASSIZ
ASSOCIATION; THE SCHOOL NATURE LEAGUE; SOCIETY OF LITTLE GARDENS.

Fuchsia and Daisies, was more beautiful than
the original though it repeated every detail
of the print combination and arrangement.
Mrs. Wood had made from wood, covered
with plaster of paris, an exact copy of the
vase shown in the old print.

Mrs. Edgar Munson received honorable
mention for a dainty still life miniature, a
tiny silver pitcher combining Forget-me-nots
and a single Sweetheart Rose in a light blue
velvet box just four and one half inches in
diameter. A little gold honey bee clinging
to the Forget-me-nots was an added touch of
charm. Several other interesting flower pic-
tures were in the exhibit and were unusual
in their arrangement.

The children of the Garden Club members
had a place in the show. A number of five-
year-old children sent in vases, filled with
delightful combinations of flowers, both
picked and arranged by their own hands.
That the feeling for beauty and artistry,
engendered by the increasing interest in gar-
den development has penetrated to the minds
and hearts of children, was clearly evidenced.

The bride’s table was a feature of the show
and was charming with an exquisite filet
cloth. The centerpiece of Orange Blossoms,
pink Roses and pale pink Peonies was artisti-
cally arranged and a large bow of white tulle
was a delicate and graceful addition to the
bouquet. At each place were small old-
fashioned nosegays made of Orange Blossoms
and pale pink Roses. The bride’s bouquet
was more elaborate with Lilies-of-the-Valley
and other white flowers. The long streamers
of white tulle were caught with Orange
Blossoms. The simplicity of lovely old silver
and china combined to make the table very
pretty. This display was one of the most
artistic in the show.

The arrangement of flowers and china on
“Trays for the Sick” brought many delightful

and delicately appointed trays to chart
the most exacting of invalids. Lovely an
rare lace tray covers, cherished as heirloom:
were brought out and with dainty china an
colorful glassware, and a fragrant Rosebuc
invitingly arranged. Real thought and ir
terest was shown in the trays for the sick,
little silver box for the prescribed tablets bein
among the appointments on one tray whic
caused no little interest.

WV the many states federating the
garden clubs, it is especially interestin
to learn of a county federation. This is th
Federation of Bergen County, New Jerse:
formed four years ago for the purpose of &
tending interest in gardening among the res
dents of the towns, furnishing informatio
on all subjects relating to the maintenance ¢
the suburban home and arranging for the c
operative purchasing of supplies.

The Federation has increased in membe
ship since its inception, now numbering te
clubs with a membership of nearly one thot
sand men and women. Out of this union <
clubs have grown many constructive con
munity plans, such as the care of roadsic
planting, the formation of the Dahlia Societ
of Bergen County, etc. Circulars of timel
interest on all garden topics are sent to eac
member of the individual clubs, this inform,
tion being most reliable and valuable, coverir
just the very points that the amateur garden:
most needs to know. The Federation a
ranges the dates for the various garden clt
shows and among its present activities is tl
raising of a large sum of money to pla
certain portions of the grounds of all tl
Bergen County hospitals. At all times, tl
Federation (the President of which is M
Frank Berdan) works with the Bergen Count
Agent of the Agricultural Experiment Static
of New Jersey. This is an organizatic
with a far-reaching influen:

and brought to light some
unique blooms, both as to size
and color. All of the flowers
of early summer shared in
transforming Mrs. Bubb’s
home into a fairy garden.
The members of the club
took a great interest in the
contest of “‘Flower Pictures”
or “Still Lifes.””. The repro-
duction of an old Currier and
Ives crayonized print, “The ~
Lady’s Bouquet,’ was the
work of Mrs. T. Kenneth
Wood. The reproduction, in
an old mahogany frame, was
hung beside the print. The
copy, with the freshness
of the lovely old-fashioned
Roses, Love-in-a-Mist,

Winner of the blue ribbon at the Williamsport Flower Show was this still
life replica (at right) which copied so perfectly the original print shown at left

148

and points the way to
other communities interest
in work of this kind.

Two Farmers Bulletins th.
should be in the library |
each garden club are Rur
Planning, No. 1388 ar
Planting the Roadside, N
1481. These may be hi
on application to tH§
United States Departme)
of Agriculture, Washingto
Dae

For free constitution fi
garden clubs, programs at
by-laws, address the N
tional Garden Associatio!
Garden City, N. Y. .

Ellen D. Wangner,

Secretar

'

Living room at the home of Mrs. N. B. Bubb, Jr., where this interesting
Flower Show was held. In this room tall vases of flowers were featured

The New Note in Flower Shows

The First Flower Show of the Williamsport, Pa., Garden Club—See Account on Facing Page

Photographs by D. Vincent Smith

Lovely old china and silver combined with the floral center- The still life groups in the panel and over-
piece and old-fashioned bouquets at each place to make this mantel pictures and small miniature were among
Bride’s Table” at the Flower Show particularly attractive the most worthwhile features of the Flower Show

149

New Solutions of Old Problems

When in use the modern coal chute
both protects the wall and prevents
any spilling of coal on the ground

Still another solution of the waste problem
is provided by an incinerator of this type

Photographs by courtesy of the Kerner Incinerator Co., The Donley
Bros. Co., The Majestic Co., Edwin A. Jackson © Bro. Inc.

FIFTH quality has been added to the four basic
essentials of the successful house. It must
not only be of good design, sound construction, good
material and efficient plan, but it must have labor-
saving, step-saving conveniences in its every room
from cellar to garret, to the end that there may be
greater ease of living and that the charm of the house
may be enhanced.

To achieve this quality of livability no detail has
been too small to be given serious consideration.
Especially has attention been given to the strictly
utilitarian features, to make easier the humbler
phases of home-making.

How to easily and dustlessly remove the ashes
from the fireplace; how to protect lawn and side wall
when coal is put in; how to eliminate rubbish and
garbage simply and with sanitation; how to render
possible the reading of the electric meter from out-
side the house; how to end kitchen door delivery of
foods, such are some of the questions that have been
studied and solved so that to-day even the simplest
home may have a fine sense of completion and of
luxurious freedom from disagreeable tasks.

No longer need doors be left open for the
electrician. The electric meter is now
placed in the outside wall

The question of sanitary and efficient dis-

posal of all waste is answered by an in-

cinerator that has this covered chute in
the kitchen wall

150

Packages may be safely delivered wi.
out troubling the housewife if a pack «
receiver be built in the outer wa

Resting on a revolving shelf that mcs
with the metal door, this garbage can 4
convenience in either kitchen or baser
wall

TOBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

In its luxurious design typical of Louis XIV splendor, this brocatelle is a texture first evolved by the artisans of Renaissance Italy.

“Oo Louis XIV the glory of France was
- his own glory. He felt (and time serves
'y to prove how rightly) that whatever of
lurpassed magnificence could be created
him and for his entourage would be an
‘nal monument to his own splendid fame.

ind so to artists of every bent, he gave
‘ one command—to create beauty.

hat their achievements were beyond
\n his fondest dreams, is common knowl-
‘e. And nowhere is their skill more ap-
“ent than in the lovely design of this

Schumacher brocatelle, a faithful recreation
of one of their finest conceptions.

All the wealth of detail—the leaves and scrolls
and graceful floral motifs —is carefully preserved.
And its texture and rich splendor date back to
16th Century Italy when the Renaissance gave
such impetus to artistic effort.

OUIS XIV designs are cherished today be-
cause they have great elegance and dignity,

as well as magnificence. And so this brocatelle is
suitable for upholstering, for hangings and for
fine wall coverings. It may be had in green,
crimson, or gold. This and many other brocatelles

are among the distinguished Schumacher fabrics
that'may be seen by arrangement with your up-
holsterer, decorator, or the decorating service of
your department store.
t T 7

“Your Home AND THE INTERIOR DEcorAToR”—How
you may, without additional expense, have the services
of an interior decorator is explained in our booklet,
“Your Home and the Interior Decorator.”

Richly illustrated in full color, it will be sent you
without charge. Write to F. Schumacher & Co., Dept.
D-10, 60 West 4oth Street, New York. Importers,
Manufacturers and Distributors to the trade only, of
Decorative Drapery and Upholstery Fabrics. Offices alse
in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Paris.

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I am planning to build an English style
house to goon a lot 40x 110 ft. We will need
a large living-room, dining-room, kitchen and
sewing-room on the first floor and two bed-
rooms and bath upstairs. I expect to spend
between seven and eight thousand dollars for
this house and, of course, will have to make my
dollars do their duty. 1 believe the best is the
cheapest in the long run, but there are times
when one does not know how to figure when it
is extravagant and when it is economical.
Therefore | have a few questions to ask.

First of all, is stucco economical? Is it
lasting? Or is brick better? Which is the
more economical? Will plaster stay on Celo-
texP Will the joints in Celotex cause the
plaster tocrack?r Is Celotex better for sheath-
ing than wood? What type of shingle would
be suitable for this type of house? Which 1s
the most satisfactory and economical type of
heating plant for this house-p—E. F. HEmMmye,
Burlington, Iowa.

—Stucco is a lasting wall covering when
properly applied. (See booklets of various
cement, wire cloth, and other manufacturers
for details). Brick, of course, is more endur-
ing, but also more expensive. We would sug-
gest that you consult your contractor for com-
parative figures.

Celotex is comparatively new, but seems to
be an excellent base for stucco (see article on
“New Walls,” page 145 of this issue). The
cracks at the joints should not show if the
stucco is put on properly. It is better sheath-
ing than wood, also more expensive. Wood,
covered by good building paper, makes an
acceptable alternative.

For shingles use sawn red cedar in a size a

The forest on the west is an effective shield

little longer than twice the amount laid to
weather. Hand-rived cypress is preferred by
some for its more uneven and rugged ap-
pearance, but it costs more and is harder to lay
tight.

With reference to heating, we refer you to
recent articles in Garden & Home Builder
(August, 1926, page 550; September, pages 28,
and 44) and to Henry H. Saylor’s article
“Study Your Heating Problem Now” (Country
Life, June, 1922).—H. H. S.

A Successtul Michigan Garden
sles THE EDITORS
While my garden (pictured below) was

designed by O. C. Simonds of Chicago, which
gave it a good foundation, I give to Garden

Rose and Strawberry
bed, Dorothy Perkins
Climber on arch

IN THE GARDEN OF
MRS. C. W. BURTON
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

& Home Builder a great deal of credit for it
growth and beauty. I take entire care of th
flowers and do everything except the heavies
work. When | started the garden in 1918

knew nothing of growing plants and started t
take the then Garden Magazine to help me out
I still take it and most of my friends do, toc
| organized a small garden club and we area
enthusiastic gardeners and readers of thi
magazine.—Mrs. C. W. Burton. Detroit
Mich.

Suiting a House to Southern Livin

ak: THE EDITORS

I have worked out the accompanyin|
changes to the first plan of the ‘“Quartette ¢
Six Room Houses” (see page 332, Januari
1926, Garden & Home Builder)—and hay
made the changes suitable for building in tk
South, since | am mostly interested in Sout!
ern plans, having lived here fifteen years.
like the little plan so much, and with the su;
gested changes would like mighty well to buil
such a house here for myself.

To me the front looked too blank withot
windows downstairs (on front ell) and wou)
be greatly improved by the addition of smz
casement windows on each side; the lattic
however, need not then be quite so wid
Also I would decidedly want a breakfast alcon
(as I think most women do who build that kir
of a house) and I have turned the entry wz
into the breakfast alcove and made the entra
door near by—a large entry way is unnecessa}
with an electric refrigerator in the kitchen, |
I have planned, and only gets terribly clu
tered up and mussy.

As no cellar is needed (after being he
for so long and building two houses and livi
in four, would not have a cellar for anything

The south front: breakfast, dining and living rooms all face the garde

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SAMPLES: Quaker Net
bought on open market
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Woven fabric of same
mesh, bought on open
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wide.

TEST: A wire hook was
inserted in the mesh of
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exerted between the
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RESULTS: As shown in

the photographs.
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: till worn out, while woven fabrics lose their symmetry with the
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The upper illustration shows how the net and woven fabric were
tested by a miniature tug-of-war.

The lower photograph, in actual size, shows how the mesh of Quaker Net
tefused to slip or change in outline, while the woven fabric was pulled en-
tirely out of shape.

Above is the report of the Electrical Testing Laboratories, which made
the demonstration.

Possibly your curtains will never be subjected to such treatment—but don’t
forget that a single washing subjects the net threads to much rubbing and
wringing. Because they have stood the test shown above you can be sure
that Quaker Nets will come from the laundry as beautiful as the day you
bought them.

The “netted” construction of Quaker Nets ties each cross thread firmly to
each upright one. ‘They retain their square mesh until actually worn out.
Moreover, the long staple cotton used in Quaker Nets will not swell, or mat,
or close the mesh with any number of washings.

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| have used the space under stairway for a
large kitchen closet, using the original closet
for the electric refrigerator (electric range is
also planned for this kitchen, though that
would not affect the plan).

I have taken a foot off the dining room and
added it to the kitchen, which would suit me
better, and | would build an archway between
living and dining rooms instead of the door.
And for upstairs | prefer a sleeping porch in-
stead of a “‘deck”’ over lower porch, with full
glass door or french windows opening from
rooms.—Mrs. H. C. JEROME, Orlando, Fla.

Powdered Borax for Ants

aL THE EDITORS:

A few years ago a writer in Garden
Magazine said that he had rid his flower beds
of ants by using plenty of cold water. I tried
it and only succeeded in sending the ants—
large black ones—to the other beds. Here
they spread over a wide surface and were ap-
parently water-proof as well as immune to all
remedies. After losing several plants and
bulbs, | removed the remaining plants and
applied plenty of boiling water, which ap-
peared to have finished the ants. I put other
and stronger plants in the beds, but the fol-
lowing spring the trouble was as bad as
ever.

I did not care to use the heavy poisonous
gas, carbon disulphide, and consulted a chem-
ist who advised the simple remedy of powdered
borax and powdered sugar, one teaspoonful of
borax to two of sugar, crushed fine and well
mixed and spread over the hills when the earth
was dry. Thin rings of asphaltum paint will
catch any ants either going in or out of the
hill. In three weeks not an ant was to be seen
in the old hills.—LAura H. CoLemMan, Narberth,
Pa:

First Year Success With Delphiniums

are THE EDITORS:

So much discussion is going on about
Delphiniums not blooming the first year that
my results in ordinary planting may interest
other Delphinium enthusiasts.

On June 2oth, 1925, I sowed seed of Vander-
bilt’s Hybrids which bloomed in October and
November until killed by frost. They win-
tered well and had an abundance of bloom this
last spring and we have had bloom all summer.
—H. Donnacpson, Ambler, Pa.

An Extensive Blue Garden

ape THE EDITORS:

Twelve years ago my husband and I
made a blue garden. In the recent July issue
of Garden & Home Builder the account of
the perennial seeds sown along the by-ways
and turnpikes of Pennsylvania, under the
auspices of the Garden Club, reminded us of
our experiment here at home where we tried
something similar with the seeds from our blue
garden.

We belong to a country club that has on
the golf course a lovely little babbling brook
which flows through the fairway and into a
pond only to escape and ramble on down a
dell over rocky ledges in many a pretty cascade
and quiet pool to the broad Connecticut River.
One spring we decided to share our garden
Forget-me-nots with it, and so whenever we

went out to golf we carried a basket of these
plants and planted them by the water’s edge.
They grew and multiplied and now this year
are a joy to see, and we have never regretted
taking them from our garden.—Mrs. Moses
Lyman, Longmeadow, Mass.

A Prize Winning Tausendschon

li THE EDITORS:

For upward of seven years three sprays
taken fromthe Tausendschon Rose plant shown
below have been shown at the annual Rose

Prize winning Tausendschon
Rose, grown at Ottawa, Canada

Show of the Ottawa Horticultural Society, and
with a single exception, it has always won first
prize. It has competed with other fine varie-
ties in the annual contests. The fact that it
produces long stems with several blooms open

at once and many charming buds showing

color makes it difficult to beat; and when to
this is added the delightful apple blossom
shades and the frilling of the petals, we have
an excellent exhibition climber.

In the decorative sections the winning bas-

kets usually contain sprays of the Tausend-

schon. This variety has another advantage in
that its branches are almost free from thorns.
It is a great pity that such fine sorts as Dr. W.
Van Fleet, Excelsa, and some others so much
admired at a distance, are so cruel as to repel

close intimacy; and this is a matter of real im-

portance when the plants have to be turned
down to receive their winter protection.—]. B.
SPENCER, Ottawa, Canada.

Help Wanted, Iris Enthusiasts!

cli THE EDITORS:

Can any of the Neighbors give me some
advice about growing Spanish Iris, using na-
I never had any trouble

tive grown bulbs?
growing them when | used imported bulbs: |

used to plant them between the Tulips and

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at the same time, and with a light covering
they would live through the winter. Thy
native bulbs with me will make a little fal
growth and, no matter now carefully I cove
them, will winter-kill.

I also need advice about growing the Eng
lish and Dutch Irises. Are they as hard t
grow as the SpanishPp—Frep C. G. Amos, N
Atteboro, Mass.

What Color is Pax?

Ape THE EDITORS:

Narcissus Pax, a Giant Leedsi, is de
scribed as having a “pink”’ cup. With me, }
I have the true variety, it is an all white flowe:
Has any one seen this variety develop it
characteristic coloring?

Watteau and Rosary, Trumpet varietie
with pink in their tubes, both develop thei
true coloring here (Ohio). Aside from th
color of its trumpet, Watteau is hardly wort
considering. Rosary, however, has_ perfec
form, exceptional substance, and very larg
size. The perianth is pure white; the hanc
some bell-mouthed trumpet, when full
developed, is a velvety pinkish cream,
distinctive and attractive color that is ey
dent only when the flower opens on the plan
—B. F. Cureton, Walhonding, Ohio.

Permanent Labels to Insure
Correct Varieties

ApS THE EDITORS:

When reading “Alice in Wonderland’
in early years it seemed a pleasant episoc
when Alice beheld the gardeners painting tt
white Rose the red that the queen require
The author must have had sad experien:
with nurserymen! While errors are permis:
ble and forgivable in orders, I find that tl
average of mistakes in Roses is greater thi’
in Iris or Peony or other named plants, <
average of 5 per cent., and this is quite even
distributed among dealers, showing that car
lessness or human frailty is the same ever
where.
In getting together a test collection of t)
Roses in the present trade this item of errors |
very evident. A lot of red HT is pure whit
a white HT is yellow; a China becomes an H
and a small white Rambler evolves from
large red one. This requires endless chec
ing, complaining (two years after planting
digging up and replanting. In some cases t’
wrong plant may be sent out from the nurse
where the stock is produced (but this is rare
more errors are of filling the order at the reti
nursery through haste, carelessness or su
stitution. Yet no one buying a pink si
shirt would be satisfied with a blue cotton or
and Roses are not as easily returnable
shirts. At a dollar apiece (average pric
some guarantee should be expected of tr
identity, and rose growers should take sor
concerted action. As a suggestion, why n
require of the producer that each plant
tagged with a permanent printed label (wo
or metal) attached to the main stem, al
that only such be sold by the retailer, exce
as unnamed varieties? This is being do
with fruit trees to the satisfaction of orchar
ists. If a plant is sold as a special varie
there should be reasonable care taken that t’
identity of the plant has been maintain!
from propagation to final planting.—STEPH!
F. HAMBLIN, Cambridge, Mass.

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The Close of the Prize Contests

run to a successful finish with the
Fea August issue, our monthly offer of
2 eg $25 for “a simple, practical improve-
ment on any plan cf either garden
or house, or both, appearing ia each number”
brought conclusive evidence of the widespread
interest in plants, particularly those of the
house. The reasons for this preponderance of
interest are fairly obvious: (1) The fact that
garden design has not yet fully come into its
own in this country. People in general recog-
nize the necessity for well-planned houses but
are only just commencing to realize that plan
in the garden is quite as essential for final
beauty and fitness. (2) The fact that gardens
are such extraordinarily personal expressions,
such sensitive and fluctuating things, depend-
ent upon so many factors beyond the wish of
their creator and often-times outside his con-
trol—sunshine and tempest, heat and cold—
all of which make it difficult, much more diifi-

e EGINNING last January and having

cult than with houses, to arrive at any sort of
widely applicable plan.

No award has been made for July; but the
prize-winning suggestion for August, which
will be the last in the series of monthly im-
provement contests, will be published in
November.

‘]aee prizes of $50 each have been offered
to Garden Clubs for the most attractive
and interesting photograph (or photographs)
of a garden made this year. Contest closes
October 1st, 1926, by wnich date all pioto-
graphs with explanatory details snowing how
the garden was made must reach the Editors.
A club may submit one or more pnotographs
of any garden in its district. The photographs
must be suitable for reproduction and should
have about a thousand words of explanation
as to how the garden was worked, what it ac-
complished, and some account of the most ia-
teresting features. We reserve the privilege

of purchasing at regular rates any materia
submitted. Unsuccessful entries will be re
turned only when requested and stamps ar
enclosed for postage. Address: Photo Con
test, % The Editors, Garden & Home Builde
Doubleday Page & Co., Garden City, N. ¥
The outcome of this contest will be announce
in an early issue. Md
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received in the Dividends in Contentmer
contest, which closed August Ist., the fin;
decision has been some what delayed. Th)
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prize-winainz story will be published, if po
sible, in November. The original offer was, :
readers of earlier issues remember, for the mo
stimulating, authentic story of people wh
have gone back to the land, folk who hay
dared, and breasted, and bested the great a¢
venture of living on the land, rediscoverit
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Keeping Your Peonies Healthy

(Continued from page 144)

use of it. There are any number of brands of humus on the market
that sell for about a dollar for a 100-lb. bag. If one were willing to
give each Peony 25 cents’ worth of humus mixed in with the soil about
its roots I think the plant would return 50 cents’ worth of added plea-
sure every year for ten or fifteen years. This applies particularly to
light colored soils where the supply of humus 1s defficient.

If the ground be prepared as | have suggested each Peony root that
is set into it will dream that it has died and gone to heaven; and you
will probably have the same feeling a couple of years later when your
plants have had time to settle down and are giving you the glorious
blooms of which they are capable.

RULE 3. NO CONTACT WITH MANURE

NAT such provisions made in advance no one need have much
fear of peony diseases. His happy well-fed stock would laugh
at them. And all that the plants will ask for many years will be an
occasional loosening of the soil about the crowns. At this point
cardinal principle No. 3 comes to my mind: under no circumstances
set your Peony roots in contact with manure. You do not treat
other plants so, and there is no reason why the Peony should be sub-
jected to such an unsavory contact. I should add here that it is
important to set the plant so that the crown is about two or three
inches under the surface of the soil, neither much less nor more.

I have a great suspicion of top dressings for Peonies; and for two
reasons. In the first place they encourage the growth of roots toward
the surface and thereby increase the chance that the plant may suffer
from drying out in midsummer, and that is one thing the Peony hates
almost more than anything else. And in the second place there is
always danger with top dressings cf getting a mouldy condition started
about the crown of the plant. The earth should be clean and sweet
there.. For after all there is such a thing as crown rot, and no better
way could be found to encourage it than by putting fertilizer too clcse
about the stems. And there is such a thing as stem rot, and probably
nothing is more favorable to it than a sour unaired condition of soil
about the crown. My one prescription for having healthy Peony
roots is to keep them happy.

WHEN DISEASE ATTACKS

pare now let us assume that disease has got hold of some of our
plants either through our own fault or through some misfortune

for which we are not to blame. How can we help the plants to regain

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health? Probably best of all by lifting the roots and resetting the|
into new ground fitly prepared for them in advance. If the roots a
at all old they will not like this, and it will probably be better havi|
got them out of the ground to divide them and start with fresh you |
divisions which will make their own root system under the new coni|
tions. I think it is almost hopeless to expect to lift a big Peony clur|
and re-set it with any satisfaction to either party. But if the plar
are not more than four or five years old they can be lifted over bod
and re-set with every likelihood that they will succeed. Howey
if they have had any fungus disease, division should be resorted to ey)
with smaller roots, so as to get clean healthy sections to start wit
And | believe that after division the roots may well be washed
some good antiseptic. Formaldehyde is often used for this purpo,
but a more active chemical would probably be better. I have us!
this year for soil disinfection a new material called Semesan, and he*
had very good results. This or some other material of like act}
might prove very useful in killing mould spores in crown of Peonies|

Besides the diseases | have mentioned there is the blasted bi}
the spot on the leaf, root nodules, and perhaps others. These m/
all become serious; and no sovereign remedies have been found for a’
of them. The cry of the plant pathologist is often “Dig up all yiF
precious plants and burn them.” But after all we do not burn (f
children when they get chicken pox. And | know from my own
perience that Peony plants that are sick do often recover of themsely;
and I am sure that if we give them good living conditions we help th!
to regain their health; perhaps we do as much for them that bee
by the application of remedies which do not often cure.

Ants on Peony buds are not a disease. The ants come for the sw
juice on the buds, much as we go to the grocer for a pot of hon)-
And they do not, I think, do any more harm to the buds than we de
the grocer.

I am not attempting here to discuss Peony diseases from the nurse -
man’s point of view. From the large number of plants he must ¢}
with he has troubles of his own with which the amateur grower, .
audience, does not have to cope.

| SUM up then in these words: Get healthy stock to begin W
Make lavish provision for its entertainment; but, the roots 0©
planted, give them only moderate assistance afterward. For if t

are well set they will not need additional food for many years; amt f
they are not well set your case is hopeless anyway.

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Field-grown “ROSES
_ for Fall “Planting

| Blan man or woman who succeeds best in any undertaking
is the one who looks—who prepares ahead, who, in fact,
does things in the right way and at the right time.

No less disinterested authorities than the editor of this and
other like magazines, and Dr. J. Horace McFarland, editor of
the American Rose Annual, recommend and even urge the
Fall planting of field-grown roses.

Peterson Roses have a reputation, approached by no others, for
living and thriving when Fall planted.

Surely when people in Maine and Vermont, as well as in less
severe climates, can plant our roses in the Fall in lots of 50 to

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FOR THE BEGINNER
The «Month's ‘Reminder — October

As to Time and Place: [9 gardening practice a date can only be approximated as seasons |
vary and local conditions will have some influence. Generally the latitude of forty degrees at sea
level and a normal season is taken as standard. Roughly, the season advances or recedes fifteen
miles a day, thus Albany would be about ten days later than New York (which is latitude 42).
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fr »m the far South; Mrs. E. Urquhart from California and, in addition, occasional notes from else-
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Mis, Ie HIRTY years ago such stay-at-home plant adventurers as
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the spring they must be planted in the fall. A rich, well-drained soil
is necessary. There is no doubt of their hardiness for himalaicus and
robustus have survived many a Massachusetts winter without pro-
tection.

The spikes produced in the spring are five to ten feet tall, depending
upon the species, the top third being crowded with large flowers. Set.
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of evergreens to enhance their beauty.

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conditions they make a mass of color, but as a blot on the landscap¢
they match up well with a well done bit of summer “carpet bedding.’
Set the bulbs singly in protected places in the border where they wil
not be disturbed during their summer’s rest. Under such condition:
I have seen them bloom year after year. One never knows just wher‘
they will do that but some experimenting will find such a place in th
garden.

We still have the Daffodils and the Paper-whites. Not such long
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ever increasing numbers. It will sure be fun to buy these home grow!
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SOME LESSER LIGHTS AND BULBS . |

Lycoris squamigera, but long called Amaryllis halli, because it wa'
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many fine plants is another fine bulb to experiment with. It is hardy
in Massachusetts. There have been many disappointments becaus'
it did not bloom when it was expected to and there have been surprise:
because it bloomed unexpectedly. It is these experiences that pu
the pep into gardening.

Anemone coronaria daily attracted me to their corner of the green!

(Continued on page 162)

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TOBER, 1926

Lilacs « june fe

;ARDEN BEAUTIES

“T am thinking of the lilac trees,

That shook their purple plumes,

And when the sash was open,

Shed fragrance through the rooms.”
pan Tree Lilac, 30 feet high. A beau-
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cts are struggling for a start, saving a year’s time.
ctober planting is perfectly safe if the shrubs are
ven a light mulch over the top of the ground
‘ound the roots after planting.

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OcTOBER, 1926;

(Continued from page 160) |

house when we grew them, and | still admire their beautiful flowers,
They may be grown as a window garden plant, or they may be
grown outdoors where protection can be given, or in a cold frame. If
grown indoors keep in a cool place.

The tall grass-like plants of Ixias, with their beautiful star-sha
flowers, are likewise cool loving plants requiring the same treatm
as Freesias. Buy a couple dozen bulbs as an experiment in the win
window garden. Store in a cool, light frost-proof place, bringing t
into a warm place late in January or early in February.

At this time the peculiar little fleshy roots of Ranunculus are ava!
able. Grown as suggested for Anenones they will prove interest

If you want an engrossing hobby grow Lilies. There 1s a very long
list which will keep you busy learning the environment in which th
will do best but believe me you will get an inspiration out of it.

ABOUT THE FLOWER GARDEN =

All dead material is removed and put on the compost pile. If thi
perennial garden is not satisfactory, it may be remade at this time,
using the notes made from time to time during the summer. Seedling
from summer sown seeds may be transplanted to where they are t
grow and bloom.

Mulching material for bulb and other beds should be secured an
kept in a handy place for quick use, but do not apply until winte
has set in. The time depends upon locality and season. The mai)
thing is to be sure the mice have found their winter quarters elsewher
which usually is after the ground has frozen a bit. The great objec’
of mulching is to prevent freezing and thawing which damages roots.

Provide a place for leaves and fill it as they are piled in, wet wit
water, and finally hollow out the top of the pile to catch water. It wi
make them rot faster. Rotten leaves will improve the texture ¢
garden and potting soils. Too many unrotted leaves added to th
soil make it “sad.” —

During the hot, sticky July days, 1 was forcibly reminded fall we
coming by receiving from a nurseryman an announcement that fa
planting of Roses was highly desirable. 1 agree with him. Fa
planting has many advantages, but be sure to hill up well about tl
plants with earth as a protection. These fall set plants usually mal
a wonderful early spring growth and heavy crops of bloom.

WHERE THE VEGETABLES GROW

The vegetable garden has served its purpose, for Jack Frost has p)
his mark on most of the plants that flourished there. Do not negle.
it now, however. All plants from which the crop has been gather
must be removed and put on the compost pile unless there be gre
feed that can be fed to the chickens. The old stumps and vines W)
harbor insects and diseases that will infest next year’s crop if you)
not clean up. Garden sanitation is as important as personal sanitatic

Do not let any ground stand bare. Immediately it is cleaned |
sow Rye in it. The Rye will soon sprout and furnish green coy
all winter. Next spring it will be turned under to furnish hum
thereby increasing the water-holding power of the soil. Nitrificati
takes place in the soil until it becomes quite cool. Once in the nitré)
form nitrogen leaches away and is lost. It is not uncommon fot
sufficient amount of nitrogen to grow a good crop to be irretrieval)
lost. between the time the crops are gathered and nitrification cea)
in the soil. Hence the importance of having something growing
the ground to save the nitrogen.

Gather cabbages for winter storage. Those which keep best ha’
just fully formed, over-ripe ones are not so good. They may be he!
by the stumps from floor beams in the cellar; or a couple of headl 5
barrels may be sunk in a well drained place in the garden and fil |
with heads, then covered with leaves enough to prevent freeai):
Cover them with boards to keep out rain and snow water. |

Before it was the fashion to buy plants in the spring, Cabbage sil
was sown in September, and transplanted to coldframes—about (0
plants under a 3 x 6 ft. sash—and wintered there. For the garde I
who is particular it is still the best way to get plants of the earl |
sorts, if he does not have greenhouse facilities for early spring grow!»

Dig Chicory roots, storing them in sand in a dry cellar, if it Is /°
tended to force them during the winter.

Endive is blanched by tying the tips of the leaves together.

Thoroughly clean the Asparagus bed, removing all débris.
stalks even a few inches high must not be left above ground.
stumps will cause many cuts when cutting next spring. If man®
is used as a fertilizer apply it now; it introduces lots of weed se
though.

Put a few hardy Onion sets in the garden to furnish the earl5st

(|

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| spring Onions.

Extra Early Pearl is a type to use.
(Continued on page 164) i

}TOBER, 1926

Prepare Now
or Better Roses
Next Year

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ECAUSE of their most uncommon and delightfully
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To those who are in-
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selves

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Dig Parsley roots and set in a box. Half a dozen plants growing |
the kitchen window garden will furnish garnishing material all winte

Going to force Rhubarb this winter? Late in the month, or ear
in November before the ground freezes, dig up some strong roots ar
let them lay on the ground and freeze. After January 1st bring
a few roots at a time—six or eight—put in a warm place in damp so
Old Rhubarb roots may need dividing; do it now. Then all roots nec
a heavy mulch of manure, what is left being spaded in next sprin|

The earliest spring Spinach is grown from October sown seed. Wh,
the plants are well up mulch to prevent heaving from freezing ar.
thawing.

Watch the weather! Celery is better in the ground than store
but if a 10 degree frost comes along the Celery will likely be ruine,
Get it under cover in time. 4

While this is cabbage harvesting time rather than seeding we wai
to call attention to the Savoy cabbage. Real Savoy cabbage has
very delicate sweet flavor you will enjoy. Hunt around for a fe
heads and try them. There is a great variety of them from early |
late season. If you do not find the seed listed in the American cat
logues it is in the European.

SOME JOTTINGS OF EXPERIENCE

Those who have been hunting for a plant to grow on the top of
bank held in place by a wall—almost always a hot, dry place—will }
pleased with the results if they try New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus ame!
canus). Under dry conditions it will not grow more than two fee
is rather shapely, requiring little pruning. Its erect cluster of pu
white flowers are attractive; they last for a considerable time.

Early horticultural history records a sad story of how the ear
settlers endeavored to grow European or vinifera varieties of Grape.
Imagine my excitement when reading that chapter in Dr. Hedrick
Manual of Grape Growing entitled “European Grapes in Eastei
America.” | wanted to do it right then in my garden but one cann\
do such things in a “postage-stamp”’ garden.

The solution is to top work the European varieties on good Americ:
sorts. Some of the shorter seasoned varieties are grown out-doors ;
Geneva, N. Y. Further south, ori Long Island, in New Jersey, Sout
ern Pennsylvania and similar or warmer places, one should be able )
enjoy a variety of these fruits without recourse to greenhouses. Tl
experience will bring good Grapes and lots of fun.

A new tulip disease, the gray bulb-rot—has appeared in a few plac
in the United States. As the disease is not often carried on Tul
bulbs, but rather on other bulbs which it does not injure nearly ;
severely, it probably will not become a serious disease. When a spi
in the Tulip bed is bare because the Tulips failed to come up, this di
ease probably was the cause. Experimental work done jointly
Cornell and at the Boyce-Thompson Institute showed that if whi
such bare spots appear in the soil, they are treated with a solution
one part formalin in five parts of water, thorough sterilization can |
had. One pound (one pint) of formalin before dilution is sufficie!
for six square feet of ground. By immediately treating these sm:
spots the expense will not be heavy. More detailed information cz
be secured in Memoir 89 of the Cornell Agricultural Experimei
Station.

Growing muskmelons for market requires about 82,000 acres
various parts of the United States, producing about 32,000 carload

As anthracnose and other diseases take a heavy toll in North Carolit
on dewberries and other brambles, the Experiment Station at Ralei
has studied the disease very carefully and has given remedies in
recent bulletin, No. 248. Better send for it.

Lon Foster of Oklahoma City, has, after several seasons’ endeavi|
popularized the common African Marigold. This season he gre]
50,000 plants, many of which were four feet tall, bearing blosson) —
from four to six inches in diameter. They are sold all over the Midd
West.

Every one who has seen the new Red-leaved Japanese Barberry beit
introduced by Dreer is immensely pleased with it. It has a glorious)
rich color. The only difference from the common Japanese Barbert
is that in the spring the foliage assumes a rich bronzy red color ju’)
a trifle deeper than the color of the red Japanese Maple. The col()
is retained all the season, becoming more intense and more rich as th
season advances, until fall, when it is very brilliant.

In order that they might not be introducing an alternate host f
the wheat rust, for no one apparently knows the exact history of i!
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OBER, 1926

From the Highlands
yf the Carolinas

[Feels quarantines and
other annoyances hold no terrors
for the gardener who adopts native
plants and bulbs for naturalizing.
This fall and next spring you can
easily build over your plantings with
pest-free natives from the Blue Ridge.

Cypripedium acaule—Pink Lady
Slipper. Strong plants $2.35 for 10;
$20.00 per 100.

C. spectabile—Showy Lady Slipper.
White to rose flowers in June. Strong
plants $4.00 for 10, $36.50 per

100.

Erythronium americanum
—Troutlily. Bright yellow
flowers in early spring. $1.00
for 10, $5.00 per 100.

Lilium superbum—Turks-Cap Lily.

The finest native lily for massing. Flowers

orange with dark purple spots; inside

bright orange. Largest select bulbs, 45c
each, $3.65 for 10. First size bulbs $1.35

for 10, $11.00 per 100.

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now ready. If you have not received a copy, please advise me.

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Here Are Spring Flowers
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i through the last snow Scillas, Snowdrops and Grape Hyacinths
push their way—the first blooms in the garden. Use them freely
to replace Daffodils which cannot now be imported.
Scilla siberica. Deep blue. 85 cts. per dozen, $6.00 per 100.
Scilla campanulata. White or blue. 70 cts. per dozen, $4.00 per 100.
Snowdrops. Lovely among shrubs. 60 cts. per dozen, $3.75 per 100.
Grape Hyacinth. Dainty bell-shaped blooms. Increase yearly.
Blue. 40 cts. per dozen, $2.50 per 100, $20.00 per 1000.
White. 70 cts. per dozen, $5.00 per 100, $45.00 per 1000.
Gorgeous Lilies, that bloom in mid-summer are available now. So, too,
are hundreds of perennial plants that thrive best when transplanted in
autumn. All of them are described and priced in

Waterer’s Autumn Catalogue

of Hyacinths, Tulips, Lilies, and other bulbs, plants and seeds for
autumn. If you do not have a copy write to-day for one.

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origin—announcements were delayed until the U. S. Department
Agriculture had thoroughly tested it and found it did not act asa}.
for wheat rust, and decided it was a true sport or mutation of
Japanese Barberry.

California Garden Calendar

fav.)

“22 URING this month deciduous trees and shrubs may be tri.
planted, so that new root growth may begin before spr.
Also such evergreens as Pittosporums Magnolias, Lau
and Camellias may be planted. The soil should not be
wet or sticky but just moist and loose enough to be y|
worked in among the roots. |

The early rains generally begin in California in September, |
October brings the first good rains, and makes the garden ready}
spring planting. Grass will be coming up everywhere in and ou:
the gardens, and it is a good plan to get rid of the weeds while 1;
are small and easily handled.

Continue planting the spring bulbs, adding Tulips to the list as >
as Hyacinths and Montbretias. In selecting Tulips, take the Darr
Breeder, and Cottage groups rather than the early varieties, as the wi
weather of early spring forces them into bloom before their st)
have attained the proper height. They should be planted in s)
with manure above and below the bulbs about three inches apart, 1
in the warm interior valleys should be in partial shade and g>
plenty of water in the absence of rain. It is well to plant annuals ir)
Tulip beds to prevent the growth of weeds and to hide the fading fol \

Watsonias and other South African bulbs such as Freesias }
white, the primrose yellow and the new colored hybrids), the | «
Sparaxis, Tritonias, and the early Dwarf Gladiolus may be set out )
and they will bloom in April and May. The once popular Calla we
is so effective when grown in borders or clumps should be plante i
October and given plenty of water.

Anemones and Ranunculus though not bulbs, strictly speaking, 4
also be planted this month and continued until December. Plant s
Lily-of-the-valley in partial shade, and keep continually moist. |
better to set out the clumps rather than the “pips” as they b
better. All Lily bulbs should be examined for the destructive it
worms and wireworms, and if they are found, take up the bulbsn
dip in water diluted with soot and then replant in another loca i
in fresh soil, with the bulb as deep as twice its greatest size, allon
greater depth if the soil be light and sandy.

Give Dahlias liquid manure and remove all faded blossoms, tz n
care that they are all correctly labeled before the blooming seas |
over. Cuttings may also be made now of Geraniums, Penstei)0
and Lavender, and new lawns may be started this month with ac
tage, before the ground gets too cold. Keep well watered and ‘1
the new grass is about one inch high, it should be rolled so as to }tk
the ground firm and to prevent marking by the lawn mower |
there are any brown spots on the old lawn, rake the surface lightl) 1
sow lawn seed, covering with straw or old manure. Or the toj30
may be removed and replaced with fresh turf.

All the hardy annuals may be sown now in the open ground ic
as Poppies, Larkspurs, Scarlet Flax, Salpiglossis, and Scabiosas |s
the native Lupines, Eschsholtzias (California Poppy), God/a
Sweet Alyssum (Farewell to Spring), Nemophilas, and Holly! >i
may also be sown now, but if exact reproduction of color be want, !
is best to make cuttings of the new growth springing up at the 2%
of the plant. Sow also Primulas, and Cinerarias in the shade, |s
Pansies and Forget-me-nots. Primroses and Delphiniums ma >
taken up, divided and replanted, also perennial Phlox and Doron if
if they have not been moved for several years. Primulas, Forge
nots, and Phlox should be planted in partial shade, but the Doror !
requires full sun as it blooms early in the spring.

Set out Amaryllis bulbs now and divide the old bulbs if ere 1
as soon as the blossoms fade, before new growth begins. Plant’!
the stem about two inches below the surface of the ground.—E. U

Garden Activities in the Sout.

flowers have gone sadly to seed, but the garden shoulc ak
[BSA on new life if given prompt “first aid” treatment, f be

ginning with the middle of September we have a $s
springtime, both as to blossom and planting. Annuals, perer al
and bulbs may all be put in during the mild October days; som !

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bloom before Christmas, while others will give us our earliest sprin
flowers, from January on to May.

Those who have left their Paper-white Narcissus in the ground wi
find them just putting up this month, and this is a good sign that.
is time to plant others for later blossom (for we can grow the Pape
white Narcissus, both indoors and out, all winter here,) and also to s
out other Narcissus, Jonquils, Daffodils, Grape Hyacinths, Roma)
Hyacinths, Snowflakes, Oxalis, Easter Lilies, and other winter an,
spring flowering bulbs.

Tulips and Dutch Hyacinths are not very successful here unle:
the winter is unusually cold; nor are Scillas, Snowdrops, and Crocy|
Better luck may be expected with Anemones and Ranunculus if giye|
care; but the most generally useful Dutch bulbs are the Paper-whil!
and Tazetta Narcissus, the Campernelle Jonquil, the Chinese Sacre
Lily, and a few of the long-trumpeted Daffodils like Sir Watkin, wit:
the French forms of Roman Hyacireth, and the little white Snowflal
(Leucojum vernum.)

Madonna Lilies do not thrive here, though they can be grown wit
care; but in their stead we may have magnificent specimens of tl}
Easter Lily (Lilium longiflorum), which, though not really natiy
is commonly called the Creole Lily because it will naturalize itself j
old gardens. It likes to be let alone, and should not have manu
placed near it, but humus from the woods.

Oxalis, which likes an acid soil, does well in places like New Orleai|
where the soil is a stiff clay. The winter-blooming sorts, such i
“Grand Duchess” and “Bermuda Buttercup” are as successful ;)
the more common varieties are fine for window-boxes and border
and may even be naturalized in the grass.

Roses begin to bloom again in October, and are often handsomer |
the autumn than in the spring, as there is less wind. But before thi!
leave the semi-dormant state that the hot dry days of September i
duce, they may be transplanted successfully, cut back and freed |
dead wood and leafless twigs. Radiance, Red Radiance, and Whi!
Maman Cochet are the most popular Roses in New Orleans, but the
are many others seen in the gardens, such as Killarney (both Whi
and Pink), Lady Hillingdon, Mrs. B. R. Cant, Sunrise, Frau Ka.
Druschki, Paul Neyron, President Taft, Etoile de Lyon, the ol
fashioned Louis Phillippe, Eugene Marlitt—a pillar Rose which bloon|
all the year—Richmond, Hermosa, Charles Dingee, Duchesse 1
Brabant—all bush Roses which survive much neglect and will blosso
gratefully before Christmas if given a little attention and fertilizer.
this time. Of the climbing Roses, Tausendschon seems to do bett.
than Dorothy Perkins; American Pillar flourishes, and the Climbir
American Beauty is a mass of color in spring; while the old-time Lai
Banksia is only rivaled in loveliness by the newer Silver Moon. No)
of these, however, will blossom until spring, but Reine Marie He

riette, Mrs. Robert Peary, and other Hybrid Teas will. |

There are a few shrubs which should be set out now for wint
bloom. The White Buddleia blooms in December and January, al
so does the Winter Jasmine, a climber of uncommon beauty, with de
green leaves and white blossoms. Advice given in more northe
latitudes for spraying, cleaning up, pruning and spading the grow)
may be followed here, though the pruning must be done with discretio
since many plants are likely to bloom a second time if not too soon ¢|
back.

In addition, the advice given for March and April as to planti
“spring annuals and perennials” will be just as timely. This is t
best time for planting seeds of Pansies, Sweet Peas, English Daisit
Carnations, Columbine, Candytuft, Calendula, Pinks, Poppies, Sna
dragon, Sweet William, Sweet Alyssum, and a host of other ear.
blooming sorts. Except for Sweet-peas, Poppies, Larkspur, and oth.
plants with deep tap-roots which dislike to be moved, these a

be planted in seed-beds or frames, and set out later. |

Practically all the early vegetables may be planted now. Bu
Artichokes and Strawberries should be set out. It is two months ti
early to move fruit trees, or shade trees, as they are not dormant. —

For the winter lawn, plant English Rye, broadcast with river sai
and manure, over the Bermuda lawn. It will give a green expan
when the Bermuda is killed down by cold, and after the Rye is dea
the Bermuda comes out for spring and summer.

Ferns should be divided and new pots started for the house. Var’
gated Vinca, the silver-and-purple Wandering Jew, Bromelias, B
gonias, Impatiens sultana, and Carnations can be grown indoors -
placed near a sunny window, as well as Narcissus, Hyacinths, Freesté
Calla-lilies, and Lilies-of-the-valley.

Snapdragons and Stocks and Chinese Pinks that have been bloor
ing all summer will do even better the second year, if the old stal.
are cut back and the plants well mulched.—E. H.

170 |

TOBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

UNSIGHTLY FLOORS

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It’s We pe
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forever after. A few minutes
occasional polishing, an an-
nual or semi-annual re-waxing
(operations absurdly easy),
and your floors become the
constant envy and admiration
of your friends.

In addition, the Ponsell
Floor Machine takes care of
your other floors. It gives lino-
leum a luster surpassing any-
thing you have ever known
...a surface so immaculately
smooth that dust and dirt have
a hard time sticking to them.
It scrubs tile, cement, or any
other kind of floors as they
never could be scrubbed by
hand, and without the least
splashing.

Right now your floors may
be in either good or poor con-
dition. Yet the day when you
will be faced with the problem

This one machine, by means of in-
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performs five different jobs—it
scrapes, sandpapers, waxes,
polishes, and scrubs

of scraping off the old varn-
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once the Ponsell. way, and you
will never need to have them
scraped again.

You know how wonderful
your floors looked when they
were new. They could look
like that all of the time, and
meanwhile you could be re-
lieved of all the present
drudgery of caring for them.

We have branch offices in
24 cities ready to serve you.
Upon request, we offer a FREE
demonstration in your own
home. Of if you are too far
from our nearest branch, a
10-day FREE trial.

But first write for a complete
description of this marvelous little
machine, and what it does. Tear
off the coupon now as a reminder,

and then mail to us. We promise
you an answer promptly.

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Ponsell Floor Machine Co.
220-230 West 19th St., Dept. 310, New York City

Please mail me complete information and prices
This does

regarding your Electric Floor Machine.
not obligate me in any way whatever.

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Rock Garden

Dreams?

Here is plant material suitable for mak-

ing garden dreams come true. With the
exception of the dwarf Sedums, all plants
offered will enhance the beauty of your
hardy border equally well.

24 Sedums, 2 each of 12 named varie-
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12 Special Rockgarden flowers, my
selection, $2.50.

3 Delphiniums, White Summer
Cloud,the largest single white in cul-
tivation, field-grown plants, $2.50.

3 Peonv Officinalis Smithii, single
bright red flowers, golden stamens.
Foliage finely cut, very ornamental.
Blossoms early, $2.00.

At above prices, all plants are delivered
postpaid to your door.

Special Friendship-building offer:—With
every order amounting to $5.00 or over
(direct from this adv.) I will send a packet
of 200 seeds of White Delphiniums Free.

Many other advantageous Offers will be
found in my “Fall Planting Offers’’ which
I shall be glad to mail free upon request.

Garry-nee-

W.A. Toole Dule

Baraboo Wisconsin

Cleaning

Time!

Destroy all rubbish, prefer-
ably by burning. Compost
all easily decaying foliage
plants, grass clippings etc.
and then spray with

CSU

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Yes, spray the compost heap,
too, for it is bound to harbor
the larvae of some insects. All
spraying done now helps to keep
down the insect crop of the fu-
ture. The free use of Melrosine
in your garden stands for clean-
liness, healthier plants, better
fruits and flowers.

At your dealers or we will
supply direct. Descrip-
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COVER UP THE SHOWER| Te Trve Colonial House

England winters soon proved too much for this impermanent {
and the builders early came to cover the whole building witt
overlapping strips of wood, hand-rived to a surprising thinness, y
were the first clapboards. These were not painted. The white
came after 1800 and was preceded by other colors—probably thi
being a mineral red.

Another curious example of the persistence of tradition is se
the universal use of oak for these early frames. Other woods we
be had for the cutting, far more easily worked and not lacki
strength when used in such generous sizes, but the builders
always used oak in England, so oak it had to be here. Not |
after 1800 did the builders turn to the easily worked white pine

In plan the seventeenth century house was simplicity itself.
houses started with a single first-story room, the “hall” or “ke.
room” at one end of which was the great chimney, fireplace, andc:
This great bulk of masonry was pushed to one corner far enough t;
a small entry or “porch,” as it was called, in which was place |
modest stairway leading to the second floor. There was rar,
cellar, and if it were dug it was reached through an outside hate];
Few of the houses that we know now remained long without fi|
additions. The logical second step was to add another room |
chimney end—see diagrams—which gave us in effect the predomi;
central-hall type so widely used to-day. When still more roor
needed, the rear slope of the roof was carried on down to cover a i
across the whole length. This space was divided in curious 3
Fone oe but most frequently a kitchen nestled against the chimney end |

— ; me Speakman H9s52¥2 | middle, with a spare bedroom and a buttery at the end.
cata! abt pe In the one-room and two-room plan the second floors are sina
tub. The combination divided; when the lean-to is added the space gained upstairs is tr
is the H 2370. The : A |
Lica Famrets the a low attic space, which, nevertheless, was occasionally utili)!
i ee “the kitchen chamber.” Even the more important rooms wer /

low-ceilinged probably, to conserve heat, the huge “‘summer-l i
or central horizontal timber into which the second floor joist:

and the Bathroom Seems Incomplete mortised, coming perilously near to interference with headroor
A still further step in expansion was what amounted to joini
gether a pair of two-room plans with a hall running entirely tl)
the house between their longer dimensions. The two chimney W

The bathroom IS incomplete without

a shower—it is the modern touch moved each to the approximate center of its component so th
space formerly called the porch was divided in two rather 1/1
—But you want to make sure that your shower passageways flanking the chimney, the stairway being now 1a

in the larger central hall. A variation of this plan puts the tweh

itself is modern. neys each with its two fireplaces along the end walks of the )t

The Speakman Company has developed and manufactured with a single dividing partition between each pair of rooms.
showers for the last twenty-five years of the fifty-seven years These early houses had nothing of the sort we know as a )i
which we have been identified with the plumbing industry. Even the entrance doorways were unprotected by a separate >I

hood. There was usually a row of small panes, occasionally 0)
eye glass, above the door—a matter of necessity, since they adit
all the light that the entry received when the door was closed |
doors themselves in the earliest examples were of vertical boz's
the outside, battened continuously on the inside with boards!

The Anyforce Head, which controls the water’s force, and the
Mixometer, which regulates the temperature, are examples of
this development. There are Speakman Showers for all kinds
of installations—over a tub or in a stall.

Then there are also Speakman Bath and Lavatory Fixtures which same thickness, the whole being studded with the head of th 1
have behind them this same development by the Speakman that held them together. With the wide lumber available the ¥
Company. Handles and escutcheons on Speakman Bath and needed only two or three boards to make up the width of a do) ‘
Lavatory Fixtures harmonize perfectly with the handles and these were joined with a bead-and-tongue joint similar to the | §
escutcheons on Speakman Showers. wainscoting. For the interior doors the battens were cut 4/0

three, with beveled or beaded edges but, with these, panelei 4
were frequently used in the more important rooms of the hous
Plaster had no place in these very early houses. The insid« !
E “1s frame was covered with wood boards, run vertically from 1%!
AEE SUNN OREEISNG Wilmington, Delaware ceiling and joined with a beading or other moulding along th "
section. For the ceilings the joists and larger beams were, *

for the simple decoration of chamfering, left as they came fr!
broad-ax, the underside of the flooring showing between. A dis |
characteristic of this sheathing is the variation in width of the
which sometimes ran eighteen or twenty inches. White pl’ '

commonly employed for this purpose and it seems to have be! ‘

and FIXTU RES tomary to leave it unpainted. The vogue for painting these 1"
came later and there were few pieces of the old time-mellow |

that escaped it. » |.
The floors were usually of oak—the boards again of varying\"
but far wider than we can obtain to-day. Hard pine came 1°
later, but upon neither of these was anything in the nature of pal "
Of the delightfully naive hardware of wood and wrought irc .
is no room to speak—nor of the simple furniture, pewter, pottt/)'
fabrics of the time. All of these offer a fascinating field for 1? *

Address 3 22-5. Oe a ee ee ee ee, ee” oo te ¥ | dent, the collector, or the home builder who would know mor?
Hmm ene n nnn neem ennnennmeee ened | unaffected simplicity and forthrightness of our Puritan ancest>

We shall be glad to send you a booklet on Speakman
Showers and Fixtures. Use the coupon if more convenient.

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SPEAKMAN COMPANY, Wilmington, Delaware

Please send me folder and literature on the Speakman Line of
Showers, Bath, Lavatory and Sink Fixtures.

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JETOBER, 1926

TARDEN & HOME BUILDER

\ hen Indian summer

days are come—when with gay

companions you saunter

over the friendly fields

—have a Camel!

No other cigarette in the world is like Camels. Camels contain the choicest

Turkish and Domestic tobaccos. The Camel blend is the triumph of expert

blenders. Even the Camel cigarette paper is the finest — made especially in

France. Into this one brand of cigarettes is concentrated the experience and
skill of the largest tobacco organization in the world.

© 1926

173

WHEN Indian summer days are
here. And the smoky haze lies
over the fields. When the merry
notes of the horn, sounding after
the coach and four, remind you
of other days—have a Camel!

For life is never so complete,
so joyous as when a lighted Camel
sends up its fragrant smoke. On
city street or country road, in any
season of the year, no other ciga-
rette was ever so rich and fra-
grant—so smooth and mellowy
mild. When you become a Camel
smoker, there’s no end to your en-
joyment, for they never tire the
taste. All Camel days are happy
days, for they never leave a cig-
aretty after-taste. Money doesn’t
enter into Camel enjoyment. No
matter how much you are able or
willing to pay, you'll never get
choicer tobaccos, more superbly
blended, than you get in Camels.

So, this perfect autumn day as
your trail leads over the fields or
along the turning road —as it
seems that no other day or place
could be so restful, so friendly—

Have a Camel!

Our highest wish, if you
do not yet know Camel
quality, is that you try
them. We invite you to
compare Camels with
any other cigarette
made at any price.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company
Winston-Salem, N.C.

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

OcTOBER, 19am

Right now you can have your
choice of more than 1000 va-
rieties of Peonies—-the largest
collection of Peonies in the
world. Their delicate fragrance, ©
elegant shape and form, andg@
their great variety of shades
make them favorites every-
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these gorgeous flowers at
prices surprisingly low. The
combination listed below con-
tains the most popular and
beautiful peonies grown. They
are all splendid, strong divis-
ions, with from two to five
eyes. Order Today.

Old Garden Collection

Should be planted by the entire nation.
Vigorous growth and lots of bloom.

Albert Crousse—pink
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You’ll get a choice selection of healthy bulbs, pro-
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Send your order TODAY for either the peonies or tulips, or both—at
our low quantity prices. Prompt shipment and satisfaction guaranteed.

THE GOOD & REESE Co., Dept. G-10, Springfield, Ohio

Shumway’s “Pedigreed” Bulbs

Produce the Anticipated*Results

Contracts with the Holland growers specified largest sizes. Therefore
in ordering you are assured the choice of their stock.

Plant bulbs in quantity this fall for a gorgeous display of radiant
blooms next Spring. For your consideration a selection of a few of
the outstanding varieties of Darwin and Breeder Tulips are listed below.

Name Color Pce Der

Pride of Haarlem Rose Carmine - $4.50
Clara Butt - - - Salmon Pink - 4.25
Valentin - - - - Light Violet - 6.50
Dream - - Delicate Lilac - 4.50
Bartigon - - + - Carmine Crimson 5.75
Baronne de La

Tonnaye - - - Vivid Pink 4.50
InglescombeYellow Clear Yellow 4.50
Golden Bronze- - Golden Hue 5.00
Cardinal Manning Rosy Violet 5.00
Zulu = - - Almost Black 4.25

Special collection of above:

1000 bulbs—100 of each . $42.00 All Prices Include Transportation
500 bulbs— 50 of each 21.50 Charges to Your Home

Catalog illustrated in colors lists a great variety of Tulips, Narcissi, Hyacinths,
Crocus, Peonies, Lilies, etc. Sent free on request. Write for it today.

R. H. SHUMWAY, Seedsman, Department C

(Established 1870)
118-122 So. First St., Rockford, III.

Superfine Collections
Largest Size Bulbs

Varieties 100
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Darwin Tulips
Breeder Tulips 10
Cottage Tulips 8
Crocus . 5
Narcissus . 5

174

The English Style

(Continued from page 133)

close-built suburbs without any reason, is pure affectation, and

pretty apparent affectation at that, and while we have a certain num- |

ber of houses which do approximate the English precedent, our so-
called English work is for the most part very far from it.
in itself a bad thing, and if architecture is to continue to mean the

?

housing of our people in comfort and beauty such change is inevitable;

This is not

to do otherwise is to build stage scenery, as, for example, the imitation |

of thatched roofs by steamed and bent shingles. We can admit that

i]

thereby a certain picturesque quality is achieved, otherwise impossible |

except by the use of actual thatch, but it is after all stage scenery and
not a roof; shingles so treated warp and split; the roof leaks; and roofs
are meant primarily to keep out water.

Even with such exceptions it is a style from which precedent can
reasonably be sought, which is not the case with most other foreign
styles, at least for use in our northern states; it has, or can be so adapted
that it has the qualities demanded by our modern modes of living,
and by our landscape. The Italian house, for example, has a roof so
flat that it is hard to make it proof against snow or a driving rain, and
to develop fully the loveliness of the Italian houses, their stucco walls
and cull red tiles must be complemented by the dusty green of Olive
and cork trees, and the facades broken by the curious twisted foliage |
of the Cypress; and the Italian architecture depends chiefly for its’
splendid feeling of solidity upon the heavy unbroken walls with few
windows and deep reveals, things practically impossible in a climate
like ours which requires sun so badly in winter and air in summer; and
our metal lath or terracotta walls look paper-thin under the heavy roofs.

But the English house has the things we need; the roofs will be

snow proof; the windows are small units but can be multiplied into

large enough groups; any native material can be used for the walls,
since the historic examples of the style were so varied that no material
is so closely associated with it in our minds, that a change in material|
constitutes a genuine break with tradition. Finally this style, which
has existed for a thousand years, perhaps two thousand, without great
change through such varying degrees of civilization must be funda-

mentally adapted to living conditions in the English climate, after all

not so very different from our own; and if we find the old houses
fitting to the English foliage of Beech and Oak and Lilac, they will fit
our similar snrcanee

The things in our own so-called
recall the original, are the use of groups of small windows with
casement sash divided into small lights instead of large ones; the
combination of several materials into a harmonious whole; and an eas)
and unsymmetrical treatment of fagade instead of a fore and man:
nered design. Even those of our houses which most resemble tht)
English correspond more closely to the modern than to the old ex
amples, for in England as well as here, people do not live precisel)
as they did some centuries ago, nor do what are to-day the mos
economical ways of construction produce the same results as wer!
produced by what used to be the most economical methods. Hal
timber is with us no longer structural, but a decorative wall treat,
ment; our roofs of slate or tile are broken by many dormers, but th |
very factors which have led us so far from tradition, have produce:
a living architecture instead of a stereotyped copy, which may in tim)
develop into a new school, or “period” in the history of art. We ar
already beginning to find many houses greatly to be admired for shee)
loveliness Ef mass and proportion whose genesis we find difficult t
determine; it cannot be said exactly that they are English or Coloniz
or Italian, and it is in work of this kind that lies the hope of the futur,
in American architecture.

And it must not be forgotten that much of the charm of the ol
work lies in its craftsmanship. No two pieces were exactly aliki
no two surfaces were the same, but that delightful quality which |

almost always associated with hand work can no longer be obtainet

We cannot retrace our steps; our materials to-day are collected fro.
sources far remote, and prepared for use not by one man or group ¢
men working together, but by the operatives in mills who only kno.
how to work a machine. It is impossible therefore to depend upc.
handicraft for effect; the design must be made in the office of an arch
tect, and thought out by him; the accidental quality of the work Tr
longer exists.

“English”? houses which chiefly

TOBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

In spite of the temptation to Save
inferior materials
build of FACE BRICK

by usin

HERE is something

very taking in the
idea of building as much
house for as little money
as possible.

But don’t yield to it.
Or if you do—know Ze-
forehand how much te-
pairs and depreciation
you are letting yourself in
for. There is such a thing
as the extravagance of
cheapness—avoid it.

Build permanently. If
you feel that you cannot
afford to build of Face
Brick ow—much better
rent for a year or two long-
er, rather than put your

—it Pays

Detail of House
shown at right

savings and future income into any home less lasting than a Face Brick house.

But begin to plan now. The widely read “Story of Brick,” beautifully
illustrated, will give you valuable information. Sent free.

THESE BOOKLETS MAY INTEREST YOU

“Face Brick Bungalow and Small House
Plans” embrace 128 designs of Face Brick
bungalows and small houses. These houses are
unusual and distinctive in design, economical
to build, and convenient in floor plan. Issued
in four booklets showing 3 to 4-room houses,
5-toom houses, 6-room houses, and 7 to 8-room
houses. The entire set for one dollar; and any
one of the books, 25 cents. We can supply
complete working drawings at nominal prices.

ae . .
The Home of Beauty” contains 50 designs
of two-story six-room Face Brick houses, rep-

resenting a wide variety of architectural styles
and interior arrangements, selected from 350
designs submitted in a nation-wide Architec-
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plete working drawings for these houses at
nominal cost.

“The Home Fires,” a most attractive fireplace
book, with many designs, gives full directions
for fireplace construction. Sent for 25 cents.

“A New House for the Old.” Stop repairing
and painting by veneering the old house with
beautiful Face Brick. Booklet sent free.

AMERICAN FACE BRICK ASSOCIATION

1748 Peoples Life Building, Chicago, Illinois

175

Six-Room House No. 619
Designed for the Service Department

of American Face Brick Association.
Note floor plans below.

3] DINING ROOM
15°O"X 13-0

LIVING R@M
22-6X13'-O"

SLEEPING PORCH
8-0 X 16-0"

SECOND FLOOR

Details and description of
this house found in the
six-room booklet of ‘‘Face
Brick Bungalow and
Small House Plans.”

A’F-B-A L—

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Hearthstone Editor’s Chat

This is a department for every one who has a house to build or decorate,

a new interior to finish, or an old familiar room to make more attractive.

It is planned for just one purpose: to bring to each home maker all

the aid and advice so freely offered by the men and women of the business

world to-day. It is a meeting-place where the manufacturers, the decorators, the craftsmen may place their helpful booklets, their free bureaus of service in,
hands of those who value such help. Additional booklets will be listed each month.

This department is for all of our readers. Each Booklet listed may be had upon request.

Order by number only and as many as you wish.

new home or re-
modeling an old
one, hardware
carefully selected may be one of its
most decorative features as well as playing
a major role in contributing to both the safety
and comfort of the household.

Hardware means not only hinges and door-
knobs and bolts and bars. Today this word
embraces andirons and fenders, weather-
vanes, foot-scrapers, tongs, torches and door-
knockers as well as doorknobs and latches and
it is for window as well as for door fittings.
Moreover there are styles and periods in
hardware fittings just as there are in houses.
It would be quite as out of keeping to put
Colonial hinges or andirons in a Louis XVI
room as it would be to put a rag rug there!

Each period from Medieval times to our
own has sensed the beauty and strength and
pliability of iron and has created designs in
this time-honored metal as well as in brass
and bronze in harmony with the homes of
that period, In our own Colonial days, crafts-
men wrought iron into articles of such sturdy
beauty that they are still outstanding ex-
amples of the smith’s art and we of to-day are
glad to copy them.

HE modern architect draws upon the style
of every nation and time with resultant wide
variety in present-day homes. These houses
demand adequate fittings and the modern
craftsmen in metals have met this demand
for suitable hardware and are reproducing
for us all the old pieces, the strap hinges and
quaint shutter fasteners, and at the same time
are creating new designs of lasting beauty.
Whether this hardware be hand-wrought or
forged, whether of iron, brass copper, or bronze,
it is skilfully made, well designed and provided
for every type of construction. This not only
gives both service and satisfaction to the home
owner but it adds actual sales value to any
home. In the reproductions now being made,
all surfaces are made rust-proof and are of
such good workmanship that they in turn will
become the heirlooms of tomorrow.

For trimming the outside of the door, we
may have long, tapering straight strap hinges
that end with the well-known tulip, curly lock
orheart motif. If preferred, these may be had
in what is known as an “‘offset’’ hinge, a strap
hinge where the metal makes a right-angle turn
at the side before stretching across the door.
Another design that is very pleasing shows
Etruscan influence and has the base of the
strap split and curled and the tapered end
waving like a letter “s”. Each of these has
latches and key escutcheons that match the
design and add much to the period character of
the door.

Address: Hearthstone Editor, Garden & Home Builder, Garden City, N. Y,

The Beauty of Good Hardware

For the double Dutch door, these same
hinges may be used in smaller size and either
on the inside or outside of the door. For
such doors, there is an odd fastener shaped
like a quadrant that solves the question of
security. And for these and all doors there
are metal door checks that effectively prevent

Hardware Booklets for the
Asking

Ask for booklets by number only

No. 29. THE COLONIAL BOOK OF HARDWARE
Sargent & Co.
No. . THE BOOK OF FIREPLACES AND
ANDIRONS
The Donley Bros. Co.
No. ; Le HARDWARE AND MAN-

Arthur Todhunter
No. . FORGED IRON HARDWARE
McKinney Mfg. Co.
No. . AREAL HOME
Copper & Brass Research Assn.
No. : Cee AND FIREPLACE FIT-

Edwin A. Jackson & Bro. Inc.
No. . GOOD BUILDINGS DESERVE GOOD
HARDWARE
P. & F. Corbin
. 187. SERVING A GREAT KNOWN NEED
American Metal Products Corp.

. 209. FITTINGS FOR YOUR FIREPLACE
S. M. Howes Co.

. 215. COMFORT
Monarch Metal Products Co.

. 217. TEN YEARS HENCE
The American Brass Co.

slamming and are distinctly ornamental.
Even the electric push button for porch lights
carries the same motif as do the door knockers
and door pulls and hinges.

Fok inside hinges, the well-liked H and L,
or the single H and single L hinge, lends
character and beauty especially if the woodwork
be in white or ivory. For large, heavy doors,
the old-time fashion of bolting and barring
seems especially fitting, and to fill this need
attractive surface bolts are made, large and
heavy and suggesting great strength. These
are shot through heavy plates fastened to the
door and add a fine note of security.

For the kitchen, the simple locks, handles,
hinges and drawer pulls are most attractive
but where there is a large cabinet or a group
of cabinets about the sink containing storage
space, ironing board, broom closet, etc., small
H and L hinges fittingly add a decorative
note of black; and, to match them, there are
carefully fashioned cabinet latches that suggest
small bolts to fasten the doors and there are
iron drawer pulls both sturdy and ornamental.

The shutter that for so many years has been

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absent from our houses
has now been _ restored
to favor, and happily so!
It, too, has its own hard-
ware, small offset strap hinges for the top
and bottom, with a straight center strap
hinge. There are oddly shaped shutter dogs
like a letter “‘s” to hold these shutters against
the house. Shutters also have surface bolts
quite in keeping with the heavy all wood
shutters now being used, and which seem to
hold such suggestion of ability to ward off
storms or sudden assault.

Bess the doorknob has taken on new design
and added dignity. One manufacturer
realizing the convenience of having the keyhole
in the center of the knob where it could be easily
found in the dark, is making his doorknobs in
this way. This does not detract from the
appearance of the knob and adds much to the
convenience of the householder. Chimneys
too, now have their own ornamental hardwar
insignia on their sides, the most common on
being the large letter “‘s” in rust proof finish
As to weathervanes, their name is legion
Every sport is exemplified in these moderi
wind indicators; animals, grotescue figures.
flowers, ships—artistically wrought of iron t
stand against the sky and play with the wind

Lighting fixtures have kept pace with th
demand for beauty and may be had in suc!
good design and material that they add muc)
to the charm of the home.

These very necessary pieces of househol
equipment are expected to Jast as long as th
house itself. They must therefore be ¢
materials that will stand the wear and tear ¢
time. If of poor quality so that they becom
dull and shabby in appearance, they will spo
the beauty of any room. To tear them ot
is both costly and inconvenient; far better 1
the first place to buy fixtures of such goo
design that they will not be out of place wit
change of furnishings.

Most lighting fixtures are attractive whe
new, a mere surface finish will produce th
pleasing effect. But for lasting satisfactio
something more than surface is required: tl
material itself must be of good quality.

It pays to buy good hardware and t]
actual money difference between good al
cheap fittings is so slight as to be unwort!
of consideration. Good architects believe —
good hardware and always specify it. Su’
hardware will be found good to live wit
Doors will not sag; night latches will n
stick; windows will raise and lower quickly al
silently; locks will function; shutters will n
blow open and break windows; drawer pulls W
not come loose. Safety and comfort areinde
dependent in great measure on good hardwa’

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EncuisHh Cotswold Residence
designed by Mr. Carl A. Zieg-
ler, Architect, 1012 Walnut
Street, Philadel phia, Pa.,
showing Preston Massive Rec-
tangular Shingles.

A\rchitects
specily

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for three

FeEadsSONS

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oN Shingles harmonize perfectly Preston shingles have remarkable en-

with any type of architecture. Four durance. ‘This is due not only to this
soft color tones— Red, Blue-black, thickness but because they are a solid
Green and Sunset—are produced by body of asphalt.

the slate and stone particles with which Whether you are planning to build
the shingles are surfaced. or reroof you will find many valuable

Preston Shingles produce a distinct homebuilding suggestions in our litera-
shadow line. Preston ‘“‘Massive’’ is the ture, which show the color effects of
thickest flexible asphalt shingle on the Preston Shingles. We shall also be glad
market, and one-third thicker than a to give you the name of a dealer who

standard No. 1 Slate Shingle. can supply Preston Roofing.
MICROSCOPIC
KEYSTONE ROOFING MANUFACTURING COMPANY ENLARGEMENT
Dept. F6, York, Pennsylvania The wearing qualities of Pres-

ton Shingles depend not only
on the quality but on the quan-
tity of asphalt which each
shingle contains. If you ex-
amine the edge of a Preston
Shingle, you will notice that it

f is practically a solid body of

asphalt. This feature of Pres-

A ton Shingles accounts for their

24 remarkable wearing qualities.
ROOFING

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Helpful Booklets for the Asking

ORDER BY NUMBER ONLY, USING COUPON BELOW

y IFUL TILES
i ene Tile Mfrs. 159. WHIcH HEAT AND Wuyr 210. Hor WATER SERVICE
3. ‘THe FLoors For YouR Home Richardson & Boynton Co. Humphrey Co.
Maple Flooring Mfrs. Assn. 160. SHINGLE STAINS 211. INVISIBLE DepUR GES é
9. WALLS OF WorRTH Samuel Cabot, Inc. The Herman Nelson Corp.
U. S. Gypsum Co. 161. A Rear Home 212, RADIATOR CUPBOARDS | e
14. COLOR IN ASBESTOS SHINGLES Copper & Brass Research Assn. Home Radiator Cabinet Oo.
Johns-Manville Inc. 162. HEATING SATISFACTION 213. RapiaToR Covers : .
16. BINGo oF FLATHEAD, STORY OF PONDOSA The H. B. Smith Co. Art Metal Radiator Cover Co.
PINE 164. WALLBOARDS & INSULATION 214. Putrinc Comrort IN THE Home
Western Pine Mfrs. Assn. The Upson Co. National Warm Air Heating & Ven-
17. STORY OF Brick 165. THE Low Cost oF Dicnity & BEAUTY tilating Assn,
18. A New House FoR THE OLD Plate Glass Mfrs. of Am. 215. COMFORT oe ee
American Face Brick Assn. 166. WHEN WHirteE Is WHITE Monarch Metal Products Co.
20. Copper STEEL ROOFING TIN The New Jersey Zine Co. 217, Ten Years Hence
American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. 167. KEEPING Out Dust & RAIN A The American Brass Co.
21. POssIBILITIES OF CONCRETE Chamberlain Metal Weatherstrip Co., 218. Hor WaTER SERVICE FOR THE Home
AtiasiPortland G@ementiGor 168. Tupor Stone Fiaccinc & Roors Riverside Boiler Works, Inc.
23. THE Winpbow ARTISTIC Rising & Nelson Slate Co. 220. SewaGE DisposaAt—How To INSTALL
International Casement Co, 169. BurLp THE CasTLE OF YOUR DREAMS Aten Sewage Disposal Co.
25. PortTaBLe Houses AND OuTDOOR FuRN- Lehigh Portland Cement Co. 222. Cook WITH THE Gas TURNED OFF
ISHINGS 171. Warm Air HEATING Chambers Mfg. Co.
E. F. Hodgson Co. Kelsey Heating Co. 224. PORTABLE GAS SERVICE |
26. Raprator VALves LockING THE Door 172. A Mopern HousEWARMING Carbide & Carbon Chemical Corp.
AGAINST THE HEAT THIEF U. S. Radiator Corp. 225. WARMTH & COMFORT CONVENIENTLY
Hoffman Valve Co. 173. THE Woop TuHat Nature ARMED vi he Bryant Heater & Mfg. Co.
27. SCREENING YouR Home AGAINST DEcAy 226. WATER SYSTEMS
The Higgin Mfg. Co. Red Cedar Lumber Mfrs. Assn. The Deming Co. R
28. Hevprut Hints on CHoosinc HEATERS 174. Home BuriLpING 227. RADIATOR SCREENS & REGISTERS
The Thatcher Co. Northwestern Expanded Metal Co. Tuttle & Bailey
29. THE CoLoniaL Book (HARDWARE) 175. INSULATED Homes 236. Home FENCES , :
: Sargent & Co. Universal Gypsum Co. American Fence Construction Co.
30. BetreR WIRING FoR BETTER LIGHTING 216. BeauTIFUL Homes OF STONE TILE 237. ANCHOR FENCES :
National Metal Molding Co. National Stone Tile Corp. Anchor Post Iron Wks.
31. Makinc BATHROoms More ATTRACTIVE 219. DuraBLe Douctas Fir : 251. THe Wett Manacep Home
C. F. Church Mfg. Co. West Coast Lumber Extension Bureau Pittsburg Water Heater Co.
32. BATHROOM ARRANGEMENT 223. Se FOR PERMANENT COMFORT 252 CASS or ee fe
Crane Co. AND VALUE a :
83. INSULATION OF DWELLINGS Mason Fibre Co. 255. Ja-Nar RapiaTor Covers
ARMSTRONG Cork & INSULATION Co. 249. GUIDE To INTERIOR TREATMENTS The Fulton Co.
84. THE CoNsTRUCTION OF THATCH Roors The Bostwick Steel Lath Co. 256. RADIATOR ENCLOSURES
Weatherbest Stained Shingle Co. 250. EDUCATING THE BASEMENT W.H. Johnson & Son Co.
102. Woven Woop FENCING The Home Incinerator Co. 257. PaInTING Stucco & CEMENT
Robert C. Reeves Co. The Reardon Co.
105 eae Toucu a Pease SHINGLES
‘eystone Roofing Co. :
106. TAPERED SHINGLES Equipment Decoration and Furnishings
Asbestos Shingle Co.
108. LIGHTING 36. THE Book oF FIREPLACES AND ANDIRONS
Markel Lighting Fitments, Inc. The Donley Bros Co 43. FURNITURE FOR THE Dintnc Room
109. THE CHARM OF THE SOVEREIGN Woop 37. RADIATOR FURNITURE W. & J. Sloane
Oak Service Bureau Schleicher, Inc. 44. YOUR HOME AND THE INTERIOR DECORs
110. THE RENAISSANCE OF COLORED Stucco 38. Book oF DELICACIES ATOR
The Bishopric Mfg. Co. Kelvinator Corporation F. Schumacher & Co.
111. Distinctive Houses 39. INCINERATOR INFORMATION 45. SELECTING SILVER FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE
Indiana Limestone Quarrymen’s Assn. Kerner Incinerator Co. Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Co.
112. BEAUTIFUL AGECROST BRICK 40. COPPER SCREENS 46. Decorators’ MetHops oF Winpow
The Medal Brick & Tile Co. New Jersey Wire Cloth Co. CURTAINING
113. ABouT CASEMENT WINDOWS 41. ELectric REFRIGERATION (FRIGIDAIRE) Quaker Lace Co.
The Casement Hdw. Co. Delco-Light Co. 47. Home FuRNISHING
116. RUNNING WATER 119. Brick FIREPLACES Elgin A. Simonds Co.
Flint & Walling Mfg. Co. Colonial Fireplace Co. 48. RestFuL BEDROOMS
117. Prine Homes 120, OIL AS FUEL The Simmons Co.
California White & Sugar Pine Mfrs. Caloroil Burner Corp. 49. WATERPROOF DRAPERIES
Assn. 124. RADIATOR SHIELDS Protexwell Corporation
136. BetTrer Burtt Homes Sodemann Heat & Power Co. 50. BEAUTIFUL FLOoRs, WooDWORK AND
R. H. Bennet Lumber Co. Inc. 135. THE PROPER OPERATION OF THE HoME FURNITURE
137. THOUGHTS OF HomME HEATING PLANT The A. S. Boyle Co.
The Vitrolite Co. Minneapolis Heat Regulator Co. 54. PropeER TREATMENT FOR FLOooRs,
138. BEAUTIFUL BATHROOMS 151. COLONIAL HARDWARE & MANTELS WoopWoRK AND FURNITURE
Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. Arthur Todhunter S. C. Johnson & Son
140. SUGGESTIONS FOR INTERIOR TRIM 182. TAKING THE QUEST OUT OF THE QUESTION 58. THE Bripe’s Book oF SILVER
Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau May Oil Burner Corp. International Silver Co.
141. FENCES FOR PROTECTION AND BEAUTY 183. MANTELPIECES & FIREPLACE FITTINGS 59. StToRyY OF SPODE-COPELAND CHINA
Page Fence and Wire Products Assn. Edwin A. Jackson & Bro. Inc. Copeland & Thompson Co. Inc.
142. WHat Cotor FoR THE Roor? 184. How To PLAN THE New StyLe KITcHEN 61. DEcoRATING THE HOME
The Richardson Co. Standard Gas Equipment Corp. National Lead Co.
143. SMALL Homes oF Merit 185. Ort HEATING 66. LivaBLE Rooms
California Redwood Assn. Williams Oil-O-Matic Heating Corp. S. Karpen & Bros.
144. Homes AND GARAGES 186. Goop BLpGs.DESERVE Goop HARDWARE 67. SUMMER FURNITURE
National Fireproofing Co. P. & F. Corbin B. Altman & Co.
145. BETTER PLASTERING 187. SERVING A GREAT KNown NEED 73. Asout Rucs
Milwaukee Corrugating Co. American Metal Products Corp. : James M. Shoemaker Co. Inc.
146. A PERMANENT WALL FINISH 188. Space SAVING WALL FIXTURES 74. THE AtrractivE Home, How to Pian
Craftex Co. Masterbilt Wall Fixture Co. Its DECORATION
147. BATHROOMS OF DurRocK 189. THouGHtTs Asout LIGHTING FIXTURES Armstrong Cork Co.
Thomas Maddock’s Sons Co Tork Lighting Co. 75. THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOR IN CURTAINS
148. THROUGH THE Home oF Tapestry Brick 1900. MANTELS OF CRETAN STONE Orinoka Mills
Fiske & Co., Inc. Wm. H. Jackson Co. 77. COLONIAL Repropuctions IN Manoc-
149. THE New VOGUE IN AWNINGS 196. THE INSTALLATION Cost OF PIPE ANY AND MAPLE
Andrew Swanfeldt The A. M. Byers Co. Winthrop Furniture Co.
157. THE Home Buitper’s ENcycLorepiA 209. Fitrincs For Your FIREPLACE 78. WALL CovERING (SANITAS)
Truscon Steel Co. S. M. Howes Co. Standard Textile Products Co.
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Please send (at no expense to me) the following booklets.

GARDEN & Home BuILDER, GARDEN City, N. Y.

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OCTOBER

OcTOBER,

CREATING A CHARMING HoME
Congoleum-Nairn Inc.
UseFUL GIFTS BY THE MASTER CRaFrs.
MAN
The Gorham Co.
Wuat Makes A House A Home
Wallpaper Guild of America
Historic MAHOGANY
Mahogany Assn.
PERMANENT FURNITURE
Curtis Co.
KitcHEN Matp STANDARD UNITS
Wasmuth-Endicott Co.
THE SIMPLE ART OF WALL DECoRATION|
Baeck Wallpaper Co.
HANDWEAVING—A New OLp Art
The Shuttlecraft Co.
You AND Your LAUNDRY
Hurley Machine Co.
KITCHEN DRESSERS
Janes & Kirtland Inc.
Linen Rucs
The Klearflax Linen Looms, Ine,
ENDURING MASTERPIECES
Kiel Furniture Co.
BATHROOM BOOKLETS
Speakman Co.
Beauty THAT ENDURES
L. C. Chase & Co.
SPACE SAVERS
The White Door Bed Co.
Biue Book oF Livinc Rooms
Northfield Furniture Co,
BetTerR PorcHES
The Aeroshade Co.
TABLES
St. John Table Co.
A New LEAsE ON LIFE FOR THE Ol)
House
Creo-Dipt Co. Inc.
Makinc Home HoMELIKE
Berry Bros.
THE LittLe Book ABout GLASSWARE
The Fostoria Glass Co
FINISHED TO ORDER FURNITURE
Wm. Leavens Co.
Ruc Harmony SERVICE WITH Coto
PRINTS
Mohawk-Dept. W. & J. Sloane
THE ETIQUETTE OF ENTERTAINING
R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
Forcep IRON HARDWARE
McKinney Mfg. Co.
THE Proper Care OF Rucs & CARPE
Clinton Carpet Co.
CLoTH WALL CovERINGS
H. B. Wiggin’s Sons Co.
How To Use VALSPAR ENAMELS
Valentine & Co.
ORIENTAL ART IN WHITTALL Rues
M. J. Whittall Asso.
Rooms WitHout WALLS
Concealed Bed Corporation
Cotor HarMony CHART
James McCutcheon & Co.
Dininc Rooms oF DistTINcTION
The Kittinger Co.
WHEN Your TREES NEED THE TRi|
SURGEON
The Davey Tree Expert Co.
Wuat To Do Anp How To Do It
Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.
THE BEAUTY OF UNFINISHED FURNITUI |
Hearthstone Furniture Co.
FRAMES FOR KEEPSAKE PICTURES
Foster Bros.
COME INTO THE KITCHEN
G. I. Sellers & Sons Co.
ETIQUETTE, ENTERTAINING AND Go
SENSE
International Silver Co. }
THE CorrectTL_y SET TABLE |
Wm. A. Rogers Co., Ltd.
Correct SERVICE
Oneida Community, Ltd.
THE Book oF SOLID SILVER
Towle Mfg. Co.
CANDLE GLow
The Atlantic Refining Co.
RESTFUL SLEEP
Utica Steam & Mohawk Valley Cott
Mills
CHINESE RuGs IN THE AMERICAN Ho
S. & G. Gump Co.
THE Macic OF ORIENTAL BEAUTY
C. H. Masland & Sons, Inc.
Correct Care oF HoME FuRNISHING
Peck & Hills Furniture Co.
THE FLoor FoR THE MoperNn HOME
The George W. Blabon Co.
A GARDEN OF CoLor IN Your HOME:
The Glidden Co.
PAINT AND VARNISH FAcTS
McDougall—Butler Co. ine.
Foop SuRPRISES
Aluminum Goods Mfg. Co.
THE CHARM OF THE COLONIAL 1
Nichols & Stone Co.
THE FASCINATION OF OLD FURNITURE
Kensington Mfg. Co.
Decorators’ METHODS OF Wisp
CURTAINING
McGibbon & Co.
WEDGWOOD |
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons. Inc. |
PATTERNS IN SILVER TABLE WARE
Reed & Barton
INFORMAL. HospiraLity
Paalman Furniture Co,
POTTERY ’
The Cowan Pottery Studio
APPROPRIATE FURNISHINGS
Pullman Couch Co. }
ComFort CATALOG
Kenwood Mills
Hanp-Loomep Rues 1n Home DEco!
TION }
January & Wood Co.
WHEN THE RAINBOW APPEARS
Du Pont Tontine

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TAPERED ) Not Rag Felt

The definite charm and distinctive effect of this

unique product, the “€nglish Thatch” in random

widths, irregular courses and rough texture that

hi ep completely eliminates hard and fast lines, sets a

new roofing standard, giving a novel beauty to the
modern home and an added degree of serviceability

shestos ""::
| | They are made in a variety of non-fading colors;

Green, Red, Brown, Gray, ete. First of all, Ta-
pered Ambler Asbestos Shingles have the taper of the
old wooden shingles. They are %-in. thick at the
upper and ¥%-in. at butt and 20 inches long. They
are strong, rigid shingles, not paper or rag felt, never
curl or warp, not affected by the blasts of winter,
the heavy rains of spring and the blazing heat of
summer, year in and year out, for they are made of Asbestos
and Hydraulic Cement—Nature’s imperishable materials.

FIRE-PROOF.

Tapered Ambler Asbestos Shingles are absolutely fire-proof, not merely **fire re-
sistant.”? Ask your fire insurance agent what the difference is. He will tell you the
difference and show you the saving in rates—a matter of serious consideration over a
term of years and years.

It will pay you to write us now for complete information covering these superior

shingles.
Made by the AMBLER ASBESTOS COMPANY, at Asbestos, Penna., and sold by the
ASBESTOS
SHINGLE, SLATE & SHEATHING CO.
AMBLER - - PENNA.
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Omaha, Nebraska Boston, Mass. New York, N. Y. Philadelphia, Penna, Detroit, Mich.
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New Life
in your steam
heating plant

and save V3 of your fuel

OFFMAN No. 2 Vacuum Valves save fuel because they

keep air out of radiators. Without a single change
in piping or boiler they convert any one-pipe steam heating
plant, new or old, into a vacuum system. Radiators heat
quickly and stay hot longer. These valves revolutionize
steam heat.

DopGeE BROTHERS SUBURBAN

HE Dodge Brothers Suburban, with body by

Cantrell, is designed and built for the owner
of a country estate or suburban home who wishes
a car that will stand up under hard usage, and
yet present a smart appearance. Its many ex-
clusive, patented features add much to its de-
sirability.

Test a Hoffman Vacuum Valve

on your worst radiator We shall be pleased to send you upon request

NOTICE how quickly this radiator heats and how long it our folder ““H”’ giving details and specifications
stays hot after fires are banked. You can se-
cure Hoffman No. 2 Vacuum Valves at your

neighborhood Heating & Plumbing Shop.

J:-T- CANTRELL & COMPANY
Ltakers of Suburban Bodies

HUNTINGTON, NY.

Learn more about these wonderful valves.
Send coupon for an intensely interesting book
“Locking the Door Against the Heat Thief.”’

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Why HOME OWNERS in
Chicago’s fashionable suburbs

prefer these ENTRANCES

e of the interesting sights of
Chicago's fashionable North
iore suburbs —Wilmette, Winnetka,
ike Forest—is the beautiful homes
uipped with Hartmann-Sanders
ytrances.

* Kernerator equipped home
Mr. Herbert Lubin,
“motion picture producer,
Larchmount, N. Y. Archi-

The owners of these costly homes

tect, W. Kenneth Watkins.
ve chosen Hartmann-Sanders En-
ances first, because their rich dig-

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: : Hartmann-Sanders Entrances are built com-
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Me are stabili‘ed with pat- model entrances, gladly sent on request,

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Chicago, Ill. Eastern office and showroom,

t beyond their low cost. 6 East 39th St., New York City.
HARTMANN:SANDERS ARBAGE cans and bis
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PERGOLAS ie <A ater date as the outdoor pump. So

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GARDEN EQUIPMENT decided the owner and architect

of this beautiful home. There is
no foul smelling, germ breeding,
unsightly accumulation of gar-
bage. Instead, the convenient,
sanitary time-tried Kernerator.

KOLL COLUMNS

All waste — not only garbage,
but tin cans, bottles, old magazines, wilted
flowers and rubbish of all kinds—is dropped
into the handy hopper doors on floors above
and falls to the brick combustion chamber
in the basement. An occasional lighting de-
stroys all but metallic objects and other
non-combustibles which are flame-sterilized
for removal with the ashes. No gas, coal
or fuel of any kind is required.

how quickly and inexpensively
youcan transform those irritat-
ing, cast-iron encumbrances
into beautiful and useful furni-
ture by installing SLYKER
Furniture. It means no more
soiled walls, ruined draperies
and less redecorating expense.
Solidly built of interlocking
steel parts. Enameled-finish
with the naturalness of
expensive woods to
match the decorative
scheme of your rooms.
Equipped witha patent
humidifier that keeps
the air healthy.

Consult your architect or builder. He
knows and will recommend the Kernera-
tor. Decide before you build to eliminate
once and for all the filthy, work creating
garbage can. Write for booklet “The San-
itary Elimination of Household Waste.”

KERNER INCINERATOR COMPANY
731 EAST WATER STREET MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Plan now for Fall.
Transform your radia-
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dow-seats or consoles.
Moderately priced.
Send coupon for full
‘details—no obligation.

The Kernerator costs no more than a good radiombut
the radio can be added any time, while the Kernerator
must be built in when the building is constructed.

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REG US PAT OFF

THE CHIMNEY-FED INCINERATOR

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Lutton-Built greenhouse of Charles E. McInnes, Rydal, Pa.

& Bring your garden Indoors
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y You can have your favorite houses of Quality,” you will
¢/ flowers and plants even when fe able to visualize just what
\ the snow is flying. kind of greenhouse is best
\ ) By looking over the variety suited for your purposes. A

copy of this interesting book

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awaits your request.

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The first cost of a durable Lutton Green-

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Getting the Most Out of Your Co

(Continued from page 140)

mixed with live coals are almost sure to fuse (or melt) and thus fi
clinkers. So the practice of using siftings as fuel seems inadvisa|
It invites further trouble. Instead of spending your time in sif}
ashes, it will pay far better dividends if spent in thoughtfully analy;|
the problem of running your furnace. Before concluding that you)
losing no coal in the ash-pit, try throwing water on the ashes and}
if any black coal appears.

Burning Anthracite Coal in Large Sizes. Carry a deep bed of 1
at least level with fire door. Shake the grate to remove ashes and Ic
the fuel bed, but stop when the first live coals appear. The best t
to shake the grate is in the morning after the fire has come up.

Fresh fuel should be spread evenly over the entire grate area.
heavy firing, say 6 to 8 inches deep, can be made if desired and
last from 6 to 8 hours. For quick kindling, the fire bed should be r
fairly hot before adding fresh fuel.

After firing, keep the dampers wide open until blue flame appé
then check off the draft as much as necessary, to keep the fire burnin
the desired rate. The proper setting of the dampers must be lea
by experience for each furnace; this is because of the variation in
draft available for different installations.

Clean out flues once a week unless experience shows that an incc
derable amount of soot has accumulated.

Burning Anthracite Coal in Small Sizes. Carry only as deep a}
bed as the size of coal and available draft will permit. This will mej
thin fire when using No. 1 Buckwheat, the smallest size of coal feas/

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COKING METHOD OF FIRING SOFT COAL IN TYPICAL FURNAC’)

Sectional boiler or square type of furnace (left); and,
at right, round boilder or circular type of furnace

on the grates so that coal will not be lost in the ash-pit. Too h
a layer of ashes reduces the draft.

Shake out the ashes only after fresh coal has been added and @
oughly ignited. Shake the grates gently to avoid breaking up th
bed.

If the fuel bed forms an arch and does not settle, use a poker care!
around the edges and then with the flat side of the poker push dow &
center of the fuel bed as evenly as possible.

Never disturb the fire any more than necessary. Stirring it 1}
live coal and ashes and forms clinkers. If clinkers do form, it is be
pry them upward through the slicing door. Large clinkers will
to be removed through the firing door.

Small size anthracite may persist in giving clinker trouble if th fir
is turned on most of the time. It is then necessary to use fuel f
larger size during severe weather.

Fire often and in relatively small amounts, always leaving a b 3h
spot in the fuel bed at least four inches in diameter. This will a #
a torch to burn the gas formed by the fresh fuel. It is good pra
to fire on only half of the fuel bed at a time. Smothering the fire y
blanket of coal wastes the gas and presently causes the furna: t
“back fire’? with an explosion.

Open the slide in the firing door to assist in burning off the gas 0
freshly fired coal.

A good way to learn to use a fine size anthracite is to start wh
mixture of large and fine coal. The proportion of fine coal ma!
gradually increased as difficulties are overcome and confidence is d/é!
oped.

Clean the flues once a week.

(Continued on page 186)

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Getting the Most Out of Your Coal

(Continued from page 182)

Burning Wood With Anthracite Pea or Buckwheat. Carry a deep bed
of fuel, even above the level of the fire door. Shake the grate to remove
ashes and to lower the fuel bed, but stop when the first live coals appear.

Spread a thin layer of anthracite over the entire grate and allow a few
minutes for this fuel to ignite. Next fill the fire-pot with coke, and
allow this to burn until blue flame appears, then add another layer of
anthracite.

After firing and seeing that the charge is ignited, check off the draft
to the desired point for slow burning.

When banking the fire for the night, use less coke and more anthracite
but otherwise fire in the same manner.

Clean the flues once a week.

Follow the rules for coke and anthracite, substituting block wood for
coke. It is highly important to see that the fuel is properly ignited and
giving off flame before closing off the drafts.

Burning Bituminous (soft) Coal. Keep heating surfaces clean.
Flues should be cleaned twice a week or oftener if necessary.

Carry a good deep fire, ten to eighteen inches thick, depending on the
depth of the fire-pot. It is generally advisable to keep the top of the
fuel bed slightly below the level of the fire door.

After the fuel is partly burned, more heat can be obtained by break-
ing up the fire bed and making it level.

For quick heat fire only a small amount of coal.
bright spot showing.

When preparing to fire a heavy charge of coal that must last a long
time, shake the grates slightly until light shows in the ash-pit. Push
the live coals back, or to the side nearest the flue opening, heaping
them up high on the sides of the fire-box. Put a lot of fresh coal into
the deep hole just formed in the hot fire bed, sufficient to make it level
with the burning fuel heaped up around the back and sides. Never
cover all the burning surface. Leave a bright surface to ignite the gas
and prevent a ‘‘flare back”’ or explosion.

A large charge of soft coal will burn slowly for several hours, giving
out moderate heat. Should more heat be demanded, it can be obtained
by breaking up the partly ignited mass with the fire tools.

Study carefully the use of the dampers. Usually it will be found
that:

(a) The smoke pipe or flue damper should be open when firing fresh
coal and should be partly closed after the fire is well started.

(b) The ash-pit damper should be well open to start up the fire, slightly
open during the day, but shut at night.

(c) The check draft damper should be shut tostart up the fire, and open
partly by day and night as experience show necessary.

When fresh coal is fired, admit air over the fuel bed through the slide
in the fire door. When smoking ceases, partially or entirely close the
slide.

Do not let the fire burn too low.

Do not open the fire door to check the fire, learn to use the dampers to
control the rate of burning. All air admitted above the fire in excess of
that needed for combustion simply cools the heating surfaces inside the
furnace.

Shake out ashes when necessary, but do not waste coals into the ash-
pit. Close the ash-pit door while shaking.

Do not let ashes pile up under the grates.
out.”” Grates should last many years.

To avoid soft coal dust, keep the front of the coal pile moist with an
occasional bucket of water.

Always leave a

In this way grates “burn-

In preparing the foregoing article the writer used rules for firing
domestic furnaces as put out by the Fuels Division of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, pamphlets from the U. S.Bureau of
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page 28 of the recent September issue.—Eb.

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New Walls for Old

(Continued from page 1.46)

studs or floor beams. In both cases it will of course be necessary
to redecorate. i

An advantage of such of these materials as are made of mineral is
their resistance to fire. While a thin sheet of plaster is not sufficient
to prevent the spread of fire it will retard it, and will be a protection.
to the wood frame. There is especial advantage in using plaster’
boards or boards made of asbestos and portland cement for cellar
ceilings, for as it is in this part of the house that most residence
fires’ Start, (ther
spread will thus be
checked for a time at
least.

As prepared wall
materials can be sawn
and nailed as if they
were wood there is no
difficulty in their ap-
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characteristics that
must be observed, but
as each manufacturer
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for the use of his material there need be no difficulty on this poin
Some, for instance, are more subject to moisture than others, and th
sheets must be set + inch or so apart to allow for expansion. Whe
these are to be used to simulate tiling in a bathroom or kitchen the
makers advise painting the backs of the sheets before setting them <
a more complete protection against moisture, and this should alway
be done to prever
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process to whi¢
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made of highly compressed fibre such as Beaver, and Upson; Cornell,
Compo, which has a solid wood core covered with paper; or Ambl.
Carey, and Johns-Manville, which are made of asbestos fibre a)
portland cement.

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Prepared wall materials can be sawn and nailed as if they
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greatly reduced because of the failure to set fruit buds, due to loss!
the leaves. The disease is easily controlled by spraying with Bordea*
mixture when the shucks loosen, which is about ten days after pet?
drop; again two weeks later, and a third spraying immediately after t?

fruit is picked. Be sure to attend to this next spring. |
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SOBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

INGEE. ROSES

Pot-grown rose bushes on
their own roots. Old favor-
ites and new, rare sorts. Safe
delivery guaranteed.

Also Tulips, Hyacinths, Nar-
cissus, Crocus, Lilies, Shrubs,
shown in natural colors

» New Guide to Rose Culture” for 1926
Autumn Edition

cor copy to-day. It’s free. Illus-
« the wonderful “Dingee Roses”
,ural colors. A practical work on
fand flower culture. Offers the
iz varieties of bulbs and plants
1 and spring blooming. Fstab-
21850. Oldest Rose Growing Estab-
qnt in America.

J INGEE & CONARD COMPANY
37 West Grove, Pa.

7 CCC
der Holland Bulbs Now

PROMPT DELIVERY

varwin Tulips—No others com-
ire with them in size or beauty.
Je offer a grand mixture, 40 for
1.00, or 100 for $2.00. First size,

separate colors or assorted, 30
r $1.00, or 100 for $3.00.

ssorted Crocus, 100 for $1.00.
ssorted Hyacinth, bedding size,
; for $1.00, or 100 for $6.00.

ssorted Hyacinth, potting size,
> for $1.00, or 100 for $8.00.

Postpaid

P. S. BIRCH
aurel Springs New Jersey

‘ALL PLANTING GUIDE FREE

3arr’s Fall ‘‘How, When, Where and
jat To Plant’’ will guide you in your
' planting. Send to-day for your free

vy with its valuable planting assistance
1. catalog of Bulbs, Peonies, Evergreens,
les and Shrubs for the planter who wisely
jats in the fall.
Special Fall Planting Trial Offer
2 Delphiniums or Larkspurs $2.00 Postpaid
Most useful and_ effective blue _ flower,
pring June to October. Collection in-
jes 6 Delphinium belladonna, beautiful
' blue, and 6 Delphinium hybrids, long
‘Xes of large flowers of lighter blue shade.
B. F. BARR NURSERIES
6 Barr Bldg. Laneaster. Pa.
v The Garden Spot of America Where
Plants Attain Perfecticn’’

To-DATE HOUSE OWNERS

rticular about having no disreputable cor-
in the Estate.

Rah a

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Established 1899

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IRISES and &
PEONIES

Are growing in the gardens of satisfied
customers in 49 states of “The GOOD
Old U. S. A.” also in Canada, Mexico,
China, etc. How do I know they
are satisfied? They write and tell me
so. Now, what I am getting at is
this. If they are not growing in your
garden, you don’t know what you
are missing, and it certainly is not my
fault; all you need do is, send in your
order, and the roots will be shipped inside
of 24 hours after the order reaches here—
weather permitting. Do all varieties look
alike to you?

Well, for your particular benefit I have
made up a few collections at reduced prices which will
save you both time and money.

Here They Are!
IRISES for $3 00

1 2 (worth $4.50)

Arnols, Caprice, Sarabande, Her Majesty, Juniata, L. A. Williamson, Lohengrin.
Monsignor, Perfection, Prosper Laugier, Quaker Lady, W. F. Christman.

6 Blue Blooded IRISES for $ 5 00
(worth at least $8.00) e
Anna Farr, Anne Leslie, B. Y. Morrison, Quaker Lady, Queen Caterina, Zua.

Mixed Irises, Not labeled 100 for $5.00; 1000 for $45.00

PEONIES 00
6 (worth $7.00) for +5.

Admiral Togo, Avalanche, Carnea Elegans, Duc de Wellington, Aurea, Lafayette.

6 PEONIES for $1(.°

worth $13.00

La Fiancee, Eugene Verdier, L’Etincelante, Philomele, Mons. Martin Cahuzac, Grover Cleveland.

G PEONIES 5, $96 00

(worth $30.00)
Chestine Gowdy, Longfellow, Mary Brand, Mont Blanc, Therese, Tourangelle.

5 PEONIES for $ 50.

(worth every cent of $64.00)
Yes, and I will add Edith

Cherry Hill, Judge Berry, Kelway’s Glorious, Le Cygne, Loveliness.
Forrest.

For description of above and other information, let me send you my catalogue.

Have you been annoyed by not receiving your orders promptly? Try
WELLESLEY! We do not like to sleep with any orders hanging over and
please do not ask me to ship C. O. D.; it makes extra work with nothing gained.

GEORGE N. SMITH
167 Cedar Street Wellesley Hills, Mass.

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1 Ton in Bags $20.00

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cure several hundred thousand
top size Darwin Tulips at bottom
prices. There are ten beautiful
varieties and we offer them either
separately or in splendid mixture
at $3.50 per 100; $30.00 per
1,000.

Circular on request

Order NOW, for fall planting.
Glen Bros., Inc., Rochester. N. Y.
Established 1866

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Trees and Shrubs

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CHESTNUT HILL PHILADELPHIA

BULBS

For Autumn Planting

FINEST VARIETIES
HIGHEST QUALITY
CATALOG ON REQUEST

William M. Hunt & Company
INCORPORATED
148 Chambers St. New York City, N. Y.

Peony Novelties
ny Novelties
If you are interested in Peonies,
send for my 1926 list. All the
best of the Standard varieties.
Also the new Lemoine novel-
ties: Alice Harding, Argentine,
Denise, Dulcinea, Genevieve,
Mme. Escary, Odalisque; and
the new Doriat novelties: Char-
lot, Mme. Edward Doriat, Nan-
nette, Inspecteur La Vergne, |
and many others. |

O. L. RINGLE |

P. O. Box 90

Wausau, Wis.

GARDEN S&S HOME BUILDER

OCTOBER, imga

"flowers !__for a Birthday

or -Anmiversary . 4

This vase of fragrant roses

and lovely Autumn flowers

will gladden some one’s
heart on a birthday—or on
any one of the many other
occasions —when only flow-
ers can best express your
sentiment.

Flowers delivered anywhere
in U. S. or Canada within
two hours.

(Mail Money Order or Wire Money)

Max.

"New York’s

complete
CAll charges paid. Larger

assortmenis at proportion-
ately larger prices.

Schulz’s

“Kentucky Bred”
Irises

Our Irises live up to the
“Kentucky Bred” standard of
exceptional beauty and vigor-
ous growth. A large list to
choose from, also special Iris
gardens.

Peonies

“Kentucky Bred’ Peonies are sold
in only 3 to 5 eye root divisions —
strong plants which should bloom
the first Spring. You’llfind a com-
plete listing and also special
Peony gardens in our

FALL BULB CIRCULAR
Write for your copy
JACOB SCHULZ CO.

INCORPORATED

Dept. A, 550 Fourth Ave.
Louisville, Kentucky

HARDY ORCHIDS

The addition of native orchids to your garden will bring a touch of the North

| Woods.

| CYPRIPEDIUM SPECTABILIS. The giant Showy Ladyslipper, most elusive and desirable
of all Orchids, Will add a distinction not obtained by any other plant. Price per crown,
40c. $4.00 per 12. $30.60 per 100.

| CYPRIPEDIUM PARVIFLORUM. The Yellow Ladyslipper, earliest of all the Ladyslippers
Soft yellow. Many flowered. Price per crown 35c. $3.50 per 12. $25.00 per 100.

| CYPRIPEDIUM ACAULE. Pink Ladyslipper. Old rose in color. Of very easy culture. Price
per crown 25c. $2.50 per 12. $20.00 per 100.

| HABENARIA PSYCODES. Purple Fringed Orchid.
flowers in July. 35c each. $3.50 per 12.

We have available a good supply of the following :—

Tall spikes of lovely lavender fringed
25.00 per $100.

| Any of these are ready for shipment now.

Our 1926 catalogue with complete descriptive list of hardy perennials, ferns,
fruits, shrubs, roses, evergreens, and shade trees is free upon request.

| GEO. D. AIKEN NURSERY PUTNEY, VERMONT
| “GROWN IN VERMONT, IT’S HARDY’

Fine Bedding

(Continued from page 135)

ient. In the side of the bed, this same feature will provide a ec

venient reading light over the head of the bed or permit of eas
using the heat pad. Wired furniture is especially suited to bedroo;
as it may be easily moved about to permit of use of many necessa
electrical appliances. .

And last, but far from least in the matter of good beds, they shou
A bed with smooth, taut sheets mea

be made up comfortably.
better sleep and the
first step is to have
sheets and pillow
cases of the correct
size. Sheets should
be large enough to
cover the bed entirely
and allow plenty of
room for tucking in
at the foot and sides.
The length of the bed
is not the only meas-
urement to be con-
sidered when buying
sheets; the width
must also be esti-
mated, especially if it
bea double bed. For a twin bed, the sheet should be 73 x 99; a dou >
bed with box springs should have at least a 90 x 99 sheet, while go x }
is much better. For the pillows, a case that is too tight makes a hi!
pillow while a too-loose case makes a mussed-up pillow in appearan.
Pillow cases are made in standard sizes to fit pillows which are a)
standard and it is a good rule to allow two inches additional in wii)
for the case and about 103 inches extra length. For instance, a pill:
that 1s 24 inches wide is 48 inches around it; it would therefore tak :
50 inch case and as the usual length of a pillow is 28 inches, this wo |
make thelengthof e
case 384 inches, >
actual size of thece
being 50 x 385.

In furnishing ab’,
at all times the t
of room and hot}
hold should be ¢ -
sidered. Elaboraty
draped canopies
satin or taffeta &
very lovely when fi
harmonious surrou |-
ings but they do |t
belong in the rf
whose beds are)l
painted wood yh
Crépe-de-chine sheets and pillowcases do not s(

In keeping with the well-liked Early American beds;
the India prints that are as decorative as they are use

The charming color combinations of the English printed
spreads make them most practical for the room much
in use

dimity spreads.

as well as the furnishing spell luxury and tell of riches. In the sin'¢
home, with rag rugs and chintz hangings, such bed furnishings are ©
acme of poor taste.

Clean, white, firm linen or
cotton sheets can smell just as
wholesomely of lavender as can
silk sheets and for the average
home are in a far better taste.
Blankets and spreads that will
wash can be of fast colors and
of good quality. Hangings,
tester and valance of field or
tent bed can breathe charm and
harmony if made of good wash-
able materials for, after all, the
greatest asset of any room,
whether bedroom or living room,
is cleanliness. In fitting the bed, then, comfort and cleanlis
and harmony should be the guiding principles rather than disy Y
and ostentation.

Of unusual daintiness are the fine spreaj 0!
Italian linen decorated with hand embroi ‘Y
and Sicilian cut work

Andirons

a position of prom
ace, and an association
sentiment which demand
in selection; and a dura-
ly that justifies more than
asual investment. {We
fe fireplace furnishings in
lmetals, in finest quality
U design.

logs A showing andirons,
lowing spark screens, also
‘howing wood mantels will
ywrwarded if desired.

IWIN A. JACKSON
& BRO., Inc.
i3eekman Street, New York

also
‘Street at Lexington Ave., New York

hloxes
ver 300 Varieties

‘For many years I have
been collecting and breed-
Ing Hardy Phloxes. I now
have the most unusual
collection in America.

SEND FOR LIST

There is no flower in the
Garden to compare in bril-

ance or variety of color
with these beautiful Phloxes.
Many of them combine fra-
grance with rare and un-
vsual colors.

V. F. SCHMEISKE
Tardy Phloxes My Specialty

| Hospital Station
ghamton New York

Jewel Electric

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

NO MORE FIRES

NO MORE TROUBLE AND EXPENSE
FROM SHEET METAL FURNACE PIPES!

A FAULTLESS CAST IRON PIPE on your heating plant will do away with
the troubles of sheet metal pipe for all time. Permanent and safe. Not injured
by fire, flue gases or dampness. Can be fitted to any furnace and cleaned with-
without taking down.

A real proposition for energetic
agents—write!

Installed in few minutes by any handy man. Save money by writing now for
descriptive literature and Special Prices.

FAULTLESS CASTINGS CO., Dept. B, Brazil, Ind.

FAULTLESS

The Glen Road Iris Gardens

Wellesley Farms, Mass.

CAST IRON
FURNACE PIPE.

SAIANT TULIPS

Our own importations
from Holland, these
Giant Darwins are
the aristocrats
among tulips—big,
gorgeously colored
flowers on tall,
Grow | successfully

Specialize in rare and fine varieties
of Bearded Iris

American and European

Send for Catalogue.

strong stems.
anywhere.
Fine Book Free. A post card will bring
you our fall catalog, illustrated in natural
colors and describing the finest varieties
of tulips, narcissus, hyacinths, crocus and
other bulbs—all sturdy, dependable, im-
ported stock. Don’t risk unknown stock
—buy from the importer. Send to-day.—
It’s free!

S. M. ISBELL & CO.
308 Mechanic St. Jackson, Mich.

| AMERICAN

Trees and Shrubs
Evergreens
Vines and Roses

Fountains

Our new catalog showing all our
latest designs of electric fountains
is now ready, Our jewel portable
fountains do not require any water
connection and are illuminated
and self contained. Just connect
to any light socket. Our color
changing fountains are wonderful.
Our lily pool outside unit fountain
changes color. See our large
Geyser searchlight fountain.
Largest makers of electric foun-
tains in the world. Call at our New
York show room, 930 Fifth Avenue
Building next time you arein New
York. Sendzio cents to our gen-
eral offices Chicago—for new cata-
log of Jewel Specialties for the
hoine. Agents wanted.

JEWEL ELECTRIC & MFG. CO.
4505 Ravenswood Ave. Chicago
Dept, E
NEW YORK SHOW ROOM, 200 FIFTH AVE.

Fruit Trees and
Small Fruits are of

HIGH QUALITY
But

Reasonably Priced

American Nursery Co.
70 East 45th Street, New York.
Catalog on Request.

Dog Kennel with partition. Walls

; : “ i ‘ urdy,
Aid roctial CédaPaaVelloibipine floors You can expect far better results from hens kept in these st

comfortable Hodgson Sectional Poultry Houses. Vermin-proof,
weather-proof and _ scientifically ventilated. There are Hodgson
Poultry Houses for every size flock. Shipped to you in_carefully
finished sections all ready to erect. Send for free catalog X to-day.
Anyone who has a country place will be interested in our new
booklet No. 2, ‘‘Furnishings for the country home.’’ It gives
complete information about
Rose Arbors Pergolas
Garden Houses Bird Houses
Trellises Dog Kennels
Play Houses Picket Fences
Garden Seats

Lattice Fences
Pet Stock Houses
Tool Houses
Poultry Houses
Write for your free copy to-day

E. F. HODGSON CO.
1108 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. 6 East 39th St., New York

HODGSON nis

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Beautifil —

| birch

eae

directly adds to the value
of the home. Fine wood-
work commandsa premium
everywhere and the for-
tunate owner of a birch
trimmed home can always
get a top-price for his
property. Whether he
buildstosellor not,thecash-
able value is always there.

Dining Room, New York Residence of Mrs,
Minturn Pinchot. Paneled in Beautiful Birch,
Messrs, Murphy & Dana, Architects.

The beauty is permanent in
birch trim, its nearly ‘‘mar-
proof” hardness assuring that
pleasant fact. By using North-
ern birch for interior trim,
veneer doors and paneling,
youcansecure a different treat-
ment for every room—natural
finish, or stain; also enamel.

The beauty of birch floors is
fully matched by their service-
ability, whether varnished,
stained or waxed.

You should have the “‘Beautiful Birch’’ book

wiih tts many valuable suggestions on interior
Jinishing and furnishing—Free on request

THE BIRCH MANUFACTURERS
232 F. R.A. Building Oshkosh, Wisconsin

‘Beautiful Birch for

Beautitul Woodwork

GARDEN &

HOME BUILDER

ALTON
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OcTOBER,

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Caloroil thinks jor you

MBLE, from the dining table to your favorite chair.
Relax in it luxuriously. Taste the delights of your
favorite bits of print. The house is toasty warm—not
stuffy, not the least bit chilly—just exactly the way you
like it. A tropical area surrounded by wintry blasts. That’s
living. 4

Let trips to the cellar interrupt the blissful ease? Let
thoughts of poking around a dirty, stubborn furnace de-
stroy the pleasant state of mind? Not in this Era of Calor-
oil. Not when “‘Balanced Temperature” can do your heat-
thinking for you.

Put a Caloroil in your cellar and put heating off your
mind. Take perfect warmth for granted—‘‘Balanced
Temperature” thinks for you, day and night. Caloroil
turns on when room temperature falls to
70°— shuts off at 72° (or whatever other
temperature you want it set for, day or
night). You don’t have to pay any more
attention to Caloroil than you do to elec-
tric lights or running water.

70°

ON

There are two reasons why you haven’t
an oil burner. You think you can’t afford

“BALANCED TEMPERATURE”
Caloroil has it

one, or you haven't decided which one you want. Caloroil
can settle these doubts for you. First, by proving that
Caloroil ‘“‘Balanced Temperature” is the biggest thing in
heating comfort. Second, by offering a liberal deferred
payment plan.

Send for the Caloroil Book

THE Caloroil Book explains everything you want to know
about this ideal oil burner . . . tells why every particle
of oil is burned . . . why Caloroil is clean heat . . . and
noiseless heat . . . publishes testimonials from Caloroil
users who have written enthusiastically of their savings in
annual fuel bills—shows how Caloroil can be installed in
any steam, hot water, or hot air furnace,
quickly and economically . .. gives a
list of users (some right near you) who
can tell you how Caloroil is making
heating as simple and efficient as electric
lighting . . . and describes many other
interesting features. Just send the
coupon.

72°

OFF

CALOROIL BURNER CORPORATION
5 East 40th Street, New York City

_ 10°-72°

Please send me your free book telling how Caloroil mal)
heating as simple and efficient as electric lighting.

Caloroi!

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ow cou/d a dralt pass this |

EE what a barrier the Higgin All-Metal. Weatherstrip presents to air cur-

rents. The metal strip that rises from the window frame is hugged by the
metal insert in the window sash. Thus a draft, before it could enter the room,
would have to penetrate this snug metal-to-metal contact.

As a matter of fact, drafts do not so penetrate. People whose windows are
equipped with the Higgin All-Metal Weatherstrip will vouch for this. In their
ook | comfortable homes heating isno longer the troublesome problem that it used to be.

Many people who at one time put the blame for poor heating on their furnaces
ultimately learned to diagnose and to remedy the defect elsewhere — at their
windows.

To install Higgin All-Metal Weatherstrips is to save many a fuel dollar, inci-
dentally covering the cost of the installation, and, what is most to be desired,
making the heating system in your home a cozy reality.

Ask your architect or write for an estimate and the two books illustrated. There
is a Higgin service man in every principal city. Look for ‘‘Higgin”’ in your tele-
phone directory.

THE HIGGIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Newport, Kentucky Toronto, Canada

The Higgin Mfg. Co., Dept. 1
tae, Ps to

| Please send the books checked:

J] Your Home Screened the Hig-
gin Way

J Higgin All-Metal Weatherstrips

POW nese everececeeee
APO ese eeneneeeenenteeseneseoees

This beautiful Araby —
Wool Wilton Rug is.

No. 206N. Ask your
dealer to show it to you.

ate oe geen there reigned a his beloved garden through the sere,

a

Pégsiam monarch, Chosroes I, whose de- drab days of Winter.

ment it was to conduct the-festivities Profit by the wisdom of Chosroes the
of his Court in the splendid gardens of First! Bring into your home the gayety
his Summer Palace. When Winter and warmth of color of a Persian garden!
came, killing the tender blooms, he de- Choose now a Mohawk Masterpiece to
creed that a carpet be wrought; pat- keep fresh through the coming months,

terned of flowers and fruit and the colors the memory of your flowers and sunny
of Spring; that he might still gaze upon lawns and growing things.

Ask the distinguished interior decorators, W. & J. Sloane, to aid you with
free advice in the choosing of rugs adapted to your home. Rug plates in colors,
forms for submitting a floor plan of your rooms and a fascinating Color
Harmony Chart by Hazel Adler, sent without charge. Write Mohawk
Department, W. & J. Sloane, 579 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

MOHAWK RU

MOHAWK CARPET MILLS, INC. Amsterdam, WY

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

ale Sunlig ht filters through the closed
windows. The days grow shorter. Outside,
the world takes on its winter coat of drab,
uninteresting gray. Now must we prepare
a haven within our home---a splash of hon-
est color --- rugged lines that tell of tough
Castillian forebears---a patch of sunny gar-
den straight from Spain!

From the palace of Don Miguel Sanchez-
Dalp in old Seville came the original of
this interesting refectory table, dark walnut,
with its quaint studding and wrought-iron
stretchers. The Toledo arm-chair is in keep-
ing. It has besides, that rare charm of great
comfort without great weight; the formula
for the “occasional” chair par excellence.

The table is our No. 2671, the chair No. A.C.
2697. These and other delightful Elgin A.
Simonds pieces are sold by Dealers of Dis-
tinction everywhere. Ask for the names of
the nearest.

THE ELGIN A. SIMONDS COMPANY

New York Syracuse, N. Y. Chicago,

SIMONDS

Individualism ~—in Good Gurniture

DVEMBER,

3

1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

NEW CHARM FOR SMALL HOMES

New strength and permanency in
Colored Stucco—at such low cost!

The samerich beauty that
distinguishes so many costly
homes has now been placed
within the means of every home
builder by Bishopric.

All the charm of colored stuc-
co, plusgreat strength and dura-
bility of construction, can now
be had at no additional cost.

A Bishopric home costs no
more than a frame one.

Bishopric is a unit-wall con-
struction. It consists of (1) a
patented reinforcing base, (2)
Sectucco, and (3) an attractive
color finish.

All three materials are
designed and made to be used
together. They combine to form
aunit-wall—as opposed toa wall
made from miscellaneous mate-
rials mixed together.

The result is a coherence and
strength of construction obtain-
able only with Bishopric. The

| THE BISHOPRIC MFG. CO.
! 311 Este Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio

: Enclosed find 10 cents (stamps
: or wrapped coin) for which please
: send me your new booklet, “The
: Renaissance of Colored Stucco: ‘a

WATERPROOF
FIBER BOARD

LAYER OF
ASPHALT

NAIL GOES
THRU TO STUD,

SEE HOW BASE |
AND STUCCO
INTERLOCK

LHISel Sebo EauUN hie wALE

Its insulating reinforcement is Bishopric
Base, nailed fast to the studdings.
Bishopric Base consists of finest quality
fibre-board (with felt for insulation),
heavily coated with asphalt mastic. Into
this, bone dry creosoted wood bars are
embedded under great pressure. Bish-
opric Base comes complete to the job
and can be applied by one man. Its
special insulation keeps the house warm-
er in winter and cooler in summer.
Over this base is applied Bishopric
Stucco, locking into the grooves pro-
vided by the Bishopric Base and form-
ing a complete wall unit. Note how
stucco and base lock together.
Bishopric Stucco is mixed in exact,
scientifically determined proportionsand
is shipped in air-tight metal drums.
Finally, Bishopric Sunfast Finish is
applied, adding the charm of lovely
color. There are many attractive tints
for the home-builder to choose from.

diagram at the left illustrates
why this is so.

Bishopric is also economical.
The reinforcing base may be
applied directly to studdings,
producing a stronger, warmer
wall than sheathing, metal base
and stucco—and the cost is less.

Bishopric Stucco is also ap-
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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

NOVEMBER, 192

MICHELL’S
Superb

DARWIN TULIPS

Gigantic, bright blooms on long, strong stems—
make the garden a feast of color in May.

This type is becoming more popular every year.
Exquisite in form; ideal for massing, bedding or bor-
der planting.

Per Doz. Per 100 Per 1000
Postpaid Postpaid by Express
Clara Butt. Delicate salmon pink . . . . $ .85 $4.75 $35.00
La Candeur. White, tinted blush . . . . .95 5.75 47.50

La Tulip Noire. Deep maroon black . . ._ 1.20 6.75 57.50
Madame Krelage. Lilac rose, margined silvery pink 1.10 6.2 50.00
Mr. Farncombe Sanders. Brilliant scarlet. . 1.10 6.25 50.00
Phillippe de Commines. Deep purple . . . 1.10 6.25 52.50

Collection No. 1. (Composed of six varieties, listed above).

Postpaid
6 Bulbs each above 6 varieties, 36 bulbs . . $2.80
12 Bulbs each above 6 varieties, 72 bulbs . 5 . 5.45
25 Bulbs each above 6 varieties, 150 bulbs . . 5 8.55
100 Bulbs each above 6 varieties, 600 bulbs . 5 = 33.00
Per Doz. Per 100 Per 1000
Postpaid Postpaid by Express
Baronne de la Tonnaye. Rose pink . . . . $ .85 $5.00 $40.00
Bartigon. Fiery red ae * 1.00 6.25 52.50

Pride of Haarlem. Rosy carmine Ladies ere 85 5.00 40.00
Re. H. Ewbank. Heliotrope shaded lavender _.go neds 42.00
White Queen. Rosy white, changing to pure white .95 ais 47.50

Collection No. 2. (Composed of these five varieties).

Postpaid
6 Bulbs each above 5 varieties, 30 bulbs . ° $2.00
12 Bulbs each above 5 varieties, 60 bulbs . 5 2 3.70
25 Bulbs each above 5 varieties, 125 bulbs . a a 6.25
100 Bulbs each above 5 varieties, 500 bulbs . 5 s 25.00

All above bulbs sent postpaid, unless specifically marked “by express.’’
Complee descriptions of above, with illustrations in colors, also other
varieties of Darwin Tulips, will be found in

Michell’s Fall Catalog;

describes and illustrates Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Crocus, etc.—bulbs
of the superior quality which have placed our establishment among
America’s largest importers of Dutch Bulbs, direct fiom the best growers
in Holland. Send for a copy of our Bulb Catalcg.

NEVER HAS OUR STOCK BEEN OF FINER QUALITY

THAN THIS YEAR. NEVER HAVE~-YOU HAD A

BETTER OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE SUCH STOCK

AT MORE MODERATE PRICES THAN OFFERED

NOW, AND HERE—AT BULB HEADQUARTERS.

HENRY F. MICHELL CO.

520 Market Street Philadelphia, Pa.

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Fall Planted ‘Roses Succeed

Carefully written instructions for fall planting are embodied in the 1926-1927

Supplement to

Roses

By Bobbink & cAtkins

A colorful, illustrated booklet describing accurately, and with strict impartiality, all the latest
and rarest NOVELTIES OF RECENT YEARS.

The Supplement is now ready to be mailed to our friends and to those who write to us for it.
Other recent Roses and standard varieties wil! be found in the original ROSES BY BOBBINK &
ATKINS, which will be sent upon request to interested people who do not have it, and who
mention Garden & Home Builder.

Novelties are the spice of Rose growing. This group of Roses offers a Quick and Economical
means of keeping in step with modern Rose progress:

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Betty Miss Lolita Armour Red Premier

x Comtesse de Cayla Mme. Butterfly Red Radiance
Edel Mme. Edouard Herriot Red Star

Mme. Jules Bouche Silver Columbia

This Group of 15 Modern Roses $1 2
Specially Priced at

These prices are for Fall shipment by express only

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lists these gardens, also a large variety of Tulips,
Hyacinths, Crocuses, Narcissi, Peonies and Irises. |

Put a touch of Kentucky’s beauty in your garden |

for next spring. ‘Kentucky Bred” flowers will
repay you in excep
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growth and glorious
blooms.

Write for fall bulb cir-.

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INC.

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Still Ample Time to Start That
Border of Stately Tulips

Wherever the ground remains open, there remains the opportunity to plant such hardy,
spring flowering bulbs as Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Lilies, as well as the charming Scil-
las, Crocuses, Snowdrops, etc. In both, the hardy border and the Rockery should be found
room for some of these lastly named, which are the earliest of all spring flowers.

Every shrubbery border should hold some of the magnificent late Tulips called Darwins.
Even as few as a dozen in a clump make a good showing and, of cours , the larger the clumps

the better the effect. We especially recommend the following:

Six Regal Giant Darwins

Baron de la Tonnaye: Vivid rose-pink, 6oc Mrs. Potter Palmer: Rich Pansy purple; 7o0c

per doz.; $4.00 per 100; $35.00 per 1,000. per doz. $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000.
Clara Butt: The famous salmon-pink sort; soc Pride of Haarlem: Rich rosy scarlet; 60c per
per doz.; $3.50 per 100; $30.00 per 1,000. doz.; $4.00 per 100; $35.00 per 1000.

Farncombe Sanders: Rich geranium-scarlet; Rev. H. Ewbank: Soft lavender-heliotrope;
joc per doz.; $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. 65c per doz.; $4.50 per 100; $40.00 per 1,000.

Special Offer of above six grand sorts
6 each of the 6 sorts— 36 bulbs for $ 1.85 postpaid
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If you do not care for named sorts we can supply a wonderful mixture that is sure to give satis-
factory results for soc per doz.; $3.50 per 100; $30.00 per 1000.

Autumn (Catalogue Gladly Mailed FREE

Its pages present a fair key to fall garden opportunities. It offers Dutch Bulbs of all kinds, hardy
plants and shrubs, Flower, Vegetable, and Field Seeds, also Lawn Grass, House Plants for conserv-
atory or sunparlor, all sorts of garden accessories—in short everything to carry on gardening both
indoors and out. Please ack for this guide and mention this publication.

HENRY A. DREER, 1306 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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To plant Schling Quality Bulbs this Fall

Order them NOW —these tip-top bulbs at rock-bottom prices.—
For example—

100 DARWIN TULIPS $4.00

Choicest first-size bulbs, sure to bloom. Schling’s Special Mixture

made up of ten of the finest named varieties — not at all the ordinary
field- grown mixture.

A $6 value for only $4 or if you prefer 50 bulbs for $2.50

SIX SPLENDID COLLECTIONS

100 Single Early Tulips — 10 named varieties. Bloom April and May $6.50
100 Double Early Tulips — in named varieties. Bloom April and May 7.50
100 Darwin Tulips — in 10 named varieties. Immense flowers. Stems 32
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100 Breeder or Art Tulips — 5 named varieties. Wonderful shades of bronze,
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100 Parrot or Orchid Tulips —in 5 named varieties......... re 1 OLDU

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100 Chinodoxa (Glory-of-the-Snow).........- .- 4.00

The above 509 bulbs ($22.50 value) Special $18.00

Plant these bulbs now and generously, and we promise you a Winter of
pleasant anticipation, a Springtime of delightful Surprises, and years of
happy memories.

REMEMBER!—This is your last chance this year
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Your Good Resolutions

To plant some CHOICE PEONIES
this fall should not be lost sight of
if you want your dreams of a glori-
fied garden to come true another
year.

We have the quality stock in nice
robust plants that will make your
success certain.

Our catalog will describe PEONIES
— IRIS—PHLOX and HARDY
GARDEN PERENNIALS that
are beautiful indeed and our prices
are reasonable.

May we have the opportunity of
serving you at this time?

(T. C. Thurlow’s Sons, Inc.)

WEST NEWBURY, MASS.

NOT OPEN SUNDAYS

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Dependable Information
About Greenhouses

Fok example, would you like | Would you like to know exactly
to know exactly what the | why we build it with an Iron
complete material and entire | Frame,andusecypress wood only?

equipment of this, or any other Oreraulds our oretes ta sine
greenhouse you have in mind, | jaye information about a $585

| costs? conservatory, and a $1650 green-

Would you like to know exactly house

what it would cost, if we furnished | Dependable information we will
both the material and equipment, | gladly send you, or a representa-
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FOUR GENERATIONS BUILDERS OF GREENHOUSES

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Builders of Greenhouses and Conservatories

FOR

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IN} d Chicago Boston Cleveland Kansas City
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E,VERGREENS for foundation groups, for

tall screens, for stately specimens, can readily
be moved this winter from our nurseries to your
estate. For more than 70 years we have ex-
perimented and perfected methods that make
big tree moving safe.

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Hicks Time-Saving Evergreens

will give dignity to an entrance, supply a background
for the garden, protect buildings from cold winds, and
add to the actual value of your property. These trees
are well-developed specimens, grown under the best
possible conditions. Whether you need a carload ora
single specimen, you should write for full information.

HICKS NURSERIES
Box M Westbury, L. I., New York

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When the Snow ‘Disappears
When the trees of the woods begin to stretch; when last fall’s leaves
readjust themselves to accommodate earth’s growing pains—then it is that
the lovely wild harbingers of spring tell us that we are on the threshold
of a new season. To experience this joy, plant the following this month:—
3 10
Native Hepatica or Bloodroot (see above). .. .. $0.50 $1.50
Mertensia virginica (Blue Bells)................ .50 1.50
Trillium, white, three leaved Nightshade....... .35 1.00
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema)................. .50 1.50
Spring Beauty (Claytonia).................... .35 1.00
Dutchman’s Breeches (Dicentra).............. .35 - 1.00
Special Offer: Three each of above 6-Spring-blooming favorites for $2.50;
10 each for $6.00 postpaid.

Do You Know that You Can Grow Orchids?

The lovely Yellow Lady Slipper (Cypripedium pubescens) is easy to grow
in any shady situation. And the large clumps which I furnish, are sure
to bloom. Why not pot a few and grow them, indoors for winter flowers?
Each 10 100
1 to 2 crown plants............:......-$0.25 $2.00) $15,00m
3 to 4. crown plants...:...+:..:.-..... .60° 5.00) 40.00
Clumps with five crowns and up 20c per crown
Catalog offering hundreds of interesting wild flowers, together
with Fall Supplement gladly mailed on request.

EDWARD GILLETT

Fern and Flower Farm

3 Main St., Southwick, Mass.

NVEMBER, 1926

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Bearing Age
GRAPE VINES

planted during the next few weeks, will
bear gratifying crops next fall! And
there are other crops of fruits and flowers that may be yours for the gath-
ering, if you just act at once!

Lovett’s Guide to Fall Planting tells about fall planting advantages and opportunities. Free,

of course, and please mention this publication.
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Perhaps the three most
noteworthy character-
istics of the Regal Lily
(Lilium regale) are its
staying quality, its
strong tendency to
multiply and its
“fool proof” quality
everywhere. We
have never known
Regal Lilies to “fade

out” of the garden
picture! And they

propagate generously

without attention or

care.
We are large growers of this
wonderful hardy Lily which may

be planted now wherever the ground
is not frozen. We offer two sizes as

follows:—

Large flowering size bulbs, 3 for $1.75;
per dozen $6.50; per 100 $50.00.

Mammoth size bulbs, 3 for $2.50; per dozen
$9.50; per 100 $75.00.

We invite orders for immediate planting. Where spring
delivery is preferred we set bulbs aside for you, to be shipped
at the proper time.

Our Hardy Plant Catalogue gladly mailed free on request. A
postal will do—and please mention Garden & Home Builder.

TK Wh yside Gardens (o.

largest as of Hardy Plants in America

Mentor. ARENA a IMO.

E. H. Schultz, Pres. J. J. Grullemans, Sec. Treas.

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CAPTURED SUNSHINE
GOLD MEDAL PEONIES
FOR EVERY PURPOSE

IKE crinkled silk, only lovelier, the petaloids gleaming like rays of the rising
sun—such are the Single and Japanese Peonies, among the daintiest
creations in the floral world. They have rightfully assumed an important

position in every beautiful garden so that no collection is complete without a
few choice ones in both charming types.

Here are a few of the Best in Real Gold Medal Quality

They possess the same strong vigorous growth, the unequaled form, fragrance
and color of our Gold Medal Winners at the National Peony Show this year
and are so developed that blossoms of wondrous size and beauty will be pro-
duced abundantly for you.

A careful selection of delightful Peonies will give you increasing beauty,
value and joy each succeeding year and this is your opportunity to secure choice
and desirable varieties well worthy of a place in your planting plans.

The Unusual—3 Exquisite Peonies—$6.50

Lord Kitchener (Single), dazzling rich crimson . :
Princess Mathilde, (Single) rose-pink edged white, . ate
Ruigegno (Japanese) very large dark maroon, crepe-like petaloids c crimson and yellow

Value......
The Unique—3 Outstanding Peonies—$6.00

Torpilleur (Japanese), soft rosy carmine. Very Bree and Eee formed.
Petaloids tipped golden yellow. . Y

Lucienne (Single), white with soft lavender tints.

L’Etincelante (Single), brilliant carmine edged silver. .

5 Gold Medal Peonies—$4.50

Dr. H. Barnsby, deep dazzling red .

Mille. Jeanne Riviere, deep creamy yellow.

Mme. Emile Lemoine, glossy white. EPO CHICO CORNED, CHa OBER

Venus, pale hydrangea pink, creamy Solara ne cc tae Balser ties clotins srctetae. «teense

Germaine Bigot, lilac-rose flecked crimson. ........0 eee seveccscceseccreeee
Value......

5 Gold Medal Peonies—$12.50

Bunker Hill, deep rich rose-red.

Georgianna ’Shaylor, soft flesh pink. .

Mme. Jules Dessert, creamy white overlaid with delicate blush. .
Paul Fisher, soft deep lilac-rose. .... Arata
Souv. de Louis Bigot, deep rose with salmon tints.

Value. .....$21.50

It is possible to display an authentic, artistic taste in the selection of charming
varieties of the various types of Peonies that will blend most harmoniously in
color and blooming season in your garden. Let us assist you with our interesting
illustrated book of Gold Medal “Peonies for Every Purpose,” a most complete
story of this Unsurpassed Hardy Perennial. It is mailed free on request.

We furnish you strong divisions which bloom the first year and guarantee
them true to name. Prices cover Delivery Charges to You.

American Rose & Plant Company
Producers of Plants that Grow and Bloom

Springfield, Ohio

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Farous French 18th Century Boudoir Prints
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of sentiment which demand
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Catalogs A showing andirons,
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Thanksgiving Decorations

A. Louise Fillebrown

HOSE of us who are getting ready for holiday visitors want to
bring into our homes a festive atmosphere that reflects the
welcome of Thanksgiving Day, and a few little touches here
and there will give the old house a warmth of color that will

add another voice to the chorus of welcome and good cheer.

We center our activities in the dining-room, of course.

If the walls

are plain or rather somber, put up a panel of gay colored wall-paper

for these few days.

Select a design of fruits and flowers, bright in

color, yet harmonizing with the other colors in the room. Make this
fit into a plain section of the wall as a wall hanging should, paste passe-
partout paper around the edges, either gold or black, and fasten up

with thumb tacks.

Over the lamp shades, if they are not warm colored, put temporary

shades of orange paper.

comes in sheets at any stationery store.
and bottom and fasten them with small brass brads.

These may be cut from ordinary paper which

Paint a black line around top
Either fit them

over the permanent shades, or get small brass holders from the ten cent
store to hold them. They will cast a warm light over the festivities

and orange seems to be the proper color for fall.

If it will not fit in

your room, select deep rose or red, or even yellow.

It is hardly necessary to suggest warm gold or orange flowers for the
center of the table and orange candles at dinner, but along with these
why not use orange flowers for the other rooms in the house: a branch of
red autumn leaves in a jardiniere in the corner of the hallway, some

lovely Bittersweet berries in the living room!

Their long slender

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An illustrated catalogue

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EATHER’S Radiator Enclosures assure

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Write for Catalog 6F.

We also manufacture LIGHTING FIX-
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Volume XLIV, No. 3

Contents of this Issue

‘December— Special (hristmas Issue

The man and woman interested in the origin

VER DESIGN Maurice Day of our holiday traditions, the harried shopper
PLeE wildly trying to choose suitable gifts for a long
sws & COMMENT 203 and varied “list,” the home maker anxious to
js plan schemes of decoration to bring to her
GE PICTURES home colorful Christmas cheer—all will find
Garden of Mr. Isaac T. Starr 204 in the December issue solutions of their own
Home of Mr. J. C. Lyons . 205 problems and new lines of thought and
Garden of Miss Dianne Nash asd 2 ZOO pleasure opened to them.
Christmas Music by HAROLD MILLIGAN tells
iE MEDITERRANEAN INFLUENCE Henry H. Saylor 207 of the Christmas music that is different:
: old carols and songs and arrangements, full of
UR GARDENS OF TRYON, NORTH CAROLINA. Mary H. Phifer 210 tradition and history, many of which used to
IZE-WINNING DIVIDEND IN CONTENTMENT . Margaret Cridland 212 3 ae by eee ne outside be
ows long ago, and which we enjoy to-day.
PRESSIONS FROM THE AMERICAN GLADIOLUS EXHIBITIONS 214 Candles of Christmastide by AticE VAN LEER
eg P GLADIoLUs—I lI] BEF fee aveuindow ance nd Elly
Forman T. McLean & William E. Clark 215 as a means of decoration; and, more prac-
1E ROMANCE OF CHAIRS George Drew Egbert 217 tically, she mentions the new styles and colors.
What the Well Dressed Table Will Wear at
INTURY OLD SERPENTINE WALL PLANNED BY A PRESIDENT Pare 210 the Christmas Dinner by Ametia L. Hit de-
ME OF Mr. AND Mrs. Tuomas A. KELLY George E. Cook 220 scribes the new dishes, glassware and/silver that
are particularly suited to the holiday table.
1E NATIONAL GARDEN ASSOCIATION 222 Suggestions for Christmas gifts—pages and
: ; pages of them! Gifts for men and women,
YXWOOD—THE LIVING ANTIQUE Linda Clement Hines 223 for the gardener, and for the children. A.
)LOR HARMONY WITH TULIPS . Ethel Anson S. Peckham 225 Louise FILLeBRowN has written a helpful
article on Gifts that Grow With the Child—
AIRWAYS OF DIVERSIFIED CHARACTER «ay Ned ee ee eC presents that you can give him this year which
AERICA’S First REAL GARDEN John W. Harshberger 228 will not be outgrown and useless. by the time
: another Christmas rolls around.
AKING THE WRONG FURNITURE FIT A. Louise Fillebrown 2209 Have you ever considered a trip as a Christ-
mas gift? In Christmas Cruises ELLEN D.
SEMI-TROPICAL GARDEN IN NEw ORLEANS Mary H. Nelson 231 WANGNER tells of lovely trips, short ones
OME OF Mr. WALDO SHELDON. ye: ee p33 ease eee ae ey a Seas
or including it, or further throug e Medi-
1E CARE OF OLD PIECES Sarah M. Lockwood 234 terranean and around the world.
. : Garden minded folk will enjoy Mr. Derrill
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E OF Mr. RicHArp E. BisHop Edmund B. Gilchrist 236 WME SPiier ical Sir towot the Dahlia year
OORS THAT ARE | ROUBLE-PROOF Roger B. Whitman 238 and observations on the novelties of the sea-
son; and Beauty Doctors of the Gladiolus, Part
MONG OUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS 240 IV, by Forman T. McLean and Wixtiam E.
12 LATEsT PrizE IMPROVEMENT 244 CLARK, tells about the trend of Gladiolus
fancy on the Pacific Coast.
4— PALM FOR THE HousE 244 Of further interest to our readers in the Far
West is Amy RiIcHARDS COoLTON’s Spanish
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& MontH’s ReminpeER—NovEMBER Me Furniture and Furnishings, for although the
HANKSGIVING DECORATIONS A. Louise Fillebrown 1098 Spanish type of house 1s being built in increas-
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EARTHSTONE EDITOR’s CHAT 252 does it fit as appropriately as in the climate
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Mom XLLV. No. 3

NOVEMBER, 1926

News and Comment

WA HE time of year has come when every
bit of color attracts attention.
Along country roads one frequently
sees a rather slender vine trailing
over rocks or on fences bearing clus-
s of bright red berries with orange colored
verings split back like pictures one sees in
rus catalogues showing oranges with the
d stripped back in quarters but still at-
hed to the pulp. This is Bittersweet
elastrus scandens). In New England most
us knew it as “Roxbury wax work.” The
ttersweet thrives in almost any soil. As it
-kers from the roots it quickly covers the
yund about it. The only drawback is that
e must have sufficient plants in order to be
‘e of having both pistillate and staminate
wers; otherwise there would be no pollen-
tion and no fruits. Do not pull those
ints up that you see in the country. Too
iny have already done that. Buy what are
ded at the nursery.

For trailing over low walks or on banks
toneaster horizontalis will be glorious
arly all winter. The evergreen foliage
nishes a wonderful background for the
ght red berries.

In swamps or damp ground one sees black
igged shrubs bearing brilliant red berries
tened close to the stems. So showy are
*y that they are frequently found in florists’
ps. It is the Black Alder or Winterberry,
x verticillata. The berries hang on until
dwinter. It is one of the berried shrubs,
> fruits of which the birds do not care for.
There is another of these winter berries
ex serrata), not quite so strong a grower,
t with more berries of greater brilliancy,
at hang on all winter. It is a Japanese
cies. A clump of them well planted where
2y may be seen from the dining-room win-
ws will give real joy during the dreary
nter months ahead. Now is the time to
nsider where these and other berried plants
iy be put. Make the plans now, for time
’s so fast spring and planting time will soon
here.

COMMUNITY ROADSIDE PLANTING

) OADSIDE planting is a community effort
\ whether it is done by the local authori-
s, the Civic Club, or the Village Improve-
nt Society. Individual planting does not
ye the best results because neighbors are
ely to plant different species. To have a
iform street or road the same species should
used. The U. S. Department of Agricul-
re is urging community effort and has pub-
hed a Farmers Bulletin 1481-F containing
any helpful suggestions.

A VIGOROUS VINE OF GREAT BEAUTY

{ew many know Actinidia arguta, a

rapid growing vigorous vine of great
auty that was brought from Japan many
ars ago and is common in the Himalayas
id eastern Asia? For covering trellises,
ches, fences, or rough ground there is

nothing better.
tall trees.

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Prof. C. S. Sargent considers it
one of the best plants of its class.’”’ Its
flowers are not showy but they are exceedingly
fragrant, and produce nectar of which the
bees are exceedingly fond. The flowers are
followed by greenish yellow plum-like fruits,
an inch or so in diameter about which people
differ. Some think they are insipid, while
others enjoy eating them. They make ex-
cellent preserves. Those who have been in
Japan have no doubt seen the fruits on sale
at fruit stands, but as the Japanese prefer
most of their fruits green, and this is no ex-
ception, American tourists hardly ever con-
sider tasting them.

THE NEW ARTICHOKE SUGAR

je LAST the lowly Artichoke (Helian-
thus tuberosa) is coming into its own.
The Indians used it as food, but with few ex-
ceptions the white man has seldom used it
except in cases of extremity. The Pennsyl-
vania Germans pickle it.

Artichoke contains 23 per cent. of devulose,
a form of sugar 50 to 75 per cent. sweeter than
the sugar we are now using. But heretofore
it has cost $100 a pound to extract it in pure
form. Mr. R. F. Jackson of the chemical
division of the United States Bureau of
Standards and some of his associates have
found a cheap, satisfactory method of extrac-
tion. Now plans are being made to convert
beet sugar mills into artichoke sugar mills.
When this has been satisfactorily done, we
will need the Artichoke. As it thrives in
most any soil the growing will be only a de-
tail. A crop of ten to twenty tons per acre
will mean that 2,500,000 acres will produce
an amount of sugar equal to that now im-
ported.

FUMIGATE FOR THE WHITE FLY

Nw method of fumigation developed
by E. R. Speyer and O. Owen and re-
ported in Nature (London) will interest every
greenhouse owner whose houses are infested
with white fly: three parts, (by weight) of
powdered sodium bicarbonate and one part
of 98 per cent. sodium cyanide, are thoroughly
mixed. This mixture is scattered on the dry
walks of the greenhouse at the rate of one
ounce to every 1000 cubic feet of space. The
gas is generated slowly but is equally effective
as when generated with sulphuric acid, withthe
added advantage of saving in labor and much
less risk in burning. We hope our American
Experiment Stations will test this out soon
and make their recommendations.

NEW USE FOR A NATIVE TREE

Hoe’ many of us consider the Locust tree
as really ornamental? Its long, more or
less crooked bole, and straggly branches mark
it for anything but an ornamental tree. A
borer attacks it, and this borer is such a pest
that the railroads, like the Pennsylvania, which
tried growing it for cross ties, gave it up as a bad

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job. That little trouble, however, was overcome
by the United States Bureau of Entomology
which found that starting the trees in shaded
woods obviated any trouble from that source,
for the borer simply had to work in sunshiny
places. But to get back to the ornamental side
of the question. Nearly three hundred years
ago the Black Locust was introduced into
Europe where it has become naturalized. Some
one discovered that by cutting back the young
trees a bushy head would be produced. These
bushy headed trees, thickly studded with
branchlets, become a wonderfully decorative
tree, particularly when in bloom. So at-
tractive are they that a few American land-
scape artists are working for its introduction
in American gardens—another generation may
see this much neglected American tree gracing
our gardens.

SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE

EWARK, N. Y., is a nursery town, several

large nurseries being situated there. It
has recently decided to take some of its own
medicine. Charles H. Perkins, of Jackson
& Perkins Co., and Frank S. Warren of the
American Landscape School are members of
the Parks and City Planning Committee.
Under their direction the city of Newark has
started a Beautifying Newark campaign.
The city is therefore assured that the nearly
100,000 trees and shrubs donated by the
nurseries will be used to produce the most
pleasing effects. This is a mighty healthy
sign. It is always a safe bet that a town
which has the foresight and gumption to pull
itself out of the humdrum is a good one to live
in. It is sure to grow, forif it has good ship-
ping facilities, as is the case at Newark, new
industries are attracted. There is nothing
that will pull in new industries like a well
planted, well kept town.

BEATING THE RED SPIDER

HE ubiquitous little pest of garden and

greenhouse, wherever plants are grown,
and an especial trouble to the amateur gar-
dener is the red spider, in reality a mite, that
seems to attack nearly all the plants that we
like to grow in pots as well as some others in
the garden. Hitherto it has not yielded to
treatment; the time honored recommendation
being spraying with water on the ground that
the pest disliked a moist atmosphere. We
learn now that Dr. Albert Hartzell of the
Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research
has devised an effective poison for this uni-
versal pest in the form of a spray “which is
95 per cent. effective in destroying red spider.”
The spray is a mixture of any lubricating oi!
with colloidal sulphur. The two components
become particularly effective in mixture. The
oil “is more than twice as poisonous to the
pest’? as when used alone and the mixture
“about eight times as deadly as the sulphur
used separately.” It has been found that it
does not injure Cabbage, Peppers, Tomatoes,
Snap-dragons, Salvia, and Nasturtiums.

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER NOVEMBER, I9

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A goodly place it is and primly spaced
With straight box-bordered paths and squares of bloom
Gertrude Huntington McGiffert

The garden of Mr. Isaac T. Starr at Laverock, Pa., where
one of the pleasantest features is the planting of Box, which
brings a note of green into the garden picture throughout the
year. (See ‘“Boxwood—the Living Antique,” pages 223-224)

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“Here in the sifted sunlight
A spirit seems to brood
On the beauty and worth of being,
In tranquil, instinctive mood”
Bliss Carman

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Palms, Banana, Bamboo, Maple, Jasmine and flowering shrubs
weave charming patterns of greenery around this restful house
—with its smooth wall surfaces and delicate iron balcony—
reminiscent of the Mediterranean. Home of Mr. J. C. Lyons,
at New Orleans, Louisiana; Armstrong & Koch, Architects

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And all that is richest in gardens and bowers”
James Clarence Mangan

The flower bordered flagstone terrace of Miss Dianne
Nash at Tryon, North Carolina, from which one turns
from a view of the majestic mountains deep into the heart of
the woods (See also “Four Gardens of Tryon.” pages 210-211)

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The Mediterranean Influence

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Photographs by Prof. John S. Humphreys, C. F. Saunders, Tebbs & Knell, Kenneth Clark, Philip B. Wallace, John Wallace Gillies, S. Osato, George H. Van Anda

o% HY is it necessary to choose an archi-
tecturalstvle forone’s country house?
Why not go directly at the problem

ment of rooms, making sure that
sizes and proportions are right, providing
‘necessary intercommunication, and then
ely erect the walls and roof of the materials
and, watching the fenestration and scale,
textures, shadows and such details—and
‘'t goat that? Itsounds feasible. But is
Even in the use and selection of the ob-
is essentials—windows, doors, roof—we
the necessity of making a choice between
sly varying types. Shall we put in win-
s of small panes or a full sheet of glass to
sash; shall our doors be plain, battened,
eled—and if so, how? Shall our roof pitch
teep, or flat; shall we have our eaves pro-
ing, or not? Whatever choice we make
ny of these matters leads us directly into
province of architectural style. We can-
escape it even if we should try.

undamentally, architecture is expressing
s self in building materials. If you would
a story or write down a record of fact, you
st choose a form of expression and a blunt
ement of fact is not enough; we would
ress that fact entertainingly, and with
it beauty and grace of phrasing we can
ster. The day has passed, however, when
are content to express ourselves architec-
lly in the precise words of even the greatest
litects of the past. Architectural expres-
, like any other form, is forever in a state
lux. Its forms change, grow, are modified
contact with the rest of the world. What
mean by architectural adaptation is the
orption of the spirit of an architectural
guage and the re-phrasing of it in the
nacular of to-day. To sum up the fore-

Epirors’ Note: This article on the Medi-
terranean influence is part of the larger
presentation of the heritage of the present-
day home in “The Book of Little Houses”
soon to be published, a book whose many
pictures and plans will appeal to all home
owners both prospective and actual.

going, we must perforce build in a so-called
architectural style; there is no way of speaking
architecturally excepting in one of its under-
stood tongues. Nevertheless, if we would
produce architecture and not archeology we
must adapt rather than copy.

However, that is by no means all there
is to the problem confronting the man
about to build. If it were, he could merely
look over the architectural picture books,
decide what style he preferred and have his
architect produce that sort of house for him.
No, there are other considerations and they
are of vital importance. In three words they
are: climate, materials, furniture.

WV Aun the foregoing in mind as a basis for
the selection of an architectural type in
which to build a country or suburban house it
is the further purpose of this article to sketch

Unadorned walls,
deeply embrasured
and typical wood
ceiling all lend a
distinctly Spanish
flavor to this mod-
ern Illinois room
designed by Russell
S. Walcott (at right)

will be

The bold horizontal line of door and shutters and the outside stair-
way bespeak Spanish heritage (left).
McCune at Green Farms, Connecticut; Butler 8& Corse, Architects

very briefly the outstanding characteristics of
three distinct styles, the French, the Italian,
and the Spanish, which we can bring together
under the general head of the Mediterranean
types of architecture.

To look first at the architecture of Spain:
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Byne, whose numerous
books on Spanish architecture, gardens, and
furniture are the one indispensable mine of
information for those who would know these
things better, have pointed out very clearly
that our national picture of Spanish architec-
ture is considerably distorted by the fact that
most of us judge it from the cruder forms bor-
rowed from the California Missions, upon
which has been loosely hung the baroque detail
borrowed from Mexican churches. There is a
far better basis for judgment in the adapta-
tions built within the past decade, largely in
California and to a less extent elsewhere—also
adaptations that have perhaps been inspired
by the late Bertram Goodhue’s work in the
San Diego Exposition. The best of it is based
on the Mudéjar, or combined Moorish decor-
ation and Christian structural forms originat-
ing before 1500. In the more monumental

architecture of Spain, centering about Castile

Residence of Mr. W. G.

—a stone architecture of far greater sophistication—it
seems unlikely that we, as searchers for motives to adapt
in our domestic architecture, shall find much that is within
our reach.

Our adaptation from Spain is a house of stucco with a
roll-tile roof of rather flat pitch.
white or cream, and its surfaces will be broad and simple,
with few windows.
thick walls and will perhaps be protected outside by a
screen of spindles or of wrought iron—the shutters, if any,
inside.

The stucco will be either

These will be deeply recessed in the

The doorway will be one of the few

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decorative features of the exterior. Framing
it there may be some of the modeled plaster
ornament or yeseria, originally carved by the
artisan but now cast in molds. The door itself
will be either plain vertical boards, studded
with iron bosses or decorative nail heads, or
else paneled in small squares with a geomet-
rical variation, perhaps, in the center. It will
be rather dark in color, say of oiled pine, though
walnut would be better if it is not too costly.

The surface of the stucco will not be rough,
nor will there be any attempt to simulate
rough trowel marks or the swirls of the darby;
all Spanish stucco work receives its coat of
whitewash yearly, and if the surface ever had
been rough, the whitewash would long since
have smoothed it. Whatever there may be in

the way of porches, entrance steps, terraces,

will be in tile, brick, or stone. These masonry
floors will extend through as much of the first
floor as practicable—the Spaniard confines his
wood floors to the upper story.

Inside, the first impression will be of height.
The principal rooms must have their ceilings
as high as we can conveniently provide them.
These will be of wood, or a more or less in-
tricate system of wooden beams—a few large
ones, supported on the typical carved brackets,
running across the shorter dimension, then
smaller ones at right angles to these and above
that the boarding—all rather somber in color-
ing above the broad areas of white plastered
walls.

About the fireplace, framing principal door-
ways and as a dado around the room, will
be tiling, its polychromatic, Moorish character
giving further emphasis to the broad masses
of plaster wall. This tiling will extend into
window seats, over radiator covers and the
like, for there 1s no wood trim, such as we
depend upon in most architectural styles to
frame our doors and windows and mark the
line at ceiling, floor and side wall junctions.
Possibly the principal doorways or the fire-
place end will have an embellishment of
modeled plaster instead of the tile. The
upper chimney breast may be of the plas-
tered hood type, sloping back to join the wall
at the ceiling line. The floors will preferably

be of red tiles, waxed, and rush mats may take
the place of rugs.

On the broad wall surfaces there will be a
flat hanging of Flemish tapestry, of Cordova
leather, of some Moorish weaving, or a rich
damask or velvet. The furniture should be
scanty—Spanish interiors are particularly
marked by a minimum of movable furnish-
ings. A broad refectory table—a carved chest
or leather-bound folio resting on its damask
runner—its trestle supports braced with a bit
of ironwork; a few monks’ chairs, or fraileros,
square, leather covered and studded with iron
bosses; a carved walnut cupboard or two; a
few rush-seated straight chairs, possibly in red
and gold; a standing lamp or two of wrought
iron—or the bare torcheros or tall candle-stands,
an oil portrait or two in carved and gilded

THE VILLA MARIA
at Southampton, L. I.
Edward P. Mellon,
Architect

The generous expanse
of unbroken wall sur-
face, the nicely bal-
anced fenestration,
without symmetry; the
covered chimney top
(see below)—these mark
the true Italian whose
beauty depends so little
upon detail and orna-
ment and _ structural
features, so wholly up-
on proportions, niceties
of balance, color. Plain
plaster walls, simple
iron stair-rail, and
paved floor of the hall-
way are eloquent of fine
tradition and every de-
tail of its furnishings
carries the Italian note
and is completely in
harmony with the ar-
chitecture

frame—here are the few elements of the r ir
rooms.

For the corridors and less important rea:
the ceiling may well be lowered and plast »
as an oval vaulting. Doors throughout 1
oiled pine or walnut, either ‘with a pr
surface studded with nail heads, or geom ‘i.
cally paneled, or with turned spindles 1 k.
ing a grille of the spaces inside the rails 1
stiles. The stairway will probably hay ;
simple railing of wrought-iron with a wa w!
hand-rail, the stairs themselves possibly ‘e-
peating the brick, stone or tile flooring. Ca
sionally the tiled dado may continue up li
stairway as an outer guard, with a hancai
of black tile on its top.

Turning to France, there are, of course h¢
chateaux of the nobility which for many } 11
have provided 1 pi:
ration for our |; ze
country houses a!
Newport and ¢ e.
where. The ch ac
teristics of this ib
orate style, th gi
exceedingly sul:
and intricate, |r
fairly well knowin :
general way to: 0
us. It is, how/er
of a less known ek
of French arc] ec
ture that this a cl
would speak th
simpler forms 0 th
smaller French i
teaux and manc, !!
which there is &:
suggestion of thi et!
dal stronghold \
more of the co’ !)
home as we kni’ !'
to-day.

Throughou th
French forms of ¢l
itectural expre 10!
an underlying Fr ard
for symmetry i al-
ways strongly
High, steeply p! ned

MOVEMBER, 1926

»fs are here the natural reflection of a coun-
+ of gray skies and much snow. Slate is the
al roofing material, and the thicker it can
sobtained and used, particularly on the lower
arses, the more effective it will be in appear-
be. Tile is used to a less extent, usually of
mall flat unit, in red. As might be expected
steeply pitched roofs, dormer windows are
nally present and are given widely different
ypes —pediment - topped, arc- topped, or
yped with a little hip roof of their own.
natever their shape they are almost in-
riably small.

or the walls stone is the tra-
jonal and characteristic ma-
jal. When only the poorer
alities and smaller sizes are
ailable these are used as filling
‘ween strongly marked quoins
ie larger cut stone of corners,
adow, and door openings,
ere the wall must be brought
a neat vertical junction line).
casionally this filling of rubble
ne is covered with stucco,
yught only to the edge of the
oins. Where the rubble itself
onsidered pleasing enough in
or and texture it will always
found used with broad mortar
nts brought out to the plane
the face. And on the stucco
lls, if used, will be the inevi-
le yellow climbing Roses.
Though the simpler manors
ve broken away from the
dal appearance of the earlier
1 more elaborate work, there
one feature that is usually

Howe for Mr. Carl Siebecker.

retained, the circular tower. No single fea-
ture could so fully satisfy the need for a
dominating mass to which the wings and ells
of various heights are tied. The tower serves
admirably to house a circular stairway, but
even if the French architect utilized it for no
more important function than a pigeon loft,
its simple form and great stone mass must
needs be incorporated in the design.

Within the portals, the interior, though as
from a different world than the courts of the
French Kings and their intricacy and pro-

Garage at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, designed by Mellor, Meigs &
The French note is found in the

steeply pitched roof and typical combination of stone and brick

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fusion of ornament, there will always be
found paneling in wood or plaster, marked
by a restrained use of the curved line. The
chequered floor of black and white marble
squares is characteristic of the more formal
rooms, with at least a simple border line of
contrasting color where the flooring is of
wood. Dull blues, blue-grays and warm grays
are favored colors for woodwork, framing
simply paneled plaster surfaces that are them-
selves painted or bearing a fabric covering.
Iron or bronze stair rails may be of a wide
variety of form, always kept
slender in line and free from the
elaboration that burdens the
more monumental work. For
the embellishment of mantel
facings and occasionally in a
pilaster treatment, marble will
be added to the short list of
materials with which the archi-
tect secures his effects.

ES OUR search for inspiration
from the Italian we find a
condition paralleling that of
Spain and also of France in that
there are really two architec-
tural vocabularies—one of the
official circle, the other of the
more modest countryside. And
here in Italy as in France and
Spain we shall pass by the
former as being not only better
known but less readily adapt-
able to our needs for the com-
paratively small house.

The picture of the smaller

(Continued on page 260)

Throughout the French forms of architectural expression an underlying regard for symmetry is always strongly felt and, though its appeal is per-
haps less immediate than the more ‘““picturesque”’ English types its almost classic formality has, on acquaintance, distinct and ever-increasing charm.

Mr. Richard E. Bishop’s house at Germantown, Pennsylvania—Edmund B. Gilchrist, Architect.

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(Other views and plan on pages 236-237)

Who could resist following this path which leads down the moun-
tainside into Mrs. Kelly’s rock garden, at Tryon, North Carolina?

Four Gardens of Tryon, North Carolin:

ANHESE gardens of Tryon show that
much may be accomplished in a
short time, for all of them are under
three years old. A little effort, a
lesser expenditure of money, com-
bined with the materials that lie at one’s
command, here have created gardens whose
beauty equals any. The alluring charm and
restfulness, which these gardens give in un-
stinted measure to their builders and their
friends, and to those who wander through
the roads of Tryon, reflect the spirit of the
overshadowing peaks of the mountains of the
Blue Ridge range.

The charm of the gardens of Tryon lies in
their distinctive naturalness. Here one would

Wiebe Il, [oie

not want to see the opulent splendor of an
herbaceous border nor the garish beauty of a
brilliant flare of bedding plants. It would
be incongruous and speak too much of man-
made efforts were they found among the hills
and valleys, or deep in the woods of Tryon.

DENS down the lovely roads of Tryon,
deep into the woods, down a steep slope
and up a steeper hill, where the pine needles
cover the roadbed, where wild flowers creep
up to the narrow way, where song birds dart
across almost against the windshield, and all
at once one comes upon a house and garden
that reflect the spirit of the hills. The house
of soft creamy plaster, up whose sides clamber

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Roses in full bloom, tones perfectly with t)
surrounding trees and faces the distant pea |
Here the breezes of heaven play night a
day; above the fleecy clouds fleck the azt
sky; beyond the horizon expands as if throu
a powerful glass, until it includes the migh
mountains; then at one’s feet—the garden. |

The garden begins on the doorstep, as)
were, and is at first a rather narrow bor
from the flagstone terrace to the retaining W
of rock. Lying close to one’s feet, the edgi;
plants of Gold-tuft, Forget-me-nots, Aral,
and Snow-on-the-mountain interspersed W!!
the tiny blue native Iris and Violets form
line of color. Then come clouds of pale b=
terflies, white, blue, yellow, lavender, pl!

MOVEMBER, 1926
o are they Columbines swaying on their
shder stems? Iris in lavender and cream
hd high their heads, while Phlox drum-
nndi, in the palest yellow, looks like a ray
ofiltered sunlight on the bed.

3elow the retaining wall the garden wanders
aiost at will down the hill that slopes toward
t| distant view, of which one catches glimpses
tlough the tree trunks. Between the rocks,
opr the tiny walls, behind some small gray
pilder, the flowers bloom; Iberis, Cowslips,
Hoaticas, Phlox divaricata, Harebells, and
dens of dainty kindred things, adding their
frzrance and their masses of color, some vivid,
sae pale and delicate, to this charming gar-
de.

ind through it all scarce a sound is heard
ae the rustling of the Pine trees. Those who
iver here are soothed by the utter peaceful-
4s and the natural beauty of the place.
fs is the garden of Miss Dianne Nash,
onerly of England, who for several years has
nie Tryon her home. Miss Nash’s love of
vers and of Tryon was the inspiration
xh of her garden and of the garden club of
fon. (See photograph, page 206.)

[LITTLE deeper into the woods is the gray
- tower of Homer Ellertson, the artist.
‘: blue door through which you enter his
aien opens through a tall wall of rock and
iter, whose contour rounds in perfect con-
onity with the contour of the majestic
iysback Mountain, towering in the distance.
‘im the tower which rises above the garden
r has an incomparable view of hill and dale.
xeath lies the garden, where in the small
0 bound pool the goldfish play, and Water-
1s bloom. Again the natural rocks have
e1used. Forget-me-nots flower in the great-
sprofusion until with the masses of snowy
bis they look as if a bit of heaven and
umer cloud had drifted here. Bright
liaps of golden Alyssum grow out of the
is. Thyme and Sage add their pungent

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In the “‘old fashioned’? manner, where such household favorites as Foxgloves, Snap-

dragons, Clove Pinks, and Irises dominate,

odor to the fragrance of the wild things grow-
ing here. Poppies, in a shade of subdued
orange, unfold their satiny petals against the
gray of the rocks. Tall spikes of Wallflowers,
in bronze and dull gold, stand, like soldiers on
guard, against the wall. Garden and pool, leaf
and flower, all fit perfectly into the picture.
Entering from the other side, one walks up a
long path shaded by overhanging boughs and
bordered with Irises, in lavender and cream;
Peonies in pink and white; and masses of
Columbine in cream and blue. The artistic

Pinks, Irises, Blue Salvia, Hornpoppy, Alyssum, Violets, English Ivy,
Larkspur and Snapdragons flourish in the garden of Mr. Homer Ellertson

211

at the home of Mrs. Julian Calhoun

tower, which is the home of Mr. Ellertson, is
glimpsed as the path curves.

[pene down the winding road one

follows a beckoning bend and finds that
Mrs. Kelly has a garden just as enchanting,
and where more use is made of native shrubs.
Under the shadows of huge White Pines,
which have been cleared just enough to let
the sunlight filter through, the Dogwood glis-
tens in the soft light, the pink of the Redbud
peeps through the tree trunks, a Cherokee
Rose climbs over the trellis above the gate,
English Ivy covers the broad rock chimney
and blue Periwinkles trail on the bed below.
In front of the house, but some way down the
hill, the rock garden basks in the sun, with
native Columbine of red and yellow dancing
gaily, with blue and gold and pink and white
rioting over the rocks. A clearing has been
made so that from the side steps of the house
one looks directly down a ravine to the bub-
bling stream, many feet below. Above the
ravine the branches of the virgin forest trees
form an arch of unbroken green.

jaye THE road nears Tryon again the garden

of Mrs. Julian Calhoun, growing high on
a bluff, lures one to stop. The tall bank of
red soil is faced with a long wall of rock, above
which there is a broad row of Iris in all the
lavender and purple shades. Dozens of Lady
Gay Roses, planted high above, throw down
their branches to cover the bareness of the
bank. A long flight of rough rock steps leads
up to the house and down the sides of these
same steps the Cowslips nod to the Harebells,
hosts of Pansies turn their bright faces to the
sun, Columbine flutter beneath the stately
Madonna Lilies, and wilding things peep out
from the sheltering rock. On the west side
of the house great clumps of Kalmia are grow-
ing just as Nature planted them and under
their boughs the wild Violets and Fleur-de-lis
play hide and seek among the roots and rocks.

The garden as seen from the house

The Prize-Winning Dividend in

Contentment

The Promised Land

‘HICH is backward? Should living
and earning a living come first?
Should the young lad or girl, getting
ready for life, be advised to decide
on a profession as the basis of all life
and his or her life be entirely arranged from
that basis? Or might it be possible for them
to decide first the kind of life that gives them
most pleasure, satisfaction—the most living—
‘and then, with that as a basis, decide on the
profession or craft or art that will dovetail
with that kind of living? No question at all,
you say? Of course the economic side must
come first? Possibly. I know that is the
general course. I know that the majority
of people are slaves to jobs and professions.
Their lives and the lives of their families must
be adjusted to them, even if all these lives are
makeshift, if no one gets any real satisfaction
out of life.

I suppose there are many reasons for this.
Many are scared of poverty; they crave
affluence. Many have not learned the pleas-
ure of work for work’s sake. Many are just
scared of doing anything that “other people”
don’t do. They aren’t individuals with minds
of their own—and, consequently, lives of their
own—but cogs.

Probably, if the war had not knocked things
topsy-turvy for us, we should have gone on
more or less unthinkingly, apartment to office,
office to apartment, an occasional week-end in
the country, going and doing things because
others were doing them. But we were jolted
out of our snug little rut and then we began
analyzing ourselves, our own individual lives.
Were we getting what we wanted out of life?
What did we want, anyway? Could we get
itr

First we eliminated things we were sure we

we,

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Margaret Cridland

Epirors’ Note: Chosen for the $100 award from
more than half a hundred manuscripts from more
than half the states in the Union, this account of
how one family rediscovered happiness in “The
Promised Land’”’ may prove a signpost for other
people seeking some road to sure contentment.
The response from all parts of our widespread
country brings ample testimony of reward and the
reaping of imperishable dividends—stories which
we hope to publish from time to time in our pages.

In winter
212

did not care about. Society in a formal
did not appeal, we had tried city apart
life and found it interesting for a whil
had no desire to spend our lives thus; wi
tried living in a suburb, but the clubs, dir
and the like did not interest us much; bus
elaborate meals and clothing all left us |
and discontented. |
Then where were we happy?r—In the:
try and woods, living and enjoying out«
We like our own society and that of our |
son. We did not crave constant outsi
sociations. We loved our books and 1
zines, our open fires, fresh air, sunshine,
simple food, and a few good friends. We!
to do and make with our own hands. |
like—came the conclusion—to find a
farmhouse to fix over. We'd like to :
time to spend fixing and creating beau
side and out.
But could we get it? And how?
only assets were a very wee capital, a t'
car, a certain start in the writing prof:
whereby we might earn a more or les|
carious livelihood even in the country
knew, between us, a little about gard!
cooking, sewing, carpentering and most
practical everyday things that make up ‘
We knew, of course, that we couldn’ B
so much in the country, but, on the!
hand, neither need we spend so much. :
all, he is rich who gets the most of /!
happiness, contentment from life, whet i
“turn over” great or small sums of |)
in the process. In the city a given !
would give shelter, clothing, food, |!
“higher life,” and there might or mig)
be a surplus. In the country one halt
given salary would do likewise and joys ©
be doubled. In fact, it’s those joys |

JovVEMBER, 1926

tv that cost so much and that are, too often,
yunterfeit. ‘What are they all doing?”’ said
usband, one warm evening on a crowded
ty street. “‘Looking for happiness,” said I.
And so are we, but I’m afraid we won’t find

here.”
“ ' = B. id -| b oat >
Anyway,” said we, in conclusion, ife

the house. The rest of the land—which in-
cluded an old orchard of twenty-five good
Apple trees and a lovely brook—was left wild
—in fact, it’s pretty wild yet.

The first fall found us “poor but happy.”
For the first time in our lives we had found a
spot where we had a feeling of absolute con-

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room and dressing room and kitchen with
dining alcove heated comfortably. Our sleep-
ing rooms were cold. Our cellar was filled
with all kinds of winter vegetables, and with
jars of fruit—blackberries and blueberries and
wild strawberries from the hillsides, glasses of
jams and jellies and preserves, jars of pickles,

un’t be much worse than it is. We can’t boxes and boxes of apples from our own or-

i

tentment. And that feeling has continued.

Three attractive
fireplaces with
their appropriate
fittings play a very
large part in mak-
ing a real home of
the old farmhouse

chard. Thanksgiving was an old-fashioned
country feast with squash, onions, currant
jelly, late salad plants from the garden and
pies made from our own pumpkins—and the
neighbors invited in to enjoy it with us.
Christmas was perfect; we climbed the moun-
tain after Laurel and Ground Pine and
Christmas tree; we packed boxes of greens,
jellies, pickles, and the like to send to less
fortunate friends, we participated in a beauti-
ful European ceremony at one neighbor’s on
Christmas eve and, on the evening of Christ-
mas day, another neighbor invited in the rest
of the neighborhood for a Christmas tree in
her living room with its big open fire, and small
son, eyes and cheeks aglow and clad in a Santa
Claus suit received on his own tree that morn-
ing, officiated as Santa Claus. Not since our
childhood had we had such a Christmas.
The snow fell in gentle flakes all the day.
To be able to give our child the memory of
such real Christmases 1s worth much.

The winter passed all too quickly with busy
days inside and out. After a few hours of
work inside we would go outdoors—and the
country outdoors in winter is even more
beautiful than in summer. Sometimes we
snowshoed, skated, tobogganed or took a long
ramble in the hills. Other times we just
gathered firewood or went after the milk.

And thus it has gone. As I have said,
it has been a tight pinch to make ends
meet sometimes, but always has been the
comfortable thought that, even though de-
prived of luxuries and perhaps some things
that might be called necessities at times, even

et much poorer, things can’t be more unin-
eresting—by this period of our post war
truggles we had reached a business position
a the Middle West—we are healthy, strong,
apable of taking care of ourselves. Let’s
ry it.”

So we traveled eastward, reestablished a few
ontacts, and began looking for “the promised
and.” That we might not burn all our bridges
ve decided that we must find something within
\ possible commuting distance of New York.
Chen, should we be unable to make ends meet,
ve could go job hunting.

And here we are! That was three years
igo last spring. They have been years of
iard work interspersed with play, of—almost
—feast and famine, of discouragements and
jisappointments, of joys and contentment. In
act, the first year has gone down in family
distory as “the lean year.” The writing
jobs that bade fair to carry us over for a few
nonths when we moved out, dribbled away
for various reasons and left us day by day
awaiting the coming of the mailman with a
possible check to pay for the week’s groceries.

We have an old farmhouse that we have
slowly, in the three years, made livable and
very much home. It needed, however, a
lively imagination to foresee this when we
bought it. The paint was drab and dreary,
faded wallpapers of colors beyond description
hung in festoons from the walls. The plaster
Was off in spots. The rooms were small and

Two winters we have had to pack up and go
to other fields to replenish our depleted for-
tunes. But each time we have looked for-
ward eagerly to the end of our banishment
when we might get home again.

The first winter we spent in the country.
And winter found us comfortable, even though
in rather snug—for the country—dquarters.
We had a fairly large living room, a bath-

cut up. Outside was the wilderness of an
abandoned garden. That first spring we
made a few rooms habitable, reclaimed a fairly

large garden and a bit of the yard surrounding (Continued on page 264)

At left, building

the flagstone ter-

races} and, at

right, a pleasant

alcove clleverly

constructed from
a dark pantry

Impressions From the

%7 BACKWARD season and a sudden
y) onset of hot days in early August
both held back many of the mid-
season sorts usually to be counted
upon for exhibition, and tried the
endurance of the ones that did flower in time
for the National Gladiolus Exhibition August
11th, 12th, and 13th. The result was that the
early varieties appeared more prominently than
usual, and many of the weaker sorts either dis-
played their faults of crooked stems and poor
placement, or gave place entirely to their stur-
dier sisters. So this year’s showing brought
out the comparative strength and dependa-
bility of the varieties to an unusual degree.

An interesting feature of the exhibit was the
fine showing made by the amateur competi-
tors, particularly in the classes for one spike
of a kind. Some of the finest individual
spikes were shown there, and the high merit
of some of the old established sorts was em-
phasized. AMERICA competed — successfully
against the newer varieties in the pink class.
Ruffled salmon Wm. KENT made a fine show-
ing, both as a single spike and as the best
three spikes in its color. The simply huge
spikes and flowers of Mrs. LEon DouG Las
likewise attracted attention. Diener’s deep
rose AMERICAN BEAUTY was represented by
typical many-flowered spikes. It is not the
easiest Gladiolus to grow satisfactorily, but
when at its best it is certainly worth while.
KIRCHOFF’s VIOLET took precedence because
of its trim form and excellent color, though it
is not of true show size, in either spike or
flower. HERADA again made good as the
showiest among the competitors in the mauve
and purple tints.

Among the exhibits of the large growers
were some interesting novelties. Of the truly
exhibition sorts, Kemp’s JUBILEE showed it-
self as one of the best; it is a huge lavender
pink, similar in form to his Pink Wonder.
PEARL OF CALIFORNIA is a Showy light pink,
with many flowers open at once. It would
compete in the same class with Miss MaApIson
as an exhibition sort. VicTORIA FREDERICKS,
pink with spotted throat is another show
flower, quite up to Diener’s standard of many
large flowers open at once. Of the whites,
VAUGHAN’S WHITE is a tall, showy sort.
JoerG’s WuiTE is a larger and more striking
flower. It has a yellow feathery blotch in
the throat, so is not a pure white. LAVENDER
PRINCESS Is a showy lavender-pink with many
flowers open at once—a true exhibition flower.
A truly imposing flower is Pritzer’s TRI-
UMPH, a large, wide open slightly ruffled red.
It has only four blooms open at once, but they
are large, full, and massive.

HE general purpose, or so-called commer-
cial, type was also well represented.
Gelser Brothers again brought in their prize
winning rosy lavender seedling, now named

Gladiolus Exhibitions

At Rochester, N. Y., and Boston, Mass.

Maup Frey. With its pleasing color, fine form
and texture, this new sort shows real promise.
It opens up six good sized and well spaced
blooms on a spike of moderate size, and seems
also to have the lasting quality so necessary
in this type of flower. Fay LAMPIERE so
widely heralded by the pictures of the girl
instead of the flower, showed as a large and
striking salmon-tinted pink Gladiolus of pleas-
ing and graceful habit. There are now several
good pure whites, and La BEAuTéE from Hol-
land easily classes as one of them. Most of
them flake a little in the sun this year, and
La Beauté is too new to decide how it will be-
have as yet. JENNY LIND is quite unique in
coloring, being a combination of soft pink and
pale yellow throat. Its flowers are of only
moderate size, but many of them are open at
once on a graceful spike. Groff’s Louvain 1s
another pink sort of attractive coloring.

The newly recognized Primulinus Grandi-
florus type was also in evidence. THE ORCHID
was shown satisfactorily for the first time,
and proved to be a large ruffled lavender-pink,
similar in form and texture to Kunderd’s
ButTTerFLy, Mine Toy, etc., but of somewhat
larger size and distinctive coloring. Gladiolus
Bill likewise showed some good sorts of this
type. His Priority is a large pink-tipped
white, the two colors shading agreeably the
one into the other; Lucetre, white with dark
throat lines; and OPpaALEsCcENT, pale rosy
lavender with purple throat, are others of
his interesting varieties.

HE true Primulinus’ varieties again

proved their special merits for decorative
use. GOLDEN FRILLs is a spritely ruffled
Prim of deep yellow color with light red throat
blotches, which contrast well with the yellow.
It stood out as the most attractive of the deep
yellow novelties so widely heralded. Both
in a basket and in a bowl for table decoration
it was most effective. PATRic1A CARTER is
a pink of quite different mould, a dainty little
soft pink Prim with well spaced blooms
and many open. It may completely displace
Maiden’s Blush when its price gets within
reach of the florists. Meanwhile it is a
pleasing novelty of most delicate tint. An-
other attractive Prim of distinctive coloring
is EvA MarTIN, a small pale sulphur yellow
with picotee edging of pink.

Of the fancy sorts, Kemp’s white RUFFo-
LACE 1s still in a class by itself because of its
unusual form, being both deeply ruffled and
with a lacy margin to the petals. Kunderd
also fulfilled his promise of new colors in the
lacinated type, by bringing in some tips of
spikes of his new lacinated seedlings. He
showed an interesting array of colors and forms
of them. He also had a deep yellow seedling
which he designates as an improved Yellow
Wonder, a plain petaled deep yellow of con-
siderable promise. An unnamed large flow-

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ered light yellow ruffled sort, with deep
yellow margins and crépe-like petals al
looked interesting as a novelty among t
ruffled type. Bales again proved himself
fancier of odd colors, by acquiring Kunderc
purple-blotched lavender ORCHIDEAN, an j
teresting little flower of remarkable colorir

Less distinctively classified than some
the others is Mrs. Austin’s Tyco Zan
large enough to enter the show class, y
opening at a rate that would qualify it in t
general purpose class. Its brilliant pink col
and wide open flowers on good, tall spik
make it outstanding among the new sort
—— FV Cleans

THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY'S EXHIBITIO)

NOTHER great Gladiolus festival

staged in Boston a week later (Augi
21st and 22nd). This was the combin
exhibition of the New England Gladiolus a
Massachusetts Horticultural Societies. Thc:
who follow the Gladiolus cannot afford to m,
this annual gathering in Boston which f},
been growing in importance year by ye
From the spectacular standpoint it leay;
little to be desired. There are good grow:
in New England and they present their b
efforts at this meeting, such as A. L. Stephi,
W. E. Clark, Clark W. Brown, North Riv:
Farms, F. F. & F. O. Shepherdson:gm }
show us what the Gladiolus is like when hig!’
cultured.

Looking at the color classes and singlis
out the respective winners we find the follc -
ing: white without marking Europe; wh:
with slight markings MALLow; white wi
blotch Dr. ELkins, second and third be:
taken by HENry C. GOEHL; cream or apri\-
FERN Ky ce; light pink Mrs. Dr. Nort;
bright or rose-pink EVELYN KIRTLAND; salmi -
pink CATHERINE COLEMAN; pink with blo}
BLEEDING HEART; salmon PRINCE OF WAL ;
yellow GoLDEN MEAsuRE; yellow with bloi!
ELEGANCE; orange ALTON; scarlet or light 11
Dr. F. E. BENNET; rose NELLIE GRANT; ?!
Emperor; dark red or red purple Puri:
GLorY.

There was keen competition indeed in >
new seedlings. Out of about a hundred yai-
ties shown the honored selection was BLE!-
ING HEART of C. W. Brown. This is the vé-
ety that also won the prize in the color cls
for pink with a deep blotch.—L. B.

A FEATURE JIN PHLOX

TAGED in the same exhibition in

Horticultural Society’s classes was ?
especial display of Phlox; the Bay Ste,
Blue, Hills Nursery, and the Cherry Hs
Nursery, each contributing displays of rea
exceptional merit and rich variety. I
season has indeed been favorable and its
not often that we are able to feast our eyes !
such magnificent presentation of this stur’
standby of the late summer garden.—L. B.

Beauty Doctors of the Gladiolus
mopman lL. Mclbean ¢ Walliam: be@lank

Parcel

(eR HE leader in this Middle West-
aaa ern group is Anthony E.
ge Kunderd, both because he
was one of the first intro-
ducers of new sorts specially
dapted to our Inland Empire and be-
ause of the number and high merit of
is productions. He has introduced
yore good varieties that are well
nown and well liked than any other
qan of to-day.

He first began growing Gladiolus
fty years ago, when he was a small
joy, and gradually extended into raising
eedlings and hybridizing. Noting that
-number of the old gandavensis sorts
if that early time had slightly wavy or
rilled petals, he conceived the idea of
ntensifying that trait. Starting with
hese, by breeding and selection among them
ind among the wild species, he finally secured
. truly ruffled form and introduced it in 1911
is his amber white KUNDERD GLory. This
variety, though rather coarse in texture, has
he rugged vigor, full rounded petals and
asting substance which have characterized
nost of his later productions. Some of his
nost popular fancy ruffled sorts are: PURPLE
SLORY, a large maroon red; E. J. SHAYLOor,
ose pink; Mona Lisa, a delicate pale pink.
4 very engaging little intensely ruffled Prim
of recent introduction—and consequent high
price—is SULPHUR FRILLS.

H* plain petalled varieties, with the same
tough substance and regular rounded
form of his ruffled sorts, are among his hand-
somest productions: Rost. J. KUNDERD, orange
scarlet; Mrs. Dr. Norton, a delicate blending
of pink, white, and light yellow; MarsHAL
Focu, a showy large light pink; Dr. W. VAN

OPALESCENT

Another graceful Primulinus Hybrid,
pale lavender-pink (Gladiolus Bill)

VIOLA BIRD

A slender and small violet tinted Primulinus, of the type

best suited for small baskets and places where grace of

form and pose are more important than mass effect
(Umpleby)

FLEET, a very tall and slender pink variety;
and Mrs. FRANK PENDLETON, white, flushed
light rose pink with large oxblood red blotches
on the lower petals, are a few of these. He has
also produced several meritorious Primulinus
Hybrids; among these are ALICE TIPLADY,
and ruffled ButTrerFry and Mineo Toy.
Space would not permit of even brief mention
of the scores of fine Gladiolus put out by
Kunderd during the past fifteen years. Many
of these have made good as commercial sorts
for general culture.

Recently he has introduced a new type in
his tawny old rose LacinatTus, a_ slender
spidery flower with the petals irregularly
slashed and notched. This may be the fore-
runner of a new race as popular as the ruffled
strain, and the new lacinated varieties in
different colors which are now promised will
be watched with interest.

There has been for a long time a place for
graceful miniature Gladiolus which has not
been adequately filled by the Primulinus,
because their sleek hooded blooms are not
quite as artistic as would be an opener and
more feathery one. Perhaps the lacinated
type, in greater variety and pleasing colors,
may fill this want.

Kunderd has done much to advertise the
Gladiolus and to give it the prominence it
has to-day in the eyes of the American public.
His latest innovation is a set of moving
pictures, showing the work of the Kunderd
Gladiolus Farm for a year. These depict the
operations of one branch of a huge industry
in this country, for hundreds of acres are
devoted to the growing of Gladiolus each
year.

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Breeders of the Middle West and Their Notable Contributions

RS. A. H. Austin has done as much

for the aesthetic side of the Gla-
diolus as has Kunderd for the commer-
cial side. Her lectures, her judging at
the shows and her writings have kept
people abreast with the newest de-
velopments. She has also done much
hybridizing and has originated some
distinctive commercial sorts, with
long, graceful spikes of openly spaced
and well formed blooms. Her pink
EvELYN KIRTLAND, mauve HERaDaA,
and flesh pink Rose We ts; dark-
blotched pale pink GRETCHEN ZANG,
salmon WaAMBA; white BERTREX and
deep red CarpisAN combine a tall
eraceful habit and pleasing form with
the sturdiness required to cope with
Ohio summers. She has recently intro-
duced some deep yellows and some attractive
little ruffled Primulinus varieties, some of
which look very promising.

Carl Betscher is one of the many breeders
who have used Van Fleet’s Princeps effectively
in breeding to improve the Gladiolus, and his
new late-flowering red variety, CRUENTUS
SUPERBA is evidently derived from that
source. Betscher might be termed a born
plantsman, as he made himself a garden at
the tender age of ten. In his breeding work
he has dealt with Carnations, Cannas, Dahlias,
and Peonies as well as Gladiolus; and he is a
commercial florist besides being a grower and
hybridizer. So it is not surprising that he has
not been specially prolific in new Gladiolus.
But he has been discriminating and his pro-
ductions are of high merit. His aim has been
toward commercially valuable sorts, of strong
constitution, good size and substance. His
Crimson GLow, a bright red that glistens in
the sun, is one of the best. He has used the

GENESSEE
The creamy yellow novelty of John

Davis having fine substance

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

MARY O’MINE

A pure white of excellent texture and
keeping quality, originated by Mrs. Austin

wild species of Gladiolus somewhat in his
crossing. Gladiolus dracocephalus, the Dra-
gon’s Head Gladiolus, has given him some
interesting lined and _ spotted seedlings:
Gioriosa, yellow with cinnamon markings,
is one of these. He has also used G. leicht-
lini, a very early-flowering desert species from
the Transvaal, and crossed it with the earliest
flowering of the Primulinus hybrids. He
has already introduced his CANort, an early
yellow Primulinus.

His earliest-flowering seedlings are not yet
generally in the trade, but are claimed to be
very early, which is entirely credible. Le-
moine also produced very early sorts about
twenty-five years ago by crossing G. leicht-
lini and G. aurantiacus with his earliest
Lemoine varieties. One of these, PREcocITE,
was reported by Hottes at Cornell as flowering
in 44 days from the date of planting! But
this, like so many European varieties, proved
a poor grower in this country. Betscher’s
sorts, originated at Dover, Ohio, adapted to
the trying summers of the Middle West, and
selected for vigor and sturdiness there, may
be expected to give a good account of them-
selves almost anywhere.

Ape partnership of Dr. C. Hoeg and Kris-
tian Prestgard is one of the few instances
of a successful codperation of either plant
breeders or inventors. They began hybridiz-
ing the Gladiolus in about 1905, and have
apparently worked amicably together for
twenty years. Both men have other occu-
pations, one as a medical doctor and the
other as a newspaper editor, but they have
found time to produce some fine new sorts,
which they have sent out from their Iowa
home.

Some of Doctor Hoeg’s best are Gop, a

very fine pure yellow; JENNy Linp, a soft
apricot pink with pale yellow throat, of
moderate size but with many open blooms;
and TiTANic, a lilac purple with white lines
in the throat. Among the finest of the Prest-
gard varieties are Mrs. Kr. PRESTGARD, a
a showy pure white of sturdy growth; Jap
Lapy, a dark pinkish lavender; and CARMEN
SyLvA, a well known and universally admired
large, wide open white of fine substance, with
tall upstanding spikes, equally good for ex-
hibition and for general commercial use.

Joe Coleman entered into Gladiolus breed-
ing quite recently and as a mature man. In
the last ten years he has produced some
fine ones. He works in the conventional way,
selecting the largest and most striking sorts as
parents for breeding, and deplores too great
a use of such primitive types as the Primu-
linus species. His Minuet, a clear sparkling
lavender, was a 1923 medal winner. GIANT
Nympu is an extremely large Prim and has a
tall, open spike of light rosy pink blooms,
shading to cream at the center. Mrs. P. W.
Sisson, cameo-pink, is a show flower of fine
size and clear color, winner of the Sisson prize
in 1924. SWEET LAVENDER, a large pale
lavender with deep red blotch, is a very early
bloomer. SHEILA is another early bloomer, a
large light salmon pink Prim. His intro-
ductions to date do not conform to a dis-
tinctive type as do those of some of the older
breeders.

Wee Vaughan, and several other florists
have also introduced occasional fine Gladi-
olus, sometimes of their own orgination, some-
times theirs by purchase. Vos’ CHATEAU
THIERRY Is a pretty cerise and his white MAINE

CROWN OF GOLD
Unlike most of the Primulinus Hybrids it opens many

flowers on its ribbon-like spikes. Many growers have
sought a clear, deep yellow variety with enough flowers
open at once and large enough to make a good display.
Though the flowers are only medium in size in this variety,
their color is admirable and the spikes open up well

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NOVEMBER, 192

THE RUFFLED TYPE

Representative of a large group of varieties hay-
ing ruffled petals, introduced by A. E. Kunderd

is another good one. Vaughan for many yea
introduced Van Fleet’s fine seedlings. T!
new VAUGHAN’S WHITE is a good pure whit
Wm. Purple, or Gladiolus Bill as he prefe
to be called, has worked quite steadily f
larger Primulinus hybrids, with large, round
wide-open flowers, but with the slender, grac
ful habit of the Primulinus. OpaLEscen
palest lavender, and STARLIGHT, a crea
colored early flowering Primulinus hybrid, a
among the good ones.
There are many growers and _ breeders
Gladiolus scattered all through the bro:
plains between the Appalachians and tl!
Rockies, and several of these have produc:
one or two each of outstanding sorts.
would be both difficult and tedious to try
evaluate the work of each from one or very f¢
of their introductions; however, several
proven merit may be mentioned; Wrighi
lavender Louise, Zeestraten’s Diana, Boy
ton’s pale lavender Capt. BoynTOoNn, al
Umpleby’s wee little Prim, VioLa Birp.

CORRECTION: The statement on pa
544, bottom first column, in the August G.
H. B. concerning the disposal of the Groff sto
conveys an erroneous impression. Mr. J. \
Crow did not become an agent for the Gri
material, nor did he introduce Golden Dreai
In both instances read Campbell Bros. inste
of Crow. Prof. Crow is working along his o¥
lines in breeding, utilizing any material th
seems to meet his requirements including sor.
of the Groff strains and has done much —
bring Golden Dream into notice.

[Parts I and II on “Hybridizers of the Conti
ent and Australia’ and ‘“‘Hybridizers of Easte
America’ may be found in the June and Augt
1926 1ssues.]

M7f ago with Dr. Lyman Abbott, some
i eae reference was made to antique
ea furniture, and Dr. Abbott, quite
| unusually for him, ‘‘sniffed”’ or at
ast seemed to me to “sniff.” I bridled at
ice, and | said, “! suppose you think, Doctor,
iis craze for antiques a foolish.whim, one
en of which is that some one brings down
om the garret furniture so rickety it will
ardly stand up and pockmarked with
ratches, dusts it off, puts it in the living-
om and calls it beautiful.” Dr. Abbott
aiswered, “That is just about my notion.”
Well,” said I, “did you know that the poli-
cal and social interchanges of Western

A JOINED STOOL

The “joyned” or “joint”? stool of the 17th

century looks strangely like a section of a

| bench, as if individuality was first marked by

| simply dividing a long bench into separate

stools so that men were not in a crowd but sat
each by himself

‘urope in the seventeenth and eighteenth
enturies, more especially, were reflected in the
hairs of that period?” He said “No! Give
1€ an example!” | did so and he asked, “Is
nere any book on that subject?” ‘‘No,” said
, “there are some fugitive references here
nd there, but I have been unable to find any-
yhere any study of the subject that could be
alled Systematic.” “Then why don’t you
mite about it?” Sure enough; why not?
0 here are a few notes upon what is really an
nportant historical subject, that may suggest
ome serious musings upon what to most
eople certainly seems only a fad, and a queer
ne at that.

You ask me at once, “Why select the chair
S the subject of the object lesson?” The an-
wer lsasimple one. In the first place the chair
‘nds itself to a more comprehensive treat-

THE CORONATION CHAIR OF ENG-
LAND (Scone)

The idea of a throne as substantial and im-
moveable, not to be carried hither and
thither for convenience like the modern chair

ment of a period than does any other object.
Each period has left its mark upon the furni-
ture associated with it, but it has left its marks
upon the chair in larger variety, because of
the construction of the chair itself. A chair
may illustrate its ancestry and the period of
its production by its feet, its legs, its under-
pinning, its arms, its stiles, its top and its
splat.

N THE second place, the chair has an in-
timately personal quality which is found in
no other piece of furniture; and by that, |
mean, that a chair is unique in that it may be-
come identified with an individual. A table is
plural in its suggestion; more than one person
may be associated with it. A whole company
may march past a mirror and be reflected in it.
Even a clock offers a group suggestion. But
a distinctive chair speaks naturally of one
person, with whom it has been a favorite, per-
haps one who has at least occupied it over and
over, and it speaks of one, because when a
person sits in a chair he becomes peculiarly
a part of the chair, and the chair becomes
peculiarly a part of him. The chair is “his
chair” while he occupies it.

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The Romance of Chairs

George Drew Egbert

And there is a third reason why I have
chosen the chair for an object lesson in this
little historic study and this reason grows
directly out of the last. Identified with the
individual, the chair illustrates with peculiar
vividness political and social progress. The
chair as we know it is the direct lineal descen-
dant of the throne. That astonishing chair
discovered in the tomb of King Tut and built
more than forty centuries ago, was a king’s
chair. No archaeologist. digging, in the com-
paratively recent ruins of a civilization of
even four centuries ago, has ever unearthed,
no archaeologist could ever unearth, a peas-
ant’s chair, for the peasant of the period even
as late as that, never sat in a chair; and never

OLD EGYPTIAN CHAIR

From Thebes, about 1500 B.C., legs in the
form of lion’s and originally with seat of in-
terwoven linen strings, in general ‘style remi-
niscent of King Tut’s chair mentioned above

sat in a chair, just because he was a peasant.
Society had to be revolutionized before plain
people were permitted to sit in chairs.

The idea of democracy that ‘“‘a man’s a man
for a’ that’’—more particularly that the center
of authority is not a king, born to the purple,
and born to rule his fellows, but that the right
to rule is vested by God in the people them-
selves—this idea of democracy which is a
commonplace of our time is the result of the
progress of thinking throughout centuries and
every chair used by plain people illustrates
that. progress. You, ordinary man, sit in a
chair and not on a bench because democracy
says that you area monarch. A chair is still
a throne, upon which, however, democracy
places the average man.

URTHER than this, the chair is associated
with social progress because among people
really civilized, women use chairs as freely as

he

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

do men. At the beginning of the democratic
movement, a tremendous social advance was
marked by the use of chairs by plain MEN,
but even then, women were not permitted to
sit inthem. “Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuf-
fet’; or rather, a “buffet’’; that is, Little Miss
Muffet sat onastool. The idea of sovereignty
as associated with a woman as a woman came
years after it had been generally accepted as
reasonably associated with ordinary men.
Men used chairs long before women were ex-
pected to use them because, even as late as
the seventeenth century, woman was not
considered to be of equal importance with

man. That idea has always been associated
with the Orient; we forget that it was
associated even with the Occident until

three centuries ago. When you see a chair
of the seventeenth century or the early
eighteenth century with its legs shortened,
you witness in practically every case
an illustration of this idea, now ex-
ploded.

Early chairs even at the birth of mod-
ern democracy were built for men and

TRANSITION CHAIR

This chair with Dutch under-
body and Chippendale back
marks the transition from the
Dutch period to the Chippen-
dale. The details are import-
ant—the feet, legs, underbrac-
ing, junction of stiles with top,
and the ‘‘splat’’ or central
“panel” in the back

not for women at all; simply because men
were monarchs according to the notions of
those days and women were not. So another
long step in social advance was taken when
chair-legs were ruthlessly cut off that the
seat might be near enough to the floor to
permit of a woman with her generally lesser
stature occupying it. And if this seem
astonishing, let the intelligent man ask him-
self how long it has been in America (the
very fountain-head of democracy as we
like to think it) that woman has been per-
mitted to have a voice in determining our
political destiny which is as much a woman’s
as it is that of a man. When Little Miss

Muffet left her tuffet and climbed into a chair,
and when men accepted her climbing as a
matter of course, then woman began to come

into her own.
But this should be said further; back of the

WAINSCOT CHAIR

Here the separation of individual

from individual is indicated not, as in

the joined stoo) on page 217 by sim-

ply cutting the bench into sections,

but by dividing section from section by

arms. Note the early carving, incised
rather than in relief

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democratic idea of the individual as soverei,
lay the idea of the ordinary individual as |
individual; not one of a crowd, with t
monarch or the noble alone distinctive, but
himself a separate entity. So far asmq|
recognition of plain men as plain men yw!
concerned, plain men began to think of ott}
men in the singular number.

So, naturally, the chair succeeds the |
If you sit on a bench with half a dozen ott!
people, you are simply one of a crowd. Sit |
a stool or in a chair apart from the other m:
even if only a few inches apart from him, a
you are peculiarly yourself, John Jones —
Henry Smith. Men in chairs are not es
mated in terms of quantity. The very prey.
sition we use emphasizes this truth. You.
on a bench; you sit zm a chair. You are |
yourself; you make up “the great |
of a single soul.” This idea is only anotl:
element in the great principle of demi:
racy. In the last analysis, speaking}
democratic terms man is in the singu’
number; and so whoever you are “T;:
a chair.”

NOVEMBER,

CARVER CHAIR

This chair has been restored by ex-
tending the legs to their original length.
It illustrates the ‘‘throne-like’’ appear-
ance given by height and also the
appearance of a chair before woman
was permitted to occupy it. The legs

were cut off when the author found it, |
no doubt to make it suitable for oc-
cupancy by a woman

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CENTURY-OLD WALL PLANNED BY A PRESIDENT

Surrounding the professors’ gardens at the University of Virginia,
these serpentine walls were designed more than a hundred years ago
by Thomas Jefferson. When planning the University, Jefferson con-
ceived the idea of providing each professor with a garden plot pro-
tected from student pranks by picturesque brick bastions seven feet
high; and within this friendly shelter many distinguished guests have
—during the long flow of time—foregathered, among them Dr. Basil
Gildersleeve whose eminent scholarship was commemorated by a
**Golden Jubliee’’ at Johns Hopkins University

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER NOVEMBER, 1926

Very pleasant indeed is the doorway of this Carolina house, low-lying, planned for light and air and altogether comfortable
living (see plan, general view showing full-length windows opening on terrace, and high raftered living-room opposite)

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Mr.

Home of

and Mrs. Thomas A. Kelly

at Southern Pines, North Carolina

George E. Cook, Architect

Photographs by Eddy’s Studio

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D. SHERMAN.

Ws 4 home owner to-day which casts a

Fis serious reflection on the whole na-
tion. This problem in plain words
may be labelled “Destruction caused by ma-
rauding and thieving automobilists.”’ The
forms of this destruction are many, one of the
most serious being the forest fires caused by
carelessly thrown cigarettes and matches or
unbanked camp-fires.

A forest fire not only destroys thousands
of feet of valuable timber and shrubs and
vines, but kills the animals, dries up springs
and streams, killing fish and destroying their
breeding places. It takes but a few moments
to cover carefully a camp-fire, yet how many
do it? Another form of destruction is the
ruthless gathering of flowers and Christmas
greens in such wholesale fashion that trees are
broken, plants uprooted, shrubs torn up to
such an extent that many of them are dis-
appearing entirely from our woods and trails.
Perhaps the most annoying and by far the
most unpardonable thievery is that of the
city autoists who boldly enter orchards and
gardens to steal fruit and vegetables and even
to uproot and carry away flowers from the
dooryards! A New York paper in a recent
editorial writes pointedly of these ‘‘motoring
pilferers.”

“Suburban and rural dwellers on the bor-
ders of the metropolitan zone may profit from
the examples reported from various -up-state
places of successful dealing with marauding
and thieving automobilists. A farm bureau
vigilance service is doing good work, not alone
in putting up signs of warning against tres-

passing but also in securing the conviction:

and punishment of destructive and thieving
trespassers. The evil in question is a serious
one along all motor roads where the automo-
bile is used as an aid to petty pilfering and
vandalism. It is a daily and, on Sundays,
an hourly occurrence for lawns and yards to
be invaded and flowers snatched up and
shrubbery broken; for gardens to be raided
and vegetables and fruit stolen, often with the
breaking of branches of trees; and even for
flocks of poultry to be despoiled of their most
likely looking members. Such acts are some-
times done before the eyes of the outraged
owners, the pilferers trusting to the speed of
their cars for a safe get-away. As to the cases
of defiling of private grounds and roadsides
with the scraps and litter of luncheons and

Honorary Vice-Prestdents:

The National Garden Association

Formed to promote the annual observance of National Garden Week

LEONARD BARRON, F.R.H.S., President

J. Horace McFarvanp, Mrs. Francis Kinc, Mrs. RusseLt Tyson, Mrs.
Tuomas G. WINTER, Mrs. SAMUEL SLOAN, Mr. FREDERICK Newso pb, Mr. Rosert Pye, Mrs. JOHN

Cobperating Societies: SocleTY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HorTICULTURISTS; NATIONAL
PLANT, FLOWER AND FRuIT GUILD; AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY; AMERICAN IRIS SocIETY; ONTARIO HortTI-
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION; WOMEN’S NATIONAL FARM AND GARDEN
ASSOCIATION; WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION SociETY; NATIONAL HorTICULTURAL SOCIETY; THE AGASSIZ
ASSOCIATION; THE SCHOOL NATURE LEAGUE; SOCIETY OF LITTLE GARDENS.

other offensive stuff, they are too numerous
to mention.

“Such practices are chiefly indulged in, no
doubt, by ‘joyriders’ from the cities who seem
to leave behind them whatever appreciation of
property rights they have ever possessed.
They are obviously difficult to deal with ef-
fectively, yet they must be suppressed if rural
and suburban life is not to lose much of its
charm and satisfaction. It is not to be ex-
pected that rural roads will be sufficiently
policed to give adequate protection, but per-
haps such an organization as the vigilance
service can make such examples of a few con-
victed culprits as will materially discourage
others.”

Far from over-stating the situation, this
editorial actually under-states it. In West-
chester County, New York, the farmers have
found it necessary to form vigilance com-
mittees to take care of this ever-increasing
problem. These men have organized a Pro-
tective Association to war on motorists from
the city who invade their property and steal
fruit and vegetables. The organization is
patterned after the Anti-Horse-Thief Vigilance
Committee organized in this county years
ago, and prosecution of all offenders when
caught is to be prompt and the punishment as
severe as possible.

It seems all but incredible that in this age
and day we have to protect our property with
vigilance committees! The worst of the
matter is that the culprits are, in many cases,
men and women of standing in their own
communities, yet, who, on driving into the
country unconsciously feel a sense of superior-
ity and that all in sight is theirs by right of
divine assumption.

A “No Trespassing” sign means nothing
to such people who tear down fences so that
they may drive into fields and woods, build
fires near cornfields where they steal the corn
for roasting, and make camps wherever they
choose without seeking permission. The
farmers if banded together, can protect them-
selves and from the number of protective
associations being formed, it is evident that
they intend to instil a wholesome respect
for the rights of others in the minds of these
touring lawbreakers.

The establishment of tourists’ camps. all
over the country has aided greatly in decreas-
ing the number of forest fires, while the work
of various societies in spreading information
as to the necessity of conservation and preser-

vation of wild flowers and shrubs is doing muc
to save the natural beauty of the countrysid
In every way possible, garden clubs all ow
the country are aiding in this work, leaving r
avenue untouched whereby they may reach a
classes with their valuable propaganda.

N INSTANCE of what such clubs a

doing is the library campaign of tl
North Shore Garden Club of Long Islar
which is collecting the best available natu
books, making from them traveling natu
libraries of 15 books each. These librari
are graded collections appealing to differei
ages, beginning with the linen books for vei
small children and ranging up to those d
sired by high school pupils. Each library
packed in a steel box, fireproof and weathe
proof, and is moved from school to school t
members of the club. Each library contai)
different books and after a school has used o1
library fer a month, it is passed on to anoth
school. At least the club tries to pass it o
but so great is the interest of the children
these books that it is difficult to get them ba
into their cases for packing. There has be
such demand for these libraries that this ch
is now concentrating on supplying more
them. The Garden Club of America,
which the above club is a member, is nc
trying to have this plan adopted by all
their member clubs.

As each library costs but approximate
$25 to complete, this is a plan that will co1
mend itself to garden clubs everywhere, f{
it is through the children that this realizati
of the need of caring for Nature’s beauti
will come. If we can but train the childr |
of this generation to appreciate and care 1)
their wonderful heritage, there will be
need of vigilance committees in the years
come. And it is quite possible that the
children may even bring home to the ¢
structive grown-ups of to-day the lessons |
fair play and decency.

All requests for ‘“The Annuals and Pere’
nials of Florida” (mentioned in our Septei:
ber issue) should be sent to Mrs. Charles
Thompson, 1704 Pearl Street, Jacksonvil |
Florida, the address given in the Septemt’
number having been sent us in error.

For free constitutions, programs, and b>
laws for Garden Clubs, address the Natior!
Garden Association, Garden City, N. Y.

ELLEN D. WANGNER, Secreta’

Three Travel Stories of Tulipland Showing Canals and Castles, Bulb Fields and Gardens, Windmills and Other Pictu.
esque Features. Films of Special Interest to Gardeners and Available for Clubs or Individual Groups upon A pplicatio

FIFTH ANNUAL NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK, APRIL 17th-24th, 1927

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Typical of how the Dwarf Box stands in many an oldtime garden where it has been left pretty much

to itself and become ‘‘the living antique.”’

This is St. George’s Rectory, Hempstead, N. Y.

Boxwood—The Living Antique

HETHER the quarantine which a
few years ago shut our port doors to
the tremendous European importa-
tion of “perfect specimen” Box

| plant, or whether the craze for

atiques and their attendant charms have
reated a shortage with a phenomenal demand
yw this aristocrat of our grandmother’s
arden, may be an unanswerable question.
ut this fact remains that Boxwood reigns the
ncontended king of the evergreen shrub
ingdom with prices on his head ranging from

Wenty-five to seven hundred dollars for a
awless specimen.

And why not? In our antique shops we are
sked to pay according to the age of the
lece We select and if we consider that ex-
rbitant, we usually buy a splendid reproduc-

‘on at half the price. But with a Boxwood,

0 fake dealer dares deceive you with a tricky
ge since the proportions of the plant usually
etermine this and we cannot satisfy ourselves
nth a cheaper reproduction, unless we choose
9 wait a hundred years and have one grow.
American industry daily turns out her new
ullionaires, each, one is led to believe, with
he avowed intent to develop a more beautiful

Linda Clement Hines

The Greatest Gem of Our
Gardens of the South which

Is Being Sought Persistently
for Other Sections

estate than the former. It is a righteous
spirit of rivalry which we who are ambitious
for a ‘Beautiful America” believe should be
encouraged. Remember when you are called
upon to admire one of these exquisite architec-
tural ‘‘lay outs” that you are not to look here
and there for a rare bit of statuary as in other
years but for a lordly Box, fifteen or eighteen
feet high and with a circumference in perfect
proportion to its height, that adorns the set-
ting just as much as, and perhaps more than,
brass and stone and rare carving. Be assured,
its priceful beauty took from its present
owner’s pocket the equivalent of a sculptor’s
feck

And what of this antique’s history? Is it
typically American? Well, not by birth, but
by acclimation and established residence,

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yes. It is a native of England, southern
Europe and parts of Asia. It is, in truth,
almost as old as civilization itself if we believe
in the records preserved. We are told as far
back as the times of Pliny the wood thereof
was used to make flutes and other wind in-
struments. Most of us have often heard it
referred to as English Box. This may have
been because it was formerly so extensively
grown in England, having even given name to
such localities as Boxhill in Surrey and Boxley
in Kent.

Our early English settlers, we are reminded,
brought it to America and used it extensively
about their places as confines for flower beds,
borders for walks, shrub enclosures for gar-
dens, etc. Many of the big estates-of the
early American gentry from Philadelphia,
southward to Washington, through Virginia,
North and South Carolina, and, even to
Georgia record the early American era of the
Box and its mute testimony, enduring as stone
itself, declares there was time and money and
refinement to spare, in these old families of the
old aristocracy who chose to express their
artistic temperaments in their garden designs.

Even George Washington, with his en-

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gineering knowledge set to origination and
design, built a garden at Mt. Vernon, a model
of its style, with Box bordered paths, beds,
driveways, etc., that to this day, in perfect
preservation, is the marvel and admiration of
landscape architects the country o’er.

Probably in no one section of the country
were there heavier plantings in those earlier
days than in what is now known as the
Piedmont or Lower Mountain Section of
North Carolina. Lawns boasting twenty and
thirty specimens of one hundred and one
hundred and fifty year old Box, were not un-
common a year or two back before nursery-
men hearing of the veritable gold mines had
sent collectors southward where the unsus-
pecting owners sacrificed these treasures for
a song.

There remain here and there in this region
plantings that are yet intact. There is a
story of the farm home belonging years back
to one of the old families whose children
disposed of it in the days before land values
began to climb. The grounds about the old
residence boasted of a hundred mammoth

Tree Box growing at Mt. Vernon:
this plant has a height of about 12 ft.

Boxwood, absolutely perfect specimens of the
antique, worth probably in round figures
$20,000 or more. Of course, the collectors
heard of it, and, of course, they turned heaven
and earth, but not the value in dollars, to
persuade this every-day farmer to sell. But he
remained adamant. Whether he had a canny
suspicion that the bargain hunters were not
offering him the value of his shrubs, or he had
been warned by someone cognizant of their
worth, or whether he inwardly boasted a
pride of ownership in the possession of the
most wonderful collection in the state, which
restrained him from selling, no one knows.
Maybe he is one of the boastful sort, advertis-
ing his luck and sagacity thus: “Well, back
yonder ten years ago, I bought this farm for
$2,000; to-day, I could get $20,000 for my Box
and [| will get it before anybody takes them
away from me.”

In the sleepy little Carolina town in which
I was born the wheels of industry ceased to

inant feature.

whir when Stoneman’s Raiders
burned there one of the first cotton
mills of the South. Its stagnated
ambition, buried in the ashes of
its humiliation and devastation,
never once in the ensuing years
has lifted its head. The town re-
mained as the Civil War left it,
only the Boxwoods grew bigger
and greener, the houses older and
shabbier, with their drawn blinds
hinting of the treasures of rare
old furniture. This made tourists
curious and sent one _ collector
there to make his home and ply
his trade.

In this quaint place, to-day,
after one vear in the antiqua-
rians’ hands almost all the Box-

WASHINGTON’S GARDEN AT MT. VERNON

s
The Dwarf Box edging has considerably overgrown its original purpose and itself become the dom-
Incidentally, the tall shrub in the center was planted by the Marquis de Lafayette

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wood landmarks are gone; for carload aft:
carload of the beautiful specimens has bee
shipped away! One no longer feels that tl
little place is placarded all over with the char
of its aristocratic past. The most strikir
ear-mark of the old gentility is a record.
past history. It was the rare Box that s
it apart as belonging to another age ar
generation.

The small thick leaves of the Boxwood, ov:
leathery, deep green, thickly set up and doy
each sprig, the splendid contour of natural
grown bushes, the formal and no less artist
shapes to which it may be trimmed and traine
all make it a shrub to be desired.

The Boxwood possesses all the requisit
named by those who demand everything in
shrub. First: It is truly an evergreen, t!

(Continued on page 242)

As in so many old

gardens, so here at

Mr. Sam Barron’s,

Round Oak, Ga., the

Box takes on a char-

acteristic dignity all
its own

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Color Harmony With Tulips

Companion Varieties That Bloom Together and Their Association with Other Spring Flowers

Ethel Anson S. Peckham

HEN planning combinations of Tu-
lips with other flowers it is well to
remember that the early varieties
bloom about the same gia as the

Tulips with Wisterias, the commoner rock-
bafen plants and the Intermediate Irises;
while later Tulips come with the late Inter-
mediate Irises and the earliest of the Tall
Bearded Irises. There are not many varieties
bf Tulips so late as this, and it 1s really dan-
pemts to suggest anycombinations of flowering
plants because our changeable seasons and
incertain springs so often upset our plans.
A safe rule is to stick to pale colors. Avoid
red and use a great deal of blue-mauve to
pull things together. In the case of Tulips,
Phlox divaricata canadensis is ideal for this
yurpose and a generous use of it in the spring
rarden will never be regretted.

Tulips always look well as a foreground to
lowering shrubs. The pinks, lavenders, and
purples are splendid with Lilacs, especially
he new double French varieties. The pale
yellow Tulips are also excellent with mauve
ind white Lilacs and Wisterias, the red Tulips
ire gorgeous with a background of ever-
sreens or young foliage of any sort. Deep
yurple and blue-mauve late Tulips blend well
vith hardy Azaleas such as amoena or ledi-

Photograph by Harry G. Healy

folia, and a vivid pink Tulip such as Nauticas
is charming with Azalea commonly known as
indica alba.

There are many lavender and mauve Tu-
lips, some on the pink side, some on the blue.
Reverend Ewbank is a slatey gray-lavender;
La Tristesse a gray-lavender but of a more
blue shade. Reverend Ewbank, being short,
is extremely useful for foreground work and,
being a neutral tint, is invaluable for toning
down daring combinations. The bright
purple Iris Germanica makes a pleasing back-
ground for this Tulip. Remember that all
the pinks look well with Myosotis, provided
you use only one sort of pink at a time! All
the pale yellows will go also with Forget-me-
nots provided the pinks are not too close by.

Two items should be studied if Tulips are
to be successfully used in color schemes.
Some varieties open one color and after a day
or two of sun, change to something entirely
different. This is particularly true of some
of the yellows, an example of which is Ingles-
combe Yellow which begins a clear yellow,
then develops a tiny red edge and gradually
flushes red until its final effect is more orange
than yellow. Then there are whites which
turn pink andsometimes not a pretty pinkat all.
Other Tulips again are markedly different in-
side from out, and the bases are conspicuous.

When a flower opens and shows a marked
base it may throw out of balance your whole
effect or again it may enhance it. Sir Harry,
a pink Tulip with glorious blue base, is far
more valuable after it reaches the really
open stage; Dream, a lavender with blue
center is always better when this feature has
been considered. Amber Crown and Pala-
din each rejoice in an exquisite green base
that makes distinctive any group of plants
among which they are placed. Sir Harry
is particularly delightful below a Bechtel
Flowering Crab, witha white Wisteria nearby
and white Violets at the feet of the Tulips;
or again, with French Lilacs and Phlox
Divaricata.

There are many tall gray-lavenders and
shades impossible to describe. Ridgway,
in his “Color Standards and Nomenclature”
uses the word “vinaceous” which expresses
one effect well as any word can. Turenne is
one of these varieties and has just enough
bronzy “bloom” to make it blend with any
of the yellows. Wedding Veil and Flava are
a good combination with Turenne if you add
the Phlox to break the long lines. If you have
a Copper Beech tree, try Iris Fritjof, Tulips
Bronze Queen and Moonlight with M yosotis
in front of it; or this same group in connection

(Continued on page 260)

Naturalistic planting of Tulips with a background of Wisteria and Japanese Maple, at the home of Mr. Rodman Wanamaker, Jenkintown, Pa.
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old Prince hy»
stead, Linn ;
Botanic Gar
at Flushing, ] /

America’s First Real Garden
John W. Harshberger

HE Linnaean Botanic Garden was
established in Flushing, Long Island,
about the middle of the eighteenth
century by William Prince. There
were four generations of Princes
who were interested in plants, as nursery-

Oldest Cedar of Lebanon in the

United States (now dead 1921);

and, at right, a close up view of
the Prince house

men. Robert Prince, the
first of the line, was a Hugue-
not emigré, who settled at
New Rochelle on the north
shore of Long Island Sound.
He brought a great number
of French fruits with him and
the love of the French for
horticulture. The nursery
established before the Revo-
lutionary War was considered
of enough public importance
for the British to set a guard
to prevent its depredation,
and the story is that a daugh-

ter of the house gave her heart to the major
in command of the British troops and was
married to him after the treaty of peace had
been signed. The old house associated with
the labors of the originator of the business was
torn down when the railroad was constructed.
In 1826 the present property with its house at
Flushing was purchased for Robert Prince,
who had married the charming daughter of
Governor Collins of Rhode Island, who as
owner of a coffee plantation in Cuba visited
the African and Asiatic greenhouse of the
Linnaean Botanic Garden to interest his
daughter in the coffee plant. Here she met
the son of William Prince, William Robert
Prince, the founder of the garden.

It is a delightful old house to which the
bridegroom brought his bride. Standing on
the main street and in the busiest part of
Flushing, it is in a good state of preservation
with all of its original charm. The wide
porch on three sides of the house is a suitable

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place to sit for a general view of the |
garden, which is still attractive, althoug 1
doubt shorn of some of its original beaut »
the death of some of the planted trees anc hi
encroachment of the streets with trey
telegraph poles and wires, with too \

One of the two Ginkgo tr¢
growing on the old Prin
place (see text page 262

proximity to the ma!
turing parts of the city. !
wide weather board:
railed Captain’s walk (a 4!
tucket term for a 1
around the flat top of a
add dignity to the hou
The library occupie ¢!
northwest room of th ©
house. Here area num’!
interesting pieces of furr U"
One is a Spanish blac 0
casket dating back t th
time of Ferdinanc®

(Continued on page 262)

Making the Wrong Furniture Fit

PON the arrival of
the long anticipated
day when we could
move our goods and
chattels from their
eiporary home in a city
prtment, to our house of

rms in the country, I sud-

dy realized with a shock
ht furniture that had looked
i| in the dignified setting of
rgeconventional “ just-like-

\rybody-else’s”’ apartment,

ened completely wrong in

i charming old Colonial

(se, with a distinct person-
ly that had to be considered.
’erched up on a hill, over-

xing a gorgeous view of

(thern Long Island with

lapses of blue Sound in the

tance, the little low house

i withstood the storms of a

ndred winters. The Wisteria

‘e that hung in great purple
|sters over the old-fashioned

orway, the little old garden

| of perennials that had re-
ined year after year for no
ie knows how long, the
aint low-ceilinged rooms
(i the unexpected steps-up
steps-down that you found
you went from one to an-
er, told a story of sturdy
ength in the beginning and
r after year of love and
fe. Our three-piece uphol-
jred living room “set”’ was
out of place in this living
pm as my treasured georg-
€ curtains were at the low
dow in the bedroom up-
ts. I realized that | must discard many

‘my furnishings and what we did have to

p would need change and study before

2y fitted into the spirit of their new sur-

indings.

Our budget allowed two hundred dollars
* the living-room, and a hundred and fifty
- the dining-room, and because I believe
any people are faced by the same problem
adjustment, I am going to tell you how that
oney was spent.

The chief difficulty was color. Our city
‘artment had been formal and dark, the
miture was covered in a silk brocade that

1S now worn and faded. The large living-

om rug was taupe Axminster, and because
> could not discard this we had it scrubbed

id cut down a little to fit the smaller room.

his necessary element in our room decided

Ir color plan, for since we had to use it, we
ult the rest of the room around it. It was

Ipossible to make the furniture truly

Olonial, for that would have meant buying

'many new pieces, that the cost would have

*€n Out of the question. So we compromised

—

A. Louise Fillebrown

Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt

A small Colonial house in the suburbs demands a very different
kind of furniture from that suitable for a city apartment

on making our living-room consistent in color;
that is, gay, rather light and decidedly in-
formal, and using instead of rich heavy ma-
terials, chintz and linen, theatrical scrim, and
even sateen.

As a nucleus around which to work we had
a davenport and two large upholstered chairs
that, as I said, needed recovering, the large
plain gray rug, two wicker chairs from my
breakfast room in the old apartment that
demanded fresh paint and new cushion covers,
a mahogany floor lamp, four cushions, a radio
in a walnut cabinet, large wall mirror with
walnut frame, and two color prints in wide oak
frames. They were anything but the gay
colorful cottage type of furniture but after all
they were sturdy and useful and with the
help of paint and slip covers we changed their
character completely.

Starting with our rug as | said, the color
scheme for the living-room was based on its
warm gray. This was consistent with the
white exterior of the house, and the summery
cool feeling that a country house seems to
want even in winter. We turned our atten-

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tion to the walls and floors
first. The boards of the floor
were painted dark grayish
brown, over them we spread
the rug. On the walls we used
a very colorful wallpaper but
one that had the same gray as
abackground. The design was
a spreading floral pattern
showing burnt orange and yel-
low flowers, green leaves and
darker brown vinelike stems.
There was a saucy bird perched
on the branch whose plumage
also was bright orange. After
this was hung we glazed it, so
that the colors were slightly
softened and the wall surface
made very practical. Glazed
walls may be washed down with
soap and water and will last
indefinitely.

The white woodwork was
rather incongruous with this
colorful paper and, loving
color, we felt that soft green
woodwork would be more pleas-
ing with the general scheme.
We also used the same color
on the wicker furniture, floor
lamp and mirror frame. The
other furniture we covered
with green in the form of sateen
slip covers and to make them
gay and a little more decora-
tive we had the seams bound
with orange like the flowers in
the wallpaper. Plain colored
curtains seemed a little over-
powering, and the room did not
need more design so a striped
canyvaslike material in green
and burnt orange with a tiny
line of black was used at the windows with a
narrow valance of the same stripe running
across the window at the top instead of up
and down. For under draperies thin theatri-
cal scrim was perfect. It is very inexpensive,
and the natural linen color is serviceable as
well as pleasing. These had orange wool
couched on the hems with black. Seat
cushions for the wicker chairs, pillows and
small table covers were made of coarse natural
colored linen crash trimmed with the stripe
of the window curtains.

The only new furniture we bought was a
gateleg table (our new dining-room had taken
the table that had heretofore served two
purposes) and an iron bridge lamp with a
pleated chintz shade. The side brackets in
the room were simple and attractive and |
made tiny parchment paper shields for them
tinted gold and bound with black braid around
the edges. We bought a parchment shade for
the table lamp, in a dull gold color with bands
of orange and black at top and bottom, but
for the floor lamp I made one myself of which
] was rather proud. Figured silk was stretched

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Slip covers of green sateen bound with orange glazed chintz
covered worn upholstery material of the davenport and chairs

over a wire frame and treated with two coats
of white shellac to glaze it, over this I stretched
one thickness of the theatrical scrim and
bound the edges with a narrow green braid.
In the daytime it was very inconspicuous but
at night the light brought out the gay design
and cast a warm amber glow.

Altogether the room was full of cheery
color and design—the inharmonious features
had been concealed either by material or
paint, and the soft gray background held it
all together and kept it cool and pleasing.
After careful figuring we found that we had
practically kept within our budget as you will
see by studying the accompanying lists.
Furnishings ready to work with:

Davenport in need of recovering, also two upholstered chairs to
match

Two wicker chairs, natural color

Large taupe Axminster rug, dirty and discolored

Mahogany floor lamp

Four pillows

A wallpaper with a spreading floral design in
orange, green and blue on a light taupe ground
gave the room the design interest that it needed

Walnut radio
Walnut mirror ;
Two color prints with oak frames

Expenditures
Twelve rolls of paper for

panels @ $1.00 a roll.... $ 12.00
Elan eincaencn teen 12.00
Varnish for antiquing ..... 6.00
Light green paint for wood-

WOLK ite eee eee 6.00
iwoelbrushesi ssn eee 1.50

Green sateen slip covers for
davenport and two chairs
bound with orange glazed
chintz—25 yards of sateen

(ORT wie eee & ooo bce 16.25
Binding material......., 3 4.36
Labor of making slip cover

fOVidavienDonieen eee ae 20.00
Slip covers for two chairs

SI2:00 7 eee 24.00
Paint for wicker chairs, lamp

and small table......... 1.30
Theatrical scrim curtains for

French doors and two win-

dows, wool couching on

hems—2o yards scrim @

PAT Ber crate ohn Sh Ar eRe 5.00
Two balls of wool........ 1.30
Material for striped sunfast

over curtains and chair

cushions — 12 yards @

Dils5 One Wate eee 18.00

Italian pottery dish to go on
top of radio cabinet—two
candlesticks to match, and
candles: 2 Uecker eee 3.75
Paint for picture frames—
gilt rubbed in with green

Oll/coloria-peere eee 1.35
Scouring Tues eee ee 16.00
Iron bridge lamp and pleated chintz shade......... 7-50
Shellacked silk lamp shade for floor lamp covered with
theatrical gauze—materials only...............- 3.25
Parchment shade with bands of color for table lamp 12.00
Gateleg tatile in walnut finishes en aoe anne 30.00
$201.56

The problem in the dining-room was simpler
in that we could use our old dining-room
furniture just as it was, and we had good
china and silver. Our hundred and _ fifty
dollars therefore could be spent entirely for
decorating, so the object of all our plans and
the time we spent shopping and figuring was
to get the best possible effect for our money.
The dining-room was one of the numerous
small additions built onto the old house. It
was a tiny room and the floor was six inches
lower than that of the living room opening
into it. The wood instead of being the
delightful wide solid boards like the rest of the
house was a new badly matched flooring. To
cover this seemed the first necessity, so we
decided that a block patterned linoleum in
cream and black should be laid first of all.

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Several windows stretched across one side >
the room, and the low ceiling was only 73
high, so when two necessary doors hi
further broken into the wall the little TO
seemed all openings. In order to add un,
we decided to paper both walls and ceil;
alike. A wallpaper with a rather open des j
showing light background through a spread;
pattern also seems to add space, so a delic.
trailing vine in green on a cream ground y;
a perfect selection for our purpose. )s
spread canvas over the. door surfaces ;}
papered them also. You would hardly not:
where they came, and the whole room SUggE 5
a leafy bower, cool and lovely yet not
obtrusive. The woodwork, being wh,
needed only one coat of cream paint to m;:
it the same color as the background color
the walls, and we already had side bracks
of simple design in black iron to light ¢
room so we could do without the obvis
ceiling fixture that would have called -
tention to the too low ceiling.

The mahogany dining-room furniture \s

We had simple mahogany furniture, and glass, china and silver, asa
start for the dining room. All the decorations, however, had to be new

simple of line, so we felt we could add s1¢
color in the window draperies. Plain ye W
voile made charming sunny under curtains, i!
in the over curtains we used glazed chintz 4
smart yet small flower pattern in yellow \d
green, of course, but also lavender and t &.
The note of deep lavender was repeated 4
square of Axminster carpet in a darker sh &
and the small georgette shades on the i
brackets were yellow like the curtains.
My cost lists show that we went a little: er
our appropriation on the dining-room |
chases, but considering that we had to buy ‘=
pet and linoleum this deficit was not larg

Furnishings ready lo work with:

Mahogany table, six chairs and serving table
China, glass and silver

Expenditure:

13 square yards of linoleum laid .......... see

Axminster carpet 8 x 9 . 2. 22/55) eee
12 rolls of paper @85¢...... ose estes eee eee

Hanging and canvas stretched over doors ........-- ’
Cream paint for woodwork 2... 4... os se een ie:
14 yards of yellow voile for curtains @ 50¢ a yard... ee
9 yards of glazed chintz for over curtains @ $1.50... Be
12 silk candle shades @ $2:00..)...- ye even ea ee

$:).50

New Orleans

Semi-tropical effects with Palms, Oaks, Camphor, Cinnamon and other luxuriant
trees and shrubs in the garden of Colonel G. McC. Derby, New Orleans, La.

A Semi-Tropical Garden in

Where Exotic and Exceptional Plants of the World Are Given a Trial for the Local Climate

a O ONE ever passes along Carrollton
Avenue in New Orleans without
noticing and wondering about the
“House of Seven Gables,” as it is
f nicknamed in the neighborhood.
iewing it from the street, one cannot be sure
bw many gables it has, for huge Oak trees
factically hide it from one view, and tall Palms
om another; and a dense growth of Camphor,
ulberry, Magnolia, Crepemyrtle and other
ees and shrubs form a screen on the other
‘de; but gables it surely has, for they peep
rough the branches of the overshadowing
laks and are all that can be seen between the
Wering Palms.

This garden of enchantment with the pic-
iresque house that has two gables toward the
ont gate is the home of Colonel George
cC. Derby, a retired army officer and a
rmer engineer of the Mississippi River Com-
ission.

When Colonel Derby acquired this place
/emty-four years ago, its spacious grounds
“re already dominated by a group of magni-
ent moss-hung Live Oaks. Taking these

Mary H. Nelson

as the central feature of his landscape plan, he
determined to have a semi-tropical garden,
planting only such species as would harmonize
with this background of green and gray, and
would flourish in the deep shade these great
trees cast, and emphasize the feeling of vast-
ness which they give.

To this end he planted Palms, Bamboos,
Bananas and other tall-growing tropical
plants; vines, Ferns, and Lilies of all sorts;
and many shrubs and smaller trees that have
made a veritable forest in miniature.

Standing at the gate, the walk bordered with
tall flowering annuals and perennials invites
one to come in, and potted Azaleas at the
doorstep beckon the visitor forward; but in-
stinctively one stops to take in the whole
view—the front of the house covered with
Creeping Ficus and Yellow Bignonia running
even higher than the Ficus, to cover the very
peak of the gables. The Palms that stand
sentinel along this walk, taller than the house,
have also been claimed by the vines—Big-
nonia hybrida with its orange-colored flowers
carried high up the trunk of two Washing-

PBI

tonia robusta Palms. Another pair of these
Palms have the Queen’s Necklace (Antigo-
num leptopus), claiming their help to carry
skyward its gorgeous streamers of rose-color.

Rare and brilliant plants grow in the beds
along this walk: Azaleas, the Creole Lily
(Lilium harrisii) various hybrid Amaryllis
or Hippeastrums; the Hemerocallis dumor-
tieri and D. thunbergi; Gladiolus and Iris of
many varieties.

Asked once why he chose New Orleans for
a home, when he retired—when he might have
chosen any other spot in the world—Colonel
Derby replied: “Well, if you live in New
Orleans a year you are sure to meet some lov-
able people whom you will miss when you’ go
away; and if you stick your umbrella in the
ground, in your back yard to-night, it will be
in full bloom by day after to-morrow!” It
was he, who, with his friend Mr. Clarence F.
Low, one of the founders of the New Orleans
Garden Society, formed another organization
—unique, I am sure, for it consisted of these
two members only—the “New Orleans Accli-
matization Society.” Its object was to try

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out many different kinds of plants from all
parts of the world, with a view to finding new
species adapted to the climate of New Or-
leans. For this purpose they acquired a large
tract of land on the outskirts of the city, on
Gentilly Road, and planted large numbers of
shrubs, trees, and vines from such far lands as
Australia, Japan, China, and India.

The opening of the World War, which took
away their gardeners and eventually drew
Col. Derby back into service with the Mis-
sissippi River Commission, stopped this un-
usual experiment; but some of the odd and
beautiful plants they set out on Myrtle Lane
still survive.

Long before that, Colonel Derby had begun
to try out various exotic plants at his Carroll-
ton Avenue home which occupied nearly a
whole block. He tried many kinds of Palms,
and at one time had twenty-six different sorts.
He now has Sabal palmetto, Sabal umbracu-
lifera, Phoenix canariensis, Phoenix sylves-
tris, Phoenix reclinata, Phoenix dactylifera,
Phoenix roebelini; Washing-
tonia robusta; Chaemerops
humilis, Chaemerops graci-
lis; Acroconia totai; Latania
borbonica; Cocos plumosa,
Cocos bonnotti, Cocos aus-
tralis.

He also experimented ex-
tensively with Bamboos,
including metake, the
Japanese Arrow Bamboo;
Phyllostachys nigra, from
China and has black stems
that will take a fine polish
and is used for ornamental
purposes; Tiasan Chiku
(Dendrocalamus latifolius),
Arundinaria spinosa and
Arundinaria striata, Bam-
busa vulgaris, Bambusa
aurea striata, Bambusa fas-
tuosa, and many others.

The Colonel believes that
with the richest of soils of
unlimited depth; with 65
inches of rainfall annually,

NOVEMBER, 192{)

yet with sunshine practically every day of tl]
year, New Orleans could easily out-tropic fl
tropics in luxuriant and interesting vegetatic
and thereby add greatly to the charm of th.
fascinating old city.

Now he is trying out the seventeen differe)_
kinds of Hemerocallis. Several of these |
has had for some time, and finding that thi
would bloom in his shady garden, whe)
Roses and many other lovely plants refusi|
to do well, he has turned to these Yelle’
Day-lilies he has around the beds of Fer|
which do duty for grass under the majest|
Oaks. They give continuous golden spots |
color to this portion of his garden from ear|
March.

There is another side of the house which |
not lorded over by the Live Oaks, and the’
one will find Camphor, Mulberry, Magnol |
Hackberry, Fig, Loquat, Bananas, as well |
many smaller shrubs, such as the Nigl,
blooming Jasmine (Cestrum nocturnun
Oleander, Aralia papyrifera.

Over by the Oaks is a beautiful Arauca)
tree, and in the front of the house a Cinnam
tree, which is similar to its relative the Ca’
phor, richer in color, but not so hardy. The,
too, is a Bread-fruit tree (Manihot). Swé
Olive grows near the house—one smells
fragrance in passing; and, of course, in tl
shady side of the yard are Elephant’s e&
and other Caladiums, Hydrangeas, and 1)
Shell-plant (Alpinia nutans); and the Bz:
hinia, which goes to sleep at night!

The Oaks and Palms both invite birds )
stop on their migratory voyage, so Colo!!
Derby has a huge bowl of water and seve!
dishes of corn ready at all times for th’
feathered visitors; and as a result the Purp-
winged Blackbirds, or Grackle, have stopr |
to spend several months with him on th’
way North. They usually nest in Cana',
but this flock stop to nest in the Pal}
where board is free, raise a brood of you’;
and as soon as the babies can fly, they té’
the whole family up North for the summer.

A Cardinal built in a Cocos Palm, j!

(Continued on page 242)

THREE VIEWS

OF COLONEL

DERBY’S GAR-
DEN

Above, the walk
bordered with flow-
ering annuals and
perennials; at left,
Bamboo, Chinese
Rice-Paper plant
and Palms; and,
below, Ferns
planted in place of
grass under the
heavy shade of the
ancient Live Oaks

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John Wallace Gillies, Photo.
' Mr. Waldo Sheldon’s house at South Norwalk, Connecticut, designed by Frank J. Forster, Architect

The Care of Old Pieces |

man whose hobby in life is old fur-
niture. Perhaps | ought not to say
“hobby” for her love of old things
was more sincere than that word
implies. Neither would | call her a “collec-
tor.” She had no desire to bask in the re-
flected glory of silver luster in mass formation
or to possess things whose only excuse for ex-
istence is the fact that they are rare. Her
ambition was much simpler than that. All
she wanted was a reposeful and beautiful
home, and because she believes that old
pieces that have been soothed by the touch
of time possess a certain gentle dignity not
to be found in new pieces she has been quietly
picking them up for years. But every piece
that she bought had first to satisfy two re-
quirements: it must be beautiful and it must
be useful. A piece that was ugly, no matter
how old or rare, had no place in her home, and
as her house was small she had no place for
superfluous objects, although their loveliness
might make her yearn to keep them. This
unusual good judgment and self-control in
weeding out and keeping only those things
that could be put to good use had resulted in
a house of exceptional charm of which |
had more than once heard the most glowing
descriptions so that when she asked me to
come for tea the next day to see her things
I accepted with enthusiasm.

It was a crisp fall day when I made my way
to the tiny red brick house just off lower
Fifth Avenue. As I went up the steps and
thumped the shining brass knocker on the
white six-paneled door, with the charming fan-
light above it, my heart was beating with
pleasurable anticipation. I felt that here
was a treat in store, and, sure enough, when
the door was opened my heart began to sing.

Some day | am going to describe that house
in detail—every inch and object in it, but just
now we are dealing with another angle of the
adventure. We must pass over the tea in
front of the fire, with the light dancing on the
pierced brass fender, on the priceless old silver
tea-pot and delicate Lowestoft cups. There
was no other light in the room except the glim-
mer of candles in lovely crystal candlesticks.
The curtains were drawn, and, as my greedy
eyes glimpsed here and there over my tea-cup,
it seemed to me that here was a room beyond
all dreaming, sweet! A lovely room, dignified
and simple, where all things worked together
for good. It was only when tea was over and
we began to examine the pieces more closely
that I found the insidious flaw that had es-
caped my eyes in the dim light. My heart
sank. The same old thing that I had seen
sO many, many times before in the homes of
people who really and honestly love old furni-
ture, who seek diligently until they find it,
and then, like the woman with the ten pieces
of silver, neglect it while they look for the
piece that has escaped.

That lovely furniture was in pitiful condition.
Its joints were dry, it lacked luster, myriads
of tiny cracks like wrinkles on an old face

Sarah M. Lockwood

Author of “Antiques”

Photographs by Thomas E. Marr & Son, Hughes Co.

covered its surface, bits of veneer were pop-
ping out or hanging on by the skin of their
teeth, drawers wouldn’t close. It was heart-
breaking, really, to see the struggle that com-
pany of old soldiers was making to appear
beautiful and unconcerned while the life was
slowly draining out of them.

ERHAPS my hostess felt the shock of

my disappointment for she begged me
to tell her what was the matter—why my early
enthusiasm had so suddenly cooled off, for,
in spite of myself, it had. I could have cried
as my fingers slipped caressingly over the old
dears. Finally, because I loved them so and
knew that she did, too, I took my courage in
my hands and told her. It was her heartfelt
and almost tearful appreciation of the sug-
gestions that I gave her that made me feel
that perhaps others would like to know some-
thing of how to take care of old pieces. The
advice is not for pieces that must be restored
or that are too far gone for simple remedy,
but it will be helpful in caring for furniture
that is in good condition and only needs in-
telligent care to keep it so.

In European countries, where old furniture
is the rule rather than the exception, it is a well
understood thing that wood must be “fed.”
“You must feed the oak with oil and polish
it with wax”’ is an old English proverb that
it is well to remember. Perhaps a word about
how furniture was finished in the olden days
may help to make the process of caring for
old pieces clearer.

Very early European furniture was given no
surface finish whatever, except the constant
rubbing that would come naturally from weeks
and months of hand labor on the carving and
finishing of it. The custom of treating it with
oil and coating it with bees-wax gradually
became universal, all woods being treated in
the same way. They were first given an ap-
plication of oil, which was allowed to soak
in for a day, or, if the wood was very dry, for
many days until the wood gave the appear-
ance of being thoroughly fed. The surface
was then wiped off carefully, removing all the
oil not absorbed by the wood and bees-wax
rubbed in and polished vigorously with a
woolen rag. A thin coat of shellac was often
given to walnut or mahogany to bring out
the color and grain of the wood, after which
it was rubbed down with the finest sandpaper
and the wax again applied. This process,
repeated many times, resulted in the beauti-
ful finish we call the ‘original patina” on old
pieces. This patina or surface finish is a
reliable guide to the age of a piece of furniture,
since time alone can bring about the true
mellowness and color of it. Once recognized,
it can never be mistaken.

Naturally it is this soft lustrous surface that
you want to preserve, if you are lucky enough
to have a piece that still glories in it, or, as is
more often the case, if your piece has been
scraped, to bring back again, and the only
way to do that is to give the wood the treat-
ment it has been accustomed to.

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[F YOU have a piece that is dry or has b}

scraped, begin at once with frequent di:
of boiled linseed oil. The reason you |
the oil is because, if applied cold, it will le,
that thick bluish smudge, that is so hari,
rub off. Bring it to a boil, taking care };
it does not catch on fire, and, when it is ;
enough to test with your finger, rub it t;
oughly all over the piece with a soft cloth. |
little fine pumice on the rag will help ren)
dirt and stains. A white spot that has })
caused by a hot plate can be removed)
brushing lightly and quickly with pure alcc))
The best way to do this is to have a pieco
dry cheese-cloth in one hand and a piece n s
tened with the alcohol in the other, as lit
ning speed is necessary or the spot wild
burned.

You may have to repeat your applicatn
of oil several times before the wood looks [t
ened and well fed. In fact, an occasjia
dose of warm oil will never be amiss. Ve
the wood has been nourished you may ti
to polish it with wax.

There are several excellent preparatio) ¢
wax on the market, but if you cannot ol ii
these, or prefer to experiment with your y
mixture, moisten the pure bees-wax wi
little turpentine—just enough to softe i
Then proceed in this manner:

Apply the wax liberally with a soft it
and rub it in thoroughly with a good ti
brush; not a coarse brush, but one thaiyi
stand up under considerable pressure. {1
up and down, up and down, with the gra «
the wood, until the wax has thoroughly 1%
trated the pores. Then wrap your brus u
in the soft cloth and rub off the wax the r
mains on the surface. This is the tin 1
apply a goodly quantity of that old-fash ie
furniture polish, known as “elbow grée.
It is fun to begin with a large flat surface ik
a table top, where the results of your »r
will show up most beautifully. All fla uw
faces, inlaid or plain, are worked in the m
way. Carving, of course, you must get 4
best you can, and the little wax that rej iil
in the creases will only add the charm)!
deeper color to the decoration. Book ne
ings and leather coverings of all sort a
also greatly improved by a treatment of (a
as it keeps them soft and prevents cra‘ Nf

Extreme changes of temperature are &
harmful to old furniture, and so is dry °4
and it is well to keep a bowl of water 1
piece that has become very dry. Fres |i
moisture, and an even, cool temperatu 2!
absolutely essential to the life of such 7°
After all, they are vegetable substanc a”
will wither and go to dust without ])P°
nourishment and fresh air. Beware, 0 ©!
other hand, of too much moisture, for a) tec
that has once warped can seldom be brig!
to shape again. One way to avoid wa ins
especially if you are leaving your fur!”
shut up for some time, in the sua.
storage, 1s to place bricks, wrapped in oth
on all suspicious corners. Keep doors !)k®

(Continued on page 260)

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1926

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“Formality in the small house is by no means easy to
achieve,” says Mr. Philip Lippincott Goodwin in his
illuminating account of “Small Houses in the Formal
French Style’? (The Architectural Forum for March,
1926). “The keynote of most small houses, quite
naturally, is informality, because small houses have al-
ways been the cottages of unsophisticated people who
have had neither the financial nor the architectural re-
sources to build in formal styles. The situation to-day
is different, and while the small house in America may
or may not be formal and sophisticated, it is a long re-
move from the cottage of the peasant, and its ideal is
invariably one that combines a highly developed
standard of living conditions with an attractive and
architectural appearance. Perhaps Mr. Géilchrist’s
version is more true to type than any other American-
ization of this kind of French architecture. His houses
are essentially American, and yet in every essential
way have preserved the spirit of the type they
represent.”

Home

of

Mr. Richard E. Bishy

at

Germantown, Pennsylvania

Edmund B. Gilchrist

Architect

Photographs by Philip B. Wallace

ee

Of the various Continental influences recognizable in present-
day American architecture the French has been perhaps least
dominant and is only just beginning to be appreciated by the
public at large as a style both practical and charming for our
Own countryside. Sceeply pitched roof, rectangular masses
and profiles, balanced fenestration with tall windows on the
ground floor, upon which the characteristic beauty of this
style depends, have all been retained in this formal and yet
friendly Pennsylvania house. (Interiors opposite)

SCALE OF FFET

LIVING ROOM

First floor

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KITCHEN

BED Room

BED ROOM

Second floor

Floors that are Trouble-Proof

Floors that Are Easily Cleaned,
Kept in Condition, and Are
Resistant to Wear and Abuse

ROM the utilitarian point of
view, the ideal floor for any
part of a house is the floor
that can most easily be cared
for; that month after month

can be kept in presentable condition

with the least possible effort. For
living rooms, bedrooms, halls, and
similar parts, labor will be reduced
with a floor surface so smooth and
free from crevices that dirt cannot
work into it, and that can be cleaned
with simple brushing and mopping.

The effort must be greater in kitch-

ens, bathrooms, and to some extent

in dining-rooms, for here the floors
will be subject not only to dirt but
to water and grease.

The standard material for domestic floors
has long been wood. A floor of the right kind
of well-seasoned lumber, properly laid and
sufficiently protected with varnish or other
finish, is very satisfactory; substitutes have
come in because high prices have forced not
only the use of unsuitable kinds of wood, but
wood improperly seasoned and poorly laid.
As a result, through shrinkage a floor develops
dirt-catching crevices, while, in wearing, the
surface becomes so rough and splintery that
cleaning is difficult.

Almost any floor is good when it is new.
What is wanted is a floor
not subject to change; a
floor unaffected by shrink-
age or expansion, and that
is in itself resistant to
ordinary abuse.

The first urgent de-
mand for a trouble-proof
floor was for bathrooms,
and the immediate answer
was tile. This is a form
of flooring that goes back
to the dawn of history,
and that to-day can be
had in a vast variety of
materials, forms, colors,
and finishes. When laid
on a solid and unyielding
base it is as permanent
and unchanging as a floor
well can be, and for the
small area of a bathroom
floor its price is within
such easy reach that it is
in very wide use.

The hardest - working
floor in the house is the
kitchen, for in addition to
dust it is grimed by the

Reception room showing floor of hand-made

tiles; Houghton & Sawyer, Architects
feet of tradespeople and spattered with
grease. It usually requires cleaning at least

once a day, and those parts of it before the
range, the sink and the work table are sub-
ject to continuous wear. Added to this are
the physical needs for it to be warm and not
too tiring to the foot.

The demand for a satisfactory kitchen floor
has developed many materials, and there are
now offered a great variety that not only
stand the test, but that in coloring and pat-
tern are making of the floor an object of
such beauty that the need for keeping it in

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Roger B. Whitmar

Photographs by courtesy of Armstrong Cork
Co., Associated Tile Manufacturers, the
Geo. W. Blabon Co., Zenitherm Co,

condition is aesthetic quite as muc
as Sanitary.

All of these materials are synthetic
that is, they do not exist in natur
but are manufactured compound:
Thus they can be given any qualit
or attribute that is desired; any de
gree of softness or density, any colo)
any form. Some have cork as
basis and some rubber; they ma
contain asbestos, crushed or groun
wood, marble dust, fibre, or any othe
materials that will give the resuli
desired by the maker. The choic
is therefore large, and the buyer ca
find anything that he wants in qua
ity, effect, or appearance.

This flooring material may com
in any one of three forms; as a broad she«
of any length, as blocks and strips to be pi
together, or as a plastic mass to be worke.
into position with the tools of a mason. Bi
whatever form it may take it will not be
floor covering in the sense of a rug or carpe
but the floor itself, an integral part of tl
house.

One of the most widely known of the:
floorings is linoleum; but as made to-da
it is not to be confused with the floor oj
cloth of years past. Made largely of groun
cork it is dense and resistant to wear, plea
antly yielding to the foo
proof against water ar
grease, and smooth |
surface. It 1s made”
many qualities with
wide range of choice
color, pattern, and thic
ness. In the best grad
the color and pattern a
in the material itself ar
will not be lost throug
wear while in the low
qualities the pattern —
printed and will disappe |
as the surface wears 0
In spite of the somewh
higher first cost the be)
grade will give so mu
better service and sati|
faction that in the end |
is by far the most ec
nomical.

The success of linoleu
and of similar materia
as floor rather than flo
covering followed the d

The newer floorings come in’
smart and attractive patterms

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Sunporch at Mrs. W. B. Hewitt’s home, Katonah, New York, where prepared flooring gives good color and service

spment of a method of application by
ich it is cemented so firmly to the under
it that it becomes immovable. In_ its
jer use it was nailed; but having a_tend-
y to stretch it was then likely to bulge
i to give trouble. While cementing is
te expensive than nailing, it so greatly
‘eases the life and usefulness of the lino-
in that in the end it is a decided economy.
ing a floor by this method should not be
-mpted by an amateur, although the buyer
Sheet or block floor should understand it
: he may know what to order and what to
(Fel f.

/hatever the under floor may be, it should
,olid, even and smooth, with loose ends of

boards made firm, protruding nails driven
in, and uneven places leveled off, for any
“high spot’’ on the under floor will be likely
to wear through. On it are pasted sheets of
building felt ¢ inch or so in thickness, the
edges of the sheets being brought together
without overlap. It is the purpose of the felt
to take up the expansion and contraction of
the wood, and so to protect the flooring from
movement. It also makes the floor warmer
and more resilient, and protects the flooring
against moisture that might strike through
from below.

As the felt is pasted it is rolled into tight
contact with the under floor, a roller weigh-
ing 150 pounds or so generally being used.
After a few hours for drying the flooring is
cemented to the felt, the process varying
according to conditions. Sheet flooring, plain
or with an indefinite pattern, can be laid as
it comes, but if it 1s figured, adjoining sheets
must be matched. In either case, paste is
applied to within 6 or 8 inches of the edges
and the sheets rolled; the remaining parts
are then coated with waterproof paste and
rolled in their turn, after which they are
weighted with sand bags for 12 to 24 hours
of drying. Skilfully fitted, the joints between
sheets can hardly be seen, and there will be no
point at which water can sink in to loosen the
paste.

The joint at floor and baseboard can be
covered with the molding known as “quarter
round,” or by a strip of brass so shaped as to
give an easily cleaned curve.

““Trouble-proof”’ floors are indispensable in
both kitchen and bathroom where practical-
ity is bound to be the first consideration

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When permanence is not important, sheet
linoleum can be pasted directly to the under
floor, or can be nailed. In the latter case it
should be cut scant and left loose for a
considerable time to stretch. When it has
stretched to full size it should be nailed not
with tacks, but with headless nails known as
“brads,” driven in three inches apart and
sunk below the surface.

A floor that is built up of blocks or strips of
linoleum or similar material is always laid on
felt cemented to the under floor, often covered
with a layer of light canvas. The blocks are
attached to the felt or canvas with waterproof
cement throughout, and are pressed together

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Furnishing a Boys’ Room

alk THE EDITORS
I am furnishing a room for two boys 13
and 17 years old, and have a red mahogany
Colonial dresser. Do you think it better to
purchase two Windsor beds in iron, or wooden
poster (low post) beds?

The walls are buff. What kind of rugs,
window curtains and bed spreads would you
adviserp—Mrs. A. W., Elmira, N. Y.

—If you can match your Colonial dresser in
type, design and color of the wood in four pos-
ter beds I would advise your doing so, as it
would make a very lovely set and there is no
real advantage in iron beds. If you do buy
iron beds | would advise you to get the enamel
finish rather than the imitation wood finish,
as in furniture and other house furnishing ma-
terials it is not wise to try to imitate. It is
better to frankly admit that an iron bed is iron,
as very few people are deceived by the re-
semblance to wood. However, if you cannot
match your own piece of mahogany both in
color and design, I would advise you to buy
the enamel finish iron beds and have them
painted ivory or soft green if you are using
green in your decorations.

You can use a great many different colors
with a buff wall. One of the most attractive
would be a combination of green, yellow and
orange. Possibly your curtains might be
made out of chintz combining these colors.
The rug could be a very soft green in a plain
Axminster or Wilton. The lamp shades, table
covers, etc., could have some orange in them.
If you use this scheme bedspreads made of
deep cream linen crash would be charming
with a 6 in. band of the plain green color
of the rug around the edges.

Another suggestion for this room would
be mulberry, yellow and buff. Instead of
using the gold yellow use almost a lemon
yellow for your lamp shades, etc., trimmed
with turquoise blue. Then select a linen
with green, mulberry and yellow in its
design for draperies for this room. The
rug could be either green or very dark
mulberry. For the bedspreads in_ this
room the old fashioned tufted spread in
cream colors would be attractive on the
mahogany beds, or if you use the mul-
berry rug you might make the spreads of
avery soft green linen. These will wash
easily and do not soil as quickly as a
lighter color.

] think that with the plain buff walls
you need a design in the cretonne and if
you have one or two chairs which need

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slipcovers it might be attractive to use the
same cretonne to cover them.—A. L. F.

The Joy of a Bird Bath in the Garden

qe THE EDITORS:

As I was walking through the garden late
yesterday afternoon, my eye was suddenly
arrested by a sight that I have never wit-
nessed before: a pair of cardinals were splash-
ing in the bird bath at one and the same time.
This was a supreme moment!

All amateur gardeners know the thrill of the
first day of spring when the outside world
makes an irresistible call. However, this lags
with the hot days of midsummer; it is revived
somewhat in October when the fall planting is
done, and, after that, ceases altogether until
spring rolls around again.

For anyone who wishes to give joy and get
joy from his garden the year around, let me
recommend a bird bath! Mine was given a
corner in my garden three years ago, and each
day it grows into a more interesting and love-
some spot. Bulbs are planted around it for a
succession of blooms from the earliest Jonquils
in January until the German Iris come in
April. A little flowering Peach planted on the
right side promises with the coming years to
give a canopy of pink blooms during the spring
time. I think the crowning event of the year
comes when the Spanish Bayonets in the back-
ground put out their gorgeous blooms in
June.

For weeks after the bath was installed my
disappointment was very keen because the
birds were leery about taking even a drink

A satisfactory solution of the window box
problem (see Mr. Spencer’s letter at right)

240

from it. However, after much persistence
my part, the birds have learned that bry
fasts of bread crumbs and grain are tc)
found there on cold winter mornings. Dui
the hot summer days the bow] is filled mon
and evening with fresh water.

The first members of the bird family)
acquire the habit of a morning bath were y
English sparrows that did not give men}
of a thrill for I felt that my bath warra
more than just sparrows. But now when
mocking birds at one time flutter and splh
and, when their fun is over, a beautiful br
thrush follows suit, my joy is almost
bounded. I was told that blue jays ne
bathe, but a few days ago for the first ti
saw a jay take a drink, and now | have he
of enticing all members of the bird famil te
drink at my fountain.—JUNE RAINSF D
Edgefield, South Carolina.

The Window Box Problem

at: THE EDITORS

The composition of the window box
many an annual problem. For a window 1!
a southern exposure it is easily settled, bec 's
such showy flowers as the Geranium, Pet ia
and many other easily grown things flo s
well under the blessing of the warm in
The problem is not so easy to solve |
northern exposure. The box in the acm
panying photograph is quite the most : is
factory that has occupied its positior fo
many years. The black and white in
fails utterly to show its charm, as it is *f
lively with colors of most atrractive sh &
The Fuchsia is its main depencic
and has never ceased to be practi ll
full of bloom since the box was sei)
about the end of May. No other five
suitable for a window box does sc/¢!
in partial shade. The Geranium vik
ens in its show as the season advi<¢
while the Fuchsia keeps on with n Ie
laxation of service. The Coleu |!
various shades harmonizes well wit ‘h
Fuchsia, as does the bright blue Lc’
and the pink, fibrous-rooted Bega
The lace-like Dusty Miller (cent
gymnocarpa) gives the box a pai‘!
larly attractive feature. The v'¢
are the Vinca and the German ")
The climber shown in the pictu !
the Virginia Creeper (ampelos!
veitchii), always an attractive 1
but possibly over-rampant if plete
in rich soil.—J. B. Spencer, O1™
Canada.

Bess, 1926

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interesting design richly interwoven in silver

W@eNGENTURIES damasks have
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In the far-famed ages past, when
ronarchs built palaces worthy of their
Igh estate and hung them with the fin-
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Further interest may be attained by
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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Boxwood—the Living Antique

(Continued from page 224)

leaves never turn yellow or rusty during the most trying and unfavor-
able periods of weather. Second: The elements in the form of Ice,
snow, hailstorms, never break or beat away the tough twigs leaving
it battered and disreputable looking. Third: The leaves do not
shatter. Fourth: It does not harbor insect pests. Fifth: It does
not throw a million surface roots, like Privets and many others. You
can plant the most particular of flowering plants right by a Boxwood
hedge and be perfectly sure that that well behaved gentieman will
not scrouge them for root room or snatch away their food and drink.
Sixth: Once planted and established, the Box is there for generations,
not every year having to be replaced by something else.

There are two types grown for ornamental purposes, the common
or tree Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) and the true Dwarf Boxwood
(var. suffruticosa). In most localities they are distinguished from each
other by the terms Tree Box and Bush Box, the first applying to the
type which grows most rapidly, is more thinly set with leaves and, un-
disturbed, shapes itself into a pyramid. The Bush Box grows very
slowly, is thickly set with leaves, and, unmolested, makes a rather low
or flat on top, round bush. I should hesitate to say low, for a bush
planted by my grandmother more than one hundred years ago now
measures 11 feet in height, and 12 feet across at its broadest dimension.
From three of these bushes this season, I clipped some fifteen thousand
four-branched cuttings for rooting and the bushes showed no evidence
of my greedy scissors. In fact, they will another year thank me for
the first pruning they have had in their lives.

If individuals realized how readily this Boxwood roots, they could,
by striking a few hundred cuttings, taken from some family collection
each year, say to their children in the years hence: ‘“‘Here are some
Boxwoods for your new homes | rooted when you were children,
the slips were taken from your great-grandmother’s bushes 150 years
old.’”’ There could also be the feeling of satisfaction in giving back to
our localities some of the charm of the rare plantings of the other days.

Bese attempting to root a Boxwood cutting, I exhausted all
sources of information obtainable. I went to a veteran nursery-
man, who has now more than a half million plants from one to three
years old. I assured him I was not entering a competitive ficld as
nurserywoman, but that I planned some day to own a farm which, with
some architectural training I had acquired, I proposed to make beauti-
ful while it earned me a living. Thus summarized, these were the
essentials as | gathered them:

1. Use a coldframe that can be closely covered, not air tight but
proof against drafts that dry the soil or parch the leaves. Keep covered
closely with canvas, airing only at night or on cloudy, rainy days.
Do not remove this cover entirely from bed until plants are well
rooted.

2. Do not allow cuttings to lie around and dry out after being
removed from bush and before being placed in soil.

3. Almost any soil not sour, sandy loam of course preferable, will
root Boxwood.

4. There are two types of cuttings. The unbranched sprig is pre-
ferred by most nurserymen as this, first topped and afterward sheared,
gives most shapely plants. Strip these cuttings one half their length
or more of leaves and bury this depth in soil. Roots form all along
the stalk not on the heel as with soft wooded plants. With the
branched cuttings, bury much deeper as there is so much more top
growth to be sustained. This kind of cutting, once rooted, makes
a large showy plant much sooner, but some claim they do not root as
readily as the other.

5: Never at any time, allow the cutting bed to become dry. Many
insist it is better to keep it very definitely wet.

6. Do not expect your plants to root overnight.
weeks, so do not become impatient.

7. When the plants have become a mass of thickly matted white
roots, they may be lifted and transferred to nursery rows. This is best
done at a season of incessant rainfall, unless one has some artificial
watering system. Rich soil, at this stage of growth and constant
cultivation will result in plants making much heavier growth than in
indifferent and impoverished soil.

8. As Boxwood cuttings are always stuck close together in the bed,
be careful in separating intertwining roots to break away as few as
possible.

g. If at any time a white mold forms over the cutting bed, water
with a weak solution of lime water or secure one of the new fungus
remedies recommended for wilt, such as Uspulin or Semesan, and use
according to directions.

They will require

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NOVEMBER, 1926

10. Common sense, just as much as experience, will determine the |
best method of shearing, pruning, and shaping of young plants.
Nurserymen claim that cuttings by the method outlined may be
taken any month in the year, -with assured success. My experience
was that ripe cuttings, merging into the stage of new and sappy top |
growth, rooted as readily as all-ripe wood. a
Another Southern plantsman, who claims 20 years of success a |
Boxwood, details his procedure thus:
“Plow the ground deeply, manure heavily in the spring and then |
in the fall plow it again, pulverize it and rake it off cleanly running out
the rows. From December Ist to the 20th put the cuttings five or
six inches in the ground, leaving them three or four or even five inches i
above the ground. Beat the ground around them and leave them there
until wanted for sale. If they are wanted to sell for hedges and
borders you can plant the cuttings five inches apart in the row with — ,
four feet between the rows. But if they are wanted as singles or
specimen plants, leave two feet between the plants four feet between
the rows. It requires several years to grow them to saleable size, but - |
the only expense connected with them is the cultivating during the

summer, keeping the grass and weeds from touching them.” ye

gle odor of Boxwood and Iris and Peony have always made

me melancholy. Why, I know not. Those who have theories |
of reincarnation might suggest a complex of a past existence,

Certainly not of this life. The odor of the Box awakens memories
of the hazy lazy evenings of a Southern farm, the first spring song of a
frog orchestra, the hide and count game with two rollicking brothers; |
ee always the Boxwoods, the barricade, the hiding ground, the Indian

encampment, for all play life centered here.

It is a matter of surprise to many of us that industry has in time past
set a commercial value on the wood of the Box. This commercial _
product comes from the regions adjoining the Black and Caspian seas |
and is said to be fast diminishing. The wood is of a yellowish color,
close grained, very hard and heavy, and it takes a beautiful polish. |
It is used by wood turners and carvers, engravers on wood and makers _
of mathematical instruments.

The rival of the Old World Boxwood grows on the Florida Keys,
though the greed of lumbermen has narrowed its range materially and |
the big trees have been sacrificed long ago. This Florida Boxwood
(Schaefferia frutescens) is quite a handsome tree with persistent leaves |
and yellow flowers followed by scarlet berries. It is a common tree in |
the West Indies, where its lumber is an important article of commerce, |
being exported to England for cabinet work and fine furniture.

A Semi-Tropical Garden in
New Orleans

(Continued from page 232)

within hand-reach of the path, where of course it was unmolested;
but a hailstorm killed all the wee ones in the nest, so the birds
found a safer spot, and by June had another brood. Mocking-birds
are everywhere—singing from the topmost branch of some tree, or
perched on the point of a gable.

Now, to reach the bird-bath and the Araucaria tree and some of
the new and as yet experimental Hemerocallis, one must walk on
stepping-stones made of bricks; each set of bricks in a different pat-
tern, three forming a crow’s-foot, four making a hollow square, and so
on, in a fascinating variety of forms.

There is a fence around the place, with a gateway at the back made
of large bamboo poles; but what the fence is made of, it is hard to tell,
for on it runs a tangle of vines—Honeysuckle, Lantana, Bignonia,”
both purple and yellow, Roses, Morning-Glory—the big deep blue
perennial kind—and who can tell what else? For this ever-changing
hedge shows one flower one day, another the next.

“I speak to each by name every morning,” Colonel Derby explains,
when visitors wonder at his familiarity with all the members of so large
a foreign colony with representatives from so many lands. Perhaps
it’s superstitious to believe that they appreciate his courtesy, and that
this has as much to do with their fine growth as the remarkable soil |
and climate of New Orleans!

}OVEMBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Your architect can tell you
no finer lumber grows

CHOOSE Pondosa Pine with your
architect. This is the all-purpose
lumber—pick o’ the pines—known
wherever fine homes are planned and
reared. Esteemed by home-builders
for its satiny smooth finish, great
beauty and real economy. Specified
by architects because of its proved
adaptability to almost every building
need and because it is light, yet
strong. Every trade-marked stick is

monmepesmaateirt

rigidly graded, thoroughly seasoned
and carefully milled. For sale by
good lumber yards.

A delightful book, “Bingo of Flat-
head,” will tell you more about
Pondosa—will take you through in-
spiring forests and great lumber
mills in the Inland Empire of the
Great Northwest. Address Dept. 12,
Western Pine Manufacturers Asso-
ciation of Portland, Oregon.

Pondosa Pime ip

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The Latest Plan Improvement

es August award, and the close of the Monthly Improvement Con-

tests, goes to Mrs. Anna M. Sternberg of Maplewood, N. J., for
the suggestion which seems the most practical of all the “‘improve-
The winning suggestion follows:

ments” submitted.

Doeca

The original plan, appearing on page 540 of
the August issue of Garden & Home Builder

Mrs. Sternberg’s suggested improvements in the plan

[ THE second floor plan of the house published on page 540 of the

August issue I would suggest the following changes:

The rack room can be converted into a private bath for the large
bedroom and a large closet with a window for the other bedroom be-
sides providing space for a linen closet opening into the hall.

The other bathroom can easily be made into a private bath by
changing the door and rearranging the fixtures as shown above.

ANNA M. STERNBERG, 616 Valley Street, Maplewood, N. J.

The Palm for the House

Ne EXCEEDINGLY good Palm for the house is the Kentia, for it

will withstand a tremendous amount of abuse without looking
shabby. Its future in America looks dubious, for the crop of seeds on
Lord Howe’s Island, in the southern Pacific, its native home, has been
short for the last two years and the growers find they get better prices
for their seeds by sending them to London for sale by auction rather
than selling at the price set by the home government. Shipping to
London does not require the sterilized packing material which the
Federal Horticultural Board requires for entry into the United States.
Just how the matter will be adjusted is not decided, but if you enjoy a
Kentia Palm, better get one now and give it the best of care; it will last
for years in a good window garden. It is perhaps impossible to realize
the amount of Kentia seed planted yearly in this country. One grower
has been in the habit of planting 125 bushels each season! This grower
has secured some seeds this year, but nothing like the quantity desired.

NOVEMBER, 1926

Floors that are Trouble-Proof

(Continued from page 230)

so firmly that all joints are tightly sealed. With a floor built up of in-
dividual pieces heavy rolling is imperative to assure proper adhesion.

Blocks and strips for building a floor of any desired pattern can be
had not only of linoleum but of many other materials, of which rubber
is one of the most widely used. Well laid, a rubber floor is waterproof,
of course; quiet, durable, smooth, and yielding. The color of rubber
and almost all other block floorings is permanent and unaffected by
wear.

Many of these flooring materials are molded into forms that fit the
joint where floor meets wall, so that the floor is carried up to the top
of the baseboard. This greatly simplifies cleaning.

A very satisfactory material for flooring, and a handsome one, is
cork, which for this purpose is formed into highly compressed blocks
in various sizes and shapes. It is resistant to wear and to abuse, and
like other blocks is cemented in place. In color it varies from light to
dark brown, and by combining tones as well as shapes, patterns can be
worked out that make it suitable for any room in the house.

A flooring material entirely different from any that have been
described is a form of cement applied with a trowel. This is known as
plastic flooring, and can be had in various degrees of hardness, some
being entirely mineral while others contain powdered cork, wood
fibre, asbestos, asphalt, or other substance to give resilience.

In applying any form of it, waterproof building paper is laid on the
under floor and covered with light metal lath to give strength and sup-
port to the flooring. The cement is put on in one or two coats and is
usually carried to the top of the baseboard. While it comes in several’
colors it is usual and most economical to make the floor of but one.

Hard plastic floorings wear more slowly than those that are softer
and more resilient, of course; but they are more likely to crack if the
floor structure is not firm and solid. To avoid this, hard floors are
laid on a softer first coat that acts as a cushion.

When a wood floor is uneven and badly worn it must be smoothed
before applying linoleum or any similar material, and this is often an
item of considerable expense. With plastic flooring the condition of
the under floor makes no difference, and this cost of preparation is
eliminated.

Of the prepared floorings, linoleum is one of the oldest, and in sheet
form can be had almost anywhere. If it is to be cemented, as it should
be, the cost will be more than for nailing; in ordering it there should
be a clear understanding of the method by which it is to be laid.
The price of a floor of separate blocks or of plastic flooring always
includes the cost of laying.

In cost, linoleum is one of the less expensive of the prepared floorings;
but well laid and treated with understanding it will give long and
satisfactory service. The thicker and more resilient it is, however, the
more liable it is to be cut or dented by rough use. The feet of all
heavy furniture and equipment should rest on glass bases or be pro-
vided with broader supports than ordinary casters, and nothing should
be dragged across linoleum that might tear or dent it.

The nature of linoleum is such that it will be injured by alkali, and it
should not be washed with strong soap or scouring powder. The safe
soaps are those that are recommended for fine fabrics. The best
treatment Is wax, well polished, for it will then resist dirt and be
easiest to clean. Linoleum should be given two thorough waxings
when newly laid, and this is frequently included as part of the laying.

As the design of printed linoleum is only on the surface, it will wear
away. and become shabby if it is not protected. Given two coats of
good quality floor varnish when new, and with frequent touching-up
of the places of heaviest wear, it will stay fresh for a long period.

Rubber floors need no more care than washing, although they,
as well as the other prepared floorings, will look their best with an
occasional waxing.

Prepared floorings have now been in use long enough to prove their
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kitchen and bathroom, but for any part of the house, and their in-
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NOVEMBER, 19g2t

FOR THE BEGINNER
The -Month’s ‘Reminder — November

As to Time and Place: In gardening practice a date can only be approximated as seasor
vary and local conditions will have some influence. Generally the latitude of forty degrees at se
level and a normal season is taken as standard. Roughly, the season advances or recedes fiftee
miles a day, thus Albany would be about ten days later than New York (which is latitude 42
The latitude of Philadelphia is a week earlier. Also allow four days for each degree of latitud
for each five degrees of longitude, and for each four hundred feet of altitude. Latitude 40 passe
through Philadelphia, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Richmond, Indiana; Quincy, IIl.; Denver, Col.

How to Use This Guide: Suggestions as to the most important things of the month ar
given in this department so as to “remind” the gardener of the current duties. For routine di
tails of such things reference should be made to standard handbooks and guides. _ It is impossib|
to make a complete manual of practice in each number of a periodical magazine. Yet timel
articles will be found elsewhere in each issue, and references to back numbers will often solve tk
immediate question. Moreover, the editorial staff stands ready to help any reader with person;
advice by mail. A self-addressed stamped envelope should be enclosed with the question.

Who Writes This: The advice and instruction in this department are the gleanings of man
years’ experience in practical gardening matters by competent amateurs and others who hay
“been through the mill.” The contributions are made from various sections of the country; {
example, Mr. Jesse A. Currey contributes from Oregon; Mr. Henry Gibson from Pennsylyan)
(formerly from New York); Mr. Sherman Duffy from Illinois; Mr. T. T. Barnes, out of a work
traveled experience; Mr. A. Kruhm, from an extensive Eastern acquaintance; Miss Ethel Huts¢
from the far South; Mrs. E. Urquhart from California and, in addition, occasional notes from els
where and by the editorial staff and associated contributors of experience.

RIB DOORS the most important thing to do is to clean up
‘dale that important work has been neglected this long. Fir
Coall yf} gather every vestige of Hollyhock leaves and burn to get ri
5 _ of as much hollyhock rust as possible. Most of the oth
trash may be put on the compost pile. All leaves should §
gathered and those not needed for mulching placed on the compost pill
Make as straight sided a pile as possible with hollowed out top to cate
water to help rot them. oy
In the vegetable garden mulch the Rhubarb with stable manur.
Throw litter over the Parsnip and Salsify to keep the ground fro)

freezing about them so they can be dug when wanted. All the Te,

| of the garden should be spaded or plowed unless there is a cover cr¢|
in which case spading will be done early in the spring.

If fall spadir |
is done leave the ground just as loose as possible to allow the frost |
penetrate as deep as possible. |

Our experiment stations are so busy finding out how to grow bigg
and better crops they have but little time to tell about improving
garden, a digression is always refreshing. The New Jersey Experime|
Station’s Circular 176 on “The Pruning of Shrubs” by Prof. M. 4!
Blake will be welcomed by hundreds who are not interested in cr
production.

Proprietary preparations sold to make flowers last long were tril
out by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station on Carnatior
also sugar, salt, aspirin, boric acid and other substances. The on)
material that lengthened the life of a cut Carnation was a 7, per cer
solution of salt.

The Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station reports in Bulletin 2'|
a five-year test on growing Peppers. The earliest and largest cro)
were secured from wellgrown plants in 4-inch pots at the time they we|
set in the garden; that overhead irrigation in addition to the regular ra,
fall increases the crop 15 per cent. Of the six varieties worked wi)
—Neapolitan Salad, Sweet Mountain, Crimson Giant, Magnum Duli.
Chinese Giant and Ruby King—Neapolitan Salad was the earlie|
Sweet Mountain the heaviest yielder, and Chinese Giant the poort|
yielder.

Poison ivy cures are abundant but here is another. Dr. Jam
B. McNair of the University of Chicago has found that a five per ce!
solution of ferric chloride in 50% alcohol neutralizes the poison as d¢
a strong solution of iron sulphate.

A recent visit to Mr. J. F. Jones, nut tree specialist, Lancaster, P
was a great treat. After walking around a bit and seeing numerc
English Walnut trees carrying good loads of nuts, I asked Mr. Jon
“Why are so few nut trees grown as shade trees on small places? Th
are beautiful trees, cast a good but not heavy shade and bear good crc’
of nuts.” Mr. Jones’s reply was, ‘‘Because people’s neighbors do 1
grown them.” One of the inspirations of gardening is pioneering, )!-
as some of us had ancestors who pioneered. There are no hardships, )
privations, no dangers in garden pioneering, yet it is exciting, and he

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Terogen is a lasting soil fertilizer, imparting a dark
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ing well grown a new plant one gets a thrill that amply pays for the
original outlay in money and all the careful nursing and the anxiety,
English Walnuts are hardy clear up to Ontario, Canada. They wil
withstand 30 degrees below zero. [| saw on a place near Mr. Jones ;
10-year old tree carrying a load which when picked and shucked woulc
at least fill a bushel basket. Trees three and four years old bear a fey
nuts. An 18-year old tree in Mr. Jones’s yard had an estimated crop
of three bushels; many of the nuts were ready for picking on Labor Day
Wherever grown the Pecan is without a peer as a beautiful shade trex
and it bears fine nuts. Up North, however, the Pecan does not de
particularly well. Imagine my surprise in seeing a handsome specimer
in Mr. Jones’s yard. It turned out to be a hybrid, the Marquart, pro
duced in the Mississippi bottom lands near Burlington, Iowa; a natura
cross between the Big Bottom Shelbark and the common Pecan
Lancaster is the northern limit, apparently, for fruiting, for Mr. Jone:
tells me that in short, cool summers the fruit fails to mature. These
hybrid Pecans may be grown considerably farther north, however
Here is a tree for the garden builder who wants something different.

Every one who has been South in summer knows the great beauty 0
the Crepemyrtle. It is a most gorgeous shrub growing 15 to 20 fee
high and carrying the most beautiful pink blooms in large cluster
for two to three months. Horticultural books tell us it is hardy as fa
north as Baltimore. From Dover, Delaware, southward on the Del
Mar Peninsula it is a common door yard shrub, particularly in th
towns. It will grow as far north as Long Island if given protection
Rather than fuss round with protection, why not grow it in tubs, stor
ing the plants in a light, cool place over winter and putting them ou
in the summer, sinking the tubs in the ground. We did this at th
Missouri Botanical Garden years ago. Those plants in bloom i)
August and September will give your friends great joy. |

Another very excellent tub plant for outdoor decoration in summe
is Hydrangea hortensis and its many varieties. Several years ago
received at Easter a beautiful pink-flowered plant in a 6-inch pot. W.
grew it on until danger of frost was over and then planted it out. Th
following fall it was again potted, put in the cellar, and early in th
year brought into the window garden where it again flowered. Agai_
it went into the garden where it has withstood two winters. For >
month it has had big trusses of blue flowers, blue because grown in aci
soil. Our winters are not particularly severe. Gloire de Dijon Rose’
grown on walls here (southeast Pennsylvania). This Hydrangea
hardy at least as far north as Boston, but it does not bloom there out ¢
doors. At Boston | have helped lift, in the fall, plants so big we neede
a half barrel tub in which to put them. We stored them where the
were not subject to severe freezing and brought them into the greet
house early in the year and had a wonderful show in March and ear]
April. The finest display of these tub grown Hydrangeas | have see
was some years ago at a seashore resort on the Jersey coast. The:
Hydrangeas give color in the garden at an unusual season.

We have several times mentioned the growing of Ranunculus. See
of one of the very finest strains of this unusual and little grown plant con |
from New South Wales, Australia. It is known as the Eggleston straii
having been developed by Mr. Eggleston, a botantist. The huy
peony-like flowers are in a variety of color and borne on wiry stem
the plants are about 30 inches high.

Tamarix odessana, not new but seldom grown, has long, feathe!
spikes of pink flowers. It is superior to the common and more fr|
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promise of being even better than virginale. Virginale will, howeve.
not be lost to cultivation because of its more or less perpetual produ,
tion of flowers. )

Deutzia Mont Rose, a double pink hybrid of D. longifolia and I
discolor; D. longipetala, with attractive spikes of pure white flowet
a D. crenata and D. vilmorinae hybrid, will soon be available. *
also will Diervilla Feerie which smothers itself with rose-pink flowe
hiding the foliage. |

Very desirable tropical effects may be secured by the use of Hercul
Club (Aralia spinosa). In winter when the foliage is off, the can
are mere thorny sticks, but in summer those sticks are crowned with
wealth of large coarse foliage. In August or September the plants 4

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“ormerly Thatcher Furnace Co.
Since 1850

39-41 St. Francis St.
NEWARK, N. J.
NEW YORK, 21 W. 44th St.
CHICAGO, 341 N. Clark St.

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Front view of Thatcher
Steam Boiler.

THATCHER

BOILERS-FURNACES-RANGES

NovEMBER, 19

(Continued from page 248)

topped by a large broad panicle of creamy white flowers.
is worthy of being more often cultivated.

It sur

Should you see Campanula Telham Beauty advertised anywhere,
it. This is a very large form of Campanula persicifolia. It is not n
Apparently it was first observed in a garden in South Carolina and ta)
to England in 1791. In 1805 it was figured in the Botanical Magaj
as C. persicifolia var. maxima. After this it apparently was los}
_ cultivation until it turned up again in the English gardens at Telh
Court. Mr. A. E. Gardner has an interesting account of it in
Journal of Genetics.

Astilbes are sufficiently abundant now so that they may be!
for the winter window garden or the greenhouse if you have
Crowd the roots in as small a pot as possible with some rich soil ab
them. Store in a cold place. Bring them into heat—the win
garden—after the first of the year. Growth will soon start but if,
be some weeks before the beautiful feathery flowers open. These x
may be saved and planted in the garden in the spring. |

Amaryllis are now available. Pot the bulbs up singly, each in at
a6-inch pot. They will not start growth until after the first of the y
Then a straight spike will shoot up at the top of which will appear
or three gorgeous red trumpet-shaped flowers about 6 inches long |
as much broad. After flowering they make a leaf growth. When)
leaves begin to yellow dry them off by withholding water. Store
the next winter in a cool dry place.

There is a fine strain of early flowering Gladiolus the florists use:
forcing in greenhouses. I am hoping to try my luck with them in)
window garden this winter. If you have never tried it the experi:
will be worth while. Remember they want a cool place, 40 to 5c:
grees, at night, with about a 10 degree raise in the day time.

If you have patience try some Guernsey Lilies. Bulbs purch :
now will grow this winter but they will not bloom until next fall s)
time. Put three or four in a 5-inch pot and only half bury the bi}

The California Garden in Novemt:

Vv

(7 APANESE IRIS may be set out now, as they are dormai;
this season. Plant the roots in rich soil in the sun, exce) i
very hot locations where partial shade or some protect |
necessary for the perfection of the blossoms. Plant 111
about a foot apart and give plenty of water. Where y¢
must be conserved, the beds may be sunk a little below the level o hi
garden so that they may be easily flooded and retain constant mois {i
When possible, plant these Iris on the edge of a pool or by a little st |r
of water, either natural or artificial. In some cases they are even g ¥
directly in the water, being planted in sunken boxes filled with rich ji
somewhat after the manner of Waterlilies. Care must be taken ‘a
there is no lime in either water or soil near the Iris, as too much li}
injurious to them. In addition to the Japanese Iris, Siberian [ri 0
Iris pseudoacorus (a water Iris), may be planted at this time.

Start Honeysuckle vines now from seed, or young plants may t st
out. The Chinese and Japanese varieties.are best adapted to Califc i

Make selections of Chrysanthemums for cuttings next spring 0
when the plants die down, drive a stake beside them with a label g 2
name and color.

Continue planting bulbs for spring blooming: Tulips, Hyacinths
Daffodils, as well as Anemones and Ranunculus. In the case of th 28
two, it is well to soak the roots for several hours before planting ™
plant the Ranunculus about two inches deep with claws pointing ¢/
ward; and the Anemones about three inches deep. Set them out ith
sun, in light rich soil about six to eight inches apart. It is w
remember that when the plants are blooming, care must be taken1!
overwater, as this will cause the foliage to turn yellow, besides inj i"
the blossoms.

The hardv annuals may still be sown in the open ground, as w. ¢
the native California wild flowers, and all seedlings including the ©
nials, Canterbury Bells and Foxgloves, sown in July and August, @
be set out now. Set out the young Pansy plants in the sun, in ric] 0!
about nine inches apart and give them plenty of water; in dry pé od
sprinkling twice daily. P

Take up the Tuberous Begonias when they have finished bloo/M
clean the tubers, and put them in boxes of sand; keep them in #
cool place until spring. |

If the Montbretias are too crowded, they may be taken up now
after selecting the best, they should be transplanted in a new locj0!

(Continued on page 256)

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BIBER, 1926

ilip Bulbs
an Holland

ee

|: Cottage Gardens

LANSING, MICH,
anus importers of genuine
led Bulbs—recommend the
axing special selections for
erof fine flowers.
avin Tulip Collections

Bo)?

$ 5 50
‘16%
$ 5 Os

aries from which these collections are made
> e'fully selected from our general list.

in 5 separate named
Ik varieties, our selection

)C in 10 separate named
ik varieties, our selection

\C in 15 separate named
lk varieties, our selection

O{ in 20 separate named
lt varieties, our selection

ction of Early Tulips

or Indoor Culture

a 95
$ aye
7 50

p Ilbs as soon as received, place in coolest
art part of cellar, away from heat. Keep
0i; Bring up as soon as roots come through
a ttom of pots. The more time you give
tcpot, the finer the flowers.

5 in 5 named forcing
Tt varieties, our selection

Q, in 10 named forcing
lt varieties, our selection

in 10 named forcing
| varieties, our selection

Secial Breeder Tulip
Collections

0 in § separate named
. varieties, our selection

3”
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20°
OT?

¢ [rieties are made up by ourselves and
7 ‘sortments that will produce harmonious

Ol in 10 separate named
. Varieties, our selection

in 15 separate named
1]; Vatieties, our selection

iM 20 separate named
» Varieties, our selection

Detailed description may
be found in our 40-page
color-illustrated Imported
Holland Bulbs Catalog,
which may be had free
upon request.

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Garden Full
of Darwin

Tulips
for $2Q°0

ie anticipation of again placing before
our customers a collection of Darwin
Tulips we have had a sufficient quantity
grown so that we can offer

50 Giant Darwin Tulip Bulbs
Finest Mixed, for $2.00

Selected from fifteen named varieties

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birch is the ideal trim

It gives wonderful effects,
whether stained, enameled or
finished natural to display the
full richness of its beautifully
figured graining. And, its
nearly “mar-proof” hardness
assures it will retain a fine
appearance permanently.

Few Spring flowering plants rival the Darwin Tulip.
They are a wonderful addition to the flower garden.

Plant any time before the ground becomes frozen, and they
== will bloom from the middle of May to Decoration Day.

Mention this advertisement and send Check, Money Order, Cash or Stamps, or
call at cur store, and secure this exceptional collection, sent prepaid to any pointin
the U. S. east ofthe Mississippi. For points West and Canada, add 25c. ($ 2. 25).

For those desiring Darwin Tulips in separate varieties, so the colors may be studied,
we offer a Collection of 10 each of 10 varieties separately labeled for $5.00.

Our Fall Bulb Catalogue containing a complete list of High Quality Bulbs
for Autumn Planting sent on request.

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Lr ONV-Bar GREENHOUSES

Beautiful

birch

New York

wy)

e | Architects are more and more specifying

r| ' | a eed) Backs sos with Ba ans

4 ASK A G for harmonious beauty plus long serviceability.
rt LUTTON

» OWNER A Good woodwork commands a
ii Built for Hubert LT. Parson, “‘Shadowlawn,’’? West End, N. J. li, premium everywhere; thus,
= As Stately as the Palms it Shelters | by using Wisconsin and

Michigan birch for interior
trim, doors, floors and veneer
paneling, you not only secure
the utmost in artistic effects
but acquire a very tangible
asset besides. The beauty of
birch furniture is fully
matched by its serviceability.

dition to any estate. It pro-
vides an ideal place for the
growing of beautiful palms
and other plants that are in-
valuable for decorating your
home.

This Palm House is, in itself, °
a delight to the eye. Note
the graceful lines of the roof,
the broad panes of glass in
the front, the inviting en-
trance. Such a greenhouse

would make an attractive ad-
i

We have prepared an interesting booklet
which pictures all types of greenhouses as
they appear on prominent estates. May
we send you a copy of “Greenhouses of

Quality’?

GET BEAUTIFUL BROCHURE — FREE

It contains many valuable suggestions on
interior finishing and furnishing. Every
prospective home-builder or home-owner
should have a copy of this authoritative
reference. Yours for the asking. Write to

THE BIRCH MANUFACTURERS
232 F.R. A. Building Oshkosh,Wisconsin

Beautifil Birch for.
Beautsfil Woodvorhi

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251

Hearthstone Fditor’s Chat

This is a department for every one who has a house to build or decorate,
a new interior to finish, or an old familiar room to make more attractive.

It is planned for just one purpose: to bring to each home maker all
the aid and advice so freely offered by the men and women of the business
world to-day. It is a meeting-place where the manufacturers, the decorators, the craftsmen may place their helpful booklets, their free bureaus of servi
hands of those who value such help. Additional booklets will be listed each month.

This department is for all of our readers. Each Booklet listed may be had upon request.

Order by number only and as many as you wish.

EY LOORS are really
a> | the foundation of
Pe room. decoration,

4b .

Pras enhancing the
beauty of furniture
and hangings. Harmonious
color treatment of the room
as a whole is now made possi
ble with the new modern fin-
ishes which may be selected to suit individual
taste. Imagine the dignity of a library paneled
in oak, with oak flooring in “‘weathered”’ finish;
the harmony of a dining room in tones of gray
and blue, with darker flooring, or the charm of
an enclosed sun-porch with floor finished in
forest green, light and cheery, a bit of outdoors
brought into the home. The opportunity for
choice is infinite and each room may reflect
your own individuality, your floors becoming
your very own, different from others about
you. (From “The Story of Oak Floors.’’)

In recent times there has been a distinct
change in taste so far as woods are concerned.
The preference to-day, whether it is in wood-
work or furniture is distinctly away from
gaudiness of grain. Very naturally this taste
is extending also to floors. Where the finish
permits the grain to show through, it is ex-
tremely desirable that this grain be subdued
and dainty in its tracery. (From “Color
Harmony in Floors.’’)

Woods used for new floors are classified
under two groups; first, open-grain woods,
comprising the different kinds of oak; second,
close-grain woods such as maple, birch,
cherry, and hard pine. Each group requires
slightly different treatment. If, after floors
have been laid and smoothed, they should be-
come soiled in spots, moisten the spots with
turpentine and then sandpaper; or, more ef-
fective still, use steel wool dipped in turpen-
tine. Floors must be thoroughly dry and
free from grease and dirt before the finish is
applied. Washing with water will raise the
grain of the wood. When this is done, the
floors should be sandpapered smooth and well
dusted before proceeding with the finishing
materials. (From ‘‘ Modern Floors and Wood-
work.’’)

To finish oak floors, treat the floor with a
good paste wood filler of desired tone to fill
the pores and crevices. Mix filler with gaso-
line or turpentine to about the consistency
of thick cream or varnish and apply with a
brush. Allow about fifteen minutes, or until
the gloss has left the filler, then rub off with
excelsior or burlap, rubbing across the grain
of the wood first, then wiping thoroughly clean
with the grain of the wood. Allow from 12
to 20 hours for the filler to harden before ap-
plying finish. A good paste wood filler is the
prime essential to a successful finish. Never
use a liquid filler on any floor. After the filler

Address: Hearthstone Editor, Garden & Home Builder, Garden City, N

The Manufacturers Talk
on Wooden Floors

and Wahetm: Gane

has hardened sufficiently, the floor may then
be finished with either shellac, varnish or wax.
(From “Oak Flooring.’’)

When any varnished floor begins to show
the effects of hard wear—once a year or oftener
tf necessary—sandpaper it lightly and put on
a new coat. The habit of doing this every
spring preserves the fresh elegant appearance
of good floors. A cold room, a damp room, a
dusty or a draughty room cannot be as per-

Floor Booklets for the Asking

Ask for Booklets by number only.

No.3 COLOR HARMONY IN FLOORS

Maple Flooring Mfrs. Assn.
No. 10 BEAUTIFUL BIRCH

Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Mfrs. Assn.
No. 109 plese at OF THE SOVEREIGN

Oak Service Bureau.
No. 125 OAK FLOORS
Wm. Ritter Lumber Co.
No. 50 BEAUTIFUL FLOORS,
AND FURNITURE
The A. S. Boyle Co.
No. 53 BEAUTIFUL FLOORS AND HOW TO
CARE FOR THEM
Murphy Varnish Co.
No. 54 PROPER TREATMENT FOR FLOORS,
WOODWORK AND FURNITURE
S.C. Johnson & Son.
No. 74 THE ATTRACTIVE HOME: HOW TO
PLAN ITS DECORATION
Armstrong Cork Co.
No. 79 COLOR MAGIC IN THE HOME
Congoleum-Nairn Co.
No. .32 MAKING HOME HOMELIKE
Berry Bros.
No. 177 HOW TO USE VALSPAR ENAMELS
Valentine & Co.
No. 208 THE FLOOR FOR THE MODERN HOME
The George W. Blabon Co.
No, 229 PAINT & VARNISH FACTS
McDougall-Butler Co., Inc.

WOODWORK

No. 51 MODERN FLOORS & WOODWORK
Standard Varnish Works
No. 11 THE STORY OF OAK FLOORS

Oak Flooring Bureau.

Wave

fectly varnished as a room should be.
nish in a clean, dry and warm atmosphere.
To clean an old, dirty hardwood floor success-
fully one should first know of what the dirt
and discolorations consist or how they were
produced. This is not always possible in the

case of old floors. Sometimes a thorough
scrubbing with warm water, soap and washing
soda will remove the accumulated wax, stains
and oils. (This to be used only if water can
not get down to the wood). If it does not
and it is necessary to remove old coats of
varnish or paint down to the natural wood,
then use an effective paint and varnish re-
mover which will expose the wood and enable

252

you to wipe off all accum
tions with a rag dipped
naphtha, after you have t|
oughly scraped or wi
brushed off the remo
(From “Beautiful Floors
How to Care For Them.”

When varnishing, the ;
and most important ;
is the preparation of the surface, ’
will be more than rewarded for the e
time and care you give this part of the y
by the results obtained. Make the sur
just as clean and dry as possible. There n
be no dust, dirt, oil, grease, wax or mois!
on it. If the surface has been shellacked, |
must be entirely removed. Shellac or or.
ary varnish dries to a hard brittle fin
Covering with new varnish will not solve
problem for the old material will crack, ch
or peel beneath the new finish and will
seen through it. (From “How to Use Ya:
tine’s Valspar. ”’)

When woods are to be stained, the s'j
should be applied direct to the bare wi|
The same stain, will not produce the s;
color on all woods. There will be variati:
according to the wood. Soft woods abs:
more stain than hard woods, so that the a:
effects will be darker. Hard woods with }}
nounced grain or markings will take staii|
different manner from woods showing {
grain. The reason for this is that the si¢
penetrates more deeply into the open |
spongy portions of the wood, while the hai |
parts of the wood, as the grains or markii j,
are much less absorbent and consequel )
show up lighter in color, changing the gen |
color effect. It is well to remember ;
when you have any wood staining under w..
(From “Making Home Homelike.”)

The colors used and the scheme of deci -
tion worked out express so clearly the |~
sonality of the homemaker that it pays 0
select colors very carefully and combine tt a
thoughtfully. You may make a wise se -
tion of colors and even apply the finish s
directed, but, unless you have the right k 4
of tools to work with and keep them in gi!
condition you cannot produce a good }}.
The most important tools are the bruss
you use. Buy good brushes, take good ¢&
of them; use a different brush for paint, \-
nish, enamel, and shellac. It also saves tie
and avoids complications to use a differ !
brush for each color. Most important !
all—see that your brushes are clean—alwa’!
(From “Paint & Varnish Facts.”’)

Cleaning or polishing preparations conte -
ing oil are harmful to floors. The oil 1!
darken the wood, collect dust and dirt, imp!
the luster of the finish and ruin your TU:
Any cleaning preparation that warps the wo»
(Continued on page 254)

MBER, 1920

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DINING RGM
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LIVING RGM
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Six-room House No. 623

Details and description of
this house oh in the
Six-room book let of ‘‘Face
Brick Bungalow and
Small House Plans.”

wiesig AMERICAN FACE BRICK ASSOCIATION

1748 Peoples Life Building, Chicago, Illinois

L=tt Pays |

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

American Face Brick Association

Build for today ~ for tomorrow~
for twenty years from now~

with FACE BRICK

OW — before you start building at all—is the time to look ahead twenty years

and more. You have a right to expect rising property values in your neighbor-

hood. But make sure that the Aovse you are providing for the security and comfort
of your family is not going to depreciate with the years.

Build of Face Brick—the permanent building material. Then you may be sure that

Designed for the Service Department of

every rise in property values will be more than sustained by the real value of your house.

And when you are selecting the brick, take time to select what you want. Don’t let
yourself be limited in your choice of colors and textures. Face Brick offers you a range
of exquisite effects in color and texture that will give class and individuality to your
home as no other material. Remember that the permanent beauty of a Face Brick
home has lasting economic value.

The “Story of Brick” contains much valuable information. You should have it.
Sent free.

THESE BOOKS HELP YOU BUILD A BETTER HOME

“Face Brick Bungalow and Small House
Plans” embrace 128 designs of Face Brick
bungalows and small houses. These houses are
unusual and distinctive in design, economical
to build, and convenient in floor plan. Issued
in four booklets showing 3 to 4-room houses,
5-room houses, 6-toom houses, and 7 to 8-room
houses. The entire set for one dollar; and any
one of the books, 25 cents. We can supply
complete working drawings at nominal prices.

“The Home of Beauty” contains 50 designs
of two-story six-room Face Brick houses, rep-

resenting a wide variety of architectural styles
and interior arrangements, selected from 350
designs submitted in a nation-wide Architec-
tural Competition. Sent for 50 cents. Com-
plete working drawings for these houses at
nominal cost.

“The Home Fires,” a most attractive fireplace
book, with many designs, gives full directions
for fireplace construction. Sent for 25 cents.

“A New House for the Old.” Stop repairing
and painting by veneering the old house with
beautiful Face Brick. Booklet sent free.

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER
Continued from page 2652.

raises the grain, opens seams and spoils the
finish is costly. Floors finished with wax
are very easy to keep clean. Dust and dirt
do not adhere to the hard, smooth finish and
can be brushed off readily. (From “Beautiful
Floors, Woodwork and Furniture.’’)

NOVEMBER, 192

Wax is the most exquisite and satisfactory
floor finish possible. It is the finish which has
withstood the wear and tear of centuries in
old European castles and which mellows and
improves with time. Waxed floors are also
the most practical They do not show

scratches or heel marks. They never requi
scrubbing and they never need troublesome ry,
finishing. You can touch up a waxed flo
at any time, anywhere without going over tt
entire room. (From “The Proper Treatmer

for Floors, Woodwork and Furniture.’’)

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142. WHat CoLor FOR THE Roor? 119. Brick FIREPLACES 46. Decorators’ MeETHops oF WINDOW Wm. A. Rogers Co. Ltd.
The Richardson Co. Colonial Fireplace Co. CURTAINING 200. CORRECT SERVICE
143. SMALL Homes oF MERIT 120. OIL AS FUEL Quaker Lace Co. Oneida Community, Ltd.
California Redwood Assn. Caloroil Burner Corp. 47. HoME FURNISHING 201. THE Book oF SoLip SILVER |
144. Homes AND GARAGES 124. RADIATOR SHIELDS Elgin A. Simmonds Co. Towle Mfg. Co. }
National Fireproofing Co. Sodemann Heat & Power Co. 48. RestFuL BEDROOMS 202. CANDLE GLow |
145. BETTER PLASTERING 135. THE PROPER OPERATION OF THE Home The Simmons Co. The Atlantic Refining Co
Milwaukee Corrugating Co. HEATING PLANT 50. BEAUTIFUL FLOoRs, WoopWoRK AND 203. RESTFUL SLEEP :
146. A PERMANENT WALL FINISH Minneapolis Heat Regulator Co. FURNITURE Utica Steam & Mohawk Valley Cc n
Craftex Co. 151. CoLtonrAL HARDWARE & MANTELS The A. S. Boyle Co. Mills
147. BATHROOMS OF DuROCK Arthur Todhunter 54. PROPER TREATMENT FOR FLOoors, 205. CHINESE Rucs IN THE AMERICAN f E
Thomas Maddock’s Sons Co. 182. TAKING THE QUEST OUT OF THE QUESTION WoopworK AND FURNITURE S. &. G. Gump Co. }
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Fiske & Co., Inc. 183. MANTELPIECES & FIREPLACE FITTINGS 58. THe Bripe’s Book oF SILVER C. H. Masland & Sons, Inc
149. THE New Vocue IN AWNINGS Edwin A. Jackson & Bro. Inc. International Silver Co. 07. Correct Care oF Home Furnist |S
Andrew Swanfeldt 184. How To PLAN THE New StyLe KITCHEN 59. Story oF SpopE-COPELAND CHINA cs Peck & Hills Furniture Go f
157- THE Home ButLper’s ENCYCLOPEDIA Standard Gas Equipment Corp. Copeland & Thompson Co. Inc. 208. THE FLoor FoR THE Mopern H¢
Truscon Steel Co. 185. Ort HEATING 61. DecoRATING THE HOME : The George W. Blabon Co
159. WuicH Heat AND WHy? Williams Oil-O-Matic Heating Corp. National Lead Co. 228. A GARDEN OF CoLor In Your Hé
Richardson & Boynton Co. 186. Goop BLps. DEsERvVE Goop HARDWARE 67. SUMMER FURNITURE i The Glidden Co
160. SHINGLE STAINS Early English & Colonial Hardware B. Altman & Co. 229. PAINT AND VARNISH Facts
Samuel Cabot, Inc. P. & F. Corbin 73. Apout Rucs : McDougall—Butler Co. Inc
161. A Reat Home 187. SERVING A GREAT KNown NEED James M. Shoemaker Co. Inc. 230. Foop SuRPRISES ‘ r |
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162. HEATING SATISFACTION 188. Space SAviInc WALL FIxTURES Its DECORATION 231. THE CHARM OF THE COLONIAL |
The H. B. Smith Co. Masterbilt Wall Fixture Co. Armstrong Cork Co. 3 Nichols & Stone Co
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The Upson Co. Wm. H. Jackson Co. Orinoka Mills a Kensington Mfg. Co.
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MBER, 1926

TIS residence of Mr.
eer B. Downing in
fd, Penna., the use of
pe of genuine wrought
ects all heating, water
ynd gas lines from de-
iucorrosion.

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

HIS newly completed home

in Pennsylvania was de-
signed by Seeburger and
Rabenold, Architects, Phila-
delphia, Pa. The plumbing
and heating contractors were
Galligan Bros. of Philadelphia,
Pa.

Why Tolerate the Havoc of Rust?

u8TER and paper ruined,
vils mutilated, floors pulled
-ich is the toll of rusted
1. home after home.

1a is the tax of corrosion
inary pipe—with replace-
tcosts running 10 to 20
sthe mere price of the pipe.

Vought iron—as made by
r<-defies corrosion. Exam-
i under a microscope. In
y square inch of cross
‘a, thousands of filaments
rtective silicates cover the
il These filaments provide
Ne rust resisting screen.

h endurance of wrought
hs been proven by centur-
service. Test after test in

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the

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Also look for name and
year rolled in metal

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Cleveland
St. Louis
Jacksonville

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our own time confirms the evi-
dence.

In hundreds of public build-
ings, upwards of thirty and forty
years old, the original Byers
Pipe of genuine wrought iron
still serves unfailingly. And
here are service demands which
exceed those of any residence.

The additional cost of Byers
Pipe is small—on the average
less than 10% of the system in-
stalled.

For this small extra outlay, the
water supply, drainage, wastes
and vents, heating and gas lines
—the vital arteries of any home
—can be insured for a life two
or three times greater than that
of ordinary pipe.

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

NOVEMBER, }

Is your bathroom
ready for guests ?

(pe every woman, when she has guests coming. gives her
bathroom a careful inspection before they arrive. And doubtless,
when these inspections are made, there are thousands who cannot help
feeling disappointed, and who ask, “How can I make my bathroom look
more attractive and up-to-date, without the expense of making the whole
room over?”

Formerly, this question looked for an answer in vain. But quite re-
cently this has become no longer true. There is now a satisfactory an-
swer, and a practical, inexpensive method that can be applied easily and
quickly to any bathroom. Already, thousands of American homes have
used it and now enjoy the luxury of more attractive bathrooms than a
few years ago were thought possible.

‘Now—a new beauty

Tue discovery of this method came through a recognition of the principal
cause of unattractiveness in bathrooms. We now know that in gg cases
out of 100, unattractiveness is caused by the toilet seat. Nothing spoils
the appearance of a bathroom so much as an old, dark-colored, cracked
or otherwise unsightly toilet seat.

Everywhere, following the lead, perhaps, of the newest and most
luxurious hotels and apartments, old seats are disappearing. And in their
place is being installed the new beauty of the modern ‘‘Church” Sani-
white Toilet Seat—white, smooth, handsome and durable as porcelain.
Quite likely, if you should inquire, you would find that a number of your
neighbors have already installed them.

The improvement made in the appearance of the bathroom is a surprise
and pleasure to everyone. Its price makes it a luxury everyone can afford.
It stays permanently white—won’t crack, splinter, chip, wear off or
stain. Washes as easily as porcelain. You can install it yourself on any
toilet in a few minutes. Obtainable at any plumber’s.

Send for free book

TuaT you may see just what this Seat really is, send coupon below for
Mrs. Mildred Stevens’ sixteen-page book entitled, “An Easy Way to
Make a Bathroom More Attractive,” together w.th a free sample of
sani-white sheathing. No obligation. Address C, F. Church Mfg. Co.,
Dept. L 6, Holyoke, Mass.

LOOK FOR THIS NAME ON UNDER-SIDE OF SEAT

C.F. CHURCH MFG. CO., Dept. L6, Holyoke, Mass.
With no obligation on my part, please send a free copy of your
book, “An Easy Way to Make a Bathroom More Attractive,”
together with free sample of Sani-white sheathing to:

Chtptiaavine ease

BAAS tie Cea A ae RC eaee, Se orn

(Continued from page 250)

or if in the same place, the soil should be deeply spaded and fergj
Take up Cannas, Dahlias, and Gladiolus that have finished bloo
and after labeling them, store all in a cool, dry place until spring

Rake up all the dead leaves in the garden, and put them in a pile
a shallow pit or trench. Mix with a little soil, keep moist, turn
from time to time and after sifting, use as leaf mold. Cut down ¢f
flower stems of the Lobelia cardinalis and the Delphiniums, divid
crowns and replant in rich loam. Forget-me-nots should be pk
soon after the early rains that they may bloom ir the early sprin,

Window boxes should be dug up and all spent plants cleaned out
all dead branches of Broom or other small shrubs pruned. P,
fresh soil and plant bulbs for winter and early spring. Hyaei
Tulips, Narcissus and other bulbs may be planted in the boxes g
six inches apart, as well as Pansies and Forget-me-nots and §
(Catchfly).

November Reminder for the Fa
South H

ST OVEMBER sometimes brings a freeze even as far Sou
New Orleans and the lower part of Texas, Mississippi
Alabama; but the freeze comes so seldom that plantij

| working the garden goes on here in the South in Noy
much as in October.

One of the first things to be done in the fall is to see that the
pit or box is ready to hold all the lawn trimmings, wood ashes fro
fireplaces, trimmings from vines, trees and hedges, put in ton
fertilizer for the spring garden. i

The lawn should be thought of first as it will soon be turnia
when the first frost kills back the Bermuda grass. Cut the grass”
sow “winter grass’’ using a mixture of Italian and English Rye
cover this with one to two inches of sand and manure mixed.)
about one part manure to two parts sand. If this is rolled in, it
a much smoother lawn in a shorter time. It must be well water
at least a week after sowing and should not be walked on much u
has been cut three or four times and has begun to close up.

Sweet-peas for spring blooming should be the next care. It i,
time to stake up those planted in August or September and ch’
wire, or brush, such as trimmings from Crepemyrtle and Althea ’
be used. Draw the soil up around the stems of these winter-blo |
Peas when they are staked and twined.

Even if you have the Winter Peas well up, do not neglect to |
some now for spring blooming. Their fragrance and delicate b|
during many weeks in March, April, and May will repay you.

As the Chrysanthemums bloom, cut them back to the ground }
ing the new growth at the bottom until next March when they |i
reset.

Alyssum, Candytuft, Delphiniums, Snapdragons, Dianthus, |
and Stock, for spring blooming, may still be planted; and those p !
in September should be transplanted. Pansies especially need
planting if crowded, to prevent mildewing caused from damp
during November.

All the bulbs mentioned last month—Narcissus, Jonquils,
Hyacinths (Muscari botryoides) Freesias, Snowdrops, Daffodils, §
Lilies, Calla Lilies may still be planted this month. €

The Easter Lilies (Lilium longiflorum) should-be planted from
inches deep, depending on the soil—stiff clay soil requiring a $
planting—and not closer than one foot apart. Care should b
that no fresh manure is near the bulbs, while a good uP
meal may be worked into the trench at the time of planting.

Gladiolus corms may be left in the ground all winter, but te
spading into them or having them injured by ants it is better,
them in November and store in a cool dry place for spring plan

Between now and Christmas the ants will be storing up. their
food for the queen and babies in the nest, and as the U. S. Entome ?!
Bureau has proved that the best method of eradicating the ant 5
poisoning the queen and young by having the workers store up !
food for them, one can easily see why it is important to put out."
honey for them now. Cans of ant-poison made by the gover"
formula should be placed on trees.

If hedges are to be started, it is not too early for most kind™
although February would not be too late. Crepemyrtle, and tl
take well now, and Camphor if defoliated can be moved. .

In the vegetable garden, Strawberry plants should be set ©:
the varieties of Cabbages and Lettuce can be sown. Spinach,
Carrots, Parsley, Endive, Radishes, and Black-Eyed Peas can be#
ed and Artichokes, Onions, Shallots set out.

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Would you ever suspect that the colorful

eriod room shown above is in a remodeled
house? To the architect-owner, the floors
presented one of the biggest problems in
the rejuvenation of the old house. But
Nairn Gop Sgat Invaips solved the diffi-
culty—artistically and economically.

In the dining room and hall a Belflor de-
sign with softly-mottled gray squares al-
ternating with black squares was used. As
you can see in the picture, the floor accents
the ‘‘Old World”’ note of the entire setting.

Of course, Gotp Seat INtaips are just as
effective in new houses—cottages, apart-
ments or costly residences. Nor are the
humbler portions of the house forgotten by
Nairn designers. There are Goip Seat IN-
tarps in solid colored, sharply-defined pat-
terns to add a cheerful touch of neatness to
kitchen, bathroom and pantry.

In every Gotp Seat Intarp the colors go
through to the sturdy back. These inlaid
linoleum floors are easy to clean; an occa-
sional waxing is all that’s needed to keep
them in perfect condition.

Although low in price, your complete
satisfaction, or your money back, is abso-
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Nairn on the back.

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of practical suggestions that will help you
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Architects—Mauran, Russett & CROWELL
Associate Architect—I. R. TIMLIN,

Contractors — WESTLAKE CONSTRUCTION
Gor

Russwin Dealers—Tur WINCHESTER-SIM-
MONS Co.

Sxacit County Court Houser, Mr.
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Architect—F . F. Doan, BELLINGHAM,
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Contractors—ALEXANDER & MAcNEIL,
ae Mr. VERNon, WASH.
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ARRISON SCHOOL, Grand Rapins, Micu.
Architects—RopBinson & CAMPAU
Contractors—Jonn McNaps & Sons Co.
Russwin Dealers—Gieve HARDWARE Co.

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Russwin-ized structures of all types
and sizes—each bearing witness to
the distinctive beauty of design,
the sturdy quality, and the trouble-
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thestconomy of the Best."

Fort Meics Hotet, Torepo, Onto
Architect—SNEY AFTEL
Contractors—A,. BENTLEY & Sons

Russwin Dealers—TuHe STOLLBERG Harp-
WARE & Partnt Co.

In the fashionable suburbs
of NEW YORK CITY

by the finest architectural talent, the residents of New York City’s fashion-
ie burbs may well be supposed to know ‘“‘what’s what” in home construction.
it significant that in Greenwich, Great Neck, the Oranges, and other ex-

Hgmann-Sanders Entrances are built to the architect’s or our specifications—

wngte, ready to set in place—and cost no more than ordinary entrances. They

id jauty and value far beyond their low cost.

Sel for catalog G-52 of model entrances. Or send 30c. for additional catalog

apt pergolas, lattice work and garden furniture. Hartmann-‘Sanders Co.,
14 i Chicago, Ill. Eastern office and show room, 6 East 39th Street,

lework City

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write for San-Equip folders and prices.
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Makers also of San-Equip Im-

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The garden
of your dreams

WHo has not dreamed of having a
flower garden that would duplicate
the rare beauty and charm of an
English garden? You can make this
dream come true by planting Sutton’s

Pedigreed Seeds—England’s Best,
for Sutton’s Seeds thrive equally well
in American soil and climate.

More than 120 years of careful se-
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the highest percentage of germina-
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and strain.

Sutton’s Seeds are obtainable only
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Write for the Sutton catalog

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The Care of Old Pieces

(Continued from page 234)

and drawers completely closed. It is a good idea to paste a small
label inside the drawers: ‘‘Please push this drawer in as far as you
can’’—a gentle hint to those who otherwise might be careless.

Old furniture that is otherwise in good condition will respond eagerly
to these simple treatments, and they are all that is necessary to its
preservation and beauty. If, however, legs do get wobbly or bits of
veneer chip off, have these small repairs made at once by a reliable
cabinet-maker. A little shakiness can easily be tightened up, but it
will never right itself, and, if allowed to run on, may result in serious
damage, especially in chairs and other pieces that are subject to hard
use.

The care of old furniture is not only a pleasure but a very real
duty, especially here in America, where the climatic conditions are
against it from the start. All furniture that is worthy of a place in
our homes, whether it is old or new, is entitled to intelligent care, but
old pieces need even more than that. They need a tender apprecia-
tion and understanding of their aches and pains, for they are old,
and when they are gone we will find nothing to quite fill their place
in our affections and in our homes.

Color Harmony with Tulips

(Continued from page 225)

with a bronze Japanese Maple is worth while; or Camassia cusicki,
Irises Loreley and Flavescens, Tulip Flava and white Columbine with
either the Copper Beech or Maple and you can not go wrong.

With Mertensia virginica, try Tulip Le Reve, a large, late “early”
Tulip with a distinct fragrance of spices. This Tulip has held its own
naturalized in grass and I believe could be used with the Mertensia
satisfactorily on the sunny edges of open woodland.

Tulip Viking goes well with Julian, the latter in front. Viking is
also fine with Melicette and a ground-cover of Myosotis and a border
of dark blue-purple Pansies and Sedum sarmentosum arranged in un-
even patches.

Some of the brown Tulips are safe to combine with the brilliant reds,
so Andre Doria blends with De Sacey or Minister Tak van Poort
Vliet, but is equally charming with bronzes and yellow-browns such
as Apricot, Bronze Queen or Jaune d’Oeuf. Apricot blends with Dom
Pedro, Lucifer, or Marie Louise. Do not put a very dark Tulip such
as Zulu near or next to a white.

Here was a good row planted in blocks of twenty-five each variety.
Zulu, Flava, Corydon, Euterpe, Chestnut, Prince Albert, Avis Kenni-
cott, Jaune d’Oeuf, Chester Jay Hunt, Velvet King. Or, try these
combinations: Fanny and Reverend Ewbank; Grand Monarch and
Pensee Amere; La Tristesse and Plutarcus; La Merveille and The
Fawn; Palisa and Edouard Andre; Dream and Flamingo; Heloise and
Psyche; Bronze King and Pearl; Superba and Corydon; Chester Jay
Hunt with Velvet King or Jaune d’Oeuf; Gryphus, Dorothy, and La
Fiancée; Jules Favre, Corydon, and Marie Louise; Cardinal Manning,
Fairy Queen and Reverend Ewbank; Dom Pedro, Apricot, Bronze
Queen; President Lincon, Mrs. Colliet, and Dr. Hardy; Louis XIV,
Plutarcus, Jubilee, and Dream; Flamingo, Dream, and Mme. Le Thierry
with Heloise placed next to the latter; Chestnut with Prince Albert,
Euterpe, St. James, Mme. Le Thierry, or Heloise; De Sacey with Isis
or Spring Beauty or with Anne Doria or King Harold.

Then again the experiment has successfully been made with Tulipa
dasystemon, a species with several tiny green, white and yellow flowers
on branched stems, primula acaulis in the blue shades and Phlox
subulata lilacina. This is a low planting and suitable for the front of
a flower-bed along a path or can be used in the rock-garden. Tulipa
clusiana is another species, striped red and white and with black center
that groups well with Scilla campanulata alba, Narcissus poeticus Epic
in front of a green Japanese Maple, preferably of the very cut-leaved
type.

How about Wisteria chinensis (mauve) with Tulips Moonlight, Avis
Kennicott, and gesneriana ixioides, and dark purple Pansies? Add
to this Scilla campanulata excelsior, if you like, as it is the same color
as the Wisteria. The two first Tulips are different yellows, one darker
than the other and of different shapes, and the third has a delightfui
black base or center. Tulip Lady Boreel (or perhaps White Hawk)
with Narcissus Fairy, Scilla campanulata alba and Phlox divaricata
canadensis would be pretty near a double flowering Cherry (Prunus
serrulata) and the Phlox would just begin to bloom as the Tulips were
going off. While the Cherry should bloom with the other plants,

(Continued on page 264)

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NOVEMBER, Ig

The Mediterranean Influence

(Continued from page 200)

Italian villa or farmhouse is one of such appealing beauty that we s}
find it hard to dissect and analyze—too much like pulling away |
petals of some delicate flower to study its botany. Blue sky, the gre
leaves and black stems of grape vines against broad simple masses
white stucco; the red of the roll-tiled low-pitched roofs, the red sp
of garden pots; the accents of the orange and lemon trees—it js:
paradise of the painter and the glory and despair of the archit.
Despair because the success of such simple masses depends so |it
upon detail and ornament and structural features, and so wholly ur
proportions, upon the niceties of a symmetrical balance, upon
relation of light and shade, upon color and upon nature’s accessor

There are few windows, as in the architecture of all sunny Jan
and those on the ground floor are rather formal in their trim a
cornice tops, often protected by an iron grille. The upper windc
are smaller, occasionally nearly square as contrasted with our upri;
rectangular shapes, and often placed close up under the eaves. Bul
eye glazing is sometimes used in the smaller casements. The |oy
windows usually have battened shutters hung on long strap hing
though if the grille is present they are made to slide instead. Abo
the shutters have fixed slats. The color is frequently a light gre
contrasting with the dull red tiles of the roof and the curious vary
pink or gray or salmon or umber of the stucco.

The thick walls are usually of stone, often a very poor rubble, c
ered with stucco. As in France the doorways, sometimes the wind
openings, and the corners of the building are built up of quoins—i
gray or gray-brown sandstone. You will find these villas sheltered
the plains under tall Poplars again mirrored in water, or still ag
perched on a series of terraces along the mountainside, surroun
by vineyards, Olive or Chestnut groves.

No matter how small the farm group—and it almost always |
group of loosely joined units rather than a single structure—ther
always an arcade holding an important place in the design, the mi
tie-rods securing the bases of the arches over their columns or pi.
the deep shadows under its arches suggesting a cool retreat from »
brilliant sunlight. Frequently the main entrance will have an a
top in addition to further embellishment in its frame of stonework, |
latter often deeply rusticated, and the door itself screened by a 1)
of round-top slat-blinds.

Frequently there will be found an outside stone stairway leadin;:
the upper level—always a particularly lovely feature of the comp |
tion. The arbor or simple trellis from which we have borrowed |
pergola is almost always to be found in some form, giving the pla!)
leaf shadows and the twisted lines of old grape vines on the bright bi.
ground of stucco. :

The chimneys have a character all their own—lower than we wé |
build them, and with the tops protected with curved tile hoods or s« |
other device to shed rain from the opening. The dormer is rari!
these simpler types, but with the need of more space in the uf’
floors a turret-like form springs through the roof, square or rectangt ’
capped above its windows with a flat pyramidal upper roof of tile,

And always, always there are stone or stucco gateways and g
of wrought Iron, tile-coped garden walls, fountains, terraces, ba}
trades—the iogical, inevitable ties between the handiwork of man ¢
the vesture that Nature provides to blend his work with her own.

Within the protection of the thick cool walls of stone the rooms h
much of the simple grandeur of the Spanish interiors. Here, howe!
we shall find not only the high ceilings of wood, supported on be
that rest upon carved wood corbels, picked out, like the under sid )
the beams, in color, but also a frequent use of vaulted plaster ceili 5
The main vault will be crossed by a series of transverse vaults, forn £
the long supporting pendentives that are upheld by corbels of cat ¢
stone. The corridors and smaller rooms will have simple barrel vat
ing.

A paving of large flat brick, or stone, or terrazo and cement, *
casionally picked out with tile accents, forms the flooring of the lc”
story. These paving brick are sometimes painted and varnished

The walls are sometimes merely whitewashed, painted gray, or §
an unobtrusive diaper pattern. In the lunettes of the arcades there i
be found medallions or simple insets of polychromatic majolica.

Enrichment of carving or stonework gives emphasis to the ©
places and more important doorways, which latter, if not so trea?
are sometimes hung with long draperies of damask or brocades sus)"
ded from box cornices. The doors themselves are commonly of #!
or five square panels, the full width.

In the earlier work—from the 14th century—the stairways are p

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inconspicuous, sometimes a mere spiral in an obscure corner. Later
the stairway came to be treated more elaborately, with stone treads
and wrought iron rails.

The furniture is conspicuous chiefly in its skillful grouping—perhaps
against a low wainscot of wood, again against the dark background
of a tapestry or brocade. The chest, carved cupboard, bench, credenze,
tall stools and chairs are the chief elements. The high-backed straight
arm chairs, with velvet covered seats, and stretcher of velvet between
the back posts, are familiar. Walnut is the wood used for much of
the carved work, but there are cheaper pieces in pine and cypress,
painted and embellished with applied composition, picked out in color,
often with leather seats and backs. And last but not least, there is
the ever useful oil jar, which fills many a decorative need.

America’s First Botanic Garden

(Continued from page 228)

Isabella. A Spanish circular marble-topped table and a desk con-
structed of Honduras mahogany are kept in the library room, as also
a copper boiler from Russia in which they used to mix the poisonous
insecticides for use in the garden. The parlor has a Chippendale
sofa, the companion of one in Washington’s home at Mt. Vernon,
Virginia. A sideboard is there, which came from Governor Collins of
Rhode Island.

The garden bespeaks the interest of the four Prince generations in
plants and plant propagation. William Robert Prince, was the fourth
proprietor of the Linnaean Botanic Garden, and the greatest. He was
born in Flushing, November 6, 1795, and died March 28, 1869. He
was, as the title of his great book, “The Pomological Manual, or A
Treatise on Fruits, containing descriptions of a Great Number of the
Most Valuable Varieties for the Orchard and Garden,” sets forth,
the Vice-President of the New York Horticultural Society; Member
of the Linnaean Society of Paris; of the Horticultural Societies of
London and Paris; of the Imperial Society of the Georgofili at Florence;
Honorary Member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, etc.
The first edition of his book appeared in 1831 in two parts and the
second edition appeared in 1832. Prior to this he wrote in 1830 a
“Treatise on the Vine,” with the assistance of his father, William
Prince, and later in 1846 was published his “Manual of Roses.”
Possessing an intense love of botany and great energy, he botanized
through the Atlantic States in company with Professor John Torrey of
Columbia and Professor Thomas Nuttall of Harvard. He and his
predecessors were active in the introduction and acclimatization of
many kinds of exotic shrubs, shade trees, and fruit trees. The geo-
graphic location of the nursery of 40 acres was peculiarly fortunate,
as it was situated on an arm of Long Island Sound, known as Flushing
Bay, a body of water touched by wide expanses of marshes and sur-
rounded by an amphitheatre of gently undulating hills. Flushing is
only twelve miles distant from the Atlantic Ocean, so that the amelior-
ating effects of the sound and the ocean are felt in subduing the rigors
of a northern winter and in reducing the torrid heats of the American
summers. Hence many exotic plants succeed where in other localities
of the same latitude they would be failures. The oldest Cedar of
Lebanon in the United States (now dead, 1921) stands in what is left
of the old nursery. The first Lombardy Poplars were introduced by
the Princes. Back of the house grow the oldest Chinese Magnolias in
America. Two Ginkgo trees, staminate and pistilate, adorn the garden
in front of the house and the proximity of these two trees insures the
production of an abundant crop of the fetid drupes. Some of the in-
teresting specimens which still remain are Magnolia Fraseri, Tree-of-
heaven (Ailanthus glandulosus) Papaw (Asimina triloba) American
Elm (Ulmus americana), Purple Beech (Fagus silvatica atropurpurea)
tall Box, English Hawthorn, besides Pears Lilacs, Peonies, Forsythia,
and Wistaria.

NOVEMBER, 19;

The “Annual Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Play
(All of which are Hardy), cultivated at the Linnaean Botanic Gard
William Prince, Proprietor, Flushing, Long Island near New Yor!
the twenty-fifth edition of which was published in New York
in 1829, is of interest as showing that the fruit trees, shrubs, and plar
offered for sale included Almonds, Apples, Apricots, Berberries, Blac
berries, Cherries, Chestnuts, Cranberries, Currants, Medlars, M,
berries, Nectarines, Olives, Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Limes, Papay
Peaches, Pears, Persimmon, Plums, Pomegrante, Quinces, Raspberri
Strawberries, tropical fruits, Walnuts, Whortleberries, esculent roo
besides ornamental trees, flowering shrubs and evergreens, T
ornamental plants, included Auriculas, Camellias, Carnations, Chy
santhemums, Cowslips, Dahlias, Hawthorns (quicks and others {
hedges), herbaceous flowering plants, medicinal and culinary plan
Day-lilies, Honeysuckles, Irids, Peonies, Pinks, Tuberoses, Primros
Roses, vines and creepers. The copy at hand, and belonging to t
Library of the University of Pennsylvania, is an autographed co)
dedicated, as follows: ‘‘James Madison Ex-President of the Unit
States with the highest Respects of the Author.”

The tender and tropical plants were raised in the greenhouses cc
nected with the nursery, of which there were in all six. Mrs. Hen
William Robert Prince’s daughter, has in her possession a one sh
catalogue printed.in 1771, which quaintly reads:

TO BESSOEDEEY
WILLIAM PRINCE
at Flushing—Landing
on Long Island near New York,
A large collection of Fruit trees, etc.

The more inportant “Pomological Manual,” the second edition

which appeared in 1832, gives a careful description of the various kin
of fruits with an account of the recognized varieties. The Fren

names for these trees are enumerated at the head of each paragray

For example, in the second part of the book on pages 109 and 110, '
have a description of the Black Mazzard Cherry which was planted
an early date on Long Island along the sides of the highways, and
which many very large and venerable specimens are found about t
old places. The heading of the description of this Cherry is as folloy

“Black Mazzard, Pr. Cat. Lond. Hort. Cat.
Mazzard, or Common Black. Coxe
Bristol Cherry of Rhode Island.

Prunus avium Willd. Pers. sinop.
Cerosus avium N. Duh. Decand.
Cerisier Merisier, Duh. 1 Merisier,
Cerisier sauvage. Mazard.

Common Mazard. Black honey.

This is the natural species whence culture has obtained all the fine variet .
known by the appellations of Heart Cherries and Bigarreau Cherries.

grows spontaneously in the forests of France, and some other countries”
Europe, and is said to be found also in Africa. Although an exotic inc
country, it has become so much disseminated that thousands of the trees 1}

found growing wild in the forests of Long Island.”

With the opening of the doors of China and Japan, the Princes _

troduced many new plants, among them Sorghum, or the Chin
Sugar Cane. The culture of the Mulberry for the raising of si
worms was promoted to such an extent that slips of the Chinese Mi

berry passed as currency in the stores of Flushing at the rate of twel.

and one-half cents. The introduction of the Irish potato dise:
threatening to cause the extinction of the Potato, William Robi

|

Prince imported the Chinese Yam (Dioscorea batatas) to replace t_

well known tubers. He paid as much as $600 for the Yams.

William Robert Prince, the fourth proprietor of the Linnae.
Botanic Garden, died March 28, 1869, and since then most of t
property has been sold. The present house and grounds remain, ho,
ever, as a memorial to the efforts of four generations of plant love

and distributors, who were visited by Washington, were purveyors

James Madison, President of the United States. The esteem |

which the establishment was held by the citizens of Flushing is <
tested in a great celebration given in 1823 when there was establish
a line of steamboats between Flushing and New York, Governor
Witt Clinton made an address eulogizing the Princes and the bust
Linnaeus was crowned with a wreath of Laurel.

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Color Harmony with Tulips

(Continued from page 260)

its main glory would be toward the end with the Phlox. If Ty

Moonlight were added to this combination it should be very attract;

for a considerable time. Young shoots of Peonies would help also
Other worth while groupings were made as follows:

Tulip Heloise Tulip Mme. Le Thierry Pale yellow Primroses
Tulip Louis XIV Wisteria multijuga (white) Scilla campanulata alba
Iris florentina Iris florentina
Rocky Mountain Columbine Tulip Brunhilde
Tulip Ronald Gunn Phlox subulata lilacina
Tulipa sprengeri Tulip Prince Albert Muscari azureus
Iris florentina Tulip Wally Moss (short,
M washy mauve) Tulip Bacchus
uscari paradoxum Alyssum saxatile Silver Queen Tulip Violet Queen

Tulip Thomas Moore Phlox divaricata Pale yellow Primulas
Primula acaulis (pale yellow) Phlox divaricata
Tulip Yellow Perfection Tulip Melicette :
Tale Painted Lady Tulip Viking Tulip De Wet
Tulipa flava Myosotis Tulip Brunhilde
Myosotis or Phlox divaricata : Iris The Bride

: Iris Zua Iris Excelsa i
Tulip Ronald Gunn Tulip Hammer Hales Alyssum saxatile compact;

For the further convenience of the gardener we append these lists
Tulip varieties embracing many of the really popular fayori
arranged according to their flowering period:

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though our wares (writing) did not always sell, we were, with each da.
work we put in on our “farm,” creating a home for ourselves and ¢'
small son and, if you wish to look at it from a cold, mercenary stat}
point, adding materially to the value of the place.

In the three years we have built two fireplaces, cupboards of varic|
sorts, finished an attic room for extra sleeping quarters, built fl)!
stone terraces, torn out partitions and put others in, torn down stc |
fences and built them up in other places, moved an eyesore of a bui:
ing which occupied a conspicuous place in the door-yard back to the »
chard and cleared another space ready for a new garage. We hi!
made perennial gardens and each year have had a quarter of an a}
garden of vegetables and annual flowers. We have harvested (’
apples and our grapes and our currants and caught trout in our bro |
Small son has had his first lessons in business by raising chickens ¢|
rabbits, keeping an account of cost of feeding and balancing his boi}
with a good credit after selling them at the end of the season. Wehi’
even tapped our Maple trees, gathered and boiled down the sap ii)
syrup.

We have acquired a number of pieces of old furniture and tees |
them to their glory of days of long ago. This year we have acqui!

“The Goode Pasture,” a bit of land adjoining us.

W hat do you expect When we started we made a conservative estimate of ten years)

accomplish all the things we wished to do to our house and bit of la.

Maximum s protection,» long 7] After three years of work we still say ten years. One side of the ho?
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these are essential—and all “recent addition”? porch must come off and the little formal entra)’
are present in Page Fence. It has _ tings are zinc coated. And Page porch be restored. We are going to turn one of the stone walls i!)
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ppggeetesetttes
A Lucky “Buy”

of
Dutch Bulbs

T was our good fortune to se-
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p size Darwin Tulips at bottom
tices. There are ten beautiful
iieties and we offer them either
parately or in splendid mixture
$3.50 per 100; $30.00 per
000.

peetets

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Order NOW, for fall planting.

len Bros., Inc., Rochester, N. Y.
lenwood Nursery Established 1866

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4aleas Kalmias
Old English Boxwood

Siatifically collected Native American Shrubs.
P'ts of highest quality, at interesting prices.
S)ped from the Appalachian Mountains in
srl quantities or big carloads. For specimen
at special planting we have splendid nursery-
givn stock at our Stroudsburg Nursery. Send
fc:atalogue and price-list.

IBARS* Rhododendron Nursery
Ec 65 Stroudsburg, Penna.

leony Novelties

lyou are interested in Peonies,
sid for my 1926 list. All the
tst of the Standard varieties.
4so the new Lemoine novel-
ts: Alice Harding, Argentine,
Lnise, Dulcinea, Genevieve,
hme. Escary, Odalisque; and
te new Doriat novelties: Char-
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ad many others.

O. L. RINGLE

V.usau, Wis. P. O. Box 90

SES ordered NOW

tay be reserved for spring at fall
jices, which are ten cents ($.10)
éch less than they will be or-
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\th few exceptions, we offer at
75 each, $6.50 per ten, $60 per
‘ndred, Five of a variety at
i rate; also for hundred rate,

lovided not less than 25 are
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Descriptive booklet on request.

JOSEDALE NURSERIES
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Color Harmony
for Your Garden

UR 1927 dahlia and gladiolus

Catalog will be brimful of

planting suggestions for your next

year's garden. Be sure your name
is on our mailing list.

CARL SALBACH

Originator and Grower
305 Creston Road Berkeley, California

Southern Evergreens

for Holiday Greetings

A box of fresh, fragrant evergreens from the Blue
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These Christmas greens are carefully selected, and
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NovEMBER, 1

Convenience, health, comfort and secu-
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parts of your home, the doors, windows,
shutters. Their proper and continuous
operation depends on hardware cor-
rectly designed and constructed of
materials that will withstand the years.

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WITH Sargent locks and hardware of
solid, time-defying brass or bronze,
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At top, Oval Brass Knob No. 1980 with Drop Key-
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Sargent cylinder lock—the most

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dependable protection of ail time. *
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At left, the popular Urn Knocker No. 7 and it
3961. In center, Knocker No. 28 and Handle 2)
the larger entrance doors. At right, Knocker!?
and Handle 3161 which are suitable for smalle1
There are others for every style of doorway ani?¥
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shows the effective use
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give a distinctive touch to a home

Vale soft tints that blend perfectly much thicker than any other flexible slate-
with nature’s colorings—always dis- coated asphalt shingle on the market but
tinctive, never garish, a Preston Roof will approximately one third thicker than a

make your home an architectural gem. standard No. 1 slate shingle.
This thickness greatly increases the life of

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Shingles: Heavy Standard, Extra Heavy ofa dealer or contractor who can supply
and Massive. The massive is not only you with Preston Roofing.

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SAGAMORE

This great dahlia can be truly described as “The Golden Beauty.” Picture a field of vigorous, healthy plants uniform in
growth and completely covered with these huge golden blooms and you have a fair idea of the natural beauty of Sagamore. Sagamore
has been a consistent prize winner! Best Seedling Amer. Dah. Soc. Show, New York, 1921; Best 2-yr. Seedling A. D. S. New York,
1922; ‘Darnell Cup” winner, 1923, for Best Keeping Variety in Show! Many prizes and sweepstakes since that time. Sagamore has
played a leading part in popularizing the better dahlia as a cut flower in New York City,and predominated in the decorations at several
of the notable weddings of the season. You will be delighted with this beautiful and useful dahlia. Tubers $3.50 each, postpaid.

NATHAN HALE MERVEILLEUX

New Bronze Decorative

A huge perfectly formed decorative of a silvery rose-pink shade. A

Our dream of producing another dahlia with the same remarkable wonderful exhibition variety on account of its perfect type and great size.
qualities of Sagamore has been realized in Nathan Hale. Judged from A clean grower free from attacks of insects and disease.
every angle such as plant growth, length, grace and strength of stem, form Tubers $5.00 Plants $2.50
and color of bloom, substance and keeping quality; this rich bronze decora-
tive measures up to the highest standards. Our stock of this remarkable MISS NEW YORK
Variety is still limited. Tubers $10.00 Plants $5.00 A large many petalled hybrid-cactus of spectacular beauty. Rich rose
ROSEATA color showing a trace of Rosalane purple on reverse. A splendid exhibi-
tion variety. Tubers $5.00 Plants $2.50

A truly magnificent pink decorative suffused with salmon and gold.

This exhibition variety is one of the best for cutting. The large flowers FOR We announce Orpin, our new orange and gold seedling
are produced on numerous long, stiff, reedlike stalks. Roseata is one of the

rom Sagamore now in its second year. We believe it
most satisfactory dahlias We grow. A high scoring variety in 1924 at the 1928 h : will prove a general heat
A. D. S. Trial Grounds. Tubers $5 00 Plants $2.50

SPECIAL OFFER __If you order direct from this ady. we will send you one tuber each of the above Varieties—

i. e. Sagamore, Nathan Hale, Roseata, Merveilleux. and Miss New York, for $25.00

postpaid. Ask for our Price List (no general catalogue). Our collection of dahlias includes only those that are sturdy growers.

BADETTY BROTHERS HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK

|
EEMBER, 1926

) THIS residence of Mr.
-pencer B. Downing in
larford, Penna., the use of
yi Pipe of genuine wrought
o protects all heating, water
yly and gas lines from de-
tive corrosion.

>-ASTER and paper ruined,
‘walls mutilated, floors pulled
p-such is the toll of rusted
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uch is the tax of corrosion
\ordinary pipe—with replace-
lat costs running 10 to 20
nes the mere price of the pipe.

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yrs—defies corrosion. Exam-
wit under a microscope. In
Vry square inch of cross
ion, thousands of filaments
forotective silicates cover the
«al. These filaments provide
(nse rust resisting screen.

-he endurance of wrought
‘a has been proven by centur-
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Established 1864

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protects you Tp
mistakes and substitution

Also look for name and

A. M. BYERS COMPANY
PITTSBURGH, PA.

Philadelphia Boston

Los Angeles Cleveland
Rochester St. Louis
Houston Jacksonville

Distributors in al? Jobbing Centers

BYERS PIPE

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HIS newly completed home

in Pennsylvania was de-
signed by Seeburger and
Rabenold, Architects, Phila-
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and heating contractors were
Galligan Bros. of Philadelphia,
Pa.

our own time confirms the evi-
dence.

In hundreds of public build-
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years old, the original Byers
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still serves unfailingly. And
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The additional cost of Byers
Pipe is small—on the average
less than 10% of the system in-
stalled.

For this small extra outlay, the
water supply, drainage, wastes
and vents, heating and gas lines
—the vital arteries of any home
——can be insured for a life two
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of ordinary pipe.

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

DECEMBER, 1

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OMEONE, somewhere, has pronounced
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Those interested in Gillett Service in hardy
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catalog—ready soon after January Ist.

*“EDNA FERBER”
Awarded certificate of merit at N. J. D. S. Trial Gardens

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Fern and Flower Farm

3 Main St., Southwick, Mass.

cAnother great Dahlia

from “Sanhican Gardens”

“Edna Ferber”

A flower of tremendous proportions,
filled to the center with its delicately
curved and twisted petals.

LITTON LITTON VAR 2 GREENHOUS |

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In color it is an attractive shade of
salmon-orange, with a somewhat lighter
rosy pink reverse.

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Penn. Hort. Soc.

Trevose Hort. Soc.

Trenton Dahlia
Society

American Dahlia
Society

The GARDEN AND HOME BUILDER.

Price (Plants), each $ 5.00 \/imited

Those who grow Dahlias for home garden or exhibition,
will wisely confine themselves to “‘Sanhican Gardens” introduc-
tions, for they have, in three successive years, surpassed all
other exhibitors’ awards at leading Eastern shows. Our former
introductions “Trentonian,” “Margaret Woodrow
Wilson,” “Margaret Masson,” and others were frequent
prize winners at shows all over the U. 8S. in 1926.

Our 1927 catalog will be ready in January; if you
are not on our mailing list, send in your name now.

Fisher & Masson

Growers and Introducers of the
Better Dahlias

** Sanhican Gardens 4

December, 1926. Vol. XLIV. No. 4.

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The first cost of a durable Lutton Greenhouse is
spread over many joy-filled years

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in 1926 delightful form and attractive color are augmented
by its vigorous growth and long, upright, sturdy al
The following Gold stem. One of the most admired and conspicuous ie How does this appeal te you?
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‘Ulinor Vanderveer—The most beautiful and successful pink Dahlia that
has been sent east from California

| HES OLE L. SEAL

Originator and Introducer of the Jessie L. Seal Dahlias

Jain winner of the Gold Medal for the third consecutive year at the 1926
Jhibition of the Dahlia Society of California for the best general display,
ai the Palace Hotel Cup for the best collection of California Dahlias.

(r 1927 Illustrated Catalog will feature:

Ellinor Vanderveer Silverado Hathor
King Tut Margery Hennessy

ad the best of the Western and Eastern Dahlias.

JESSIE L. SEAL

(fice, 609 Third Avenue San Francisco, California
Distributors for Sies Dahlia Manual, price 60c.

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Control, just off the press, sent free upon
request to

Bureau of Plant Chemistry

Rose Manufacturing Co.

Funtrogen and Introgen
Makers of the famous rose sprays

37th and Filbert Sts., Philadelphia

Canadian Distributor

Seely B. Brush, 12 Lowther Ave., Toronto 5

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

THE LEADING AMERICAN SEED CATALOG

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some of the questions answered in condensed form in

BURPEE’S ANNUAL

You will find a wealth of valuable information and suggestion in this
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Get yours early. Use it in planning your garden, as well as in
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You can just as well have the seeds of these famous Specialties.
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Lilies of
the Valley

In Your Own Room
ALL WINTER!

Enjoy the beauty and fra-
grance of these dainty and most
intimate of flowers whose
graceful sprays are equally
effective in the boudoir or as
a center piece on the dining
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Schling’s Special Forcing Pips
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For a Single Planting

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Very Special at $1.00
Send for our Winter Bulb Book!

Schlings Bulbs

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CASPER G WARE

Certificate of Merit N. J. Trial Grounds 1926

Pe was with pride that we introduced this won-
derful decorative last spring for it has been a
tremendous success wherever grown. It will
give you a mass of blooms for your garden; cut
flowers for interior decoration; large exhibition
blooms for your show. There are few Dahlias
that combine such exhibition qualities with such
outstanding commercial possibilities.

Casper G. Ware is one of the finest cut flowers
in the commercial market and one of the few
large Dahlias that can be shipped to market in
perfect condition. Regularly formed with full
centers, right up to frost.

The color is a pleasing shade of bright silvery,
Rose-Pink. Later in the season it becomes a
clear light Pink, and is one of the most beauti-
ful of all the decoratives.

Tubers $5.00 Plants $2.50

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Emma Marie and Eastern Star

are becoming more popular each year, and are
found everywhere in the best collections. These
are only two of the large number of fine varie-
ties at Dahliadel.

Ask for our 1927 Catalogue describing other
novelties, both in exhibition and commercial
classes. Our Gladioli constitute a new feature.
We have a fine collection.

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Thirty acres of choice healthy Tubers to select
from at Dahliadel.

DAHLIADEL NURSERIES

Warren W. Maytrott Box A Vineland, New Jersey

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A Dahlia Creation

O have created a Salbach Dahlia is a reward in

itself.

The added knowledge that the beauty of form,
color, and size of Salbach Dahlias has brought its
measure of happiness to other flower lovers makes the
labor worth while.

You can share with your friends the unusual at-
tractiveness which Salbach Dahlias will bring to your
garden and home surroundings. We will gladly assist
you in making a selection from the hundreds of guar-
anteed bulbs listed in our catalog.

Send for it and the special 1n- I

troductory offers it contains

Carl Salbach

Originator and grower of Salbach Dahlias, Gladiolus, Irises
306 Woodmont Ave. Berkeley, California

Dahlias are but one of our three originations. .Our Gladiolus and
Iris are meeting with an equally enthusiastic reception on the part
of beauty lovers.

Evergreens Give You
Protection and Privacy

Hicks Nurseries specialize in large Pines, Spruces and
Cedars that will give protection from the minute they are
planted. We have specimens in almost any size you want
(from a foot to 30 feet high), and which are adapted to
shore or inland planting. By our modern methods of
growing Evergreens the trees can be moved at any time.

Come to the nursery in winter or any other
season of the year—select the trees you
like and let us plant them immediately. If
you cannot visit us, write us for full in-
formation. Have you asked for our latest
catalogue?

HICKS NURSERIES
Westbury, L. I., New York

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A Treat for Yourself, A Unique
Christmas Gift for Friends

Here on Puget Sound where the grass is green the year
around, we grow remarkable bulbs, bulbs that will give won-
derful results when transplanted to other soils and climates.
Among a vast variety of bulbous plants which I cultivate, I
particularly prize the Lilies and grow many in large quanti-
ties. Among them, none surpass in truly regal splendor the
variety known as

Regal Lilies—an enduring asset
to every hardy border!

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To further popularize this gem for the hardy garden I quote
the following favorable rates on Mammoth Sized Bulbs :—

Single Bulbs $1.00 each; Six Bulbs $5.00; Dozen Bulbs $9.00;
Twenty-five Bulbs $16.50; Fifty Bulbs or more at $.50 each,
all delivered postpaid or by prepaid express anywhere in
United States.

Special Timely Offer :—For December only I offer
these bulbs in neat gift boxes for delivery where immediate
planting is possible. To other sections | shall mail Christmas
Greetings Cards with name of Donor, telling the recipients of
the gift that the bulbs are being held in storage until planting
time. Their arrival in the spring will be like a second Christ-
mas remembrance from a truly thoughtful friend.

Pacific Coast Headquarters for
American Grown Daffodils

I specialize in all kinds of Daffodils, Jonquils and other types
of Narcissi, Iris of various kinds and many other bulbs for
naturalizing.

Special Booklet designed to acquaint you wth all I grow,
gladly mailed orf request.

GEORGE LAWLER, Bulb Grower

Gardenville Tacoma, Washington

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Early American
Reproductions

An exact reproduction of an original
Colonial Chest. This is a reproduction
of one of the earliest Colonial Antiques
used in Salem, Mass. Fan decorations
and cabriole legs are characteristic. Solid
brass handles are exact copies from the
original. Genuine mahogany made and
finished entirely by hand, Made to last
for generations.

No. 5108—SALEM CHEST
SIZE; 40 in. wide, 21 in. deep, 38 in. high

Full freight allowed
Fe ee $97.50 aayh bore te t. 8.
Made also in Antique Maple $107.50

Sent on receipt of price, or C. O. D. with $20
deposit. We have shipped our furniture to all
parts of the United States—furnishing homes
complete. Every Winthrop Reproduction is
guaranteed to be exactly as represent-
ed, and delivered in perfect condition.
Money refunded without question on
any purchase. Send xo cents (coin or
stamps) for Portfolio Hr2 of other Early
American Reproductions in Mahogany
and Maple, also Banjo Clocks,

Winthrop Furniture Co.
424 Park Square Bldg.
Boston, Mass.

Gifts for the Home-Maker
A. Louise Fillebrown

ERTAINLY there is one person in the family who never says
“T don’t know” when asked to make out a Christmas list
that will guide a well meaning family in making their selec-
tions for her—the home-maker. The trouble is that for
most home-makers the list becomes embarrassingly long!
The shops are so full of lovely bits of pottery and furniture, a small
table that will fit perfectly in that open panel in her hall, a quaint pair
of andirons and fire set that are the last bit of decoration needed in the
little radio room, and a hundred other things that might well find a
place in her home.

The novel quilted materials appeal to every woman who wants an
unusual bedroom or guest room. One shop shows quilted bedspreads
and pillows made of soft taffeta in charming colors. Their simplicity
is restful and pleasing after the ornately designed bedspreads we have
seen so much.

A “Solitaire” table is a new invention. Standing on its one slender
leg, it rests on the arms of the player’s chair or on her lap. It is just
large enough for one person writing, drawing, or playing an endlessly
fascinating game of solitaire.

And what woman hasn’t a place for a hooked rug? The bright
colors and cheery designs of these old fashioned rugs make them a
charming touch of color to many rooms. They come in all types of
designs but the nursery patterns are especially appealing, with their
procession of all sorts and kinds of animals, and occasional quaint little
boys and girls that remind us of Mother Goose.

Except for the very formal home, a willow firewood basket is a wel-
come gift. They are made wide and rather flat so that the usual-sized
log may be easily laid lengthwise, yet the curved sides and strong
willow handle hold them in place and make the basket easy to move
around.

In this day of ship wallpaper, ship cretonne, ship prints and even
china decorated with old fashioned sailing vessels, the original of all
this popular motif of decoration is still the most popular—the ship

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LIGHTING
FIXTURES,
SCONCES,

ALL-YEAR-ROUND GIFTS

FOR YOUR HOME
Beautiful

Send for full descriptive catalogue with price list

INDUSTRIAL ARTS SHOP

Charles Street, at Mt. Vernon Street

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Inexpensive

LANTERNS, in

TIN, BRASS, + eae 21 in., Diameter 123 in,
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COPPER, and Strawberry Jar.....« 10s; ee ee eeotoG
PEWTER. Plain Wrought Iron Stand....... 5.50
Scroll Design Stand............. 9.50

35 MODELS

Green Glazed Strawberry
Jar with plain stand

BOSTON, MASS.

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ANDIRONS

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BeLlvows
HEARTH BRUSHES
FIRE SETS
LANTERNS
BRIDGE LAMPS
WEATHERVANES
KNOCKERS

ASH TRAYS
Special Illustrated Booklet

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GIFTS THAT LIVE THE YEAR ROUND

HEATHER’S

S-1957 — Picture
Frame. 9g in. by
7 in. Dark Brown
Florentine leather
decorated with
gold tooling.
$19.00

5-1966—Italian
Castelli decorated
Vase. 12 in. high,
43 in. base, 6% in.
wide at center.
$23.00

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Terra Cotta Jar |
WITH WROUGHT IRON STAND

Prices F. O. B., New York
An unusual Collection of Garden

Furniture is displayed in
our Studio

The ERKINS STUDIOS

Established 1900

PRINT BARGAI

HIGH-GRADE COLORED PRIN]
(Usually $2, $3 and $5)

Owing to low value of French money

Old Ships, Galleons that carried Colur

Cortez, and famous Corsairs. Set ,
beautiful prints (5 x 6%)

Famous French 18th Century Boudoir P
by Fragonard, Boucher, ete. For fra
(12 x 17). (Usually $3.00 up)...

Same, small size, for shades, trays. Set.

6, or more, oval or square ......., $
Old_ English Stage Coaches—colored (
5%). Set of 4 prints!)). >... $

Horse Races (6 x 8).
value
Foxhunt Prints for Lamp Shades (3% x
Set_of Ten .......0.+ +s olnnnn $
Flower Prints—Old Fashioned Botanical P]
hand colored, for framing (12 x
Usually $3.00 up. Hach ...J0eee
Godey Style Costume Prints. Pompadour
Marie Antoinette Court Costumes (41
612). | Set of. 6%... 40. ncn $
Famous Visher Map of New England, Dy
ative—boats, dolphins, animals, Jf
Dutch-English settlements, (20 x 24) §
Famous Visher map of North America (2
24)—hboats, cartouche, animals ..... 3
Map of Florida in the year 1750 (5 x
Decorative—cartouche, boats, dolphins

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diac-marginal prints (20 x

Visher’s—Whole World—2 hems
) $:

Special Offer—$7.00 worth of
above, your choice for $5.00 5
paid or $5.00 C.O.D. plus chars

CHAGNON & COMPANY
| 804 Sixth Avenue New Y«

Enthusiast

Mlustrated Catalogue sent for 10c. Blue-Green Glazed Jar |

Scroll Design Stand

250 Lexington Avenue a.
35th Street New Yor

Christmas Gil

S-679—One electr
table Lamp. Antiqt
green and gold finis!
Porcelain flowers. 2
in. high. Can |
finished in any colo
$30.¢
"Write for Cata.og 6C

Also Floor Lamps, Fireplace Fitment
Silver Novelties, Radiator Enclosures, et

EATHER
“Gift Shop of Distinction”
68 W, 48th St.

New Yor

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Frames For Keepsake
Pictures

justrated list of frames and also of
eaouettes, with prices, sent on request.

wmerican Clipper Ships

ying Cloud, Gamecock and West-
ard Ho. Reproduced in full colors
‘out 19 x 25 inches.

Illustrated list sent on request.

FOSTER BROTHERS
Mail Order Dept.
immer Street Arlington, Mass.

Retail Salesroom
Park Square oston, Mass.

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| Miniature Reproductions
|of Genuine Antiques

andmade and decorated. Table
aght 3 inches—other pieces in pro-
tion. Just right for doll houses.
ynitoys follow the exact lines of
dlonial, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, and
hippendale originals. Metal parts of
lid brass. Doors and drawers open
id shut. Sold as group or separate
eces. Send ioc. extra for postage on
ders under $1.00.

Fourposter Bedroom
» pieces, special price... ...... $14.25
pt At special price.......... 7.50

Includes No. 11 Fourposter Maho-
gany Bed with chintz hangings,
mattress, pillow, coverlet, and pil-

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No. 8 Swell Front Bureau. ..... 2.50

No, 28 Sheraton Chair. . = £60
0. 110 Washstand . See ciien cereal 25
0.74 Pitcher and bowl . +35
0. 39 New England Cradle, “with quilt. 1.50
0. 480 Dressing Table, Glass ..... eeoyy
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model. On a fireplace or high bookshelf, these lovely replicas of old
time sea beauties make delightful decorations, and the care with which
each detail of construction is reproduced makes them of constant
interest. Weare glad that the ship ‘‘fad” arrived, and we hope that it
will last.

A decorative screen is always useful if care is taken in its selection.
For bedrooms the wallpaper screens are charming, especially if they
are made of reproductions of old patterns. The gay colors are usually
softened by a coat or so of varnish which also makes them more service-
able. More elaborate screens are made of beautifully tooled leather,
or painted silk. A screen may bea very simple gift or a very elaborate
one, but in any case there is sure to be a corner that may well be con-
cealed, or a blank space hard to decorate where it may stand to add
a bit of color and interest.

And if we want to be more personal in our gift to the home-maker let
us consider her own personal room. There is a firm that makes a
specialty of furnishing and decorating clothes closets. The charming
colors and materials that are used make this little extra part of her
room assume paramount importance. On the other hand the practical
efficiency of new kinds of hangers, shoe stands, hat stands, lingerie
straps, and a hundred other contrivances to keep milady’s wardrobe
in order, 1s a revelation.

And while we are considering the care of personal belongings, the
chintz covered boxes are another practical as well as decorative ad-
dition to the bedroom. They can be made to order if one of the many
patterns in the store does not fit your particular needs. Of all sizes
and shapes, there is a box for every thing under the sun, hats, scrap-
baskets, shoe boxes, comb and brush boxes, boxes to fit into the tray of
a trunk.

This is just the pennies of the home-maker’s list. We haven't
mentioned all the delightful new kitchen utensils that make cooking
so much fun. Dainty china and Venetian glass will always delight
her soul, and no one has too much linen for bedrooms as well as table.

The home maker is not a hard person to buy Christmas presents for,
since every lovely addition to her house gives her pleasure. Perhaps
we all find the selection of her gift the most fun, for in every one of us
is the potential Interior Decorator, and the multitude of decorative
suggestions that we see in all the shops keeps this interest active.

The CHELSEA

Last Practically Indefinitely —
PAN, ~—Ssi‘é XK eesp:«éEExxcellent Time — can be
Handed Down as Heirlooms

In addition to the clocks illustrated
hereon, we also make a very exten-
sive line in refined cases for resi-
dences, clubs, yachts, prizes and
presentation purposes.

Many other Models

SHIP’S BELL
YACHT
BANJO
WALL
MANTEL
BOUDOIR
DESK

AUTO and
AEROPLANE

The 8-Day High-Grade,
World Renowned

CHELSEA
CLOCKS

Cost More
than Others
BUT
the Value
is There

The CHELSEA 8-Day High
Grade YACHT WHEEL SHIP'S
BELL CLOCK

On Sale by Leading Jewelers

10 STATE STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
Established 1897

CHELSEA CLOCK CO.,

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This Christmas

le you seek the unusual in Christmas gifts
Leavens Finished to Order Furniture
offers a welcome solution. Through the
Leavens plan you can order tables, chairs,
bookshelves and many other attractive
pieces, painted or stained any color to har-
monize with the furniture and decorations of
the home to which your gift is going.
Surely an original yet practical Christmas
gift.

Se Te Tt

Ladder Back

There is a place in every home for an old
Colonial Ladder Back. The seat is hand
woven rush. You may order it stained or
painted any color.

Hanging Bookshelf

Book lovers always need room for a few

more books. This charming bookshelf will
fit into the color scheme of any room when
finished to your order. 224 inches high
and 26 inches long.

The new Leavens Catalog with its pages
of attractive illustrations and a detailed
description of the popular “Finished to your
Order” Plan would be most helpful in mak-
ing your Christmas list. If you would like
this Catalog, please send the coupon below.

LEAVENS

SFurniture-

William Leavens & Co., Inc.
32 Canal Street, Boston, Mass. (Dept. G-12)

Please send your new Catalog and complete
details of the Finished to Order Plan.

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

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Jersey’s Ideal

Waite’s Certified Dahlias

Originated by William H. Waite

Again in 1926, Jersey’s Beauty was the outstanding dahlia in all the large Eastern
shows and, what is more important, it was a favorite in hundreds of gardens and
one of the best selling cut flowers in the markets of New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia. It won the Garden & Home Builder Medal for the outstanding variety at
the Sesqui-Centennial Show; it won the Garden & Home Builder Medal at the
Dahlia Society of New Jersey Show, as the dahlia representing the greatest achieve-
ment in breeding. It won the sweepstakes at the Red Bank Show for the best
bloom in the show. It has become a standard by which other varieties are measured,

We have reduced the price on Jersey’s Beauty to the minimum, so that everyone
may have it and in quantity:

Strong Divisions Strong Plants

OTHER WAITE CERTIFIED VARIETIES
OF SPECIAL MERIT

Tubers $5.00 Plants $2.50
HOO) SOG
10.00 f 5.00
10.00 5.00
2.50 1225
10,00 5.00
5.00 250
5.00 5.00
3.00 1.50
5.00 2.50

Jersey’s Beacon Chinese Scarlet
“Caprice, Dec. Autumn Shade
Elegans, Dec. Thulite Pink
Empress, Dec. Anthracene Violet
Gem, Dec, Lavender-Pink
Ideal, Dec, Lavender-Pink, very large
Jewel, Dec. Mallow Pink
Mammoth, Hy. Cactus, Golden Brown
Sovereign, Dec. Salmon-Orange .
Sweetheart, Dec. Delice Pink shading to White
Wonder, Dec. & Pf. Apricot Yellow, with
pink suffusion

10.00 5.00

DELPHINIUMS
FAMOUS WREXHAM STRAIN

For many years we have been collecting and hybridizing delphiniums from this
famous strain and we now have a choice selection of varieties to please those in-
terested in the Delphinium.

Strong field grown selected plants, 75c. each; $8.00 doz.; $50.00 100.

The above for spring delivery. If cash accompanies order, deduct 5% on both
Dahlias and Delphiniums.
Descriptive catalog, describing the Waite Certified Dahlias and Wrexham

Delphiniums upon request.

WAITE’S GARDENS, Inc.

Eatontown New Jersey

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The 1927
“Kentucky Bred’’
Garden Book

Planning time is here again—and with it comes ono
more our annual Garden Book to help you plan a mor
beautiful garden for next year. We are featuring

‘‘Kentucky Bred” Dahlias

in hundreds of different varieties—rare and more com
mon kinds—every one a pride to the grower—als
Peonies, Irises, Hardy Perennials, Trees, Shrubs anc
Ornamentals. Your copy will soon be off the press—
send for it now.

Jacob Schulz

Company, Inc.
Dept. A

550 So. Fourth
Avenue

LOUISVILLE
KENTUCKY

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Your Good Resolutions

To plant some CHOICE PEONIES
this fall should not be lost sight of
if you want your dreams of a glori-
fied garden to come true another
year.

We have the quality stock in nice
robust plants that will make your
success certain.

Our catalog will describe PEONIES
— IRIS—PHLOX and HARDY
GARDEN PERENNIALS | that
are beautiful indeed and our prices
are reasonable.

May we have the opportunity of
serving you at this time?

CHERRY HILL NURSERIES

(T. C. Thurlow’s Sons, Inc.)

WEST NEWBURY, MASS.

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What Fanuary Promises

ee TING to reflect on the long history of home building
and to realize that our present-day successes are the cul-
mination of men’s ingenuity and effort through many ages.
Among the earliest of building materials was brick, whose origins
are literally lost 1n antiquity and which still maintains its place.
In January—a special Brick Manual—brickwork will be dis-
cussed from many angles by authoritative people. Brick and the
Modern Home, Brick in the Garden Picture, Brick Through the

A ges—these are but a few of the things to be pictured by pencil
and pen. An outstanding feature of this issue will be delightful
detail drawings by Schell Lewis and other skilled renderers. In
January, too, J. Horace McFarland, that wise and whimsical
garden philosopher, will tell about “ Perennials to Treat Rough,”
the first article of a series which will be eagerly awaited by the
wide-spread audience who hold in affectionate esteem this per-
haps most gental figure of modern American horticulture.

Contents of this Issue

NVEMEESIGN . . . . i. . Marion T. Justice

PAGE

\Nws & COMMENT 277
>3E PICTURES

Star of the Three Kings. . 278

Resend of the Bells. .. . 279

Minstrels of the Middle Ages . . . 280

Visic OF CHRISTMASTIDE Harold Vincent Milligan 281
“NDLES OF CHRISTMASTIDE Alice Van Leer Carrick 282
SRISTMAS IN CoLoNnIAL Days Will Jackson 284
YLETIDE FESTIVITIES IN OLDENTIME FASHION 285
[RACTIVE CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS. . . . 286—
2RISTMAS CRUISES Ellen D. Wangner 292
3Ts Too LARGE FOR THE STOCKING

A. Loutse Fillebrown 2094
3RDENING ON A LAKESIDE 20)
MERE THE YULE Fires BuRN 206

LEONARD BARRON, Editor

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THE 1926 DAHLIA ROLL OF Honor . Derrill W. Hart 301
DAHLIAS ON THE PaciFic Coast Warwick S. Carpenter 302
Home OF Mr. GEORGE WASHINGTON SMITH 303
A CENTURY-OLD HOousE IN THE SIERRAS
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THE TRANQUILITY OF TRUE SPANISH FURNISHING
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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

DECEMBER, |

Lamps, conventional in shape or of
the oddest design; all of them as
beautiful by day as by night, and
all reusonably priced.

A small table will remain in use long
after the gifts it may help to bear on
Christmas day have been forgotten.

Christmas
Gifts
of Lifetime Worth

1D pen gifts that year after

year retain their original charm and

Another gift of lifetime worth is the

small rug, oriental or domestic. usefulness—and yet involve no more

expenditure than a gift that is forgotten
overnight.

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NEW YORK

San Francisco

FREIGHT PAID TO ALL SHIPPING POINTS IN UNITED STATES

The charm and warmth of candle-
light is always more gracious when
the candlesticks are as beautiful
as those found here,

The occasional chair, gracefully
designed and comfortably uphol-
stered, is a distinguished and
delightful present. The Wentworth
—from $50.00.

Book-ends of character in interest-
ing shapes invariably make most
acceptable gifts. From $8.50

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W. && J. SLOANE

FIFTH AVENUE AT FORTY-SEVENTH ST Reese

Washington

News and

Wal. XLIV, #20. 4

4 URSERY MEN have of late years of-
fered living growing evergreens in
pots for Christmas trees. These
may be planted in the gardens to
grow into greater, finer plants for
ranent embellishment of the grounds.
% very small specimens thus assume a
pnal grandeur in the promise of fulfillment.
Tere is an obvious fitness in the association
fe evergreen tree with the Christmastide,
- here indeed is a visible symbol of life
uphant when all around is bare and still.
42 is a warmth of fellowship in the green
iis of the forests when brought indoors in
e inter season that is so obvious that almost
bonsciously we turn to the Pines, Firs,
ees and Cedars among the trees of the
for material to deck the festive hall.
‘destruction”’ of our forests as a sacrifice
t2 occasion, however, is not always so bad
tig asit seems. Any gardener knows that
iting out is a necessary step in the cultural
oess of any crop from radishes and cab-
g; to Rhododendrons and Crabapple trees
aything, indeed, which is grown under pro-
-bn from the propagation stage. And so
telligent foresting there is a succession
jinning processes which will supply ma-
ri for the Christmas tree demand, and
vn will also give some financial return as
eull crop develops. The same thing is
te true even in the commercial nursery to a
rin degree. Of course, there may be de-
ritive clearing in certain cases, but the fact
ails that the intelligent clearing out of in-
rrediate growth is beneficial to the remain-
r+ There is, however, much more likelihood
nl destruction in the case of undergrowth
idhrubbery, like Laurel and Rhododendrons,
1 they are gathered from the wild, and the
‘tof alarm may well be sounded over the
Oiscuous gathering of the fine greenery for
iitmas.

Ft, after all, when all that may be said in
tiuation is accepted, is there not in the
eit of the real plant lover a pang of regret
athe ax has swung on the particular tree
aigraces his own household? Of course,
© is; and the growing tree with roots is a
91 potent symbol than the cut off specimen
an is in fact practically dead when used.
o\infinitely better a living growing plant.

THE TULIP IN THE BIBLE

PAT the Tulip is the biblical Rose of

haron is the conclusion reached by Dr.
a-eubeni who has been botanizing in Pales-
cor something like twenty years and who
‘tains a botanical museum in Jerusalem.
'da-Reubeni says that there are numerous
"Ss in the popular identification of the
ts referred to in biblical writings. Trans-
‘G; not having been botanists introduced
'G into their explanations and translations

From an early edition of Washington Irving’s
“Old Christmas” illustrated by Randolph Cal-

decott. (Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art)

because they have merely translated popular
terms instead of exact identifications in the
plants. Thus Tulipa Precox is the true Rose
of Sharon and the Lilies of the field are in no
sense true Lilies but Palestinian Daisies. The
biblical Hyssou rendered in English as Hyssop
the Doctor identifies with Origanum maru,
largely used as a condiment.

The identification of the Tulip as already
indicated is justified by the context and it is
well known to Tulip enthusiasts that the flower
was native of Asia Minor and it is possible that
a good deal of the present-day mystery of the
Tulip is related to its actual cultivation over
very many centuries.

QUARANTINE FOR THE JAPANESE BEETLE

OR the last few years, as most of our
readers are aware, a large area embracing
sections of New Jersey and Pennsylvania have
been under a special quarantine for the Japan-
ese bettle, the quarantine covering everything
in the way of nursery, farm, or florist produce
within the prescribed area. Now comes the
announcement that, effective October 11th,
the quarantine region is extended to cover
practically all the territory in the environment
of New York City, including half of Long
Island and as far up the Hudson River as
Ossining and the southwest corner of Connecti-
cut. Three thousand horticultural nursery
shippers were included in the old area and
with the new extension the increase will be
great both as to number and importance of
industry, thus putting tremendous handicaps
on the shipment of plant material in one of the
sections where it is most largely used.

It is interesting, in view of this extension,
authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture, to
recall that at the preliminary hearing in Wash-
ington on September 25th the chairman of
the Federal Horticultural Board conceded that
it was only a question of time when such pre-
ventive measures as quarantines with a high

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expense involved will have to be discontinued,
for despite the best efforts of state and federal
governments through quarantines the in-
fested area is definitely and steadily extending.
Thus quarantine measures, it is now acknowl-
edged, will at their best only delay the distribu-
tion of the pest into uninfested territory.
They do not prevent. So the practical relief
that the horticulturist sees is the time when
the whole region is so thoroughly infested that
there will be no use of maintaining a quaran-
tine of any sort. In the meantime, of course:
big expenditures, lots of jobs, and high cost
of doing what business can be done.

EVERY PLACE NEEDS A RESERVE GARDEN

pe from the necessity for keeping ex-
tra plants, such a garden can be made to
serve the useful purpose of supplying cut
flowers. As for the necessity of a reserve
garden, there are always replacements to be
made in the herbaceous border or garden and
unless you have a reserve garden where you
can grow plants for replacements, you are li-
able some day to find a distressing gap appear-
ing in the planting in which you have taken
so much pride.

The reserve garden need occupy only a
small space but in it should be grown a suf-
ficent number of duplicates of your border to
provide fillers in case of emergency. In the
reserve garden grow the plants in straight
rows, as in a nursery, leaving only enough
room between the rows to provide space for
working. If you dislike the idea of cutting
flowers from your border or some ornamental
planting, use the reserve garden to supply your
blooms. If you use it for cut flowers the
reserve garden should be well cultivated, but
if grown only for replacements or for nursery
purposes it is not so necessary to have deep
rich soil or to work it as frequently.—J. A. C,

MU BESELRE

ULE FIRE—two small words _ that

kindle the imagination and open far
vistas of thought—the title this of a chosen,
and choice, group of carols and hymns and
legends and stories in verse centering about
the Christ Child and His birthday. Miss
Wilkinson’s preface to this collection of Christ-
mas-time poems “taken from all periods in
our own literature and that of England”
warms and illumines and charms, starts the
reader rejoicing on his pilgrimage through a
significant and very human book which will
delight the hearts of many families.

(“Yule Fire” by Marguerite Wilkinson,
decorations by George M. Richards, The Mac-
millan Company).

i AN SER EEE TSAI EEE IE BOE MEIN

Courtesy Metropoluan Museum of Art

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After an old Dutch engraving by Jan Van de. Velde (1593- c. 1641)

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Music of Christmastive

a HRISTMAS without music!—what a
as dull and colorless thing it would be!
=z, the idea suggests old Scrooge before
PAX the visitation from Marley’s ghost.

Music is so much a part of the whole
Cristmas season that probably few of us
hve ever tried to imagine how bleak a music-
le; Christmas would be.

n some mysterious way music seems to lie
a:he very heart of the spell which the Christ-
is season casts around us all, whether we
yld to it willingly or not. Nothing evokes
tl Christmas mood so unerringly as the
Stains of “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” or
“ilent Night, Holy Night.’’ Our minds fly
b:k instinctively across the years to the by-
gue Christmases of our childhood as the
nlodies of these lovely old songs set singing
inthe heart of the Jistener a multitude of
hopy memories.

[here has been in recent years a re-
aakening of interest in the traditional music
othe Christmas season and a new realization
tlt the beauty and charm of this old music is
tl heritage of everyone and not alone for the
dectation of the sophisticated music-lover.
Te music at Easter may be elaborate and
molved (most of us are willing to leave
th soaring Hallelujahs of this season to the
Ojanists and choristers of our churches) but
th music of Christmas is naive and intimate,
dart of our lives not to be relegated toany one
€2, Even the most highly trained choirs in
0° churches nowadays confine themselves at
Cristmas time almost wholly to the simple
© carols, and with this return to the tradi-
"nal music of the season in the churches there
hs come about also an increasing enjoyment
carols in the home. No amount of group
Sging in church, Sunday School or day
Siool can ever take the nlace of home singing

Harold Vincent Milligan

Epirors’ Note. Happy indeed are we to hear
about music from one so thoroughly familiar with
its beauties and traditions as Mr. Milligan, Director
of the National Music League and organist of the
Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York City.
Despite such imperative public activities, this
versatile and energetic man somehow or other finds
time to listen for music’s still, small voice, to capture
new loveliness and give it forth again in forms of his
own making. A sympathetic raconteur is this com-
poser, a student too of folk music, compiler and
editor of several volumes of early American music,
and author of the biography of Stephen Foster whose
“Swanee River,’ “My Old Kentucky Home,”
and “‘Old Black Joe” are an inalienable part of our
song heritage, on the lips of children and parents
and old folk up and down the length and breadth
of the land.

and the home where the beloved old songs are
not sung every Christmas has missed one of
the most precious associations of the season.

Like that first great Christmas carol sung
amid the stars above the plains of Judea, some
of its sweetest echoes on earth have been sung
in the open air. Strolling bands of minstrels
and troops of little children, going from door
to door in the streets and highways of Old
England, scattered these songs throughout the
land and from the high-tide of their popularity,
the days of Richard Coeur de Lion till the
Reformation, down to the present day, songs
and singers have voiced the joy of the holiday
season.

Like all the great literature of folk song
that has come down to us from the past, these
songs are mainly traditional—some of them
being passed along from mouth to mouth for
generations before being set down on paper.
Naturally this process of oral tradition resulted
in many changes and variations, but it also
resulted in bringing out the elemental appeal
of the theme. It has been said that folk music
“springs from the consciousness of the people.”

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It would perhaps be more correct to say that
it “enters into the consciousness of the people.”’
Each folk song originates in the mind of some
individual as he yearns for the past or the far-
away, or as he grapples in his own soul with
one of the great fundamental verities of life.
Or possibly the song may grow out of the ex-
periences of daily life, like the many weaving,
sowing, reaping and other work songs. As
the individual expresses himself in song, others
take up the strain, and just insofar as the song
is universal and elemental in its appeal does
it become universal in its usage.

Christmas carols have aptly been called
“spiritual folk songs,” and like the secular
folk songs of all the nations, they were born
long ago from the vivid consciousness in the
minds of untutored poets and musicians of
the scenes clustering around the story of the
Nativity. Part of the indescribable charm of
folk music lies in its naiveté. It comes to us
in this busy industrial age as the voice of a
time when the world was young. Many of
the carols date from the days of the Crusades
and others originated during pilgrimages to
shrines, when groups of people associated
themselves together and passed the time with
story and song. Great revivals and church
festivals in the Middle Ages were always
fruitful seasons for the birth of sacred folk
songs and carols, when the hearts of the people
were stirred by vivid retelling of Bible stories
and when the presentation of Mystery Plays
heightened their appreciation of the pictorial
qualities of scenes from the life of Christ.

The theme which seemed to appeal most
compellingly was the story of the Nativity.
From the earliest days, Christmas was the
chief of all Christian festivals. Clement,
in the first century, admonished the priests,

(Continued on page 330)

Candles

of
Christmasttde

Alice Van Leer Carrick

The old ceremony of bringing in the boar's head, illustrated above, from “The Sketch Book” by Washington Irving, illustrated by Caldecott, published by The Macmillan Company

AVE you ever thought how some
books gleam with candlelight? It
may be because I am so fond of old
candlesticks and because I never
have enough of them—particularly
at Christmas when | want the yellow little
flames they bear to twinkle at every window-
pane—that | collect them in books just as |
do in real life. And, alas, with greater fre-
quency! Still it always solaces me to read
about them, and there is no book-room that I
would rather see than that warm, charming,
cheerful place Dickens describes in “ Pickwick
Papers.”’ Do you remember it? “The best
sitting-room at Manor Farm was a good, long,
dark-paneled room with a high chimney-piece
and a chimney, up which you could have
driven one of the new pat-
ent cabs, wheels and all.
At the upper end of the
room, seated in a shady
bower of holly and ever-
greens, were the two best
fiddlers, and the only harp,
in all Muggleton. In all
sorts of recesses, and on
all kinds of brackets stood
massive old silver candle-
sticks with four branches
each. Thecarpet was up,
the candles burned bright,
the fire blazed and crackled
on the hearth; and merry
voices and light-hearted
laughter rang through the
room. If any of the old
English yeomen had
turned into fairies when
they died, it was just the
place in which they would
have held their revels.”
What a pity that no
illustrator has ever done
justice to the charm of
this softly glowing fire-
light and candlelight.
Leech has given us the
gayety and the holly and
the jolly, jolly company,
but never a gleam from
those enchanting candle-
sticks do you see. And
Christmas and_ candles
belong to each other!
One of our holiday tasks
is to brighten our candle-
sticks until they shine
with that lovely pallor
well-rubbed old brass
always takes. (N.B., any
polish must be applied
with a liberal supply of
elbow grease!) Silver

candlesticks, to my grief, I have none;
they’re to come in the distant days when
we’re done with burnishing, not base metals,
but our children’s educations. In the mean-
time my brasses glitter bravely; I like
to think they resemble those in the old Christ
Church poem:

“See every sconce and candlestick made bright,
That without tapers they may give a light.”

But, of course, they shine with candles, too;
tall fresh ones, each with its pointing amber
flame; I think my Three, grown older, love this
ceremony just as much as they did lighting
the little gay-colored tapers that trimmed their
Trees when they were wee things. You know
what it symbolizesr A legend as old as the

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Middle Ages, I suppose; a beautiful tradit
that I rejoice is being kept alive. On Chr
mas Eve, you know, the little Christ Ch
bearing evergreens and holly, wanders throu
out the world, visiting lowly hamlets -
splendid cities, and rich and poor alike
their candles in the windows to guide his we
feet, and to tell him that His worshipy
await His coming.

I really think my Puritan candlesticks
very lucky to have been preserved to kr
this reverent joy. Scoured I am sure they y
by diligent housewives, but that was just
the dailiness of life, and they never bel
shone for the Christ Child, New England
ing no friend to innocent mirth and gay
when it took the form of what it was please
call “pagan festival:
There is a story—I 5
it for what it is wort
that our forefath
brought laurel and e
green and holly in
hold of that famous, o1
loaded Mayflower, :
that their first Christi
—also their last—was
ebrated on board s
somewhat in the man
of Merrie England.
the next Christmas, w
the Governor found |
tain lewd, roister
fellows pitching the
and playing at sto
ball, “he went to th
and took away their
plements, and tould tl
that it was against

conscience that tl
should play and ot!
worke.” I admire

honor the good Govei
enough to believe |
his severity may ft
been caused partly
economic necessity, ©
however it was, asain
it ended Christmas.
New England for mar
weary year. :

What a shame |
poor Puritan children
not know the happines
a Christmas Tree; wal|
in the primeval for
green firs brushing aga)
them, and never real’

Somersetshire’ wassaillers —
their wreathed bowl and cat
from ‘Christmas Carols’ ¢
by L. Edna Walter, illusti'
by Hartley, published by
Macmillan Company

1926

JECEMBER,

A 12th Century ‘‘chandelier” of
gilded bronze, formerly part of the
treasure of the Cathedral of Mans
to which it had been given by the
Abbot of Gloucester Cathedral

A pair of 16th Century snuffers

in the form of abird. The odd

little feet were to pick up the
burnt wick

yw entrancing the spreading branches would
ok, bright with colored balls and little danc-
‘g lights. Especially if it is true that Martin
ither sponsored them. The Puritans must
ive approved of Luther! Now some folks
‘ty that Christmas Trees are just the far-a-way
sscendants of the mystic Ygrasdil, that magic
“w with roots binding heaven and earth and
ll together, but I prefer the other legend
‘at tells how Martin Luther, coming home
ite on Christmas Eve, and beholding the
‘onder and glory of the arching sky spangled
ith a myriad stars, tried to describe its radi-
at loveliness to his wife, and failing com-
ietely to reveal its holy beauty, went out,
id bringing in a fir-tree, trimmed its branches
‘ith tiny candles, and said, “This is its earthly
‘mbol. Shining like the Christmas sky, this
‘a Christmas Tree.”

And while I am on the subject of Christmas
rees, may I tell you another story about
‘em? The reason why our Trees to-day
‘arkle with glittering webs of tinsel? Well,
ice upon a time—all good stories begin that
ay!—Christmas Trees were hung with just
its and gingerbread and candies and small
ue and yellow and red candles, and every-
hdy thought they were very pretty, and every
hdy wanted to see them. Even the house-
aimals came in to look and admire: the big
og, and the mother-cat and her kittens, the
(nary birds and, late at night, when nobody

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A group of old rush light

burners, the oldest at the

left showing no candle

socket. See how you can

“burn your candle at both
ends”’

Candlestick used in the

41th Century. The earliest

> orm of stick always shows

the spike for holding the
candle

was about, the little gray creeping mice.
Everybody but the spiders! Because, you
see, on Christmas Eve houses must be very
clean, and even people who don’t kill spiders,
sweep them down and throw them out-of-
doors. And so the spiders, very sad, went to
the Christ Child, and told Him that they had

An early 18th Century Dutch candle-box
that well may have held the Nikolaustag
candles

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

An early example of the

socket-stick, mot used
until the 14th Century.
The irregular shape was
thus made because can-
dles were rolled then and
not moulded, and this ir-
regularity permitted
them to fit

This type dates from the

reign of Charles VII. The
little entrance at the side
of the socket allows the
candle-end to be taken out,
a precursor of the sliding
stick of the 18th Century

never seen a Christ-
mas Tree, and He,
taking pity on their
longing, allowed them
to go in and take
a look. Now, as spiders are very inquis!-
tive and very, very industrious, they ran
at once to the Trees, and began crawling
all about, in and out, and weaving their webs
from branch to branch. And then, late at
night, when the Christ Child came back to
bless the trees, He saw that they were covered
thick with cobwebs, and He knew how sorry
and disappointed the children would be. So
He touched the gray webs, and they turned
into silver and gold, and the Trees were
prettier than ever. And that’s why we have
tinsel on our Trees to-day.

Yet, even with Martin Luther, and the
charm of this simple little German folk-tale,
and enchanting as my friends tell me a Christ-
mas in Germany always is, | think I’d rather
make holiday in England. Perhaps I should
speak more widely and say Great Britain;
anyhow, in Scotland, I’d have a chance to
see the Hogmanay processions. But think I’d
choose Wiltshire; it is near enough to Somer-
setshire to have the wassaillers come round
with their bowls and their candles, and | am
very sure that in the remote and lovely West
Country villages, waits would go about sing-

(Continued on page 718)

group of interesting candlesticks; at the left, a tall beautifully engraved French candlestick; second, two pewter sticks, the tall slender piece from France, the other with attached
.uffer from New England; next a 17th Century candlestick and snuffer from Touraine; and, at right, a small Puritan candlestick, spared to shine in honor of the Christ Child

283

Christmas tn Colontal Days

REAT-GRANDMOTHER
ii Elizabeth King, when she
Mt | h
Nesp Was young, perhaps one
Wy//7X@ hundred and thirty years
ago, lived in a large house
on Chesapeake Bay. There was a
separate building for the kitchen;
and lots of barns and stables for the
horses, cows and chickens; and still
more numerous cabins in which the
slaves lived.

Elizabeth had never heard of
Thanksgiving, but she knew that in
the fall, when the harvest had been
completed, the entire staff of cooks
worked at making wines and pre-
serves; cleaning and grinding grains;
smoking and pickling meats; and at
drying vegetables; all to provide a
store through the winter. And particularly
so that there might be a feast at Christmas
time. This was the one time of the year when
work was forgotten both by masters and by
slaves.

Beginning Dec. 24th and lasting until
Twelfth Night (January 5th), the gentry
visited or received guests, taking with them
their personal servants who helped to add to
the gaiety of the cabins. There was little
thought of religion in this celebration, al-
though legends from all the world helped to
create the customs that were followed.

For countless centuries, all peoples except
those of the tropics had thanked their gods
when the winter solstice was passed, and each
morning the sun rose a bit earlier than the day
before. The Romans celebrated this Satur-
nalia with elaborate feasts, and primitive folk
in colder Jands had legends which required
careful observance of this day and which have
influenced our own mode of celebration.

Elizabeth’s family had brought from Eng-
land a love for this time, when eating and
drinking with family and
friends became the first
duty of man. The big
house was decorated with
Ivy, Holly, and Mistletoe.
Elizabeth had never heard
of a Christmas tree; but
she knewthat the Ivy held
fame from the days of
Rome; that Holly was the
symbol of life here and
hereafter; that Mistletoe
in early English legend
brought healing powers
because it grew on the
sacred™Oaksaasl hatuits
name came from mistle-
tan, meaning the tine of
a tree.

One of the guests men-
tioned that in some places,
it was usual to remove
one berry each time a kiss

After an illustration by Mary A. Hallock for Long fellow’s ‘

Will Jackson

[Illustrations by courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art

From an early edition (1874) of Longfellow’s “Hanging of the Crane,”
engraving by A. V. S. Anthony, after drawing by Mary A. Hallock

was taken; but a shout of protest voted this
a ‘“‘dour custom.”

The only ceremonial part of the festivities
was that of bringing in the Yule log. A huge
trunk had been cut from an Oak, which legend
says is sacred to Thor. All the household,
including the guests, were divided so as to
stand on either side the doorway, as the
servants brought in the log. Elizabeth’s
father made a little speech asking that health
and success attend those present throughout
the new year. Then all the household in turn
seated themselves on the log, with much
tumbling on the part of the young folks. Part
of the Yule log of the previous year had been ~
kept, to be used in the kindling of the new log.
This unburned portion helped to keep off
lightning during the summer and to prevent
other dangers during the year.

Uncle Chester was then invited to tell of the
Saxon Christmas of old England, when it was
not unusual for a baron to feast several thous-
and of his retainers. In these feudal days the
food was cooked over fires in the open courts.

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Hanging of the Crane”

There were not tables nor chairs t
seat so many, and Elizabeth nudge
her brother when Uncle Chester tol
there were no forks and that eve
the fine ladies ate from their finger:
Tumblers were so named _ becaus
they had no bases on which to stan¢
and the contents must therefore b
emptied at one draught. Drinkin
was one of the important features «
Christmas. The wassail bowl, fror
wes-hal, to be whole, full of stron
drink in which floated roasted apple:
was passed around continuousl;
Uncle Chester told how, in som
lands, the Yule log was dedicate
before it was cut, and the tree wa
saluted as it fell. Then sai
christened with food and drinl
Fire is apparently closely associated with th
spirit world, and the fireplace with the Yul
log is made the important feature, this nigh
when earth and paradise touch hands.

Then the crowd was very formally ushere
to the dining-room, where the table had bee
extended to accommodate fifty people. Th
children were seated together in the adjoinin
room, much to the joy of two mischievou
cousins, and greatly to the sorrow of the litt!
girls who felt the need of Mother’s protectior
The older folk ate and drank and talked an
laughed for an interminable time—for tw
whole hours or more. Then there was dancin
and gambling for the grownups way into th
following morning. The children played gam:
or whispered and gossiped until from she
exhaustion they fell asleep, when their colore
mammies carried them off to their bed
There was no hanging of stockings, for the:
children never heard of Santa Claus.

Of course the visitors brought gifts, but tl
idea of presents from some saintly or myste!
ous source never had become known to the:
children. Particularly d
Elizabeth love her Unc
Ebenezer, who was capta
of a ship, and who broug!
what was extremely pr
cious, a real Europea
doll, and a strange box
sweets, and also a la
hat. The boys most e
joyed Cousin Reuben, w!
came from the wild lan
beyond the Cumberlan¢
He knew Indians, hi
fought with them, trad
with them, and had mc
exciting stories to tell. .

The great rooms Wé
lighted by candles, ©
also being placed in ea
window, with blinds ope
so that the light sho
over the roads and fiel’

(Continued on page 325)

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Festivities

in Oldentime

Sashion

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From “Christmas with the Poets” (1851) illustrated by Birket Foster

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Christmas Eve

After a drawing by Mary A. Hallock for an early
edition of Longfellow’s ‘‘ Hanging of the Crane”

Fireside Carols

The family sing ‘‘A Carol on the Birth
of Christ” (illustration by Birket Foster)

Illustrations by Courtesy
of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Bringing in the Boar’s Head

Pictured by the English artist Birket Foster
(1825-1890) in “Christmas with the Poets”’

Ander the Mistletoe

Drawn by Birket Foster for the
poem “Christmas 1s a’ Coming”

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Match packs are desirable gifts.
In colored hand-tooled leather
these may be had for $1.00

A copy ot oid Stiegel green glass In dark amber glass this vase in

is this vase 8 inches high with thumb cut design is 1z inches

engraved basket design ($5.00) high —a ae acceptable gift
($3.50)

Attractive Gifts
at
Mell (Crest

Photographs by courtesy of Ovington Bros., Anna
M. Laise Phillips, Alice Foote MacDougall,
Elizabeth H. Pusey

A black bowl always lends a distinc-
tive note. This is unusually pleas-
ing with its wide border of encrusted
A tuck-in cushion in hand-pieced quilt patches of gold at top. 7 inches in diameter Of leather with gold tooled design this compact bridge

old, fadeless calico ($5.00) ($5.00) set holds cards, score pad, etc., and comes in blue,
brown or rose leather ($5.00)

Ofimported Italian pottery
this little flower holder
lends a gay note of color

wherever used. The bowl Typically foreign is this

is 9 inches wide, at $4.50. Italian flower holder 7

The center flower holder 4 inches high in cream col-
inches high costs $2.95 ored pottery, ($1.75)

286

Individual and distinctive is this
silver hand-wrought pendant at $9

Gifts to be Had

Well named the “Monastery Bell’ is Holding the quaint loveliness of an
this soft-toned dinner gong of brass ($9) old candiestick, this completely wired

fr Om electric lamp of brass costa but $8.50
65 to $10

Photographs by courtesy of George Jensen, Yamanaka & Co., Boston Arts & Crafts, Mittel-
dorfer Straus, Lord & Taylor, Ovington Bros., L. H. Vaughan, The R. C. Heather Co.

This brocade envelope purse
with real jade ornament
comes in all colors at $6

A gift for any room in the house is this
brass sconce at $6
A gift unique would be this
pewter inkwell 4 inches high
at $6

Of solid silver
hand-wr ought is
this spoon with its
graceful unusual
handle ($6.50)

Any Dickens enthusiast would prize this
enamelled tin waste basket with its colored
picture from Pickwick ($6.50)

Decorative as well as useful is this
cigarette jar and four ash trays of

A new shaped fan vase is this of Bohemian amber glass (Set $7.50)

green glass with engraved design ($5)

Christmas Gifts

from
$10 to $15

” Photographs by courtesy of Anna M. Laise Phillips, The Cowan Pottery Studio, Ovington
Bros., Lord & Taylor, George C. Gebelein, James R. Marsh, Boston Arts & Crafts

Raised crewel work in brilliant
colors on a black background
makes this early Dutch ‘‘Victory
Wreath’’ attractive for wall
panel or table cover ($15)

With the “Half Moon” in
silhouette this hand-forged
wrought-iron candlestick
has its candle sockets wired
for electricity at $16

The odd plate is always accept-

able; this of crystal with black

painted design makes a partic
ularly desirable gift, ($10)

Solving the question

of a gift for a man is

this hand hammered

sterling silver ciga-

rette case, gold lined
($14)

A tricky cigarette box is this of gold Acapacious usable
tooled brown leather. When the lid is wastebasket is this
lifted there is music in the air ($15) of blue, red, or
brown leather,
with old world
maps as a decora-

tion ($10)

Unusually attractive is a desk set of heavy metal
finished in brass, the whole in scroll design ($15)

Unique both in design and

in its pottery this flower

holder will lend a gay note

of color to living room or
sun room ($11)

An Early American antique pewter
cider pitcher 614 inches high is a
/ 4 gift to be prized and treasured ($15)

The spirit of the garden
seems caught and held in
this white nymph atop

the flower holder in the
bowl, the cost of both bow]
and figure being only $11

wo electric early American
rass finish lamps, wired
omplete, with frosted flame
ulbs and clear cut globes
iakes this a gift to be de-
desired ($18)

The traveller will find comfort and
convenience in a travelling pillow
of lavender suede leather with
pocket for book, pillow, etc. ($20)

A decorated jar 12
inches high of
Italian pottery is
suitable for dining
or living room. If
wired it makes a
most unusual lamp
(as shown $20)

Whether to hold accessories
for a good smoke or to be
opened up for tea such tables
lend charm to any room ($17)

In this practical pewter tea set the handle of the tea pot is wound
with wicker with colored strands interwoven (the complete set $18)

Unusual Gifts

from
$15 to $20

Photographs by courtesy of George C. Gebelein, Carbone, Inc., The R. C.
Heather Co., Alice H. Marks, United Arts and Crafts, Altman & Co.

With the adjustable panel
of transparent mica a fire-
place screen 66 inches high
lends an old time touch ta
the modern hearth ($18)

“A pair of Aces”’ is a well chosen title
for this signed etching 9x12 inches at $15

“If this be vanity,
who'd be wise?
Vanity let it be.’’
A sterling silver
vanity case at $21

A well chosen lamp
can be the domi-
nant note of a
room. Of imported
Italian pottery in
gay colors this
lamp may be had
for $20

A corner all their own is
given magazines and pa-
pers in this hand forged
wrought-iron magazine
rack with its convenient
handle for carrying about.
1814 inches high ($20)

An example of the Spanish mode

is an ivory Maiolica lamp wich

stripes in green, orange and brown
with shade to match ($17)

The interesting vase below is of
Bohemian amber glass, 9 inches
high and 614 inches wide ($7.50)

The bird bath at

right is suited to

either the large or

small garden be-

cause of the simple

beauty of its lines,
($15)

A very necessary piece of furniture
is the little imported stool, Italian
in every line. This is 20 inches
high, costing $30. The fan vase also
comes from Italy and is both prac-
tical and colorful, 9 inches high ($13)

To

Gifts for the

Photographs by courtesy of Carbone, Inc., Sarti, Lucchesi © Co.,
Erkins Studios, M. Straus, Yamanaka & Co., Lord & Taylor,
Ovington Bros., S. Pennock Co., J. J. Leinfelder € Sons, Inc.

count none

but sunny

hours is the
work of this
bronze sundial
that is 10inches
wide and costs

The wrought-iron
wall pocket at left
has a copper cup
5 inches high for
flowers. The
bracket itself is
17144 inches high
and 9 inches wide,
($3.25)

Even the smallest terrace or wall

may have a fountain to splash

joyously over this stone frog, 10
inches high ($16.50)

A delight to every flower lover are the two pairs of

cutting shears above. The one at left in all steel

at $1.50—those at right with handles of Japanese
lacquer at $1.50

$9.90

Bearing a pot of
drooping vines
this quaint brass
holder lends an
interesting note
to sunroom or
veranda ($ 2)

Garden

and
Sunroom

To garden, terrace or sunroom
this oil jar from the Old World
will bring a rich note of color ($45)

What garden or terrace
would not be the lovelier if
it held one of these old
strawberry jars from Italy!
Height 151% inches, 1342
inches wide, costing $20
with iron stand $5.50 extra

In gayest colors the hand-

woven collapsibie rain-

bow basket above is dis-

tinctly ornamental as

well as an important part

ot every gardener’s equip-
ment ($ 2)

Distinctive

Gifts for
Men

Photographs by courtesy of Ovington Bros., James
R. Marsh, Carbone Inc., The Distinctive Weather-
_ vane, International Silver Co., Samuel Edelman

This black leatherette case with its equip-
ment is a valuable addition to the belong-
ings of the man who travels or stays at
home; 9 inches long, 734 inches high, ($20)

As shapely and small
as a fountain pen this
Tepeating razor holds
supplies of blades that
slip into place when
plunger is pulled. Of
metal with shaving
head gold plated there
are no small loose parts
to cause delay and
trouble, ($5)

A leather travelling case completely fitted
and most compact, 914 inches long ($12)

This convenient table is of Span-
ish tile in bright blues and yellows
with supporting stand of wrought-
iron. 20 inches high at $18.50

A practical metal
ash tray, where the
silhouette serves as
a handle; 444 inches

wide, ($1)

From Denmark
comes this quaint
pinch bottle of
dark green glass
with the decora-
tive motif in pew-
ter; holds 1%
pints ($10)

A Florentine leather humidor in brown with gold
tooling. Inside partitions are adjustable for
any size cigar or cigarette; 9 inches long ($18)

Below is an interesting lamp

for smokers, combining

lamp, ash tray, bowl for

pipes, and match box holder.

Electrically equipped with

parchment shade complete,
($12)

Always dependable like as their living proto-
type, is a pair of these Scottish terrier book
ends in antique silver at $5

Of sterling silver is the dice box
with ends of glass. It is filled
with water—the dice floating
to the top when turned ($5.50);
and, below, the automatic
pocket lighter is of silver

plate ($8.50)

Simple in design this sterling silver ciga-
rette {case comes in] pocket size ($17)

A glimpse of Palm trees and
moonlight in Hawaii, that Par-
adise of the Pacific where the
climate is unchanging and
every month is May

Tobogganing on Duf-

ferin Terrace, Quebec,

is more than just asport

—it is the experience of
a lifetime!

O MANY Christmas gifts to choose
from; so many loved ones to give to!
Each must have the best, something
to tell throughout life’s coming days
of the loving thought of the giver!

What shall that gift ber? There is one gift

which more than most others will bring a fine

sense of pleasure to both the donor and the
receiver—the gift of a trip.

All the romance of sailing the Spanish Main
may be held in such a gift; all the daring and
venture of a discoverer, for after all, we are

Christm

Ellen D. Wang

Photographs by courtesy of Furness-Bermu

Line, Cunard S.S. Co., Canadian Pacific R. ]

Los Angeles S. S. Co., and Matson Navi;
tion Co.

discoverers when we visit a new land for
first time. Columbus may have seen
West Indies before we did; Balboa have.
scanned the Pacific from that “peak
Darien,” but for us the actual disco\
comes when we see it for the first time.
thrilling gift indeed and one that may
timed to come into fulfilment after the |
days so that as the Christmas stockin
emptied by the home fireplace, there will
be left the joys of anticipation. Or it 1
be given for such time as to let this Christ
stocking be emptied in new climes with Ch:
mas spent in a new way, perhaps with
Christmas pudding piped in on a moc
“liner,’’ or with, perchance, Father Nept
in command of the ship in southern wa
as it bumps over the equator. Perhaps
gift might be a trip to Hawaii, the “lan
the rainbow,” drean
lands where it is alv
May, a place for |
for recreation, for
mance; “where the
is like velvet to
cheek and the we
at Waikiki are vé
to the body,”
where surf-board ri
has been likene<
standing on a com
a spray of blue
gold and diamond.
More and more
such trips becoming
gift supreme an
planning them,
roads, steamship |
and tourist agencie:
not only studying
most attractive 1

Pictures such as this of Vv}

blue waters framed in

Pines greet the traveler t
muda at every tum

uises

“The lwing world is, after all,
e greatest show on earth. Life's
wessant parade 1s a moving picture
jualled by no other. The human
rama is the first of human interests.
olor, history, romance and strange
auty fill the days and nights of a
»yage over the changing face of the
orld.”

—From “‘Cruises Supreme.”

jaces of interest but they are taking care-
thught of the needs and problems of the
ser to iron out all possible unpleasant
iles in the magic carpet of travel. There
oxtra charge for having some agency plan
iyin its entirety and secure such accom-
icons as bring the greatest comfort and
cof mind to the tourist. Moreover,
1 cruise definitely planned throughout,
eict cost of each step of the journey can
kpwn in advance with the way for each
» arefully paved. The problem of for-
dig parcels to and from all foreign coun-
sill be solved; passports and all docu-
it required by foreign countries will be
ercare of; travelers’ checks and letters
eit be issued and foreign money ex-
n:d on favorable terms; hotel reservations
{ made; luggage cared for to the end that
nthe most inex-
ieced traveler may
tty free from all
long and disagree-
» roblems that are
aj to be met with
‘r one is “traveling
qiown.”’
onany carefully
ud, delightful trips
eveen arranged for
dliday and winter
so that it is difficult
‘awhich is the most
b desired. Who
ul not like, for in-
ic to sail away to
‘est Indies, where
ies belong to the
Wrld more than to
"w, where the nar-
’, bbbled streets, the

© Traced Temple of Queen

tshhsut at Thebes in oe

rd) by lofty cliffs on the

208" side of which are the
mbs of the Kings!

Perpetually bathed in sunshine

is Nassau, the capital of the

Bahamas where Palm-bordered

roads and shores and masses

of gay colored flowers create a
fairyland

Gibraltar is not only a
huge rock guarding the
Mediterranean portal,
it is an interesting town
of many nationalities

colorful roofs atop the low white buildings,
the cathedrals and the ceaseless murmur of
foreign voices make this the most picturesque
and romantic part of America! Trips to
these Islands may be had on almost any
day and over many lines, each featuring some
unusually interesting parts of the Islands.
None however, give the traveler greater
variety of nationalities and places of his-
toric interest than the tours of the Furness-
Bermuda Line, trips lasting from 21 to 23
days, round trip rates $1.75 and up, this an
(Continued on page 316)

Attractive furniture for his room is a lasting gift that appeals to every child and inspires in him a responsibility for his own possessions

Gifts Too Large for the Stocking

A. Louise Fillebrown

Photographs by courtesy of Childhood, Inc., Mark Cross Co., United Arts and Crafts, International Silver Co.

HERE is an ever-growing desire to
make of children’s gifts something
that will be a little more than an
easily broken toy or an article of
which they will soon tire. Gifts
that will develop in the small boy or girl a love
and appreciation of beauty in his or her own per-
sonal belongings, gifts that may stir a sluggish
imagination and so possibly influence both the
character and the whole future of the small
person, are being given in increasing numbers
each year. And these will not fit into the
Christmas stocking, perhaps will receive but

The fitted suitcase for the little girl is equally

useful as a week-end bag for her as she grows

up; and (at right) the complete toilet set will
last for years

A signed etching appro-
priate for the child’s room

204

scant notice on Christmas Day, but the
be prized increasingly as time goes on.
One never-ending source of satisfact'
most children is a well-loved collecti
books, and nothing can grow more int
ingly than the library of a story-loving
which as a rule has for a foundation tre:
sets of the children’s old stand-bys, st
Stevenson, Kipling, Louisa Alcott, Ba
James Fenimore Cooper and Sir Walter
As the child grows older and taste de\
“grown up” authors may be added.

(Continued on page 340)

A well-stocked sewing basket is a deli :

“grown-up” gift for the little girl, 4

one which she will keep and use for
time

EEMBER,. 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

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Richard Lowenfeld, Photo.

ne

;

GARDENING ON A LAKESIDE

Gardenesque treatment of the shore line against
the natural background of evergreen forest gives
a welcome touch of brilliancy. At the home of
Mrs. Jones, Gravelly Lake, Tacoma, Washington

205

Beautiful old mantel moved from a farmhouse and now fittingly
set in the home of Mr. James Boyd, author of “Drums’’ and
keen appreciator of our Revolutionary heritage; Weymouth,
Southern Pines, North Carolina; Aymar Embury II, Architect

Pleasant this fireplace with its
antique accoutrements and its
air of peace in the breakfast
room of a Pennsylvania home

“But a sight sae delightfu’ I trow I ne'er sp
As the bonny blithe blink o’ my ain fireside’
Elizabeth Hamilton (175,

Simple in design 2
odd with its abbrevi
is the fireplace a
has kindled for
century of Christmas
in 1792, the house wai
by Samuel E. Smii
ernor of Maine 18

Where the Yule

ires Burn

Photographs by Eddy’s Studio, Margaret O. Gold-
smith, John Wallace Gillies, Philip B. Wallace

Ample-mouthed, backed with interestingly pat-
terned brick, faced and hearthed with stone this
is a gathering place indeed for winter evenings.
At South Norwalk, Connecticut, Mr. Waldo
Sheldon’s house; Frank J. Forster, Architect

a

Norman days have left their mark on this fireplace
designed by Mr. Frank J. Forster, Architect, for
his own living-room at Great Neck, Long Island

i
if
e
if

*

Another chimney place of unusual design
at Mr. Sheldon’s home (see left also)

207

What the Well Dressed Table Will We;

Am eliaelee aii teal

Author of “Redeeming Old Homes,” “‘Garden Portraits,”” etc.

Photographs by courtesy of Linen Damask Guild, International Silver Co., Copeland © Thompson, Inc., Rogers, Lunt © Bowlen Co.

ABC: N THESE less spacious days when
4*y- hospitality is handicapped by high
Ys prices and soaring rents it is seldom
easy and sometimes impossible to
hold festivities in open handed,
old-time manner. However, even the apart-
ment dweller has visions of her own in
which hospitality, though of necessity more
limited, 1s none the less hearty, and for
the Christmas table everywhere—whether
in city house, apartment, or country
home—there are certain essentials.
First of all, let us consider the
foundation upon which the whole is
to be built and see how it may best
be made appropriate to its function.
A cloth is the foundation de rigeur for
the Christmas or any other formal
dinner, and this, strictly speaking,
should be of the finest of damask and
plain save for a satin band about the
edge. Perfectly permissible, however,
is the damask cloth with a restrained
design, and for the informal dinner
this design may be of silver gray upon
a background of what is known as
“marron-glacé.” Some housewives
prefer embroidered or lace-trimmed
cloths, but the more formal the dinner
the more strictly is the plain white
damask adhered to. Again, the exi-
gencies of modern life—and the ini-
quities of laundries—have intervened
and occasionally a woman prefers to
cover her table with mats and runners
rather than with the regulation cloth.
This method, though not correct for
dinner, is permissible for luncheon,
and may be used when the Christmas
dinner is served in the middle of the
day, when it may masquerade not

over-much in such a guise. When this
course is adopted, a word may be said here
as to the details which are followed. A
runner is generally used—either one wide one
running down the center of the table or two
narrower ones which cross each other at right
angles in the middle. Of course, no center-

piece is used, nor doilies, where the places
are set in such a way that the ends of the
runners will serve a similar purpose.

At the

A correctly set luncheon table, where
cloth and matching napkins are used

208

other seats doilies are placed, and the ne
ones are oblong in shape. Napkins, whe
to be used with runners and doilies or

a lace cloth are of the finest, edged with
and decorated with lace inserts and eye
Of course, when the plain damask cloth js
the napkins must be of damask of the ;
design, and should be perfectly plain

for an embroidered monogram—which ma
as elaborate as one pleases—in the mi
of one side, so that when the napk
folded in thirds it may turn its
to the world. Lunch napkins are
broidered on the corners and folde
quarters and then again in fh
diagonally so that the decoration
be evident.

Forks, of course, are placed at
left of the plate and in the ord
which they are to be used, begin
at the left. A fish fork, a large
for the roast and a small one for s:
are all that should be placed upon
table when it is set. Silver to be:
with the other courses should
brought in when these are served,
for a dessert a spoon and fork shi
be given every guest, after the Ens
fashion, for though in this cou
both are not simultaneously used,
done across the water, each gues
granted all the privileges of |
determination in the choice of wl
implement he shall employ.

To the right of the plate are ple
the large dinner knife, the fish ki
if this be provided, the soup sp
and the oyster fork, which last iso
placed diagonally, the tines lyin;
the soup spoon and the handle |
jecting ‘‘katter-corner”’ to the ri

A dinner tabli
tractively s¢€’
silver and cr}
with the less fo
runner and di!

of filet —

[ECEMBER, 1926

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Three perfectly appointed tables: above, an informal arrangement; next, a din-
ner setting; and below, the more formal Juncheon table set with Spode china

‘small silver or even a glass dish of salted
rts should stand before every plate, and
cher individual pepper and salts, or the
monumental ones which stand upon two or
fur corners of the table, are perfectly correct.
fead-and-butter dishes are never seen at the
irmal dinner, since butter is not served.
Each cover should, of course, bear a service
jate. Upon this the dish containing the
ist course, be it appetizer, oysters or fruit,
iplaced, and when the first course is removed
te service plate remains. The same pro-
«dure is followed with the soup—which Is, of
‘urse, served in the pantry—and the service
jate does not make its disappearance until
laid or houseman lifts it with one hand to
jit in its place the plate containing fish, if
‘is be served on the table, or when it is passed
“as is more generally the case—replaces it
ith a hot and empty plate just before passing
‘gins. The idea, of course, is that no place
‘ould ever be without a plate before it.
Now, and perhaps most important of all,
t us consider the decoration of
e table itself. The centerpiece, first,
lls for recognition. Any arrange-
ent of fine flowers may be used, but
ie distinctive of the season will be
und by far the most attractive. By
me instinctive feeling all the world
ems to have adopted red as the
hristmas color, and red roses or
\rysanthemums make a very lovely
*coration. Another, most suggestive
the season, is the tiny Christmas
ee adorned with minute balls and
shts, hung with diminutive cornu-
pias and festoons of tinsel. A real tree
the desired size may readily be had,
At one of the artificial ones so often
en will keep from year to year, and

299

under its gay trappings can hardly be told
from one of more natural origin. A particu-
larly charming table was laid about such a
little tree, and from the fixture above it
(which was, of course, not lighted) ran four
red ribbons each of which ended in a sash
and bow about the waist of each of the tall
silver candlesticks which held the four corners
of the table. The candles were shaded by
pale green shades on which bloomed flaming
poinsettias, the candies in the silver dishes
were in red, while the snowy white of the cloth,
the deep rich red of the decorations and the
gleaming of glass and silver made a picture
which those who saw it will not soon forget.

Of course color is popular to-day in table
decoration as elsewhere, but there are hostesses
who prefer the spotless white which has long
distinguished our tables. For them it is pos-
sible to concoct a delightful Christmas decor-
ation, taking the color scheme from the snow
and ice outside. Another table was once
decorated in this way with fine effect. Here the
center was held by a great silver jug
filled with white roses and feathery
asparagus; four candlesticks of silver
at the corners were topped by silver
shades; silver dishes of white and silver
bonbons were placed upon the cloth
amid lengths of Christmas tree tinsel
and scattered candies wrapped in tin-
foil; and as a final touch long white
ribbons from the central fixture ran
from above to bows upon the candle-
sticks, like the red ones earlier de-
scribed, the whole forming a spark-
ling and exquisite effect in white and
silver.

The glassware for the Christmas
table must not be passed by, in view

(Continued on page 314)

D. SHERMAN.

$11TH the coming of another Christmas
season, we are again brought face
to face with the yearly problem of

re f
So) the use of Christmas greens and

trees. There is story and romance,
old creeds and customs so intimately bound
up with the use of Holly and Mistletoe, of
Ground-pine and Pine trees that we have all
wanted them about us at Yuletide. Unfor-
tunately, we have desired them not wisely, but
to such a degree that far-visioned folk today
find that they must no longer use them if the
whole beloved group of Christmas plants is
to be saved from extermination. In lieu of
the Holly and Pine they are using such sub-
stitutes as garlands of Poinsettia, White Pine,
Hemlock or Arborvitae, and other clippings
and trimmings from their own trees. Also
are they finding much beauty in Juniper
berries, Partridge berries and the bright
red-beaded sprays of the Barberry bush. And
these folk are also sponsoring the very beau-
tiful and rapidly growing custom of having
living Christmas trees. On thousands of
lawns such trees are being planted to be
lighted at Christmas-time, not for the grati-
fication of the few but for the pleasure of the
many.

Back of this movement stand the hundreds
of garden clubs, the Wild Flower Preservation
Society, the Living Tree Guild and many
state and national societies who realize that
unless tree conservation becomes a fact and
not a theory this country of ours will not only
be without Christmas trees but any trees,
and that in this present century! It is no
unimportant matter, this of restricting the
cutting of young Pines and Spruces when one
thinks of the carloads shipped to every city
and town at holiday times! To make one
case of Holly such as we see in all the large
florists’ shops, over 600 years of growth must
be used, while one large wreath uses up two
years of the finest young, berried twigs. One
yard of Laurel-roping such as we delight to
have in our churches represents 20 years of
growth.

Each individual, church and community 1s
responsible in this matter and we have but to
consider the work accomplished in the city
of Des Moines, Iowa, to realize how much
beauty can be produced by living trees, and
what can be accomplished to prevent the
Christmas destruction in our woodlands.
The following account was written at our re-
quest by Mrs. Addison Parker, who for a long
time has led the garden club of this city in
many such worth-while projects.

Each season more living trees are added to the
grounds of Des Moines’ homes. Last winter with
the ground completely blanketed with snow, through-
out the entire holiday season the lighted trees pro-
duced an effect exceedingly lovely. There has
been quite a surprising variety in lighting and in the

Honorary Vice-Presidents:

The National Garden Association

Formed to promote the annual observance of National Garden Week

LEONARD BARRON, F.R.H.S., President

J. Horace McFarvanp, Mrs. Francis Kinc, Mrs. Russett Tyson, Mrs.
Tuomas G. WiInTER, Mrs. SAMUEL SLOAN, Mr. FREDERICK NEWBOLD, Mr. RoserT Pyte, Mrs. JOHN

Coéperating Societies: SocteTY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HorTICULTuRISTS; NATIONAL
PLANT, FLOWER AND FRUIT GUILD; AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY; AMERICAN IRIS SoclETY; ONTARIO Horti-
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN ForESTRY ASSOCIATION; WOMEN’S NATIONAL FARM AND GARDEN
ASSOCIATION: WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION SocieETY; NATIONAL HorTICULTURAL SociETY; THE AGASSIZ
ASSOCIATION; THE SCHOOL NATURE LEAGUE; SOCIETY OF LITTLE GARDENS.

types of trees used. A home with a formal entrance
may have a pair of pyramidal Junipers or Arbor-
vitae lighted at each side of the doorway, or, there
may be a large evergreen, Pine, Spruce, Fir or
Hemlock, planted on the lawn away from the house.
This may be twenty-five feet in height with fifty or
more lights on it, or the tree may be very small
with but half a dozen lights.

Some trees are decorated with white frosted
lights only, which gleam like silver stars against
the snow. Many of the lights are colored, green,
orange, red, and blue. Since the outdoor lighting
has increased, electric bulbs for the purpose have
been improved. The electricians now furnish a
bulb the color of which is not affected by moisture.
Our electricians are most helpful too, in furnishing
proper material for the decoration of the trees.
They use a moisture-proof wire with sockets at
intervals of about three feet. Usually the con-
nection is made from one of the entrance lights of
the house. It is not necessary to have a large,
imposing tree to give a pleasing result: I recall last
Christmas one of the most charming effects was
obtained with the use of three tiny Hemlocks each
with three or four colored lights. The house
itself is situated on a prominent knoll and the little
evergreens were planted and lighted just below the
brow of the hill.

A number of people who had not planted living
trees in their grounds or who were living in rented
houses or apartments, bought live evergreens in
tubs and placed them on their porches and decorated
them. To me, these little lighted trees at the
entrance doors were particularly lovely, seeming
to suggest the hospitality and Christmas spirit
within. In Des Moines our trees are lighted over
a period of about two weeks, from a little before
Christmas until after New Year’s Day.

There is another reason for my enthusiasm for
the living Christmas tree. Usually our winters
are quite long and the evergreens furnish the only
green in an otherwise drab landscape. Our soil
and climate are not suitable to Rhododendrons and
some of the other broad-leaved evergreens, so the
trees seem to fill a real need. And is there any-
thing lovelier in the winter landscape than a stately
spruce;-a towering Fir or a weeping Hemlock whose
branches are weighted down with snow?

At PASADENA, California, this same
form of conservation has ‘long been
practised, down a street one mile long and
called Christmas-tree Lane! Surely the very
spirit of Christmas as well as of conservation
must hover over this lighted boulevard which
is pictured so clearly in the following letter
from P. M. Grant of that city.

In the illuminated Christmas-tree Lane, the trees
are graceful Himalayan Cedars known as Deodars
or Trees of God. For more than a mile they stand
in unbroken rows on both sides of Santa Rosa
Avenue at the foot of Mount Lowe in Altadena,
a suburb of Pasadena, overlooking the city and
valley below. Each year, at Christmas time, the
Kiwanis Club of Pasadena, with the codperation
and assistance of the Municipal Lighting Depart-
ment, illuminates the trees with thousands of
colored electric lights and from all parts of southern
California people come to view the unusual spectacle.

The illumination begins on Christmas Eve and
extends through New Years’s night. Each Christmas
Eve, members of the Kiwanis Club, city officials
and thousands of spectators gather at the head of
Christmas-tree Lane. There is a short program of
music, a brief talk by officials and then the Boy
Scouts touch buttons that turn on the thousands

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of lights. The crowd, headed by the band, ci
officials and the members of the Kiwanis Ch
parade down the avenue singing Christmas caro
Each night thereafter the lights are turned on fro
six o'clock until nearly midnight and the aven
is thronged with people from all over southern Ca
fornia as well as hundreds of others who ha‘
journeyed from all parts of the world to atter
Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses on Ne
Year’s Day.

The trees belong to the Cedrus Deodara bran
of the Cedar family and are natives of India whe
they form extensive forests in the Himalayas. —
their native habitat they often grow to be 150 fe
high and as much as 8 feet in diameter.

In such community interest and coéperatic
there is a sort of conservation, too, which
quite as necessary as that of trees. This
the saving of an old-time neighborliness ar
community spirit that seems to be rapid
passing away in our lives so filled with mode:
rush and pressure.

AS fine Christmas plan is that ou
lined by the National Plant, Flower ar
Fruit Guild in their Christmas appeal:

Why not preserve the vanishing supply of eve
greens and interest the children in reforestation |
giving small live Christmas trees in gay tubs or pot
these to be transplanted to the yard as soon |
weather permits? There are very old ladies, ar
sick mothers, and wistful cripples in every commu
ity throughout the country who would be hap
if they were to receive a small Christmas tr
growing in a gay pot, which they could care for ar
enjoy during the winter. These little trees wou
not come from our forests but from nurseries. W
you include the presentation of these little trees.
part of your Christmas program and stand spons'
for the plan in your community? The Nation
Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild (at 70 Fifth Avenu
New York City) will be glad to supply the names:
places accessible to you where such trees may |
purchased.

To carry out such a plan successfully, there shou
be a committee of representative people, schoo!
churches and other organizations. A list shou
be secured from social agencies of sick, age
crippled and other shut-in folk; a fund for purcha
ing the trees should be raised and committe
shouid be appointed to attend to ordering the tree
to planting them in paper pots, to distributing the
and then, in the spring, to aid in planting the litt
trees out-of-doors.

This is an appeal that will interest evel
garden club and will be adopted by many |
the end that not only may the trees be savé
but that Christmas may take on a new meal
ing in the heart of many a home-bound perso
to whom the little tree has brought a whisp
of “good will to men.”

The National Garden Association sen
to each and every garden club the best |
Christmas wishes and an offer to help Wi!
all club problems and of a free constitutio
programme and bylaws for the formation
such clubs. :

Address the Association at Garden Cit
New York. |

ELLEN D. WANGNER, Secreta’

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The 1926 Dahlia Roll of Honor

A Report of the Outstanding Varieties in the Eastern Shows

N THIS report our chief concern is
to tell what were the outstanding
Dahlias in the important shows in
1926, a record year for that flower.
We call it a record year because
ere were more Dahlias shown than previ-
usly, because competition was keener in
ractically every show, and because the
lahlia is doing a noble work in influencing
undreds of people to turn to horticulture as a
obby. It is largely for such hobbyists that
lis review is made, and more specially for
1ose who have not had opportunity to attend
large show and to whom such a survey will
e of assistance in making acquaintance with
lose outstanding varieties that were best in

ie show room and garden.

It seems fitting to take this opportunity to
ay a tribute to the memory of Richard

‘incent, Jr., President of the American Dahlia
ociety, whose death occurred in October.
ir. Vincent was familiarly known to hundreds
f Dahlia enthusiasts as “Uncle Dick,” and
is but justice to record now that he did more
or the Dahlia than any other single person.
fore than his determination, more than his
ood fellowship, more than his actual work
ith the flower, it was his unbounded en-
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it must have impressed hundreds of other
Dahlia enthusiasts. The American Dahlia
Society may well be proud that it was es-
tablished under a man of such vision, en-
thusiasm, and willingness to stand up for the
Dahlia even before horticulturists generally
saw the present possibilities in this spectacular
flower.

The most instructive and interesting exhibit
of the year was the Fisher & Masson display
at the Sesqui-Centennial Show at Philadel-
phia; the best strictly commercial display of
the season was the W. Atlee Burpee Co.
exhibit at New York and the most artistic
was the Dahliadel exhibit at New York. The
most interesting and best staged show was
the joint effort of the Dahlia Society of New
Jersey and the Camden Dahlia Society in the
Convention Hall at Camden, N. J. In ad-
dition, it had the best amateur exhibits and
the largest number of good new varieties.
The New York Show had more exhibitors
and more spectacular commercial exhibits
than any other show. It begins to look as
though the American Dahlia Society has seen
its opportunity in New York and is headed in
the direction of a really spectacular Fall
Flower Show. More power to it. The best
“quality’’ show was that at Red Bank, New

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Jersey, and the best specimen blooms by a
single grower, in our observation, were at
Englewood, N. J. (Dubois) and at New York
(Griffiths).

It is significant to note that the raiser with
the record for the most good novelties in 1926
in the Eastern shows is a Californian (Broom-
all), and, further, that the flower that won
the prize as the ‘“‘most beautiful in show” at
San Francisco was an Eastern variety (Alice
Whittier). Thus we see that novelties of
merit are being grown in many sections now
and that really good new ones will be wel-
comed by all, no matter where they originate.

Novelties of Merit

This section includes all varieties not before
listed in our comments on the Eastern shows:

ELKRIDGE (Griffiths)—This beautiful white Hybrid-
cactus won the Garden & Home Builder Medal
at the New York show for the best variety never
before exhibited at New York. It is an exception-
ally finely formed flower. The color is clear white.
The petals are gracefully curved and of good sub-
stance. Elkridge also won the Best White Bloom
prize at Trenton. Previous winners of this medal
have been Robert Treat, Herald-Tribune Elite,
and Golden Sunshine (Mrs. Stout, 1915.)

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ROM a standpoint of interest in the
Dahha, 1926, has been a great year
on the Pacific Coast. The out-
standing feature is the fact that
the Board of Supervisors of the City

of San Francisco this year declared the Dahlia

the official flower of the Golden Gate City.

The Dahlia Society of California held its
11th annual show in the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, August 26, 27, and 28 and was
notable for the number of varieties staged.
The Garden & Home Builder Medal for the
most worthy variety originated west of the
Rocky Mountains, and never before exhibited
before the Dahlia Society of California, went
to Madrona by Mr. A. F. Shulte. It is a
spectacular large, dark crimson Decorative.
A vigorous grower on long, stiff stems, and an
excellent keeper at this show.

The Sweepstake Prize for the best Dahlia
in the show was awarded to the Lincoln
Dahlia Gardens on Ambassador; while Alice
Whittier, an Eastern variety shown by Charles
Garrity, won as the most beautiful and perfect
Dahlia in the show.

The Santa Barbara Trophy was awarded to
Santa Barbara, the novelty originated by
Frank D. Pelicano, and first christened Miss
California. It is a large true formed Decor-
ative of a beautiful new color, described by
the originator as oriental fuschia, and last
year at the California State Growers’ Show
won as the best three year old seedling.

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Northwest. Scarlet and
orange Hybrid-cactus

The award for the best 1925 seedling also
went to Mr. Pelicano on the fine gold Dec-
orative Crown Princess Louise. The Gold
Medal for best general display, went to
Mrs. Jessie L. Seal for the second year in
succession. One of the outstanding Dahlias
in this display was Mrs. Seal’s Hybrid-
cactus, Silverado. It is a large flower with

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an attractive combination of white shading to
silver and lavender at the center. The silver
medal for best general display went to Frank
Pelicano, and the Bronze Medal to Curtis
Redfern whose Barbara Redfern was one of
the outstanding new introductions at San
Francisco. It is a magnificent Decorative of
a beautiful two-toned color, shading on the
back to rose. Bessie Boston Dahlia Farm
took the honors for the best established three
year old seedling and for collection of un-
registered seedlings.

The prize for the best 12 blooms of com-
mercial quality, entered on first day, and
judged on last day, went to Western Pride
shown by Aimee Hodgins.

For the display of Dahlias of New Jersey
origin Jessie L. Seal was the winner, and also
for baskets of autumn colors and Show Dahlias
and for Pompons; other prizes went to Edymel
Dahlia Farm, and Bessie Boston Dahlia Farm
in that order. It 1s worthy of note to say that
the Pompon is making many new friends on
the Pacific Coast and competition was keen in
all the shows.

The largest bloom in the show was Queen of
The Garden Beautiful from F. C. Burns, and
the best collection of Decorative Dahlias was:
Amun Ra, Logan’s White, Eleanor Martin, Mrs.
Carl Salbach, Black Jack, Grenadier, Cham-
pagne, Halvella, Millionaire, Senorita, Golden
Jubilee and Sunset from Star Dahlia Gardens.

The Pacific Northwest Dahlia Association

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new Decoratives.
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held its first annual show at Tacoma on &
tember 23rd and 24th and demonstrated tl
the Pacific Northwest is not only an id
place for Dahlias but that the class of bloo
was the equal of any shown anywhere.

The outstanding varieties included Alvin
winner of prize for best twelve blooms
Pacific Northwest origin, large Decorat
Tyrian rose with golden halo at the base
each petal; J. W. Lee, Hybrid-cactus, an
tractive combination of soft scarlet and oran
exhibited by Lee’s Dahlia Gardens and win:
of the prize for best specimen bloom of Pac
Northwest introduction; Golden Emblem, la
Hybrid-cactus; Elizabeth White, a new b
and pink Decorative; City of Portland (Gi
Marcella Gill (Gill) a very soft pink w
wonderful cutting possibilities; Helen Wil:
(Shorey) a peculiar shade of dark pink was:
second largest bloom in show; Winston (Por
roy) golden amber Hybrid-cactus; Shir
Maxine (Setzer) a new pink that won certific
of merit at Northwestern trial grounds; M
George Sheffield (Sheffield) a beautiful n
Decorative, white, tipped with orchid ti
(alsowon Certificate of Merit at the N.W.T
in 1926); Mrs. J. E. Runge (Showers) lar
crimson Decorative; Marmion (Mastick) «
of the finest Dahlias in the Northwestern sh«
splendid grower and a many-time prize winn
Allannah (Mastick) a new and much admi
variety and an excellent keeper for cut flow

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Large Hybrid-cactus with in-
curved petals, bright salmon
orange in color

was the favorite and a prize winr
Jersey’s Beacon and Greinberg’s Gii
Ruby were also much admired. Of
California Dahlias, Eleanor Martin, Sis
you, Mrs. Edna Spencer, Faith Gariba
and Champagne were the outstand
varieties shown.
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\ECEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

J. Walter Collinge Photo

Home of the architect, Mr. George Washington Smith, designed for his own use at Santa Barbara, California

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More than 135 years old and finely exemplifying the simple dignity of the early Spanish Mission
architecture, this California ranch house is now the home of Mr. Ear! Gilmore who entrusted the
work of restoration to John Byers, Architect, and Charles G. Adams, Landscape Architect

A Century-Old. House in the Siercm

See HEN Father Serra and his devoted
band of browned-robed monks
W—, pushed aside the flower-strewn grass
SiN to make way for their Mission
buildings. they never dreamed that

their reverent work would set a standard of
architectural fitness destined to touch the
whole land with beauty.
They selected valleys
watered by flashing
rivers, guarded by
rugged mountains, and
raised therein their
Missions in simple and
fitting dignity, forming
them of the very ground
they were to stand
upon, guarding them
with high walls as the
valleys were guarded
with mountains, and
put flowing fountains
in each enclosed court,
to match the flow and
spirit of the rivers.
Roofed with tile
moulded across the
thighs of the few In-
dians who crept to
their side, with arcades
and pergolas patterned
from those in their own
land, they created
buildings of a special

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Eloise Roorbach

Photographs by Viroque Baker

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beauty, fine in proportion, simple in sty!
adequate for their needs and comfort.

The Spanish voyagers who went with ther
or soon followed, built their homes and ran
houses of the same material, following t!
same simple and romantic proportions at
arrangements of rooms around an open pat
with well in cente
These old houses, mar
of which are standir
today, cannot be e
celled for picturesqi
beauty and they spe:
eloquently of the wor
life, ambitions an
achievements of 0!
first settlers. For the
own sake as well as f
their historic pas
these old haciendas a
to be highly valued ar
it is a delight to fir
them being restor
and honored as th
deserve.

One of these famoi
old ranch houses, sit
ated between Los A

The hand-hewn rafters

posts and woodwork and

the old Mission tiles o/

the floor keep the bal-

cony in perfect harmony

with the spirit of the
whole

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des and Beverly Hills with the blue and purple
bllywood mountains for a poetic background,
; known to be one hundred and thirty-five
sars old. For a quarter of a century it has
fen practically in ruins but has recently been
stored by its owner, Mr. Earl Gilmore, and
rw stands once more a perfect thing of its
ind, a noble example of the romantic beauty
« olden days. Family and state history is
orded in it. Respect for the past is em-
jasized by the care given every detail of its
storation. The old lines, colors, decorations,
ive been restored, not altered, by the two
‘tists, John Byers, architect, and Charles
¢ Adams, landscape architect, to whom the
ork was entrusted, and the result is a note-
yrthy success.~ Restoring a house is a
(ficult art, one vastly different from design-
ig one. It is very easy to lose the elusive
irit that hovers over old houses, to introduce
, jangling discordant note. Any positive
ange is liable to utterly destroy the very
varm one most wishes to preserve. An
id house has distinct yet fragile personality
id those who seek to bring back its youth
ire not approach with rude “improving”’
inds.
The photographs show how delightfully the
yuse now presents its ancient beauty. Old
ees cast leaf shadows upon its broad surface
of yore. The sun sleeps gently on the
d walls, once more standing where the first
ulders placed them. The house rests solidly
yon the ground, with simple substantial
gnity, a fine example of the taste, culture,
id comfort of the pioneers of California.
Naturally the garden showed the passing of
ie years more than the house, for a garden
in not stand as much continued neglect as a
ouse. Weeds triumph over flowers, paths
ise. their identity and confusion soon
ipercedes order. All that was really left of
1e original garden to give a clue, was two old
epper-trees, the original seeds of which were

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brought to California from Peru by the
Mission Fathers; two native Giant Palms
and one Monterey Cypress, doubtless brought
from the Monterey peninsula, the only stand
of its kind in the world as far as any one
knows. Many ancient Cypress trees are
found in door yards of old California, showing
that the explorers appreciated them and
took pains to transport seeds and young
plants. The first builders knew the worth
of noble trees for gardens and as they dried and
laid the brick for the house, they also started
trees. Planting and building went on together
and before the walls had time to mellow, trees,
vines, and shrubs were becoming established

Simplicity is the dominant note in the
garden, where grow the plants and
flowers which the old Spanish builders
loved to assemble around their houses

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

against their warm and protecting strength.

The Palm trees (Washingtonia filifera),
first observed when the expedition headed
by Portola and Father Serra passed through
the desert region on its way to take military
and spiritual possession of the new land, were
soon set growing beside the new houses, for
the decorative effect of their tall shapely
trunks against the low-lined houses was
quickly noted by the early builders. These
old trees are frequently seen growing to great
height and majesty, where a house once stood,
but of which scarcely a trace 1s left, so thor-
oughly does the adobe melt back into the earth
if not watched over and cared for.

Having made a special study of old Spanish
gardens Mr. Adams well knows the material the
old Spanish builders loved to assemble around
their houses, so was particularly fitted to
re-create a garden suitable for this ancient
hacienda and has introduced all sorts of
Mexican and Spanish material, such as Span-
ish Broom, White Oleanders, Pomegranates,
Mexican Century-plants, Spanish Yuccas and
Bayonets, Scarlet Aloes, Torch Lilies. On the
walls once again Roses of Castile are growing
and scented Jasmine. Outside the walls
Olives, Oranges and Italian Cypresses have
been featured. He has kept the garden to the
Spanish color scheme, yellow, orange, cream,
orange-scarlet, a little deep velvet red for
character and some light blue for coolness.
And there are many Mexican Tuberoses for
perfume.

The thick adobe walls have been white-
washed and the old tile on the roof has
weathered to a most satisfactory dull soft
red, a tone only time, sun and many rains
can give. His color scheme. finds..a...perfeet:.
background in house and wall. Especially
do the Aloes stand out with striking beauty
against the white walls and cast their tropical
shadows upon it with amazingly decorative

(Continued on page 326)

Spacious, basking peacefully in the midst of its vivid garden, framed by towering Eucalyptus trees, it is like a message from the past

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The Tranquillity of True Spanish

Furnishing

Amy Richards Colton

Photographs by Amemiya, and by courtesy of Montlior Bros., Richter Mfg. Co., Kensin-ton Mfg. C>., Francesca I eyes

OW many people realize, | wonder,
that the earliest type of architec-
ture and furnishing brought into
the United States was Spanishr
The first Spanish missionary

fathers, following in the wake of the ex-

plorers, began to build churches in the

Spanish style in what are now Florida, New
Mexico, Arizona and Texas, as early as the

late sixteenth and early seventeenth cen-

turies. These churches were really missions
and in connection with them were various
kinds of simple furniture and hangings.

They antedated the modest log cabins

built in the North by our English and

Dutch forefathers, therefore the present

interest in everything Spanish is uncon-

sciously a revival of a style planted in our
country longer ago than the English and

Dutch styles we are more familiar with.

The first of our states to revive Spanish
architecture was California, following in
most cases the lines of the California mis-
sions. These were simpler, heavier and
less inspired than their prototypes in Spain
and it is only recently that there has been
an attempt in this country to build on more
genuinely Spanish lines. California mis-
sions were the last to be built in the new
world, and no doubt this accounts for their
having less relation to real Spanish architec-
ture than earlier missions built in other parts
of the country.

The past ten years have seen such increasing
numbers of people flooding into Arizona,
New Mexico, Florida and California, bent on
building winter homes in which to enjoy
out-of-door life and escape from a northern
winter, that the matter of becoming better
acquainted with Spanish architecture and
furnishing is in many people’s minds. A
number of competent architects are designing
and building Spanish houses
and gardens, but generally
speaking, the furnishing of
these houses seems to be in
less trained hands. Many of
us are more familiar with
Italian furniture and furnish-
ing than that of Spain and
may not always be aware how
much simpler and almost
austere the furnishing of
private Spanish houses is.
Striking characteristics are
simplicity, dignity, spacious-
ness, richness of coloring and
a general effect of tranquillity
produced by the large un-
crowded rooms, in which
plenty of empty spaces are
left on the walls.

Of all countries in Europe,
Spain has remained the most
conservative, her geographi-

Dining-room at the home of Mr. Alfred C. Bossom, New
York City, whose simple wall surfaces and tile floor are rem-

iniscent of the Spanish

cal position of isolation accounting for this,
and except in royal or private palaces, there
have been few changes in fashion in the mak-
ing of furniture or furnishing houses, since
the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. This
distinguishes the furnishing of a house in the
Spanish manner from almost any other, in
that it need not be on one’s mind to separate
the various periods. If one tries to, the house
seems at once less Spanish. It was not
uncommon in the nineteenth century for
Spanish cabinet makers to make furniture
according to styles that originated in the

sixteenth or seventeenth. In doing so
was in response to a demand for styl
people were accustomed to, rather than se
consciously reviving old ones, as we
frequently do nowadays. Some rich ai
travelled people brought back French |
English fashions in furniture during ¢
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but
the native craftsmen copied these fashior
so much of their own feeling went into tl
work along with the native woods and m
terials, something almost Spanish resulte

As Spanish houses are nearly alwa
built around a central patio or court, fl
lines inside and out are rectangular, a1
little attention was ever paid to such sm:
conveniences as closets. Huge cupboar
and wardrobes took their places and th
fact still makes it possible to buy and u
the beautiful old pieces which have alwa
been rather “white elephants” on the han:
of dealers. As the privacy of Spani
family life centered around the patio, fl
largest windows and doors opened on to
and the smaller ones were toward the stre
or road.

Nearly everything most distinctive
Spanish interiors except iron work, can
through the Moorish conquerers who rul

in Spain so many centuries, and they in tu
had brought their ideas from the East. T!
patio recalls the cloistered life of Orient
women, and the smaller outer doors and wi
dows came from the need of greater protectic
on the outside for the family life withi
These outer windows were made more secu
by the beautifully designed wrought iron gri
or rejas that we can use as originally intend
or in other ways. Apart from this securi
for family life, the Moors introduced glaz
tiles, so universally used in Spain, carvi
and decorated wooden ceilings and cornice
carved plaster work, took
leather, inlaid cabinet wor
damascening, rug makin
lustre ware, cords, tassels at
galloons for cushions, dra
eries and pictures, and mat
other things too numerous

mention. Until 1600 near
all the craftsmen were Moo
and the art of Spain whi
partakes of a Moorish flav
is called Mudejar. (Mooris
Christian). We do not <
ways realize how many

the everyday things come

us from the East, but 0

Reproduction of an early Spani
walnut table with typical carvi
and wrought-iron braces. The w
nut side chairs are reproductio!
and the antique arm chair t
leather upholstered back and s¢
trimmed with nails, also the typ"

loose velvet cushion with tassel:

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1926

Reproduction of a large Spanish
table in walnut with iron braces

Antique Spanish walnut chest with typ-

ical carving inside the lid. 17th Century

went interest in Spanish furnishing re-
mds us of it.

a furnishing an American house built in
h Spanish manner, one of the first things
tobeware of is crowding the rooms. The
wl should be of rather smooth plaster,
w:hed with white if one wishes to be strictly
Spnish, but if this is too glaring for American
eys, the wash can be tinted, as indeed it
soietimes is in Spain. The ceilings should be
ai. and exposed beams oiled or decorated
wn colored patterns. It all depends on how
elyorate a ceiling the architect has designed.
‘m5pain the ceilings are usually of pine and
th tie beams often have elaborately carved
orckets at the ends to support them. Some-
ties plaster may show between the beams,
on if the ceiling is very elaborate the plaster
wi be entirely covered with the wood. The
ory other woodwork beside the ceiling and

cornice is the doors, inside shutters to the
windows, and sometimes the floors on the
upper story.

If one’s Spanish house is in a warm climate,
it may be better to have all the floors of tile or
stone. In Spain the entrance hall floors are
often of stone, sanded, and there will be a
dado of glazed tiles. These tiles provide
much of the color in all Spanish houses.
Those with patterns are used chiefly in dadoes,
to line set-in cupboards in dining-rooms,
for fountain basins, pots for plants, stands for
pole lamps, risers for stairs, and when elabor-
ately decorative, may be set into walls pic-
torially. Plain tiles are for floors, borders
for window reveals and doorways, stair treads
and as edgings to set off the patterned tiles.

Therefore oiled or polychrome wooden
ceilings and cornice, white or tinted plaster
walls, plain tiles with patterned insets on the

Looking from one room to another of a private house

in Toledo, Spain, we find an example of carved plas-

ter chimneypiece, frieze and rope ornament around

doorway. (Photograph by courtesy of Mr. William
Lawrence Bottomley)

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Unusual type of antique Spanish table with
iron braces and carving on legs and apron

Early Spanish an-
tique vargueno with
typical Mudejar
carving and wrought-
iron ornaments,
hinges and locks with
color behind the open
pattern

floor, brighter decorated tiles on the walls,
oiled wooden doors, green painted inside
shutters, doors and windows outlined with
tiles or carved plaster work, form the frame-
work and setting of a true Spanish room.
Furnishing is of the simplest and_ nearly
all the furniture is placed against the walls.
Rows of walnut or decorated side- and arm-
chairs separated by walnut tables, benches
or varguenos line the walls of an entrance
hall or living-room. In the centre of these
rooms may be placed a large walnut table
with iron braces and in the middle of it a
brazier or a small cabinet and brass lamps at
either end. On the floors rush mats of various
patterns or combined with them, some old or
modern Alpujarra rugs that will give a note
of color. Lighting 1s provided by brass or
iron lanterns hung by chains or silk cords
from the ceilings, by carved wooden chandeliers

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Dull red tiled floor
with brighter col-
ored insets, cof-
fered wooden ceil-
ing in black and
gold, plain plaster
walls with arcaded
columns, wrought-
iron fixtures and
antique furniture
bring real Spanish
atmosphere to this
dining-room at the
home of Mr. James
Warburg, William
Lawrence Bottom-
ley, Architect

Door-Knockers

of

Yesterday and Today

Lurelle Van Arsdale Guild

SHS | walked up the steps of the loveliest
3) old house in Salem, the sun crept
. through the leaves of the Elms on
the lawn and rested in golden glory
for a moment on the brass knocker
that hung on the door, and I forcibly stayed my
hand in mid-air as | realized that I was about
to perform an historic act—an act that has
come down through the centuries, a symbol, as
it were, of hospitality and hostility.

From the very beginnings of time, the
home has been safeguarded from invasion,
but always there has been a means of entry
to the friend or weary traveller. Probably
a loud shout of greeting served to announce
his arrival before man’s ingenuity led him to
devise a means at once more decorative and
easier on the weak-lunged unfortunates.
Greek love of display and formality led them
to station slaves at the door to announce to the
household that without was one who de-
manded entrance. (This may be another
phase of the anthropomorphic turn of mind
of this race!) However, laxity on the part of
these human knockers soon caused them to be
chained to the door as a guard and their former
service rendered by a large iron bar which the
caller could put to his own good use. This
bar was the actual forerunner of our modern
door-knocker. It deteriorated when used
too often as a weapon and eventually for
safety’s sake was shortened and attached to
the door with an iron hasp. From this humble
origin the knocker passes through centuries,
varying its design to express the fears and
superstitions of the peoples who put it to use
and its form to suit the type of building on
which it was used. One of the most interest-
ing variations which appeared was the very
elaborated and intricate affair that was used
on medieval castles. In size it ran anywhere
from two to five feet long and consisted of a
bell, hung between two ornate shafts and
connected with a rod and pulley which, when
tugged, clanged the bell. The enormousness
of these knockers was necessitated by the
rambling vastness of the old castles and palaces
where they were used, and in many cases we
find a bell a foot or more long on' this type of
knocker. Personally, | believe this to be the
most decorative of all our door-knockers.

Eprrors’ Note: More than usually for-
tunate we are to have this story by Mr. Guild
who is not only an artist with a keen appre-
ciation of the beatitiful. in its many forms but
a discriminating lover and collector of old
things. A door-knocker is not merely a door-
knocker to him—a bit of metal made for
utilitarian purposes—but a human document
carrying the history of bygone days and ways.
The real fascination of antiques lies in their
mellowness, the storied quality they seem to
take on as they pass through the lives and
hands of successive generations, quite as much
as in their inherent beauty. Trails and
tales of adventuring in search of still hidden
household treasure are entertainingly set
forth in “The Itinerant Antiquer Traverses
Pennsylvania’ (September, 1926, issue of
“Country Life’) and other articles by Mr.
Guild.

NE Greek knocker of which we have ac-
curate descriptions and pictures was a
head of Medusa. This leads us to suppose
that the human head and figure which we find
on some medieval designs was preceded by
Greek use of mythological and_ religious
symbols. We find the superstitions of the
Middle Ages converting the decorative and
symbolic head and figure into grotesque and
horrible gnomes and dwarfs that were sup-
posed by their ugliness to drive away all evil
spirits that came to the home. In some
instances we find it taking on a humorous
aspect supposedly to cheer the patient guest
awaiting an entrance. Throughout the
Moyen Age this unattractive form appeared in
all Europe and toa marked extent in England.
With the advent of the Renaissance, the
door-knocker becomes more actually an
architectural feature due largely to its more
general usage, and we can easily trace it
through the same steps that appeared in the
architecture of the time. The human form
as a decoration disappears and is replaced by
foliate and interlinear designs of noteworthy
beauty. Such outstanding figures as Brunel-
leschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, and the undaunted
Benvenuto Cellini did not deem the designing
of knockers too humble for their gifted hands,
and the doors of Italian and French palaces
flaunted bronze work that today is claimed
with pride by the more fortunate museums
throughout the world.

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NG THE Gothic influence crept
architecture bringing with it a |
religious fervor, ecclesiastical symbolism
pears in the door-knocker together witt
unmistakable Gothic tendency in de
Miniature Gothic cathedrals or Gothic d
in relief were used and oftentimes figure
saints or church patrons. At this time
find that the knocker has been given a s
ingly unexplainable place on church door
though there is a legend in England concer
one of those church knockers that if a crim
who was being pursued by justice demai
entrance at the church he was given food
protection and at a convenient time set

France under the Louis’s and Napo
gave us a dignified and sophisticated desis
knockers that is particularly well adapte
modern use and with which we are all mor
less familiar in reproductions.

HE early American’ knockers, Ww

through historic association and fami
ity are most dear to us, were in severa
stances directly devised from the Frenc
the illustrations show. The fiddle-sh:
knocker which is found on many famous
American houses is the most distinctive de
created in this country and easily one of
most beautiful. When the trying day
the Revolution had passed and the new ¢
try had chosen her symbol, the eagle, all
decorative arts snatched at this new ex}
sion of patriotism and we find the eagle r
to spread wing in every available spot on e
piece of furniture, but never appearing tobi
advantage than on the doors of the home
these new citizens of the United States.
great was this vogue that at the present
he is still holding his place as one of the t
popular of door-knockers.

We all love to feel that we can have
best of things and we all would love to |
an old, romantically storied knocker on
door to greet our guests; but, unfortunately
supply would be exhausted long before we’
all appeased. It is possible, though, to fir
various shops reasonably priced and auth¢
reproductions so in keeping with the charé
of your doorway as to make it all that
desire.

Fo bic} ] ] Say? || Na Lion’s head knocker of
reek knocker 2nd or 3re : 5 IVES ape vee

eee. C Head of Me- d Fe the Middk A ges showing
ORAS ae tg ada : : ; | some Byzantine influence
dusa in bronze. One of
few Greek knockers extant

Italian knocker of Roman
Middle Ages typical aeons : , a Grotesque use of human
of that period in its : —————— . figure shows in this English
use of the human head : , knocker of the Middle Ages.
The creeping in of Gothic

influence begins to show here

4URC¢/le Gur

Gomes

Splendid floriate example of : : : ;
the Italian High Renatssance 5 Typical French design of the
17th and early 18th centurtes

The well-known Amert- i The most ostentatious of all door- Early Colontal
Wy > ahich > > i i ry] eas a 7 TY en ae
can Eagle which became knockers used on great castles and design known as

common after 1800 yw palaces of the Middle Ages, quite in
contrast to the Colontal type of

door-knocker, shown above, which

is derived from the French and

well known throughout America

the fiddle shape

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Looking down the hall through open entrance door, and, below, a glimpse of the
dining-room. Mr. W. S! Jones’ house at Portland. Plans and exterior opposite

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for Mr. W. S. Jones, at Portland

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Coronada (Briggs), another of the
large flowered Western types, white
with violet purple blotch in the throat

Vie@Mp=p HE climate is one of the popular
Ae hi topics of conversation on the Pacific
SEL Coast; and within very narrow
geographical limits one may choose
one’s own, of almost any sort, from
drenched coast to desert valley, and from
palm-studded lowland to snow-clad peaks.
But the narrow strip of coastal plain, with its
mild, cool, moisture-laden air has proven
particularly suited to the growing of many
kinds of bulbs, including Gladiolus, which
thrive remarkably there. The Pacific Coast
Gladiolus breeders are located in that narrow
belt, and it is with it, and it alone, that we
have to deal in discussing this region. Luther
Burbank is the one outstanding plant breeder
of California who was far enough inland to get
a little of the effects of the California valley
summer, which at its worst is more severe
than that of the Mississippi Valley.

W.E. Kirchoff, after a lifetime of Gladiolus
growing and breeding at Pembroke, New
York, has retired to the California coast, and
continues to originate Gladiolus there. So
his earlier introductions—white-throated scar-
let PRINCIPINE, creamy white PEMBROKE and
the sturdy little KircHoFF’s VioLET—all were
originated in the East. Some of his best work
has been among the yellow and violet sorts,
and his main aim in these as in all is for pleas-
ing self-colors, not blotched. His newest in-
troductions, like Mrs. W. E. OLMsTeEpD, a
large and showy yellow, grew up in the mild,
moist atmosphere of the Coast, which lets
each bloom grow to its fullest, bringing forth
flowers of remarkable size and beauty. Under
such conditions, the weak and the strong are
not clearly differentiated, all kinds having a
good chance to show their best. So these
new Pacific Coast varieties, such as those of
Kirchoff and others, have yet to stand the acid
test of the searing winds of the interior. Some
will probably prove admirable, others may
miserably fail under such treatment. No
better testing grounds for severe conditions to
Gladiolus could be found than in the central
valley of California.

Just as Kunderd is the most prolific pro-

Beauty Doctors

of the
Gladiolus

Part IV. Breeders of the Pacific Coast

Who Produce Big Bloom

Bornvariele Mclean

and

WW Siibesan le,, (C ilaiele

ducer of new Gladiolus in the Middle West,
so Richard Diener is the outstanding figure
among the Gladiolus breeders of the Pacific
Coast. He, like Kirchoff, is located on the
mild, cool coastal strip of California. His
home garden is further protected by being in
the lee of Mount Tamalpais and sheltered by
it from the winds off the sea, No greenhouse
ever had more pleasing climatic conditions
than the out of doors in Diener’s home at
Kentfield. There he has developed a distinc-
tive show type, of tall and very floriferous
varieties with immense, long petalled, closely
ranked flowers. These have caught the show-
men’s fancy, and rightly so. Several of his,
but not all, have demonstrated the vigor and
productiveness demanded of a general purpose
Gladiolus.

The Orchid
flower of the ruffled type, pale Cattleya mauve

(Sprague), an unusually large

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William Kent (Diener),
a creamy shell pink
with golden ochre center

Diener entered the field of Gladiolus t
ing in 1912, though he had been assoc
with the industry before that, in Long |
and elsewhere. His aim is toward |
flowers, taller plants, and more blooms
at once on a spike, and he was so succi
in even his early work that he achiey
Medal of Honor at the Pan Pacific Expo:
in 1915. One of his showiest is his AMEI
Beauty, which opens up a dozen or
large, deep rose colored blooms at once,
Leon Douctas has a very large flower
a ground color of begonia rose, striped
flame and scarlet. Its large flowers, wide
and well set on a long spike, made it a
show variety. The Gladiolus which wor
place in the recent American Gladiolus So
symposium is Diener’s W. H. Puipps.
color is pink overlaid with light rose sal
The flowers are enormous and borne in
profusion, there being many of them op:
once on the spike. Diener has also we
with the ruffled strain of Gladiolus.
WILLIAM Kent, creamy shell pink with g
ochre center; Mrs. H. E. BorTuin,
geranium-pink with scarlet blotch; and st
old rose Rose AsH are all prettily ru
The last is a handsome flower, but the blos
are a bit apt to wander around the s
facing irregularly in different directioi
fault not uncommon among the largest
most vigorous varieties. It is an inherit
from the tallest and strongest of the
parents of the Gladiolus, G. oppositiflorus
is an annoyingly persistant trait. GERAL
FARRAR is a pale lavender-violet, one 0!
best of this color, having several blooms
at once and of good size. Several of Die
varieties have already attained standin
good strong commercial sorts. Among -
are ANNA EBERIUS, a deep rosy purp
fine size and texture; and Ricuarp Dik
a pure geranium-pink with a light sprin
of ruby on a creamy yellow throat. Thel
is also a good show variety with large bl
and many open at once.

Carl Salbach is one of the new ©

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ardening for the Beginner
The Month’s Reminder—December

Time and Place: In gardening practice a date can only be approximated as seasons
d local conditions will have some influence. Generally the latitude of forty degrees at sea
a normal season is taken as standard. Roughly, the season advances or recedes fifteen
day, thus Albany would be about ten days later than New York (which is latitude 42).
itude of Philadelphia is a week earlier. Also allow four days for each degree of latitude,
h five degrees of longitude, and for each four hundred feet of altitude. Latitude 4o passes
h Philadelphia, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Richmond, Ind.; Quincy, IIl.; Denver, Col.

N THE North and East Who,Writes This:
¥ (where the majority of
gardens are kept up) a
: lull in activity is now
i. called for the winter.
The is very little to be done be-
sor. taking stock of what has happened in the past and laying plans
oriext year. The biggest problem that faces. the gardener is car-
“viz over whatever plants he may have in spite of the cold weather.

julching with forest leaves is the ideal method of protecting growing
slats in the herbaceous border.

ielding evergreens with branches of Fir or Pine, where such can
»e ad, will protect the rarer varieties in the garden not only from the
fets of the winter sun but also from the weight of snow. Remember
‘ha plants are injured mostly by alternating freezing and thawing.
‘h is prevented by the mulch that is put on after the surface of the
srond is frozen.

luring the pleasant days of winter some outdoor work can be done.
Del limbs of trees can be sawn off. Also look over the shrubbery for
»viences of insect pests and spray where necessary, preferably with an
yl ray if done early, or with lime-sulphur later on. Do not use these
sprys when the weather is freezing. However, especially look out
orvan Jose scale on ornamental shrubs and fruit trees.

(ther bag worms from the evergreens, and burn.

Se to storage of the winter vegetables in the cellar or in mound
cual outdoors.

br mulching Strawberry beds, straw, particularly oat straw, that
jasbeen cleaned of chaff gives the best results. Taking the chaff
ouiremoves most of the weed seeds. Strawy barnyard manure, the
mo: straw the better, is probably next best but has the disadvantage
of urying a good many weed seeds. Leaves should not be used for
‘he mat down giving but little protection.

hep a look out for anything that’s new in trade offerings. Make
up our mind before the spring comes and place your orders. In the
ibsnce of great activities outdoors, it will be well perhaps to ruminate
vi some of the worth-while developments of recent times, for instance:

lew Appces. Much praise has been given to the new varieties of ap-
oleput out by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. They
areindoubtedly better for New York conditions than existing sorts,
othrwise they would never have been introduced. In Michigan the fol-
‘oyag New York apples have been tried by the Experiment Station at
“a Lansing: Clinton, Cortland, Chautauqua, Herkimer, Montgomery,
Naau, Onondaga, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schoharie, Ulster and
Witchester. Of these the Michigan station says only Westchester
anSchoharie, possess qualities under Michigan conditions which war-
rar further testing.

‘ WinDowsiLL GREENHOUSE—a modern name for the Wardian
cas which came into prominence by being used by Ward, the plant
exprer, in bringing home live, growing plants from the Orient. It
's mply a miniature greenhouse, or it may be a goldfish bowl with
4 pce of glass over the top. The idea is to provide the proper humid-
‘lye. moisture in the air, for Ferns and Fern allies which will not thrive
in 1¢ living room because the air is too dry. A case 18 x 30 inches
wt a flat or pitched roof of glass, 12 to 18 inches high may set on
4 tole in a window which has plenty of light but little direct sunlight.
‘h results obtained in such a case are gratifying. The little vine,
Voperry, bearing red berries found in the woods in the fall thrives in a
golfish bowl.

ED SPIDER Is the bane of every greenhouse man or woman. Recent
““jriments conducted by the Market Garden Field Station of the
Misachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station has demonstrated very
“ollusively that Volck, a white mineral oil emulsion, diluted 1 part
to ) parts of water will give a very satisfactory control of the red spider
°f_ucumbers without injuring the foliage in any manner whatever.
"h directions for applying are: spray at dusk or on cloudy days. Do
NOapply just before or just after a sulphur fungicide has been applied

“been through the mill.”

} i The advice and instruction in this department are the gleanings of many
years’ experience in practical gardening matters by competent amateurs and others who have
The contributions are made from various sections of the country: for
example, Mr. Jesse A. Currey contributes from Oregon; Mr. Henry Gibson from Pennsyivania
(formerly from New York); Mr. Sherman Duffy from Illinois; Mr. P. T. Barnes, out of a world-
traveled experience; Mr. A. Kruhm, from an extensive Eastern acquaintance; Miss Ethel Hutson
from the far South; Mrs. E. Urquhart from California and, in addition, occasional notes from else-
where and by the editorial staff and associated contributors of experience.

How to Use This Guide: Suggestions as to the most important things of the month are
given in this department so as to “remind” the gardener of the current duties. For routine de-
tails of such things reference should be made to standard handbooks and guides. It is impossible
to make a complete manual of practice in each number of a periodical magazine. Yet timely
articles will be found elsewhere in each issue, and references to back numbers will often solve the
immediate question. Moreover, the editorial staff stands ready to help any reader with personal
advice by mail. A self-addressed stamped envelope should be enclosed with the question.
to the plants. The sulphur breaks
down the emulsion. Apply with
an angle nozzle so the underside
of the leaves may be easily
reached and have about’ 100
pounds pressure so as to produce
a fine, misty spray.

ScENTED Lupines. An English seedsman, is introducing a valuable
new break in Lupinus polyphyllus in all the lovely colors of the modern
Lupines with the added charm of fragrance.—P. T. B.

Reminder for the Far South

M-\HE states bordering the Gulf of Mexico are famed for their

a) Winter Gardens. Violets, Roses, Poinsettias, and often

ke! YB Sweet-peas will be in bloom, with here and there a clump

Nias of late flowering Chrysanthemums, but even here there

sometimes comes a freeze just before Christmas and every-
thing turns black over night.

Except for the off-year, when we get that freeze, the month is mild
and often drizzly for a week or ten days when almost anything in the
way of Roses, trees, and shrubs may be planted out or moved from one
spot in the garden to another, for the sap has gone down and the plant
has an excellent chance to grow.

If the advice given for the fall months has not been followed, it 1s
not too late now to prepare beds and put in the seeds for early spring
blooming; Sweet-peas, Pansies, Phlox, Pinks, Hollyhocks, Lobelias,
Calliopsis, Snapdragons, Sweet Alyssum, Calendula and many others,
provided the soil is not too wet to work.

Bulbs planted earlier may be in bloom, but Tulips and Hyacinths
planted now will stand a better chance to make a fine show than the
ones planted earlier, and it is not too early to put out Ranunculus,
Anemones, and Gladiolus for early spring flowers, if you can get them.
Calla and Easter Lilies (L. regale) and the new giant hybrid Amaryllis
should have been in the ground before this, but do not miss the season
entirely, for they will still do well if planted now.

In the orchard set out new trees, and plant Clover or other legumes
beneath the trees. This is especially recommended for Pecans, for
December is the best time to set them out, and the older trees will bear
much better if kept well nourished by nitrates furnished by these
cover-plants, which serve a further purpose of keeping down the weeds
that exhaust the soil.

It is not too late to plant winter grass on the lawns, although many
lawns are already a lovely carpet of soft green.

The vegetable garden should be full of growing plants by December
with Beets, Carrots, Lettuce, young Onions, and Radishes ready for the
table, but peas, Spinach, Endive, and all of those listed above may still
be planted. Try early Cabbage now, and Cauliflower in a frame. The
hotbeds should be planted with Peppers, Cucumbers, Egg-plants and
Tomatoes. Chives, Shallots and other Onion sets can be put out, as
well as Artichokes.

Special care should be given the Poinsettias when they are cut as
they ‘“‘bleed”’ badly and will wilt if simply put in water. It is necessary
to seal the ends before placing them in water. This can be done in
several ways. Hold the ends for a few seconds over a burning gas
jet; or stand the stems in boiling water for a few minutes: or, if intended
for shipment or to be given as Christmas gifts, stick the ends in melted
paraffin. Remember all cut flowers last longer if put outside the house
at night unless the weather is freezing.

Roses are not apt to be hurt, but all Ferns, Geraniums, Lilies, or
potted plants that cannot be moved into the house should be covered.
Rosa montana, Poinsettia, Night-blooming Jasmine, Hibiscus, and
many others may be killed down even when covered but they will put
out and bloom much earlier if protected around the base.

Citrus trees should be mulched around the roots and covered with
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canvas where possible. Young trees can easily be covered, and as this
may not be necessary one year out of four, it is worth doing when it
means saving the tree if done before the cold wave strikes, and with
the daily weather news before us, there is little excuse for losing trees
we have sprayed and fertilized for years.

In general it is unwise to clean the garden right after a freeze, for
the partly dead leaves and stalks are a protection to the rest of the plant
and the new growth that often starts soon after. The dead vines, for
instance, help to keep the main stalk warm during the next freeze, so if
we are unfortunate enough to have a December freeze, it is wiser to leave
the yard shabby, to some extent, until the middle of March.—E. H.

California Garden Calendar

eo i e

= OSES are more or less dormant at this season, as they are

Se, taking their second siesta from December to March, having
ae already had their first in July and August, if not overworked
we during the summer. It is a good time to transplant them,

"* and new plants may be set out in December and January.
The beds should be deeply dug at least 18 inches and fertilized with old
manure, preferably cow manure, also bonemeal, and when ready the
Roses may be planted. about two or three feet apart, or even four, to
allow for the spread of the tops.

If old plants, they should be cut back to within two or three buds
of the preceding season’s growth, not allowing too many shoots, so
that new growth will start and not be too crowded. Keep the centers
open. In the case of Climbers, thin them out, cutting out all dead
branches, leaving only the wood which will make strong new shoots.
Tie up and fasten securely to the supporting trellis or wall.

If the Roses do not look healthy, take them up, examine the roots,
prune them if not in good condition, and, after spading and fertilizing,
plant them in fresh soil. Cuttings may be made from the prunings
of the Hybrid Perpetual and other hardy Roses; the Tea Roses, how-
ever, rooting better if cuttings are made in September. Select the
wood of the preceding season and make the cuttings about eight inches
long, and plant with three buds or joints below the surface and two
above. Plant in rows in the open ground in a cool, shady location or in
boxes of loam and sand. Do not let them dry out and protect from
the weather, according to locality.

They may be set out in the spring if rooted, but swelling of the buds,
and even leaves, does not always indicate that they have made root
growth. The soil in the case of Hybrid Perpetuals and other hardy
varieties, may be heavy, as the adobe soil of the Santa Clara Valley
and the stiff red soil of Redlands produce wonderful Roses, but the
Tea Rose family prefers a lighter soil. Plant in full sun, except in
hot interior regions, when there should be partial shade, avoiding damp
and drafty situations which are all conducive to mildew, Also select
Roses according to locality; certain Climbing Roses such as the
Cherokee and the Beauty of Glazenwood do not thrive in the cool,
drafty climate of San Francisco and the unprotected coast region, but
do extremely well in San Rafael and beyond a certain distance down
the Peninsula while the Dorothy Perkins, being so subject to mildew
does not thrive even in all sections of Marin County. The best treat-
ment for mildew is spraying with a mixture of lime and sulphur or
dusting with sulphur, taking care not to water at night on account of
dampness. Do not plant in wet, sticky soil, and depend on irrigation
rather than on sprinkling, followed by cultivation.

The California Holly or Toyon (Photinia arbutifolia) is now in
berry and seeds may be sown for propagation; this is desirable, as it
does not transplant easily.

Prune both deciduous and evergreen trees, including Laurel, Pine,
Cypress, Euonymus, Box etc., making cuttings from the prunings.
The Eucalyptus, Pittosporum and other Australian trees should how-
ever not be set out until March.

Continue planting bulbs and Sweet-peas (Spencer varieties) as,
although the ground is now becoming cold, they do not require much
heat for germination. Thin out the plants already started. Hardy
annuals may be planted but the more tender varieties should wait until
spring. Peonies may be planted, taking care not to plant too deep.

Hedges and deciduous vines need attention this month, pruning
and clipping the hedges into shape, and cutting out all dead branches
and old shoots of the vines. Make new beds for the Lilies—candidum,
auratum and speciosum—also the native California Lilies. Spade
the beds deeply, and fertilize with old manure, but plant the Lilies in
sand for warmth and drainage; cover the beds with old manure to pre-
vent packing of the soil by the rains, and plant in partial shade, pro-
tected from wind.—E. U.

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What the Well Dressed Table W
W ear

(Continued from page 290)

of the extreme popularity of glass today, and especially of col
glass. The latter will hardly find a place on the Christmas table w1
it be in apple green, which will tone in well with the red of the d
ations. Red glass would be too heavy in effect, while amber, amet
or blue would not conform with the color scheme. Clear or irides
glass, on the contrary, will give a good effect; while there is an op:
white glass which almost falls into the category of colored glas:
novel and pretty an effect does it produce. It may be noted
articles like nut dishes and candlesticks, which a few years ago)
always of silver, are now often seen in the popular glass; while in s
of prohibition, many a hostess clings to her wine glasses and uti
them for grape juice or other beverages simply because of their de
ative value. ;

It should always be borne in mind that a large table will
more decoration than a small one, and that an overcrowded table i
worse than a suggestion of “‘skimpiness.”

Beauty Doctors of the Gladiolus

(Continued from page 312)

among the Gladiolus breeders of the Pacific Coast. His work »
Dahlias was already arousing comment when he first issued a Gla
lus catalogue in 1922, and now his Gladiolus introductions are rap
gaining recognition. SyDNEY PLUMMER Is a beautiful soft yellow,
fused delicate pink with amber and purple throat. Its large ble

‘are slightly ruffled. CLAREMONT Is a clear light yellow with a de

yellow throat. LLEWELLYN, a light rose-pink with a soft a
throat, is a seedling of Kunderd’s Pink Liry and is heavily ruffle

Sprague, Houdyschel, Briggs, Ellis and other Pacific Coast bree
have entered the field so recently that no just estimate of their wo
possible. But from the past preformance of other varieties from
same general region, we may expect » them all to thrive in the n
atmosphere of both the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, and som
them, when grown under the most favorable conditions, will n
showier flowers than will many of the best of the Mid Western intro
tions. They cannot all be expected to prove equally thrifty in reg
of dry, hot summers. Hot winds from the West may occasionally
them, even along the Atlantic coast.

Most Gladiolus can be grown almost anywhere, and they will n
a good showing of flowers under most trying conditions. But when
goes to special effort to get some of the finest sorts, it is fair to ex
results accordingly. In order to get any Gladiolus to live up to
best reports of it, it is needful to give it surroundings that suit it. |
varieties from the interior in general like warmth and enjoy the
exposure of the open fields; those from the Pacific Coast and from
shores of New England are apt to thank you for the protection
more sheltered garden, and to repay the extra care with very
blooms. Of course, simply because a variety originated in a mild |
tion does not mean that it is only suited to such places. A camel, |
in the bogs of Ireland, would still be a camel, and still be fitted for
desert. So a Gladiolus from a mild coastal climate, because 0
heredity, may be well suited to the dry and hot interior; and there
also instances of sorts from the Middle West, reared in specially
tected surroundings, that are no more heat and drouth resistant |
the tenderest of the coastal sorts. Nevertheless, we may confide
look to the Middle West for our most heat-resistant sorts, and te
coasts for the best and showiest for cool and moist places. In the s
way, we may look to Kunderd for Ruffled Gladiolus, to Fischer
delicate tints and artistic color combinations, to Diener for the |
show spikes, and to Betscher for the earliest flowering kinds. 5
have consciously set for themselves such ideals, others have unco)
ously evolved a type which they are now developing, still others |
no apparent clear-cut aim, but are selecting whatever may ap
promising at the moment. All are steadily adding to the diver
adaptability and general usefulness of the Gladiolus, and makin
what some already proclaim it, the king of the midsummer flowe

[Parts I, II, and III on Hybridizers of the Continent and Austr
Hybridizers of Eastern America, and Breeders of the Middle West
be found in the June, August, and November, 1926, issues.]

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lold tn pictures

que this Joule de Jouy its Cighteenth Century charm

‘PEASANT LIFE in 18th Century France should have been a pleasant
affair, from the pictures of it we find in these delightful toiles

J PEASANT woman rubs out herclothes
' on a rock beside a water-mill . .. two
‘ei gather in their nets after the day’s
ati... .a boy bends beneath the weight of
is eaf of wheat . . . a man fishes, idly re-
‘img on a mossy rock, while a girl and a
ogsit quietly beside him.
hese delightful scenes of rural France
ivithis toile de Jouy an antique air, quite
Sit had been designed by the famous
-F Huet himself, back in the 18th century.

hey are developed on a cream back-
‘ond in rouge, dull blue, mauve, or sepia—
ll haracteristic toile de Jouy tones.

tiles de Jouy, with their little rural or

historical scenes printed in a single clear
color on a neutral background, make delight-
ful draperies or slip covers. They may be used
for bedspreads or wall coverings, as well. And
since they lend themselves to the decorative
schemes of widely varied types of interiors
—living-rooms, bedrooms, dining-rooms, sun
rooms, children’s rooms, libraries—these toiles
have a large and ever-increasing following.

Ask your decorator, upholsterer or the
decorating service of your department store
to show you this Schumacher toile de Jouy.
He can also show you other fine Schumacher
drapery and upholstery fabrics suitable for
furnishings of every period—lovely brocades,

damasks, brocatelles, velvets, tapestries,
chintzes, linens, satins and taffetas.

“Vour Home and
the Interior Decorator”

ABRICS such as these can give your home real
distinction and charm, if rightly used. How you
can, without additional expense, have the professional
services of an interior decorator for your furnishing
problems is explained in the booklet we have prepared,
“Your Home and the Interior Decorator.”
Attractively and richly illustrated in full color, it will
be sent to you without charge upon request. Write to
F. Schumacher & Co., Dept. D-12, 60 West goth Street,
New York. Importers, Manufacturers and Distributors
to the trade only,of Decorative Drapery and Upholstery
Fabrics. Offices also in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Los Angeles and Paris.

F-SCHUMACHER. & CO

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Christmas Cruises

(Continued from page 203)

inclusive fare that covers hotel accommodations and shore trips.
Where ships of this line go to Bermuda only, the trip takes but
two days each way with a round trip rate of $70 and up, while a
nine-day tour including meals, passage and five days in Bermuda
with all shore expenses is but $113.50, either way a delightful short trip
at a not prohibitive price.

Perhaps a trip on a Cunarder through these tropic waters and around
these ‘“‘gems of the Carribean” would seem the ideal gift. A special
Christmas cruise is offered this year, starting December 22nd returning
in 15 days. Think of Christmas at sea and New Years in Havana, a
trip covering 4135 miles, the rate for which is $200 and up, depending
on the room. To board an oil-burning ship on either of the above
lines is to sail on a voyage of discovery in such comfort and luxury
as would make those old Spanish explorers feel that we moderns
had in truth found that El Dorado for which they had searched in
vain!

If it is desired to spend the holidays at home, leaving later for summer
climes, a most enjoyable trip is scheduled for January 29th by the
Holland-American line, this trip planned in coéperation with the
Frank Tourist agency. This is another 15 day trip to the West Indies
with still another planned for February 17th of 27 days for which the
costs are from $230 and $385 up.

Realizing that the traveler really wants to know the exact cost of any
trip before making a gift of it or taking it, the Raymond & Whitcomb
Company are arranging “all expense tours” to the West Indies.
These are for 22 days each, beginning January 27th and February 22nd
with an inclusive fare of $400 and up. And it has remained for this
agency to make the old prophecy that “ships will sail on land’? come
true in part. They do not actually have land cruisers but they do
have land-cruises on private trains made up of especially designed cars.
These land-liners have rooms with private bath, drawing rooms, pull-
mans, gymnasium, lounge, library, recreation hall, observation and
dining car, etc. The passengers on such a cruise keep their accomoda-
tions throughout as they would on a ship. In freedom from regular
schedules and in offering unusual sight-seeing opportunities, these
land-cruises simulate all the comfort and delightful features of an
ocean voyage. These trains “sail” in such a way that no scenic
point is passed in the night. With no waste of valuable time, the
traveler is brought by daylight to spots of interest. In fact, the rule is
“scenery by day; at night the best hotels.’ These trips are scheduled
to begin January 5th and each Wednesday thereafter from New York
and connecting points, traveling out by the southern route to Cali-
fornia and home by a different way, touching all the wonder spots such
as the Grand Canyon, etc., the rates for such trips being $385 for an
upper berth on the outward journey, $420 for a lower plus $32.63 for
return berth, with meals also extra on the return trip.

Thomas Cook & Son also have similar land-tours, the first one start-
ing on December 5th, with three in January, these ranging in price from
$975 up depending on the route chosen and the length of time required
to make the trip. The one beginning January 17th includes a trip to
Hawaii and return, this trip lasting two months at a cost of $1485.
Both of the above agencies have optional return trips either by a
southern or northern route, which brings us to the importance of a
northern trip as a Christmas gift, for the South does not hold all the
allure. It only rivals but does not surpass the North when at Quebec
there is skiing and skating and tobogganing to make the short days all
too short, and when the dog-derby is held with dog-teams scudding
along the white trails. And nowhere is there greater grandeur and
beauty than in the Canadian Rockies when Banff holds its winter
carnival from February 5th to 12th. The Canadian Pacific R. R. will
not only arrange for a most delightful train trip to either place but will
take care of all hotel reservations so that a journey to these places
where the Frost King holds sway becomes a gift always to be remem-
bered and prized.

Oddly enough, this same railroad through its steamship department
has a round-the-world tour as a Christmas gift this year, a trip that be-
gins December 2nd and carries the traveler to the Holy Land for Christ-
mas and to Cairo for the New Year. Many such globe encircling tours
are planned to start shortly after Christmas—a royal gift such a trip,
that would last according to the route chosen from four to six months

and would cost from $1800 upwards. So many are these tours that
is impossible to mention them all. Some go through the Pan
Canal, around to San Francisco, and then a long jaunt across
Pacific and home by way of England. Still others are to stay entire
below the Equator, striking directly west from the Panama Canal -
Australia, around Africa and home along the east coast of South Ame
ica. There are varying rates for each trip depending on many thing
but a safe minimum rate to count on is $2000 and up.

And could there be a more pleasing Christmas gift than a trip to th
Mediterranean with side jaunts to Thebes, down the Nile and to ¢|
Valley of the KingsP The region that borders this inland sea is or
that teems with historic interest. Every creed and denominatic
has grown up from the art, religion and culture of these Mediterranes
countries, and not only this does the traveler feel but the romantic ar
mysterious charm, the delightful climate, the never-to-be-forgott.
scenes. One such trip is planned to start on January 26th, returnir
April ist, at a cost of $950 and upwards. This rate includes all sh:
and hotel accommodations with the privilege of stop-overs in Europ
A cruise de luxe may be taken to the Mediterranean on a White St.
liner sailing January 22nd for a leisurely journey of 68 days, coverir
13,850 miles, the inclusive fare for which is $1000 and up. _Jerusalen
Carthage, Athens, Cadiz, and home via London—what names to cor
jure up dreams, what a gift to find in one’s stocking on Christm:
morning!

Trips that do not go so far afield (or shall we say so far awash?) ca
be taken to Los Angeles and San Francisco via Havana and the Panar
Canal, these trips scheduled on alternate Thursdays. The time r
quired is from 18 to 20 days on the Dollar Steamers which permit 2
entire day for sight-seeing at Havana with other landings at cities |
the Canal Zone with the trip through the Canal by daylight. Th
cost of such a trip is from $275 up. After reaching California, the:
ships continue around the world with the fares at $1250 and upwar
In fact, you can begin a world-cruise from San Francisco on a Doll:
liner every day in the year, so that if one were to take a land cruise 1
see America first, it would be an easy matter to continue this wonde
trip around the whole world.

Every Wednesday a Matson liner leaves San Francisco for Honolult
and from that port, other ships of this line run to Samoa and retur
and even to Australia, the round trip first class to Sidney costing bt
$565. In increasing numbers each year people are realizing the nea
ness of Hawaii as well as its indescribable beauty and the fact thi
such a trip lies within the means of the average person. The Li
Angeles Steamship Co. sends its big ships every two weeks along th
route called “the great circle of sunshine,” the voyage taking si
days one way, with rates ranging from $110 upwards, and with rounc
trip tours of three weeks at $278.50 and up, and the fare covering a
expenses.

Trips—trips everywhere until it seems that even the uttermo:
hidden parts of the earth have been visited and that there can not be
new trip left. Yet the ‘‘Southern Hemisphere Cruise” on a Cunard
offers a new way ’round an old world. Sailing from New York 0
January 12th one is taken around the world entirely in the Souther
Hemisphere, a magnificent itinerary that includes Australia, and Ne
Guinea as well as the East Indies and around both Africa and Sout
America. If this be too long a trip or too large a gift, a jaunt aroun
South America might be substituted, a journey that covers the enti
continent in two months. Another ship will sail January 29th on th
trip that holds all the wonders of those earlier journeys of Magellé
and Cortez and Pizarro, that will touch at all the notable places bo!
on the East and West coast and reveal glories that Pizarro in his fonde
dreams did not conceive of! And this for $975 and upwards.

In every case, regardless of the length of time or distance to !
covered in one of these gift-trips, it is but an incomplete offering inde
if the recipient must attend to the details of it himself. Each of tl
tourist agencies will gladly take up this burden to make the gift cor
plete, smoothing away all obstacles and annoying problems so th:
when one does step on this modern Carpet of Bagdad, it will carry tl
traveler with as much ease as did its famous prototype of old. At
with the West Indies only 45 hours from Broadway, who is there wl
will not want to take passage on it!

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One of our New York Flower Show Houses bought by The Ingolds of Greenwich, Conn.

They Saw It and Bougnt It
at the

New York Flower Show

As you see from this plan, it is a very roomy

Garden Under Glass. In fact it is 18 feet wide
and 25 long in addition to the work room.

You no doubt recall seeing it there, and mayhap
lingered appraisingly inside; and looked at it

longingly from outside.

These COLUMNS beautify

Every year we have a dupli-
cate of this same house at the
Show. And every year, thou-
sands, just like you, look at it
yearningly.

Some can’t resist so delight-
fully wholesome a_ tempta-
tion, and buy it.

Before the Show is over, sev-
eral of the same houses have
been sold. It has become
known as the “Flower Show
House.”

80 Fe

To have one is the surest way
of making sure that you have
an all-year-round Flower
Show of your own.

they will invariably say that
they get as much real joy out
of fussing arcund among the
flowers, as having the flowers
themselves.

Some will likewise declare,
“Tt’s a highly healthy hobby,
that it takes the wrinkles out
of your face, and the kinks
out of your nerves.” Consi-
dering all of which, don’t you
often wonder why you keep
on not having one?

Is there, after all, any real
reason?

Catalog, if you wish it; or at
your suggestion one of us will

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he reason is clear. These classic
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and garden furniture.

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Candles of Christmastide

(Continued from page 283)

ing the old, undying carols bidding the gentlemen to rest merry, and the
people to light their candles in honor of the star that shineth clear.

I suppose my passion for English Christmases began in my childhood
when | read Dickens and Washington Irving. Even that spectral
candle, burning bright blue when Marley’s ghost appeared, had a cer-
tain fantastic fascination for me, and, as for “Bracebridge Hall,” its
delights have never failed me; | read it with happiness to this day. |
know if ever I should be a Rhodes scholar I’d go to Queen’s College,
Oxford, because that’s where they still bring in the boar’s head,
wreathed with gay garlands and sprigged with rosemary, singing
“Caput apri deferro” as they come. Blessings on the long-ago
student, who, attacked in the forest on Shotover Hill as he was
peacefully reading Aristotle, crammed the volume down the savage
beast’s throat, crying out “‘Graecum est,” killed the boar with learn-
ing, and then cut off his head to recover his precious volume, and so
instituted a quaint and interesting custom. Once they must have
kept Christmas at all the colleges with special ceremony; at St. John’s,
in the old buttery, there is yet to be seen the huge stone socket in which
the Yule candle was burned.

Candles weren’t just lights in those old days; they were symbols, too.
Poor folk burned farthing dips or rush-lights. By the way, look at
that group of rush-light burners, and see just how your candle could
have been burned at both ends; I never before understood how this
extravagance was a possibility, but it is perfectly easy to realize that the
peeled rush, dried and dipped in tallow, and placed lengthwise, could be
so consumed. Great halls glowed with the radiance of tall wax tapers
and the flare of the Yule log, and although in most cases the tenantry
gathered at castles and manor-houses for the Christmas celebration
(witness the survival of the custom in “Pickwick Papers” and “‘ Brace-
bridge Hall” and Scott’s lines in ““Marmion” praising the holiday
liberty ““when ceremony doffed her pride,” and the Baron’s hall was
opened wide to “vassal, tenant, serf and all”) no doubt cottage hearths
had their Yule logs, too. They must have; otherwise some unfortun-
ates must have dwelt in darkness, not spiritual, but literal, for, in cer-
tain parts of England, it was considered frightfully unlucky to let any
light leave the house between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day, and
if tinder-boxes were stubborn, it was useless to ask the neighbors.
Part of the log was kept to kindle the next Christmas fire; besides, if it
was safely put away, no fiend could do mischief, nor fire harm the house.

In Norway and Sweden the same superstition attaches to the Yule
candle; with the end a cross was branded upon the cattle on Christmas
morning; the handle of the plough smeared the first spring day that
work began in the fields, and in Denmark, if it was burned in thundery
weather, all danger from lightning was avoided. Candles and logs
were gifts, also; in ‘‘Christmas in Ritual and Tradition” Miles records
that ‘at Ripon in the eighteenth century the chandlers sent their
customers large candles upon Christmas Eve (I believe it is still ob-
served by merchants in northern Scotland), and the coopers logs of
wood.”’ He quotes another authority who says, ‘“‘the poor were wont
to present the rich with wax-tapers,”—odd enough, it ought to have
been the other way round—and that “‘at one time children in the village
schools in Lancashire were required to bring each a mould candle before
the parting or separation for the Christmas holidays.”

Someday I mean to go about collecting Christmases: see the French
créches, said to have been first begun by St. Francis; visit an Italian
presepio, lit with its twinkling waxen tapers; revel in a Dutch Nikolaus-
tag like the joyous festival in “Hans Brinker’’; spend a Christmas Eve
in Alsace where the “Christkind” is represented by a young girl who wears
a golden paper crown with lighted candles in it, and carries a basket
of sweetmeats in one hand, a silver bell in the other, a great contrast to
ithe black-faced, bear-skinned Hans Trapp who follows her with a
switch for the naughty children who are spared only when the Christ-
kind pleads for them. She is rather like the Lussibruden who, on
St. Lucia’s Day (December thirteenth), when Christmas begins in
Sweden, goes about clad in a white gown, with a crown of whortleberry
twigs set with nine lighted candles, and wakes the sleeping family,
and serves hot coffee to them at five o’clock in the morning.

And in the nearer meantime, I intend to send Christmas candles
instead of Christmas cards to my friends. For I have a set of old
candle-moulds, | shall pray for the endless patience such a task implies,
and I know that if accident puts such a candle out, “it yields a pleas-
ant fragrancy to all that are in the room”. That is why they will be
so appropriate for Christmas: symbols not only of that long-ago, clear-
shining star, but .of the gifts the Wise Men brought: the yellow glow of
the flame for the gold, the sweetness for the myrrh and frankincense!

DECEMBER, Ig)

Dahlia Roll of Honor

(Continued from page 301)

Cotor SERGEANT (Lyndora Gardens)—A color gem and a Dahlia that \
likely win many prizes within the next season or two. Color Sergeant
a deep flower, Decorative in form. It is an unusual color and the near
approach to a description is to call it a bronze saffron. It is a metallic }
most pleasing color. The flowers are large and it can be exhibited in
condition. It won in class for “Best Specimen” bloom at Camden
again as best 1925 seedling at Philadelphia.

Richard Vincent, Jr., White’ Marsh, ’Md.,
founder of the American Dahlia Society

and President since its inception. Died

Oct. 1926

OrpiIn (Badetty Bros.)—Here is Sagamore’s first child and a wort
scion indeed. This is a gem of a Dahlia with the same color characterist
as its popular parent, namely a bright color on the open petals shading tc
rich center. The combination is gold and orange with the center almost
pure bright orange. By 1928 this variety will, | am almost sure, be a b
seller on the cut flower market. Incidentally, we offer young men good ady
when we say that a bouquet of this is an effective weapon. Under artific
light—well, you wouldn’t believe it!

Jack O’LaNnTERN (Success Dahlia Gardens)—This brilliantly colored Decorati
is one of our favorities. But we love bright colors anyhow. It is a tr
Decorative with open petals of bright orange-red shading to a dark Spani
red near the center, with gold tips to the petals that form the center. It i
dashing, bold flower that will be a 100 per cent. success with men.

Jersey’s TrruMpH (Waite)—One of the most beautiful Dahlias of the ye:
and compares favorably with any of the Waite originations. Can we s
more? It isa large orange-buff Decorative with tints of rose. It more nea!
resembles Mordella than any other good variety we can mention.

Avice WHITTIER (Success Dahlia Gardens)—Created something of a sensati
when she visited the San Francisco show, and came out with the prize |
the most beautiful Dahlia in the show. Her color is light yellow but cle
and pleasing; bright silver tints give her a glistening effect of beauty. She
a well certified Hybrid-cactus with four Certificates of Merit. A fine grow
that won her place in a year when so many good new yellows were shown.

GRANDOLA (Broomall)—This Decorative is, we think, the most beautiful
the many good new ones introduced in 1926 by a Grand Master at sendi
out good Dahlias. Certainly, only one or two other growers have ever in
single season approached his 1926 record in sending out good new on
Grandola is a golden orange, very bright and very rich. A clean cut flow
and an excellent grower.

EDNA, FeRBER (Fisher & Masson)—This is just about the most artistic né
Dahlia, and we wish it were possible to have Miss Ferber’s power of langua
to describe her beautiful namesake. It is a large Hybrid-cactus with i
curved petals. The color is almost pure, a bright salmon-orange. It is tl
type of flower that affords relief and contrast to the massive Decorative.

Mrs. Frances E. BuLLARD (Broomall)—Just the sort of flower that one drean
about in his seedling crop. A pastel shade of silver pink with no trace
lavender or salmon. The long petaled flowers are very distinctive in fort
At the Camden show, an undeveloped flower was second in Specimen Bloo
class and at Short Hills it won as Best California Origination. The originat
classes it as a Peony-flowered but it came in the East as a Decorative.

Appa PatTerson (Kemp)—This beautiful white Hybrid-cactus should ha’
been mentioned last year, but somehow we feel it is better to make the m!
take of giving recognition to a variety that has improved over its first showi!
than to select varieties which do not hold up when disseminated. Adc
Patterson is, we believe, the most artistic white Dahlia shown this year. It
half-way between Hybrid-cactus and Cactus, and for vase work it is super!
It is a free bloomer and there was a vase of it in the New York show that Wi
as effective as anything there.

IAN (Bessie Boston)—New Cactus varieties of merit should be encouraged, at
here is one that is worthy. It is a long petaled flower with background -
golden amber, and shadings of deep salmon. The reverse of the {peta
shows a glowing gold. The flowers are large and of spectacular appearanc

PauL Revere (Bissell)—Here is about the most satisfying of all solid 1
Dahlias, and what a color. A flaming scarlet-red and yet a flower that W
blend with a number of shades. It is a flower for those who feel bright colot
Sometimes we think this talk about reds not being popular is bunk.

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Dahlia Roll of Honor

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Jersey’s Empress (Waite)—This richly colored Decorative should have been
included in last year’s report and that is why we are mentioning it among the
novelties. It is a dark royal plum-violet, about as richly colored as anything
in the Dahlia world. The long graceful petals have a slight curl that gives this
flower a most artistic appearance. It is an unusually fine grower.

May RiLey (Harding)—A spectacular large Decorative that somewhat re-
sembles the old variety Judge Marean. It is a larger and more distinctive
variety than Judge Marean. The color is a combination of golden amber
with deep rose shadings, each petal tinted in uniform-manner. It is a beauti-
ful flower. :

Caspar G. Ware (Dahliadel)—A fine growing Dahlia of clear lavender: pink.
It isa true Decorative and, like Mrs. I. de Ver Warner it will probably eventu-
ally be a gener’l favorite. A vase of Caspar G. Ware won for best vase of
25 blooms at Camden, and it was about the finest vase of Dahlias seen this
year. The color changes under different soil conditions, but always it 1s
charming and when the pink predominates it is exceedingly beautiful.

SANHICANS KinG (Fisher & Masson)—Dahlias set their own fashions and here is
the “last word” in color fashion. This is exemplified in a beautiful manner
in this Decorative, a bright tawny gold shading to a bronze gold, with tints of
Bronze around center. The hackneyed term “autumn colored’? can be
rightfully applied to this variety. It is an artistically formed flower, not
large, but a grower of excellent habits.

Moorestown MEtopy (Lyndora Gardens)—A really fine new American type

Cactus. Large star-like flowers, quite a bit more incurved than Ambassador,
but giving the same effect. The color is burnt orange, of a distinctly different
shade.

QUEEN OF THE GARDEN BEAUTIFUL (Garden Beautiful—Burns)—An interesting
Dahlia with an interesting history. Originated in the San Quentin prison’s
Garden Beautiful in California, it won the Heller prize at San Francisco in
1925. Its form alone makes it a distinctive flower, with the large center and
wide petals. The color is a bright yellow with tints of green—a more in-
teresting color than the description as it gives an unusual warm tone to the
flower. It is a most effective Decorative for combination with pinks or
oranges in classes calling for several Decorative varieties.

GARDEN GLow (Burpee)—A bright gold and red Hybrid-cactus that caught the
dear old public’s fancy at the Sesqui-Centennial, at Camden, and again at
New York. It is not a large flower but charming and animated looking.
It is a matter of record that this was admired as much as any of the 1926
novelties.

Nancy Sue Lanc (Broomall)—A gigantic flower with a striking combination
of metallic colors, bronze, copper, gold, and a brown red—the color of an oak
leaf. If you should see this Decorative in a 50 bloom class, you would likely
pick it out immediately as about the most distinctive flower in the class.

Sunrise (Smith)—This amber colored Decorative with a line of rose pink
outlining each petal created something of a sensation in New York where it
received a Special Award of Merit. It is a decidedly two-colored flower,
but the color design is regular.

Evite PeAcH (Kennedy)—A happy name for a beautiful flower. It is a bright
salmon pink Decorative of distinctive form and a gem in the garden. Under
artificial light, it changes color, becoming even more beautiful. Winner in
hot competition at Red Bank as Best Undisseminated Seedling.

Ponp Lity (Cottam)—The first thing that impressed us in the New York Show
was a basket of this new Decorative, and, after going through the show several
times, it seemed about the prettiest basket in the hall. It is a light tan and
cream color with tints of rose and violet. Another variety we can class as a
real art Dahlia.

Lapy Lynpora (Lyndora Gardens)—If you love pastel shades in distinctive
combination, here is a real gem. It won in the Undisseminated Seedling
Class at Camden in the best class of seedlings shown in the East this year.
It is a lovely blending of pink and white, but a blended combination without
too strict design; the pink is a real pink and the white is just enough tinted
to make a luscious effect.

Ross Waite (Dr. Waite)—If you are looking for something different here is a
uniquely formed Hybrid-cactus with peculiarly incurved interwoven petals.
The color is clear silvery yellow. This variety was certified at the New
Jersey Trial Grounds, in 1925.

FAITH GARIBALDI (Bessie Boston)—We have a notion that this distinctive clear
pink is an even more beautiful flower along the Atlantic Seaboard than in Cali-
fornia. In 1926, Faith Garibaldi improved 50 per cent. over its 1925 debut. It
is a clear pink of real distinction and charm. Several times this year it was in
winning Decorative classes, and is a high rating Dahlia in every respect.
There is no more charming color in any Dahlia.

ALEXANDER Pope (Montrose Dahlia Gardens)—This spectacular Hybrid-cactus
won two silver medals at the Boston Show. It is an almost perfect flower.
The color is bright crimson with a peculiar lustre. The reverse is light violet,
and the combination is much more effective than it sounds. We first saw
this at Short Hills in 1925, and it came even better in 1926.

JeRseEY’s ELEGANS (Waite)—A rich name for a richly colored Decorative.
The color is almost identical with Jersey’s Beauty, but the form is quite
different, a near Hybrid-cactus type. The flowers are not large, but they are
graceful and effective for vase decoration. A Dahlia that will be popular.

ELKRIDGE Beauty (Griffiths)—Here is a luscious colored true Decorative and
an excellent keeper when cut. It is a waxy petalled flower, a combination of
cream and tan with just enough tints of rose to give the flower distinction and
warmth.

COHASSET SuPREME (Marshall-Sugg)—A large Decorative that can boast every
quality a good Dahlia should have. Flowers grow well out from foliage.
The color is a delightful shade of lavender pink with deep rose reverse; at
center shades to an ivory pink giving a charming color effect.

LittiAN Hart (Harding)—A rich metallic pink Decorative and a worthy
member of the Harding-Marean family of Dahlias. We believe this flower
will be as popular as Rose Fallon; it is, we think, a better Dahlia. Certain
Dahlias, like people, have the “‘grand manner’ and this one has it.

PrimuLA Rex (Broomall)—This yellow Decorative created a sensation ey
place where it was shown. It won a number of individual bloom prizes, |
for specimen bloom and largest bloom, and notably the Special Award it
ceived at Camden in the Court of Honor, in competition with the best
Dahlia world has to show. A pale, primrose yellow, clear, and a ones
flower. You can grow it as a gigantic flower or you can let it bloom fre
and you have about as graceful a flower as you'll see. T

Susan McANneEENy (Fraser)—A nice Hybrid-cactus that can boast every g
quality a Dahlia should have. Flowers are on extra good stems. Thee
is a delightful shade of primrose with tints and streaks of peach pink.

EacLte Rock SUNSHINE (Broomall)—A really great Dahlia and a variety {
will dominate the individual classes calling for perfection in the Cactus ty
And what a glorious rich color, so bright that it radiates! The name fits
bring just one blossom into a room and you’ve got new life in the entire.
roundings. It has good habits of growth and bloom, too.

ForpHooK Victory (Burpee)—A lot of pinks have been described as “;
watermelon pink.” Here’s the variety that that color description fits.
clean cut Decorative that ought to make its mark as both a commercial
flower and as a garden variety. Good keeper, warm color, and an i
companion for salmon, lighter pink, or white combinations in garden
bouquet. It was among the best in the showroom at New York.

Ouive REED (Seal)—If you want a real bright yellow deep petaled flower,
will find it in this Decorative. An impressive flower in every Eastern sh

Older Varieties Still Good

Vhe descriptions given below are short because every variety
this section has been described in full in a number of catalog:
However, this list includes the Dahlias that have weathered the sto
of fiercest competition without displacement and therefore we mi
say they are the really great Dahlias.

Jersey’s Beauty (Waite)—Still the best pink Decorative. In 1926 won
Garden & Home Builder medal at the Sesqui-Centennial Show as the:
standing Dahlia in the show; also at the Camden Show as the flower that
resented the greatest achievement in Dahlia breeding. It further ad
to its long list of victories by winning a number of prizes in artistic bl
classes, in vase classes, in decorative, and in the pink cojor classes, an
England it won the combined award of the National Dahlia Society and
Royal Horticultural Society. It is the one most popular Dahlia.

THe TRENTONIAN (Fisher & Masson)—AIl the way from Edinburgh, Scotl:
comes the report that this copper brown Decorative won as the Best
corative in show. It won as best flower of New Jersey origin, at Short H
and won in the Decorative Class at Red Bank in the 6 bloom class. Ad
these a number of other class prizes, usually calling for Best Decorative

Jersey's BEACON (Waite)—The most popular red Dahlia in the East, outst:
ing at every show. It is such a fine grower that it might be said to apprc
the perfect in that respect. It won its share of prizes too. It is ther
distinctive colored red due to the tan reverse.

Evite Giory (Kennedy)—Frankly this is still the most spectacular of Dah
It added to its long list of prizes the Court of Honor prize at Camden in
keenest individual bloom class that we have ever seen. It won both aw:
in Largest and Best Specimen Class at Red Bank. This large red Decora
dominated the red color classes wherever shown. And, what is more
portant, it grew well in every section where it was sent.

SAGAMORE (Badetty-Kirby)—Like Jersey’s Beauty, it was in every comme!
exhibit of note and many times we heard visitors stop before these exhi
and say “That’s the prettiest of all.’ It is one of the best selling Da
in the New York shops. There were larger shipments of some 0
varieties but Sagamore is the only one we know that was often “‘sold «
before delivered.

MarcareT Wooprow WiItson (Fisher & Masson)—A really magnifi
Decorative that succeeded wherever grown. No Dahlia of 1925 introduc
achieved more general popularity. It won several individual prize cla'
including the President’s Cup at Wilmington for best bloom in show.
was especially good at Trenton, at the Sesqui-Centennial, at Camden, an
New York. It is unique in its pale tinted pink color and, when it is per!
holds admiration by its sheer beauty.

ELLINOR VANDERVEER (Seal)—In all the shows because it is a beautiful |
and because it is such a satisfactory grower. A Dahlia that rates very
among the New York Florists because of its color and keeping quali
It won its share of prizes too. Like many of the other varieties in
section, Ellinor Vanderveer will do her part to make the Dahlia the !
popular garden flower.

Marmion (Tyler)—We said this Dahlia created a sensation at Short Hills
year. Well, this year also it was the outstanding variety in that show
won the Sweepstakes prize for best bloom. It was not in other shov.
large quantity, but it was a standout wherever shown or grown. It isa!
Decorative, golden yellow with bronze tints shading to an almost bronze ce

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was asked why she did not have larger blooms at the New York show
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short of bloom.” This is one of the best keepers and why its orange
gold colors have not been used more by the exhibitors staging the large —
mercial displays is a mystery.

Tue SEAL oF Connecticut (Alling)—The finest colored yellow Decora’
It was good in every show and was spectacular in some. It is large,
clear golden yellow ‘color of most pleasing appearance. It held its own
year when new yellows came thick and fast. In any exhibit it makes 2)
of brightness. ; - |

Wortv’s Best Wuite (Murphy)—After careful study of all the whites’

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are like the old Roman lamps that burn olive oil and have a cluste
burners around a central standard. All these old forms of lights
be skilfully wired for electricity.

Typical Spanish chairs are rather uncomfortaple from a moc
standpoint, those with the flexible leather backs and seats of the
joint variety being least so; but there is no reason why a few mo
upholstered pieces cannot be introduced if appropriately covered.
simple Spanish house comfortable rattan or bamboo chairs can
introduced, their cushions covered with Spanish or India cotton pri
These combine well with simple Spanish furnishings and are both
and comfortable in a warm climate. Beside the hip-joint chairs ¢
are rectangular walnut chairs with wooden seats and backs, wa
chairs with upholstered seats and backs, covered in leather or ve
and trimmed with fringe and large decorative nails, and the Spa
peasant type having rush seats and carved decorated ladder b;
peculiar to Catalonia. The hip-joint chairs were introduced by
Moors and are the descendants of similar ones used in Egypt, Gr
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or Dante chairs. The nearest approach to a Spanish sofa is an all y
or upholstered bench with a back and a rush seated settee that
sembles a row of Catalonian chairs combined into one piece.

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and in the finer houses wool rugs woven in Spain, but resembling
ental ones in texture. The designs are usually Spanish. Many of
Alpujarras that are used so much at present in Spain and this cou
were originally bedspreads or covers for country carts, against the
of the sun. There were a few very heavy Alpujarras, however, al}
used for rugs, but the term has been rather loosely used recentl
include less closely woven ones that were not originally meant ‘e
coverings.

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other side a sink, also lined with tiles, and above it shelves of 1
tiles. Copper cooking utensils lined with white metal, hanging in
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Furniture of the peasant type, including rush-seated chairs pai
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complete a room so colorful fresh and inviting that any cook may ¢
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room and is usually very decorative, and beautiful in design. 1
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places to hang tapestries, damasks, mirrors or pictures against,
do not overdo it. Pictures or mirrors can be hung with silk cords
tassels, which adds to their decorative effect. Many Spanish ht
have no curtains or portiéres, and the deep window reveals and dee
doors do not lend themselves to draperies. They were used, how
in the richer and later houses; and damasks or brocatelles were the!
materials. Greens, reds and clear almost lemon yellow were the
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fitted with decorative wrought iron braces that were detachable, mé
it possible to ‘knock down” any tables fitted with them. Benche:
had braces and their use is peculiarly Spanish. Other wrought
articles for inside use were lanterns, floor and table candles'
fire-irons, locks and all hardware for doors, windows, chests, and g
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YCEMBER, 1926

Christmas in Colonial Days

(Continued from page 284)

h was following the tradition that the Christ child wanders forth
jsnight. His way must be cheered and the house ready for his
jtince.

firing the following days, ladies and gentry rode with the hounds,
wing foxes by day or coons by night. And there was always gam-
gind dancing.

EAT-grandmother Anne Price had no such fun at Christmas, for
Jshe lived in Boston in a time when most all pleasures were thought
| sinful.
\;itors from English ships tried to follow the home customs. Many
te colonists still secretly held some of the old superstitions, and be-
yi that certain Christmas observances would save them from an
itppy fate. Gov. Bradford, to check this slipping from grace, in
2 decreed “If they made ye keeping of it matter of devotion, let
e. kepe their homes, but no gameing in ye streets.” Even in
yand, a few years later (1634) parliament abolished the observance
sints’ days and the “three grand festivals of Christmas, Easter
dWVhitsuntide.”’
Yu can imagine how greatly little Anne Price enjoyed a Christmas
wh she spent with her Aunt Julia—who had married Jacob Van
aitein a worthy Dutch farmer. They now had seven children, all
ik in Kinderhook, a settlement near the Hudson River and on a line
siwest from Boston. The Dutch and the Germans really are the
who had made Christmas pre-eminently the childrens’ day. At
iseason, in the old countries, young and old become as playful and
ianative as young children.
cle Jacob had converted Aunt Julia from her strict Puritanical
ay, to the wonder and delight of Anne. For days, her cousins had
eitelling of a strange saint, named Santa Claus, who lived in a pine
re: up above Albany, and who visited every house in the world on
ajtmas eve. Well if he didn’t go to Boston, at any rate he visited
ey house in Kinderhook and Kingston, and, oh, to every place
oud, and way over in Germany too. He popped down the big
imeys, right through the smoke and fire, and as he was a fairy, he
dit even soil his red coat.
Snta Claus knew every child and kept in a big book a record for the
a} Uncle Jacob said that in his country, Santa Claus would often
on Christmas Day to praise those children who had been good,
ido scold those who had been thoughtless or lazy. That in Holland,
int Claus came on St. Nicholas day, which is the sixth of December,
ot as in America on the twenty-fifth. The latter is strictly a
ujh day. That on Christmas Eve, just before midnight, all the
ers crowed, and all the animals talked—probably in English, or
thps in German. If anybody listened, he would understand, but it
as terrible thing to do, as he surely then would die before New Years
ay At midnight, the animals all kneel in prayer. The bees sing
s. Water turns to wine. But if any one looks in these miracles,
* Ml suffer a terrible death.
etimes a godly man may see or hear these mysteries in his
‘eas; and then during the next year, he will be guided to hidden
edires, or to some other good fortune. This Christmas even is the
igi when both good spirits and those of evil are abroad. No one
‘oid venture out-of-doors, except with a light in one hand, and a song
je’s lips. Future fates can this night be foretold by throwing
‘ln lead into water, by sifting ashes, or various games which now
e llow on Hallowe’en.

Sikespeare tells of this evening in Hamlet, when—Marcellus ex-
alls:

“Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,

The bird of dawning singeth all night long;

And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.”

Othis night, said Uncle Jacob, the Christ Child wanders throughout

1€ind. Sometimes he is disguised as a beggar, or as an old man,
‘4a poor animal. Those who are kind to him, though not knowing
hae really is, are well rewarded. And those who are mean or cruel
re inished.
* next morning, Anne rushed with her little cousins, to the parlor
he: Stood a wonderful tree as true and straight as if it were growing!
nlithis tree was covered with bits of colored papers, and lighted with
veandles, and laden with dozens of little cakes made in the form of
nits and people.

(Continue! on page 328)

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Dahlia Roll of Honor

(Continued from page 320)
Decorative seems to deserve its name both in show room and in garden.
The tints of cream color on the broad heavy petals give it an effect we do not
know in any other white. It has never been shown in large quantities but
has a lot of prizes to its credit.

UncLe Tom (Success Dahlia Gardens)—An aptly named flower with an
unusually rich and impressive color. It is deep garnet, almost black, as rich
as the finest velvet in texture; and, as La Tulipe Noir enriches the Tulip
gardens, so Uncle Tom gives a touch of color to the Dahlia gardens that 1s
both effective, different, and artistic. The form is Decorative. Keeps un-
usually well.

EASTERN STAR (Dahliadel)—No Dahlia in the New York show was more effec-
tive than this fine golden Decorative. Whether in a separate vase, or as a
part of a general exhibit, it did its part in giving the show bright color. One
of the best keepers at New York.

NaTHAN HALE (Badetty Bros.)—This Decorative as a second year flower has
really created a unique record in that it has become one of the best sellers on
the New York cut flower market and as a garden flower it is one of the finest
of all. Its burnt orange color, its beauty of form, and excellent keeping
qualities are the reasons for its success. Nathan Hale represents the stand-
ard we are after in establishing stamina in the Dahlia as a cut flower.

Louita VELASco (Bessie Boston)—Clear clean white flowers, with just enough
size to make them impressive and yet not massive. This white Cactus is one
of the real art Dahlias and was greatly admired at New York.

Sun Map (Edymel Dahlia Farm)—A glorious colored Hybrid-cactus of orange
red and gold and a wonderfully free bloomer and fine grower. It is a long
season bloomer and one of the most pleasing of the Western Dahlias. It makesa
pleasing combination for house bouquet with reds, oranges, salmons, or yellows.

SoLe Mio (Lohrmann)—A nearly perfect Dahlia, and a rich golden color. This
fine Decorative was even better than in 1925 when it made such a good im-
pression in the Eastern shows. In every respect it is a high rate Dahlia.

WaLTeR E. Macee (Salbach)—A finely formed true Decorative of bright tan
and orange shading to a light copper at center. The center color, however,
is deeper than that of the outside petals. Not shown extensively in the East
but is one of the richest colored of all the orange shades.

MorbeELLA (Pfannkiicken- Kemp)—Three consecutive years in our Honor Roll
and better this year than before. Was in every Eastern show and in many
classes was the winner. Undoubtedly, it is the purest color of any of the
autumn shades and nothing can beat it under artificial light.

SANHICAN’S Princess (Fisher & Masson)—This clear, just lighter than rose
pink Decorative is a real gem. It will be a good cut flower for years to

come and we especially recommend it to those growing for this trade. Free
bloomer, thrifty grower, and a dainty color.
GLory oF Monmoutu (Kemp)—A glorious Dahlia in every respect. Salmon

pink fairly glistening with silver and golden tints. At the Sesqui-Centennial,
at Camden, and at New York it was among the very best. It is a free bloomer
of fine growing habits and, both in cclor and form, is entirely distinct from
any other Decorative we know. We rate it among the best.

Jersey’s JEWEL (Waite)—This fine large Decorative holds its place strictly on
merit, and the clear mellow pink color, very pure and pleasing, is its greatest
asset. Jersey’s Jewel won Sweepstakes as Best Bloom in Show at Englewood
and a number of individual bloom prizes in 1926.

Rose FALion (Harding)—This spectacular, large Decorative is deserving of its
popularity. The color is a dark orange tinted with amber and salmon and is
both pleasing and effective. Was among the best in every Eastern show of
importance.

AMBASSADOR (Broomall)—Holds the distinction of being the “‘oldest’’ Dahlia on
our Honor Roll and of course the reason is that it still ranks as about the best
Cactus and as in former years it had the Cactus individual bloom prizes at its
mercy. Though it will have competition next year, Ambassador, we believe,
will hold its own.

Emma Marie (Dahliadel)—This lovely Hybrid-cactus is retained in the honor
roll because it is a flower that has achieved real success in both show room and
garden; and it is one of the most successful selling Dahlias on the Philadelphia
market. The attractive combination of pink and white is always pleasing.
It was a stand-out variety at Camden.

Jersey’s IDEAL (Waite)—Changed color a bit from its 1925 form, but is still a
most distinctive and spectacular flower. The tendency this year was to be-
com» a clearer shade, with the gray tones omitted. There is no Dahlia just
like JERSEY’s IDEAL in either color or form.

A CenturyOld House

(Continued from page 305)

effect. The Spanish Bayonets are also most notable against the
white wall, their sword-like leaves and candelabra stalks hung with
myriads of bell-formed flowers well meriting the familiar name of
“Our Lord’s Candles.”’ They certainly do give an old-time atmos-
phere to the garden for they have been used so much in the Mission
gardens that everyone familiar with California plant life at once
associates them with Missions, old gardens and sunny hillsides. They
seem to belong to white altars and are equally well fitted to grace
white walls.

It is impossible to tell at a superficial glance at the completed house
and garden what part is old and what part new, so wisely has the
restoration been done. The walls of the house were strengthened
here and there, the garden wall entirely rebuilt, just where the old one
stood and after the model of the old one, enough of which remained
to furnish design, thickness, height. The garage is new but so similar
in spirit that it seems to be an original part of the establishment.

DECEMBER, 1926

(Continued from page 322

for doorways and windows. Wrought iron and tiles are most typical

of Spanish architecture and no house in this style can be suggestive —

without the liberal use of both.

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In furnishing a Spanish bedroom, many pieces of furniture are inter- _

changeable with those of the living rooms. Any of the types of chairs _
already mentioned may be used, or the tables, a vargueno for writing, and
one of the large wardrobes; but the bed has great individuality and may |
be of several kinds. Heavy four-posters with canopies, of walnut, |
or in polychrome draped with damask, brocatelle or embroidery, simple _
four-posters without canopies, a great feature being made of the hand-_
woven or embroidered bedspreads, plain bedsteads placed in a corner,
the only embellishment being an elaborate valance around the bottom |
and a handwoven or embroidered spread, and, most unique of all,
a four-posted bed without a canopy—generally polychrome—with a flat
decorated head-board, separate from the bed and hung on the wall
between the two head posts, like a picture.

Spain has always been famous for its hand-made pottery and no small .
decorative feature is more telling as a Spanish note than a few good
specimens of Talavera, Alcora, or Hispano-moresque lustre. Spain.
at one time rivalled Venice in her handblown glass.

Already the use of Spanish furnishings has increased so much that the
supply of genuine antiques has both lessened and increased in price.
The natural result is reproductions, and both in Spain and in the
United States it is beginning to be possible to purchase creditable
copies of furniture, Alpujarra rugs, pottery, ironwork and handblown
glass. Though one would always advise people to use as many genu-
inely old pieces as possible in furnishing a house, it is well-nigh im-
possible to completely do this, and the antique pieces may serve to give
a flavor to the house which the reproductions alone could not do.

The patio is always a delight to furnish. For chairs and tables
4 combination of rattan, with wrought-iron furniture, and a few small
tables and stands with tile tops. _Wrought-iron lanterns hanging from
the ceiling of the arcades or from brackets, can be wired for electricity,
and everywhere glazed and unglazed pots, and jars full of growing
plants and flowers. A tiled fountain in the centre, with paths leading
to it from a miniature garden scheme, or merely a paved court witl
potted plants, are two ways of completing a patio, and no one who ha:
not experienced the delight of subtropical planting for an out-of-doo;
living-room can know the full pleasure of a Spanish patio in a warn
climate.

With a little study and some restraint it is not difficult to furnis|)
a house already built on Spanish lines in a thoroughly Spanish way, bu
too much enthusiasm in the direction of reckless buying may so over)
load the rooms that the tranquil, uncrowded look of a real Spanis|
interior be lost.

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Dahlias on the Pacific Coast |

(Continued from page 302)

The seventh annual show of the Los Angeles Dahlia Society wi
held on September 17th and 18th. From every point of view it Wi
the most successful ever staged by this Society.

Probably the outstanding novelty was the Barker Dahlia Farm
Flaming Meteor, a flame colored Decorative, true type, and of a mo
striking appearance. The prize for the largest went to Siskiyou whi
the Pompon Little David was the smallest. The new seedling Lor
Beach, originated by J. F. Hartwell proved the best individual bloor

Somerset, originated by John W. Eierman, was the best basket ©
fifty—a fine new Cactus of excellent formation and of a most pleasir
salmon color. Novelty Dahlia Gardens had the best general displa
with Barker Dahlia Farm next.

Santa Monica held an excellent three day show in the Auditoriu'
of the Municipal Pier which extends out over the Pacific. Dahl
exhibitors the country over will be interested in the effect of tt
location on the flowers themselves. With the cool moist breezes of t
ocean blowing through the windows of the auditorium and with cc
nights, blooms lasted throughout the entire three days with practical
unimpaired freshness.

In a show characterized by excellent exhibits the best Dah}
proved to be Eagle Rock Sunshine, a new variety originated f
J. J. Broomall. Another Broomall origination, Rosa Nell, took fii
prize for the largest bloom.

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EMBER, 1926

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Her Uncle Jacob told her that these cakes represented real animal)
that were offered by the people at this time, years and years age
There were presents for every one of the children, including a wonderft
Noah’s ark with pairs of almost every kind of animal.

All the week, the tree stood in the place of honor. The last night ¢
the old year, the tree, and all the greens that had been used for decc
rations, were lovingly carried to the yard, where dry sticks had bee.
piled on a high snowdrift. These sticks were lighted, and the Chris;
mas greens were placed on top, soon to be consumed in the flame

For, said Uncle Jacob, the good spirits of the forest live in the Chris,
mas greens. If they are carelessly thrown onto the ground, the spiri)
will be destroyed. If they are liberated by fire, they fly to the
friends, and will always send happiness to the household in which the
had lived for one happy week.

On New Year’s Eve, all the family waited for the big clock to al
twelve, when with a rush Uncle Jacob and Aunt Julia, and the childre,
stood in the open doorway and cried “Welcome, glad New Year!

F YOU would see how customs are transferred, combined, or alteri
when carried to new lands read aloud Dickens ‘“‘Christmas Eve ©
Mr. Wardles” in ‘‘ Pickwick Papers.” And his ‘‘Christmas Goose |
the Cratchits.” And his ‘‘Christmas at Fezziwig’s Warehouse
These will tell you of England, where they have the waits, like t-
minstrels of earlier days. They goon Christmas eve from door to do.
singing songs both religious and secular, hoping for gifts of food, drin,
and money. Masking and mumming too are still followed on th.
night. The revelers claim the right to enter any house, just as Shal-
speare describes in Henry VIII.

We have in some American cities our rag o’ muffin masquera>
beggars on Thanksgiving day; and in Philadelphia, there are thousan;
of mummers in parade on New Year’s Eve.

In England the roast pig is an essential part of a real Christmas fea ,.
because in feudal days, the wild boar was hunted and killed, and |
head brought to the Christmas table. There are here as throughct
the Christmas world special cakes in shapes that represent sacrifices f
cattle. There are figures of saints and symbols of angels. The cust)
still prevails of saving until Christmas the last sheaf of wheat thais
harvested, at which time it is thrown out for the birds. All anims
are given an extra supply of food; good nature and kindness to man ad
beast is the essence of the day.

In France, little celebration is made of Christmas. There e
special church services to celebrate the Noél. In some sections at t's
season is continued that custom—dating back to the 4th Century-)f
choosing by chance, a King of Fools. This man for a day has ‘I
power, which he often uses in giving silly commands.

Those who do have home celebrations have a cradle or mana{',
with symbols of the holy family—rather than a tree.

People in those European countries that have tiled stoves instea( i
open fireplaces believe that Santa Claus cannot come down the chi-
ney. Yet we know that here in our apartments, the dear old man 2
come through even a radiator. But of course it is far nicer to hay a
real fireplace with brightly burning logs!

We most of us have Christmas trees, which no longer are a ©
danger to girls in fluffy dresses, because the lights are now fim
tiny electric bulbs. It seems a pity to cut down so many beautul
trees—but if we will do as is required in Germany, plant to rep!
every one cut down, our forests will not be destroyed. Perhaps lis
year Santa Claus will bring us a real Cedar or Fir or Pine, with its rts
carefully protected in a large wooden tub. We will water it during ts
stay indoors, and later will plant it in our yard, where it will grow dq
a large tree.

We enjoy the big trees that are made the center of our city pa s,
where the crowds gather to sing Christmas songs together. Suc 4
gathering represents the spirit of the modern Christmas, not of a °
master being generous to his serfs, but of one neighbor being friei|y
with another. |

I hope we will not forget certain historic Christmases in our own ld.
The first when Columbus lost one of his ships in Hayti, 1492. A)
when the Puritans had a very holy service on their boat, anchore¢ oft
shore, Dec. 25, 1620. And again when Washington crossed fi
Delaware, and captured the Hessians in 1776. And the year folloys
when he and his soldiers suffered so terribly at Valley Forge.

Christmas is a birthday anniversary. We can still bring presen’
Him in whose honor the party is given; for He said that when ae
kind to those who need sympathy and when we give to those who jed
help, we are making gifts to Him. Shall we try to be truly unse/sh
—and so find our happiest Christmas! |

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Music of Christmastide

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“Brethren, keep diligently the feast days and above all the ,
of Christ’s birth.” The custom of celebrating the Nativity by|
singing of carols is said to have been inaugurated by Telesphc
who was Bishop of Rome in the year 129. These earliest Christ
carols were probably in Latin and it is doubtful if any of them |.
survived down through the centuries to this late day. As time y,
on the people gradually came to use their own languages and dia).
in carol singing. Abbe Lebeuf writes that “these songs of the pe
were sung in the night of the Nativity in the provinces and chur.
of France from the ninth century on, that is, from the time the |

| language began to give place to the vernacular.”

Legends about the Annunciation and the coming of the Holy ||
were as familiar to the people of those days as the words of the Bib:
story of the Advent are to us, and many of the earliest carols recou (
these stories, such as the one about the cherry tree that bowed dow
that the Virgin might gather its fruit. Allegories were the fay
form of story telling in those far-off days and it is to this allego-
habit of mind that we owe such carols as the familiar old song:

I saw three ships come sailing in,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
And what was in those ships so fair
On Christmas Day in the morning?
Our Saviour Christ and His Ladye
On Christmas Day in the morning.

In pictorial art, medieval painters delighted to depict the Madonna
the sleeping Babe, and among the sacred folk songs in every lang ,
we find innumerable lullabies. Here again, too, are legends, suc ;
the one in the song which pictures the baby Christ as fretful and uni
ing to go to sleep until He observes a tear of weariness in his mot 1
eye. Another of these lovely little bits begins:

Joseph, tender Joseph mine,
Help me rock my Babe Divine.

To these simple country folk one of the most appealing scenes conn¢ ¢
with the Nativity was the coming of the Shepherds and we find rn
carols in every European country elaborating on this theme. I a
old Austrian carol, one shepherd cautions his companions:

Enter ye soft, lest the Babe be asleep,
Mary, His mother, her watch o’er Him doth keep.

He suggests that they take along a lamb as a gift, as it will fu is
food for the family and the fleece will keep the baby warm in the wtt
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Another phase of the subject which appealed to the mind of tha
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in the little village of Bethlehem. This was a subject which pait-r
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village is assembled to watch the Holy Family; open-eyed, in some s
open-mouthed, it is evident from their gestures that they are exci dl
commenting on the scene. Song-makers also depicted the same s 0
An old French folk song describes a villager who heard the stir in

| rushes forth to inquire the news from his neighbor and learns fromii!

that the Christ has been born in his little village:

Good neighbor, tell me why that sound,
That noisy tumult rising round,
Awaking all in slumber lying?
Truly disturbing are these cries
All through the quiet village flying,
O come ye shepherds, wake, arise!

What, neighbor, then do ye not know,
God hath appeared on earth below?
And now is born in manger lowly?
In humble guise He came this night,
Simple and meek, this infant holy,
Yet how divine in beauty bright!

Every land in old Europe has its own Christmas carols, but ¥ "
America have the richest of all heritages, as the folk music of alt!
world has come to us by inheritance. One of the most delightful ay
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the Christmas mood as a community activity. Community Christmas
trees and community singing of carols is becoming more and more
popular. In some towns this is brought about by official action and in
others it is the result of a small group of people acting entirely on their
own initiative. In a suburban town near New York the mayor issues
a notice a few days in advance of Christmas asking all citizens to place
lighted candles in their windows on Christmas Eve. At about eight
o’clock the waits fare forth, with their leader, singing as they wend
their way through the streets. The group of singers has been practic-
ing for several evenings in advance. In some towns churches send out
their waits, made up of choir singers and young people who are willing
to practice carol singing. The town may be divided into sections and
completely covered by the singers, who later mass around the Commun-
ity Tree which is lighted while they sing their final carol. Waits
originated long centuries ago in England. In the Middle Ages the
night watchman often sang his “All’s well” at the striking of the hours.
Some of them carried horns and other musical instruments, and these
too were called waits. In the course of time the word was applied
especially to the singing of Christmas carols.

The singing of waits has become so popular that the National Bureau
for the Advancement of Music, New York City, has a supply of red
capes and hoods and other insignia of carol singing which can be sup-
plied to groups at very small cost.

The available literature of Christmas carols from all lands is a large
one and is constantly being added to. Nearly all the music publishers
have issued carols in almost every form, simple old songs to be sung in
unison by communities, and elaborate arrangements for experienced
choirs. Some of the most beautiful arrangements have been made by
Helen and Clarence Dickinson, and are published by the H. W. Gray
Company, New York City. The translations from foreign languages
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musical ability on the part of the singers and some careful rehearsing.
For any group willing to put in a little work in the preparation of them,
they will be literally a treasure house of Christmas joy.

The same publisher puts out a number of old English carols in pam-
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than the Dickinson arrangements, they are well suited to community
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old French and old Breton carols with English words. For the Com-
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containing such standard old Christmas songs as “‘Adeste Fideles,”’
“Good King Wencelas,”’ “Three Kings of Orient” and others.

Theodore Presser, Philadelphia, publishes three booklets of old carols,
one for mixed voices, one for men’s voices and one for two-part treble
chorus, the last-named suitable for children. The list of carols from
all the world published by the house of Schirmer, New York City, is
too lengthy for reproduction here. By writing to this publisher and
stating your wants, it will be possible to obtain almost anything in this
line. The Ditson Company, Boston, also publishes a large number of
carols, most of them grouped in pamphlet form for community singing.

Not to be overlooked in considering Christmas music in the home
are the mechanical instruments, the phonograph and player-piano.
There are some lovely records of familiar old songs, such as “‘Adeste
Fideles” sung by a famous chorr, “Hark the Herald Angels,” and that
best-beloved of all Christmas songs, “Silent Night, Holy Night.”
There is a Caruso record of Adams’ “Cantique Noel” which is a gem.
Each year brings new records and rolls for the holiday season. The

lover of music has not far to seek in providing for this important phase
of the holiday preparations.

Dwarf Allwoodi Carnation

[Bese who have rockeries, wall gardens, or stone paths will be

interested in the new Dwarf Allwoodi Carnation. With Allwoodi
as the pollen parent and Dianthus caesius and D. deltoides for pollen,
Allwood Bros. have produced a hardy Carnation growing only four
inches high that is very attractive for the uses indicated. Recently
we saw in a garden some of the annual Carnations, seeds of which

had dropped between the stones in a stone walk. It is a very attrac-
tive idea.

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The Glen Road Iris Garder

Wellesley Farms, Mass, |

Specialize in rare and fine vari

of Bearded Iris
American and European
Send for Catalogue.

LANSING, MICH,
AONO
40-page Color-Illustratea
CATALOG OF

Peonies and Importe,
Holland Bulbs

will be gladl
sent free
upon reques

Announcing for 1927

“MOLLIE MALONE

Hybrid Cactus

Originated by George Warren of
Santa Maria, California

A beautiful amber yellow (Ridg
ways) blossom. Plants are stron.
vigorous, profuse bloomers, ad
stem.

Won First Prize at Monteré
Park, California Flower Sho
for Size.

Strong Tubers. $10.00 Net
Order now for Spring delivery, |
Sold Exclusively by

PAUL DORING _
1520 South 8th Street Alhambra, C:|_

Flushing Dahlia
Gardens

Our New Decorative
*sADELAIDE BRIGGS”

Color pleasing salmon-pink of the same shade) |

the famous Los Angeles rose. Large flowers, tr!

decorative in form. Habit of plant good; e|

cellent foliage; stiff erect stems. A fine cut flowe
Plants only for 1927. $5.00 each

GLORY OF FLUSHING
Our old Gold Hybrid Cactus. We now have

good stock of tubers of this many times priv
winner that has succeeded so well in all parts |
the country. Certificate of Merit, A. D. 5. ar
California Dahlia Society.
Tubers $5.00

Plants $2.50

Send for 1927 Catalogue
It will interest you. We list an unusual colle)
tion of Pompoms.

FLUSHING DAHLIA GARDENS
Maude M. Wilson
174 Franklin Place, Flushing, New Yor

“Some day,” you have said to yourself while
looking at an advertisement like this, “some
day I shall have a wonderful Crane bath-

room...as soon as | can afford it.”

The plain fact of the matter is that if you can
afford any bathroom at all, you can afford
one equipped throughout wn Crane mate-
rials: graceful fixtures of gleaming white,
valves and hidden fittings dependably long-
lived. For despite any impression to the

IN ALL

YDEN FITTINGS

QUALITY

contrary, Crane plumbing and heating ma-
terials for a complete installation are no
higher in price than substitutes.

Make your ideas known to any responsible
plumbing contractor, Explain the kind of
bathroom you want. New [deasin Bathrooms,
with color illustrations (sent on request) may
help. Then specify Crane fixtures, valves, and
fittings; and you won’t have to pay a penny
more than for any other good materials.

RANE

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ANDRE de FOUQUIERES

A leader of the Parisian ‘400’, whose
dress, manner and habits are widely
copied. M. de Fouquieres is but one
of the many distinguished personages
the world over who smoke and
endorse Melachrino cigarettes,

TRANSLATION >
The Melachrino cigarettes are enchani
They are the gift of the Orient to the Occraen
) They are a joy and.a dream that evaporate t
geometric spirals. The Melachrino cigar
are rest, luxuriousness and forgetful

a

AOS the packet of 20
[5S the packet of 12

BER, 1926

OAK,

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

ai

The Wonder Dahlia that won the Highest Award that a Dahlia

Dahlia Creations
\RMION’”’ ink proven the outstanding Dahlia of the year,

having received more first awards than all others
combined; it will probably not be equaled next season,

if ever.

Our 1927 illustrated catalogue and cultural guide—
ready January 1st—will be sent free on request. It
will contain descriptions of new “Mastic” creations,
also many from noted American and foreign hy-

bridists.

}. Tyler, 1660 Denver Ave., Portland, Oregon

|| can win.

other shows.

substance.

Field grown Tubers $7.50.
the best in dahlias.

CHAS. G. REED

The Dr. Tevis prize for the most perfect and the most
beautiful dahlia in the Palace Hotel Dahlia Show, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia, 1926. Award of Merit North Western Trial Gardens, 1926,
scoring 90 points. Largest dahlia in another show and best dahlia in
A big winner everywhere under different judges.
This yellow Hybrid Cactus is’the best to date. It has size, stem and

Green Plants $3.50.
May we mail you one?

SUCCESS DAHLIA GARDENS

LAWRENCE, MASS.

Our catalog lists

HAROLD G. REED

mderful Iris

ock represents fifteen years of
e and successful iris culture.
les the finest varieties, grown
eal conditions, and favorably
rom coast to coast.

927 catalog lists colors and
; that are the delight of the
tt and the joy of every gar-
r. It should be in the hands
gardener before spring orders

ed.

mited number of catalogs have been

with a free packet of California Wild
gathered in the mountains and

f this flower state. Write for catalog

insure getting this beautiful West-

ower

m California Iris Gardens
‘ormerly Dean’s Iris Gardens)

York Ave., Pasadena, California

fornia Dahlias

Finest Creations in the
Dahlia World

led four firsts at the great
fe Show, Los Angeles;
sts, two seconds and first
st points won by any ex-
‘at the state flower and
tural exhibition, Monte-
from seven entries.

hest Class Dahlia Seed

talogue issued in December
Send for yours at once

ANCE DAHLIA FARM

-. Gardena, California

l with partition. Walls and
cedar. Yellow pine floor.

“The Birthplace of Better Dahlias”’ |

Bessie “Boston “Dahlias

New Ones for 1927

In our 1927 Catalogue you will find full descriptions of the
new Bessie Boston Dahlias with two of them reproduced
in color. Our 1927 introductions are the best that we
have produced to-date. They include some unusual
autumn colors and pinks, and also ‘‘Joy’’ our new sensa-
tional silvery lavender.

California Dahlias are the greatest in the world, and we
have sent out more prize winners than any other introducer.
A few of them are:

Ballet Girl Kittie Dunlap

Champagne Koh-I-Noor
Daddy Butler La Mascotte
Dreamlight Lolita Velasco

Elizabeth Boston Mariposa

Eliza Clarke Bull M. H. De Young
El Dorado Papillon

Elise Drexler Regent

El Granada Rookwood

Elsie Oliver San Mateo

Esther Hunt
Faith Garibaldi

Shudow’s Lavender
Susan G. Tevis

Gladys Bates Talisman
Gorgeous Tommy Atkins
J. W. Davies Vivandiere

Be sure to ask for catalogue

BESSIE BOSTON DAHLIA FARM
San Mateo, California

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Nursery

Hodgson Sectional Poultry Houses are weather-proof,
vermin-proof, and remarkably easy to_ erect. Carefully
built of sturdy red cedar. Made in sizes for any
flock. Low in price too. Write for free illustrated
catalog X to-day. vee ,

Our new illustrated booklet 2 ‘‘Furnishings for the
Country Home’’—gives prices and complete informa-
tion about
Rose Arbors

Garden Houses
Trellises

Lattice Fences
Pet Stock Houses

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Bird Houses
Dog Kennels Tool Houses
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6 East 39th St., New York

HODGSO Portable

HOUSES

Perennials.
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Rutherford

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Kemp’s Wonder Dahlias |

Glory of Monmouth—Decorative. Many
reports of the outstanding success of this Dahlia |
have come to me and invariably three comments |
are made, “lovely color,” “decidedly different,” |
and ‘“‘wonderful grower’. Rich eosine pink,
shading deeper at center with the base of each |
petal almost a pure salmon-orange. Long strong |
stems; profuse bloomer; excellent keeper. This
is a grand Dahlia. Stock limited. Tubers $7.50.
Plants $3.75.

Adda Patterson. Hybrid Cactus—This |
is the most beautiful white Dahlia to date and |
has, we believe, the best growing habits of any |
white yet offered. The large blooms come full
center right up to frost and yet it was the first |
Dahlia to bloom for me this year. It was a |
favorite wherever we showed it. Tubers $7.50. |
Plants $3.75.

Altamont—Decorative. Never have we rev
ceived so many favorable reports on any Dahlia
as on Altamont. Its rose pink color deepening
to American Beauty rose at center has endeared
it to those who like distinctive coloring. It has
succeeded everywhere even under the most try-
ing conditions. Altamont has fulfilled my ex-
pectations of proving itself a great Dahlia.
Tubers $7.50. Plants $3.75.

Mrs. Hoag—Decorative. I can say truth-
fully that I did not appreciate the beauty of this
variety in 1925. It came richer this year, and
is the most beautiful colored yellow in existence.
It isa bright silvery yellow with a depth and
charm that make it one of the best cut flowers.
Flowers are medium size, globular in form, well
out from foliage on extra good stems. Stock
limited. Plants only $2.50.

Mordella, Robert Treat and Other Jersey
Dahlias, including a number of very fine new ones
of my own origination for 1927 introduction. All
from field grown stock of unsurpassed quality.
KEMP’S WONDER GLADS
This year I am offering my new glads, Jubilee |
and Orange Wonder, and a number of other very
fine new varieties, of wonderful beauty.
My 1927 Catalogue

will be ready to mail in early January. Ask for
copy now. It will tell all about KEMP’S
WONDER GLADS and DAHLIAS, novelties
and favorites with those who have tried them.

J. A. KEMP

Glad Dahlia Specialist
LITTLE SILVER NEW JERSEY

aa~ |
Enhouse

BOBBINK & ATKINS

Ask for
Catalogue

Roses by Bobbink & Atkins and Supplement to Roses are now available. If
you expect to plant Roses and do not have a copy write us.

Our Perennial Catalogue will be sent gladly to those who expect to plant

Late fall is the time to plant Lilacs.

New Jersey

Hearthstone Editor’s Chat |

This is a department for every one who has a house to build or decorate,
a new interior to finish, or an old familiar room to make more attractive.
It is planned for just one purpose: to bring to each home maker all
the aid and advice so freely offered by the men and women of the business
It is a meeting-place where the manufacturers, the decorators, the craftsmen may place their helpful booklets, their free bureaus of —

world to-day.
hands of those who value such help. Additional booklets will be listed each month.

This department is for all of our readers. Each Booklet listed may be had upon request. Order by number only and as many as you wish.

v41TH the whole
world thinking
of Christmas
and giving, a
few gifts might well be made to the
house itself since it plays such a leading part
in making for a ‘“‘merrie Yuletide.” A love-
lier home not only makes Christmas more
joyous but might make home-life pleasanter
throughout the coming year.

In creating a pleasant environment nothing
is of more importance than the actual walls,
their color and finish. A Christmas gift to the
whole family might fittingly be “new walls for
old.”” For the home-coming college boy or
girl, could anything be a more delightful sur-
prise than to find new walls in his or her own
particular room, with new decorations and
furnishings? Perhaps they have longed for a
private bathroom all their own. Why not,
when this can so easily be done? The one-
time clothes-press can be replaced with ward-
robes or ready-built closets and the old one be
turned into a bath-room with the new five-
foot tub. Where tile—that mark of loveliness
in any home—can not be used for this small
room, there are tile wall-boards that are steam-
leak and water proof.

These boards will turn a dingy kitchen into
a place of cheer and cleanliness. They can
also transform a cold, unfinished attic into an
attractive den for some member of the family
who wants a place of his very own. Sound-
proof and fire-proof are some of these wall-
boards, providing such perfect insulation that
this attic room may be warm in winter and
cool in summer.

Of these modern wall boards, some are
guaranteed not to expand, contract or buckle
or be affected by the weather. Best of all,
they may be papered over, or painted or pan-
eled as desired. They are finished in various
ways, one having a pebbled surface while still
another has an oatmeal finish that gives a
rough yet soft-toned effect most pleasing.

Another house-gift is to remake the pantry
into a breakfast nook. Ready-built cup-
boards can take over all the functions of the
pantry, with added convenience to the house-
wife. The walls of this nook can be made new
and cheery with wallpaper, with tiled wall-
boards, with paint, or with some of the many
effective plaster finishes. With ready-built
table and seats installed, this nook will be a
delightful place for luncheon or breakfast.

Where design as well as warmth and color is
desired for any room, wallpaper easily brings
beauty to old walls. Too much can not be said
for these modern papers! Some of them are
hand-blocked and all come in such good de-
sign and coloring, such good texture and finish,
that they can bring beauty to the dingiest
room. One of the most interesting of new

Address: Hearthstone Editor, Garden & Home Builder, Garden City, N.

Christmas Gifts for the

wall-coverings for the living room is a grass-
cloth woven in Japan. Its rugged irregular
surface with the designs put on by hand is one
of unusual richness and beauty, and to give
walls covered with this to the house is indeed
a real Christmas gift!

For the bedroom of the college boy or girl
much color is permissible, yet this should be

Christmas Home-Making Book-
lets for the Asking

Ask for booklets by number only

No. 2. BEAUTIFUL TILES
Asso. Tile Mfrs.
. WALLS OF WORTH
U. S. Gypsum Co.
. MAKING. BATHROOMS MORE AT-
TRACTIVE
C. F. Church Mfg. Co.
95. A PERMANENT WALL FINISH
Craftex Co.
. BOOK OF FIREPLACES & ANDIRONS
The Donley Bros. Co.
. COLONIAL "HARDWARE & MANTELS
Arthur Todhunte
: MANTELPIECES: ‘& FIREPLACE FIT-
INGS
Edwin A. "Jackson & Bro
4 FUELINGS FOR YOUR EIREPLACE
M. Howes Co.
THE ATTRACTIVE HOME; HOW TO
PLAN ITS DECORATION.
Armstrong Cork Co
51. DECORATING THE HOME
National Lead C
: PHD EL ART OF WALL DECORA-

Baeck Wallpaper Co.

. MAKING HOME HOMELIKE
Berry Bros.

USEFUL ees
The Gorham C

~ ELIQUET TE; ENTERTAINING & GOOD
SENSE,

International Silver Co.
. THE CORRECTLY SET TABLE
Wm. A. Rogers Co., Ltd.
. CORRECT SERVICE
Oneida Community, Ltd.
THE BOOK OF SOLID SILVER
Towle Mfg. Co.
. CANDLE GLOW
The Atlantic Refining Co.
. PATTERNS IN SILVER TABLE WARE
Reed & Barton
SELECTING SILVER FOR THE YOUNG
BRIDE

Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Co.

carefully selected as the well-liked brilliant
colors can be furnished by the draperies and
bed-coverings, thus leaving more neutral
tones for the walls themselves. However,
where a design is used a strikingly good effect
can be secured by having the designs scattered
on a paler background. As an instance of
this kind of wallpaper there is one patterned
with a white trellis on a French-gray back-
ground with here and there little baskets of
flowers in pastel shades of blue and rose, with
gray-green leaves. With this paper, the dra-
peries should be of plain sunfast materials in a
deeper complementary tone while the rugs
might well be the old fashioned, braided, rag

336

or hooked rugs of ¢-
grandmothers’ day.

On Christmas Dz,
the dining-room ple;
such an important part that new walls, fur-
ture, silver, linen, glassware, lights or d-
peries might well be the “family gif’
Painted walls look especially well in the diniy-
room, the modern painted wall holding a dec -
ative note far from the popular conception f
what ‘“‘paint” can do. The finish may e
mottled so that the walls look much like plas r
or they may be in “‘two-toned”’ effect. Ts
is a rather new way of treating walls ancs
obtained by brushing a finishing coat of :e
color over a ground coat of another color whh
has first been allowed to dry. While the p
coat is still wet, parts of it are removed ba
sponge, piece of cloth, brush or even a rol i
paper which is turned over and over on e
wall from top to bottom leaving regular sts
of ground color showing through. A very’ e
wall is obtained by using two tints of the sz ie
color. Old blue, dull orange or gray-green
cheery and effective in a dining-room wn
put on in the two-toned way. One’s ingeni y
is the only limit to what may be done vh
paint on any wall.

A room is easily paneled either with wed,
wall-paper or paint. When using wallpa r,
panels may be made by outlining spaces)n
the papered or plastered wall with nar w
borders. Where paint is used, the panels re
marked by using colors lighter than the bi k-
ground and the doors and window trim, as *!!
as the mouldings and baseboard may be str °¢
with this same color. When painting ann-
tire wall, a flat finish will be found to ve
better results when the room is lighted 110
where a high gloss is used, the latter reflec ag
the light in bright spots.

But perhaps it is not the walls of the hie
that most need this family gift; it may behe
fireplace. New spark screens may be ad
with wrought iron silhouettes on them so @¢
as the flames dance behind them, a ship [\¢
seem to ride on their rosy waves, or a floc 0!
ducks may fly across a flaming sunset madb}
the fire. Nothing could be more decor: V°
than one of these and to accompany it t*r
are sturdy wrought-iron fire sets, andirons ind
fender to make the hanging of the Chris'!a°
stockings on the mantel above a pleasur 1?
deed. If one likes color in the andins.
those reproduction Hessian soldiers with leir
red coats and yellow waistcoats will supp!) it;
while in gleaming brass, there is everything
andirons to warming pans and quaint tret>
on which to set a pot over the coals.

Shall the gift be to the dining table ii'll*
A “piece of silver” is indeed a gift to the yole
family. Perhaps the house most needs a/Y

(Continued on page 338)

House

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

“As Good as Good Looking”

Close-up Section of Roof

hat Other Roofing Has All
These Advantages?

bsolutely fireproof.

a colors to suit.

ut never burn or carry fire.

ast indefinitely without paint or other coatings.
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Don’t consider re-roofing any of your buildings
til you get all the facts about Tapered and
iform thick Ambler Asbestos Shingles. Write us.

MODEL FIRE-PROOF HOME
built by the Lehigh Portland Cement Company at Bronxville, New York.

Mixed Color
AMBLER ASBESTOS SHINGLES

were selected for the roof of this house using 50°% Indian Red, 28% Buff and
22% Spanish Brown catalogue number 9—9 inches wide by 18 inches long by
+ inch thick broken butts—applied without any special design or method as
to color scheme which produced a splendid warm contrast with the buff

colored cement walls.

The definite charm and distinctive effect of these wonderful shingles laid in
irregular lines with their heavy rough butts gives the soft light and shadow
effect so much desired by owners and architects and adds a novel beauty to
the modern home, and a wonderful degree of serviceability to the roof.

They are strong, rigid shingles, not impregnated paper or rag felt—
never curl, or warp, not affected by the blasts of winter, the heavy rains of
spring and the blazing heat of summer, year in and year out, for they are
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They are made in a variety of non-fading colors: Green, Red, Brown,
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FIRE-PROOF Ambler Asbestos Shingles are absolutely fireproof, not
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serious consideration over a term of years and years. It will pay you to
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AMBLER, PENNSYLVANIA
(or Branch Offices in Large Cities)

“Asbestos Cannot Burn”

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

DECEMBER, 192

(Continued from page 336) floors. To refinish poor floors would be a_ consciously tone up the whole home atme
chair or two for the living room, a new table — gift worth while. With the old stains, paints phere and bring much happiness to the litt
and mirror for the hall, new lamps or furniture and varnishes removed, with the floors clean family circle. _Yes, a gift to the house (a1'
for the sunroom. Nothing can make a room and sandpapered and refinished, the whole — that means a gift to the whole family) is inde!
appear at its worst quite so easily as can its house will take on a new charm that will un- a worthwhile gift.

iets 9 ees Helpful Booklets for the Asking

2. BEAUTIFUL eo ae

ee ee Euane ORDER BY NUMBER ONLY, USING COUPON BELOW
Maple Flooring Mfrs. Assn.

9. WaALts oF WorTH

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14. COLOR IN ASBESTOS SHINGLES AGainst Decay The A. Hee ts rs
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r Ss] Ti TARE yee OME UILDING mo : .
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American Face Brick Assn. Universal Gypsum Co. 211. INvistBLE RADIATORS
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American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. National Stone Tile Corp. 212. RapiaATOR CUPBOARDS |
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International Casement Co. AND VALUE 214. PurtinG CoMForT IN THE HoME
27. SCREENING Your Home Mason Fibre Co. National Warm Air Heating & Ven-
The Higgin Mfg. Co. 249. GUIDE TO INTERIOR TREATMENTS tilating Assn.
28. Hetprut Hints on CHoosinGc HEATERS The Bostwick Steel Lath Co. 215. COMFORT
The Thatcher Co. 250. EpucaTING THE BASEMENT Monarch Metal Products Co.
29. THE CoLoniaL Book (HARDWARE) The Home Incinerator Co. 217. TEN YEARS HENCE
Sargent & Co. 265. Facts WortH KNOWING The American Brass Co.
30. BetTER WIRING FOR BETTER LIGHTING The Ruberoid Co. 218. Hot WATER SERVICE FOR THE HOME
National Metal Molding Co. 266. WaALts oF Woop _ Riverside Boiler Works, Inc.
31. MakinGc BaTHRooms More ATTRACTIVE Algoma Panel Co. 222. Cook WitH THE GAs TURNED OFF
C. F. Church Mfg. Co. 267. 165 Uses For Woop Boarp Chambers Mfg. Co.
32. BATHROOM ARRANGEMENT Cornell Wood Products Co. 225. WARMTH & ComForT CONVENIENTLY
Crane Co. 270. Home Sweet Home The Bryant Heater & Mfg. Co.
83. INSULATION OF DWELLINGS The Edham Co., Inc. 227. RADIATOR SCREENS & REGISTERS
Armstrong Cork & Insulation Co. 08. BATHROOM BooKLeETSs ; Puttle & Bailey
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£02. Woven Woop FENCING John D. Emack Co. 237. ANCHOR FENCES
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105. Macic ToucH OF PRESTON SHINGLES 251. THE Wett MANAGED Home
Keystone Roofing Co. Equi t Pittsburg Water Heater Co.
106. TAPERED SHINGLES quipmen Die pee M RTE Hee
Asbestos Shingle Co. Crittall Casement Window Co.
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Oak Service Bureau The Donley Bros. Co. The Fulton Co.
110. THE RENAISSANCE OF CoLoRED Stucco 37. RADIATOR FURNITURE 256. RADIATOR ENCLOSURES
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125. OAK FLoors 41. ELecrric REFRIGERATION (FRIGIDAIRE)
Wm. Ritter Lumber Co. Delco-Light Co.
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141. FENCES FOR PROTECTION AND BEAUTY 120. Oi As FUEL
Page Fence and Wire Products Assn. Caloroil Burner Corp. 43. FURNITURE FOR THE DinING Room
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CREATING A CHARMING Home
Congoleum-Nairn Inc. a
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THE ETIQUETTE OF ENTERTAINING
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DECEMBER, 198

Ross Waite

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Novelties of Merit

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Gifts Too Large for the Stocking

(Continued from page 204)

Two sets of silver for the children: the one at left for the very
young child and the set at the right for him as he grows older

safe to predict, however, that the early treasures will remain on the
shelves, and as the shelves grow in length, and gradually begin to
indicate the personality and taste of the young owner, the child’s pride
in the collection will be tremendous.

Many children find great pleasure in the furnishings of their rooms.
Even a small boy likes his desk and chairs to be comfortable and at-
tractive. He likes to bring the other boys up to see his room if it has
gay curtains and cheery lamps, and he is proud of it. Furniture,
therefore, is another gift for growing children that will not need
to be discarded quickly. For a little girl the painted bedroom set
made in “‘juvenile”’ size will last a long time. It may be white when
she first gets it, but later it can be repainted a pleasant color that
will seem a little more sophisticated. For the boy the sturdy Windsor
furniture in mahogany or walnut finish is practical and yet not too
heavy for a child’s room. It is simple in line so that it fits into many
different environments, and will last a long time. If children are al-
lowed to help in selecting the furnishings for their own rooms, and
pride of possession is encouraged, they will take better care of their
things and have much more enjoyment out of them.

Another article that comes under the heading of furniture, possibly,
is a small Victrola. There is a nursery model that is made in white
with painted figures in gay colors. It makes a delightful addition
to the playroom and its possession has educational value that should
not be neglected. Many a child has learned from his own collection
of records to recognize the selections from famous operas, and to
properly place them. As a beginning of a musical education a small
machine with a good selection of records will be invaluable. And,
considering the subject from the educational side, there are the small
electric sewing machine, and the tool chest. The little daughter will
struggle over her dolls’ clothes, until, almost before she knows it, she
has learned to sew. The small electric machines are simple in con-
struction and a very little girl is able to use them easily and safely.

In the same way a tool chest that will be the nucleus of a work-shop
will start the boy hammering and sawing, and, while it is still play, he
will learn to use tools intelligently, with a growing enjoyment in making
things with his own hands.

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but in the end will develop talent that may blossom into a life work.
Paints and brushes, pencils and pads, rulers, compasses, a drawing
board, all should be part of every play room, and such an equipment
makes an excellent Christmas present.

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and more as time goes on but which she would not be at all interested in
finding in her Christmas stocking even if they would fit in it—and
most of them would not.

A toilet set all of her very own—complete to the last detail; and this,
by the way, if well chosen will last indefinitely, and if it is simple in
design and color can please both the little girl and the “‘sub deb” she
will so soon become. A well equipped work basket is useful as well as
ornamental, and may be refilled as the materials in it are used up. A
lovely traveling bag, fully fitted, will hold the little girl’s wardrobe
when she goes visiting, yet it is a practical week-end bag for the young
lady. An add-a-pearl necklace comes with only five pearls on a slender
gold chain, with more pearls to be added each gift-day until finally there
is a splendid string; though this, by the way, can fit into the stocking—
down in its very toe! In the same way a single silver spoon or fork, in
a well designed pattern that will not go out of stock, may be the begin-
ning of a silver set for the “hope chest.”

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ITALIAN SUNSET

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MY 1927 CATALOGUE
Will be ready January 1. Ask for copy.
In it you will find listed an interesting
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EDGAR W. DARLING
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As to the Gardening Outlook for 1927

The Greatest Programme Ever Offered

Garden City, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1926.
My GarpeEn-MINDED FRIENDS:

Much of that passionate joy of the opening spring is foreshadowed for the gardener as he ponders over
the things he is about to do. The gardener indeed is doubly blessed in his indulgence since everything for him has
a double existence. The mere joy of anticipation, of preparation in planning and in planting is almost equal to the
actual achievement, and so in these opening days of a New Year, when we are all buoyed up with the urge to get
outside, | take this opportunity of mutual congratulations on the prospects for 1927.

The expansion of home building activities does not abate—rather otherwise—which means more new
gardens to be made, better plantings and improvements on the older ones. Yes, indeed, the garden’s call is louder
than ever. It may not be easy to measure progress in annual stages, as we count the rings in the trunk of a tree.
Yet the simile is true in the sense that the most recent ring is the largest and always must be. | Look back twenty
years and realize the change. There are now twenty gardeners for every one then. “Gardens” in those early
days meant large estates, with greenhouses and professional help. The age of the amateur, growing plants for their
own sake, and for the betterment of his dwelling spot had barely started. But gardening—good gardening—is not
merely the ways of growing plants, but of getting the very best plants, flowers and vegetables for the purpose at
hand. ‘Taking advantage of the fruits of progress.

To lead in the march of progress has always been the guiding policy in the conduct of this magazine—its
readers are first informed on what is new, what is worth while, and it has enjoyed the great privilege of first finding
and introducing to the printed page most of those whose names are now familiar as authors. And this policy will
continue. Here we travel in thelead. But I refer to past performances only to introduce the promise of the present.

Next month, February, the gardener will find his needs given very special attention with many practical
and helpful articles as for instance, among others:

A sheaf of little gardens by well known garden makers—plans and pictures too, namely “A Naturalistic
Garden,” of Ferrucio Vitale; “A Little Formal Garden,” of Mabel Keyes Babcock; ““A Suburban Plot,’’ of Loutrel
W. Briggs. All these are actual gardens, not mere dreams.

A complete vegetable planting chart (with named varieties) has been worked up by Adolph Kruhm, already
well known to our readers. The “Alluring Features of Special Gardens,” by Olive Hyde Foster, a newcomer to our
pages. Dr. Theiss explains “Planting by Signs,” the only truly scientific way of knowing when spring begins.
“Dependable Annuals for Everyday Gardens,” by Leah S. Hurlburt; while Rena S. Middleton discusses the “Perennial
Border.” Dr. J. Horace McFarland deals with ‘Flowers for Fragrance”; Dr. Bade will discuss “Defeating Some Com-
mon Pests” and to round out this whole garden program “Pruning Fruit Trees” by Prior. Truly a Garden Manual!

With March comes special emphasis on Roses in full time for the actual planting season, with contributions
by Dr. J. Horace McFarland, Dr. S. S. Sulliger, G. A. Stevens, J. H. Nicolas—in each case a real message concerning
something mew in the making of a rose garden or in the choice of the things to grow in it.

And so from month to month—each issue carrying its message of timely interest by recognized authorities
and specialists. Keeping you in touch with those men and women who are doing things, and of course, there are
the regular helping hands to the beginner, etc.

But let me name only some others of those who will greet you:

@ Dr. J. Horace McFarland will continue his garden miscellany from experiences in his Breeze Hill garden as a regular
monthly feature. @ Olive Hyde Foster carries her messages of help for every woman’s garden in conjunction with her
radio talk over WJZ. @ Arthur H. Carhart continuing his pithy notes on the Elements of the Garden Design. Mrs.
Mortimer J. Fox, a student of Lilies, on her specialty. @ Stephen F. Hamblin, director of the Harvard Botanic
Garden, Perennial and Herbaceous Plants. @ Derrill W. Hart, critic of Dahlias. @ Arthur Herrington, some popular
plants from the cultural standpoint. @ Dr. Forman T. McLean, authority on Gladiolus. @ T. A. Weston, plantsman
and horticulturist, monthly reminder for amateurs for the New England region, with E. Huston and E. Urquhart for the
South and Pacific Coast regions respectively. € Sherman R. Duffy, with his helpful talks for the beginner and for the
advanced Iris lover. ( Chas. H. Totty promises to tell about his experiences in hunting novelties. @ Novel feature to
come later is a series dealing with the house and its grounds from the beginning under the joint authorship of J. F.
Yewell, architect, and L. W. Briggs, landscape architect.

But enough for the present—more of all these things, and others | shall speak of in due season in presenting
these authors In a more personal way. It’s a rich sheaf and almost covers the continent too! I had almost forgotten
to say that I will from time to time trespass on your patience with some leaves from my own notebook, including
observations of fifteen years experiments at our own demonstration gardens at Garden City, the while | continue to
meet some of you at least each month on the air from station WEAF.

AN INVITATION

By the way, our sixteen acre gardens have no gate, there is no formality of admission, and we extend a
welcome to all to visit our collection of shrubs, the Evergreen garden, the Rose arbors freshly planted with up-to-
date climbers, the rockery, the Dutch Tulip garden, the Dahlia demonstration, etc. Come and let’s get acquainted.

Yours faithfully,

Editor.

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AJUARY, 1927

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We look forward to the appearance
of next month’s issue, February, with
much satisfaction which we hope will,
in due time, be reciprocated by our
readers. Naturally, in that season of
the year the contents of the number
seasonable
phases of garden activities, for during
the next several weeks the gardening
fever seizes each of us and all other
considerations are swept aside. Plans
of completed little gardens by such
prominent landscape architects as
Ferruccio Vitale, Ruth Dean, Loutrel
W. Briggs, Mabel Keyes Babcock,
will afford sufficient diversity in gar-
den planning so that each reader’s in-

But briefly let us continue. Adolph
Kruhm contributes a practical time
table for the all year vegetable garden.
You can pin this up on the wall and
follow it throughout the season. Dr.
J. Horace McFarland discloses sqme
more intimacies in the gardens. of
“The Perennial Border”
Annuals for
Every Garden” by Leah Hurlburt;
“The Charm of Special Gardens” by
‘Pruning Fruit
by Percy B. Prior; and some-
thing about controlling the more
common pests that we always have
with us by Dr. Bade—all these help

to round out an unusually practical

Speaking of garden plans, by the
way, we are advised that once again
the New York Botanical Garden is
offering three prizes for garden plans
for a plot approximately 40 x 50 feet.
The competition closes March first
and is open to any one not a landscape
architect. The interest to our readers
is peculiar in that in last year’s compe-
tition it was a reader of this magazine,
Mr. Archie S. Hill, Wauwatosa, Wis.,
who won the prize, and it was through
this medium that his attention was

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NEWS & COMMENT aK
PAGE PICTURES Gunston Hall 354 iC ij
ears stron on the
Peter Tufts’ House 355 ie
Drayton Hall 356
BRICK THROUGH THE AGES Myron Bement Smith 357
BRICK IN THE GARDEN PICTURE Lawrence Moore 362
THE BRICKLAYER’S TECHNIQUE IN GARDEN ORNA-
MENT Ezra C. Stiles 364
PenwAcSiVYE PERENNIALS TO “°TREAT ROUGH’’
J. Horace McFarland 366 terest will be touched.
NEW PEWTER IN OLD DESIGN Ellen D. Wangner 368
BRICK IN THE MODERN HOME Delano &§ Aldrich 370
A NOBLE SURVIVOR OF A NOBLE TRADITION
Armstrong &F Koch 372
THE BEST IN BRICK CONSTRUCTION 374 Brees
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THE DARBY AND JOAN OF ARCHITECTURE by Rena S. Middleton;
Harold Butterfield 376
AN 18TH CENTURY COLONIAL DOORWAY 378 Olive Hyde Foster; ~
Trees”’
WHAT TO PLANT IN THE FLORIDA GARDEN
RRs Grills 6379
BRICK BONDS Harold Butterfield 382
THE CERAMICS OF HOUSE BUILDING G. C. Mars 384 and stirring number.
BRICK AS A FIREPROOF MATERIAL J. D. Hunter 386
NEW LINENS FOR THE NEW YEAR 388
LENGTHENING THE LIFE OF BRICK E. P. Hubschmitt 390
BRICK AND YOUR BUILDING BUDGET Roger B. Whitman 392
YOUR GARDEN MONTH BY MONTH 394
NATIONAL GARDEN ASSOCIATION 396
HEARTHSTONE EDITOR’S CHAT 410
BOLOR IN TABLE DECORATIONS A. Louise Fillebrown 414

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lrick and your Country Home

When a magazine primarily circling
avund the interests of gardening turns its
fil attention upon the subject of brick
t:re must be a reason—and a reason not
f toseek. Obviously, gardening, though
avery primitive art, 1s, as we know it
tday, also a very sophisticated one.
‘iam may have delved while Eve span
tt we doubt if he fussed over ‘“‘axes,”’
‘seal points,” and “‘principles of de-
sn” or attempted to weave pretty pat-
tns in flowers, to envelope his dwelling
rice (if he had one) with the delights of
‘easonal color.’’ His delights were sim-
pr—“home”’ to him was something, in
eience the same perhaps, but uncluttered
| the toys of civilization. “‘Making a
tme”’ nowadays means gathering about
ce’s self radio, automobile, electric
taster, coalless furnace, iceless refrigera-
tt—all the thousand and one “conven-
ices’ by which man minimizes effort.
ie garnishing of one’s own particular
far walls, one’s own particular plot of
lid has become—comparatively at least
-an altogether de luxe affair, inevitably
‘ since man’s desires march ever closer
t the complex with the march of his
liowledge and his mastery of matter.

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‘We want the things we own to be beau-
‘ul, attractive, and we are beginning to
preeive that harmony lies at the bottom
(matter, that garden and dwelling must
planned as a unit, must really ‘“‘be-
lng,” if they are to have any charm at
|. It pays then if one has a fancy for this
‘ that kind of garden to stop and think
‘nat sort of a house properly goes with it,
Study the various available materials—
ick, wood, stucco, stone—their possibil-
es for your own special plan as, in them-
lves, they each have merits and which
ill be chosen depends largely on the
fect striven for. At intervals during the
ming year, in a series of especially pre-
ied manuals, they will be in turn dis-
issed so that home owners, prospective
id actual, will have opportunity to learn
more fully than possible in ordinary
sues—the history and uses of funda-
ental materials in many lands and
ses and, most particularly, what they

fer the home maker of to-day in this
ountry,

Brick has been so long a medium for
domestic architecture that its origins are
lost down the vista of the years—from
Chaldea perhaps, via Rome and the Con-
tinent, it came to Great Britain a century
and more before Caesar. “‘ There are prob-
ably more buildings in England con-
structed of brick than of any other ma-
terial. Amongst these are some of the
most interesting, the most picturesque
and the most serviceable structures that
we have in any material.”’ Little wonder
then that our own colonists had a pretty
taste for brickwork and that brick houses
of the Colonial period still set standards of
style and artistry for the present-day de-
signer, as may be seen on the three opening
pages (see renderings by Schell Lewis) and
elsewhere in this issue (pages 358-359).

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In preparing this manual we have kept
steadily in mind the fact that the old
work has significance for the lay reader
largely because it points a better way to
solve his own particular problems, puts
within his grasp a finer beauty, substitutes
distinction for commonplaceness. Writers
and artists who here present the case of
brick are men thoroughly familiar both
with its high traditions and its practical
everyday uses. Dr. G. C. Mars has made
a life study of this “time-honored con-
structive material, the origin of which ex-
tends far beyond the earliest recorded
history of man, and the application of
which promises to grow with the growth
of architecture”? and the reader will en-
joy his illuminating comment on “The
Ceramics of House Building” (page 384).
Mr. Myron Bement Smith, whose article
on ‘Brick Through the Ages”’ leads off
the issue, has spent a number of months
abroad searching out facts and is continu-
ing intensive investigation of the whole
story of brickwork, the Italian in particu-
lar since Italy holds so many fine examples
by those master brick builders, the Ro-
mans. We feel fortunate, too, in having
secured the cooperation of Mr. Lawrence
Moore of Charles Platt’s office, whose ar-
ticle on ‘Brick in the Garden Picture”
carries the ring of authority; of Mr.
Harold Butterheld, formerly associated
with John Russell Pope; and in getting
some word, however brief, from Mr.
Chester H. Aldrich of Delano & Aldrich,
a name synonymous with restraint and
dignity in country house design.

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GROMViE: Vive Naas

By-products of Gardening

There is so much more to gardening
than merely growing plants, just as there
is so much more to traveling than merely
progressing from point to point. The gar-
dener who limits his gardening activities to
the growing of beets or peas or whatever it
may be, is very much like the woman who
went abroad a few years ago, and who,
after returning, had to have a traveling
companion label every one of the dozens
of photographs she had taken during the
trip. She had visited the Coliseum in
Rome, and had seen a thousand other not-
able sights, and she had to ask, after her
return, ‘““What was that place we visited
in Rome?”’

Don’t be that kind of a gardener. Peas
and beans are products of gardening, to be
sure; but the by-products are matters of
soul and mind. And in gardening, as in
meat packing, the by-products may be
fully as valuable as the products.

So, if you want to add to your ordinary
garden products some of those by-
products of the mind, start a garden note-
book. If you have never none this, you
cannot possibly comprehend how much of
joy and interest and benefit you will put
into that notebook in the course of a
gardening season, to be drawn out during
the winter months, like money in the bank

with interest.

In that notebook you will enter your
planting dates, of course. And if you are
wise you will enter a host of related items.
One of these, of course, will be notes on
the stage of the spring vegetation. You
will note down, each year, just where your
Lilac is on April Ist., and where your
Apple or Plumor Cherry or Elmor Walnut
or Grape-vine is. If it is too much labor
to make daily observations, make them
every three or five days. Pick out certain
plants, as a Lilac, an Apple, a Maple, a
Walnut, and ‘a Grape, and make.regular
entries year after year about these certain
selected plants. In a few years you will
have collected a wonderful lot of enlight-
enment about the seasons and plant pro-
cesses that will tell you exactly when con-
ditions are right for beginning garden
work outdoors. In our next issue Dr. L. C.
Theiss explains the practical application
of such cumulative data for the busy gar-
dener.

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PETER TUFTS’ HOUSE

Built in 1677 at Medford, Massachusetts, Matthew Cradock house. In line and style
probably by Peter Tufts himself but for many and detail this interesting old dwelling holds
years erroneously known as the Governor much suggestion for the modern home builder

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DRAYTON HALL

Near Charleston, on the Ashley, and the only large
house thereabouts spared by Sherman’s army,
this Georgian mansion has been the center of

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much history—here the Drayton family, influen-
tial in the early days of South Carolina, lived
and here Lord Cornwallis made his headquarters

Sia thousand. years of beautiful building
with a material that still holds its own

Brick through the ages

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Photographs by John Wallace Gillies, Tebbs (5 Knell, Kenneth Clark,

Philip B. Wallace, Drix Duryea, and by courtesy of the New York Historical Society, and the Common Brick NEN Be 2 pi

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While archzologists are not sure when Lombard, Gothic and Renaissance per- of architectural history, the method of
yr where bricks were first made the iods to the comparatively modern brick making bricks remained the same. Up to
svidence points to Mesopotamia where the Colonial style of the Colonies and the the middle of the last century brick-
liscovery of a Samurian civilization Early Republic. Strangely enough, while making was a hand process.

Jating back to 4000 B. c. is revolutioniz- the styles of construction and decoration

In at least four instances the decorative

ng older theories of ancient art and developed or changed during these epochs _ possibilites of brick have been developed

wehitecture. These
Jamurians, having
ao stone at hand,
nade both sun-
lried and baked
yricks. The pros-
yective builder who
's at all in doubt as
o the permanence
of brickwork will be
nterested to learn
hat most of the
ouilding in the
Euphrates valley is
lone with second-
iyand bricks dug
rom the mound
‘uins of Samurian
and Babylonian
emple citadels,
sach brick stamped
with the seal of a
king who first built
with it five or six
thousand years ago.

The Babylonians
and Assyrians de-
veloped the art of
brickmaking, i in-
venting the colored
glazing and pattern
work in brick which
formed the decora-
tive features of
their architecture.
China learned of
brickmaking by
way of India and
Turkestan. Large
portions of the
Great Wall are of
brick. The Greeks
made few bricks,
but the Etruscans
of North Italy built
extensively with
them. It were pos-
sible, then, if space
permitted, to trace
the art of brickmak-
ing from its incep-
tion in the Sam-
urlan period in an
unbroken sequence
through the Ro-
man, Byzantine,

viston. No regularity of bonding 1s in
evidence, nor are the joints of even
thickness. Garden Gate, Residence
brickyard for the material and to give of Mr. Alan Lehman, Tarrytown,

To get the informality appropriate to
this picturesque Tudor gateway it was
necessary to sort over the culls of a

N. Y.; John Russell Pope, Architect
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the bricklayers almost constant super-

to a supreme ex-
pression. The poly-
chrome glazed brick
of Assyria found its
equal thousands of
years later when
the Mohammedans
built their colorful
tombs in Persia and
Arabia Leet taly.
during the Middle
Ages, the Lombard
style carried the art
of brick building to
a perfection that
will doubtless never
be surpassed.

The fourth period
of importance 1s of
especial interest to
Americans because
of its close connec-
tion with our early
architecture, for it
was during the
period of our coloni-
zation that Inigo
Jones and Sir Chris-
topher Wren were
rebuilding London
in a style that shall
ever proclaim the
glory of well-con-
sidered brickwork.
Wren used brick
with painted wood,
with Portland
stone, and by itself,
brick moulded, cut,
rubbed and carved.
Bricklaying became
a fine art, the crafts-
man was a man of
consequence. The
Georgian residences
—orderly, sedate
and dignified—are
everywhere over
the south of Eng-
land. While they
possess design, they
depend more for
their esthetic effect
upon the use of the
material. The best
modern work in the

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jE Colonial style is inspired not only from

p Lory it Mm tthe early work by American builders, but
also from a parallel source, the Georgian
style in England.

How great a debt the Colonial archi-
tecture of the Southern plantations and
city houses, as well as the Philadelphia
work of the same era owes to those
bricklayers who came from England
would be impossible to estimate, but it is
more than a little. In the earliest New
England settlements, brcklayers and
carpenters were in such demand that they
were forbidden by law to take over twelve
pence a day and later, in 1630, two shil-
lings a day was the maximum wage,
under penalty of a fine of ten shillings to
both giver and taker. Philadelphia brick-
layers who worked on the Great Town
Hall, built in 1705 and demolished in
1836, received three and a half shillings
a day. Bricks for this building cost
twenty-two shillings a thousand. A huge
lottery helped to raise the money for this When attempting to do Tudor work it 1s
structure, there being, apparently no well to remember that thts style, above all
conscientious scruples against dallying others, requires the greatest macety of
with fortune when sponsored by a good ¢raftsmanship to convey the mellowness

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cause. The most human anecdote con- of this early 17th century half-timber
Nelson house, Yorktown, Virginia. nected with early Philadelphia brick- Kentish House near Maidstone, England
Built 1740. A rare example of building is recorded in the court records
early American moulded brickwork of numerous suits brought against the

city for damages to clothing of citizens
during the work in the new brick jail
With an eye to thrift, the city father:
had put the prisoners to work, and to keer
them from straying, each was forced tc
drag about a huge ball shackled to the
leg. The damage suits arose from th«
frequency with which gentry on prome
nade, pausing to inspect the new work
were splashed and spattered.on- hose anc
breeches by reason of the prisoners
carelessness, or possibly intention, 1
lifting the iron balls and letting them fal
in mud puddles.

Some idea of the great purchasin,
power of money in those days, as wel
as the price and value of buildings, ca
be seen from a letter of William Penr
written in 1685, to his agent at Penn:
burg. He was referring to a lady who ha
land there and wished to emigrate to 1
‘*She wants a house of brick, like Hann
Psalter’s, in Burlington, and she will giv
40 pounds sterling in money and as muc
more in goods. It must have four roon
below, about 18 x 36 feet large, the roon
9 feet high, and two stories height.” |
an earlier letter to his agent he had give
instructions that he build principally |
bricks, ‘‘for which I have sent a pers¢
qualifed to make them.”

AMERICAN MADE BRICK

The early records of the colonies co
tain frequent mention of this emigrati
of bricklayers; they were in consta
demand it would seem. Washington,
a letter to his English agent, asks f’
accomplished bricklayers to work for:
term of two years. His journals constant’
mention the brickmaking that was cari!
on by slaves on his plantations. This ail
other documentary evidence goes far ?

Stratford, on the Potomac River, Vir- can bricklaying that is filled with sug- explode the commonly held theory tht
ginia, dating back to 1731 and an _ gestion. The headers in the base and brick were imported from England in lar?
unusual bit of 18th century Ameri- chimneys have a bluish-black glaze quantities; “brought over as ballast’

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pounded in and scraped off even with the a
top. To free the clay from the mould
easily there are two distinct processes.
Either the mould is first dipped in water,
producing a smooth ‘‘slop mould” brick;
or it is dusted with sand, giving the
rougher “‘sand struck” surface, The
latter is the more common. With a rap of
the scraping paddle the brick is turned
out on a board where it is left to dry for a
few weeks or months, depending on the
weather. When nearly dry the bricks are
built into a kiln or clamp with arches
below for the fire and vent spaces between
for the circulation of heat and smoke.
The outside is plastered over with damp
clay, wood fires are built in the arches and
the burning process begins. This takes
several days and requires skill in handling
the fires. At the end of the burn the fires
are built up to give an intense heat which
“flashes”’ the bricks to the proper color.

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Interesting chimney group shows which make up the arch are burnt almost
moulded and carved brick in caps black, with a blistered, Vitrified surface. | Sasa aaaaAAAAAN a
and bases. Residence by James The bricks down at either side of the fire
O'Connor, Architect have had little heat and are soft and of a This has a most satisfyt mg hand-touched
light salmon color. Many bricks are character. Stenton mansion, Philadel-
; : 2 warped out of true shape, some have hia, built 1728, home of James Logan
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exception of the early Dutch settlers at
New York who were financed by the
East India Company, the earlier colonists
could not afford imported bricks to any
extent and by the time that their econ-
omic condition might have permitted it,
they were making their own bricks in
dozens of kilns along the coast. At Salem,
Mass., bricks were made as early as 1629,
and the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
Virginia settlers followed the fashion soon
after. Another fact to disprove the im-
ported brick theory is the comparative
ease with which bricks can be made. The
colonists needed no special equipment, as
the bricks were all made by hand and
baked in simple kilns.

A description of hand brickmaking may
be of interest to those considering building
with this material. The method is appli-
cable to any country and age up to the
introduction of machinery. The clay for
brickmaking is generally to be found,
due to some wise provision of nature, in
those flat plains where building stone is
scarce. Near Rochester, New York, is a
small brickmaking yard that has been
in operation for years, turning out bricks
for use on neighboring farms. The clay
bed is near the shed and kiln so that a
wheelbarrow is all that is needed to take
the clay to the mill. The usual practice
is to let the clay season in the air some
months after it is dug; Vitruvius recom-
mended two years for this process. Then
it is dumped in a pit through which a

heavy wheel tracks round and round, the

power being supplied bya horse and sweep.

MIXING AND MOULDING

The mixing takes several hours, sufh-
cient water or dry clay being added

to give the consistency of putty. The Common brick, whitewashed. Note the inlaying work to be whitewashed, a point
moulding of the brick is done in wooden dark brick of the stepped coping of gate to remember when building cheaply for an
boxes of the proper size, the clay being piers andwall. No special care1s needed expensive effect. Clarence Mack, Architect

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1927

The face brick that is entirely machine.
made and depends on a mechanical wire
cut surface for its interest has less appli-
cation to residence work than to the
large city building where absolute regu.
larity of shape is a necessity for quick and
economical building. The architect whe
would have a certain effect in his brick.
work is required to give the masons an
almost constant supervision and even gc
so far as Mr. John Russell Pope did
recently, as to take the trowel and lay z
few courses to show just what is wanted
Good brickwork is possible only throug
the efforts of good craftsmen. Fortunately
there are some of these to be found if ong
has the patience to search them out.

There is a technical matter that shoulc
concern any one proposing to build ir
brick, a sore spot for years among bricl
manufacturers and builders—I refer t
the efHorescence, or liming that some
times appears on brick walls in the form
of white crystals. This discoloration is ;
nuisance; its cause has been the subjec
of many disputes. To prevent it be sur
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Undoubtedly inspired from French pro-
vincial types, this house with its paved
court and whitewashed brick brings a
domestic atmosphere of the Old World to
the modern American scene. Residence
of Mrs. Wortham James, Newport,
R. I.; Delano and Aldrich, Architects

cracked open along the side. These vari-
ations of color, texture, hardness and
shape are the mark of handmade brick.
The amount of sorting that is required
to get bricks of a certain quality depends
on the type of work to be built. The
salmon bricks, which are not strong
enough for some walls, are ideal for garden
walks and terrace paving. The overburnt
arch bricks make excellent headers for
some types of Flemish bond walls. The
cracked and warped bricks are much
sought after for Tudor work, where the
picturesque is dependent upon a simili-
tude of antiquity. The balance of the
burn are ordinary bricks, yet there are no
two of them exactly alike in size, color
or shape; each has an individuality that
while not too apparent is sufficient to give
a wall, if properly laid, the character
that differentiates it from the mechanical
product of more recent machine-made
bricks.

The common brick of to-day has many
of the virtues of the hand-made product.
For Colonial work it is possible to get
an excellent substitute for the hand-made
variety by taking the “run of kiln” of a

well selected yard and letting the brick- A unique, and successful novelty, but dan- the bricks and the smooth and harmoniou.
layer sort them on the scaffold, putting gerous in the hands of any but a master. effect of the whole. Gardener’s cottage, Oys
the poorer bricks to the back of the wall. Notice the infinite variety in the laying of ter Bay, L. I.; Donn Barber, Architec

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yater and free from mineral salts. During
the building the greatest care must be
-aken to cover the walls over at night and
juring rain storms to prevent water
working down into the wall. The third
yoint, and also important, is to require
he contractor to lay the bricks in
ment mortar and to use sufficient
nortar to make a solid wall, bedding
cach brick completely so that there are
10 pockets in the masonry for the
‘ollection of moisture. It is, then, a
natter of honest materials and honest
yorkmanship.

At the risk of disturbing many who
yad hoped to build Tudor houses on
small budgets, let me say that they would
lo better to select a more formal style.
When one builds in the Gothic or its
issociated styles the object is to reproduce
4 suggest antiquity. To do it well re-
juires a long purse, and to do it less than
vell is unspeakable. Half-timber work
vith brick nogging is the most expensive
‘orm of construction that can be used,
ind Tudor or Elizabethan style demands
chat it be employed as a typical motive

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man informal domestic style; the pictur-
esque 15 done as it should be done, with a

flare and with perfect taste. Home of Mr.
George Howe, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylva-
nia; Mellor, Meigs and Howe, Architects

361

A striking bond using a special

large brick or tile in combination

with regular size brick. Some inter-

esting pattern work appears in the

chimney. Brenner Residence, Birm-

ingham, Alabama; Warren, Knight
and Davis, Architects

of those periods. The antiqued brickwork
requires much more time for building, and
time is the important thing in_ brick
building when bricklayers receive fourteen
dollars a day. The simple Colonial is the
most economical style for the limited
building budget, its motives are straight-
forward and plain, requiring no extra
time for building and giving the maximum
effect for the outlay.

For human habitations no material has
ever approached brick as a material both
practical and beautiful. Having gone
through the fire during its making, its
resistance to that destroyer is unsur-
passed. The atmospheric conditions that
cause wood to rot, stone to flake off or
stain, stucco to crack or discolor, paint to
wear off and metal to corrode are the same
agents that willingly and _ graciously
mellow and harmonizea brick wall through
the passing years into a masterpiece of
texture and color. The possibilities for
building beautifully with brick which men
have appreciated for six thousand years
are to-day at the command of any who
can afford to build at all. Let us then say,
as did the people in Genesis, ‘‘Go to, let
us make bricks and burn them thor-
oughly. Go to, let us build a city and a
tower.”

Brick plays a varied

ana important role in the garden

Brick in the garden picture

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Photographs by Thomas Ellison, Mott Studios, John Wallace Gilles

The wall swings up to dignified climax
with the figure in setting of brick as
a focal point. Path in herring-bone pat-
tern laid flat, bricks in curb on edge. Gar-
den of Admiral Robley D. Evans, Bev-
erly, Mass.; Allen Collens, Architects

A variation of basket weave laid flat,
raised curb on end. Garden at Oak Hill
Farm, Mrs. J]. A. Haskell’s home, Red
Bank, New Jersey; Charles Wellford
Leavitt & Son, Landscape Engineers

A garden is carved out of the soil to
improve on the natural with nature’s own
assistance. Like a house, the garden may
be small, intimate, and shut in, or it may
be large with many parts and broad
vistas; but whatever its size, it must have
distinct bounds, and only the choicest out-
look upon the rest of the world. Walls are
as important to a garden as to a room, be
they of man-made materials, or grown by
nature. The smallest back yard may be
made into a paradise, if the surrounding
small back yards are kept out of view. In
the large garden of many elements, we
are constantly looking for something on
which to rest the eye; vistas must termi-
nate somewhere, either in a wall which
stops our vision, or in a distant view seen
as through a window. Just as in a house,
the garden walls may take one of a great
many forms, but the function remains the
same: to enclose.

ODOR GACRSD EaNeeWeAlelas

In constructing our garden walls, we
may borrow from nature, and use trees
or shrubs, or we may build them of stone,
wood or brick, or any combination of
these. Sometimes a white picket fence
may set off a clipped privet hedge. The

Walls, walk, and steps of brick bring a
rare and unobtrusive harmony into the
garden of Mr. James Speyer at Scar-
boro, New York, designed by Olmsted

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rough stone of the fields may make q
beautiful terrace wall. But of all ma.
terials, none is so universal in its applica.
tion as brick. Its warm color enhance;
the planting for which it forms a back.
ground; it is not so formal as cut stone,
but is more easily laid in a thin wall thar
rough stone. It is more enduring thar
wood, and its texture is a never failing
source of interest. Even the humble kit.
chen garden may be made most attractiv
by surrounding it with a high brick wall
This will protect it from animals anc
winds, and conceal it from view. On thi
inside, regular beds give it the charm of ;
more aristocratic flower garden. Frui
trees and currant bushes give an air o
permanence and afford decorative ele
ments in a pattern composed of paths an
garden beds. But the masterpiece of thi
garden is found in its dwarf apple an
pear trees, trained en espalier along th
brick walls. Spreading out like seve!
branch candlesticks, they cover the wall
with a sparkling play of light and shade
From the earliest flowers of springtime, t
the last departing leaf of the fall, the
offer a delightful background to the gar
den. Incidentally this 1s a most practice
method of raising fruit, for the trees ar
protected, and receive the full benefit c
the sun trapped by the wall. Even th
more formal flower garden may be muc
embellished by fruit trees, en espalic:
against its walls, perhaps mingled wit
occasional climbing roses or other vine
The color and texture of brick make |
more suitable than any other material fc
this use.

FOR LARGER GARDENS

When we consider the larger garden
made up of many elements, the walls bi
come more varied. Sometimes they a!
low, giving us an outlook over statel
lawns, or distant landscape. Sometim«
they are high, and serve to shut us 1!
They may act as a separation betwee
different levels of terraces. As a gener)
tule, the higher walls are along the nort)
ern limits of the garden, and our outloc
rather towards the sun, for we must avo)
having the garden, in shadow as much ‘
possible. Long walls suggest the nece
sity of features to relieve their monoton,
At the ends of the various vistas, or ax!
of the garden design, the eye may We
light on a niche with some choice bit |
sculpture, or on a well-designed fountai
A niche in brick is simple to construct, ar
is in itself an attractive thing, with tl
variety of the texture of the brick. T
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JANUARY
1927

sricks in the niche as headers, using the
same brick as in the rest of the wall. The
ond face of the brick is small enough to
-onform very nearly to the spherical shape
»f the head of the niche, and this method
ivoids the necessity of moulding special
yricks for the curved surface. Only a
ight wood centering is required, on which
-o lay the bricks, and it 1s removed as soon
ys the mortar has hardened. Fountains
nay properly be made part of the design
of a brick wall, in any combination of
yrick and stone. There is always a cer-
‘ain interest in running water, which
nakes these an attractive feature.

Sometimes the monotony of the wall
nay be relieved by the character of the
yrickwork itself. A pattern may be made
yn the surface, by slight differences in
‘olor of individual bricks, or by making
vertain ones project a little from the wall.
Low walls may be constructed with per-
orations in the brickwork, with an effect
imilar to a balustrade. Or we may build
i serpentine wall, whose wavy lines make
tespecially attractive as a long boundary
yetween a not too formal garden on one
side, and woods on the other. If we have a
yall, it must have openings through which
‘0 pass, and these may well be treated as
atures. [he entrance to a country estate
should express the character of the whole
place. Most people nowadays prefer to
ivoid the ostentation of former days, but
simple and appropriate gateposts are al-
ways in order. Here again, brick affords
in excellent material, used either by itself,
yr in combination with stone. Gateways
‘eading to gardens, or other enclosed
spaces, however utilitarian, offer chances
to the designer in the form of architec-
tural features which may add greatly to
the effect of the whole.

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_ Ahumbler use for bricks may be found
anderfoot, for no better material exists
for walks and paving. Their color offers
a pleasing note, and emphasizes the axes
of the garden. Brick paving may be laid
out in a variety of patterns, such as basket
weave, or herring-bone, according to the
character of the general design. Usually
lor garden walks, the bricks are laid di-
rectly on the ground, without any mortar,
but preferably on a layer of tamped sand.
After the first winter they acquire a de-
lightful irregularity, grass grows between
them, and they take on a texture of age.
For terraces, or steps, it is best to lay the
bricks on a foundation of concrete, built
to resist the frost. In some gardens, the
brick walks may be the only features not
furnished by nature. Usually they make
the basis for the plan of the whole com-
position. In the formal garden, they fol-
‘ow some sort of geometric pattern gov-
2rned by the design, but in an informal or
dd-fashioned garden, they may be laid
out irregularly.

ften it happens that a garden is to in-
clude a feature which is really a building,
such as a teahouse, or a pergola, or even a
tool house or a dove-cote. An accom-
panying illustration shows a very charm-
‘ng example of a pergola built of brick,

with antique stone columns along one side.
The pergola is really an outdoor room,
usually roofed with vines, offering shelter
from the sun and a place from which to
contemplate the joys of the garden. If it
is to be located along one side of the gar-
den, it should be carefully placed with
regard to its outlook. In this case, also,
it will probably have a solid wall on one
side, and piers, posts, or columns on the
side towards the garden. The pergola may
be built entirely of brick, except for the
wood framework overhead for vines. The
rear wall may be treated with brick arches
enclosing lattice, or it may include such
features as a niche or a fountain. If the
pergola is in the center of the garden, it
will be open on both sides. Should the
structure be enclosed and roofed over, we

- would call it a teahouse or a garden room.

In either case its design must be appro-
priate to the surroundings.

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The position of permanent buildings in
a garden must be carefully studied in rela-
tion to the whole plan. They must be
placed where an accent 1s needed, such as
at the termination of a vista. As a general

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Here brick walls effectively terminate
in a pergola-roofed gazebo

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An ingenious combining of brick and

turf which makes a pleasant transition

from the solid masonry of the pool to

unbroken grass plots. Mr. H. O. Wink-

ler’s gaden at Beverley Hills, Cali-

fornia; Neville Stephens, Landscape
Architect

rule, simplicity in composition should be
the keynote of all garden features.. Even if
they are elaborately ornamented, or con-
tain carving or sculpture, the mass should
be simple. They must give the sense of
belonging in the garden, and of existing
merely as a background for the ornaments
of nature. For this reason, the materials
must not be too dominant. Brickwork
should be subdued in tone, like old-
fashioned common brick, avoiding wide
and conspicuous mortar joints, which at-
tract too much attention. Just as with any
other material, the success of brickwork
depends on the way it is used, but it has
one advantage over all materials suitable
for the garden, for no other has the same
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So MPARISONS WITH STONE
OR WOOD

The two main elements of the architec-
tural portion of garden design are the plan
and the elevation, each containing certain
requirements of its own which although
somewhat different must of necessity be
co-related; and it is therefore quite logical
to expect that as we work from plan to
elevation we carry into the architectural
effects above ground the building mater-
ials which we have used in the plan.

This, then, is all by way of introduction
to the fact that brick is not only an ideal
material for the garden pathway but for
the architectural features of the garden
as well; and just as this material gives
texture, color and pattern to the pathway,
so does it function when carried above the
ground.

For the ground pattern of the garden
we use walks and flowers and pools and
sunken panels; but for effects in elevation,
we have recourse to steps and walls and
piers and wall fountains and things of a
like character. And for the above men-
tioned features, perhaps no material is
more universally suitable and adaptable
than brick. Stone and wood are, of
course, both accompanying and _ parallel
materials, but for ease in handling, di-
versity of pattern and variety of texture,
not to forget the necessary economy of
construction, brick makes a strong bid for

first place above the ground.
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The construction of the above men-

tioned architectural features calls for no -

_inconsiderable amount of ingenuity in
design, due to the engineering require-

ments of stable construction, as well as
the architectural requirements of pro-
portion and interest, not to forget the
financial requirements of the owner’s
pocketbook.

We must consider at the start, there-
fore, that walls and piers have require-
ments of thickness and proper footings as
regards their height; and that steps have
certain fixed requirements in regard to
width of tread and height of riser; while
small piers, fountains and special patterns
call for a certain amount of delicacy in
design.

We find that brick, because of its vari-
ety of sizes and its difference in dimensions,
as well as its ease in cutting, and simplic-
ity of erection, meets these requirements
very well and in the accompanying illus-
trations an attempt has been made not
merely to show a variety of special uses
for brick, but to illustrate the diversity

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terial, we must first understand its in-
dividual nature, which leads us at once
to a consideration of the various sizes
and forms of the individual brick.

There are three more or less standard
forms of brick now on the market; namely,
common brick; Pompeian or Roman
brick; and the common paving brick used
in the construction of roads. Of course,
the first two mentioned forms of brick
are the only ones in common use in archi-
tectural design. But for special patterns
or certain requirements of color or of size,
the garden designer can make good use of
the last mentioned form.

USUAL BRICK SIZES

Common brick is usually 2” x 4” x 8”
with sometimes quarter inch variations;
while Pompeian or Roman brick is usually
Tope xeae Keio e and paving brick, as a
Standardmsizemisaas axed ex oe. This
means then that brick of one ica or
another, laid either flatwise, edgewise, or
on end, will meet, with an occasional cut-
ting, practically ‘all requirements which
may be imposed by architectural garden
design; although we find that as a slight
difference from its use in a pathway,
brick above ground is usually laid so that
we see the narrow width or the end.

The next consideration after size is, of
course, the means of laying, and when
taking brick into elevation, perhaps the
most important thing for our considera-
tion is the joint. Equally as in walk work,
the joint lends both texture and color
and in working above ground we have the
question of tensile or supporting strength
as well.

This means then that the mortar is a
prime factor, and is usually composed of
cement and sand or lime and sand, and,
in many cases, we combine cement mortar
with the lime. For wide joints, we often
use crushed brick or granite instead of
sand, and for white joints coarse ground
marble or limestone gives very good re-
sults. The most popular mortar is, of
course, cement and lime, and lime mortar
gives a lighter color to the walls.

WHAT KIND OF JOINT?

For work above ground we find that
flush joints give a line of color to the
entire area, while sunk or raked joints
afford a shadow line around each brick;
and for special pattern work, both forms
of joints may be used quite handily to-
gether.

For the average piers of pergolas, tea-
houses, etc., requiring a height of from

Continued on page 406

“Walks and talks at Breexe Hill”

now appears as a regular feature each month

Pervasive perennials to “treat rough”

JeQEeOCR AGE MM Crea Rai eAshaD

Photographs by the J. Horace Mc ¥arland ©o., and Paul J. Weber

Referring to one excellent
catalogue of hardy herba-
ceous plants I find Bocconia
cordata described thus:
“Plume Poppy. An inter-
esting and beautiful plant,
well adapted to planting in
the shrubbery, borders or
massing for effect. Creamy
white flowers, 6 to 8 ft. July,
August.”

This is all very nice and
all very true, but there is a
good bit more than that to
the story. This same Boc-
conia cordata will escape by
roots and seeds from any-
thing but a very solid con-
crete tub, and one plant

overlooked may easily be re-
sponsible for the ‘“bocconi-
aizing”’ of the entire garden.
I know, because it happened
almost that way before I
discovered how to handle
this pleasing plant, as well
as some others, by rough
treatment.

The Bocconia is a beauti-
ful plant, and I find it useful
to produce a screen in a cer-
tain place something like
five or six feet high in
which its distinct and at-
tractive foliage is soon fol-
lowed by its rather short-
lived flowers, these in turn
becoming plumy seed-heads

Above.—The Plume Poppy must be kept

within bounds by planting in a confined

corner and ruthlessly weeding out seedlings
every year

Left.—Almost as difficult is the desirable
Mullein Pink, or Lychnis coronaria. Cut it
down after flowering—enough will survive

Right.—The Pearl Achillea is best handled
by digging up annually and replanting as
needed. Otherwise—!

Below.—The gay Sundrops will possess the

whole border in midsummer by working

underground. Therefore dig and replant
annually

in which the seeds rattle
agreeably in any wind that
passes.

But this screened place
is on top of a concrete
vault. There is only one
foot of soil, and none too
good at that. Everywhere
else I ruthlessly, rigorously
and regularly weed out the
Plume Poppy, and I have
it to do hundreds of times
every year, despite keeping
aclean place. If thus kept
in bounds it is worth while.

Another of the plants that
needs to be “treated rough”
in order that it may do its
best is Physostegia virgini-

ana, and on this subject
again the catalogues are yo-
ciferously silent so far as
any assumption that care ot)
restriction may be needed.
One excellent catalogue
speaks of the False Dragon-
head as showing “strong
spikes of delicate pink flow.
ers, 2 to 3 feet, June, July.”
Nothing is said here of the
fact that if allowed to|
stand undisturbed in one
location this Physostegia
will move out in all direc-
tions and produce plants
by underground runners
faster than any Strawberry
ever did or could do. |

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1927

But by digging it up completely and
«tirely every spring and replanting such
; one wants, this really excellent plant
; brought into subjection and does its
fie work.

At Breeze Hill I have learned how to
ejoy the beautiful Pearl Achillea, which
-ain is described as having “double pure
nite flowers, borne in great profusion on
cong, erect stems. Good cut-flower var-
iy, 2 feet, June-September.”” Again en-
te truth, but not enough of it, for by
iderground roots this vigorous Achillea
yll also spread in every direction and
jssess everything. To be really worth
wile it must be dug up every year and
rolanted. If this is done, and if then the
fwers are cut with reasonable regularity,
iwill provide as it has with me, almost
te finest possible source of white cut
fwers during the hot summer months,
cd these cut flowers endure surprisingly
vil. I would not want to be without
/hillea ptarmica at Breeze Hill. Neither
yuld I want to forget its pervasive dis-
fsition!

Sometimes | think that the clear bril-
Int yellow of that Oenothera, oe
fiticosa or fruticosa youngi, which 1
clled Sundrops in the catalogues 1s more
ezzlingly brilliant than white. It is a
trennial which does its showy work in

late June and early July, and I would not
want to be without 1 it. In fact, it is right
hard to be without it after one has it at
all, because this Oenothera is another of
the underground workers which is quite
willing to come up in the center of the
Box Barberry edging to the formal beds
in the center garden at Breeze Hill, as
anywhere else. This useful plant is there-
fore another of the perennials which must
be treated rough by annual replanting,
and when so treated it is admirable.

It is hard for me to understand why
anybody should complain at the necessity
of this annual replanting, because surely
it is no worse to replant in one’s own gar-
den plants costing nothing than to plant
new material from a nursery, costing
something.

Of these four perennials I give away as
freely as I can to those who are willing
to take them, and the balance of the ex-
cesses each year is simply put on the ref-
use pile for eventual turning into useful
leaf-mold.

Almost as difficult and almost as desir-
able is Agrostemma coronaria, which now
travels mostly as a Lychnis. It has clear
magenta flowers which the catalogues dig-
nify as “rich crimson,” and they are pro-
duced in great abundance on long stems
on a silvery-leaved plant, during June and

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July. Unless they are watched, these flow-
ers will seed in every direction and there
will be Mullein Pinks forever in the vicin-
ity given a lack of hard-heartedness on the
part of the grower. Rough treatment is
here indicated, and the subject seems to
like it, such treatment including sharp
cutting down after the blooming period,
when a part of the plants will die and an-
other part will keep on with a good ground
cover.

I have had some disputes with cata-
logue men about the truth. I insist that it
would pay to tell all the truth and to in-
form me about the peculiarities of these
plants, so that I might deal with them
intelligently as well as vigorously. Unfor-
tunately some nurserymen have a holy
horror of saying anything which might
possibly prevent a single sale, and so they
leave the victim to discover the remainder
of the facts, sometimes to his disadvan-
tage, sometimes to his disgust, and some-
times to the discarding of a useful plant
because it is a nuisance, as it would not
be if there had been proper knowledge and
proper treatment of it.

I have no doubt that readers of these
“Walks and Talks” can easily add to the
list of plants that need rough treatment in
the garden and that would be benefited by
truth-telling in the catalogues.

One perennial differs from another in
glory and growth. Balance in the border
is kept up by restraining the over-

367

strong to give space to those of lesser
power. The Hayward garden, Franklin,
Mass.; Hutchins &§ French, Architects

Years ago, poring over a musty book
ages too old for me, I pondered upon a
description of a Dutch kitchen in New

“With silvery sheen” —
New pewter in old design

ELLEN D. WANGNER

Photographs by courtesy of United Arts & Crafts,

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loved: Sherwood Forest, wildwood, glade who have these attributes, it is beautifi
and archery. And so I dreamed of having When I reached the shores of grow
some of this pewter some day when [I updom, I began to collect pieces of pewt.

Amsterdam where ‘“‘the pewter on the reached that land where to a child all finding here a coffee-pot with fluted sid
kas gleamed with silvery sheen.” In my things come true, the land of grown-up. and ebony handles; there a beaker wi

childish fancyings, I re-lived a day that was
gone, seeing the little Dutch maids no
older than myself patiently rubbing the
pewter platters and bowls and plates with
coarse rushes from the marsh so that their
dressers should hold as truly rich an array
of these gleaming household wares as did
any of their neighbors.

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369

Informal, friendly entrance from the paved
and walled courtyard (see general view be-
low, also plan on opposite page)

Delano & Aldrich

Architects

(In all ages of building, brick has been
so universally employed and for so many
diverse uses, from the strictly utilitarian
to the most refined and sophisticated,
that it would seem hardly necessary to
enlarge upon its possibilities. But there
is still a portion of the general public
which seems to look upon it as a cheaper
substitute for stone, and as somehow not
quite worthy of use in buildings where
the cost is not to be considered. Nothing
could be farther from fact or from ex-
perience. Indeed, to the architect truly
interested in texture, in quality of surface
and in the general sense of style, there is
no material more richly rewarding, when
pains are taken to get a distinctive quality
into its use. It can, of course, be used in
many ways, in combination with limestone
or with marble, or, as often in American
Colonial work, with wood painted white.

Of the many ways of using it, none is
more interesting than just by itself,
without any admixture of other material.
In this method nearly all architectural
forms and details may be well and freely
used and given a really distinctive char-
acter. Voussoirs of arches and of vaulting
can be made of rubbed or “gauged”
brick, mouldings and mullions of brick
moulded to fit the design, and other

details, capitals, modillions, keys, ,
brick either moulded or cut.

In every country, work of this “;
brick” character is to be met wit!
England is filled with it. Holland ar
Belgium also. In France it is perhaj
more usually employed in connectic
with stone, but the manor houses ,
Normandy show many interesting e
amples of walls with patterns of differe
kinds of bricks. In Northern Italy a
many most delightful buildings eith
all of brick, or of brick combined ar
decorated with terra-cotta of the san
tone and texture.

These fine early examples are reple
with suggestions which can well bei
corporated in modern country hou
design. Indeed, the study of a design |
be executed wholly in brick will its:
bring out many possibilities in the a
rangement of bricks, in the treatme
of the joints and in the different colors ai
textures. Out of honest well-baked bric
in any countryside where brick seems
all to belong (which really means one whe
brick earths might possibly be supposed |
exist) the designer has no more rewardi)
material for mansion, manor, or cottag
or even for the humble garden wall.

—CHESTER H. ALDRIi|

The very plan (see opposite) of the house
assures us fortunate owner of seclusion

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from the start-off without the often long
watt for “screen planting’? to mature

BRICK IN THE MODERN HOME

Some notes on its

proper AY 2

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and photographs
of the house of

Miss E. R. Hooker

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aes raised like the local types and finishe

with the gambrel roof of New Englan

My and New Jersey. The exterior walls are

Bigg 8c: ti whitewashed brick and the gable ends «
cypress.

y New Orleans (like Charleston) shows

i curious mixture of Spanish, French, an

d the Georgian architecture of the Atlant

seaboard. The Georgian influence is su

nl prising to the stranger but is easily e:

plained when you study the history ‘

Louisiana. There was always extensive 1!
tercourse by flat boats on the Mississip|
River between New Orleans and tt
American Colonists to the north an

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and cotton to New England by schoon:
EXISTING PLAN ARMSTRONG & KoocH: and brought back in .exchange factor
a *AvemTBets-roe ALTERATIONS” work, mantels and other manure
The living-room was originally on the ing, this room was shifted over to give articles necessary to the life on the plat
axis of the house with the fireplace fac- Space for a dining-room, and the queer tation.
ing the front door; though interesting, L-shaped rooms were divided into
this was a wasteful plan, so in rebuild- stairs, pantry, bath, etc.

3°72

A NOBLE SURVIVOR

OF A
NOBLE TRADITION

Colonial House at

New Orleans
recently restored by

Armstrong & Koch

Late
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Photographs by Tebbs 8 Knell

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chauben-- FIRST PRIZE
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Owner

Prize Winners of the
Recent C ompetition
Conducted by

TheArchitectural Forum
for the

Common Brick M’f’rs

Ass'n of America

JUDGES
ALEXANDER B. TROWBRIDGE
AYMAR EMBURY II
JAMES W. O'CONNOR

SECOND PRIZE

There was practically no limit
as to size or style of dwelling
eligible for entry and almost
no limit to the type of brick
used but insistence was placed
on substantial construction
with masonry backing, brick
veneer over wood being ex-

cluded

DAVID A. OGILVIE
Architect

J. H. KELLEHER, ESO.

Owner

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The Darby and Joan of architecture

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Photographs by Tebbs 8 Knell, fohn W allace Gillies,

A WROUGHT-IRON RENAISSANCE

If your house is to be of brick by all
means have some wrought-iron even if it
be but a lowly foot-scraper. A wrought-
iron renaissance is upon us and the metal
is as universal as bobbed hair on Main
Street. Iron as a decorative feature
will never go out of style and like the bob
it is too good to lose. Its popularity sagged
from time to time during the centuries
but there seems to be evidence that
whenever brick came into extensive use
wrought-iron design improved. There is
an afhnity’ between the two materials.
Hardly any materials combine in a greater
degree beauty and utility, hence their
continual use through the ages. All who
have seen old iron and brickwork together
know the charm they have taken on with
the years. They are the Darby and
Joan of architecture. What freedom of
design there is in wrought-iron! No mat-
ter what forms are assumed, even the
most contorted, you are not distressed
for you know the ease of working and
that nothing is forced in the making.

From Roman times and before, iron
has been used architecturally. First uses
were strictly utilitarian but man’s mys-
terious love of beauty early put a touch of

Good modern work, the play of iron
design harmonizing with the uneven

brick texture. Mr. J. W. Day’s house;

Frank J. Forster, Architect

Philip B. Wallace, Samuel H. Gottscho

decoration on all he made. The middle
centuries were rich in design due to the
golden age of the smiths. The work
dropped off in England between the 15th
and 16th centuries but was still carried on
and improved on the Continent. Ironwork
came back into its own in Great Britain
in the 17th century with the arrival of
Monsieur Jean Tijou, who came over, it 1s
thought, with the Prince of Orange in
1689. He introduced balconies into Eng-
land and spurred up and inspired the
whole clan of blacksmiths. From_ his
time on English work kept in the pro-
cession with the Continental until archi-

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cately wrought old railings which ter-

minate in a lampholder. Beverly,
Pocomoke City, Maryland

tecture went down without a struggle
in the Victorian era. America followed
the course of England both in the Colonial
Period and during the early days of the
Republic. In our times a new spirit has
come into iron design led by that master
smith, Brandt of Paris.

_ Iron should never look cold. To have
life it must have colour and lustre. Colour
is obtained by texture, by vitality of
design and by the actual application of
other metals, usually brass or bronze.
Brandt uses bronze a great deal and you
feel in every inch of his work the master
hand of the craftsman-artist. The excel-

376

An ideal combination, iron against

whitewashed brick. Home of Mr.
Charles Pratt at Glen Cove, New York;
Peabody, Wilson & Brown, Architects

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lent foil of iron makes it so attractive.
with brick. The black metal contrasts
with the pink of the walls or the grayer
tones of some iron harmonize with darkei
shades of brick. Primarily colour should
be sought by the use of genuine wrought:
iron, hand worked, and vitality of design.
For our brick country house we must
depend largely upon these means except)
that brass knobs and balls on railing
newels may be used to great advantage for
sparkling up a balcony, porch or window
rail; the little touch of gold against the
brick gives a clear, warm note. |

The vitality of the design depend)
upon line. Mass counts for little. Oni!
must have a strong feeling for line t
design ironwork and fortunately this is ¢
feeling most architects have. ‘The many
straight lines, closely parallel, of the bricl
joints are refreshingly relieved by oracaell
curves in grille or balcony. Look, fo,
example, at a Colonial front with a rov
of five windows equally spaced, a com
mon arrangement. The straight lines 0
the bricks and the window divisions ari
very static, there is not much movement
Now introduce into each window a railin;
about eighteen inches or two feet high
This railing has in its design motif lon;
curves that sweep up, and down, Stan¢

ANUARY
1927

f from the house and notice the rhythmic
ovement across the front carried from
ne opening to the other and picked up
y the next. There is life now. But we may
ave a case where the steadying influence
f vigorous straight lines is desirable.
row of arches with an elaborate pattern
1 the brickwork might be full of move-
vent and play, encouraging the intro-
uction of a simple square picket railing
etween the piers. This would steady the
asemble. Where only straight lines are
yund in the ironwork there is a contrast
etween them and the straight lines of the
rickwork (these latter being principally
orizontal) when the predominant iron
nes are vertical; or if the general feeling
f the ironwork is horizontal, there is then
relation to the brick lines. The subject
subtile. The clever or rather masterly,
trangement of line is at the very base of
ymposition and nowhere is it more im-
ortant than in ironwork.

Piet ECHNICAL SIDE

Let us say a word or two about the
echnical side of wrought-iron. First,
ie smith’s equipment is simple. Really
bout all that is needed to turn out good
ork is an open hearth or forge furnished
ith bellows and hood or chimney to
uicken the draft and carry off the fumes,
large tub or trough of water to quench
1e hot iron, and an anvil. For tools
1ere are various tongs, chisels, hammers
nd punches. No self-respecting smith
ould be without the traditional leathern
pron for the sparks will fly. Charcoal
‘as once used exclusively for fuel but now
roken coke, screened and washed, has
iken its place. Really there seems to
e no reason why every home-builder

An arrangement of vertical and hori-
zontal lines broken by the slope of the

step railing. Moor’s End, home of

Mr. Edward F. gee at Nan-

tucket, Rhode Island, built about 1825;

Fiske Kimball, architect in charge of
restoration

A beautiful garden gate—the flow of the
wall line carried through by the iron-

work. Mann 9 McNeille, Architects

who has enough mechanical ability to
repair his motor car could not become
his own smith. The secret, however, is to
hit the iron when it is hot and this takes
some experience but great fun can be had
with a small portable forge and a few
tools.

Iron alone of ail the metals can be
welded or wrought together, after moder-
ate heating, by blows of a hammer. This
welding can be carried to such extent that
small or large pieces, intricate or simple,

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lieve the austerity of the piers. House

designed by Mann & McNeille for

Mr. Nathan S. Jonas at Great Neck,
Long Island

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A fine early American example, the

curves of the rail softening the rather

pronounced jointing of the walls.

The old Gorgas house at Tuscaloosa,
Alabama

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Brick makes a perfect background for this
old doorway so exquisite in its restraint and
delicacy—obviously the work of hands that
knew wood and a taste that sensed the beauty

of the classic. Probably brought from England
and possibly the work of that fine crafts-
man Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720). Har-
wood, built 1790, at Annapolis, Maryland

The man who Loes

gardening in Florida has got a lot to learn

When you plant your Florida garden

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One generally thinks of spring as the
busy planting time in Northern gardens,
The advice so frequently given—‘ plant
when danger of frost is past’’—or “plant
as early in the spring as the soil can be
worked’’—does not apply in such force
to Florida gardens. Our mild climate
permits the planting during the greater
part of the year. Most of our wild flowers
commence to grow in the fall, so it natur-
ally follows that this is the best-time to
sow the seeds and set out plants of annuals
and perennials. There are, however,
some exceptions to this rule; namely,
Asters, Zinnias, etc., which are distinctly
summer blooming plants. Such subjects
as Palms, Roses, shrubs, vines etc., may
also be planted during the fall, winter or
early spring season, as conditions permit.

The visitor from the North who has, or
intends to have, his garden in Florida,
naturally prefers to use those subjects
which appear at their best during the
winter season—plants which flower at
this time, which have fine evergreen foli-
age or other special merits.

Deciduous shrubs are often valuable for
their flowers here, but being bare of leaves
in winter are sometimes not regarded
favorably. Another consideration is the
adaptability of the plant to the particular
section of the state where one wishes to
use it. Frequently, plantings are made
with tender plants in sections where they
become injured by frost. Attention is
called in this article to plants which are
hardy over the state. Those not men-
tioned as hardy are usually best suited
Ito south and perhaps central Florida.
‘Some plants are adapted to shade while
others are best suited to sunny locations.
Certain plants grow well in the shade but
do not bloom satisfactorily there, while
others bloom well only in shaded spots.

Many gorgeously colored plants were
developed in the tropics, some of which
have been brought to Florida, where un-
der our glorious skies the bright colors
lend a charm and beauty—an_ exotic
touch to our gardens. The Hibiscus
shrub with its many gay flower colorings
is one of these. But one has to use such
plants with caution and they may often
be combined advantageously with our
great variety of more subdued colors.
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The rich verdure of the tropics, where
Piant growth continues the year around,
is distinguished by the unusual and
beautiful character of those dominant

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Photographs by Royal Poinctana Studio

plants—the Palms. Florida can grow in
her gardens a greater variety of Palms
than any other state in the Union. When
once set out and properly cared for, they
become permanent ornaments which de-
velop added beauty with the passing
years. Palms may be planted in Florida
at any time during the year, though they
will come into growth more quickly if
set during the warmer months when root
action is more vigorous. They should be
planted on rich well-fertilized soil. Late
in the fall, apply fertilizer containing a
good proportion of potash to harden up
the plants for winter.

A few of the favored kinds which are
hardy over the state are: the Chinese
Fan Palm (Livistona chinensis), Califor-
nia Fan Palm (Washingtonia robusta),
European Fan Palm (Chamaerops hu-
milis), Blue Coconut (Cocos australis),
the Date Palms (Phoenix canariensis,
P. sylvestris) and that dwarf subject the
Cycad (Cycas revoluta) often mistaken
for a Palm.

Palms which are less hardy but which
do well over most of central and southern
Florida are the Plumy Coconut (Cocos
plumosa) widely planted, Phoenix fari-
nifera, Phoenix reclinata, and Acrocomia
total.

For extreme south Florida, as at Palm
Beach, Miami, Ft. Myers, etc., a long
list of showy, elegant Palms is available.
Some of the best of these are the Golden
Feather Palm sometimes known as Areca
(Chrysalidocarpus lutescens), The Phoe-
nix roebeleni, a beautiful dwarf Palm
with delicate, bright green foliage, the
tall graceful Seaforthia elegans, the Fish-
tail palm (Caryota urens) a splendid tall
growing species, the majestic Royal Palm
(Oreodoxa regia), and the Coconut Palm
(Cocos nucifera). The last two are large
tall trees, requiring much space to avoid
crowding and to give proper effects.
They are much used for bordering side-
walks and driveways. The Fiji Fan Palm
(Pritchardia pacifica) and the Sugar
Palm (Arenga saccharifera) are excellent
subjects. One of our native Florida Palms
(Thrinax microcarpa) 1s a handsome spe-
cies, having lovely fan-shaped leaves,
silvery on the lower side. It should
appear more generally in Florida gardens.

RHE ANNUALS

Any ‘one can have an abundance of
winter flowers in south Florida by plant-
ing the old-fashioned summer annuals
of the North, such as Snapdragons,
Petunias, Phlox etc. The planting should
be done preferably in the fall or early

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winter. Calendulas, Carnations, China
Pinks, Hollyhocks, Larkspurs, Nastur-
tiums are some of the other flowers which
may well be planted from October to
January.

Since the introduction of early or
winter-flowering Sweet-peas, the proper
varieties (of the winter-flowering Spencer
type) may be grown throughout the state
of Florida. To succeed well, they must be
planted during fall and early winter
(September to January).

The bulb lover may have a splendid
assortment of these flowers in his Florida
garden. They should be set during
September and October. Some of these
readily grown are Lilium harissi, the
lovely Easter Lily of the North which is
more satisfactory for Florida planting
than the true Madonna Lily (Lilium
candidum) whose bulbs do so well the
first year, but as a rule are a total loss
the second. The Tulips, preferably the
Darwin and Cottage varieties, grow well
providing the winter is sufficiently cool
to keep the bulbs dormant till early
spring. Some of the Narcissus such as the
Paper-white and Chinese Lily do well.
Hyacinths (including the delicate little
Dutch Roman and French Roman Hya-
cinths—charming when planted amongst
Violets), the Amaryllis (Hippeastrum
vittata), Hemerocallis, Lily-of-the-Nile
(Agapanthus umbellatus), Peruvian Daf-
fodil (Ismene calathina), and the Natal
Lily (Moraea iridioides) all make a fine
growth in the Florida garden.

ROSES

Very satisfactory results may be had
with Roses, providing they are grown on
proper root stocks—and there’s the rub.
Roses from Northern nurseries, are
likely to fail. As is generally known,
Roses do best on rich clay soils in other
states. The Florida soils, as a rule, are
sandy and it has become necessary to use
root stocks which are good foragers. Two:
species which have proven adequate are
Rosa odorata and Rosa canina. It will
be found necessary, for the best results,
to manure heavily; fertilize and mulch
at planting time and as much thereafter
as needed. The season for planting is
from December 1st through the winter
and early spring months.

WEIN OS

Vines add an artistic, often colorful
touch to the Florida garden. Some vari-
eties are useful also for shading arbors,
pergolas, porches and the like. The
Sky Flower (Thunbergia grandiflora)

BULEDER

A tropical vista in which the feathery
Casaurina trees and Oleanders play
a prominent part at Palm Beach

Below: a Florida garden of tropical
plants, with Casaurina trees in the back-
ground which serve also, in front of the
house, as hedges. Crimson Bougain-
villea over the central doorway and an-
nual flowers border the walk

with its large pointed leaves and beautiful
lavender-blue flowers, borne throughout
the year, is one of these. In recent vears,
this has become one of our most popular
vines. The strong growing, woody vine
Beaumontia grandiflora is another fine
subject for South Florida planting, espe-
cially as a cover for massive pergolas.
The foliage is heavy, the flowers white and

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1927

trumpet-shaped. The Paper Flower (Bou
gainvillea glabra sanderiana), with ij
great masses of magenta-purple “flowers
borne in profusion during the winter an
early spring months, may be used as
vine on pergolas, trellises, etc. It ma
also be used as a shrub by pruning an
training it to standard form, or it ma t
grown in hedges. The Crimson Lal
Bougainvillea, with its more showy flowe.
is highly appreciated in Florida: garden

he Flame-vine (Bignonia venust;
with its clusters of orange-red tubul;
flowers, appearing during the wint
months, attracts a great deal of attentic
at this time of year. It is a strong grow
and adapts itself to a great many use
frequently making a pretty cover f
fences, small buildings etc. The Climbi
Fig (Ficus pumila), which is hardy oy
the state, has much the habit of Engli.
Ivy but a smaller and more delicate le:
It sticks very close and flat to the surfa:
of stucco, brick and other masonry, soi;
making a network or tracery over t:
entire surface.

The “Carolina Yellow Jessamine (G-
semium sempervirens), which is al)
hardy over the state, is a woody twir-
with glossy, evergreen leaves and
profusion of yellow bell-shaped fragra:
flowers, produced in the winter. T>
Jasminum sambac (Maid of Orlean,

urple trailing Lantana, and the Gold:
Pan pee -vine (grown also as a shru)
with its large, golden yellow flowers, :2
all of the everblooming type.

SHRUBS

For winter flowering woody shrubbe ,
one may have the Hibiscus with its b-
liant flowers of red, crimson, pink, salm1
and yellow. It may be used in bush r
hedge form. The Christmas Flower, r
Poinsettia, is a strictly winter bloonr
in Florida and may be had in single r
double reds in pink or in white.

One of our persistent bloomers, win f
and summer ts the Malvaviscus or Tur $
Cap, with its striking red droopg
flowers. Intermittent red bloomers ¢
the Cape Honeysuckle (Tecoma capeni')
and the Russelia or Coral-plant. 1¢
Cape Honeysuckle is really a vine, but y
heading back from year to year becor’s
a valuable scarlet-orange flowered shr).
The Cardinal’s Guard (Jacobinia ¢»
cinea), Clerodendron squamatum, i
Brazilian Pepper (Schinus), and &
Crimson Bougainvillea are other gid
winter-flowering or showy subjects. | \¢
Assonias produce large umbel-like clust's
of pink flowers, in form similar to i
Hydrangea, during December and Jat
ary. Plumbago capensis, a handscie
shrub of graceful habit, produces c®
stantly a wealth of phlox-like floves
of light sky-blue color harmonizing 1%
with other colors in the garden. i

A number of good evergreen hedges
sheared or informal effects are availa ©
One of the best of these is the Tolt
shrub (Pittosporum tobira), Japars
Privet (Ligustrum japonicum), our nay
Wax Myrtle (Myrica cerifera), the
inam Cherry (Eugenia uniflora),

Severinia buxifolia are other favor
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A goodly number of Arborvitaes, Cedars
and other conifers thrive in the state.

FERNS

If one is fortunate enough to have cool,
shady spots about the garden, a variety

of Ferns may be grown. Artistic effects

are often achieved by planting these
Ferns in window and porch boxes or in
large clay pots, wooden tubs, etc. A

_ rich, loose soil madeup largely of leaf-mold

should be used. The Sword Ferns (Neph-

rolepis, including the Boston Fern, and

several other fine species), our native

Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea),

the Leather-leaf Fern (Polystichum cor-

iaceum) so popular with florists, the deli-

-eate Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum) and

the Cibotium barometz, a tree Fern, are
varieties frequently used. The Lace
Asparagus (Asparagus plumosus) which
gives a fern-like effect, and also the

Asparagus sprengeri grow to perfection.

BAMBOOS

Bamboos gives a tropical atmosphere
to Florida gardens. These decorative
grasses with their feathery foliage con-

_stantly swaying in the wind are one of

the truly artistic features of our land-
scape. As a class, Bamboos are massive
plants and must be given plenty of room

if they are to appear in proper perspective.

They show up to better advantage when

seen at a distance. A number of species

are hardy over the state and some of

the dwarf types, as Bambusa aurea and

B. disticha, are graceful plants to use
where shrub or hedge effects are desired—
these varieties reach only about ten feet

in height and have fine leaves. Of the

larger kinds Bambusa thouarsi and B.

vulgaris are commonly grown.

TREES

Some of the flowering trees which add
so much beauty to tropical and subtrop-
ical regions may also be used to brighten

the Florida garden. The Mountain Ebony
(Bauhinia purpurea) is one of the best

small trees of this type. It has peculiar
bilobed leaves and beautiful orchid-like

fragrant flowers, which appear in pleasing

shades of lavender, pink, purple and
white. The lavender-flowered species (pur-

_purea) produces its bloom in late winter.

The White Mountain Ebony (B. alba)

becomes a glorious mass of flowers from

January to March. Many will stay to see

“the bloom of the Royal Poinciana (Del-

onix regia), with its great burst of bright
scarlet flowers which appear in the spring.
The Jacaranda, a Brazilian tree, does
finely in Florida and puts forth its laven-

_der-blue flowers in the spring also. There

are many other flowering-tree species,

but most of them are in bloom during the

late spring and summer.

Shade trees should certainly be con-
sidered in planting the Florida garden.

here are many good species to select
from both for the northern and southern
parts of the state. Some used in the
more northern sections are the Oaks
(several species), Red Maple, Sweet Gum,
Umbrella Tree, Camphor and the White

Elm; In the more southerly parts of

the state, we have the Silk Oak (Grav-
illea robusta), Rubber trees (Ficus spp.),
Mango, Eucalyptus (the species robusta
makes a good shade tree; many others are
more for ornament than shade.) Poinci-
ana, Albizzia lebbek, a fast growing fine
shade tree, the Acacias, Macracantha
and Bischofia javanica, a splendid ever-
green tree with very large compound
leaves, making a dense shade.

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BULEDER

The Tamarind of India at Palm Beach:

an evergreen tree which adds beauty

and shade. Hibiscus shrubs in the
background

Palm group below: in the foreground
Dictyosperma and Coconut Palms; in
the background a Phoenix, clumps of
Caryota (Fish-tail) Palms and native
Palmettos on the opposite side

COMMON BOND

Every sixth course a harder course

SKETCHES

MODIFIED FLEMISH
Two stretches between the headers

ENGLIS

H BOND
From an old garden in Essex

BASKET PATTERN
Should be used only for small spaces

BY

HAROLD

BUTTERFIELD

RUNNING HEADER BOND
All headers but joints broken

@ From the earliest of re-
corded days bricks have been
used by man, and without
doubt he soon devised a way
to bond them as he did his
stonework. If the bricks are
all laid in the same way a
wall would not be tied to-
gether so they are set the long
and short sides exposed in

ABRICK ®

various fashions. These ar-
rangements are called bonds.
The two principal bonds are
English and Flemish; each
has its variations. In ad-
dition there is the common or
American bond which is the
cheapest and least attractive.
The English cross bond, a
variation of the English and

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HERRING-BONE

For walks and porch floors

Sagas eh
DIT a hc eae PONE, SS

BELGIAN GABLE

Bricks set at right angle to line of

eaves

CLOSE UP OF ENGLISH BOND
Alternate header and stretcher courses

BONDS

much used in the Low
Countries, has the stretch-
ers (long faces) break joints
with the stretchers above
and below. This gives a
cross diagonal pattern.
The Flemish bonds are
capable of having many
Patterns worked out by
the arrangement of the

headers (short faces) which
are usually darker than
the stretchers. The Eng-
lish bond was extensively
used throughout the Tudor
period but the Flemish is
the prevailing bond in the
Georgian work and in the
best of the American Colon-
ial brick houses.

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FLEMISH BOND
Alternate header and stretcher in each course

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CHECKER-BOARD PATTERN
For decorative effects only

GARDEN WALL BOND
Three stretchers between headers. Can be used for 8” wall

Bricks and their color possibilities

for the artist in architecture

The ceramics of house building

GC. MARS

Photographs by Paul J. Weber, and by courtesy of the
American Face Brick Assn. and the Common Brick Mfrs. Assn.

Everybody knows what a brick is—
a small, oblong solid made of burnt
clay and used mainly for building
walls. Before the dawn of history
these clay units were employed, but
at first were simply baked in the sun.
It was not until much later that some
genius discovered the art of burning
these clay units so as to make them
as hard and enduring as granite.
Recent excavations in Chaldea, con-
ducted by a joint expedition of the
University of Pennsylvania and the
British Museum, have disclosed in the
old City of Ur, the original home of
Abraham, a very fine burned brick
with a stamp of the reigning king,
going back over 2000 years B.c. The
illustration shows a brick of about
2250.R. C

These early bricks were very much
larger in size than those to which
we are accustomed. Through the
ages, from the early days of Chaldea
through Egypt and Rome bricks
have been made in various sizes.
Our general usage is doubtless due to the
English practice which was more or less
fixed in the time of Charles II when, by
act of Parliament, brick sizes as we have
them to-day were more or less standard-
ized. The English brick are somewhat
larger than their American descendants,
running to 9” in length by 3” in thickness.
The American brick 1s about 8” long by
21”’ thick, and 4”’ wide, although there
is a slight variation in different parts of
the country and other variations due to
the coefh-
cients of
expansion
and con-
traction in
diihenet
clays.

Brick is
such a well-
known and
common-
place ma-
terial that
it would
seem not
worth say-
ing any-
thing fur-
ther about
it; but as
a matter of

Stamped brick of Bur-Sin dating back to about
2250 B.C., 13 inches square and 3 inches thick

subject when the material out of which
it is made, the various processes of its
manufacture and the uses to which it
is put are all taken into considera-
tion. To be sure, clay, of which it is
always made, is looked upon as avery
commonplace sort of mud, in fact, trou-
blesome, unfertile, and altogether worth-
less; and yet, from the standpoint of the
chemist and physicist, clay 1s an extremely
fascinating subject. Whole volumes have
been written about clay and yet it is im-

possible to state definitely just w
it is or why it acts as it does. It
certain physical and chemical proj
ties that are very mysterious, and ;
very useful.

Everyone knows that a bit of «
taken in the hand, if slightly tempe
or wet, may easily be formed into.
shape—which shape it will retain
dried thoroughly, this form will
come rigid; in fact, so much ts
the case that in ancient times (
now among primitive peoples) ;
was formed into pots and pans, '
bricks and tiles, dried thoroughly in
sun, and thus made to serve a us
purpose. Just what are the phy;
properties of the clay that giv
this peculiar plasticity, no one kn
It simply is accepted as a useful
practical fact of which man for m
ages has taken advantage in produ
useful commodities. However, t
hard, dried, sun-baked forms of |
may be broken up and reduce
the original plastic state by tem
ing again with water. All the cha
thus far have been merely physical.

But a very mysterious thing happe.
these clay forms are subjected to a_
degree of heat in the kiln. They und:
under the influence of this heat, a |
found chemical change that renders t:
extremely hard and enduring. They:
deed, may be broken up and crushed)
never, by any amount of tempering |
water, can they be reduced again )
plastic state. The original quality of :
ticity
the cl.
now ?
ever, ?
but th!
has t!
forme t
clay }
object
great i
abil.
as evt
one k)
from >
rem:
whic
have »
down >
thro}
thous 2
of ye!

fact, it is an
extremely
interesting

So accustomed are we to see the Mediter-
ranean type of house rendered in stucco that
the possibilities of brick have been some-

384

what overlooked. An interesting example of
skintled brick work by James Roy Allen;
home of Mr. Arthur Jones at Glencoe, Illinots

not A
of buili
bricks b

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f yarious kinds of pottery. In our day
ivilized man uses brick only in its kiln-
urnt condition.

The kinds of brick turned out differ
ery greatly in their appearance and qual-
-y both because of the difference in the
lays used and in the methods of manufac-
are. Clays occur in almost every part of
ne world in bewildering varieties. The
indamental chemical base of all clays 1s

hydrated silicate of aluminum, which
jeans that silicon, aluminum, and water
re blended into a chemical compound.
“his material is the detritus, for the most
art, of feldspathic rocks which, through
uillions of years have been undergoing
eologic changes, resulting in the forma-
ion, through pressure and upheavals,
oods, and infiltrations, of beds of clay
ither in situ, that is on the site of disin-
egration, or in far distant river deltas and
ake and sea bottoms. Clay has a marvel-
us and tragic geological history through
nany ages. It is because of all of these
hanges, as well as of the different kinds of
ock of origin that we have scattered over
he world so many kinds of clay. Fortu-
iately, there are a number of clays that
re adaptable to brickmaking, though
hey differ in the quality of ware they
vill produce. Some of these clays are called
ean or short—that 1s, they have too little
jlasticity. Others are too fat or rich and
yossess altogether too much plasticity to
nake a good burning clay. On the other
iand, some clays possess all the qualities
or producing the highest grades of brick.
Where clays are lean and short it is possi-
dle to mix them with other clays and se-
‘ure a condition of plasticity that makes
them fairly usable. On the other hand, a
‘lay that is too plastic may be mixed with
iand or other shortening material which
will bring it within the range of usability.

Pen PNG THE BRICK

Aside from the natural qualities of clay
90th chemical and physical, the manufac-
turer has a great deal to do with the pro-
duct turned out. The first requisite of a
xood brick, especially if it is to be used
for facing walls, is that it should be burned
thoroughly or carried to the point of in-
sipient vitrification. All clays if burned too
nard will break down into an amorphous
vitreous mass. Clays that are burned too
little produce a ware that is soft and easily
disintegrated in the weather, although
these softer bricks are useful on the inner
parts of the wall as they have a sufficient
bearing strength for all structural require-
ments and are of less cost than the harder
burned brick. Every extra unit of coal or
other fuel used in burning brick naturally
adds to their cost.

Aside from the necessity of thoroughly
burning the brick there are such matters
as the way green brick are set in the kiln,
and the skilful way the burner handles the
hres that produce many desirable effects
in the finished ware.

_The preparation of the clay also has a
vital bearing on the result. The clays are
crushed or ground and tempered with
Water to the proper consistency, and they
may be variously mixed to get the prover

Considerable diversity and color have
been achieved by the adroit use of brick
(including Pompeian insets in the arch)

plasticity, expansion or contraction co-
efficients, or color. Then the molds and
machines used have much to do with the
appearance of the finished ware. There are
three methods of making brick: soft mud,
stiff mud, and dry-press. Reduced to the
consistency of a soft mud, the clay is forced
by hand or machine into wooden or metal
molds which are previously slopped with
water or sprinkled with sand (slop-mold,
sand-mold) to prevent the clay from
sticking to the molds; or reduced to a stiff
mud, the clay is forced through a die of
the proper size in the form of a stiff mud
ribbon or column which is cut by wires,
strung on a frame (wire-cut) into the
right dimensions; or as a semi-dry gran-
ular powder the clay is forced under great
pressure into the molds. Aside from the
surface textures which the brick derive
from the surface of the molds, the stiff
mud process permits various modifica-
tions of the brick surface known in the
trade as mats, ruffles, tapestries, rugs, and
the like. The various types of kilns and
the stages of burning are an interesting
story but too long to find a place in this
sketch.

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nt henivmnebiaiitiat tle:

without any straining after the bizarre.
Dr. Lloya’s house at Brookline, Massachu-
setts; Frohman, Robb & Little, Architects
COMMON BRICK

ReATG Eas NLD

In general, people know brick as “com-
mon” and “face,” but it would be very
difficult to draw the line at the exact point
where one merges into the other. The idea
of using face brick is as old as brick man-
ufacture. In the days of the early Chal-
dean kings, some genius discovered that
burning the sun-baked brick wonderfully
added to their durability and value. These
brick were used for facing purposes while
the older common brick were used in the
back of the wall; and this practice has
continued ever since—of using best brick
because of the hardness of the burn or the
colors for constructing the outer surface
of the wall—a matter of structural value
as well as artistic effect.

The Romans, after a long period of us-
ing sun-baked brick, came in the early
days of the Empire to employ burnt
brick, which was used on the face of the
cemented wall in order to give a smooth
surface for plastering. They, however, de-
veloped certain types of very beautiful
face brick which they freely exposed on
the surface of the building, and generally

Continued on page 420

Brick ts the ounce of

prevention against the Fire God

Brick as a fireproof material

eee DL USN COASIN SHOUEN Ss Delon

Photographs by Schuyler Carteret Lee, Tebbs & Knell,
Thomas E. Marr & Son, Kenneth Clark

BERS CR NAG Nebel OND le tnys

Brick, a product of the basic elements—
earth, water and fire—stands preéminent
in its resistance to the decomposition of
the one, the waste of the other and the
ravages of the third.

As a manufactured product—a man-
made composition—it is thoroughly akin
to his spirit and his needs.

While the manufacture of brick dates
back into antiquity where the Children
of Israel were forced to work amid the
kilns of Egypt, and though the Greeks used
brick for backing their stone and marble
facings, not until the time of the Romans
—that vigorous, practical, ambitious and
aggressive race, those eminent engineers
of economy of construction—do we find a
full realization of the true value of brick
as asuitable, economical and fireproof con-
struction material. As the medieval
cathedrals of Europe testify to the scien-
tific use of stone as a structural material,
so do the ancient Roman works reveal
that near perfect understanding and use
of burnt clay.

While a cardinal desire for lavish dis-
play led the Romans often to cover the
brick with a stone or stucco veneer, it
was the brick skeleton that bore the brunt
of the labor; it carried the load, resisted
the shocks of earthquakes and the devas-
tation of fire; it supported the “fake’’
veneer, just as in our modern “‘sky-
scrapers’’ the steel skeleton frame does all
of the work and the sugar coating of mar-
ble, stone and other trimmings purely
decorative are applied to appease our
vanity. Further, the great engineering
works of the ancient Romans, those
gigantic aqueducts, viaducts and amphi-
theatres, constructed of brick without
“fake” trimmings, reveal that the glory
of brick was truly the glory of Rome.

RENAISSANCE BRICK

In Italy, during the Middle Ages, with
the birth of the new Renaissance there
flowered forth a remarkable style of
elegance and grace in brick and terra-
cotta due to an awakening to the artistic
possibilities of burnt clay, and thus we
arrive at the period of history where the
happy unison of strength and beauty
combine for the glorification of brick.

Since the time of the early Renaissance
the appreciation of brick as an artistic
material has suffered numerous lapses,
butasapractical, economical, constructive
material there has not been the slightest
depression since the beginning of construc-
tion history. That brick has through the

ages held its own as a structural material
is due not to any secular movement or
mode but to the merits of the very ma-
terial itself—of simple earthy elements—
the very slime—this most humble ma-
terial is readily obtainable, inexpensive to
manufacture, convenient to handle and
due to the small units of the size of the
finished brick, there is great latitude and
versatility in its use. Of enduring per-
manence, withstanding the ravages of
time, it 1s, broadly speaking, the building
material par excellence.

FUR E Welt HOU eer eAGR:

Fire—the great devastator—the great
emancipator. Fire destroys, yet fire
refines and liberates, and that product
which has passed through the fire in the
making, from which the baser qualities
have been fused or consumed, here is a
product worthy of the highest esteem and
brick, like gold, is a product of the fire.
As a fire-resisting material, the manu-
factured brick holds high honors. Of the
other structural materials in general use
few will not succumb to the effects of fire.

In all large cities the building codes pro-
hibit the use of wood for building con-
struction in central locations, due to the
fire hazard, and all steel and iron members
must be encased in a fireproof material;
burnt clay or concrete is extensively
used, and the former has always been a
favorite. Burnt clay in its various forms,
brick, terra-cotta and tile, is, due to the
vitrification process of firing during manu-
facture, the fireproof building material
preeminent. Of the fire, by the fire, for
the fire.

The principal ingredients used in the
manufacture of common brick are clay
and protoxide of iron; other substances
that form part of ordinary clay either do
no good or are absolutely harmful. The
protoxide of iron in the clay causes the
red color in the brick after burning, the
color varying with the proportion of the
iron and with more intense heat the brick,
if slightly fusible, may be vitrified ex-
ternally, and take on a shade of greenish
blue. Mottled effects may be obtained
either by the introduction of coloring
matter or by mixing clays of different
and suitable chemical composition. There
are several methods of manufacturing
brick, known to the trade as “hand-
made,” “‘soft-mud,” and the “dry-clay
process,” depending upon the local condi-
tions and the use to which the brick is to
be put; the gist of all of the methods may
be said to consist of, roughly speaking, the
several following major operations.

386

The clay is dug from the beds, mixed wi
water to the proper consistency and fre
this mixture the brick are molded. Th
are then allowed to dry in the sun or:
for several days. For the best brick t
clay is often stored in piles for seve
years before using, to allow the mass
become thoroughly disintegrated, ai
brick made from clay thus weathered de
not warp in the kiln. In England for t
very best brick the clay is often stored
cellars. Thorough seasoning of the cl.
seems to be conducive to fine results.

After drying, the brick are built in lar
peculiar shaped masses loosely stack
with “‘eyes”’ or flues left at the bottom
receive the fuel. When the kiln is cor
pleted and ready, the fire is starte
slowly at first but afterwards increased
an intense heat; and after burning for
period determined partly by the fuel use
but mainly by experience, the fires a
allowed to die out gradually.

KNOW YOUR? BRTCE

As the kiln is opened the brick may |
roughly divided into four classes: tst, th
extreme outside brick which owing +
their isolation from the fire are so litt
burnt that they are worthless; and 2n
comes a layer under the first, in whic
the brick have received some of the hea
but only enough to give them a “pale
or “salmon” color, by which terms th«
are known to the trade. These brick a
unfit for any good work but are oft
used for filling between studs in fran
walls where strength is not required at
where they will not be exposed to tl
elements. They are, however, unwortl
of the name of “brick.” In the thi
layer of the kiln, is found the well burne
hard brick of good red color and unifor
in shape; these are, at least from the cor
mercial viewpoint, the cream of the kil
The brick comprising the fourth or insi
layer of the kiln, just above the fires, a
overburnt, brittle, hard, warped, twist«
and distorted in endless shape and be.
but a slight resemblance to their origin
mold—formerly in this country di
carded as worthless—these brick are tl
prize of the kiln, the brick of the artis
Rejected by the maker, despised by tl
artisan, these brick have, through <
awakening to an appreciation of the
genuine beauty and worth, become tl
most popular of all for the country hou
of merit—again a case of the stone r
jected by the builder becoming the ke
stone of the arch. These warped, broke
discards have become the aristocrats of 2
brick. And why? Because they are tl

JANUARY
1927

Dignity and durability characterize the
Anderson residence (at right) at Richmond,
Virginia, designed by W. Duncan Lee

Brick chimney place and floor (below right)
of extraordinarily interesting pattern, Allen
€F Collens, Architects

product of the fire, of that purgatory
which burns out the baser qualities yet
refines and ennobles, but in passing it
leaves its mark. These brick remind one
of the wrinkled visage of age wherein 1s
recorded much suffering. These brick are
not pretty—they are beautiful, and in
that deep true sense of beauty as appre-
ciated by the artist. They have character;
they tell a story—the story of the fire.
As there is more genuine beauty in the
wrinkled visage of age than in the pretty
symmetry of youth, so also do these
warped and twisted brick surpass their
precise neighbors.

Besides the ‘““common”’ brick there are
also other varieties, ‘““pressed”’ or “‘face
Brick,” “glazed” or “‘enameled brick,”
“firebrick,”’ and “paving brick.”

iiss be OF FTREBRICK

Firebrick are made from fireclay, which
is usually found in coal measures. These
brick withstand intense heat and are used
for lining fireplaces, tall chimneys, the
cupolas and refractory furnaces of manu-
facturing and refining establishments. In
these locations they serve as a protective
lining for iron, steel, concrete or other
forms of masonry, and they withstand

that intense heat of direct flames and of
molten metal. Thus they are absolutely
fireproof, in the fullest sense of the word.
_ In laying brick, the custom is to bed
'them in mortar, and, since a chain is no
stronger than its weakest link, of para-
/mount importance is the mortar.
Inthe olden times lime was used for the
mortar in place of cement and lime mortar
lacks the strength and durability of brick,
/which accounts for the ruined condition
of many of the ancient walls.

__ In the construction of modern resi-
'dences, the brick walls are generally
confined to the outside walls, the base-
ment division walls and heavy interior
bearing walls. The division walls of up-
per stories are, as a rule, of frame con-
struction for the smaller houses, due to
economy, and of terra-cotta or other fire-
proof material for the larger houses.

In the construction of the brick wall, it
must be properly ‘‘bonded”’ that is, the

brick must be so laid in the wall that one
brick will rest on several parts of the brick
below it, amounting to the same thing as
breaking the joints. Where the outer
facing of the wall is different from the
backing, both must be well tied together,
_and for this purpose metal ties are widely
used. Walls are often built hollow, with
an air space for insulation: they are often
backed up with hollow tile or concrete or
they may be of brick faced with stone or
other brick, or even stuccoed. For small
houses, a brick veneer over frame con-
_Struction is sometimes used.

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Suburban house (oval above) of up-to-date
construction with walls of clinker brick;

R. C. Hunter & Bro., Architects
387

An ingenious adaptation of brick to a
very small house at Larchmont, N. Y.;
C. C. Merritt, Architect

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Liven the dinner table, once laid only
with a cloth, makes use of the delicacy of
lace runners and matching place pieces

The new damask cloths may be had
in shades of blue, yellow, rose and
gold with wide contrasting borders

POEM S
S: [Say shai
AND DAMASK

Photographs by courtesy of the Linen and Damask
Guild, James McCreery &F Co., Mosse Inc.

Left—Luncheon and dinner tables seem 1
have exchanged fashions, the luncheon tabi
now frequently being laid with tinted linen te
ble cloths in leu of the smaller luncheon sei

Below—A sense of delicacy and rich-

ness 15 given the formal linen cloth

whereas in the cover its severity 1s

broken by exquisite hand embroidery
and cut work

se8egcesstssosenneik

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ees

Reems en ee ee

Reminiscent of the hand made laces of — for either dinner or luncheon table. The
mediaeval times 1s the rarely beauti- matching napkins are Of good sixe

N E W L I N iD N S ful lace set shown above which 15 fitted and have centers of finest linen
moR | HE
Wee WY EAR

ight—W ith the breakfast room made gay

id colorful by floods of sunlight and gaily

lored china the table cloth of white linen

umask provides the necessary background
of simplicity and quiet charm

Below—The attraction of the tea table
is not a little enhanced by the dignified
beauty of the linen damask with its all-
over design thrown into relief by the
wide border in contrasting color

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“Save the surface and you save all”

applies particularly to brickwork

Lengthening the life of brick

1S WE WES IRR Le Wt 183} SS Ve i LAPP

Photographs by John Wallace Gillies, Tebbs & Knell
and by courtesy of the (ommon Brick Ars. Assn.

AY [DTT Yael OR Wea lebek:

In recent years, brick construction has
gained considerable favor among archi-
tects for residential buildings. While brick
construction has many excellent features
such as beauty, strength, fire resistance
and permanency, and is generally con-
sidered ideal, it nevertheless has two seri-
ous weaknesses: first, its avidity for water
which causes an efflorescence to appear
on the surface of the walls, which, if not
checked results in a gradual disintegra-
tion of the mortar joints; and, second, its
tendency to collect and retain dirt
and soot which results in a stain-
ing and discoloring of the surface,
thereby detracting from its general
appearance.

Fortunately, experience has
proven that brick, although absorp-
tive, does not suffer destruction by
frost action such as is frequently
evidenced with sandstone. The mois-
ture absorbed by brick is harmful
to the extent that it dissolves cer-
tain soluble constituents in the
mortar and brick. As the moisture
evaporates these salts are deposited
in an insoluble form on the surface
as an efflorescence. This unsightly
white deposit, aside from disfiguring
the brickwork, weakens the mortar
in its joints which slowly disinte-
grate for the reason that the extrac-
tion of the salts impairs the strength
of the cement in the mortar. Efflores-
cence and disintegration of the joints
are frequently observed at the tops
of chimneys, under leaky gutters and
around the base of buildings. Efflores-
cence can be removed only by scrub-
bing the surface with a solution
of hydrochloric acid and water (1
part acid to § parts of water by
volume). Immediately after scrub-
bing with the acid, the surface should
be thoroughly washed or hosed down
with clean water. To prevent the
recurrence of the salt deposit the
brick walls must be waterproofed.

There are two distinct ways of over-
coming the ravages of dampness and sur-
face dishgurement in brick construction—
one way to preserve the natural color of
the brick is by waterproofing with a color-
less and non-staining solution; the other
accomplishes the same protection against
moisture, efHorescence, and stain, and in
addition renders the surface attractive
and sanitary by the use of an _alkali-
resisting flat paint.

The colorless liquid waterproofing com-

pounds become effective by penetrating
and coating the pores of the masonry with
an insoluble and water-repellant substance
without forming a surface film or other-
wise obscuring the texture of the brick.
Some colorless waterproofings depend
upon the formation of the insoluble and
water-repellant compound in the pores of
the masonry by virtue of a chemical inter-
action of the compound with the basic
salts in the brick and mortar and, conse-
quently, are limited to the extent that
they be used only on new brick work
which is still “green” and chemically ac-

Where whitewashed brick makes an admirable

foil for Cedars and other greenery. House at

Oyster Bay, Long Island, designed by Harrie
T. Lindeberg

tive. The more common (and in my
opinion the more successful) class of
colorless waterproofing compounds do not
depend upon chemical interaction for
their performance. They are made to
penetrate and seal the pores of the brick-
work with mineral oils and waxes. As
these compounds are chemically stable in
themselves they may be applied to either
new or old brick surfaces. Experience
has shown that the colorless waterproofing
solutions prevent efflorescence and stain-

390

ing on the surface of the brickwork, a
render adequate and durable protect
against disintegration of the mor
joints. They are equally efficient as
treatment for concrete, stucco, and stc
work. The outstanding advantage in 1
use of the colorless waterproofing liqu
is the fact that the texture and color
the brick is preserved and the surf.
effectively waterproofed. As the n
terial penetrates the masonry it becon
an integral part thereof, without formi
a surface coating which may in time
come troublesome through peeling a
cracking.

When applying colorless wat
proofing be certain that the wz
are receptive, dry, and free fr
loose particles of dirt and ott!
foreign matter so as to effect a ma
mum penetration of the materialit
the pores of the masonry. A s1
bristle brush should be used a
the material applied with a vi
to thoroughly penetrating the si
face and satisfying its absorpti
at each coating without the appe
ance of an excess. One coat :
plied in this manner followed by
second coat twenty-four hours la’
will usually suffice.

PAINT COATINGS

Brick surfaces which have |
come stained and discolored throu
the combined action of moistt
and dirt are frequently rejuvenat
by the use of alkali-resisting pau
known in the trade as “brick a
cement coatings.” Paint coati
of this type not only enable one
waterproof his house but pert
him, by the use of color, to fu
develop its architectural possib.
ties. |

Paint coatings for brick surfa.
must comply with the follow!
ideals: |

(1), They must be rich, soft a
artistic and must not destroy 1!
texture of the brick. |

(2) They must be waterproof, alk;
proof, and durable under the sever
climatic conditions.

(3) They must be of such finish as to}
sanitary and readily cleansed.

There is much dissatisfaction in ‘}
layman’s experience with brick and *
ment coatings. This comes about prt!
pally through applying two coats ol:
flat paint without attempting to seal)
waterproof the surface. The flat pa’

coating permits moisture to pass throu

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JANUARY
1927

Painted brick carries a welcome note

of coolness throughout warm seasons.

Home of Mr. T. S. Hunter at Mobile,
Alabama; G. B. Rogers, Architect

at which renders the lime in the joints
chemically active. The free alkali (lime)
acts upon the pigments causing unequal
discoloration or “lime burns” and sapon-
ifies (conversion of the oil into a soap) the
oil in the paint, impairing its binding
properties to the extent that the paint
coating is readily washed from the surface
by rain.

There is but one way to overcome this
dificulty and that is to prime the surface
with a paint, the vehicle of which has a
sufficient percentage of non-volatile oils
effectively to seal the surface and render

Whitewashed or painted brick 1s particu-

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| larly appropriate for houses of the cottage

it waterproof. The lime salts will not
burn through the paint coating if the wall
is waterproofed in this manner, as mois-
ture is always required to promote the
chemical activity of the lime upon the
paint film.

This fact leads to another consideration,
that of painting new brick surfaces which
have not properly dried out or “‘seas-
oned.”” Before applying any paint it is
always advisable to neutralize the free
or uncombined lime at the surface by the
application of a solution composed of
three and one-half pounds of commercial
zinc sulphate crystals dissolved in one
gallon of warm water. Commercial zinc
sulphate should not cost more than 10
or 12 cents per lb., and one can safely
figure that the neutralizing solution will
cover 150 square feet of surface per gallon.
After neutralizing, the priming coat of
paint should not be applied until the sur-
face dries out, which, under good weather
conditions, requires two or three days’ time.

KSIGNe DiS OFS PP ACLN ©

The kinds of paint which are used on
exterior brick surfaces may be classified
as follows:

Cement Paints. These paints are usually
sold in powder form to be mixed with
water for application. They harden sim-
ilarly to Portland cement; that is, by
setting. While some cold water paints of
this class are slight improvements over
cement and lime whitewashes, they never-
theless fail to give the protection to the
surface which an oil paint does. As ce-
ment is porous and absorbs water, noth-
ing 1s gained by the use of cold water
cement paints, except temporary decora-
tion at a low cost. The general use of such
materials is therefore to be condemned.

type. Designed by Robert E. Seyforth for
Mr. F.L.Workman, Kenilworth, Illinois

391

GARDESSIOME

Us.

ULEDER

Exterior Linseed Oil Paints. Raw linseed
oil paints used for exterior house painting
are frequently used for painting exterior
brick. While I consider that such paints
are excellent for priming old brick sur-
faces, they should always be coated over
with a waterproofing oil paint. Raw lin-
seed oil is hygroscopic in its nature—it
softens and becomes spongy when sub-
jected to a period of damp weather, per-
mitting moisture to pass through it. The
moisture which passes through the soft
linseed oil paint film into the wall renders
active the lime contained therein. The
active alkali takes the life out of the raw
linseed oil, leaving the powdery pigment

An interesting variation in texture 15

achieved by using brick in combina-

tion with rough-finish stucco. Mr.S. L.

Vandeveer’s house; Le Roy P. Ward,
Architect

with nothing to bind it to the surface. This
accounts for the washed-away appearance
of many painted brick residences.

Brick and cement coatings are of two
general types: I—Pigmented Colorless
Waterproofing Paint. This type of paint
is made by grinding inert mineral pig-
ments in a liquid colorless waterproofing
vehicle such as is discussed in the first
part of this article on the waterproofing of
brick. The vehicle is moisture and alkah
resistant and the finished effect 1s excel-
lent, for such paints produce soft, flat fin-
ish films without painty sheens and in this
respect resemble a whitewashed surface.
The only objection to this type of material
is that the coatings produced with it are
too soft and deteriorate and wear away
rapidly under a severe and abrasive ex-
terior exposure. This material is excellent
for use on garden walls, pergola columns
and ornamental brickwork where the
owner desires to repaint frequently to
freshen up these surfaces.

I1—Moisture and Alkali Resistant O1l
Paints. Brick and cement coatings of this
type are especially made for protecting,

Continued on page 420

The great question —

the cost of brick construction

Brick and your building budget

REOlG EIR] Bee oleae ieAS IN

Until a comparatively few
years ago, frame construc-
tion was of considerably less
cost than brick; that is, it
was cheaper to build a house
with a wood frame covered
with sheathing boards and
finished in clapboard or
shingle than to make the
walls of solid brick. This,
however, is no longer the
case. With the cutting off
of the forests, wood is not
the cheap material that it
was in former years, and its
price has now gone up to
such a point that in many
parts of the country wood
construction approximates
that of brick. As a conse-
quence, brick is in more
general use for residence
construction than ever be-

Photographs by courtesy of the Common Brick Mfrs. Assn.

will be considered a sectio
of wall that might be par
of any usual house; a se
tion 20 feet long and wit
a clearstory height of 8 fee
6 inches, and pierced by
window opening.

In the wood wall that ;
taken as typical a 2 x 8 si
is laid on the foundatior
and on it are erected th
2x 4 studs on 16-inch cen
ters. They are topped wit
a doubled 2 x 4, and fo
greater strength and stiff
ness the frame around th
window opening is als
doubled. As the wall sectio
does not include a corne
there are no diagonal brac
ings.

The frame in questio:
would require 177 feet c

lumber, board measure
which at $60 per thousan
feet would cost $10.6:

fore. Suburban house in the Colonial manner with solid 8-inch brick

Under this condition it is walls, estimated cost of this type of construction being only $300
a matter of interest to com- more than frame and shingle (see page 402); Arthur Bates
pare the present costs of the Lincoln, Architect Sheathing boards at $50 pe
two, and to make the com- thousand feet would cos
parison in such a way that the results duplicate the costs of these interior $13.55, building paper at $0.01 per squat
will be of practical aid to the prospective parts, and it is less confusing to compare foot $2.08, and clapboards at $150 pe
builder. In a discussion of costs it must the costs of the walls alone. Thus there thousand feet $45. [hese figures includ

be understood that
these will differ in
different parts of the
country as well as
with the changing
seasons. They de-
pend so greatly on
transportation and
on labor conditions
that figures accu-
rate for one locality
and time may be
worthless else-
where. These costs
are thus to be re-
garded only as an
indication of a con-
dition and are not
to be taken as gen-
erally applicable.
In the most usual
constructions, floor
beams and floors,
partitions, roof
structure and other
interior parts will be
identical in frame
and in masonry
houses. A compari-
son of the costs of
a complete house in
frame and in brick
would therefore

however, has the advantage of restraint.

Skintled brickwork is much in vogue but can easily be overdone; this example,

Illinois; H. H. Hammond, Architect

392

Mr. Arnold Joerns’ home at Glencoe,

waste and the extr
material required 1
overlapping, as)
necessary in apply
ing building pape
for example. Allow
ing $.50 for nail
the cost of the m:
terial is thus $71.7:
Figuring the labc
of carpentry to co:
the same as the m:
terial, as is quit
customary, mate’
ial and labor thu
amount to $143.5(
Adding $1 for flasl
ing for the windo|
and $11.28 for thre
coats of paint i
$0.02 per squar
foot per coat, th
total cost ofmer|
finished section <
wallis thus $155.7:

Sixty dollars pé
thousand for con
mon brick laid 1
position is not €:
cessive, this figui

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Segond ESS
paws

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Although this tapestry is shown here above a mantel, it is equally effective when used over a console, sofa or doorway

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VERDURE TAPESTRY

Reproducing Faithfully the Mellow Coloring and
| Antique Weave of the Louis XV Original

NE of the most difficult parts of a room
“ to treat successfully is the panel above

' fireplace.

‘he interior decorator frequently solves
i problem by using a tapestry panel suit-
l:in size, texture and design for sucha space.

Ve discovered not long ago in France a
‘ly verdure tapestry woven back in the
-hteenth Century by one of Louis XV’s
r highly skilled artisans, in a design par-
Marly adapted to this decorative use.

Ve also found there craftsmen who could
Soduce on their handlooms each smallest
ail of the original. With their extraordi-
“y, painstaking skill, these French weavers
#eexceeded anything we had even hoped for.
‘thfully they have reproduced the antique

weave, faithfully recreated the character-
istic verdure leaves and flowers and floral
border—even the little pagoda lending the
Chinese note that was the result of Louis
XV’s embassy to the Orient.

They have, in an adroit manner, known
only to themselves, managed to simulate its
antique and mellow appearance, matching
exactly the soft browns, tans and dull greens
in which the design is developed,

ed PA 7

ys your decorator, upholsterer or the
decorating service of your department
store to show you this Schumacher tapestry.
It may also be successfully used over a door-
way and in other wall spaces of suitable size.
For your other furnishing problems, ask

also to see the lovely range of Schumacher
damasks, brocades, brocatelles, velvets, toiles
de Jouy, prints, chintzes and taffetas, in de-
signs and colorings for every type of interior.

“Vour Home and
the Intertor Decorator’’

ABRICS such as these can give your home real dis-

tinction if rightly used. How you can, without ad-
ditional expense, have the professional services of an
interior decorator for your furnishing problems, is ex-
plained in the booklet we have prepared, “Your Home
and the Interior Decorator.”

Attractively and richly illustrated in full color, it will
be sent to you without charge upon request. Write to
F. Schumacher & Co., Dept.D-1, 60 West goth Street,
New York. Importers, Manufacturers and Distributors
to the trade only, of Decorative Drapery and Uphol- ,
stery Fabrics. Offices also in Boston, Chicago, Phila-
delphia, Los Angeles and Paris.

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202

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FOR THE NORTH EAST: In gardening
practice a date can only be approxi-
mated. Generally the latitude of forty
degrees at sea level and a normal season

is taken as standard. Roughly, the sea-
son advances or recedes fifteen miles a
day, thus Albany would be about ten
days later than New York (which is

OF INS S Bes ak UP 1S. Le NG Ape tel At

latitude 42). The latitude of Phila-
delphia is a week earlier. Also allow
four days for each degree of latitude,
for each five degrees of longitude, and

GUST Des

for each four hundred feet of altitude
Latitude 40 passes through Philadel.
phia, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Richmond,
Indiana; Quincy, Ill.; Denver, Col

The Pacific Coast

January is generally a cold month, but
there is such a wide range of climate in
California that a study must be made of
local conditions, and planting be done
according to weather and situation. While
the weather in northern California may
be cold and rainy or with frosty nights, it
may be dry and warm in central and
Southern California, with Almond trees
in bloom, as well as Japanese Quince,
several of the Acacias, and Eucalyptus.
But while Cineraria plants must be pro-
tected where the nights are cold, in the
coast regions and in the south hardy
annuals may be sown for summer bloom
—Snapdragons, Coreopsis, Pinks, Sweet-
peas, Centaureas, etc.

All kinds of fruit trees may be planted
in January, as well as shrubs and decidu-
ous trees, being careful to chose mild
weather and a time when the soil is not
too wet or soggy. Continue to plant Roses,
and to prune deciduous trees, shrubs
and Roses and make Rose cuttings of the
ripened wood, as well as of Hydrangeas
and Fuchsias. Fuchsias thrive best in the
moist, foggy coast regions in partial shade,
but when grown in dry interior regions
they require more shade and much water.
They should be cut back in winter to
prevent straggly growth and if found
attacked by thrip, spray with a solution of
whale-oil soap. Take cuttings from the
ripened wood, plant in sandy loam, and
when rooted, plant in the shade.

Cuttings may also be made of Hibiscus,
which while only a half hardy perennial
in central California, is at its best in

Continued on page 404

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In The South

January is a deceiving month where the
breezes blow in from the Gulf of Mexico.
After perhaps a cool spell with rain, or
just a month of drizzly, dark days in De-
cember, January sometimes comes in
lovely, clear, and warm. Even the flow-
ers are fooled, and the Peach trees often
bloom; people begin to clean up the yards
for Spring planting. But this is a grave
mistake, quite as foolish as for the Peach
trees to bloom. The Pecan knows better
and will not put on new leaves until the
middle of March, and it is far wiser to
follow the Pecan than the Peach, for Feb-
ruary often brings the most serious cold
spells of the Winter. Therefore leave
the dead leaves and vines alone so that
they may help keep the living stalks
warm. This does not mean that the gar-
den will not be pretty in January.

Continued on page 404

ee

The Northeastern Section

It is all right to be a dreamer but
the dreams are not worth a whoop if the
dreamer does not make them come true.
Make an earnest effort to get out of the
rut and do something worth while. A
resolution is no good if the punch is not
put behind it to make it go.

Tackle the vegetable garden first. No
building, park, railroad, or other under-
taking that amounts to anything is
started without a definite plan. Even a
small garden to be successful must have a
plan. Consult good vegetable garden
books as well as the seedsmen’s cata-
logues. A complete working chart and
planting table for the small vegetable gar-
den will appear in February. Make provi-
sion for succession crops, at least two, and
in some instances, three. In planning use
the well tried varieties for the bulk of the
crop, but do not neglect to try the new
ones seedsmen are offering.

If but little space is available for a
garden then grow only such things as
Sweet Corn, and Peas which lose their
fine delicate flavor soon after picking.

NEW AND BETTER FRUITS AT LAST

Where space permits grow fruits. Up
until the past few years there has been but
little fruit breeding. Practically all the
new varieties just happened, just grew up
like Topsy. Now several of the scientific
stations are doing careful work breeding
along well defined lines, but nothing is put
out to the public but what has merit—
better than existing varieties.

Get some of these new varieties for
testing. They are as good or better than
the standard sorts for most regions. The
easiest way to get them is to join an or-
ganization like the New York Fruit Test-
ing Association at Geneva, N. Y. Through
this organization what are apparently
better fruits are distributed for further
testing. Help the good work along.

This year they are offering their mem-
bers a long list of fruits. In addition to a
number of Apples there is the Seneca
Cherry which resembles a big Black
Tartarian Cherry in size and flavor, but
ripens two weeks earlier.

Nectarines are fuzzless Peaches with
flesh usually sweeter and richer. There
are perhaps a dozen available varieties,
only four of which—Boston, Newton,
Elruge and Victoria—are worth wasting
time and space on. Hunter is a new mid-
season Nectarine of good promise.

The Wilma Peach seems to be what
growers have been looking for!—as large
and as attractive looking as an Elberta

with a better flavor and ripening a

week later.

Among Pears there are Cayuga and

Gorham. Cayuga seems to be free from

394

blight, but further testing is necessary t
prove its resistance to disease. It sun
is worth trying, with a quality better thai
any standard sort, excepting a Seckel
and as big as a Bartlett. Think of th
pleasure in biting into a pear like that

Gorham resembles a Bartlett in size
color and shape; has a sweet vinous ver
pleasing flavor and is a month later 1
season than Bartlett, keeping from si
weeks to two months longer. Surely wort
while to continue the pear season. |

Among Grapes there are Dunkirk
Keuka, and Ontario. Dunkirk is a bette
Delaware; stronger, more robust plant
with larger bunches and berries that ripe
and keep longer. Keuka will please thos
who prefer vinifera (European) Grapes. |
is a hybrid with about three-fourths vin
ferous blood; hardy in the New York Gray
regions with bunches as compact and tri
as a Delaware. Two weeks earlier tha
Catawba, and a skin so thin it may |
eaten with the pulp.

Ontario is without doubt the best whi
Grape of native blood. It is much superi
to the much heralded and grown Niagar
and is a robust vine. It is essentially
home Grape. Portland is almost as goc
but has qualities that better fit it for ma
keting and which Ontario lacks.

All the above varieties and othe
which may be older but worth while, z
though passed by for some reason, can |
secured through the Fruit Testing Ass
ciation. Those who live in New Jers:
should get in touch with their Experime
Station for varieties of Peaches wor
while on Jersey sands now being dev:
oped. In Canada Prof. Macoun, of
the Central Experiment Farms, has —»
been developing fruits for Canada. |
Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas
have also been making wonderful strid«

BETTER TREES AND SHRUBS FOR YOU

There is a sameness to most of the t-
ban and suburban plantings. Over ai.
over one sees the same plants stuck -
round the houses, comparatively fi’
species being used. Let us break aw’
from that. Let us try some of the new),
better, or more unusual things. For 1-
stance, there is Forsythia spectabil,
a wonderful sight in bloom, for it carr >
larger flowers and more of them than a’
of the other Forsythias. In 1918 Wils)
found F. ovata growing in the Diamo!
Mountains in Northern Korea. Hae |
a rock and blooms two weeks ahead of t”
others. Watch the catalogues, or write t?
more progressive nurserymen. They f-
quently have these things for sale, but r¢
in sufficient quantity to catalogue the.

Continued on page 422 |
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Sovereign of softwoods! Wonder-wood
of the Inland Empire. As versatile as

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worked—and most certainly economical.
Choose Pondosa Pine with your archi-
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stick is rigidly graded, thoroughly sea-
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abundant supply at all good lumber
yards for every building purpose. Write
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Dept. 12, Western Pine Manufacturers
Association of Portland, Oregon.

Pondosa Pine (p

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Write for
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THE NATIONAL

Garden eA ssoctation

TO PROMOTE THE ANNUAL OBSERVANCE OF NATIONADT GAR DE Ne Wiblr

Cooperating Societies:

AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY
AMERICA DAHLIA SOCIETY
SOCIETY OF LITTLE GARDENS
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS
AND ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS
ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL PLANT, FLOWER AND FRUIT GUILD

Beginning a new year of garden activi-
ties comes thought of the sth National
Garden Week to be observed during the
third week of April, and in planning for
it we cannot refrain from a backward
glance to that first Garden Week. When
this week was proposed in 1922 by this
magazine, general garden club work (ex-
cepting the fine activities of the Garden
Club of America) had not achieved any
national importance.

Clubs scattered here and there visioned
the significance of what they were doing,
recognizing the fact that not alone could
the big clubs whose members owned large
estates bring beauty to their communities,
but that the little clubs and little gardens
could bring even more. The first nation-
wide effort to coordinate the work of
these various organizations was National
Garden Week with its—shall we say?—
incomparable, broad program that in-
cluded every civic group, uniting in the
work schools, newspapers, churches, cham-
bers of commerce and boards of trade,
men’s, women’s, boys’ and girls’ clubs,
as well as state and federal bureaus of
education, conservation and. forestation.
Out of that first week grew the National
Garden Association that has worked un-
ceasingly to help form garden clubs of
every kind everywhere, and to aid state
federations of these clubs to the end that
within a few years at most there might be
the fulfillment of its vision: a garden
club in every town, a federation in every
state, these united at last in a national
federation that would inspire, sponsor
and enforce a nation-wide campaign of
beautification and conservation.

cA National Organization

A national organization of this kind
would mean play grounds in congested
city districts, school gardens for city
children; it would mean codperation
with city and town officials to transform
the dreary, unlovely spots of every com-
munity; it would mean preservation of
wild flowers, shrubs and forests; the
banishment of unsightly billboards, since
this is the work included in the program
of nearly every garden club. There is, in
fact, no organization of greater civic value
than a garden club and the National
Garden Association scans with pardon-
able pride the list of clubs that it has been

J. Horace McFarland
Mrs. Francis King
Mrs. Russell Tyson
Mrs. Thomas G. Winter

PRESIDENT:
Leonard Barron, F. R. H. S.
HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS:
Mrs. Samuel Sloan

Mrs. Robert Pyle

privileged to start or to aid. Our hope
for the new year just beginning is that we
may treble this list by encouraging the
thousands of garden lovers who have writ-
ten to us to start a club in their commun-
ity this year.

During that first Garden Week we
asked this question on a leaflet distributed
by the hundreds of thousands: wHy NoT
A STATE BEAUTIFUL? We ask it again:
Why not? It is your state and that of
your neighbors: why not! Why not pre-
serve its beauty; why not increase its
beauty! Does the thought of beautifying
a whole state seem a task of appalling
magnitude? It might, if one club had to
do it all, but the task becomes easy of
accomplishment with a club in every town
ready to take care of its own portion of
the state.

When the work of National Garden
Week was outlined, the members of the
various circles of the Garden Club of
Jacksonville adopted its whole program.
Out of that first week grew the idea of a
State Beautification Committee. Think of
it! State officers, clubs, civic bodies repre-
sented on a committee to plan, supervise
and conduct a state-wide beautification
campaign. One has but to see “‘the ever-
green city—the ever clean city” of Jack-
sonville, the thousands of blatant adver-
tising signs torn down, to note the public
parks and bird sanctuaries, to realize how
a whole state can be beautified if there be
the desire.

Neew York Federation
In the New York Federation the clubs

now number 52 with the whole state
divided into districts so that the work
may be comprehensive in its plan with
garden clubs formed in all towns in each
district, a powerful influence that is gain-
ing in value and importance with each
passing month. Similar federations in
Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and New
Jersey, and with several other states ready
to federate makes the dream of the Na-
tional Garden Association seem near
fulfillment.

One of the needs of garden clubs every-
where is interesting garden films. The
three films of Holland taken under the
supervision of the Association have been
shown throughout the country and are
still available for clubs everywhere. In

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Mrs. Frederick Newbold
Mrs. John D. Sherman

Cooperating Societies:

WOMEN’S NATIONAL FARM
AND GARDEN ASSOCIATION
THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION
THE SCHOOL NATURE LEAGUE
AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION SOCIETY

addition we are glad to publish the fol-
lowing list of films sent us by the Film
Mutual Benefit Bureau:

“Wild Flowers of America from Ger-
mination to Full Bloom,” 2-reel color
picture, renting for $ro.

“Finding His Job,” 2-reel film, rental
$20. This shows how the countryside is
robbed of its flowers. |

“The Flag that Went Down Flying,” a
tale of John Paul Jones and of one of
New England’s loveliest gardens.

“An Enchanted Garden,” 363 feet. A
series of amazing, analyzed motion pic-
tures showing the growth and blossom-
ing of Dogwood, Poppies, Iris, Azalea and
Lupin. (Can be used to advantage with
“A Springtime Miracle,” Release 7041).

“A Springtime Miracle,” 275 feet.
Exquisite pictures of wild flowers of the
Yosemite Valley, photographed by stop-
motion as they are in process of blossom-
ing. Titles are from Lowell’s ‘Vision of |
Sir Launfal.”

“Eternal Nature,” 363 feet. Exquisite |
animated drawings showing the cycle of
life in a growing plant, from pollenization
to maturation. Final scene in color.

“Carnivorous Plants,” 232 feet. Ani-
mated technical drawings and actual
photography combine to illustrate how
insect-eating plants obtain their prey. __

“Weeds as Food,” 364 feet. A pictorial |
history of the Tomato, which fifty years |
ago was considered a weed; other table)
weeds: Parsley, Dandelions, Pigweed, etc.

“Aristocrats of the Flower World,” |
study of Orchids, propagation and manner.
of providing food and water. Examples of
many beautiful species. 270 feet.

“Scientific Rose Culture,” 215 feet. |
Cultivation of hothouse Roses. Scenes
showing preparation of slips, planting of
the rooted cuttings, grafting, polleniza-.
tion, and some of the beautiful results of
cross pollenization. |

Full information as to rental, distribu-|
tion, etc., may be obtained from the Film.
Mutual Benefit Bureau, 4 West 4oth.
Street, New York City. For prices, dates,
and information about the Association
films—‘** Tulip Land,” “Let’s Go Fishing”’
and “A Pair of Wooden Shoes”—also for.
free constitution, program and by-laws
for garden clubs, and for National Garden
Week programs address the National
Garden Association, Garden City, N. Y..

ELtten D. WanGNER, Secretary.

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Never again could I regain all those old pieces, but fortunately
for me and for all who prize this old-time ware, pewter is being
made to-day. Evidently, I am not the only one who loves the soft,
unusual “feel” of this metal and who treasures the beauty of line
of these old pieces. Others want it too, so much that to-day
pewterers once more are busy at mold and lathe, fashioning these
pieces of table ware and with the same skill, the same fine work-
manship, and in the designs of those workers of long ago. To-day
one can buy reproductions of all the old pieces, all the quaint
pitchers and bowls and jugs and plates with a new fresh beauty
of finish, so that we homemakers can give to our modern tables
the charm of an earlier day. Incidentally, we are helping to keep
alive these fine designs and also are we beginning collections for
our own “great, greats” of a coming day.

We of to-day cannot find in any quantity old bits of pewter,
lovely old utensils bearing the marks of the Pewterers’ Guild
upon them. These are to be found now mainly in museums. This
is due to many things, mostly to the fact that with the coming of
china and porcelain dishes pewter quickly lost caste and was
thrown into the discard, the old indeed rapidly giving place to
the new. Then, too, pewter melted easily and because of the
lead in much of it, when dire need of bullets overtook the Colon-
ists in Revolutionary times, ‘‘ pewter parties” became the mark
of patriotism, the cherished pewter brought to these affairs be-
ing melted into bullets. Many a hated Redcoat was literally
“bowled” over by old bowls and pitchers in bullet form and
many a candlestick helped to light the fires of patriotism in a
new way.

When the new dishes made pewter no longer desired, little
care was given it. It was sold to the rag men for a penny ot
battered and melted up and thrown away. The rest of my own
ancestress’s tea-set I learned had been melted up in the play-
house of my own grandmother when a little girl. And one of my
loveliest coffee-pots had a cork leg, the original having been
melted off when the pot had been carelessly left on a hot range.

THE NEW PEW LER

And now pewter has regained its lost standing, its place at the
table. This modern ware is not the dull, drab metal that so many
people believe marks real pewter but which only indicates lack
of care. The new pewter has a soft finish like dull silver (because
the modern pewterers compound the metals more skilfully), and
like silver it can be kept polished so that articles made of it may
very fittingly be used with silver on the table. Since pewter 1:
much less costly than its richer sister, a complete service of it is
possible for the average table, a service that holds beauty and
grace of design in each piece. Finger-bowls, bread-and-buttei
plates, pitchers, bowls and jugs, trays, meat platters, all lovely
reproductions of the best work of the old pewterers are ready
for the woman who appreciates the rare loveliness of this ware.
Best of all, the inside of the various pieces is finished in suct
manner that these new tea- and coftee-pots may be used without
danger of a tinny taste, and lemonade or punch be safely served
in pewter pitcher, flagon or bowl.

The story of pewter is a long one, going back to the days wher
the Romans occupied England centuries ago. From that time
although made in all other countries, it has always seemed pe.
culiarly an English product, due doubtless to the fact that it wa‘
in England that the pewterers formed themselves into a guild—
“The Worshipful Company of Pewterers” in the 14th Century
to govern and regulate the manufacture and markings of it.

No matter, however, where it has been made, the process was.
and is, always the same—either cast in molds or hammered (01
both) and then polished. Pewter is an alloy, the various grade:
of it depending on the kinds, quantity, and quality of othe:
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made of tin and brass, other pieces made with a predominance 0!
lead, there being, in fact, dozens of varying qualities. Each
article in earlier days was cast in a mold wherever possible, th¢
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tions of this Guild, that not only put guild-marks of its own on

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New pewter in old design
Continued from page 398

each piece, but also required each maker to have his own regi;
tered “touch mark,” and many were the fines inflicted for viols
tions of these rules.

When the colonists came to America, they sent as soon a
possible for household wares from England. Wooden trenche:
did well enough during those first hard months, but a well-se
table was ever the Englishman’s pride and they so longed for th
refinements left behind that, at a very early day, the manufactur
of pewter was begun in the Colonies, every type of utensil bein
made, and in quantity. Following the custom of their homelanc
many of these workers put their mark on much that they mad;
Who would not like to have one of these old marked pieces—
pitcher by Kirby or a plate with a date of those early days. Or
in my possession has 1714 stamped in its dented and pocl
marked face, a treasure indeed, and all the more precious becau:
it has been mended. Somehow, somewhere, a hole was melte
through its center, this being soldered up with a metal of muc
finer quality so that as the plate is cleaned, this spot stanc
boldly out like an eye, a tribute to the thrift of our ancestor
Perhaps it is but spying on modern housewifery and seeing |
dismay the many plates and pitchers that are to-day left ;
grow dull and gray in the mistaken belief that this is the re
pewter color.

If one wishes to really revive the use of this old ware, to har
it look as it did in its own day, it should be kept bright and as
is polished it will be found to take on a most unusual satir
glow like to nothing else. Pewter should never be cleaned wi
anything that scratches as it is a soft metal and very easi
marred. The best polish is whitening, moistened slightly ar
rubbed on with a soft cloth or piece of chamois. Any scratchle
cleaning paste or powder is good, however, as 1s also just so;
and hot water followed by plenty of hard rubbing. Where one
so fortunate as to have a very old piece, but where time and cai.
lessness have combined to oxidize and pit its surface, patien.
and more patience must be liberally mixed with first one ai
then another cleanser to restore it to its one-time beauty. Pewt:
varies so in its composition that what will bring luster to o>
plate may be used without any result on another. |

CLEANING OLD PEWTERS: |
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In cleaning old pewter, the first black coat that is so apt to |
found may be removed by the use of hot soap and water to whi!
has been added borax, soda or ammonia. A good metal poli:
can then be applied with a woolen cloth and kerosene may son-
times be used with good results. For my own plate, almost bla:
with time and neglect, I effectively used Brillo and fine st!
wool—something I would never be guilty of applying to t>
satiny finish of newer pewter, which is so easily kept in f?
condition by the use of soapy hot water followed by polishir.
Wheat bran is also an excellent polisher.

There was no piece made in the Colonies or in old Englal
that is not duplicated by the modern pewterer. Even the quait
bull’s-eye lamp which concentrated the light for sewing or rez;
ing is made for us as well as all sizes and styles of candlestic,
all fashioned in the designs of long ago, a permanent contril-
tion of beauty to each home. Nothing, however, holds so mu}
charm as do the tea-sets that seem endowed with the very spit
of the past. Squat and fat, plain and “round bellied” are ma/
of these sets, true descendants of those of Queen Anne’s time
day that saw the making of the first known cream jug. 5)
other tea-sets copy the helmet shape so beloved of Paul Reve;
with the creamer set up on a stem, giving it all the grace of 1
urn. The handles, always the final touch of grace on these piec ;
take on odd shapes as the worker wills. Many are of classi
line, still others expressing the fancy of their maker in flowi2
curves, in ebony, or possibly grass-covered with gay strands
color interwoven.

There is a peculiar fitness in the renewed use of this old wit
at this time when we have gone back to Colonial days in so may
ways. The architecture of our homes as well as their furnishirs
shows how much, how very much of beauty we have redisc¢-
ered, a beauty that is making our abodes as restful as were the
of that earlier day. With tables, corner cupboards, buffet ad
even the lighted candles in their holders making the spirit 02
bygone time re-live for us, the picture is made complete W
pewter on the table and sideboard and cupboard shelves.

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Resistance to rust, a property of brass and bronze
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Brick and your building budget
Continued from page 302

including mortar and labor. On this basis a wall 8 inches thick
20 feet long and 9g feet 6 inches high, which would give a clear.
story height of 8 feet 6 inches, the wall pierced for one window
would cost $145.20. Applying furring strips on the inner side
to receive the lath would add $6.50, and with two steel angle:
for the top of the window opening at $4.30, the total cost o}
the finished solid brick wall would thus be $156.00.

An intermediate type of construction is brick veneer, in which
the outer finish is replaced by a single thickness of brick
Frame, board sheathing and building paper will be the same a;
in a wood wall, the material in this instance costing $26.25
Charging the same for labor, the cost of this part of the wal
is $53.50. The cost of the brickwork, including labor, morta)
and wall ties, is on a basis of $110.00 per thousand brick, anc

would be $144.76. With $2.15 for a steel angle for the top o
the window opening the total cost of the finished wall woul

thus be $199.41.

For the conditions under which these estimates were made
wood is still the cheaper material of construction, although by

an inconsiderable margin. The effect was illustrated when thy
question came up not long ago in connection with a propose
suburban house, for which comparative estimates were prepare
with rather more than usual care for frame and for brick. Fo
frame, finished with painted shingles, the estimate was $15,450
while for 8-inch solid brick walls it was $15,753. The differenc

was so small a percentage of the cost of the house that the owne.

disregarded it and built of brick (see picture page 392).
Considering only first cost, it is probable that in most parts o

the country, frame construction is somewhat cheaper than brick

Brick, however, has a permanence greater than wood, and de
preciation in a house with brick walls is slower than in one witl
walls of wood. For this reason, it will usually have a better stand
ing in relation to insurance and as security for a loan.
Having a natural surface, brick is not so apt to suffer ii
appearance or in durability from exposure to the weather. Mos

of the common varieties of wood, on the other hand, must hay

the protection of paint or stain to prevent deterioration, and ar
therefore subject at frequent intervals to the expense of tha
treatment.

The Darby and Joan of architecture
Continued from page 377

can be joined together by the one process. The ease of joinin
and pliability while hot, permit iron to be worked to grea
elaboration. In addition to its welding virtue, it has with th
other metals most of their properties. It can be cast, carvec
chased, hammered, rolled, drawn, pressed, punched, polishec
stamped, sawn, embossed, inlaid, turned, planed, filed an
drilled. Can you ask more of a metal? Decorative iron shoul
always be handwrought and show the marks of the hammer, for.
not the surface will have no texture and texture is as importan,
on your grilles, railings and the like as on your brickworl
This applies equally to the straight pieces. Unfortunately, to-da_
these are often rolled or cast and soft steel is usurping the plac
of the old fashioned, genuine wrought-iron. As every materi:
has one or more annoying qualities, iron is not exempt. |
rusts terribly. The amount of oxidization varies with the climate
but kept well painted there is no trouble.

While the moderate priced country house of brick should no
be overloaded with iron, and it probably will not be, due t
cost considerations, there are many places where iron will d
more than its share towards the general effect. Starting at th
road, a simple iron gate between brick piers flanked by hedge:
will give you a real 18th-century touch. At the door a modes
foot-scraper of whimsical design will relieve your boots of exces
mud. The railings at the second story windows will keep junic
from falling out and ruining the rose bushes below. An old-tim
lamp holder at the entrance will speed the parting guest or bi
him enter and if it is icy underfoot the railing at the step
will guide him to the door. All these features are utilitarian. Le

_us make them then as beautiful as we can and as proper as pos

sible for the place they go; make them worthy of such an hone
material as good, hard burned brick. |

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The Cherry Hill Nurseries

(T. C. Thurlow’s Sons, Inc.)

Takes this opportunity to thank their many friends
for their cordial support during the past season.

By the time the Garden & Home Builder reaches its
readers the ground will undoubtedly be frozen so
that most planting activities will temporarily cease.

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But here at Cherry Hill we shall be busy supplying
many of our friends with some of our large choice
evergreens that we will dig and plant with frozen

balls of earth.

Next spring we shall have even a choicer lot of
my ERGREENS—DECIDUOUS TREES—
SHRUBS and HARDY GARDEN PERENNIALS.

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or what prices you may pay you will get nothing
Meter than the HOUSE OF QUALITY will
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gantic size—9 to 12 inches. Each $3.00. ing pure white. Grows to 5 ft. Each $2.00.

MAN EAGLE DAHLIA (D) Monster size—8 to STREPTOSOLEN (Amabilis Magnifica) Never with-
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It happens that this is the Glass Garden of Dr. Randolph Clifford
at Brookline, Mass.

OULDN’T you say that one of the

great charms of Brookline and the
Newtons, “up Boston way,” is their up-hill-
and-down-daleness?

Admittedly, it does make many a back yard
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If it slopes toward the South, however, what

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This snug little one, 15 feet wide and 33 feet
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Right this minute it is literally packed with
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Only the other day we took an interior view
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Likewise, full particulars about the green-
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The Pacific Coast

Continued from page 304

Santa Barbara and San Diego. Tuberoses may be divided noy
and planted in light soil. They are at home in the warm interio
valleys which more nearly resemble their native Mexico, an
may be left in the ground all winter, but in the coast region
they must be sheltered, constantly cultivated and taken y
after blooming in June. |

Begin planting Gladiolus bulbs every month for continuou
bloom, as well as Agapanthus (African Lily), for summer, an
other bulbs already listed for late spring blooming, and continu
planting Sweet-peas, whose blossoms are finer the earlier the
are planted. Peonies may also be planted now, taking care not t
plant too deep. They are not always successful in the warm, dr
interior sections but respond better to the cool moist coast regio
and improve as they travel north. Grow them in rich soil i
partial shade, and wait patiently for a year or two until they be
come established.

Ivy should be pruned now as it sends out new leaves in Febn
ary, and all old wood and loose sprays should be cut away befor
new growth commences. The house plants should also be looke
over and their roots examined. If not in good condition, cut ther
back and re-plant in pots of the same size, 1n fresh soil of one thir
leaf mold and two thirds loam, with a little sand and boneme;
fertilizer. If the Palms are pot-bound, re-pot in next size larg:
pots, with fresh soil.

After pruning and clipping hedges clear away all brush, an
after pruning vines, see that all loose branches are fastened u
neatly. Wisteria should be pruned to a strong spur or bud befo)
new growth commences, and all matted growth be disentangle
the weaker ones cut back and the stronger fastened to the suj

_ porting walls or trellis. If Wisteria be left unpruned particular
_ when young, it will make long runners with profuse foliage bi

few blossoms.

Garden planning for Spring and Summer may be done noy
with a diagram of the garden on one half-inch-ruled paper, at
after marking the positions of the trees and shrubs and makn
measurements, make out a list of perennials and annuals, wi
reference to height, color and blooming season, so that there m;
be continuous bloom through the year. Consult a good gard
book, read the catalogues and make selections suitable to clima
and location. : ;

Combine vegetables and flowers by planting flower borde
such as Mignonette, Lobelia, Garden Pinks, Carpet Phlox, Pa
sies and Alyssum.—E izaBETH URQUHART. :

In The South
Continued from page 304

the contrary, January is often a lovely month for the garder
who has put in plants in the Fall. |

Roses are at their best. The blossoms stay on the bush long”
in cool weather than in the Spring and Summer, and are oft}
larger. The early Sweet-peas are full of flowers and need cutti:
daily to keep them from going to seed, which will soon stop th
blooming. The same is true of Violets, Larkspurs, Phlox, Ma-
golds, Calendulas, Stocks, Pinks, Pansies, and other annuals a!
perennials will be blooming if planted in the Fall as directed )
the ‘Far South” notes of ‘The Month’s Reminder.” If this fF:
not been done, seedlings may be put out in beds this month, ¢
seeds planted for later Spring flowers. Sweet Alyssum,Verbet ,
Salvia, Snapdragon, Aster, Petunia, Hollyhock, Columbu,
Daisy, Sweet Sultan, Coreopsis, Poppies, Lobelia, Monke-
flowers, Heliotrope, and those listed above may be planted.

Rose cuttings planted now will be blooming in June, and ty-
year-old Roses set out in the open ground this month will °
lovely masses of blossoms at Easter.

Make cuttings from Hydrangea, Deutzia, Hibiscus, Alth:,
Crepe-myrtle, Buddleia, Cestrum, and any woody stock tlt
has dropped its leaves. As an informal hedge, or for mass pla -
ing to hide high walls or fences, any of these will do well, ania
number of cuttings may be made from one plant and put 19
the ground where wanted; but care must be taken to keep t€
ground moist until late Spring when the plants have made cv
siderable growth, or you may lose them. |

For a succession of blooms, plant Gladiolus bulbs in Januiy

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"he Pride of Any
— Rose Garden

he “Charles Dingee”’ exquisitely
vely, richly colored and fragrant

sep, double blooms and quantities
them, the “Charles Dingee” rose
indescribably beautiful. Its vel-
ty petals blend from centers of
irm rose to the delicate creamy
its of ivory. Long stems, slender
d aristocratic, with magnificent
liage, have charm and distinction.

This grand rose, honored with
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rong and grows in any soil with
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wo-year-old plants, 85c, by parcel
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it to you free on request, is a splendid
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certain stock to which they show an affinity to
thrive best upon.

We submit, therefore, that this discretion is a
decided advance and most important factor in
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Nowhere Can You Buy Stronger Plants

Our Roses are hard grown with well ripened
wood, which is essential, as soft wooded
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We will gladly send you our catalog if
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Our catalog is different as we do not pass along the
description of the Hybridists as the Roses grow in
Europe, but as they grow in our garden, always

stating defects as well as merits.

ROBERT EVANS HUGHES
ROSE SPECIALIST

Near Buffalo Williamsville, N. Y.

Box 137, West Grove, Pa,

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For so little as $1700, you secure the COMPLETE
materials and ENTIRE equipment for this attractive
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You can grow anything in it from parsley to
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Yes, and all the old timey flowers besides.

Send for special circular called “Owning Your
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Bricklaying in garden ornament
Continued from page 365

7 to 9 feet, a total width of between 16 and 17 inches give
usually a good proportion; while for much taller and strongg
piers, or short squatty piers for the support of garden orn;
ments, a slightly wider dimension may be used.

Steps have a more or less standard form of construction an
consist usually of a concrete foundation, as shown, with ¢h
treads and risers worked out very roughly, ready for the appl
cation of the finished course of brick. As the average garde
riser 1s usually about 6 inches, this may be readily formed }
combining the riser with the tread; and a brick laid flat wit
another brick above it laid edgewise, or a brick laid edgewi:
with a 2-inch stone above it will automatically furnish a sati
factory solution of the step problem. ,

Perhaps the only feature to be studiously avoided in bric
construction is the often found monotony of tceo much briel
and it is nearly always safe to say that brick is at its best fi
garden uses when combined with another good outdoor materia
Being a small individual unit, too many repetitions, of cours
invite a sameness of appearance; and a casual reference to t
sketches in this article will clearly illustrate the imporenal
this point. ¥

There is one thing to be borne in mind when applying bri«|

to the uses as discussed in this article, and that is the importani|
of the actual construction on the job. For most walks, comme!
labor 1s perhaps the best solution. But when working abo
ground a real brick mason is a prime essential; and width |
joint and the nature and color of same, plus the individ
character of the brick used, must be relied upon for the textu
of the finished article, rather than the unevenness in laying, whi
is entirely permissible in the case of walks. Remember that :
work must be plumb and each joint absolutely level, or ar
attempt at pattern will be little better than a farce; and tl
effect of age and craftsmanship can be attained solely by tl
pattern in which the brick is laid up and by the use of weather,
or second-hand brick.

Of course, all work above ground must be supported and
the North all footings should be around 3 feet below the surfa
of the ground, although a depth of 2 feet 6 inches may be alloy
able if the subsurface is very substantial and the footings a
well drained; and, although not shown in the illustrations, it |
advisable to back fill against walls with crushed stone or cinde
and to supply an agricultural tile drain or a hard tile drain wi
open joints along the base of the footings of the wall.

JUSTIFIED BY SeaisamOrays

From an historical viewpoint the use of brick for the gardi
path is universal. It means texture and color and pattern, |
well as permanence, and, above all, adaptability. A path is :|
ways interesting, primarily because it leads to something. Whi
one can add to the interest of a path as a path, a particular fe
ing for the type of path employed there has been secured :
enchancing element of attractiveness which introduces a feelii
of “atmosphere” into the entire garden.

In the Moorish gardens of Seville and the Alhambra we fi.
perhaps the highest development of the brick walk or pathwa
Indeed to the ancient Moor the very flowers in his garde
played a secondary role.

From then on we can trace it downward through Englan
and the Continent, and finally to America, where it is impossib
for a student of gardencraft to associate the intimate gardens -
New England or the antebellum South with much else than t!
most customary flowers, the garden gate or sentinel Boxwoo:
and the brick pathway.

There is a certain flavor to brick, which mellows graceful
with aging. For the modern garden, perhaps the greatest dete
rent to its usage has been the idea of apparent expense to t!
owner. But this is indeed a well-worn fallacy, for one of tl
prime ideas of a pathway is not only to get somewhere, but »
get there permanently; and when one considers that the fir
cost of brick is practically the end of it, due to the indestructib
nature of the material, and that each passing year only adds )
its appearance as a garden feature, it seems unreasonable |
consider it expensive. |

Continued on page 416

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Every man interested in the use of an
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As he continues his search he learns
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(From “Adventures in Comfort.’’)

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nothing of it as a fine place for laundr'
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you see, oil burning gives you much mo
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Continued on page 412

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

ROM the centuries-old brickwork of England and Holland comes

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Craftex Co.
Baturooms oF Durock
Thomas Maddock’s Sons Co.
Turoucu THe Home oF Tapestry Brick
Fiske & Co., Inc.
Tue New Vocue in Awnincs
Andrew Swanfeldt
Tue Home Buriper’s EncycLopEDIA
Truscon Steel Co.
Wuicw Heat anp Way?
Richardson & Boynton Co.
SHINGLE STAINs
Samuel Cabot, Inc.
A Reat Home
Copper & Brass Research Assn.
Heatinc SatTisFacTIoNn
The H. B. Smith Co.
Wa.rzoarps & INSULATION
The Upson Co.
Wen Waite 1s Waite
The New Jersey Zinc Co.
Tupor Stone Firaccine & Roors
Rising & Nelson Slate Co.
Burro THE CastLE oF Your Dreams
Lehigh Portland Cement Co.

HEARTHSTONE Eprror.

BE UL BOLO Ese be OP Reals Lis be Ag on Kaa le NGG

119.

Order by number only, using coupon below

Warm Air Heatine
Kelsey Heating Co.
A Mopern Hous—EwarRMING
U. S. Radiator Corp.
THe Woop Tuat Nature
Acatnst Decay
Red Cedar Lumber Mfrs. Assn.
Home Buitpine
Northwestern Expanded Metal Co.
InsutaTED Homes
Universal.Gypsum Co.
BeautiFut Homes oF Stone TILE
National Stone Tile Corp.
DuraBLE Douaras Fir
West Coast Lumber Extension Bureau

ARMED

BuILDING FOR PERMANENCE COMFORT
AND VALUE ;
Mason Fibre Co. 8

Guipe To INTERIOR TREATMENTS
The Bostwick Steel Lath Co.
EpucaTING THE BasEMENT
The Home Incinerator Co,
Facts WortH KNowiInG
The Ruberoid Co.
Watts oF WortH
Algoma Panel Co.
165 Uses ror Woop Boarp
Cornell Wood Products Co.
Home Sweet Home
The Edham Co. Inc.
Baturoom BooKLets
Speakman Co.
TuHatcu State Roors
John D. Emack Co.
BEAuTIFUL FLoors
The Longbell Lumber Co.
Virreous Marsie For Watts
Marietta Mfg. Co.
Screens & Orner Propucrs
Orange Screen Co.

Equipment

Tue Book or Frrepiaces AND ANDIRONS
The Donley Lros. Co.
RapIaTOoR FuRNITURE
Schleicher, Inc.
Ketvinator & Ketvinarep Foops
Kelvinator Corporation
INcINERATOR INFORMATION
Kerner Incinerator Co.
CoprerR SCREENS
New Jersey Wire Cloth Co.
Execrric REFRIGERATION (FRIGIDAIRE)
Delco-Light Co.
Brick FrrePLaces
Colonial Fireplace Co.
Raptator SHIELDS
Sodemann Heat & Power Co.
Tue Proper Operation OF THE Home
Heatinec Prant
Minneapolis Heat Regulator Co.
CotontaL Harpware & ManTELs
Arthur Todhunter
ADVENTURES IN CoMFoRT
May Cil Burner Corp.
ManTELPIECcEsS & FIREPLACE Firrincs
Edwin A. Jackson & Bro. Inc.
How To Pian tHe New Sryte Kircuen
Standard Gas Equipment Corp.
Ort HEeatine
Williams Oil-O-Matic Heating Corp.
Earty EnoiisH & CorontaL Hpwr
HanpDcRAFT
P. & F. Corbin
Servinc A Great Known NeeEp
American Metal Products Corp.
Comrort Heat
Burnham Boiler Co.
Grass GARDENS
Lord & Burnham Co.
GREENHOUSES OF DISTINCTION
Hitchings & Co.
Our Fourra House
Insulite Co.
Heat Insutation For Houses—
Flax-Li-Num Insulating Co.
Ort Hear For Homes
The American Nokol Co.
ManTELs oF CrETAN STONE
Wm. H. Jackson Co.
Tue Instattation Cost oF Pipe
The A. M. Byers Co.

Garven & Home Bumper, GarDEN (Ginna, IN, WE

Please send ( at no expense to me) the following booklets.

Firtincs For Your FIREPLACE
S. M. Howes Co.
Hot Water SERVICE
Humphrey Co.
InvistpLE RapraTors
The Herman Nelson Corp.
RapiaTor Cupsoarps
Home Radiator Cabinet Co.
Raptator Covers
Art Metal Radiator Cover Co.
Putrinc Comrort In THE Home
National Warm Air Heating & Ven-
tilating Assn.
ComFort
Monarch Metal Products Co.
Ten Years HENcE
The American Brass Co.
Hor Warer Service ror THE HME
Riverside Boiler Wor's, Inc.
Cook Wir THe Gas TurRNED )FF
Chambers Mfg. Co.
WarmTH & Comrort ConvENIENTLY
The Bryant Heater & Mfg. Co.
RaptaTor SCREENS & REGISTERS
Tuttle & Bailey
Home Fences
American Fence Construction Co.
ANcHoR Fences
Anchor Post Iron Wks.
THe Wett Manacep Home
Pittsburg Water Heater Co.
CasEMENT WINDows
Critall Casement Window Co.
Ja-Nar Raprator Covers
The Fulton Co.
Raptator ENcLosures
W. H. Johnson & Son Co.
PatntInG Stucco & CEMENT
The Reardon Co.
Tue SERVANT IN THE CELLAR
Caloroi! Durner Corp.
Locxs & Trim
Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
Home Comrorr Wirn Kieen Hear
Winslow Boiler & Eng. Co.
Tue Rance WomeN Want
Armstrong Mfg. Co.
A Perrecr O11 Burner
The Silent Glow Oil Burner Co.
GARBAGE BuRNERS
L. J. Muller Furnace Co.
InpivipuaL Water Systems
Milwaukee Air Power Pup Co.
Or Burner ReEvo.iutionizED Home
Heat
The Combustion Fuel Oil Burner Co.
Hortow Watts oF Brick—How ro
Buttp THEM
The Common Brick Mfrs. Asso.

Decoration and Furnishings

(Insert numbers from list)

412

FuRNITURE FOR THE Dintinc Room
W. & J. Sloane
Your Home anp THE INTERIOR DeEcor-
ATOR
F. Schumacher & Co.
SELECTING SILVER FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE
Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Co.
Correct CurRTAINS
Quaker-Lace Co.
Home FuRNISHING
Elgin A. Simmonds Co.
BeauTiFuL FLoors, Woopwork aNpD
FuRNITURE
The A. S. Boyle Co.
Proper TREATMENT FOR
WoopworkK AND FuRNITURE
S. @. Johnson & Son.
Srory OF SPopE—CoPELAND CHINA
Copeland & Thompson Co., Inc.
DeEcoraTING THE HomE
National Lead Co.
SuMMER FuRNITURE
B. Altman & Co.
Axsout Rucs
James M. Shoemaker Co., Inc.
Tue ImporTAaNceE OF CoLor IN CURTAINS
Orinoka Mills
Watt CoverinG (Sanitas)
Standard Textile Products Co.

FLoors,

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103.
132.
133.
134.

150.

JANUARY
1927

CreaTING a CHaRMING Home
Congoleum-Nairn Inc.

Usrrut Girrs sy rae Master Crarts.
MAN
The Gorham Co.

Wuat Makes a House a Home
Wallpaper Guild of America

PERMANENT FuRNITURE
Curtis Co.

Kircuen Map Sranparp Units
Wasmuth-Endicott Co. |

How F oors are Carep For
The Butcher Polish Co.

Tue Simpce Art or WALL Decoration
Baeck Wallpaper Co.
ANDWEAVING—A New Otp Arr |
The Shuttlecraft Co. |

Your KitrcHen & You
The Hoosier Mfg. Co.

Beauty Tuat Enpures
L. C. Chase & Co

Space Savers
The White Door Bed Co.

Maxine Home Home.ike
Berry Bros.

Tue Lirrte Book Asoutr Grassware |
The Fostoria Glass Co.

FINISHED TO OrpER FURNITURE
Wm. Leavens Co. |

Ruc Harmony Service wita Coto)
PRINTS
Mohawk Rug Dept. W. & J. Sloan,

The Eriguetre oF ENTERTAINING
R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.

Forcep Iron HarpWARE
McKinney Mfg. Co.

Tue Proper Care or Rucs & Carper
Clinton Carpet Co.

How to Use Vatspar ENAMELs
Valentine & Co.

Ortentat Art In Wuitratt Rucs
M. J. Whittall Assn.

Coton Harmony Cyarr
James McCutcheon & Co.

Wuen Your Trees NEED THE Tre
SURGEON :
The Davey Tree Expert Co.

Wuat to Do ann How to Do It
Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.

FRaMEs FOR Keepsake Pictures
Foster Bros.

Come Inro THE KircHen
G. I. Sellers & Sons Co.

I-rrQuetTe, ENTERTAINING aND Goo
SENSE
International Silver Co.

Tue Correctrry Ser Tase
Wm. A. Rogers Co. Ltd.

Correcr SERVICE
Oneida Community, Ltd.

Tue Boox oF Sow Sirver
Towle Mfg. Co.

CanDLE GLow
The Atlantic Refining Co.

ReEstFut SLEEP
Utica Steam & Mohawk Valley Cotte |
Mills

Tue Macic or Ortentat Beauty 1.
Rucs |
C. H. Masland & Sons, Inc.

Tue Froor ror tHE Mopern Home |
The George W. Blabon Co.

Water Systems
The Deming Co. :

|

A Garpen or Cotor in Your Home
The Glidden Co.

Paint anp VarnisH Facts
McDougall-Butler Co. Inc.

Foop Surprises
Aluminum Goods Mfz. Co.

Tue Cuarm oF THE COLONIAL
Nichols & Stone Co.

FirepLace Construcrion
H. W. Covert Co.

Tue Fascination oF Orp Furnitui!
Kensington Mfg. Co. |

Decorators’ Metuops or Winpo
CurTAINING
McGibbon & Co.

WepGwoop
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Inc.

PaTYreRNS IN SILVER TaBLE WARE
Reed & Barton

Inrormat Hosprrairy
Paalman Furniture Co. |

Porrery |
The Cowan Pottery Studio

APPROPRIATE FURNISHINGS
Pullman Couch Co. |

Comrort CaTaLoc : }
Kentwood Mills

Tue Winvows In Your Home
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Co.

Lamps |
Carbone, Inc.

Wuen Luxury or Decoration
Not an ExrTRavaGANCE
Pepperell Mfg. Co.

ALUMINUM & ALUMINUM WarRE
Aluminum Wares Assn.

Tower Cutmes For Country Estat
J. C. Deagan }

New Out tooks For Every Home
The Scranton Lace Co.

Tue Winpsor BeavuTirut
W. F. Whitney Co., Inc. 4

Puritan Coton ScHEME
F. A. Foster & Co., Inc.

How to Know a Goop Piano
Baldwin Piano Co.

Tue Voice or Music
The_Wurlitzer Co.

Tue Home Macnetr
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Cc

DisHWASHING & DryINnG
Walker Dishwasher Corp.

(INUARY, 1927

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Let’s Start Right
Right At The Start
On This Question of Heating

BY starting right, mean just this.

However, before talking about what we
mean by this, let’s digress a bit.

Digress, and tell how certain letters hap-
pened to happen.

As the letters, at the start, mainly concerned
Katharine McDowell and her husband Ned,
perhaps it’s as well to let her tell about it.

Here it is, word for word, taken from their
book, called ‘‘Letters To and Fro.”

“As for me, I was entirely happy in our
homey little House in The Woods, and was
no little put out when Ned came home one
night and right out of a clear sky announced
he had sold our house for just double what
it had cost.

“At first I was decidedly cut up about it
and rather suspect, said some bristly things.
But when Ned proposed that we make up
a little party and take a five day auto
trip through New England, I calmed down.
The purpose of the trip was to get idéas for
the building of our new Colonial house, as
Colonial, and no other, I decided it must be.

“Our party consisted of dear old Dad, Aunt
Amelia, Uncle Crosby and his wife, In-law
Jack, Ned and myself—seven in all. O yes,
and the dog, Aunt Amelia’s. One of those
dear little barky-crawl-all-over-everything-
and-everybody-kind.

“Honest, we must have seen at least 7,000
houses we would like to take parts of and

build into ours. But not till we were just
on the outskirts of Boston did we see one
we liked in every particular. So we decided
on it then and there.

“As soon as we got home, letters began to
arrive from our good intentioned friends and
relatives, giving advice concerning every-
thing from ironing board closets to heating.
But mostly heating.

‘So here are the letters. Everyone of
which, I assure you, is well worth reading.

Just to give you’an idea of what that book
of letters contains, here are a few of the
page titles.

1. First Came Aunt Amelia’s About Fire
Place Heating.

2. To Which Katharine Promply Replied
and Mailed it Herself.

3. Then Uncle Crosby Wrote a Five Pager
About Steam Heat.

4. A Week Passed and Then Came Dad’s
on Hot Water Heating.

5. By Special Delivery Our In-Laws Sent
this one on The Vapor System.

6. But Cynthia Didn’t Write About Warm
Air Heat—She Came.

7. The Cecond Fro Letter Was To Cynthia.
Katharine Wrote It. She Admits Now
It Was a Bit Heated.

8. To Settle Matters, Husband Ned Dic-
tated from his Office, Sort of a General
Reply Telling of The Decision.

9. Two Years Later We Wrote This Letter
to Dad.

10. To Tell The Truth It Was a Bunch of
Orchids That Made Us Decide on How
To Start Right, Right at the Start With
Our Heating.

To all of which, let us add that the biggest
problem of all, in starting right, is to decide
on the heating system that is best for your
particular requirements.

So that’s why we are suggesting that you
send for the ‘‘To and Fro” booklet.

Charles Austin Bates wrote us: that it’s
the first time heat has been humanized, so
mere humans can understand it.

Charles Allen Clark says he started wrong
with his heat but Letters To and Fro,
started him going right.

Mrs. Wendell Wendover wrote that it had
saved them at least $125 each year on
their winter’s coal.

If all of which is so, doesn’t it look as if you
should send at once for “Letters To and
Fro’’?

We have secured full publishers rights to it,
and will gladly send you a copy.

Bona fain loa

New York City—30 E. 42nd Street

Irvington, New York

Representatives in all Principal Cities of U. S. and Canada

decorations €& objets @ a7

Hepplewhite
Console and
Card Table

Combination

Copied directly from the original
which is recognized as one of the finest
collection pieces. This is an excep-
tionally fine reproduction. Made of
genuine mahogany with fine inlay of
feather grain Satinwood and Mahog-
any and edged with Walnut and
Ebony border. Custom built through-
out. Has two back legs which swing
out making a sturdy and practical
table. Size 36 inches diameter when

open. 30 inches high.

Specially priced at $74.50
F.O.B. Boston. Full freight allowed
anywhere in the United States.

Sent on receipt of price, or C. O. D. with $20
deposit. We have shipped our furniture to all
parts of the United States—furnishing homes
complete. Every Winthrop Reproduction is
guaranteed to be exactly as represent-
ed, and delivered in perfect condition.
Money refunded without question on
any purchase. Send 1o cents (coin or
stamps) for Portfolio Hr of other Early
American Reproductions in Mahogany
and Maple, also Banjo Clocks.

Winthrop Furniture Co.
424 Park Square Bldg.
Boston, Mass.

EERE: is a permanent and yet eco-
nomical way to stop intrusion.
Page Fence keeps the unwelcome guest
beyond the boundary line and offers
adequate protection for lawns, gardens
and the home.

It has been chosen by thousands of home
and estate owners because of its quality con-
struction and pleasing appearance.

Write for literature and the name of the near-
est distributor.

PAGE FENCE and WIRE

PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION
215 N. Michigan Ave., Dept. A-4 Chicago, III.
Distributing wire link products muse acura’ by

the Page Steel and Wire Co.

District Offices: Chicago New York
Pittsburgh San Francisco
An Associate Company of the
American Chain Co., Incorporated.
Bridgeport, "Conn.
In Canada: Dominion Chain Co.,
TRAVE MARK Limited, Niagara Falls,Ont.

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fence- 1883

Color in table decorations
A. LOUISE FILLEBROWN

There is no doubt that color in large and brillant designs has
taken full sway in our house decorations. Curtains of gay linen
and cretonne, bright wallpaper, colored linoleum floors—every
surface is full of color, so it is not surprising that our dining table
should follow suit and blossom forth in all the shades of the
rainbow.

Plain white and gold china has given way to gay Italian pot-
tery with lovely designs covering its entire surface. The newest
thing in table silver is heavy with design, instead of the simple
plain surfaces of a few years back. Cut glass in the plain white
has become lost in the glow and warmth of amber, wine-red,
green and blue tumblers, salad plates, serving plates, and even
soup dishes.

It is to be expected then that when we start to replenish our
linen and other table fixings we plan a definite color scheme that
will harmonize with the plan of the dining-room decorations.
My dining-room has green and cream wallpaper, yellow curtains
and a little lavender. Therefore I bought lovely green and yellow
china of Italian design. It is very decorative so the glass had to
be simple. However, plain white did not look well with the
general yellow tone so I selected a very light amber for tumblers
and water pitcher.

This has the tiny flecks in it that are characteristic of Venetian
glass, and I found it came in wine-red, and pale green, also. For
the sake of variety and to accent the ‘color scheme of the china
a little further I bought green glass salad and serving plates,
and a spreading glass dish for flowers, with four candlesticks
to match. Of course, the candles were light yellow.

The china has a little French blue in the design so whenever

cAndirons

have a position of pron
inence, and an associatio
of sentiment which deman
care in selection; and a dur,
bility that justifies more tha
a casual investment. {W
make fireplace furnishings i
all metals, in finest qualit
and design.

Catalogs A showing andiron
S showing spark screens,

showing Franklin Stoves, al;
M showing wood mantels wi

be forwarded if desired.

Edwin A. Jackson & Bre
Inc.

48 Beekman Street, New Yor
also
65th Street at Lexington Ave., New Yo.

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The CHELSEA

Last Practically Indefinitely —
Noy ~—SsiéKeepp: Excellent Time — can be
Handed Down as Heirlooms

In addition to the clocks illustrated
hereon, we also make a very exten-
sive line in refined cases for resi-
dences, clubs, yachts, prizes and
presentation purposes.

Many other Models

SHIP’S BELL
YACHT
BANJO
WALL
MANTEL
BOUDOIR
DESK

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The 8-Day High-Grade,
World Renowned

CHELSEA
CLOCKS

Cost More
than Others
BUT
the Value
is There

The CHELSEA 8-Day Hich
Grade YACHT WHEEL SHIP’S
BELL CLOCK

Leading Jewelers

CHELSEA CLOCK CO., 10 STATE STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
Established 1897

The Cost of You
New Fireplace

OU have your choice |

between a charming |
fizeplace that burns well |
and gives off clean, econo-
mical heat, and a fireplace
that smokes, sootsmudges
and gives off little or no
hcat—at the same cost.
Cost does not determine |
the success of a fireplace.

Completely successful
fireplaces are only made
by using correct internal |
design and proper equip- |
ment. The Donley Book |
of Fireplaces containing-
the Donley Fireplace |
Plans and showing proper
equipment, will assist
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fders and backgrounds of
tis, grays, ivory, bisque and
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jorings and delicate pastel
ades. MOUNTIND Hooked
jgs are bright spots that lend

iny years of pleasing decora-
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jard or letter with your bank
jerence, brings one cf our
oicest rugs to you on ap-
pval. With it we will also
id pictures of many other
(igns for your selection.

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ta in the least. Address—

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possible this shade was chosen for the fresh flowers used on the
table, and also for one or two serving dishes.

For table linen I had heavy cream damask for dinner, but
for luncheon and breakfast I let my love of color run riot and
indulged in the gayest kind of colored sets. There was one of
French blue linen with a lighter stripe of the same color in a
band about twelve inches from the edge, and another similar
stripe in a square in the center of the cloth. This had matching
napkins and they were all hemstitched in self color at the hem.
Another breakfast cloth was in gay little checks of lavender
on cream. The design covered the cloth, but the napkins were
plain lavender.

At luncheon I had a runner of heavy green linen with a gay
design on both ends, hand blocked, in orange, green, yellow and a
little black. It had matching doilies, and small plain green nap-
kins with just a line of orange around the edge inside of the hems.

When I was buying this, I saw luncheon cloths of this same
type, most decorative and very attractive with plainer china
than mine. However, I had almost too much design in my china
to allow a full cloth of this gay pattern.

There was also a variation of the band pattern in luncheon
cloths of cream linen: a decoration of varying sized stripes with
a tiny hair line stripe of black appearing occasionally. As usual
the black added a touch of smartness that comes in no other way.

Of course, it is dificult for us to imagine using such gay color
in our linen at dinner, but certainly for the more informal
luncheon and breakfast it is pleasing and most consistent. In
fact, breakfast sets of calico and checked gingham are attractive
in the small breakfast nook, and I am sure they start the day
with a smile for those of us who never really feel cheerful before
our breakfast coffee.

There can be no doubt that color has arrived in our table
settings as well as in our home decorations, and the many lovely
shades that are available now in all sorts of linens make selection

a joy.

TODHAUNTER

announce the openin
of their

NEW BUILDING

119 East 57% Street

( in the shadow of the Ritz Tower )
NEw ‘York

OAD EIS ID

C Che additional space of an
entire building enables us to
exhibit a more Extensive
(Collection of our work than
has been possible heretofore,
and to offer our patrons
greater facilities in making

selections

st MANTELPIECES

FIREPLACE EQUIPMENT
COLONIAL HARDWARE ‘eine
HAND FORGED METAL WORK —— >=

Forged Lron

Jor your home

Authentic
in design

Reasonable

In price

a ass is beauty
and sincerity in
every curve of this
rugged McKinney
Forged Iron Hard-
ware. All designs
are distinctive and
authentic of the
best of early metal-
craft. They have
characrereand
charm. All neces-
Sat ye piccesnare
available through
Builders’ Hardware
Merchants: hinge
straps, entrance
handle sets, shutter
dogs, etc.

MCKINNEY

FORGED IRON

HARDWARE

These strikingly fine
forged iron lanterns by
McKinney are now dis-
played by Department
and Hardware stores.
Made of rust-resisting
Armco Iron and finished
in Duco. Be sure to see
them. Return coupon for
full description.

:
‘ Force Division, McKinney Mes. Co.
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Pittsburgh, Pa. _ ae ‘
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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Four old-fashioned flowers, brought to new size
and perfection. Easy to grow. Assure a
crop of unfailing delights.

Mammoth Pastel Zinnias_ Elliott’s Zinnias bear flowers
often 6 inches across—the largest ever developed and the most
beautiful. Soft combinations of old gold, burnt orange, salmon, °

JANUARY, 192

$$.

Bricklaying in garden ornament
Continued from page 406

S E CON D- HAIN DEVErReaGi

There is scarcely a town or borough in which some contract:
is not tearing down or uprooting some brick building or bric
pavement, which should all go to mean to the observing garde
maker that here at hand is one of the best possible and mo;
easily obtainable materials for his pathway. Of course ne
brick will lay the easiest and is undoubtedly the most suitab
for the more expensive type of walk construction. Brick, lik
all other materials, has characteristics of its own, and thoug
from size and shape it is one of the most adaptable elements ;
path construction, there are certain rules and regulations whic
are best observed in the proper handling of this material.

The important feature of all brick path construction is th
foundation on which the brick is placed. This is governed by tw
important factors: the type of brick surface desired; and tk
necessary allowance for weather protection.

If an old-fashioned type of walk is aimed at, either for a sma
informal garden or for a flower-bordered pathway, leading fro:
one portion of the property to another, a very light type «
foundation may be employed. The usual characteristic of suc
a walk is a slightly uneven, well-weathered appearance and, ;
shown in the sketches, a sufficient foundation will be merel
sand and cinders; or merely cinders and loam if grass and mo
are to be allowed between the brick joints, while in the Sout
a mere bedding of sand over a well-packed subsoil will be four

rose, lavender, crimson, violet Seed Packet 40c

sufficient. Walks of this type soon acquire a pleasantly uneye
surface due to an uneven sinking of the bricks into the found
tion. This is not sufficient to cause trouble in walking, bi
merely gives a very informal, quickly aged appearance ar
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BASE AND HEIGHT

The more finished type of brick wall for the formal garden
usually laid in a more careful manner. The base for this
usually concrete over cinders and the bricks themselves y
grouted with cement to produce a permanent and careful |
finished surface. In walks of this type the joints in the wa
area are finished flush, while curb joints may be either flush ||
raked as fancy dictates, although the raked joint for curb u
usually has the preference.

For the northern climate, this base is usually around 12 or.
inches in thickness, consisting of 4 or 5 inches of concrete of
1-2-4 Or a I~25-5 mixture. This is usually bedded on a ba
of well-packed cinders of a depth approximating 10 inches, at
this base may consist of a bottom layer of approximately |
inches of very coarse cinders, which acts as a sort of Fren:
drain under the walk, overlaid by 6 inches of well-packed fi
cinders; or an approximate depth of 6 inches of ordinary cinde
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as well as an easier form of construction. Of course, if the enti
garden needs a careful system of surface drainage, or both su
face and bottom drainage, this center channel of extra dep.

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The next, and, perhaps, to the average person, the all-impo
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the brick-laying. Of course, it would be possible to duplica’
all of the patterns used in brick wall construction, but to do th
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accent spots furnished by the wall headers; and, as a cons:

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Bricklaying in garden ornament
Continued from page 416

work is known as stretcher or soldier courses: that is to say, th
full length of the brick in either a longitudinal or transyers
position. This rather limits the number of standard pattern
and the ones most commonly used are the running bond, ¢
continuous lengthwise use of brick, either across the walk or 0)
axis, and the herring bone, or the basket pattern.

As can be seen from the illustrations, the herring bone ma
be used either as a very striking pattern with all joints at vari
ance with the general direction of the walk; or it may be turne
at a 45-degree angle so that the bricks run both across the wal
and in a longitudinal direction.

It will be found that these patterns present a totally differen
appearance in accordance with whether the brick is laid on edg
with wide joints or flat with narrow joints. My personal prefer
ence is for running bond on edge with the joints running in th
same direction as the walk, and the flat position fcr most of th
other patterns. A difference within the pattern cr an overlai
pattern, as it were, may be secured by the use of brick of tw
different colors or texture but the difference should be sligh
indeed and care should be taken not to overdo the use of bric
of several colors, as this is usually conducive to a flash
appearance, hardly in accordance with good taste or tru
artistry, and it 1s well to restrain oneself when tempted in thi
wise by the highly colored pages of brick catalcgues.

The chief charm of a brick walk is an appearance of mello
age and simplicity; and too striking effects, save as occasion:
inserts, should be studiously avoided.

As may be seen from the illustrations, brick has many uses i.
general walk construction outside of the walk surface which }
wholly composed of brick, and many pleasing effects may b
secured by using brick with other material, either as panel
combined with tile or heavy slate, or as a curbing for tile, flag
stone or gravel. |

With the small gravel walk, brick is usually used on enc
bedded deep into the stone or cinders; or edgewise on concret
runners; and for the very wide, old-fashioned or English type ¢
gravel path, the brick may be used on end set diagonally as.
walk curbing and a demarcation point between walk and flowe
border, or it may be set with a concrete grout lengthwise o,
edge to form a shallow gutter next to a grass edging.

With a flag walk, it may be used on edge crosswise set flus
with the flag surface, and when used in this manner it has |
sufficient weight or breadth to balance nicely the effect of siz
and of the predominant color of the flagging.

DRAINAGE AND S)OUNiies

Before closing, a brief word as to the size of joints and the|
importance as regards pattern. The average joint runs from.
quarter to a half inch, but may be increased from five-eighths t
three-quarters to furnish a sort of pattern within the patter
as is shown clearly in the illustrations on page 364, where tl
joint lines have been inked in solidly.

Surface drainage is of course an important feature and th
walk may be either crowned slightly or pitched from one si¢
to the other, and the water can be carried along the inside edg
of the curbing, or, in the case of flush curbs, may be thrown fre
of the walk entirely into a grass or brick gutter. > |

There is a special type of gutter brick shown in the illustr
tions which was a frequent feature of the walks of our oldé
gardens, and which is apparently not carried ty the moder
brick merchants, but can be made up specially if the quantit
is sufficient or cost is not an essential feature. |

As a final word, it should be noted’ that no matter how lig!
the type of construction, the foundation should be prepare
carefully and solidly, as this alone determines the life and th
developed appearance of the brick surface after it has bee
walked on and passed through the winter. Also, it should t.
noted that if the expense of cutting many bricks is to be avoide
a section of the pattern should be laid out either full size or at’
careful scale before attempting the foundation, as a slight chang
in pattern or in the manner of curb arrangement will affect tk
width of a brick walk by several inches. :

For walks of any but the most careful and finished type, tk
most interesting texture can usually be secured by employin
common labor, as with a little supervision any intelligent worl
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The ceramics of house building
Continued from page 385

in medieval and modern times, throughout Europe and England,
the facing brick were selected out of the kiln because of their
hardness or color effects. In inventive America, however, the
matter of improving the brick as an artistic unit in the wall
surface has been carried to an extent never before known in the
world. The modern European countries have, to a certain
degree, followed this practice, but have in no way succeeded to
the extent which we enjoy in America. It is very natural
that either the architect or the owner should from time to
time demand of the brickmaker a product that will secure a
little different effect in the wall surface. Consequently, the
manufacturer has not only sought out the greatest possible num-
ber of clays burning the greatest possible number of colors, and
mixed them in all sorts of ways, but has roughened the surface
from the simplest mat to deep, jagged scorings that cast very
perceptible shadows in order to produce the desired effects.

The reader must be perfectly familiar with the great range of
color and texture effects which he has seen in various brick wall
surfaces.

As these brick are laid in the wall with a mortar joint that, on
an average, covers a seventh of the space, it may be seen how
this mortar joint, by reason of its cclor or the smoothness or
roughness of its surface, will greatly mcdi‘y the color scheme of
the whole wail! surface. The fact is that the possibilities in the
blending of brick colors in connection with the mortar joint, its
genera! character and coloring, while developed beautifully by a
number of American architects, have as yetnever been thoroughly
worked out, and cffers a new problem for the artistic colorist in
architecture. The decoration of a brick wall surface is a decora-
tion that lasts the same as the decoration on your fine porcelain.
It is a simpler and less refined form of the same thing. It is an ex-
ample of what Lefevre, the French authority, calls the ceramics
of building. There are, however, other types of brick which some-
what depart from this rule of simple, natural colors because they
meet certain requirements in building—bricks which are treated
with a glaze or enamel.

Lengthening the life of brick
Continued from page 301

damp-proofing and decorating exterior brick masonry and con-
crete. The vehicles of these paints consist of a heat-treated
China wood oil which is blended with a heat-treated linseed oil.
China wood oil is highly prized for its waterproofing qualities but
cannot be used alone for it sets too fast and the film becomes too
hard. China wood oil when blended with linseed oil and given a
heat treatment, makes a durable elastic and tough paint oil com-
bination which is as moisture proof and alkali resistant as any
oil films can be made. The pigment combination of brick and
cement coatings is such that they produce films which are ex-
tremely hard and abrasion resisting, of a soft, dull, and artistic
texture, and a surface finish which is readily cleansed by rain.
Zinc oxide or zinc oxide and lead sulphate together with a high
percentage of coarse inert pigment such as silica, asbestine and
calcium carbonate represent the usual pigment combination of
brick and cement coatings. In my opinion, a paint containing
the vehicle and pigment combination just discussed, is the most
suitable for protecting and decorating exterior brick surfaces
from the standpoint of durability and general satisfaction.
New brick walls which have not thoroughly dried out should
be neutralized with a solution of zinc sulphate as mentioned else-
where in this article. The surface should then be given two or
three days thoroughly to dry out. The same surface preparation
should be given to the brickwork as usually given to other sur-
faces to be painted; that is, all loose and foreign matter removed
and the surface otherwise made receptive for priming. For first
class work three coats of paint are required. The priming coat
should be rich in oil so as to seal the surface. Add one-half a
gallon of raw linseed oil to each gallon of brick and cement coat-
ing for priming. Apply the material with stiff bristle flat wall
brush, and where the surface is extremely rough, stipple and
work the paint into the crevices so as to provide a uniform seal-
ing coat. Allow 48 hours time for drying and apply a second coat
of brick and cement coating as it comes from the can. Allow 24
hours for this coat to dry and apply the final coat of paint.

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In the South
Continued from page 404

and every month after until June. Tuberoses, too, can be planted
now—the everblooming variety being the most satisfactory.
They like a sunny exposure and a light sandy soil. Other bulbs
such as Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Freesia, Iris, Calla, Easter,
Tiger and Japan Lilies; Anemones, Ranunculus, and Oxalis may
be put in as late as January, although they are usually put in
during November and December.

Keep the Winter Grass cut, or if the lawn has been left as
a Bermuda sod, get it free from weeds and other grass, level it,
and enrich it with manure or cotton seed meal, using a little sand
with either to hold the fertilizer from washing away and to en-
able you to roll the lawn smooth. Under trees, where grass will
not grow, make a bed of English Ivy, planting cuttings of it now.
It will run and form a lovely green bed where nothing but ferns
would grow before. Ferns are good, but are likely to die down
during the Winter, when used for bedding plants in the open.

Shade trees of all kinds can be planted in January, but Palms,
unless grown in pots, should not be moved until much later.
Among the most beautiful of shade trees for this section of the
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faster than seedlings and the variety can be depended upon.
While these can be set out in November and December, January
and February are also good months, and when a grafted Pecan is
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later. Do not remove the mulch too early, either, for cold snaps
sometimes come as late as March 15, and fertilizing and working
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later. This might be just as the last cold spell comes, and will
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Carrots, Beets, Radishes, Leeks, Celery, Cress, Chervil, Parsley,
Endive, Lettuce, Cabbage, Kohlrabi, Cauliflower, and Broccoli
may be sown in a coldframe or other protected spot. Egg Plants,
Peppers and Tomatoes can be started in a hot bed for later
transplanting in the open.—EtTueLt Hutson.

The Northeastern Section
Continued from page 304

WHAT MAKES A GOOD LAWN FERTILIZER?

The Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass., has a dozen plots
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them. A lawn that had been fed cotton seed meal and bone fer-
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beautiful crop of White Clover about which one judge said it was
the poorest plot of all. Sheep manure made a good but spotty
growth. Recent studies inlawn management at Washington, D.C.,
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From Texas we learn that one garden enthusiast has Pampas
Grass growing in the poultry yard for shade for the chickens.
While trees cast more shade, there is no doubt but what a clump
of Pampas Grass is attractive.

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Those few who want to grow Camellias, a close relative of the Tea,
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a limestone soil nor add lime to the soil—P. T. Barnes.

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1927

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

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notice—to others we shall be glad to send a copy on request.

BERTRAND H. FARR—Wvomissing Nursery Co.
104 Weiser Park

Womelsdorf, Penna.

Box A

Formerly of Wyomissing, Penna.

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This Fence Keeps
a Garden private

ORE and more it is becoming the custom in
oni this country, as it is in France and England,
to put a frame around one’s garden which will serve
not only to keep outsiders from staring in, but as a
background for flowers and shrubbery. |

Nothing is so admirably suited for this tendency
as Dubois Woven Wood Fence. It is made of
split, live, young chestnut saplings, woven closely
together, and is brought over from France where its
use among owners of both large estates and country
maisonettes is an equally cherished tradition,

Dubois is exceedingly durable, requiring no paint

or upkeep expense. It is easy to erect and moderate
in cost.

There are hundreds of applica-
tions for Dubois. Here it is used

, architecture as fine old shade trees. to screen the service entrance of a
It blends as readily with any type of fi HAGE ie oT
instances it is used as the

Dubois comes in sections 5 feet long, in two heights, 4’ 11” and 6’ 6”. boundary of a large estate to
It can also be made up into gates of quaint design. It is one of Se ters a

many charming, rustic fencesimported from abroad by Robert C. Reeves

Co., 187 Water Street, New York.

Robert C. Reeves Company, 187 Water St., New York
Please send, without obligation, your portfolio of
Dubois illustrations, with list of many prominent users.
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Your local Nurseryman, Florist, or Land- the work in double-quick time, handles easily—a twist of the wris

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or can obtain them for you.

guides it—saves time, is economical and trouble-free. Keeps gras
in fine condition. Cuts close to obstructions. ‘Turns on its ow
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Rare Plants from Foreign Lands

Many rare plants in Hicks Nurseries were brought to America by
explorers who ransacked faraway China, the mountains of Asia, and the
gardens of Europe.

By spring you may wish to discard some old varieties in favor of
the newer plants. Hicks Nurseries have a great collection of
unusual plants that will be a distinct addition to your garden.

BoE ROE MOS ISO

Sturdy Dwarf Trees
That Bear Great Crops

A collection of unusual Cotoneasters will be available this spring.
These include Cotoneaster humifusa, Creeping Cotoneaster, Roundleaf
Cotoneaster, all of which are priced at $1.50 each or $12.50 for 1o.

Spreading Cotoneaster, C. Foveolata and C. Zabeli are $2.50 each,
$22.50 for ro.

Sometimes they even bear a few fruits the very first year they are
planted. They surely bear the second season. Both, Apple and Pear
Trees of the dwarf type may be planted as closely as 8 to 10 feet apart.
The fruit produced by both Dwarf Apples and Dwarf Pears is fully as
large as that produced by the much larger Standard trees which are
ordinarily planted. Five varieties of Pears and eleven of Apples are
yours to choose from, in trees the quality of which is absolutely unsur-
passable. See page 30-31 of our beautiful new catalog for which
please write today.

Simons Cotoneaster and the Rockspray are $1 each, $9 for to.

We shall be pleased to send you further information about rare shrubs,
ground covers, evergreens and shade trees growing at Hicks Nurseries.

Hicks Nurseries

Westbury, L. I., New York

We know they are because they have borne for us, right in the
nursery row. Stocky vines, 3 years old and older, repeatedly trans-
planted, pruned and cultivated intensively to create a plant ready for
work! A score of varieties to select from. If in doubt which to choose,
you will make no mistake in accepting our choice in the form of Lovett’s
Home Arbor Selection. Ten fruiting age vines, 2 each of five fine sorts,
for $10.00. For full details see page 6 of our free catalog, the introduc-
tory pages of which will prove to you that we are truly grapevine specialists.

Berries galore, and Posies, too

There are 80 pages in our greatly enlarged and improved Catalog
for 1927, devoted to the aristocrats in berrydom, to the choicest in fruits
and flowers of all kinds. Back of every plant, shrub or tree offered stands
nearly half a century of practical experience in growing a better nursery
product. It’s a good plant if it comes from Lovett’s, as our Catalog will
prove to your satisfaction. Please give it a chance—write for it today
and mention Garden & Home Builder.

SPRING’S just over the hill. Time to get busy with the lawn.
An occasional gentle rolling will smooth out the turf and firmly
imbed the earth around grass roots, thus assuring a sturdy growth.
Coldwell Model ‘‘L’’ Motor Lawn Mower ( pictured above)
Operates as a roller separately, or in combination as roller and
mower. One man and Model “L” can mow and roll simultan-
eously, 4 to 6 acres a day, on one gallon of gasoline. With
detachable gang units machine’s capacity is more than doubled.
Absolutely dependable. Used with utmost satisfaction on estates,
parks, clubs and school grounds, etc.

LOVETT’S NURSERY
Box 125 Little Silver New Jersey

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COLDWELL

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Hand . . Horse . . Gasoline . . Electric

COLDWELL LAWN MOWER CO., NEWBURGH, N. Y., U. S. A.

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Residence of Herbert M. Gaskill, Media, Pa.
E. Kenney Crothers, Architect and Builder

Let KELSEY

“Make Your Climate’

If you've had difficulty in heating certain rooms this
winter if other rooms have been too hot and
stuffy . . . and if the fuel bills have seemed more
than they ought tobe . . .

Find out NOW about Kelsey Health Heat

The Kelsey Warm Air Generator has a “‘positive cap”
attachment which makes it easy to keep the hard-to-heat
rooms comfortable, with

fresh automatically-moistened warm air

in constant circulation. It can never become stale and
dry. The moisture’s absolutely necessary for the pro-
tection of your health.

A small pressure fan making the Kelsey a forced air
system can be attached to old or new installations.

With three times the ordinary heating surface, the Kel-
sey makes use of all of the fuel—it wastes practically no
heat up the chimney.
Whether you are planning a new home or the
remodeling of an old one, let us send you the
‘‘Health Heat” booklet. No representative
will call, unless you request it.

HE KELSE

HEATING COMPANY

231 James St., Syracuse, N. Y.

Sales Offices:
Brockville
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New York
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Boston
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FEBRUARY, 192

‘The strength and endurance

SO WRITES the owner of a
Hodgson Portable House situ-
ated on the coast of Labrador.
He continues: “No harder tests
are possible than some of those
which this house has withstood
during the past six years.”

From Florida

“My Hodgson Portable Cottage
went through the terrible hur-
ricane of Sept. 17th and 18th
without any damage of any
kind. The clothing and beds
and all furniture were entirely
dry after the storm. The cot-
tage was exposed. No wind
breaks to protect or shield it.”

E.

1108 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass.
6 East 39th Street, New York City

Florida Branch—Bradenton

HODGSONniises

of your building is truly amazing

Truly, here is convincing
proof of the strength and dura-
bility of Hodgson Portable
Houses. Hodgson Houses are
shipped to you in carefully fin-
ished sections which may be
quickly and easily bolted to-
gether—without skilled labor.

There are Hodgson Portable
Houses of every size and for
every purpose. Our new illus-
trated catalog gives detailed in-
formation about Hodgson cot-
tages, play houses, garages,
dog kennels, poultry - houses,
bird houses, etc. Write for cata-
log K today. -

F. HODGSON CO.

Protect Your Lawn—

Safeguard the Children

YOUR lawn can be made and kept more beautiful if grass,

flowers and shrubs have the protection of an attractive fence.
You will enjoy the privacy of an enclosed lawn, and your chil-—
dren at play will be safeguarded from the dangers of the street.

SupeZinced [awn Fence

gives the complete protection you desire, and its distinctive
design enhances the appearance of your property. Scrolls can
not pull out, and the many upright wires keep the fence per-
manently trim and erect. All wires are of same gauge, are heavily
Super-Zinced and will last much longer than twisted cables of

permigtitcs wires.

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Write for this booklet
illustrating the newest

lawn, poultry and flower fences.

’ Pittsburgh Steel Co.
754 Jnion Trust Building
: Pittsburgh, Pa.

EBRUARY, 1927 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

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THE ENTRANCE |
be sure it adds beauty!

“My Hartmann-Sanders Entrance faction, social values and enhanced
lends beauty to the entire house.” resale possibilities.

—lllinois home eer: These better entrances are chosen
“What a world of difference the for many of America’s finest homes
right entrance makes.’’—Penn- because they combine fine crafts-
sylvania enthusiast. manship with classic beauty—a
“Tt added to the value of our beauty made permanent by pat-
home far beyond its cost.”—South- ented Koll Lock-Joint Columns.
erner. Hartmann-Sanders Co., 2164 El-
Only the experienced user knows ston Avenue, Chicago. Eastern
how richly a beautiful Hartmann- Office and Showroom: 6 East 39th
Sanders Entrance pays in satis- Street, New York City.

Send for new Catalog 52 of model entrances.
Or send 30c for additional catalog 34 of

pergolas, latticework and garden furniture

HARTMANN*+SANDERS

Your Home

Pergolas Colonial
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Poe Columns Ooft can be done inexpensively, simply and without

any risk of making those errors which friends or pro-
fessional decorators might detect. Miss Lucy Taylor
explains just how it can be done in her book “The
Simple Art of Wall Decoration” which we will gladly
send for the asking.

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Her point—a most important one—is this: that the
entire key to home decoration, to the arrangement of
furniture you already have, and to color schemes, can
be found in the finely balanced design and color of the
best modern wall papers. They can transform a dingy
into a bright room, make a large room cozy, or give a
sense of space to the small room.

Miss Taylor’s book is profusely illustrated in both
color and halftone, and contains actual samples of many
of the finest modern Muralia papers, with discussion
on the uses of each. Although the price of the book
is twenty-five cents, you, as a reader of this magazine,
may have it simply by sending the coupon with ten
cents to cover postage. The book also contains a speci-
fication sheet from which our decorating department
can help you still further. The service of this depart-
ment is free.

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characteristic of Tudor Stone, make this the ideal slate for flagging
and flooring—both indoors and out. We are prepared to furnish
this flagging slate in any shapes and sizes—and in any quantity.

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Please send me without charge—other than

the ten cents enclosed for postage costs—Miss

Taylor's book on “The Simple Art of Wall

Decoration”.

Name

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Sales Office: 101 Park Ave., New York
Quarries and Main Office: West Pawlet, Vermont

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

FEBRUARY, 1@3

materials and ENTIRE equipment for this attractive
curved eave greenhouse,15 feet wide and 33 feet long.

You can grow anything in it from parsley to
tomatoes; violets to orchids; or melons to apricots,

Yes, and all the old timey flowers besides,

Send for special circular called “Owning Your
Own Greenhouse,” which gives you all the further
facts you want to know about this house.

Hitchings “a Gmpany

Elizabeth, N. J.

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Now Every Garden May
Have Lovely Waterlilies

You have longed for Waterlilies, but thought they needed a pool
or a pond—so you have missed one of the garden’s greatest joys.

Now you can have a Waterlily in even the
smallest garden. All you need is a corner where
the sun shines, and this Little Garden Collec-

tion, which includes
I Waterlily Tub, 1 ft. deep, 2 ft. across Tr
I Waterlily root, suitable for tub culture
6 Hardy Perennials for planting around the tub

All of these will be sent for $6 in one package, express
charges to be paid by purchaser.

A Waterlily pool or pond can be made the center of your gatden—and the
labor will be less than demanded by a bed of annuals. Hardy Lilies may
remain in the pool all the year. Complete instructions for making a pool
and caring for the plants are given in

Tricker’s Waterlily Booklet

which shows red, blue, pink and yellow varieties in color, lists the best kinds
for tub or pool culture, and also features hardy plants for a water garden.
A copy will be sent to you on request.

WILLIAM TRICKER, Waterlily Specialist
661 Forest St., Arlington, New Jersey

Carefully propagated
nursery-grown varieties
for your garden

You can grow these blueberries your-
self. Whitesbog offers you seven re-
liable varieties, all carefully selected,
tested and named. ‘Vhe berries them-
selves are a delight—large, luscious,
practically seedless. As for the bushes,
beauty marks them through the sea-
sons. Compact and symmetrical, they
boast lovely blossoms, beautiful, heavy
clusters of fruit, flaming autumn foli-
age and red winter twigs.

Write for illustrated circular
on varieties and cultivation.

WHITESBOG
BLUEBERRY NURSERIES

Headquarters for Purebred Blueberry Plants

JOSEPH J. WHITE, Inc.
Box F Whitesbog, N. J.

EBRUARY, 1927 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

Send for this book-
let — “Letters To
and Fro” that tells
of heating systems,
their comfort giving,
coal saving sides.

Here’s Humanized Heat

OME one sent Charles Austin Bates, that old adver-
tising war horse and critic, a copy of this booklet,
called ‘Letters To and Fro.”

He took the trouble to write us a letter—brief and to
the point. It said: ‘this is the first time heat has been
humanized.”

SOR garden lovers who want the best. Kentucky’s climate
and ideal soil conditions, plus intelligent cultivation
add that extra touch of size, beauty and vigor that has
made ‘Kentucky Bred” Dahlias ‘famous for their
beauty.” Plan your new garden now while cold winds

howl and snow covers garden beds and paths. It is easy to sit in

front of a crackling fire with a paper and pencil forming that per-
| fect garden in your mind’s eye. The greatest help for such a
| garden is

| Our 1927 Garden Book

| Here you will find nearly 400 varieties of Dahlias, prices to suit

every purse, rare varieties and all the old favorites. You will

also find bargain gardens at reduced prices with no sacrifice of
quality. Below is a fair example.

| “Kentucky Bred” Dahlia Garden

| “Tt commanded my interest and find it has inserted in
my mind a goodly bundle of welcome facts on heat and
heating systems’ —or words to that effect.

The one entitled ‘Some Homely Features that Make
A Beautiful Coal Bill” will touch your pocket book.

Irvington, N. Y.

New York City—30 East 42nd Street
Representatives in All Principal Cities of U. S. and Canada

| No. 10

Ayesha

| A clear, light yellow, Decorative......... $0.50

| Jean (hazot

| A golden bronze, red tinted Cactus...... 75

Insulinde

ux largesceep’ gold Decorative... .40..--. 1.00

| Kitty Dunlap

| Decorative—American Beauty Rose color .75

| Tpchaay (OAH eter

| Huge Crimson Red Decorative......... oh ee
if ‘Rotarian

Soft, rich violet-maroon color, Decorative 1.00

Would you like a Garden under glass? One of each of above... acu0

for a glorious late summer garden, plant more Dahlias

Write

Sy. JACOB SCHULZ

Company, Inc.

A crystal palace all your own that beams with
your favorite flowers all year ’round? Not only
does it make a fascinating hobby, but there’s un-
told satisfaction in being able to have plenty of
flowers for every occasion.

Curved-eave King Greenhouses are available
in many types and sizes at very modest prices.
Why not start making your plansnow? Weshall
be glad to help you by sending our catalogs and
complete information at your request.

‘Department cA
550 South Fourth Avenue

Louisville
KING CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Kentucky
NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y. 48h

Phone; Tonawanda 1800
NEW YORK CITY PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, MASS.
45 West 34th St. 14 N. 60th St. 25 Huntington Ave.

SCRANTON, PA. CLEVELAND, OHIO
307 N. Irving Ave. Hippodrome Blg.

Also—‘ Kentucky Bred” Peonies,
Irises, Glads, Perennials, Trees and
Ornamentals.

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

FEBRUARY, 19

HENDERSON’S SPECIAL OFFEE

1927 Seed Catalogue and
6 Packets of Tested Seeds
—only 10c

AIL the coupon with only 10 cents, and we will mail you

“Everything for the Garden,’”’ Henderson’s new seed cat-

alogue, together with the Henderson specialty offer of 6
packets of our tested seeds.

These 6 packets are all seeds of our own introductions, and are
among our most famous specialties—Ponderosa Tomato, Big
Boston Lettuce, Early Scarlet Turnip Radish ;—Invincible Asters,
Brilliant Mixture Poppies and Giant Waved Spencer Sweet Peas.
These, like all Henderson’s seeds, are tested seeds.

Giant Wave
Spencer
Sweet Peas

Henderson
Invincible
Asters

Many of the accepted methods of testing seeds were originated
by Peter Henderson three generations ago. These methods im-
proved by 80 years of experience still safeguard the standard
quality of Henderson’s seeds.

Brilliant Mixture
Poppies

Everything for the Garden

This is a book of 204 pages, with
16 beautiful color plates, 64 pages
of rotogravure, and over a thou-
sand illustrations direct from
actual photographs of the re-
sults from Henderson’s seeds.

It offers many special collections
of vegetable seeds arranged so as
to give a continuous supply of

Every Empty Envelope Counts for Cash y

fresh vegetables throughout the
Summer, and collections of
flower seeds especially arranged
for harmony of color and con-
tinuity of bloom.

It is acomplete garden book, and
should be in the hands of every
lover of the garden beautiful or
bountiful.—Clip the coupon now!

This special collection of Henderson’s

35-37 Cortlandt Street
New York City

Tested Seeds comes to you enclosed in a cou-
pon envelope which, emptied and returned
to us, will be accepted as 25 cents cash
payment on any order of a dollar or over.

PETER HENDERSON @, CO.

G & HB-2

PETER HENDERSON & CO.
35-37 Cortlandt Street, New York City

Early Scarlet
Turnip Radish

Enclosed is 10c for Henderson’s Seed Catalogue and 6 packets of fam-
ous tested seeds, in coupon envelope.

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Cover design by Lucile Patteson

NEWS & COMMENT
PAGE PICTURES Victory Garden
Man’s Artistry with Water
A Sunken Rose Garden
THE CHARM OF SPECIAL GARDENS Olive Hyde Foster

VebsGiebe leas be Eb GARDENING ON A TIME
SCHEDULE BASIS

MEPORTROLIO OF BEAUTIFUL GARDENS
Mn ay CLOCK WOOD’ S GARDEN
MR. CHARLES FOSTERS GARDEN
Deen. REED S GARDEN Loutrel W. Briggs
MRS. A. E. LIBBEY’S GARDEN Mabel Keyes Babcock

SIGNS AND PORTENTS FOR THE PLANTER

Lewts E. Theiss

CARRYING THE GARDEN INTO THE SUNROOM

Amelia L. Hill

Adolph Kruhm

Ferruccio Vttale

Ruth Dean

SIX CHARMING SUNROOMS

PecrAaND ie toNGent Hob SHE RB ACE OU S
BRE OW ERS

BORDER FOR
Rena S. Middleton

YOUR BOY’S ROOM Ellen D. Wangner
THE HOME OF MR. RALPH L. BATES Dwight James Baum
THE HOME OF MR. WILBUR BRUNDAGE Frank J. Forster
THE DEPENDABLE POPULAR ANNUAL Leah S. Hurlburt
PRUNING FRUIT TREES FOR FRUIT PAB SP ror,
A QUEEN AND HER CHAIRS George D. Egbert
MAKING THE MOST OF REMODELLIN G Harriet S. Gillespie
WED KSeAND TALKS AT BREEZE HILL

J. Horace McFarland
BEAUTY AND CONVENIENCE IN CUPBOARDS

Marion Brownfield

COMMON AILMENTS OF COMMON PLANTS E.. Bade
AMONG OUR GARDEN NEIGHBORS
A GARDEN ONE YEAR OLD Julia Marquam
YOUR GARDEN IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY
NATIONAL GARDEN ASSOCIATION
HEARTHSTONE EDITOR’S CHAT

Gun DaNeGATETIES FOR THE WINTER SEASON
A. Louise Fillebrown

AO tAvk A YEAR GARDEN
HIOMWnE= NAD E LIME SULPHUR

LEONARD BARRON, Editor LUCY £. HUBBELL, Associate Editor

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NUMBER 6

POURS E CAAgS cL

Forehanded home owners begin as early
as March to make their plans for summer
living—and those who this year are con-
sidering a new summer cottage, or changes
in the one they already have, will be de-
lighted with the abundance of helpful
suggestion in our forthcoming March 1s-
sue, the Spring Building Number.

There is, first of all, the very attractive
Garden & Home Builder Cabin, specially
designed for our readers by Harold But-
terfield, well known Architect, of which
plans and specifications will be available
at small cost. Benjamin F. Betts, Archi-
tect, in ““Summer Homes by Hill and Sea”
talks about the various styles of practical
summer dwelling, which may be con-
structed at little cost, and he illustrates
his text with drawings of the different
types. As to furnishing the interior,
Ellen D. Wangner contributes “Outhtting
the Cottage or Cabin,” in which she de-
scribes and illustrates all sorts of novel
and ingenious devices for convenience and
decoration.

March is the great Rose planting time
and therefore, of course, Roses are fea-
tured. Prof. Hamblin of the Harvard
Botanic Garden has been hunting the
country over for old-fashioned Roses, and
you will be surprised at how many he has
found for you. These old-fashioned Roses
have a charm of their own and quite
different from the modern bedding kind,
but those have their share of attention,
too. Dr. J. Horace McFarland will tell
about the Roses that are particularly ef-
fective 1 in the early morning; J. H. Nicolas
in “Roses to Live With the Year Round”
tells us of something more than the mere
flowering characteristics of the plants—
a very helpful thing for the owner of the
small garden. G. A. Stevens in a succinct
and practical manner tells about “ Making
a Rose Garden.” But it is not all Roses
for the gardener: Prof. Richard T. Mul-
ler, of Amherst, tells of ““The Little
Greenhouse and Where it Goes.” Olive
Hyde Foster gives us “ Hedges, Boundar-
ies, and Backgrounds.” By no means of
least interest is the monthly work in the
garden in which Mr. T. A. Weston comes
with his inspiring and stimulating message.

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—there is a room whose cordial atmo-
sphere makes it the intimate gathering
place of the family and the favored
rendezvous of guests.

The complete charm of such a room
is founded upon its furnishings -—
furnishings of artistic and harmonious
mien which more often are wisely and
tastefully acquired one by one rather
than purchased as an entire ensemble.

The individual pieces of the English
Library illustrated here may be pur-
chased either severally or collectively
at relatively moderate prices.

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Beetle Quarantines
and Plant Business

Heretofore the Japanese beetle has been
a pest of comparatively slight importance
over a restricted area in the vicinity of
Philadelphia. Now it appears to be as-
suming rapidly the proportions of a na-
tional problem. Viewed from one angle
there is nothing very surprising in that;
for some years we have been told by those
best qualified to prophesy that the time
would surely come when this insect, hav-
ing already gained a real foothold, would
become so generally distributed as to
render futile further attempts to exter-
minate or geographically control it. Nor,
for that matter, is such an outlook cause
for hysterics or any exceptional alarm.
Referring to infestations, by the apple
tree tent caterpillar in particular but by
all sorts of insect pest in general, Prof.
G. W. Herrick of Cornell University, at a
meeting of the New York State Horticul-
tural Society in January of last year ex-
plained the natural course of events in
these words:

“It is a well-established fact that no one
species of animal or plant can hold the ascend-
ancy over others of its kind for any great
length of time. The forces of nature, if left
to themselves, tend toward a state of equili-
brium. If an insect becomes abnormally abun-
dant for a time certain natural forces, such as
climatic conditions, parasitic and predaceous
insects, birds and fungous diseases attack it
from all quarters and reduce it to normal num-
bers. .. . It is just this well established law of
nature that always holds out the hope to us
that, no matter what new pest comes to us and
no matter how much of a scourge it may be for
a time, the forces of nature will begin to act
and will eventually bring about a balance so
that this pest will be reduced to more or less
normal conditions. This has happened within
our knowledge again and again.

“When the Colorado potato beetle came
surging over the country in the 60’s and 70’s
from its home in the foothills of the Rocky
Mountains, everyone thought it was going to
utterly wipe out the potato as a crop and per-
haps attack other crops as well. We of today
can hardly realize the consternation in the
minds of the people over the ravages of that
imsect ... So it was with the Rocky Mountain
locust in the 70’s. . . . The famous brown-tail
moth introduced into New England some
thirty-odd years ago and which, for several
years, caused much consternation, appears to
have already struck a balance. People in the
South thought that the Mexican cotton boll
weevil was going to wipe out the business of
growing cotton in this country and yet the
season of 1925 has just closed with the second
largest cotton crop in the history of the United

Fates, ..

“This may be dangerous doctrine for an
entomologist to promulgate and I want to as-
sure you that the millenium is not as near at
hand as my argument might seem to indicate
—it isn’t quite time yet to throw away your
sprayers and dusters and depend on the forces
of nature to hold these pests in charge.

““My idea is simply to illustrate a general
natural law and to show that there isn’t any
real cause to become panic-stricken when a
new native insect pest suddenly shows up or
when one is introduced from a foreign coun-

try.

But, getting back to the Japanese
bettle, the really astonishing thing is that
its new and growing importance is due
less to the rapidity of its spread and the
nature and extent of its depredations,
than to the effect upon horticulture of the
regulative measures that are being em-
ployed in the apparently hopeless task ot
keeping it from spreading.

For just ten years State and Federal
forces have been working and spending
large appropriations in the endeavor to
keep the insect within a designated area,
which, however, has had to be enlarged
each year. While this work has included
scouting (so as to keep track of the inevit-
able spread of the beetle) and some in-
vestigation of methods of fighting it, by
far the greater part has been regulative,
involving the inspection of nurseries and
other plant-growing establishments and
all products grown on them, and the
certifying of certain of these materials
which, under severe and complicated
restrictions, are permitted to leave the
so-called “‘beetle territory.” Whereas, in
the words of one large plant grower
located in the quarantined: area, “the
actual damage done to us by the beetle
has probably not exceeded a few dollars
a year, the cost of the precautions we
have been required to take, the extra
work demanded in complying with the
regulations and the curtailment of our
business through inability to ship many
products out of the area, combine to rep-
resent losses of thousands of dollars.”
Naturally these losses have, where possi-
ble, had to be recouped—and that means
passing the extra cost along to the con-
sumer who, also, has suffered the incon-
venience (if located outside the quaran-
tine district) of not being able to secure
many of the materials that the quaran-
tined growers have to offer but are not
permitted to ship.

This ban on the business in horticul-
tural products (vegetables and other food
materials as well as fruit stocks and orna-

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mentals) is threatening to become more
and more serious. On October 11 last,—
after a somewhat perfunctory hearing at
which the Department of Agriculture
officials present approved the step; the
nurserymen, and other horticulturists said
nothing; and the general public (including
the gardening fraternity) was not repre-
sented—the boundaries of the quarantined
area were again extended, this time to
take in all of New Jersey, Nassau County,
N. Y., all of New York City and part of
Westchester County in New York, and
eastern Pennsylvania about as far as
Harrisburg, in addition to a portion of
Delaware already involved. By this ex-
tension the number of horticultural ship-
pers brought under the regulations was
increased by nearly I00 per cent. to some
3,000 establishments. Of these some 500
or more are large concerns doing a national
business. Moreover, a number of them
are just bringing to saleable maturity,
after a long hard struggle and a heavy in-
vestment, their first crops of certain orna-
mental trees, shrubs and plants of which
our former foreign supplies were cut off by
Quarantine 37 and which these growers
have undertaken to try to grow at the
suggestion of, and with the approval and
encouragement of, the same Department
of Agriculture that is now extending its
domestic quarantines so as to restrict the
distribution of these plants about the

country!

As far as vegetables and farm products
are concerned, this extension tends to
simplify matters, since it brings both the
producing areas in New Jersey and the
great New York City markets within
the quarantined area within which shipping
can be done without hindrance. But the
territory already involved and that di-
rectly threatened by the next extension
include within their borders many im-
portant nurseries and growers to. which
other parts of the country must look for
valuable and needed products.

To what extent can there be logically
carried the maintenance of a quarantine
that interferes with this sort of plant
commerce, especially when it confessedly
is but a temporary expedient, a mere
deterrent of the inevitable general distri-
bution of the pest?

And after all, how serious is the Japan-
ese beetle? Speaking in Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., last February, Mr. Loren B. Smith,
who is in charge of the beetle work in the
heart of the infested area and who prob-

Continued on page 516

IN THE VICTORY GARDEN AT NEWTON, MASS.
A lattice screen divides the formal flower
garden from the drying yard to which
entrance 15 had through a handsome white
wooden gate. Flowers here in profusion

follow in a succession of color harmonies
from spring till fall. Details of the design
and plants used may be found, with other
pictures, on pages 458-450

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Entirely artificial is this gully and pool, the composition was moved into position
the work of Ferruccio Vitale on the estate by hand, and it is only by such parr

of L. V. Lockwood, of which more views taking care that the garden builder can
are given on page 453. ach stone in successfully simulate nature’s own work

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The Evergreen Garden at Country Life
Press, where Garden § Home Builder ts
edited and printed. This 1s but one of the

Be an individual and make a

special gardens that surround the offices
and holds a rare collection of dwarf con-
tferous evergreens, and of Yews, etc.

bold feature of the plants you like most

The charm of special gardens

OFLA i Eee Yel) Bae hsORS in Bak

Photographs by Harry G. Healy, Mattie Edwards Hewitt, and others

To-day, when originality counts more
than ever before in the development of a
garden, and when we are getting farther
and farther from mere conventional de-
sign, one of the most satisfactory ways of
achieving unusual as well as artistic
effects is by means of the special garden.
Where people have plenty of ground, this
idea can be effectively carried out in a
series of gardens, connected by charming
walks made interesting in themselves by
special treatments, which, however, cannot
be gone into at this time. But where space
is more or less limited, either in actual
area or in possibilities, the special garden
has a value as well as a charm all its own.

“Doing the best you can, with what you
have, where you are,’ I believe was
Roosevelt’s definition of efficiency; and
the person with unusual conditions will do
well to resolutely put aside all precon-
ceived ideas of what a garden should be—
or what he would like to make it—and
proceed to use all the facilities available
in producing the most effective results
possible with the physical environment.

eh Pee el Ll G ASR DI BAN

In hilly country, where stony ground
may restrict actual garden space, a com-
paratively small plot could be cleared,
nestling close to the house, where it would
be visible from living-room or dining-
room windows. Planted with the old-
fashioned perennials, many of which are

in high favor again to-day, and selected
with reference to succession of bloom
from early spring to late autumn, its limi-
tations would be entirely overlooked in its
charm.

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A small corner of a garden in the Japan-
ese miniature landscape style offers op-
portunity for odd and rare plants

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A little farther away could be planned
a delightful natural little rock garden.
Stones could be reset where necessary to
make desired steps, as well as to provide
the suitable pockets for the required soil
to furnish the particular kind of food
needed by the different rock plants; also
to have these pockets so shaped as to hold
the moisture instead of letting the rain-
fall either run away or evaporate, as the
wrong placing of the rocks would other-
wise do. Specially made rock gardens
are never properly constructed by simply
dumping a few loads of stone on the
ground, and attempting to cover with a
layer of earth. Instead, it must be built
from the bottom up, arranging the stones
a layer at a time, and filling in the crevices
with good (generally woodland) soil, and
then placing the second layer of stones in
between the first layer instead of directly
on top. Attention must also be given to
unobstructed drainage, at a slant to lead
toward the heart of the garden.

Special trees, shrubs, vines, and plants
from all parts of the world are available
from special nurserymen, and will make a
spot of endless delight; but just as lovely
effects can be secured with local, inex-
pensive material, the interest then being
aroused by actual ground arrangement,
color scheme and grouping. As_ men-
tioned before, possible succession of bloom

GARDEN=HOME

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BULEDER

Water plants are made at home in this
artificial formal tank with a background
of rock wall. Home of Mr. Robert Glen-
denning, Chestnut Hill, Pa.

with the right kind of evergreens, will
make it beautiful the year through.

TE B UL By GAR DsBEN|

A bulb garden is possible almost any-
where, and under almost any conditions,
although I always prefer the one designed
to start blooming before the snow has
entirely disappeared. This I have often
had on Long Island, where the Snowdrops,
Scillas, Chionodoxas, Grape Hyacinths
and Crocus follow each other quickly
when not all in bloom at once, and are
very soon replaced by the Early Tulips,
the Daffodils, Narcissus and then the
magnificent late Darwin, Rembrandt and
Breeder Tulips.

The ground which has been closely
planted with the various bulbs which
remain undisturbed, can be used for a
second special garden. When the last
flowers have passed, the foliage can be
laid flat in a shallow trench, covered with
the soil, and left while the bulbs are ma-
turing. Over the top, however, the shallow
rooted annuals can be sown, which will
start to bloom in a few weeks, and often
last up to frost. Poppies, Cornflowers, an-
nual Larkspur, annual Lupin, Marigolds
of all kinds, Snapdragon, Gaillardia,
Petunia, Nasturtium, Zinnia—and many
more are fine for such bedding.

Late in the fall, however, with the an-
nuals out of the way the ground should be
replenished with a mulch of well-rotted
manure, for the constantly increasing
bulbs must be kept well nourished.

THE DA Hin ANG AR DEN

A fine Dahlia garden for the second half
of the season is easily possible on the
same ground (instead of the annuals),

Where more space ts available a com-
pletely natural setting for aquatics 1s
better, of course. Olmstead Park, Boston,
Massachusetts

if the Tulips are removed after the yellow-
ing leaves show the bulbs are maturing
properly, and the Dahlia tubers set at the
proper depth and space apart. One city
yard I have visited, in a space only 15 x 30
feet, produces hundreds of fine Tulips in
early spring, and then by June is ready to
be planted again with about so of the finest
Dahlias obtainable. These prize-wining

The Rock Garden is the plant collector’s
jewel box, where hundreds of individual

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1927

specimens bloom up to frost, when they
are removed, dried for storage, and the
Tulips put back at once, the surface being.
covered with a thick layer of cow manure,
thoroughly rotted, to restore the depleted.
soil. ‘Lhe Tulips, being rather deeply set,
are not injured in the spring when the.
fertilizer is lightly worked into the ground
to increase the humus. Thus on an espe-
cially small plot the owners, who are away
during mid-summer, can each spring and
fall have the unique pleasure of entirely
different forms of loveliness.

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THE IRIS GARDEN

An Iris garden can be made a joy from
about the end of March to early July by
again considering that matter of succes-
sion of bloom. Few people, I believe,
realize the length of flowering season ob-
tainable with a little care.

The early dwarf types, pumila and
cristata, often have blooms barely an
inch in diameter. Coming in many
named varieties, and most of the Iris
shades, they can be bought as low as 25
cents apiece, and are splendid at the front
of the border.

The lovely German Iris which comes a
little later, forms the largest group, and is
probably the greatest favorite. It comes
in almost every color and combination
of colors excepting red, and at about the
price named (or a little higher) varieties
can be found for early and late bloom,
lasting pretty well through June. More-
over, several varieties often flower a sec-
ond time in the autumn.

Then both the Siberian and the Orien-
talis come in after the Germanica gets.
into full swing, and form a charming con-
trast in both flower and foliage; and about

the time they are all through, or a little.

Continued on page 502

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plants will be quite at home. Garden of
Mrs. L. B. Wilder, Bronxville, N. Y.

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_ The biggest factor in the garden is time.
All experiments are costly and the high
pressure gardener must cash in on the

experience of others.

It does not take any longer to grow the
most thoroughbred varieties yielding the
highest quality food than it does to grow
favorites of old standing, but of only

mediocre quality.

It is less work to sow fewer seeds. The
rows of most home gardens are literally

You will save time, seed, and labor
by using this chart for this season's crops

Vegetable gardening on a time
schedule basis

choked with seedlings making life a trial
for all. Sowing the correct amount of seed
means a distinct saving of effort otherwise
“thinning out.”

Sowing the best sorts for given pur-
poses, in quantities sufficient to insure
‘ample crops, and having these crops
mature so as to provide a continuous
supply in prime condition at a definite
time is efficient gardening; and such is the
purpose of the schedule offered herewith.

spent in

ADOLPHE KRUH™M

Of course, allowance must be made by
individuals for slight variations in_be-
havior of varieties due to differences in

soil, season, and other conditions beyond

control. But the varieties suggested have
never failed to fill fair expectations. The
promises made are based on actual records
kept for a period of over twenty years
and covering a wide range of territory.
The economical use of the available garden
area is shown by the chart on next page.

Crop READY

GENERAL CULTURE

Rows 2 ft. apart, seeds 4 in. apart; cover 2 in.
deep. Hill slightly; never cultivate while

Rows 3 ft. apart, seeds 6 in. apart, eye down,
6 seeds per hill, also eye down,
reduce to three strongest plants

Sow thinly; press soil down firmly; thin to 3
in. Use while quite young. Plants 10 to

Plant 2 ft. apart. Late crop improved by

Plant outdoors end of April. Use first be-
cause poor keepers.
Plants 2 to 22 ft. apart each way. Do not

transplant but thin in row

Thin to 3 in. in row

Thin to 4 or 5 in. in row

Set plants 6 in. apart; hill when fully de-
veloped; but not when wet

Dig roots October 15. Plant in boxes in
cellar to force for Thanksgiving

} Rows 23 ft. apart. Drop seeds 4 in. apart,
cover 2 in. deep
ho 3 ft. apart.

Thin plants to stand
12 in. apart in row.

Hill to support stalks

Hills 3 ft. apart.

Scatter 8-10 seeds per
Reduce to 3

Thin plants to foot in row.

Tie up to bleach
but untie after rains.

Set plants 2 ft. apart in rich soil

Sow thinly, cover lightly, thin out to 1 ft.

Handle like Radish or Turnip

Short rows often. Sow thinly, cover lightly
and thin out to 10 to 12 in. in row

SPACE TO BE SEEDS
CLASS AND VARIETIES WHEN TO SOW Days FROM ANTICIPATED YIELD
PLANTED REQUIRED Sour ie
gen a 30 f 1 pk h | May 15 and 60 1 qt. to 2 ft i
ountifu t. row, pkt. eac ay and every qt. to - running row
‘She ieee \ (Green Podded) 5 times ; or ae week up to %
ure Crop Wax 1 lb. each uly 15 we
Brittle Wax \ (Yellow Podded) of any two
Beane eB h 1 + |b h 15 d
ordhook Bus 3 Ib. eac a j
Burpee Improved Bush j 50 ft. row each | * \ May 20 85 ye 30 a pods. 2 in. deep.
Giant Podded Pole | 25 hills each June 1 110 50 Breen
Beets ;
Felines rah age \ 20-25 f te etepk h ree Addit a oe
clipse t. row! pkt. eac pril. itiona ‘
Ray Model each row every ten days 70 30 to 40 ta every ten ft. 12 in. apart
Half Long Blood 75
Swiss Chard: Lucullus 15 ft. row 85 Several bushels Greens
Brussels Sprouts .
Long Island Half Dwarf 100 plants Lpkt 50 plants twice— 100 1 qt. per plant
May 15, June 1 frost
Eis Golden A 25 plant March 15 und 80
arliest Golden Acre plants arc under
Copenhagen Market DB lias 95 eee from every 2 ft. of
Premium Flat Dutch 5 Olay 1 pkt. each | May 15 outdoors 110
Chinese Wong Bok (Salad) 50M 3 July 15 outdoors 75 50 heads from 25 ft. row
Carrots :
Perfect Forcing SOE row 1 pkt. April 15 45 30 to 40 roots from 10 ft.
Chantenay or Model 49° ** 1 pkt. May 1 70 of row
Danvers Half Long BOM Sai 4 OZ. June 1 90
Celer
Golden Self Blanching 100 ft. TOW IPAS, 175 stalks
Giant Pascal LOOMS 1 pkt. each | March 1 150 150 stalks
Chicory '
Witloof or French Endive 50 ft. 1 pkt. April 15 200—250 About 10 Ibs. Salad
ce Sweet Two ears each plant
Be tareadence May 15 60 7 in. ears
Golden Bantam 50 ft. of each June 1, 3 June 15 80 8in. ©
Howling Mob kind 2 lb. each June 15 95 10in. *
Golden Evergreen June 1 100 12) ins
Cucumb :
Early Porune 12 hills each 1 pkt. each | June 1 60 12 to 14 per hill [
Davis Perfect 70 8 to 10 hill.
Endi
Giant Fringed 50 ft. row 1 pkt. 1 April 15, 4 July 15 60 1 plant to ft. of row
E lant ‘
Bee eeibcauty 30 ft. row (15 | 1 pkt. March 1 under glass 150 2 to 3 fruits per plant
plants)
Kale :
Dwarf Curled Scotch 50 ft. row 1 pkt. August 1 100 50 plants (5 bu.)
Kohlrabi
i i ft. 1 pkt. 10 ft. row every 50 4 roots to 1 ft.
Early White Vienna 50 ft. row p Sehr pee An AS
to July 1
Lettuce :
eae gee pion ft. rows apt Hee a
ayahea t. row
California Cream Butter ae i - 1 pkt. each Hl a ay = 1 good head to 1 ft. row
ignonette aes 3 ;
4 August 15
New York or Wonderful Oui, May 1 80

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Crop READY

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SPACE TO BE SEEDS FROM AN PATED YIELD
CLASS AND VARIETIES PLANTED REQUIRED WHEN TO SOW a. ae TICIPATE GENERAL CULTURE
Musk Mel : : : ;
Rime Gear (Green flesh) 12 hills 1 pkt. each | June 1 90 10 to 12 fruits per hill Handle exactly like Cucumber
Burrell’s Gem (Salmon flesh) 2s 100
Okra & : .
White Velvet 12 plants 1 pkt. May 15 75 12 to 15 pods per plant Sow and cultivate like Sweet Corn
Onion ’ . * ;
White Portugal 50 ft. sets 1 Ib. sets April 1 60 200 scallions Sow in rows 18 in. to 2 ft. apart. Cover }
30 ft. seeds 1 pkt. seeds | April 15 a ee Ibs. bulbs ch; thin seedlings to 4 in. Weed and hoe
Yellow Globe Danvers 20) foroeach ‘ Se ato 2 ae ee reely and frequently
Red Southport Globe nd 1 pkt. each | April 15-20 1 <
Prizetaker 110 40
Parsley > 6 ; a , v4
Dwarf Perfection 20 ft. 1 pkt. April 15 He 8l0) Continuous Supply Soak seeds over night. Sow like Lettuce
Parsnip - } ‘ J
Hollow Crown 50 ft. 1 Oz. May 1 120 10-12 doz. roots Thin out to stand 4 in. apart. Quite hardy
Peas ; j
Market Surprise April 1 60 25 qts Rows 23 ft. apart. Seeds about 1 in. apart
Little Marvel 50 ft. row each 1 lb. each ae 65 2S) ss in row. 2—3 in. deep. Alderman needs.
Thomas Laxton ees WP 30 ‘ support.
Alderman ee 80 30 Others dwarf
Potlach fe ae 85 EASE wre
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Pepper
Neapolitan 25 ft. 12 plants Sane 1. 120 15-20 fruits per plant Like Egg Plants. Space 2 ft. apart
Large Bell or Bull Nose Z25r te. eA June 1 130 MOSES Me EE nt
Pumpkin :
Winter Luxury 10 hills 1 pkt. June 15 100—110 Several dozen Like Musk Melons
ane d 25 Sow thinl 2—18
: : . : and once Sow thinly in rows 12—18 in. apart.
Ea ae Ae ON 4 pes I oz.each April 15 weekly 30 hia roots to foot of row early to 1—2 in., wider distance for two,
la 1 15 fe “eee «« «« (for three 35 later
cicle ti. ) weeks a «ec ae”) ee ‘e “e
Chartier or Shepherd 20 tierce aes May 1 and 15 45
Salsify ;
Mammoth Sandwich Island 100 ft. row 1 oz. April 15 120 12 roots to 4 ft. of row Sow thinly, thin to 4 in. apart
Spinach
King of Denmark 100 ft. 1 oz. April 15 35—40 3 plants to foot of row _ Sow and treat like Lettuce. Let plants fully
New Zealand 25) ibe oz: April 15 75—80 Cut and come again variety| develop
Squash
Cocozelle Bush 20 ft. row 1 pkt. May 1 70 25 Like Cucumber or Musk Melons
Warted Hubbard 15 hills 1 pkt. May 15 110 3035
Tomato
Bonny Best 1 pkt. each | April 1 under glass. 95 15—6 oz. fruits per plant | Set 3 ft. apart each way. By July 1 reduce
Chalk’s Jewel 10 or 12 plants or Set out plants May 110 AU ‘ to three strongest branches per plant, train
Matchless each better, buy | 25-30 125 20—9 * ie e to five foot stakes and remove suckers at
Globe plants 100 20—6 ‘“‘ 5 fae - leaf joints regularly
Ponderosa 125 10—10-12 oz. fruits per
plant
Turnips J ,
Purple Top White Globe Zoults 1 pkt. April 15 50 12 to 3 ft. row Sow like Radish. Thin White Egg to 6 in.
White Egg PAY site 1 pkt. melts 75 U2 eer es
Rutabaga
American Purple Top Zits 1 pkt. July 1 100 12 to 5 ft. row Thin to 6 in. in row.

ROTATION AND SUCCESSION PLANTINGS FOR A 25 X 50 FT. AREA-

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The garden of
Vwi Ve LOCKWOOD

Riverside, Conn.

Power CCLO VITALE
Landscape Architect

Photographs by John Wallace Gillies

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about 36 x 60 over all, and only one
corner 1s shown

LEFT The sundial is on the axis of the
view from the house which stands on a
higher level giving an easy sight through
the central walk of the little garden

BELOW The tool house, formerly a chicken
coop, with paved area in front. The min-
tature pool 1s seen to the right of the pic-
ture. This whole area was but a refuse
dump five years ago

The garden of
GaeAgRe Ie haSmah ©-o eRe R
Woodlawn, New York

RVs ie Eee Dak AUN
Landscape Architect

Photographs by Amemiya

RIGHT The steps to the right of the pool
shown in the lower picture on opposite
page. Bold spreading leaves of Hosta
contrast with the grass like foliage of the
Japanese Iris. The garden holds a fine
selection of herbaceous plants and shrubs
of lowering value. Vines are very freely
used to give a sense of luxurious growth

BELOW Climbing Roses on an arbor make
an effective background for the herbaceous
plants in the bed in front. This little gar-
den has about a hundred different named
flowers, bulbs and shrubs

The garden of
Dee ye Eb ke
Bronxville, N. Y.

LOVER RIE Le Wee Bok. GS
Landscape Architect

Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt

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Here we have an unusual and very
practical solution for the conventional
suburban plot problem. With a depth of
100 ft. and a width of 72 ft. a great va-
riety of detail has been compassed so that
almost every kind of fancy can be in-
dulged. Every feature of the garden ex-
cept the twin Oaks is due to planting.
The two Oak trees were in position and
they determined the location of the house.
The Landscape Architect has given a little

bit of everything including a rose garden
and herbaceous borders (both in the
front), a shaded walk to the right of the
house, a grape trellis near the garage, a
little vegetable plot for fresh salads, a
shaded and secluded lawn with its little
formal pool. The whole is framed in by
a wooded planting in naturalistic manner

that completely dissipates all suggestion
of close association with neighbors’ houses
and garages. Yet there are big buildings
successfully hidden by the planting of
Birch, Hemlocks, Maples, Cornus, and
Circidophyllum. Quite different is the
treatment of the front area with Roses,
Iris, Peonies, etc., and supported by ever-

greens (Retinisporas, etc.) around the
doorway. A Sorrel-tree gives character
over the entrance gateway, especially
when it assumes its fall tints. Not less
happy is the planting about the service
entrance (see oval picture) at the rear
where Lilac, Coralberry, Yellow-root, and
such like give variety of tone and texture.

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Newton, Mass.

MABEL (K E YS) 3Bea te enone
Landscape Architect

Scheme and Materials

It is called the “Victory Garden” be-
cause of a statue of heroic size at the end
of the main axis and which stands against
a lattice fence that separates the flower
garden from the drying ground. ‘This
lattice fence, designed as a background for
the figure, extends only 23 ft. deep, but
the perspective of the lines of the lattice
work simulate an arbor 30 or 40 ft. long.
The garden, including the drying yard,
which is 16 ft. wide, covers the entire width
of the lot and extends 42 ft. from the back
line. The ground slopes to the west and
where was formerly a terrace a brick en-
closing wall was built to save two feet.
Flanking the opening to the statue are
two tall and narrow Koster Blue Spruces.

The color of the mortar in the tapestry
brick wall is blue, chosen to harmonize
with the color of these Spruces. The plots
on either side of the Victory are filled with
a background of such low evergreens as
Pfitzer’s Juniper, Euonymus vegetus, in
front of which are Cotoneaster, Peonies,
Irises in variety, Daphne cneorum, japan-
ese Anemones and Phlox.

Continued on page 524

The old-time farmer planted by

the dark of the moon. Was he so far out?

Signs and portents tor the planter

LEWIS BeDaWeliN ele ie belongs

Photographs by J. Horace McFarland Co., and by Courtesy
of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and Pennsylvania Dept. of Forest and Waters

Whether ’tis better to sow seed early
and risk a killing frost, or by waiting play
it safe, and have our plantings prosper?
That is the question that perplexes every
gardener. How is one to know, especially
when spring starts early? Every gardener
of experience has at some time yielded to
the lure of an apparently early spring;
how are we to know when it is safe to

“When the Chestnuts are in bloom sow
Buckwheat”? was the old farmers’ sound
practice

plant? Are there any natural “signs” by
which we may know whether spring is
really forward or whether nature is only
playing us another trick?

If we look about us, we shall observe
that permanent growths, like trees and
bushes, go through the same _ processes
year after year, guided only by the hand
of nature, and that they seldom make
mistakes. We may reasonably infer, then,
that if the trees are in some way governed
so that they come through safe, year after
year, they are pretty reliable guides to
follow; and such is the fact. The point is
to decide which trees or shrubs are the
safest guides to follow.

I once had a farmer who always planted
his Buckwheat when the Chestnuts were
in bloom. That was real wisdom. There is
a scientific reason for the practice, though
it is doubtful if the farmer understood
anything about the science in the matter.
There is a direct relationship between the
blooming of the Chestnuts and the plant-
ing of Buckwheat, just as there is between
the planting of every other product and
the flowering or leafing out of other trees
and shrubs.

It is obvious that permanent plants,
like trees, must go through the same life

processes year after year, in about the
same way, and at about the same time.
It is also obvious that they must be set in
action by some regularly recurring in-
fluence. And since the trees go through
their annual labors unharmed year after
year, it is evident that this influence must
be a “‘safe’’ one. What is it, then, that
sets the trees to work, and how does it
do it?

If you cut some sprigs of Pussy Willow
in January and bring them into the house,
they will shortly blossom forth, though
it be weeks before their normal outdoor
blooming period. Heat quite evidently
starts them into activity. And since they
normally bloom in the very short days,
they are soon in flower. Heat starts every-
thing else into activity. Frederick
Brendel, the scientist, made a study of
the effect of heat upon trees and found,
first, that heat sets them in motion, and
second, that different trees start their
activities in response to varying degrees of
heat.

Starting January first, he added the
daily mean temperatures, excluding the
negative temperatures, or the daily mean
temperatures below zero. He _ found,
through years of such observations, that
the trees begin their activities with the
Silver Maple, which is beginning to flower
by the time a total of 474 degrees Fahren-

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When the White Oak leafs out or the
foliage of the Red Oak has attained the

Plant Lettuce, round Peas, early Radish, |
early Potato, and Spinach when Poplars
have their catkins |

heit has been reached. From that point or
trees come regularly into leaf or flowe
Continued on page 49

size of a squirrel’s ear it 1s safe to

plant Corn. Warm weather is here!

The connecting link between the

garden outside and the rooms within

Carrying the garden into the sunroom

DPIBESN EW NOTE

In the days not now so very long ago
when the sunroom first “‘came in,” there
was a decided tendency, born of its
novelty and of the strong bias in favor of
conventionality, to make it as far as

ossible like the other rooms in the house.
Delightful porches were sacrificed, and at-
tractive exteriors with spacious verandas
were disfigured by the box-like glassing-in
of spaces meant to be left open to the air
and which, when completed, only became
unnecessary sitting-rooms which had no
very distinguishing mark of any particular
kind. Of late, however, there has happily
been a reaction from this haphazard sun-
room making, and a very distinct type of
apartment has resulted, which in winter
serves as an indoor garden and in summer
a link between the garden outside the
house and the rooms within.

The modern sunroom approximates
the open porch and outdoor conditions as
nearly as possible. This is desirable not
only from the decorative point of view,
but also from the practical standpoint,
because a room which is to accommodate
living plants must be so constructed as to
lose as little as possible in character
through supplying the conditions that the
plants demand.

One of our first thougnts in connection
with successful gardening, indoors or out,
is moisture, and here we are immediately
brought face to face with a very practical
question: the floor treatment of the sun-
room. Plants must be watered, and water
is, at one time or another, certain to fall
upon the floor. For this reason a tiled
flooring is especially suited to sunroom
use, or, failing this, the wooden floor may
be covered with lineoleum made to
simulate tiles in terra cotta, black and
white, or some other harmonious com-
bination suited to the predominating
color of the room. Upon this rugs may be
scattered, provided they do not cover too
much of the floor. These may be of the
ordinary type, or of some of the grass
varieties. The heavy square or oval mats
of grass in natural tones adorned with
bands of gay color or with a series of
little twisted plaques of straw, which in
their colorings of rose or yellow suggest
conventionalized roses, are very attractive
for this purpose, as are also the Formosa
tugs of large, brilliantly colored squares
which may be repainted easily at their
owner’s will. Care should be taken not to
overload the floor with rugs, but to bear in
mind that the room must not only de, but
look, thoroughly adapted to fulfil its pur-
pose.

AUMITES Te Ags Bove Viale ty EG tee
Author of “Garden Portraits’, etc.

When the sunroom is frankly attached
to the outside of the house the question
of wall treatment is already solved, as the
outer wall of the building must settle the
question of the decoration of all but the
glassed-in sides. When the sunroom is
only a ‘“‘ready-made” interior room with
one side composed of glass doors giving
upon terrace or garden, however, a further
problem in treatment is to be solved.
Rough plaster is particularly good as a
wall finish in such a room, and there is a
new prepared plaster which can be applied
successfully over any wall finish and
which, like ordinary plaster, may be
tinted to suit the views of the decorator.
This may be finished in any one of a
variety of ways and is both artistic and
decorative. Another solution is the paper
made to imitate hand-trowelled plaster,
or the paper which so well simulates Caen
stone. Either plaster or paper may be
further beautified by the erection upon it,
here and there, of a lightly made wooden
trellis, painted in a gay contrasting color,
over which is trained English Ivy, growing
up from a small brightly painted flower-
pot of similar hue. It may be noted in
passing that with a plaster finish a
further decorative touch 1s the addition of
a design in brick or tiling about windows,
doors or chimney-breast. The fireplace,
which might seem an anomaly in the
sunroom, is really not so, since to-day it is
an adjunct to many an open porch, where
its presence is appreciated during the
chilly evenings of late summer and early
autumn.

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Of course, the actual furnishing of the
sunroom is the feature which above all
others makes or mars its charm. Wicker is
an excellent choice for furniture, and
several capacious chairs in this material,
with cosy cushions, or even one or two
pieces upholstered in bright flowered
fabrics, which may be made to blend
with the garden character of the room,
must be supplied if the room is really to
serve as a sitting room and not as a mere
spot in which to spend a few moments
from time to time. Benches and tables in
the white painted wood so popular for
garden use may be freely used, and will
add much to the summer atmosphere of
the room. Lights may be supplied by floor
lamps, by great Japanese silk globes or
by old-fashioned lanterns set in iron
frames and either on the walls or hanging
from the ceiling.

The presence of birds in cages will do
much to enliven the sunroom-garden, as

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will a fountain of the wall or pool variety.
The former, while smaller and perhaps
easier to install, requires constant run-
ning water to appear at its best, and this
in some cases proves an obstacle to its
use. The pool, however, needs only filling
and may then be left to its own devices
and to the efficient care of the goldfish
which should be resident in it, and which
may be depended upon to keep the water
sweet and fresh. These little creatures will
add their quota to the interest and the
“out-doors” feeling of the sunroom;
and since for their best interests a few
water plants are desirable, they will afford
an excuse for the growing of these in-
doors, which in their turn, by their
beauty and their independent habits, will
probably tempt one another year year to
add a pool to the outdoor garden.

GROWING ELOW ERS EN DOORS

The question of growing flowers in the
sunroom garden next arises, and here let
us consider some of the special types of
sunroom which are peculiarly desirable
whenever their construction is possible.
One of these is simply a corner of terrace
or garden, walled about with glass, which
ties the sunroom to the garden more
closely than any other arrangement
since here the gardener may easily
carry out a continuation of his outdoor
work as far as space permits. Suppose, for
instance, a wide terrace before the house
and overlooking the garden, which is
paved in concrete set here and there with
dull blue tiles, and which is edged with
blue boxes filled with Ageratum, Mari-
golds, Calceolaria and dark and light blue
annual Larkspur. What would be prettier,
or what would tie house and garden more
closely together, than to wall in a corner
of such a terrace in glass, retaining the
pretty flooring, and continuing the porch-
box arrangement the length of the room
so formed? During the summer the glass
could be dispensed with and an overhang-
ing awning with blue and orange furniture
below it would make a delightful outdoor
sitting room of such a corner; while with
the first sharp frosts of autumn the glass
would be erected and a part, at least, of
the summer’s glories would be preserved
in the house throughout the winter
months. In such a case the flowers and
their containers would, of course, exactly
resemble those in outdoor use throughout
the summer.

There is another type of sunroom which
is also becoming popular and which gives
wide latitude in the choice and growing of

Continued on page 522

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ABOVE At the home of Mr. M. S. Ely,
Westhampton Beach, L. I., of which
Electus D. Litchfield was the architect,
the wide, open arched veranda, fitted with
screens, looks out upon the garden

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BELOW Unusual and very decorative is

this sunroom whose trellised ceilings sug-

gest climbing vines. Home of Mr. Jona-

than Moore, Bronxville, N. Y., Howard
Frenaye, Architects

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Photographs by

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make this porch part of the stone flagged
terrace. Home of Miss Anna Steen-
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BELOW Rough stone walls, fireplace, and
tiled floor bring to this sunroom of Mr.
Frank Holby at New Rochelle, N. Y.
(W. Whitehill, Architect) a fine sense
f livability

ABOVE In the enclosed porch at the
home of Mr. Walter S. Jefferay at
Nutley, N. J]. (William L. Armstrong,
Architect) the stone flags provide a fitting
background for the potted plants

Flere’s a simple scheme for planting
and upkeep that gives bloom through the season

Planting the herbaceous border for flowers

REE NPAS Seeley Ei ORN|

Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt

The double border, planted in graded baceous plants for bloom all through the

heights, and with the central walk in
grass 1s always an effective use of her-

_ There is no garden however small and
limited into which a perennial border
cannot be incorporated. It may be used
most successfully in the small, backyard
garden of the town house to define the
boundaries. On the larger plot it forms
a most excellent division between the
vegetable garden and the lawn. In the
more formal garden planting, one ordinar-
ily sees it used in the narrower, rectang-
ular beds that frame the more formal ar-
rangement. Wherever used, the border
will lend friendly intimacy and charm.
How can we expect formality where one
mass of color vies with another for pre-
dominance, or this group of low-growing
perennials endeavors to outstrip its
neighbor in softening the sharp edges of
the walk?

Perennial borders may be of several
different types. One may be a rock garden
border; or, it may consist of hardy flowering
shrubs; or a plant-grown rock wall may
be best adapted to the purpose. The
fundamental type, however, which ar-
rests our attention should be composed
of the tall, medium, and low-growing
herbaceous perennials with a few of the
well beloved, indispensable biennials, and

season. Garden of Mrs. J. Willis Martin
at Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania

some annuals necessary for a continuous
showing of color—the entire procession
being introduced by the spring bulbs.

Have you an unsightly high board
fence you wish hidden from view? I
once saw such a fence covered with simple
trellises extending higher than the fence
proper. These were covered with vines,
forming an admirable background for the
perennial border whose plants, graduated
in height, gave a wealth of rich color
and untold pleasure to all who saw it.
Are you fortunate enough to have a flower
loving neighbor? Here again is rare op-
portunity. Combine your efforts, and with
serious thought and careful planning a
beautiful wide garden will result in place
of the individual, narrow borders in sepa-
rate yards. Do you have a front or a
back walk leading to the house? What
could be more charming than such a walk
bordered with perennials? Is there a nar-
row strip even between house and walk?
Try planting some herbaceous perennials
here and mark the improvement. An old
stone wall lends itself pleasingly as a back-
ground for old-fashioned hardy plants.

If a border of flowering shrubs be used
as a background, let me give a word of

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caution. Allow a width of at least four
feet for the development of the flower
border, otherwise the shrubs will crowd
upon the flowers to the front of the border.
One must also keep in mind that the
perennials are in danger of being starved
since the roots of the shrubs are most
greedy. Never plant a border of perennials
on the north side of tall growing shrubs
unless you choose those loving shade and
not susceptible to exposure; otherwise
little success is likely to result.

A perennial border, theoretically speak-
ing, 1s one that provides bloom in bright
succession from early spring until the
frosts of late fall gather their toll. In
order to secure this we must give careful
forethought and planning. Do not let
the cost of perennials deter you since
most of them are easily grown from seed
and a pleasant sense of accomplishment is
experienced as well as the joy that comes
with being able to share or exchange with
other garden lovers. Another bit of
advice is timely. If you are only a be-
ginner in gardening, utilize the well known
old-fashioned flowers, increasing the kinds
as you become more experienced.

THE DOMINA NED Slower

At each season some one important
flower should dominate the border. In
the spring, it should seemingly be full of
Iris; while in midsummer there should
seem to be nothing but Phlox; and thus
through the season. This can be ac-
complished only by planting in groups
throughout the border, the number of
plants in each group being dependent up-
on the size of the border. Planting in
clumps of not less than three of a kind in a
small border is a safe rule for a beginner
to follow.

A suggestion of plants according to
season may be profitable. Let us begin our
procession of bloom with the spring bulbs,
not too many of each—Snowdrop, Cro-
cus, Scilla, Grape Hyacinth, Narcissus
and Tulip. Following these we have
Alyssum saxatile, Arabis, Viola, Bleeding-
heart, Iceland Poppy, Columbine, Iris
and Pyrethrum. In quick succession
come the Anchusa, Lupin, Peony, Phlox,
and Pinks.

This brings us to early summer with
the Hollyhock, Delphintum, Madonna
Lily, Lemon-lily, Foxglove, Canterbury-
bell, Oriental Poppy, Sweet William, Flax
and Gypsophila. For midsummer we
have Phlox, the various Lilies, Shasta
Daisy, Coreopsis, Veronica, Carpathian
Harebell, and Japanese Iris. This is the
season when annuals will fill the bare

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1927

spots with their lovely colors. A reserve
bed of Snapdragon, Ageratum, Marigold,
Zinnia, Petunia, and Cosmos will prove
of inestimable value for filling in wherever
opportunity presents. Shirley Poppy,
Annual Phlox, California Poppy, Nigella,
and Mignonette seed may be sown as
fillers with little effort and pleasing effect.

Hardy Chrysanthemums, Michaelmas
Daisies and Japanese Anemones bring
to a close a season that has been one of
continuous color and bloom.

In laying out a border the Peonies
should be placed first since when once
we they are rarely moved. Next

ace the Iris and the Phlox groups.
Phos three should occupy space at about
the central line of the bed. Our attention
is now given to the taller plants in the
rear—Hollyhocks, if there be a suitable
background; Delphinium, of which there
can never be too many; Michaelmas
Daisies, keeping in mind the fact that
they spread much; Foxgloves, especially
pleasing when used with an evergreen
background; Canterbury-bells and Ma-
donna Lilies. Now we are ready to
plant the lower growing and creeping
plants in the foreground of our border.

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Success with flowers of any kind 1s
never a matter of luck. There are some
gardeners—but let us hope their number
be few—who seem to think that after
they have planted, their responsibility
ceases. Many plants need coaxing and
coddling and they must be fed. Begin this

A wall, provided it has an exposure to
sun, makes an effective background. Home
of Mrs. B. Franklin Pepper, Chestnut
Hill, Pennsylvania

feeding process even before the planting,
mixing into the soil most thoroughly well-
rotted horse or cow manure, bonemeal
and dead leaves. During the summer
while the plant is in bud, the size and
quality of the flower will be improved

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if given applications of mild liquid
manure. Slight top dressings of dried
sheep manure or bonemeal should be
hoed or raked into the soil near the roots
of the plant. Peonies and Iris are weak-
ened by much manure; bonemeal, on the
other hand, is perfectly safe to use and is
the best fertilizer for them.

Beds must be kept free of weeds and if
a mulch is not maintained, plants should
be kept cultivated, this being especially
important after a rain, to prevent evap-
oration. Pulverized earth decreases ca-
pillarity, hence a break in the attraction
of water from deeper levels occurs on
cultivation. Never resort to watering un-
less it can be done thoroughly. Most peren-
nials are deep rooted; for this reason
mere surface watering not only does no
good but causes a hard crust to form on
top of the earth.

Some herbaceous perennials are bene-
fited by being allowed to remain in one
position. To this class belong the Bleeding-
heart and the Peony. The majority of
plants, however, are not likely to im-
prove unless taken up from time to time
and reset. Spreading and shallow-rooted
perennials as the Hardy Aster, yellow
Marguerite, Pompom Chrysanthemum
and English Daisy will thrive and flower
much better if divided and transplanted
each year, preferably during the early
spring before growth begins.

nother group of perennials should be
divided on an average of once every three
years. They will not be _ benefited
Continued on page 500

An old cellar and house foundation wall
became the keynote of Mr. Sydney C.
Cooper’s garden scheme at Sewickley,

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Pa. Rock plants adorn the wall behind
the herbaceous border which has a certain
formality in the edging planting

Let Ais room bea

place to bring his “cane”

Your boy’s room

ELLEN D. WANGNER

Photographs by courtesy of Erskine-Danforth Corp., B. Altman & Co.,

FURNISHING HIS ROOM

There is no problem in home decoration
quite so difficult nor of more importance
than that of furnishing the boy’s room,
no matter whether he be the small owner
of a first pair of trousers or that boy
merely grown tall. Mothers, if they be
wise, realize that this particular room can
be part of no decorative or color
scheme, period or style. It must be his,
furnished to meet his ideas and wishes,
for this is, first of all, his room, his cave,
pirate craft, and treasure house com-
bined, when small; and, with added years,
his special sanctum. That it may also be
his sleeping and dressing room is a minor
detail. Here he gives full sway to that
hidden inner boy-self so rarely shown to
other eyes. He wants no fussiness, no
daintiness, no feminine touches.

Every normal boy loves a dog and
would prize such an etching as this
by Kathleen Barker for his room

It comesas somewhat of a shock to many
a mother to discover that her dainty, well-
cared for baby has grown up into this
rampant being who does not regard clean-
liness or neatness as absolutely essential
qualifications. Careful rearing or the lack
of it has nothing at all to do with this; it is
just “boy,” for ‘‘a boy’s will is the wind’s
will and the thoughts of youth are long,
long thoughts.” In thinking them he
climbs the heights of imagination, slays
dragons and bathes in blood. What time
is there for neatness, order, cleanliness,
when one is off on a piratical cruise! Del-
icate dresser scarfs? Lovely draperies?

Ovington Bros. Inc., United Art &F Crafts

They have no place on these cruises nor
in this room where footballs may be
kicked, knives thrown at targets and
boxing gloves put on.

Wise is that mother who carries her dec-
orative plans just up to the threshold of
this room and no farther, letting her boy
develop his own tastes and keep his own
treasures in his own way. Far better to
have skates, rackets, books piled all over
the room; far better protect the ceilings
of the room underneath, to keep its
plaster in place; far wiser to deaden the
walls of this room and let the boy have
his games and his friends there in a real
boy-atmosphere than to drive him out of
what may be a veritable sanctuary for
him into byways that are not so pleasant.
There are things in life more to be desired
than an orderly room!

There are, however, many ways of
furnishing this room that will not offend
a boy nor make it always necessary to
close this door when mother’s guests pass
down the hall. The room may even be
definitely planned and still not prevent
the flying of his particular piratical flag.
In this first comes the location of the
room. Boys are not the quietest animals
in the world and if there be an attic let
him have it. In the actual furnishing the
boy should be consulted and his wishes
heeded, a little wise counsel (not dicta-
tion) being sufficient to guide him so that
unwittingly his tastes will be started in
the right direction, even though indes-
tructible furniture be selected and all
daintiness barred.

TIVE OUEST LON -O Bal Wedeies

First comes the question of the walls.
If wallboards have walled off an attic
space for him, these can be given a rough-
and-ready look by using some one of
the many plaster substitutes that are so
easily applied that the boy himself can
help in doing the job. Where the walls
are already plastered these same finishes
in any color can be used and the walls
made washable by the use of shellac.
Every boy likes to build and the more he
can help in developing this room of his,
the greater will be his pride and joy of
possession. He can even finish the floors,
which may be left bare and stained if he
wants them so. It is better, however, for
many reasons to cover the floor with lin-
oleum; it is more resilient when heads and
other parts of the anatomy bump it.
Then, too, it wears well and cleans easily,
and in this day of well-designed linoleum
the beauty that we want our boys to
love can be brought into their lives and

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A ship model is a spur to boyish fancy,
and it 1s interesting to know that models
may be purchased “knocked down’ so that
the young pirates can build their own craft

into their rooms by this material that will
furnish not only good design but any color
desired.

And that brings us to the color ques-
tion, for the boy will want in his room the
colors good or bad of his secret club, scout
troop, school or college fraternity. If he
hasn’t reached that point, it is well to
remember Eugene Field’sreply whenasked
his favorite color: “Any color—as long as
it’s red—is the color that suits me best.”
And this is true of most males. What is to
go on these walls regardless of their
color is for the boy to decide. If he wants
the moth-eaten owl that he shot, if he
wishes to tack up flags and banners of
violent hue, and pictures of his favorite
ball player, his the privilege. His tastes
may, however, be stimulated by giving
him a good etching or two of his favorite
pet, a dog or horse, a cowboy riding a

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H1s taste for good pictures is stimulated
by “The Broncho Buster” —an original
etching by Ziegler

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wen

These Cutty Sark book ends hold the boy’s

favorite books in readiness for instant
sailing on long cruises of adventure and
discovery

bucking broncho or a copy of one of
Remington’s beloved pictures.

If he cares for Indians (and what boy
does not!), or is a Scout, let the furnish-
ings of his room be a background for these
activities. It can be made into a veritable
camp if he wishes, with a stout daybed
to be used as a bunk, covered with
blankets and gay with pillows, with chairs
and tables in straight line “cabin” style,
with the lights in unbreakable lanterns
hung from the ceiling and out of the way,
but with floor outlets to permit of a good
lamp or table for reading or studying.

If the boy be so fortunate as to have two
rooms, one for play and study and one for
sleeping, the bed may then be a real bed

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This sturdy bookcase will keep his books
in order and protect tnem from dust

but even then it should be a man’s bed of
simple lines and coverings. Where the
furnishing of this room must be done on a
small budget, a cot with wire mattress
and movable head rest makes a fine
camp bed, its sheets and quilts and _ pil-
lows concealed (and, let us add, protected)
by a heavy scout or Indian blanket.

As to the other pieces of furniture, there
should be a bookcase for his growing col-
lection of books, a table and desk and
dresser and if possible a cabinet for his
collections. All should be of the simplest
design of heavy wood not easily upset or
dented by kicks. The book case may be of
the built-in variety and this he can easily
make himself—which brings up another
necessary part of a boy’s outht: a work-
bench and a place for work. If his actual
play-sleeping room be too small, then
space in the attic or basement should ‘be
allotted him, since fortunately there are
but few boys who do not like to make
“ships and sails.” A wonderful outlet this
for the energy that all boys possess and
that must have an outlet. If this be un-
provided for in safe and sane fashion, then
questionable ways are apt to furnish it.
The boy who is allowed to tinker without
interference at his radio set, allowed to
construct and devise various things, may
unconsciously be developing traits that
with the arrival of college days may
answer that vexed question, “‘What shall
I fit myself for?’ Along with the boy’s
work bench should be space for games; a
small collapsible billiard table 1s now
available for this that occupies small
space but helps to fill many a long hour.

In this room there should be one or two
easy chairs, the kind where a boy may
lose himself in a book, the roomy, com-
fortable chair of boy-proof structure, with
upholstery and cushions guaranteed to
give long service, and these in a neutral

The smallest attic space can be made into

a real den for the boy by the use of wall-

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GARDEN BS ISOME
BULEDE

Fe

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The very spirit of the Wild West is
brought to the boy’s room by this original
lithograph drawn on stone by Ziegler

tone to stand the test of time. To bring
some semblance of color-unity into the
furnishings these chairs may have slip
covers of gay fabrics, sunfast and tubfast
that will appeal to the boy’s love of cheer
and color and hold a warm invitation
when drawn up before his fireplace, for a
fireplace should, must, his room have!
This need not mean the’ danger and fire-
hazard of burning coals or blazing and
snapping logs and sparks, pleasant and
cheerful as these are. Safety and sanity
must rule in this room where pillows are
so apt to be shied without thought of

Continued on page 516

boards and an electric grate to bring the
mystery and charm of tratiland camp fires

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LIVING

CLoser

BED Room
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The home of

Mo Ree ean eee

BA IES

Kew Gardens, New York

DWIGHT. | Aisa oeAcua
Architect

Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho

In this typically Colonial home of
Mr. Bates, the architect has succeeded
splendidly in bringing to it a sense of
completeness and consistency. The
rough stone chimney is in perfect har-
mony with the shingled exterior, and
the well-designed Colonial doorway
adds the final touch of quaint charm.

One of the distinctive features is the
built-in garage (see photograph below),
which fits into the plan more comfor-
tably than the more commonly found

“attached” garage. The long slope of
the lean-to in the rear contributes a
pleasant line.

This type of house is a credit to the
Colonial precedent, forit emphasizes the
adaptability of this style to present day
needs and it brings out the most attrac-
tive features of the Colonial design. It
gives the lie to those who say that the
Colonial style is stiff and unyielding.
Notice, too, the roominess of the interior
plan and the way all the space is utilized

The home of
MR. WILBUR BRUNDAGE

Douglaston, Long Island

meevN hele FORS T ER
Architect

Photographs by John Wallace Gillies

To bring to this pleasant dwelling of
whitewashed brick, built in the English
cottage style, an air of durability and
mellow age, Mr. Forster has been par-
ticularly skillful in his selection of de-
tail—the uneven slate roof and shaped
roof-tree emphasizing the effect.

In the photograph below one sees an
interesting use of half timber work.
This decorative feature is confined to
the entrance and the gable of the dor-
mer immediately over the entrance. .
- In the photograph above we see the
dormers brought up straight off the
wall, giving a Norman touch which is
a favorite device of Mr. Forster’s. One
of the loveliest features about the place
is the magnificent Pine and Oak trees
surrounding the house, of which only
glimpses are shown in these photographs

Mains Room

The easiest way
to get flowers this year

The dependable popular annual

Pel O3W ERIS OR be Va bao eb OnD a Ya

The annuals have a distinct advantage
over perennials in their suitability for use
by renters or tenants who wish for prompt
returns and without making a permanent
investment. They are also excellent as
fillers for gaps in the beds which inevit-
ably occur on account of the death of
some perennial, or to follow up the spring
bulbs which leave bare spots to be
covered.

Most of the free-blooming annuals are
very inexpensive, of very easy culture,
quick growing, and bloom profusely
throughout their entire season with but
little attention, although they will surely
repay being well cared for.

You can have your annual flower beds
border the walk or house, or frame the
lawn or vegetable garden; they can be used
as center beds in a more formal garden
plan, but center beds are not greatly
favored in the average small garden.

Some flower beds are most beautiful
when planted with but one variety and
color of flower, to give a massed, bold
effect, while others are more effective
when composed of a combination of two
or more kinds and colors, artistically ar-
ranged and harmonized. Plant in clumps,
rather than having single plants here and
there. The aim should be to keep the bed
or border effective by not using too many
varieties—planting each kind so as to
bring out the individual color and texture.
Plant each kind carefully with a regard
to varying heights, colors, and seasons in
such a manner that the final arrangement
will be picturesque. Plant the tall varieties
toward the back of the bed or border,
and place the lower creeping ones to the
front, but still allow them to. creep for-
ward and also back, here and there, in
uneven lines so as to avoid stiffness. Be
sure that those plants which are short
lived are placed in inconspicuous spots so
that their deterioration will not ruin the
appearance of the flower bed.

BLUGYSSYeO UR SUE ESD See beAtR olanys

Buy your seeds early and buy the best
strains, more particularly so if it is only a
tiny Hower bed for which you are planning.
Most annuals can be sown easily in the
open with good results, but there are a few
kinds such as Petunia, Verbena Pansy,
Lobelia, Salvia, Carnation, etc., which
if started outdoors do not bloom until
quite late in the summer; but, if first
sown indoors and later transplanted, will
give flowers at least a month earlier. Sow
these in flats, hotbeds, or coldframes dur-
ing February or March and transplant

DRACO MieAG NG He Yous LE UsRe le bn UsRad:

later to the-open garden. A few (such as
the Poppies, Eschscholtzia, Centaurea,
and Mignonette) succeed better without
transplanting and are therefore better
sown in the open ground or very young
seedlings are “‘pricked off” to pots and
then grown on. Some of these have long
tap roots and do not seem to thrive after
transplanting, but if left undisturbed will
send their roots down deeply into the soil
and thus enable the plants to withstand a
greater degree of heat and drought which
results in a more vigorous growth.
However, most annuals benefit by being
transplanted, as it develops a better root
system. Sow these indoors or under cover
in rich, pulverized soil, in shallow drills of
convenient size for the plants to grow

Everything in this garden of annuals
was raised from seed the same year. The
planting was in bold masses

well. Most seeds are small and must be
barely covered, while the very fine seeds
are simply pressed into the soil using a
piece of smoothed wood. Water carefully
so as not to wash the seed out of the soil.
Keep the soil constantly moist and it
should be kept darkened (as with a sheet
of paper) until the seeds germinate, when
the covering must be removed. On warm
and sunny days some shade should be sup-
plied during midday. When the seedlings
are large enough to handle well, they can
be transplanted individually into paper
pots or cans or to another protected bed,
or they may be thinned out and left in the
original bed until large enough to trans-
plant into their permanent places.
Careful sowing has much to do with
ultimate success. Tiny seedlings are often
left to struggle for existence in lumpy
soils; or the soil is left to bake hard after

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sowing so that the little seedlings ar
unable to force their way through to ligh
and air.

Have the borders as long and unbroke
as possible and lay them out carefull
with stakes and line, marking out th
dimensions as accurately as you can—th
width ranging from one to nine feet (di
pending on the location and style of flowe
bed). Three feet is an easy width t
cultivate nicely but eight or nine fer
makes a more picturesque bed. In marl
ing out the dimensions, use a spade to gi
a clean-cut edge. The best time to prepai
the soil is in the fall but if this has bee
impossible, then start as early as you ca
in the spring. Even if the bed was pri
pared in the fall, the soil should be turne
over in spring to thoroughly pulverize i

Any good garden soil will produce a fir.
display of blooms, if spaded and broke
up properly. Have the ground spade
deeply and some well-rotted manu
turned in with the spading—taking ca
not to spade up the poorer sub-soil.
fresh manure was put on in the fall r
harm can accrue now; but, if addir
manure now, see that it is well-rotted ;
any heating effect will be injurious. Drie
sheep manure as purchased from the sec
stores is a very good substitute for tl
fresh article. In using either one, it shou
be spread evenly over the surface to |
depth of two or three inches and thx
thoroughly spaded in so that it is entire
covered. The work should be done with
spading fork, not a spade, and any lum)
of soil broken up as the spading proceed
Follow this by working over the surfa’
with a good rake, leveling and pulverizi
it until it is fine and free from lumps. |
sure also to remove every stick and stoi
as the bed is prepared.

W HEN SiO mesOnaw

Most of the hardier annuals can |
sown outdoors when the trees are start!
into leaf, and indeed this is usually tl
best time as seeds germinate well duru)
the moist weather of early spring. Ear’
plantings also give longer blooming se,
sons. If it 1s impossible to plant earl
fine beds of flowers can be raised by plan
ing as late as the last part of June or tl
very first part of July, but that meai_
quite a little more care. A flower bed ©
much more easily cultivated if the see
are sown in rows, allowing a large enous”
space between to accommodate a smi
hoe or hand cultivator, but be careful n.
to make the beds too stiff in formatio
Plant the seeds evenly and thinly, settlir
the soil lightly but firmly over them. L»
not cover them too deeply for their size-

Continued on page 4¢

Here, perhaps, you will find the answer
to the question “W, hy dow i my trees bear?”

Pruning fruit trees for fruit

1. Peach

Fruit culture, though not within the
province of every amateur gardener, is
taken up so often in a small way by the
men and women who build their homes on
the outskirts of the city, as well as by
country residents, who combine horticul-
ture with their other rural operations,
that a chat about pruning problems will
not be out of place.

I have met many people, at different
times, who have complained because they
knew nothing about the fruit trees within
their living area. For the enlightenment
of such people, many of whom have never
had the opportunity of studying the
habits of the fruit-bearing trees, these
simple illustrations are given. We deal
with trees which have reached the bearing
stage.

Peacu: This is by far the most popular
tree that comes within the reach of the
amateur. The Peach bears its: fruit only
on wood grown during the previous year.
Nothing else will carry a blossom. This
fact simplifies the matter considerably.

en pruning for fruit, you need trouble
yourself with no wood other than that
grown last year. Let the worn-out stem
question remain in the background for
the time being.

Sit down and study the sketches in
figure 1. The first is a section of last
season’s growth, carrying three sets of
buds. You notice that the top and bottom
buds are in threes. Here is the explana-
tion. Good strong leaders usually set three
buds at a time. The thinner laterals
tun mostly into singles. Of these bud-
trios the two outer ones, which you find

ave a furry appearance about the tips,
will produce flowers, and the center one
a leaf or young shoot. The leaf but con-
tinues the growth of the tree; the flowers

15 ei IPR IDO) IN

Sketches by the Author

set the fruit. Before you touch a bit of
peach wood with knife or secateurs you
must be able to say ‘“‘which is which.”

II is a part of one of the short end
growths—there are always many short
ends during a dry season—carrying
single flower buds, with a leaf growth
on the end. What to do with a shoot of
this nature presents a problem to the be-
ginner. Leave it alone is my advice, and
hope for a better growing season next
time the peaches set their leaves. It will
grow and continue if left alone. To stop it
anywhere would do no good.

III shows a bud that has opened
out. There is a small bud growth on
the end in back. This will carry the
new fruit forward. To prune back to any
one of the single-flower buds checks the
sap and renders that shoot valueless.
Flowers do not draw sap for long by them-
selves. They need to be on the line of
flow which is running to a leader or
growth. Then they are right, and finish
their course in fruits. Otherwise the
flowers do not make a full develop-
ment.

There must be no mistake about one
important point—the highest bud on
each leading limb must be one that will
produce a leaf growth and not a flower.
This applies to every kind of stone fruit.
There are no exceptions.

ApPLE is shown in figure 2. The prun-
ing of this is less understood than the
Peach. The first piece of wood shows the
fruit spur fully developed. This growth
varies somewhat in shape and form, but
four times out of five it takes on much the
appearance shown here. Spurs like these
usually take three years in forming.
They lengthen somewhat each season if
rough hands do not tear them away when

2. Apple

the fruit is being gathered. Look over your
five-year-old trees—Apples, as a rule,
do not bear much fruit under this age—
and compare the actual spur with this
sketch. The lesson you have to learn in
respect to the Apple is: leave these
spurs absolutely alone. The wood to cut
back should be some feet above anything
of this nature, looking very like the
second figure, with the leaf buds very
close to the stem. Shorten any shoots of
this nature, to within ten inches of where
they started last year’s growth. See
that you cut just above an “eye” (bud)
pointing outward. One of the cares of the
pruner should be to get sturdy limbs on
which the tree is to carry its fruit. Big
crops are not held long on_ spindly
growths. The process of shortening tends
to stiffen and thicken the wood.
Apricot: Fig. 3 shows two growths of
the Apricot, the first a short length of
last season’s growth, showing several
triple sets of buds. Not much fruit ever
sets on these buds. The Apricot carries
its load on spurs, as pictured in II. Some
folk have so little idea of the use of thes
spurs that they cut them out, and in doing
so lose the fruit. On the top of the top
left-hand shoot in figure 2 you would
find a leaf bud or two. Let this take the
lead. Never think of stopping any growth
just above a cluster of fruit buds. The act
of shortening back a one-year-old stem
forces the lower buds into fruit spurs.
One of the greatest helps in the formation
of fruit buds is the pruning done in
the summertime, when the new growths
are about twelve inches long, and still
green enough to be pinched off with the
fingers. But that is not a matter for just
now.
Continued on page 522

The Portuguese influence on

English furniture, and how it came about

A queen and her chairs

A MOMENTOUS ALLIANCE

Poor girl, though she was twenty-two
years old, she had not been out of her
mother’s palace five times in her life,
when she sailed from Lisbon to become
an English Queen. For eighteen months,
negotiations had been carried on between
the representatives of Portuguese roy-
alty on the one hand, and the representa-
tives of Charles the Second on the other,
which had for their object the marriage of
Katharine of Braganza, daughter of Dom
Juan, the restored King of Portugal, and
Donna Luiza, daughter of the First
Grandee of Spain, to the English King.
The negotiations were finally completed,
an English fleet bore the Portuguese
Princess away, over a stormy sea, to an
equally stormy life in the Island Kingdom.
This alliance proved a momentous one in
English history. As one of the historians
of the period reminds us, ‘“ Katharine’s
dowry was no less than the Island of
Bombay, with its forts, towns, bay, and
castles, and leave for England to trade
with the East Indies; such permission had
never been granted to any other nation.
Bombay proved the origin of England’s
power in the East Indies.” So from the
marriage of this young girl to an English
king, date the beginnings of England’s
great empire in India.

But in some lesser things, Katharine’s
marriage meant much to English life.
While she had led a cloistered existence,
beneath her mother’s watchful eye, she
must not only have acquired a broad in-
tellectual training, but she must have
been thoroughly educated in matters of
character as well. While light-hearted by
nature, and fond of music and dancing,
her influence in the dissolute court of her
husband meant a distinct restraint upon
the drunkenness and gluttony that dis-
graced it. More than this, she made posi-
tive contributions to English manners
and customs, which in the passing of the
decades and centuries have become im-
bedded in the every-day experience of the
English people. She introduced Italian
opera into England, her own private
musicians presenting at Somerset House
the first opera ever given on the tight little
island. Still further, Katharine brought
with her, among her belongings from na-
tive Portugal, tea, the Portuguese having
gotten the tea itself and with it the tea-
habit from the Far East. Holland bulks
so large in the trade with the Orient in
the seventeenth century, that we easily
forget the part played by the Portuguese
in Eastern travel and trade. It was Vasco
da Gama, a native of Portugal, who first
circled the Cape of Good Hope, and he
was the forerunner of many from his na-

GEORG ee D RSE Vee aGr belek)

tive land who found their way to the
Indies and to China, and found their way
back with the products of the East.

So it came to pass that cane, a distinctly
Chinese product, was introduced into the
construction of English furniture by this
broad-minded Queen. Whenever, then,
you see in a chair a seat or back of cane,
remember that cane came originally from
China, by way of Portugal, and from Por-
tugal to England in the baggage of a
Princess. The illustrations in this article,
with the single exception of that of the
late Cromwellian chair, so indicated, ex-
emplify the statement of the origin of
cane as applied to English furniture.
More than this, there is reason for be-
lieving that the spiral turning which ap-
peared in English furniture at this time,
and which is also illustrated in the photo-
graphs of several of the chairs pictured in
this paper, had found its way to England
from the Far East, by way of Portugal, its
first appearance in English styles dating
from the time when Queen Katharine en-
tered English history. The chair up-

nee)

Early Jacobean. Back and seat originally
of cane. Construction of top and lines of
back and front brace similar to those of
the Peasant Jacobean but the ornamenta-
tion a step in advance. Note the peculiar
feet, claimed by some to be of Flemish
origin, by others, of Spanish origin

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holstered in worn leather, which I call
“transition chair” is an excellent illu
tration of the incipient modifications «
Cromwellian simplicity and severity |
the introduction of this spiral turnin
This chair is neither severely Cromwelliz
(note the twisted braces) nor lightly ar
frivolously Jacobean (note the substanti
and angular back, and the equally sture
underbracing). The mark of Portugz
which is the mark of Queen Katharine,
distinctly recognizable in this chair.

But there is illustrated in these chai
more than simply the introduction of ne
material and new shapes into the co
struction of English furniture. There |
a hint here of the transformation of.
people—a transformation that meant.
tragedy. One may mark the change |
attitude of the English people by notir
the increase of ornamentation, beginnir
with the close of the rule of Oliver Cror
well, and the restoration of the Stuarts |
the person of Charles the Second, ar
continuing throughout the reign of th
Stuart king. Just glance at the late Cror
wellian chair just referred to; glance ne.
at what we may call the “peasant J]
cobean”; glance then at the one u
holstered in turkey-work, and then, as.
climax, note the large Jacobean arm-cha)|
with luxury and indulgence suggested |
every line of the over-elaborate carvin
The progress in elaboration is thus mai
manifest. The decorative form is not ori
inally English; English cabinet-make
are not responsible for devising it. Charl
and his associates brought that form fro
the Continent, where he had lived duru
the days of his banishment from Englan
where he had anticipated in his behavi
the foul and prodigal days of his reign, a1
from whence he came when exile was ove.

THE: KING RETURNED

To the thoughtful observer nothi
could suggest more vividly the trials a1
griefs of this Portuguese Princess than tk
elaboration of ornament. That may see
a strange statement; but it is undeniab
true that the English people swung cle)
over to the fantastic and luxurious fro
the dull respectability of Cromwell a1
his time. That the King had come ba
was to be marked in every way possib!
and the crown is worked even into ¢
namentation as if to continually remit
the people of his return. And so I say th
this elaboration of ornament vividly su’
gests to the thoughtful, the trials of th
Portuguese Princess. There is, of cours
no necessary connection between orn:
ment and vice, but extravagance ar
luxury anywhere are likely to mean som
where loose-living and light-hearted di:
regard of the fundamentals of moralit

FEBRUARY
1927

The one period was too severe; it was
narked by too many straight lines, and
yy too many sharp corners. The other
yeriod was too lenient; it had in it too
nany curves and too liberal ornamenta-
ion simply for ornamentation’s sake.
[he chairs parallel the times. The court
yf the Second Charles was unspeakably
icentious and utterly vile, with a licen-
jiousness and vileness that necessarily
neant bitter grief to the pure-minded,
und high-souled woman who had come
rom far to be his bride, and who endured
vith marvelous patience his disgraceful
onduct, and went on loving him even
into the end.

But just as in these chairs, beneath the
yver-ornamentation, there are lines and
surves and carvings of real and simple
yeauty, so, beneath the frivolous beha-
ior and beneath even the vices of
Sharles, there were qualities, overlaid
vith the mire of the sensual indeed, but,
n themselves, compelling our admira-
ion. When the suggestion was made to
um that Katharine be kidnapped and
-arried overseas to America to be gotten
id of in one way or another, said the
King, “Poor lady! It would be too wicked
-o make her miserable for no fault of hers,
yecause she has no living children.”
When Dr. Burnet, a court clergyman, to
iis utter shame, wrote treatises advocat-
ng on the one hand polygamy, and on the
ther divorce, this libertine king, finer in
soul than the clergyman who should have
ed him to higher things, and kindlier in
neart, declared, ““I am too wicked; but
10t so base as some about me would have
ne be.”” When Katharine’s enemies, ene-

Peasant Jacobean. The top rests on the
uprights or stiles and is simply carved

with the “Tudor Rose.” This construction
and carving both indicate early origin.

he reverse curves on the front brace, with
the rose just mentioned recall the wain-
Scot chairs of the period just preceding

mies because of her religion, plotted
against her, and accused her of et trea-
son before the bar of the House of Com-
mons, the King stood firmly for her defense.

And when he was dying, and Katharine,
in an agony of grief, had been led from
the room into which death was entering,

Detail of back of Charles II arm-chair.
Note acanthus leaf on arms and the rose
at the foot of the back panel and suggested
at the corners of the back; this rose con-
tinuing into this period 1n more ornamen-
tal fashion the “Tudor Rose” of the earlier
period. Note the interesting arrangement

of the scrolls on the edge of the back panel

Typical Charles II arm-chair. Note over-
ornamentation. Also crown in top and
front brace, typical of the period. Observe
spiral elements im stiles and wnderpin-
ning. The stiles project beyond the top,
indicating a later period than that of the
Early Jacobean and the Peasant Jacobean

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she sent word to him, begging his pardon
for aught she might have done that of-
fended him, only to receive from the dying
man for her answer, “ Poor lady! Does she
beg my pardon? I beg hers with all my
heart.” And so it is evident that the
chairs of the period of Charles are expres-
sive of the life of that period, and illus-
trative of the character of the King him-
self, whose extravagance was in line with
the times, but whose extravagance is
always to be recognized as having a
background of innate dignity. Through
the weaving of the cane which will
always be associated with this long-
suffering and devoted Queen, run strands
of red tragedy; the tragedy of a loyal
woman, far from home, scorned by the
husband she loved, insulted by his ex-
cesses, the object of foul conspiracies.
But winding in and out through these
same meshes, runs a strand of white love
tracing to the eye of the reader who
knows the tragic story, the letters of the
name “ Katharine.”

As I sit in my Jacobean arm-chair, alike
at my back and at my feet the figures of
mermaids holding a crown in their grasp,
I fall to dreaming of the noble Queen, who
came to England, bearing gifts from the
far Indies, like the Wise Men of old, and
I say over to myself, the words that de-
scribe her very simply, words written by
Waller, the poet of that court to which the
Princess came:

“The best of Queens . . . Wwe owe
To that bold nation, which the way did
show
To the fair region where the sun doth

mn

Severe

Late Cromwellian or Transition.
lines associated with the period of Crom-
well modified by later spiral front brace
and spiral elements in legs and stiles.
Earlier simple form modified by cushioned
back and seat, indicating a Cromwellian
style continued into the Jacobean period

Hints and suggestions

for improving the house you have

Making the most of remodelling

THE ROMANCE OF IT

Most of us have succumbed at some
time or other to the romance and mystery
of remodelling, and with those who enter
this delectable field of opportunity the
first experience is seldom the last. It is
the unknown quantity in the make-up of
an old house that supplies the first thrill,
but it is the captivating uncertainty of
the outcome that sustains the interest.

Everyone will tell you that the re-
modelling of old houses is a lottery, but
in its capriciousness lies its deepest fasci-
nation and few there are who will refuse
to essay the experiment if the opportunity
presents itself. So, in embarking upon this
delightful, if precarious, enterprise, it is
well to take it in the spirit of a glad ad-
venture. And, having thrown oneself on
the side of a really good architect, abandon
oneself to the very real joys of remodel-
ling.

For, whatever the drawbacks, there are
always compensations and it is a source
of abiding satisfaction to have made use
of good old material in a new way, and
often there is the very real joy of being
able to preserve some ancient relic for
the sake of sentiment or old associations.

Then, too, the idea of making some-
thing out of nothing is an aspect that will
appeal to even the most unimaginative of
adult minds, sometimes to the end of
throwing good money after bad, which is
a very stupid thing to do, but we are all
prone to such mistakes and there is
always the chance that we may profit by
the experience.

To most of us, half the fun of remodel-
ling is to make the changes fit the build-
ing budget and this, in the case of the
average householder, is seldom too elastic
to admit of whimsical excesses. There

“Before” and “after” views of Aughcush-
laun, the Watermiil,

of William

HARRIET .S1ISSO'N GIUPES PIE

Edgar Moran,
which through the skill of its owner was

is no doubt that very real hazards lie
along the way but they are mainly those
of temperament and there are few prob-
lems likely to arise that may not be
happily solved if there is present the
saving grace of humor.

The most fertile cause for discord, the
architects will say, lies in the anxiety of
the owner to retain some pet feature, a
dormer window he hates to part with, a
mantel or perhaps room space that cuts
in at the wrong place, but if an infinite
amount of patience is brought to bear,
the trouble may be quickly averted and
no harm done.

There is, however, one cardinal point
to be observed in remodelling an old house
and that is, if changes are made in the
interior, the exterior must be re-vamped
to conform, else the owner will find him-
self with the white elephant he had hoped
to change for a graceful Arab steed.

From a technical standpoint, it is in
doing over a house in a style long out of
vogue, which even in its palmiest days
had little to recommend it, that the
greatest perplexity will arise, particu-
larly when dealing with that type of non-
descript dwelling of the Mid-Victorian
era with cupolas, towers, illy proportioned
windows and high ceilings.

Even such architectural travesties can
be effaced and the shell transformed into
an intimate home-like dwelling, if the
owner is willing to concede the fact that
there are certain types of architecture,
notably the Mid-Victorian, that are sub-
ject to certain limitations which it is the
part of wisdom to observe.

That successful alterations of old houses
can be accomplished so as to entirely
obliterate the ear marks of an unlovely
old age, and to lend them a new and naive
appearance, may be gleaned from the

Long Island, home
Architect,

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transformed from a negative ty pe of dwell-
ing of the “early General Grant” period
into a dignified Colonial residence of the
Mt. Vernon, or Southern, type

work of William Edgar Moran of Good.
willie & Moran, architects, of New York
City.

Mr.

Moran’s own summer home

-Aughcushlaun, at Watermill, Long Island.

is a case in point. From a negative type
of dwelling of the “‘early General Grant’
period it was transformed into a dignified
Colonial residence, not a little reminiscent
of Mt. Vernon. The original, born in the
apogee of the late Victorian, might well
be described in Mr. Moran’s own words
as “a perfect example of the carpenter’s
own style.”

Without ancestry and happily with-
out progeny, it was marked by fewer
inconsistencies than was the case with
many of its compeers. Mr. Moran tore
out the unsymmetrically placed dormers
fore and aft, the decorative vergeboards
and the shelving porch with its square
posts branched at the top in a crude
semblance of the Gothic.

HOW 17 wWeASs DIONE

After removing all such excrescences,
he flattened out the cornices, bringing the
main roof forward in a gentle slope to
form a pillared porch, following as a
precedent the old King house at East
Marion, Long Island. The series of grace-
ful arches was repeated in the low porch
which at once supplied the keynote of the
design.

The tall, narrow double windows, a
shallow counterfeit of the French, as well
as the original front entrance off the
porch, were replaced with those of the
casement variety but their height was)
abbreviated to admit of transoms for the
sake of good proportion. This change.
afforded greater privacy to the living-
room in front and also enabled the owner
to plant the entire plot with an old-

FEBRUARY
1927

At the home of Dr. Wilbur Ward, near
York, Mr.
achieved the lovely Colonial house with

Mahopac, New

Moran

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gently pitched roof, shown below at righi,
from the crude little structure set close to
a country road (see left)

ashioned garden, bordered with Box as
vas also the flagged pathway to the new
ntrance, the bushes transplanted from
n old farmhouse down on Long Island.

The fine new Colonial doorway, framed
n classic pilasters with a quaint leaded
lass fanlight above, leads to the interior,
vhere few changes were necessary in the
oor plan, other than to secure space from
he living and guest room adjoining, for
he new hall.

The dining-room occupies the wing and
he summer kitchen is in the lean-to, two
teps down, with the laundry and winter
itchen in the basement. The upper
loor is divided into three masters’
edrooms and two baths with a maid’s
oom and bath. Not only is the exterior
ainted Salem white but the interior
voodwork and trim as well. Charming
cenic papers of Colonial days cover the
valls and the furniture is early American
ine and maple. The house follows
Jolonial tradition and is representative of
he type built in the latter half of the
8th century with not the least suspicion
f any but a Colonial heritage.

When Dr. Wilbur Ward sought to carry
out a recreational scheme as a relief from
the strain of professional duties in town,
he purchased some 200 acres of rolling
meadow land in a lovely section of New
York State near Mahopac. A crude little
structure set close to the old country road,
as plain as the proverbial pipe stem, with
flat roof and elongated window openings,
was to be utilized more or less as a summer
camp, pending the development of the
dairy.

But one day the owner took Mr. Moran
out to look it over, and the architect at
once visualized its artistic future. The
owner, still dubious of the result, told him
to go ahead. In passing along the old
country road to-day, a lovely Colonial
house greets the eye. Surrounded by a
white picket fence linked with an ador-
able garden gate atop a picturesque stone
wall, it is as placid and serene as any
18th century landmark, yet it grew from
very humble beginnings.

Again, the most vital change was
wrought by replacing the roof with one
having the gentle pitch of the early Amer-

ican farmhouse. A captivating hooded
entrance was installed for the crude front
veranda and the upper reaches of the
narrow clapboarded walls trimmed with
flat arches of the sort often to be seen in
the Genesee Valley.

To bring the second floor windows in
scale with the lower openings, the archi-
tect dropped them down a third of their
height. He built on a typical farmhouse
wing at the right and a pleasant open
porch on the left to command the ravish-
ing vistas of valley and hillside. The
end of the wing was glassed in with case-
ment doors with oval fanlights to afford a
sequestered retreat where, in summer, one
may enjoy the bright hued perennials in
the old-fashioned garden into which it
looks.

To give light and ventilation in the
wing, dormers were cut in the roof with
one full sized window in the gable, flanked
by naive quarter round openings of
Colonial origin. But little change was
necessary in the floor plan (since the new
wing provided new guest rooms above

Continued on page 400

Another example of Mr. Moran’s skilful
remodelling: the charming dwelling of

Mr. Herbert S. Blake at Glen Ridge,

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New Jersey, which had as its nucleus
a “carpenter's Colonial” house with ugly
porch and woodwork

Planting for June fragrance

—and dwarf trained fruit trees

Walks and talks at Breeze Hill

J HLO RAL ER Mor Ag eA D

Photographs by the J]. Horace McFarland Co.

On a perfect June morning in the rose
garden | am impressed with the way in
which a garden challenges all the senses,
even indirectly that of taste. The eye is
filled with the brilliance as well as the
soft loveliness of the climbing-rose pillars
in their seasonal outburst. As I sit that I
may write—and it requires some such
occasion to sit still in one’s own garden—I
see the great red beacon of Dr. Huey, and
just beyond it the properly named Purity
Rose, while if I want to think patriotically,
or rather nationally just now, there is in
the immediate foreground a splotch of
deep purple-blue made by plants of
Lobelia Crystal Palace Gem—easily
raised in the winter from cuttings, and
therefore uniform.

But it is the olfactory sense that is
most stirred as the soft southern air plays
across the garden. Fortunate Breeze Hill
is the eminence in Bellevue Park, a resi-
dential suburb wisely planned and cap-
ably carried along so that there are no
poles or wires, no smoke-stacks, no bill-
boards, no fences, to break the harmony
of the garden thought. In addition to
these adjuncts to pleasureable sight, all the
slopes in Bellevue Park are covered with
the Japanese Honeysuckle, which has here
run wild, and just now, as it is in full bloom,
the fragrance isindescribably sweet.

There is vast variety in rose fragrance.
It is an added charm to that best of all
hardy Climbers, Dr. W. Van Fleet, that
from the blush beauty of its petals, or
from the glands below them, comes the
almost conventional rose fragrance. I
have been comparing particularly, be-
cause they bloomed together, Climbing
American Beauty and Zephirine Drouhin.
When the first opens it has color and odor
and form and profusion to commend it,
but after a few days its purplish brown-

pink bedraggled petals cause one to turn
from its forlorn appearance to the con-
tinuous brightness of Zephirine Drouhin,
and all the time the odor of the latter
particularly commends it.

This morning, after a coo: night, the
odor that comes from Aviateur Bleriot and
from its almost lost-to-commerce compan-
ion, Oriflamme, reminds me somewhat of
the Magnolias that are long out of bloom.

I have come to feel sure that every
woman who visits Breeze Hill garden and
sees a Rose will immediately put her nose
into’ it, and thus | am “all’set% for the
necessary excuse for the really majestic
white beauty of Frau Karl Druschki, that
this otherwise best Rose has no fragrance.

But I am minded now not to discuss
rose fragrance _so much as that of the
other garden adornments of the rose
season. It was, indeed, the succeeding
Philadelphuses that brought about the
thought of calling attention to fragrance
in the garden.

MOCKORANGES IMPROVED

All too many nurserymen, alas, sell
just a “ Mockorange”’ when it is asked for.
‘That may mean Philadelphus coronarius,

The modern hybrid Mockoranges 0)
Lemoine are exquisitely beautiful and
far superior in size and quantity of
flower. ABOVE: Virginal, single with
pendant branches. R1GHT: Girandole,
semt-double in heavy cables of bloom.
LEFT: Philadelphus sericanthus reh-
derianus, small flowers with the fra-
grance of Garden Heliotrope

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which has the conventional odor assumed
to have brought about the common name
of these fine shrubs, or it may mean P,
grandiflorus, with a little larger flower and
no odor at all. There is very little real
need for either because of the hybridizing
genius of the great Lemoine, who, putting
together several species, including the
exquisitely beautiful P. microphyllus (sent
him many years ago from the Arnold
Arboretum by Professor Sargent), has
given us a race of hybrids including <
marvelous range of size and form oj
flower, leaf and plant, as well as a gamut
of differing odors. |
If I had to have but one Mockorange |
think it would be Virginal, unless insteac
it was the new Girandole, which with it:
cables (for they are heavier than ropes) 0°
closely set starry double white flower:
suggests superiority. Both have fragrance
differing, but not strong. - |
Another of these hybrids has just beer
surprising me. It is named Belle Etoile
and it certainly is a “beautiful star,” with
its four large petals, each one opening
with a distinct purplish blotch at the
base, lost as it expands, surrounding the
dainty ecru stamens. But it is the marvel.
ous odor of this Belle Etoile that bring,
the surprise. It is not mockorange odor
but rather reminiscent of gardenia, o|
jasmine, and it makes one think of thi
moonlit nights of the South. It is a strony
yet dainty fragrance. l
So far I have not noted great variatio1!
from the conventional mockorange odo
in the other Lemoine hybrids, new or old)
It is among the Philadephus species tha
one must look for such remarkabli
peculiarity of odorous difference as, a
least from my point of view, makes then.
desirable in the thoughtful garden, thoug]|
of less use in the show garden. |

FEBRUARY
1927

Professor Sargent has been mentioned
as having sent to Lemoine plants of the
American native Philadelphus microphyl-
lus, said to be the most fragrant American
native of the genus. I have a young plant,
but it has not yet flowered, and therefore
I cannot tell about it.

Among the earliest of these species to
bloom is one brought to us from West
China by that English-American friend
@r gardens, KE. H. Wilson. It is P. sub-
canus, but it started out first in gardens as
P. wilsoni. It is a small, dainty, and pleas-
ing flower, and its odor seems precisely
that of the garden Hyacinth. It has no
more than begun to fade until P. seri-
canthus rehderianus opens its abundant
even if inconspicuous flowers, and then
one has a scent surprise, particularly if
he walks from one part of the garden to
the other and notes that the peculiarly
aromatic fragrance of Valeriana officinalis,
commonly called Garden Heliotrope, is
present as well in the Philadelphus.

Later yet, and on a very gracefully
arching plant which is not generous in
the amount of its blooms, small and char-
acterized by their purplish calyces, comes
P. purpurascens, which for a while had to
be named as P. brachybotrys, as the
botanists juggled with it. When it first
began to bloom for me I was able to grow
good Sweet-peas at Breeze Hill, and it was
a pleasant thing to be able to ‘ask garden
visitors, particularly the ladies, whose ol-
factory sense is not usually obscured by
tobacco addiction, to distinguish between
the Sweet-peas and the Philadelphus, with
eyes shut. It could not be done, and this
really delightful Mockorange therefore
stands in my mind as the Sweet-pea
Mockorange.

Only of the odors of June in the garden
am I now writing. There are of course

Pinks to add their delight. There is the

Dwarf trained fruit trees have a peculiar
charm and friendly intimacy. They bear
reasonably good crops too

fine old Calycanthus which sometimes
gives us its aromatic fragrance, and some-
times refuses to do so. The Peonies have
just passed, but have left memories of the
fragrance of some of the commonest old
varieties as well as the non- -fragrance of
some of the most expensive new varieties.

So the garden touches very strongly
and pleasurably one’s olfactory sense in
June. It suggests the taste sense, because
some roses smell like apricots taste, and
the new Le Reve, a charming and most
informal semi-double, clear yellow climber
sent out by Pernet, smells like nothing
else than the way the soft buds of sassa-
fras taste when one pinches them off and
eats them in the spring woods.

I have not mentioned hearing as a sense
touched in the garden, and yet this same
soft June breeze is ringing the Canterbury-
bells as well as swishing pleasantly
through the Maple leaves. All the senses
are touched, and most of all the spirit to
which these senses need to be subject is
deeply stirred with a feeling of reverence
for the greater Creator who could put into
our hands the materials, the patterns and
the opportunity for working together all
this beauty.

He RFACT ING Ee Dia Eee Up aimee hens Bas

Probably because I saw some Pear
trees and Apple trees trained out as if
they were growing fences in a nursery a
good many years ago, I made up my mind
to try out this particular kind of fruit-
growing when I had a chance. Breeze Hill
has given me that chance, and I have had
more than a half-dozen years of fruiting
on the trees fostered in this fancy fashion.

The experiment was not undertaken in
any particular idea of securing greater
eficiency, but simply so that I could see
what the famed espalier training of Eng-
land and the continent was like. I had
seen Apricots and Peaches growing on a
greenhouse wall, but never a primitive
outdoor development of these trained
trees. Then I will admit that I soon
realized after I planted the trees the
talking-point this supplied as I showed
more or less admiring friends about the
more or less attractive garden I was work-
ing on. I could lead them up to the espalier
and nonchalantly tell them what it was,
all the time with a fervent inner hope that
I was hitting the French name with
something like the proper pronunciation!
There was a rather pleasing advantage
in the novelty or difference of the thing.

The nurseryman who provided me with
the trees had good foreign connections for
getting them, but no connections at all
with a conscience, for not only were the
espalier trees, nicely trained as they were,
far away from the varieties | wanted, but
so were many of the other dwarf fruit
trees. I could say words that would burn
the paper about the wrong of providing a
trusting planter with trees untrue to
name, giving him disappointment and dis-
advantage at a time of life when he could
not expect to have many years to correct
the fraudulent representations.

But these espalier trees have borne,
some of them satisfactorily and some of

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re

The fragrant Honeysuckle is a valued
evergreen vine for covering banks and

wild places

them poorly. They have also grown, far
too vigorously, because each year I have
to cut away great quantities of wood to
keep them somewhere near the limits of
the frame. They have been always cut
loose from the wood-and-wire frame, care-
fully sprayed, and then as carefully tied
back to keep them in the “straight and
narrow path” assigned to their various
forms and to keep the flat presentation
that might ripen the fruits more pleas-
antly

Some of the Pears have been very fine
in quality, and very beautiful to look at,
as may be judged by the picture accom-
panying this story. Also, when the blos-
soms come, the trees are beautiful enough
and different enough to be again well
worth while.

The experiment, therefore, while it has
not resulted in any advantage in fruit
over the neighboring dwarf trees, has been
worth while for reasons above stated and
cheerfully admitted. I do not recommend
espalier trees, which can be had of several
nurserymen in the United States, as an
orchard investment. I do recommend
them as a very pleasing means of fruit
enjoyment to those who like all parts of
God’s garden profusion, and are as willing
to enjoy the beauty of a trained Tomato
as the beauty of a perfect Rose.

DANGER TAS SPE O Faz iaNeNe LEA

For two years we have enjoyed the
peculiar beauty of the Dwarf Zinnia,
sold as Gracillima. The flowers are a little
more than an inch in diameter, and we
feel particularly pleased when of the seed-
lings a goodly number come either yellow
or clear scarlet, though occasionally there
is a good orange in the lot. The plants
participate in the graceful quality im-
plied by the name, because they are low
and rounded, and at Breeze Hill we have
found them most serviceable as an edging.
In common with the Zinnia family they
bloom long and the blooms stay long, so
that we have nearly three months of service
from this charming annual.

The cut-flower part of the outfit is espe-
cially fond of these Gracillima Zinnias.

Roomy and quaint “built-ins” that
jit the style, the space and the color scheme

Beauty_and convenience in cupboards

Moit Stud

UP-TO-DATE OU A NEN, Eesis

The modern china cupboard is most
up-to-date when it has a quaint old-time
air! In other words, the vogue of period
styles has influenced the housing of our
Fortunately, this gives us charm-

china.

The kitchen-dresser type cupboard in its
quaint simplicity emphasizes the in-
formal cottage note

MAL RITLOUNG BRO sWanet? 1 et. D

Photographs by Jessie Tarbox Beals,

ing variety, for period effects can be
adapted as seems expedient.

The general architecture of the home
naturally governs the interior decoration.
Thus we have corner cupboards with
leaded glass doors in a Colonial dining
room, wrought guarded shelves where a
Latin atmosphere prevails, and a simple
kitchen dresser effect where painted
furniture emphasizes a cottage setting.

Most of these cupboards are “built-in”,
but what a contrast with those formerly
constructed! Instead of a standardized
ready-made look, each has individuality.
And who indeed would suspect that the
cabinets in the room shown in the illus-
tration below were “built-in?” In har-
mony with the Renaissance period at-
mosphere these china cupboards are so
artistic that the secret of their being
stationary is only revealed when one
becomes fully aware that they are “flush”
with the wall. Indeed, the arched treat-
ment of both ceiling and doorway gives
the impression that here is a fine piece of
furniture set in a recessed wall. Both the
handsome woodwork, and the recessing
give these cupboards the charm of dis-
tinct pieces of furniture. Then, too, open
shelves, whether they hold china, glass, or
books, are always delightful.

These cabinets are so cleverly recessed and

105, John Wallace Gillies, Frederick W. Martin

In the modern cottage where space con-

servation 1s important closed shelves take

care of both dishes and provisions |

And speaking of shelves, there is <
fad for painting them to contrast with the
color scheme of the room they occupy |
Where the studio or cottage effect is the
keynote, shelves for pottery are de.
cidedly attractive with a vivid touch o
color. Not only the shelves (on top anc
carefully underneath) but the wall bach
of them is given a gay coat of enam.
el. Sometimes a two-color scheme i:
successfully employed. Thus the shelve: _
may be painted a soft apple green, wit!
the back wall and the edge of each shel)
salmon pink. Often the pottery itsel'!
will suggest a fascinating color scheme
Contrast is usually a good rule, so ii
bright Majolica or Czecho-Slovakian pot.
tery 1s to be properly set off, a glossy black
may be just the thing. Also in passing,
it may be said that paint is an excellent
way of covering up inexpensive wood.
work.

THE DIFFERENT TYPES |

What the china cupboard holds is an-
other inspiration for the building thereof,
Peasant wares, whether they are Quim-
per, Wedgwood, or the very popular Della
Robbia or Raphaelesque patterns in Ma-
jolica, always call for simple sturdy sur-
roundings. The roomy cupboard illus-
trated above at left is splendid for holding
such pieces. It matters not whether one is

distinction of separate and choice pieces
of furniture. The arched ceiling aids in
the impression of a recessed wall

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a “collector,” or just a home-maker whe
determines that the practical shall also
have beauty, in any case the housing of

harmonize so perfectly with the general
atmosphere of the room that they have the

FEBRUARY
1927

different types of china require discrim-
ination. English Minton, Royal Doulton
Worcester, and Irish Beleek, whatever
the pattern, demand a certain dignity.
A recent vogue has been closed cup-
boards of all kinds for the dining-room.
But now we are waking up to the tre-
mendous possibilities of dishes as dec-
oration. Nothing gives a more intimate
touch to any room than a few shelves or a
picturesque cupboard, where Canton or

Simple sturdy cupboards are most appro-
priate for gaily colored pottery and china

Copeland, just by way of example, re-
poses. It is the symbol of hospitality, this
suggestion of breaking bread, that is
sorely needed in many a dining-room,
especially where the walls are austerely
plastered. Even gloomy halls or informal
living-rooms take on new life, when a
small china cupboard becomes what
the i interior decorator appropriately calls

“a point of interest.’”’ For double service
rooms, too, where living and dining-room
are combined, the china cupboard is a
practical as well as artistic feature. It
may, if desired, hold glass, or brass, a
treasured collection of bowls or candle-
sticks, or even books. Drawers are some-
times included and are useful to hold linen.
The modern china cupboard lends itself
admirably to individual arrangement.

Its size is regulated by the same happy
yardstick. However, the capacious china
cupboard is favored at present. While
a few reach the ceiling, many blend with
the baseboard. Five shelves, spaced evenly
or unevenly apart, are often built. This
gives ample space for the average dinner
set, or the choice pieces rescued from the
pantry or kitchen.

The number in a room depends upon
the size of the various units. Sometimes
two small cupboards break up a monot-
onous wall space much more attractively
than one large cupboard. Balance 1s
usually most effective where a pair of
cupboards are desired. The niche idea is
being revived in many Italian Renais-
sance style dining-rooms; odd wall spaces
and corners lend themselves readily to a
few shelves. The space between windows
can often be utilized for a rather tall

cupboard. In one very modern breakfast
room seen, all four corners of the room
were turned into cupboards!

To what extent shall the china cupboard
be the “ point of interest” in the room? It
can very well be the center of interest. But
if there is a fireplace, the china cupboard
usually yields first honors. On the other
hand, much depends upon the
from the adjoining rooms. Unless there is
something unusually attractive in the way
of a movable buffet or console, the china
cupboard is an interesting spot on which
to focus attention. Whether it is to be
merely one of the attractive details of the
room, or an important part of the picture,
depends on the size of the room, and the
other furnishings. A built-in cupboard
conserves floor space, decidedly. But it
must be in proportion to the amount of
wall space available for windows and doors.
When well balanced, it will be a true source
of pride.

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GARDSNZIJOME
BULEDER

Buzlt-in cupboards for the bedroom are a
happy solution to the closet space problem
in the modern apartment or small house

The wrought-iron grilles that guard the
housewtfe’s treasures here harmonize with

the Spanish scheme of decorations and are
an integral part of the general design

Painted shelves, sometimes in a two-color
scheme, furnish a decorative note where
the cottage or studio effect 1s the keynote.

479

Notice the architectural beauty in this
round-arched cupboard and the way it
harmonizes with the simple furniture

You must recognize the

symptom before you find the cure

Common ailments of common plants

The majority of those who work in
their own small gardens have a hazy idea
of the injury that may be inflicted upon
flowers, vegetables, or fruits by the
various kinds of lower fungus. The un-
skilled worker turns for aid to chemicals,
and takes, in his ignorance, any type of
spray of which he may have heard or
which he may have at hand at the time,
not realizing that there is no single spray
which will prevent the attack of the var-

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Photographs by the author

ious lower fungus, and that each particular
type requires a different protective mea-
sure.

The injury which such parasitic fungus
do to the living tissue of the plant de-
pends upon the parasitic growth itself.
The plant cells may be brought to their
death when the fungus penetrates them,
just as if they were poisoned. The content
of the cell is then either wholly or partially
taken up by the parasite or the fungus

only abstracts certain substances without
at once killing the cell. The cells then be-
come brown although they remain for a
time in a living state. Their destruction is
sealed when the spores of the fungus
develop.
There are still other fungus which have
a certain stimulating effect on the growth
of the cell while they remove substances
from the plant thus producing abnormal
Continued on page 520

Left to right above. General appearance
of the Strawberry leaf blight. Mildew on
Phlox. Black-spot on Rose leaf. Leaf
blight of Strawberry. Black-S pot of Maple.

Left to right below. Fusicladium which
splits the Pear also spots the leaves. The
blight of Corn. Monilla on Peachcauses
shriveled, dry Fruit. Blight of Bean

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LETTERS from our Readers ABOUT Gardens and Flomes

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TORRINGTON, WYO.

Dear Editor

I am building a four room bungalow 30
ft. x 36 ft., and know very little about the
kind of heating plant to install. The house
1s on a farm in Wyoming where the winters
are severe and the winds very strong and
cold for a number of months during the win-
ter. I would prefer an oil burner, but find
that fuel oil cannot be obtained 1n this part of
country. This narrows my choice down to
either a pipe or a pipeless furnace, as the sixe
of both my house and pocketbook precludes
steam and hot water. Sometime I shall wish
to heat a room on the second floor. The
garage must be heated by a hot water coil
from the furnace. Will a pipeless furnace
adequately heat this house?

Where no skilled workmen are available
is it ltkely that a pipe furnace can be cor-
rectly installed? Are the floors cold in a
house heated by a pipeless furnace? The
prevailing wind here in the winter is from
the northwest; will the northwest bedroom
be cold if a pipeless furnace is installed? If
an the future oil 1s obtainable I shall prob-
ably install an oil burner: this fact will un-
doubtedly affect my choice of a furnace now.
Can you help me solve my problems?

Alice R. Kauffman

Jade and orchid for the bathroom

To the Editors:

Inspired by reading ‘Colorful Bath-
rooms”’ in the May issue, I feel that some
other readers may be interested in learn-
ing how I converted my bathroom into
a thing of beauty and a joy for some time
to come, at an expenditure of less than
fifty dollars.

It was about as hopeless and hideous
a bathroom as could be! The floors and
walls for about four feet up were wood-
stone, putty color, streaked and water
stained; the woodwork enameled a glaring
white, as also were the ceiling and upper
walls, the latter badly cracked. The bath-
tub was modern in that it was porcelain;
and it had legs that showed to the world!
The first step was to have the tub en-
closed, using scrap lumber covered with
woodstone the same as the floor and walls.
In the side near the plumbing was built
an 18 inch door for access to the pipes in
case of trouble, and this compartment
is the joy of my life, for in it all the clean-
ing materials for the bathroom are kept,
handy and out of sight.

We decided upon an orchid and jade
bathroom, and proceeded to paint all the
woodwork and woodstone, floor included,
orchid. First I used two coats of flat
white tinted with rich wine color and
bright blue that was as near as possible the
shade I wished. Two more coats of white
flat tone (tinted of course) were then ap-
a This is harder than the flat paint,

aving more body and some enamel. For
the final coat I used one of those marvelous

new lacquer paints that dry while you
wait. While the under coats were not
always the shade I wanted I was quite
sure to have this last one just right and
the result was a beautiful soft rich orchid,
the surface as smooth as tile and much
harder than enamel.

Before I began with the orchid paint
I had finished the inside of the medicine
and linen chests a lovely shade of jade
green. An old kitchen chair was lacquered
jet black, and the clothes hamper, which
had been painted orchid along with the
floor and walls, received a black band
about an inch wide around the top.

The ceiling and upper walls were cov-
ered with Sanitas in a deep ivory (almost
tan), and we used towel racks of clear
glass with nickel fixtures. The curtain for

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Dear Madam:

The proper planning of a heating system
involves a careful study of the location and
size of the house. There are many factors
that I should know before I could tell you
anything very definite. My suggestion will
have to be along general lines.

You say the prevailing winter winds are

from the northwest. The furnace should
therefore be placed, 1f feasible, under this
room. This will make it easter for the heat
to find its way to the coldest corner of the

house.

Most people make the mistake of getting a
furnace too small for the house 1n thetr effort
to save a little money on the installation.
Hot water or steam heat are often thought
to be superior to heating by hot air; but,
even tf 50, hot air furnaces cost less to install.

the overhead shower was of jade green
rubberized silk, and the rag rugs were also
green. Organdy with embroidered dots of
jade green made the window curtains.—

Mrs. C. S. Bateman, San Pedro, Cal.

Starting bulbs for spring growth
Dear Editor:

The first of February may seem unusu-
ally early for beginning operations, but to
flower lovers any work with plants seems
to bring a foretaste of the delights of spring.
Caladiums, Cannas, Dahlias, and Tube-
rose bulbs for early forcing may at this
time be started in one’s basement. While
some people advocate using sand to start
tubers in, we have found damp sphagnum
moss to be quicker and equally efficacious.

481

Simply wet this moss, which any florist or
seedstore will sell very cheaply, and wrap
it around the bulbs. Lay them in a flat and
keep them in the dark for at least two
weeks, being careful to see that the moss
is always damp. Then gradually bring
them to the basement windows for light.
If they advance too rapidly, pot them at
this time, though few basements are
warm and light enough to cause this
potting. Bulbs rooted in this way flower
much earlier outdoors and are stronger.
We nearly always start Castor-beans and
Moonflowers at the end of February, and
the result has amply repaid the extra
effort. In fact, we won a prize with 14
feet high Castor-beans, which is really
saying volumes, inasmuch as we live in
Canada where such an almost tropical
growth is rare. It is also advisable to split
up bulbs for propagation at this time,
just the same as to make cuttings of
Geraniums, Flowering-maples, Begonias,
etc., which are rapidly throwing out new
shoots in February or March.—Laura
Gaskill Hammersley, Sandwich, Ontarto.

Hardy Roses at Ottawa

Dear Editor:

The April, 1926, number of Garden &
Home Builder contains an article “‘ Plant-
ing Roses for Hardiness” by a Canadian
contributor, that contains so many state-
ments that do not coincide with my own
experiences in this region that I call atten-
tion to at least some of them.

For instance, he places J. B. Clark
among the varieties not hardy enough

Any of the three types of furnace will satis-
factorily heat your bungalow.

If there 1s a reliable heating contractor
in your vicinity, you would do well to con-
sult him and to follow his advice. On the
other hand, if you must depend upon farm
labor under the supervision of a good handy
man it would possibly be best for you to
write to one of the large nationally known
organizations of good repute in the heating
or home construction fields that are in a
position to advise you intelligently and to
furnish all materials and instructions. In
writing them you should give the floor plan
and that of the cellar. They will also want
to know what 15 the lowest outside tempera-
ture that you will probably encounter for a
day or two at a time.

F, H. Randolph,
Cornell University.

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GARDEN=IFOME
BUEEDER

for Ottawa. While this Rose is sometimes
classed as a Hybrid-tea, it is in perform-
ance an ideal Hybrid-perpetual (and is
so classed by its introducers) and in
hardiness exceeds even the most of this
class. I doubt if there are a dozen Rose
groups of any extent in Ottawa that do
not contain one or more.

Again, Jonkeer J. L. Mock is listed as
doing so poorly as to be undesirable.
Now, I doubt if any Hybrid-tea has made
greater strides in this vicinity in recent
years. In my own garden it exceeded all
others in both first and second crop bloom
in 1926. It is not only much more hardy
than some of the Hybrid-teas claimed to
be better by the writer of the April article,
but it has the merit of being a vigorous
grower and in my own experience is a
difficult pink to defeat in an exhibition.

Madame Ravary and Madame Leon
Pain are named as varieties that do not
mind our severe winters; yet many grow-
ers with whom I am acquainted have
found it practically impossible to carry
a Madame Ravary over the second
winter, while Madame Leon Pain has
never been seen in our exhibitions, so far
as I am aware.

Dean Hole, also greatly praised, is
practically a failure here as is also Hoosier
Beauty, which has been planted time and
time again without any success.—Experi-
ence, Ottawa, Canada.

A plea for the old-fashioned flowers
To the Editors of Garden & Home

Builder:

I should like to say that I sympathize
with your correspondent in the June,
1926, issue who writes under the title
“Oh, for the Flowers of Yesteryear,”’
and signs herself M. E. H., Elizabeth-
town, N. Y., as I, too, long for several
of the old-time favorites. When I ask for
them I am told “Oh, they have been
discarded, superseded by better sorts’’;
which is not true, as in most cases the
newer varieties do not in any way replace
the varieties asked for, and do not re-
semble them even in color. I have not
found the Dahlia Cherub, but have been
successful in finding Old Maid’s Curls.—
Mrs. J. A. Morrison, Denver, Colorado.

Wood ashes for Dahlia success

To the Editors:

I do not believe that the full value of
wood ashes has yet been realized. After
this season when a month of cold floods
alternated with a week of hot, dry weather
I found it invaluable in bringing back
erring Dahlias to the way they should go.

Dusted over the foliage it discouraged
many an insect, and carefully cultivated
in around the roots with half sand it
restored many a waterlogged pale green
plant to healthy dark green foliage and
buds. This has been a very hard season
for Dahlias and many other plants, but
“anybody can raise flowers in a good
season.

Some years ago I wrote in the Garden
Magazine the names of a dozen Dahlias
I would pick out if I were marooned on an

island like Robinson Crusoe. After this
last summer I would revise my list a
trifle. Now I feel sure I would include
shimmering rosy salmon Judge Marean,
glowing burnt orange Charm, good old
waxy Snowdrift (if she be rather a short
little lady) curly lavender-pink Mariposa,
erect dark bronze Trentonian, famous
dark red Grizzly, yellow Mabel Thatcher,
deep-petalled Margaret Masson of silvery
rose-pink, most luxuriant golden yellow
Hybrid-cactus Glory of Flushing, very
vigorous salmon Papillon, that stunning
Eliza Clark Bull, pink and white erect
Francis Lobdell, and long keeping Elinor
Vandeveer. These Dahlias were certainly
“fool-proof”’ last summer: they were not
troubled by insects, kept right on bloom-
ing and blooming hard, showing large
exhibition blooms no matter how un-
favorable the weather. The old red
Cardinal King, too, made a splendid
big flower for me and Jersey Radiant was
always reliable with its burnt-orange
blooms. Have I left out King of Shows?
That would never do. It was lavish with
its enormous quilled balls. It is well for a
beginner in Dahlias to start out with
fool-proof varieties and then he or she
can try later the kinds that are harder to
raise. A good application of wood ashes
toward the latter part of September seems
to make my bulbs keep better over winter.

On my island, too, there must be room
for a few seedlings. About once a year I
discovered a “‘fool-proof’? new variety.
It is great sport to raise them like other
annuals, and a potful in a sunny window
will give much pleasure before frost comes
if they are planted out around May ro to
15 in this latitude. I have had excellent
results from California grown seed and
also from my own Jersey seed. The bulbs
from seedlings almost always are full of
vitality and winter well in sand off the
floor and in a temperature of about 40
degrees. Each year one should discard
his poorer Dahlias and strive to get a few
better varieties. Then he can gather any
seeds that ripen, knowing that there are
no poor varieties in his garden to hybrid-
ize the good varieties. The seedlings may
be planted afoot anda half apart and then
one can dispose of the poorer varieties
as they bloom thus giving the better class
more room.

It is most enjoyable to raise something
new from seed. In my coldframe now are
a tiny Magnolia with four leaves, a
Chinese Tree Peony with one leaf, and a
row of little Tigridias. I have at length
discovered that to winter Tigridias a top
shelf in an ordinary closet, away from
mice, is an ideal place. Where Gladiolus
would winter they decay. I have had both
the gay scarlet and the peach-colored
varieties this year. They need a very well
drained place in the garden and cannot
stand wet.

An annual which was invaluable the
past summer for blue borders is Browallia.
It can be transplanted with no difficulty
and seeds itself from year to year. It is
excellent for cutting. Another good blue
annual is Hound’s Tongue or Cynoglos-
sum. It looks like blue velvet Forgetme-

not.—C, A. Gardin, Ridgewood, N. J.
482

FEBRUARY
1927

Concerning various bulbs
Editor Garden & Home Builder:

I have read somewhere—I thought it
was in your paper, but could not find it
afterward—a remark by a contributor
that Easter Lilies had blossomed again
after regularly blossoming in house or
greenhouse. [Yes, See G. & H. B. for
April, 1925, page 165, with illustration—
E I find this to be quite regular. All
of these bulbs that are of much size will
blossom late in the season if well planted
and cared for, sometimes giving several
flowers to a bulb.

When I looked for them to continue
blossoming I was disappointed. Only a
few weak shoots appeared and _ after
another year there were none. I therefore
came to the conclusion that these bulbs
are not exactly hardy and do not winter
well. So this fall I have dug up all I had
and put them in with other bulbs that
have to be wintered inside, and I will see
how they come out as summer bulbs. I
think I shall set them in a little soil and
maybe bring them up early if they winter
well. I have never seen any instructions
as to how they should be handled.

The cutting down of the Holland bulb
supply by an over-kind government board
is likely to set people to taking better
care of their bulbs than they used to. It
was quite too common to plant them
in ordinary soil—I did it anyhow—and
when they ran down after two or three
years, buy some more. It is found that
what all these bulbs need is a better
chance. We cannot provide climate,
except in a small way, but we can use good
soil and location.

One flower garden with which I have
some connection fairly multiplies its bulb
blossoms every year. Hyacinths do not
last so very long, but Tulips and Daffo-
dils, which have been in that garden a
dozen years, are still doing well, some
sorts better than others. It is always
scarcity that sets us to doing better work
with what we have. An amateur fancier
has just told me that his Tulips are
actually multiplying, so that he will have
to divide them soon. Narcissus of the
Poeticus group will multiply too much
and Hyacinths divide till they are too
small to blossom. Is there any way to
prevent that? [I don’t think so!—Ed.|

We find that a good setting in sand,
Over a mixture of good soil and fine
manure, with topsoil that is mixed with
sand or something that prevents hardness
and baking, is about as good as we can do
with them.—John W. Chamberlin, Buf-
palo, NAY.

Delphinium seeds in a sunny
window

Editors:

Miss Donnaldson’s experience (see G.
& H. B. for October, 1926, page 154) leads
me to mention for the encouragement of
others that I have raised lovely strong
Delphiniums for June blossoming from
seed sown in February. The seeds were
planted in a sunny window.—A. C.

McC. Hall, Greenock, Md.

EBRUARY, 1927

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

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ee delights of Martinique, that
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dancing through the languorous trop-
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new Schumacher chintz.

In color it is distinctly modern, for
it comes in cuivre (copper, but with a
new salmon tinge) noir (the green of
the sugar-cane is especially effective
against the black), bis (a soft biscuit
shade), and vert (the new Adam green).

et the story of the design goes
back to the year IX of the calen-
dar of the French Revolution (1800).

Acertain M. Pelletan,wealthy planter
of Martinique, fearing for his profit
because of a proposed restrictive block-
ade, journeyed to France to organize
methods of smuggling his sugar into
Europe. Desiring to take back to his
only daughter, Zulmé, something to
please and amuse her, he commissioned
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Itis this ceaseless searching into the
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this adapting them tothe newesttrends,
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An 18th Century French artist’s conception of a languid
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483

A GARDEN One Year Old

GUA Ruse Ngee oul els

To show that a year-old garden may easily
be an achievement of merit and charm, if a
sound idea 1s the basis, was the purpose of
our offer of prizes of $50 for photographs
and brief description of a year-old garden
(for garden club members). The contest
closed October 1st and drew entries from
about every state and even from across the
ocean.

In making the award the judges consid-
ered chiefly the practicability of the problem
and the possible help to be derived by others
having similar problems.

A year after the washout

by MRS. JULIA MARQUAM
Photographs by the author

The principal achievement in the de-
velopment of this interesting garden is the
short space of time taken to bring it to
its present state of luxuriousness.

In February a great calamity befell it.
Some water pipes and tanks situated on
the street above burst in the night, send-
ing a rushing torrent of water down
through the whole length of the garden,
leaving it a desolate waste of mud.

The owner had spent many years per-
fecting a charming hillside garden, made
up of attractive terraces supported by rock
walls, as she was very partial to rock plants.

After careful deliberation, she realized
that the natural formation of her garden

Along the stepping stone walk to the
house Delphiniums find a congenital
home. These are the Wrexham strain

the prizes awarded in the

Tr ee RUZ Es Wa sNeNeeakss

MRS. JULIA MARQUAM
PORTLAND, ORE.
The Portland Garden Club

M RSs oC. LA ZEN OR ele ReOue
RIDGEFIELD PARK, Ne J;

The Ridgefield Park Garden Club

was an ideal setting for a true rock garden
on a large scale. Early in March work
was begun in earnest. To insure perfect
security from any possibility of too much
moisture, a rock drain was built under the
rock walls. Nineteen loads of rocks were
used in the construction. Most of them
are natural boulders. Some of them were
so large that it required three men to fit
them into their proper places. The rocks
chosen are porous lava or volcanic rocks,
which are the kind all rock plants espe-
cially love, and their soft gray colors blend
in a most harmonious way with the gray-
green foliage of so many rock plants.

We have to keep in mind in building a
rock garden that these plants have their
original home on the very highest moun-
tains, where soil and moisture are almost
nil. That is why the rocks are standing up

In February last the original garden on
this site was washed away. That gave the
inspiration for the hillside rock garden

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PHOT OG REAP cee COONS Eaaen

Mrs. Northrop’s garden and those of hon-

orable mention will appear in later issues

Honorable mention

Mary C. Wilcox, Four Counties Garden
Club, St. David, Pa.

Agnes C. Darrow, Little Gardens Club,
Dayton, O.

Mrs. Francis P. Hallinan, Portland Garden
Club, Portland, Ore.

Mrs. C. M. Gooch, Garden Club of Mem-
phis, Memphis, Tenn.

on end and seem at first to be too conspic-
uous for beauty.

The many advantages of the hillside
in building a fine rock garden are clearly
visible here. It lends itself so well to
ascending steps and terraced walls. Here
the steps half encircle a lovely grotto and
shallow bird bath. Keeping every rock
in just the right place to create the
design is a most careful study and re-
quires time and much effort; for the art

of such a garden has all the elements of

architecture, with its unity of compo-
sition in balance of form, light and shade.
After the design was satisfactorily com-
pleted, the next problem was the right
kind of soil: this consists of one half leaf
mould and one half peat moss, also a small

amount of sheep guano and bonemeal.
Continued on page 524

that now occupies the place. Natural boul-
ders, some requiring three men to lift,
were used in a series of ascending terraces

FEBRUARY, 1927

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GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

In the Spanish manner
with floors to match

An interview with STEPHEN STRAHOTA
Interior Decorator, Katonah, New York

El estilo espanol!

Just what does it signify for the modern
interior? Color first of all, especially
bright yellows, warm reds. Then the
unstudied artistry of hand-wrought work
—in iron, in plaster, in tapestry. And by
all means, pattern floors as a background
of interest and harmony.

I cannot emphasize this last point too
strongly. Neglect the floor, let it remain
drab, colorless—and your whole interior
of Spanish influence lacks character. Start
with the floor, make it the color founda-
tion for your decorative treatment—and

success is assured. ie

Before I decorated the two rooms you
see illustrated here, the floors were worn
and splintery. Even more discouraging,
they were absolutely devoid of color in-
terest. The pictures show how the new
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The editor in his wisdom has decided
that I am particularly capable of affording
his Eastern readers hints and suggestions
on gardening operations. Being unable
to convince him otherwise, I am taking
up my favorite pen which has served me
faithfully for many years, in the hope that
it will bring inspiration. The weather
at the time of writing certainly does not
create thoughts of gardening; a snow
storm is raging, but despite it and a tem-
perature of 16° F., I have spent an hour
in the garden seeing to it that the cover-
ings in the frames and on the more tender
subjects in the open are held down se-
curely. No gardener who is absent
from home daily can afford to neglect
making such coverings secure, for when
snow is not present a strong wind is cap-
able of withering the life out of all such
plants as Foxgloves, Primroses, Canter-
bury-bells, etc.; plants of this class should
not be freed of their protective covering
before March is out, however mild it may
be prior to that date.

Incidentally, I might mention that
everyone may have flowers in his garden
at the time when I am writing—Decem-
ber. Helleborus niger, the Christmas
Rose, is one of the marvels of nature, for
its period of blooming is from November
to March; indeed it is at its best around
Christmas. In sections where heavy
snow falls before severe freezing sets in,
practically no protection is needed; the
flowers will develop under the snow. In
my own garden I find it advisable to cover
the plants with small frames when the
buds start to push up in November.
Grocery boxes covered with a pane of glass
are quite serviceable and, by covering
heavily with poultry feed bags when se-
vere weather sets in, the flowers are safe
from damage.

Frosts of several degrees have no effect
upon them, but they can make no progress
if the soil is allowed to freeze solid. Make
a note of Helleborus niger and secure
plants in the spring. It likes a fairly
heavy soil; and, for obvious reasons,
choose a sheltered situation; near a screen
of evergreens or at the base of a southern
slope is an excellent position.

Those who have no greenhouse (and I,
the writer, am among the host) have little
opportunity to do much outdoors in

ebruary, particularly those who, like me,
have to confine garden operations to eve-
nings and week-ends. Everything de-
pends upon the weather, and if it is favor-
able, make a point of pruning all fruit
trees and bushes if not already completed.
Fruits, by the way, should find a place in
every garden of fair dimensions, and by

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the use of cordon and bush trees and
dwarfing stocks, one can have a great
variety of Apples and Pears in a small
space. ‘This is a good time to place orders
for such trees for early delivery. Cur-
rants and Gooseberries should be con-
sidered and the Red and White Currants
as well as the Gooseberries can be grown
as cordons. If such are not purchasable
ready-made, buy rooted cuttings or save
some of the longest prunings for the pur-
pose, preserving them in jars of water in a
cool place, until they can be planted
deeply in the ground where they can re-
main undisturbed for a year or so.

A mild day is also opportune for spray-
ing fruits; strong solutions of lime-sulphur

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or any of the reliable proprietary washes
will do much to remove the danger of
aphis and caterpillar plagues in the grow-
ing season, for many of these develop
from eggs laid upon the wood the previous
season.

As a general rule it is not possible to
make sowings of seed; but if it has not
already been done, consult the catalogues
that have come in and send your order
without delay. Do not overlook the
novelties, for always there is something
worth trying; indeed novelties are the
spice of gardening.

Those fortunate enough to possess a
well lighted cellar that is not apt to vary
greatly in temperature, may gain some
advantage by sowing their Sweet-peas.
Use a box some 3 inches deep, and if
separate colors are favored, place the
seeds in rows, covering half an inch, and
labeling each. Get into the habit of
marking the date of sowing on all labels,

Continued on page 400

486

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latitude 42). The latitude of Phila-
delphia is a week earlier.
four days for each degree of latitude,
for each five degrees oflongitude,and for —_Ind.;

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each 400 feet of altitude. Latitude 40
approximates a line through Philadel-
phia, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Richmond,
Quincy, Ill; Denver, Col.

Also allow

The Pacific Coast

by ELIZABETH URQUHART

February is a keystone month in the
California year, coming mid-way between
the opening of the spring-like winter in
October and the end of spring in May;
hence it is a great month for planting and
sowing, and all the hardy and half hardy
seeds may come out of their packets now,
and nearly everything planted, except
where frosts may still be expected. All
along the coast and bay regions, and where
the surplus water is draining off and the
sun is warming the soil, gardeners may get
busy with spade and fork, digging deep
but leaving a rough surface to prevent
packing from March rains. The weeds,
too, are now making growth and must be
removed while the ground is soft, and
put underground to enrich the soil.

In mountain regions and in low frosty
valleys, planting must be delayed a little,
but everywhere pruning may continue if
the work be not done already, and trans-
planting as well, where conditions are
favorable.

Violets may be increased by division of
the roots or from the running stems.
These runners must be removed and the
plants given only moderate manure, as
too much produces leaves at the expense
of blossoms.

In the absence of rain do not neglect
the boxes of seedlings or young plants al-
ready set out; keep the spring-flowering
bulbs well watered and give particular
care to the early-blooming Iris reticulata.
Cuttings may be made now of Fuchsias,
Lilacs, Hydrangeas and Weigelas, as well
as Roses, Lilacs, Geraniums, Carnations,
Heliotropes and Petunias. The two last
should be kept in a warm, shaded place
for about ten days and then brought out
to the light and air.

Continued on page 490

In the South

by ETHEL HUTSON

If you live within a hundred miles of
the Gulf of Mexico, you will find Febru-
ary a very busy month in the garden.
It is frequently the most disagreeable
month for work out of doors, and yet each
good day must be used to the very best
advantage. Pruning and budding must be
done then, for March will be too late,
and beds must be made ready for trans-
planting the seedlings started in boxes or
frames. All transplanting of shrubs and
trees not done earlier must be done
now, and Camphor trees, that could not
be moved earlier on account of having

Continued on page 492

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Cooperating Societies:

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNA-
MENTAL HORTICULTURISTS
SOCIETY OF LITTLE GARDENS
ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY
AMERICA DAHLIA SOCIETY
NATIONAL PLANT, FLOWER AND FRUIT GUILD

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In planning a program for National
Garden Week, April 17th to 24th, it will
be found helpful as well as decidedly in-
teresting to know what other organiza-
tions are doing or have done, not only for
this week but as part of their yearly work.

In Detroit, Mrs. Mary Grosvenor,
Supervisor of Gardens, is preparing a
program that will include pupils of all the
public schools. Mrs. Grosvenor has done
this each year, her plans so broad that
they embrace all grades of children and
give tremendous impetus to nature work
in the schools throughout the whole year.
This is of incalculable value since these
children of to-day are the adult citizens of
the morrow and if they as children have
been taught the lessons of conservation
and civic beauty, the value of parks and
playgrounds, they will not misuse their
governing powers in the years to come.

AT Bs) ERO Nee PeRuOrGeReAgIi

At Alma, Michigan, the Civic League,
the President of which is the nationally
beloved garden worker and writer Mrs.
Francis King, looks back over many suc-
cessful enterprises. Years ago when the
town was small, when streets needed at-
tention and alleys cleaning, when there
was no library, this club was formed. Its
first activity was to establish a free read-
ing room. Through the years this has
grown into a fine public library. School
gardens were started, seeds, bulbs and
prizes given to stimulate growing beauty;
Roses were planted; streets were cared
for; fly crusades and clean-up campaigns
were carried out; waste cans were placed
in the streets and bird houses in the
cleaned up alleys; railroads were peti-
tioned to beautify their right-of-way
through the town. There were municipal
Christmas trees with Christmas wreaths
hung on lamp posts in the business section
—a little reminder that beauty and the
Christmas spirit need not be confined to
one’s own four walls. Schools were aided
by building houses for domestic science
and manual training classes; school play-
grounds bought and equipped; two hun-
dred Elms planted as a memorial to the
service men; garden fétes and flower
shows were held and Better Homes cam-
paigns helpfully carried out.

At Pompton Plains, New Jersey, a few

J. Horace McFarland
Mrs. Francis King
Mrs. Russell Tyson
Mrs. Thomas G. Winter

PRESIDENT:
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HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS:
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Mrs. Robert Pyle
Mrs. John D. Sherman

years ago a small group of women or-
ganized the Neighborhood Club. A small
town with a two room school, without
means of transporting children from out-
lying districts, with no library, no com-
munity house, no playground—here was
work indeed to be done. Since it was or-
ganized this small club has established a
good-sized free library, aided in securing
additional rooms and teachers for the
school, established a well-equipped play-
ground, provided buses to transport the
children, and worked out successfully a
hot lunch system. The men of the town
to aid in this work formed a club of their
own, and streets have been paved, electric
lights installed, a guild house added to the
church, Health Weeks observed, speed laws
enforced, prizes given to school children,
lecturers brought to the town. And all this
was started by a club that has no member-
ship dues, nothing but the earnest desire
to work so that the little community may
be a happier, healthier abiding place.

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From this suburban town we go to the
City Gardens Club of New York City
which has accomplished so much in this
most congested area. For years its mem-
bers have sponsored a tree-planting pro-
gram so that a “touch of nature” might
be felt in the bare and crowded city
streets. So interested were passing groups
of school children in one National Gar-
den Week that (so the president of the
club wrote us) school clubs were formed.
One of the members of this club, the
rector of St. John the Evangelist down in
the lower half of the city, has created a
beautiful garden around his church. Back
fences of adjoining houses were torn down,
the rear of these houses remodelled to be-
come part of the garden picture, paths
were laid out, and bird baths set at cross-
paths. Each member of this club is work-
ing constructively, having an active
Planting Committee that has as its slogan
“Planting, more planting and still more
planting of gardens in our city.” A very
active Hospital Committee has carried out
successful experiments in gardening in chil-
dren’s hospital wards. Bulbs were planted
and they flowered to the delight of the
little patients; and then seeds were
planted, vegetable seeds at that, so that
not only could the plants be watched but

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Mrs. Frederick Newbold

Codperating Societies:

WOMEN’S NATIONAL FARM AND GARDEN
ASSOCIATION
THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
THE SCHOOL NATURE LEAGUE
AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION
WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION SOCIETY

eaten! And great was the day when a
“radish party”’ was held.

Y-0O1U R EW OR Kea eee Severn Agh

Conservation, planting of roadsides,
and reforestation are becoming important
parts of all National Garden Week pro-
grams. Does it seem possible that in so
vital a question as trees for our thousands
of miles of highways, only nine states have
taken the initiative? Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Michi-
gan, Ohio, Virginia and California are
these nine. In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
and Nebraska it is possible by local com-
missions, and in a few others it is per-
mitted with regulations! Surely here is
work ready for every garden club and
civic organization. If we would not face
a condition similar to that of China,
let us plant trees! In the Genesee Valley,
New York, an association has been formed
to help its people have more beautiful
homes and gardens, and to plant trees,
with courses of instruction given as to
their planting and their care. This associa-
tion recommends that each town take
charge of all trees in its boundaries out-
side of the fence line and suggests that all
new trees be planted between walks and
fences and away from the curbs. New
York State will send trees free for plant-
ing, its State Forestry Commission aiding
with planting instructions. This should
interest every club, town, and school in
the state.

Two valuable booklets on this subject
may be had by writing to the Department
of Agriculture at Washington, D. C.:
Farmer’s Bulletins Nos. 1481 (Planting
the Roadside) and 1482 (Trees for Roadside
Planting).

The following motion pictures may be
had by writing to the Motion Picture
Bureau, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C.: Harvesting Uncle
Sam’s Timber—z2 reels; What the Forest
Means to You—z reels; Trees of Right-
eousness—3 reels.

For free constitution, programs and by-
laws for garden clubs, and for programs
and leaflets for National Garden Week,
address the National Garden Association,
Garden City, N. Y.; and please send the
Association an account of your club’s
work.

EvLen D. Waneoner, Secretary.

MBRUARY, 1927

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The Northeastern section

Continued from page 486

and also keep a notebook in which you have a complete
record; it will prove helpful in the future. Sweet-peas require a
long season to make root and by indoor sowing in a tempera-
ture of about 45° F., much time is gained, for, when trans-
planted to the open in April, the plants have a chance to gain
a hold before hot spells arrive. The quoted temperature should
not be exceeded and plenty of light is essential.

Speaking of labels, this is an opportune time to make them.
There are two kinds of gardeners: those who never label any-
thing, and those who label everything. I belong to the latter
class, and because I need so many I make them from builder’s
laths, cutting them in two and the resultant pieces again in two,

|

this time sawing on a slant so that each piece has a point. This _

gives me four 12 inch labels from each lath. The top is planed
smooth on one side, and the lower half creosoted. White paint,

written upon while wet on the smooth end, makes this a cheap >
label of considerable lasting quality for use in the perennial —

borders, for bulbs, and even in the vegetable garden.

Consider now what plants and summer flowering bulbs you —

will require; nurserymen and seedsmen appreciate early orders,

even though delivery is not immediately required. Modern |

catalogues are so well illustrated and so complete in descriptive
text, that even the novice can safely make a choice. It is often
possible to get an excellent selection at lower cost, by leaving the
choice to the dealer. The time for planting Roses, perennials,
trees and shrubs will soon be around, and the ordering of the
stock is now a wise procedure.

The happy possessor of a heated sunparlor will doubtless have

various bulbs coming along, and if pots of Tulips and Narcissus

are still buried outdoors, the latter part of the month will be time

enough to bring in the latest sorts for blooming around Easter.
ive the Darwin Tulips the coolest and lightest position and do
not at any time try to rush them.

If you are looking for a really worthwhile house Fern buy a
plant of Polypodium mandaianum; it is far more satisfactory
than the Boston Fern and also unusual. Another wonderful
house plant is Dracaena rothiana; it is one of the best green
leaved plants for home use.

The Pacific Coast

Continued from page 486
If Hollyhock seeds were sown in September or October, the
seedlings may be planted out now in good soil, or seeds may be

sown this month; but, as they’ vary greatly in color, exact re-

production can only be had by taking cuttings from the young
shoots springing up from the roots.
Hollyhocks, as too much water encourages a fungus on the
leaves. When present, pick off the leaves and burn at once.
Tuberous Begonias which have been kept in cool storage may
now be placed in boxes and half covered with light soil, and kept
in a cool place while they are starting new growth, and then
planted out in March. The tubers may be increased by division

according to the buds, and after separation, sprinkle the cut

surface with sulphur dust and let it dry before planting again.

Begonias require a light rich soil, morning sun, partial shade, and _

plenty of water, and they will bloom from June to December.

The Bearded Iris may still be set out, if not already planted,
but the season is not so favorable as just after blooming and in
September. They resent disturbance at this time and although
they may bloom this year, sometimes show the effects the follow-
ing season. Keep the winter blooming Iris cretensis (or stylosa),
well watered, and free from snails where the climate is damp; if
picked in the bud, they open out better in the warm air of the
house.

Prune climbers, cleaning out all the old branches, and if Ivy

has not yet begun to send out new leaves, it should also be ~

pruned and cut back. Watch out for the spring crop of plant lice
and other insects; dust with insect powder or s»ray with whale

oil soap or even ordinary kitchen soap suds.
The following Annuals may be sown in February: China Aster,
Calliopsis, Centaurea, Chrysanthemum (annual), Cosmos, Pink,
Poppy, Gaillardia, Lobelia, Larkspur, Lupin, Pansy, Morning
Glory, Salpiglossis, Sweet-pea, and Zinnia. Sow in the open
ground in warm sheltered places, with the soil well worked and
fine, except in the case of Salpiglossis, Zinnia, Aster, and Petunia,
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1927

GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

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FEBRUARY, 1929

presenting our Seed Annual for this season, we wish ~
to emphasize the importance of quality in Seeds, Bulbs
and Plants. As the initial cost of your seed is small wheal
compared to the time and labor necessary to produce the’
flower or vegetable, high quality should be your onl
.sonsideration,

AT

_ From our beginning, thirty years ago, high quality —
an has always been our aim—every care and. attention ~
has been given to secure seeds from the most teliable-.
sources of supply and which, from our experience and —
tests at our trial grounds, have been found to be of the’
highest possible merit. We offer only those of superior
strains and finest types, hoe

Our 1927 Seed Annual, consisting of 180 pages and - 4
cover—— including 20 pages of colored illustrations, lises
and describes the finest strains of Flower and Vegetable
Seeds, Grass Seeds, the newest and best in Dahlias, >
Gladioli and Roses, as well as other sundry garden needs. -° /

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Continued from page 490
all of which should be sown in boxes, part in a warm place and
kept watered and shaded until the seeds germinate.

Seeds of perennials, such as Hollyhock, Verbena, Pentstemon,
Snapdragon, Wallflower, and the biennials Foxglove and Canter-
bury-bell may also be sown now.

In the South

Continued from page 486

two growing seasons, can now be moved if defoliated and will
then be ready for the Spring growth.

Gladiolus and Montbretia bulbs should go in this month,
also Tuberoses and Oxalis, and it is not too late for Calla and
Easter Lilies, although these do best if planted in the fall.

The first week in February should be spent in turning up the
soil, covering over the mulch that was put around the trees and
shrubs during the winter months, but leaving the clods to be
broken up and sweetened by a freeze, if it comes. Two weeks
later these clods will crumble easily under the hoe and it will
then be time to put in the bulbs for late bloom, and hardy seeds
like Stock, Sweet Alyssum, Crimson Flax, Dianthus, Larkspur,
Phlox and Daisies, Dwarf Sunflower (Helianthus cucumeri-
folius) Asters, Candytuft, Mignonette, Cosmos, Marigold, and
other annuals.

Some will wish to plant Pansies, English Daisies, Columbine,
Campanula, Verbena, Lobelia,and Poppies, many of which are or
should be in bloom by this time; but it is wiser now to buy plants
of such early bloomers if they have not been sown in the fall, as
it is not often that these lovers of coolness will flourish if planted
so late.

In fact, it is not too early to sow in coldframe or boxes the
first of the summer flowers—Zinnia and Balsam, Torenia,
Gomphrena, Vinca, Helianthus, etc.

Pruning should be put off until after the middle of the month
because the coldest days often come the last week of February or
the first week of March and if pruned early in February many
plants will have put up new and tender growth by this time.

After pruning and getting rid of all dead leaves and vines
left from the winter cold, the entire garden should be sprayed
with lime-sulphur, bordeaux or other disinfecting sprays to be
sure that any diseases or insects left after the spraying in Sep-
tember and the frosts of winter, will not crop up again and spoil
the spring garden. |

The last week of the month should be spent in fertilizing and
planting. Plant everything in the way of shrubs and trees,
Plumbago, Lantana, Buddleia, Crepe-myrtle, Althea, Camellia,
Duranta, Camphor, Box, Yaupon, Ligustrum, Pittosporum,
Japanese Yew, Cherry Laurel, Juniper, Holly, all of which may
be used as hedges, foundation planting, or specimen plants.

There are so many fine Roses it is hard to select, but now is
the time to fill out the rows or beds you may already have.
Among the climbers that do well in this climate are Silver Moon,
Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria, William Allen Richardson, Pillar of
Gold, Reve d’Or, Lady Banks, American Pillar, Ramona, and
Tausendschoen, climbing American Beauty, Souvenir of Woo-
tten, Gainsborough, Reine Marie Henriette, Eugene Marlitt.

Every one plants Radiance, pink or red, but there are besides
such old favorites as Louis Philippe, Duchesse de Brabant,
Madame Lombard, W. R. Smith, Etoile de France, Etoile de
Lyons, President Taft, Killarney (white and pink), Lady Hilling-
don, Frau Karl Druschki, Ophelia, Jonkheer J. L. Mock, Mme.
Abel Chatenay, Caroline Testout, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Mrs.
Benjamin R. Cant, Columbia, Marie Van Houtte, My Mary-
land, Marie Guillot, Rev. Page Roberts, Safrano, Solfaterre,
Sombreuil, Gen. Robert E. Lee, the three Cochets, and many
others. Some, like Helen Gould and Souvenir de la Malmaison
may be secured in either bush or climbing forms as desired. ~
This list of varieties is given me by Mr. George Thomas, Supt. of
the Parking Commission of New Orleans.

In the vegetable garden, as in flower garden and orchard, the
sod should be turned, left two weeks, then fertilized and hoed
well before the planting is begun. By the end of the month it is
safe to put in almost all spring vegetables, early Peas, Lettuce,
Radishes, Leeks, Beets, Parsnips, Carrots, Mustard, Spinach, —
Turnips, Swiss Chard, Kohlrabi, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, |
Cress, Parsley. Melons, Squash and Cucumbers can be planted
in frames where they can be protected from cold at night.

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EPITHELIAL DEBRIS?

(Your old enemy dandruff—with a college education)

It gives you away

WwW HAT’S your first impression of a man or woman _ on the scalp, full strength. Rub vigorously. Do it
with dandruff ? every day for a week. Except in stubborn cases, you
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Instinctively, you draw away. Beside this telltale
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every time—a social and business handicap that
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of men and women have thanked us for
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If you have the slightest evidence of its
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Simply douse Listerine, the safe antiseptic,

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Illustrating Rod Grille Type in any Color Desired

Good Taste

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Have that “‘warm sun” feel-
ing on icy mornings—One
simple change can ‘‘Vacu-
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I5 minutes (not an hour)
—to get up steam

ot radiators

hours

(not 30 minutes ) after banking

for 73 less fuel

Pale average heating system re-
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one-half tons of coal (or 190 gal-
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radiator. By replacing ordinary
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of your one pipe steam system
with Hoffman No. Vacuum
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each radiator in your home.

Here is the reason. When a

boiler produces steam, steam has
to lift an air load of 14.7 lbs. on
every square inch of surface to

iar

force air out of radiators.
cannot escape, steam
cannot circulate even
under high pressure.
That is why an air-
venting valve was
originally placed on
each radiator.

When you get up
steam every morning,
much is wasted in lift-
ing this air load of
14.7 lbs. For (unfor-

tunately) most air

"venting valves let air back in just

as they let it out—as soon as steam
pressure drops.

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FEBRUARY, 1927

Making the most of remodelling

Continued from page 475
and below) except to make over the dining-room into one big
apartment out Of two smaller rooms, and to create a Passage-
way at right angles to the hall to give access to the new wing.
A newly equipped kitchen and servants’ quarters occupy the
original extension. To-day, the house boasts ten rooms and
three baths and has all the charm and comfort that any modern
country place might possess.

Quite as much of wizardry is demanded in transforming a

house not wholly bad, yet by no means all good, as in doing over — |

a really hopeless relic. And the kaleidoscopic changes that
took place in the Herbert S. Blake home at Glen Ridge, New
Jersey, after Mr. Moran took over the work held the same
fascination as following the dissolving views of the cinema.

The problem was a bit more complicated than the others
because the house had progressed through a series of alterations,
from an acute example of the “late McKinley” period with
gable roof, artful dormers and divers bays, to a gambrel roofed
dwelling on which had been lavished much of the heavy Colonial
detail in vogue some thirty years ago.

Set well back from the street, enclosed by a low brick wall,
it has the conscious dignity of one who has passed a long life of
usefulness in the community. Its many paned windows, framed
in wooden shutters, bordered in green, smile hospitably down
in the old-fashioned way and the house has not only the settled
look of long occupancy but an air of immutability as if the
years could never affect its steadfast character.

For the cumbersome veranda, an enclosed vestibule was
fashioned with plastered walls and an exquisite strap work
frieze, a repetition of that in the main facade. An ornamental
paneled door, with leaded glass side lights and a quaint slat
door of old New England days, completes this highly distinc-
tive feature.

To give the house a lower effect, despite its extended story
height and to do away with the offending bay windows on the
right, an extension was built out. A Colonial rail was then added
to the gambrel roof. A prospective garage and service wing at
this end, now under construction, will have the effect of bring-
ing the whole into perfect scale.

An entire rehabilitation of the interior detail and trim was
effected. All the garish golden oak was replaced with delicately
detailed Colonial effects. The heavy newel and curious balustrade
gave way to a delicately moulded hand rail and turned balusters.

The wave of the magic wand brought even greater glory to
the interior for the walls were all canvased and paneled with
mouldings in the Connecticut Colonial style, the living-room a
replica of one in an old house at Essex, Connecticut. The kitchen,
after the removal of the woodwork, was treated in a somewhat
similar fashion, the walls being canvased and enameled with
floors and base of blue and white rubber tile. All the kitchen
furniture was white enameled with linoleum counter and table
tops, and with its white metal sinks the room is as spick and
span as need be.

REMODEL FOR PERMANENCE

In remodelling an old house, it is well to stress the permanency
of materials as a matter of economy. The increased use of stucco
to cover old siding offers a pleasant alternative, as it completely
changes the character of the building, and that at moderate ex-
pense. Brick veneer may be applied to the walls with pleasing
effect and even stone veneer is available for a house of average
height.

Such a prosaic detail as the heating of the reniodelled house
seems far removed from romance, but it is an all important ques-
tion. It is the part of wisdom to take time while the work is jn
progress to determine what is the best method to use in the
circumstances. If expense is no consideration, any form of hot
air or hot water may be used. A hot air system is a bit more
difficult since the heating ducts need to be concealed jin the
walls. Ordinary steam is more readily installed as the pipes can
be run through the walls with a minimum of cutting.

It is the point of view that influences the result to a large
extent in doing over an old house and there is no reason why
the heating system should not partake of romance as well as
beauty of design. For no matter how successful an alteration is
it will be a sad failure if the house be not warm and comfortable
in zero weather. So every phase of the work should be squared
by the rule of reason as well as of fancy.

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Superior Dahlias

From California
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Butterfly (Dec.)—A wonder-
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Not over 3 bulbs to a
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Tubers $3.50 each.

Iridescent (Hy. Cac.)—
Outer edge of the petals are
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the center.
Tubers $1.50 each.

Box Newcomb (Dec.)—
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Tubers $3.50 each.

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Signs and portents for the planter

Continued from page 460

until finally the backward Basswood moves, at a total of 3604
degrees of heat. Although the time of flowering or leafing may
vary as much as twenty days from year to year, yet the heat
total required to set each tree in motion remains approximately
constant year after year. If we want to know when to plant,
we must watch the trees.

In the Monthly Weather Review Supplement No. 2, published
by the U. S. Weather Bureau, there is a calendar of the leafing,
flowering, and seeding of the common trees of the United States.

The Silver Maple is the first tree to respond to spring. It
starts activity at the southern limit of its habitat by flowering
as early as the first of February (average date), and at its north-
ern limit the end of April. The Red Maple comes along just
two weeks later. The Black Willow and the White Elm begin
flowering two weeks later. The Sweet Gum starts to leaf out
almost as early. The Slippery Elm blooms the last week in
February. The Cottonwood begins to flower the first of March;
at the same time the Wild Plum is leafing out. So is the Hoptree.
The Bald Cypress is both leafing and flowering. The Boxelder
follows with both activities five days later; and so on we could
follow the entire list of 72 common trees named in the Weather
Bureau calendar.

But the point for the gardener to know is not so much the
order but which trees he can safely follow for a planting guide.
A tree that begins its activities in February or early March in
my locality—central Pennsylvania—would be a false prophet.

The tree calendar shows that the Striped Maple begins to
leaf out about the middle of April. So does the Horse Chestnut.
The Yellow Birch begins both flowering and leafing out at this.
time also. The Paper Birch, flowering a few days before it leafs.
out, starts activity at the same date. The Chestnut leafs out
then, but alas! we have no Chestnuts. The common Catalpa
leafs out in mid April. But this date refers to the southern limits
of the habitats of these trees. With us they would not be starting
into activity until many days later.

But the point for me or any other gardener to know, however,
is what trees are in motion beside our respective gardens. All we
have to do is to note down in a memorandum book from spring
to spring the order and the dates on which plants begin to
move, with additional observations as to their rates of progress,
and we shall have a wonderful guide to planting.

WHAT THE TREE CA LEN DPAGR eRe

We will have discovered what the tree calendar tells: that
certain plants burst into activity at the first touch of warmth.
Let the temperature be balmy for but a day or two and some of
these hot-headed things, like the Silver Maple, burst into bloom
or leaf. But they are false prophets; beware of them. Others there
are that require only a moderate amount of heat to start them
going. They are risky guides. But some trees and plants, like
the Black Walnut and the Grape, are not to be fooled by any
sudden display of brightness. The Grape, in particular, is a true
prophet of spring. When you see the Grape buds swell and burst,
you may know that spring has truly arrived. You may plant
with safety.

If there is a definite and orderly procession of activities among
the trees, the same is true of all other plants. In short, each
plant has its natural season of starting to grow, of blossoming, a
leajing out, and of producing seed and fruit. That being true, eac
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naturally follows another at a definite distance. If the gardener
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truly wise in plant knowledge as was the old farmer who always
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When Uncle Sam was hunting for ways to combat the Hes-
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every 400 feet of altitude. This means, in general, as has often
been stated, that the seasons grow a week earlier for every 100

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Planting the herbaceous border for flowers
Continued from page 465
through more frequent division. This list includes Phlox,
Pyrethrum, most types of Larkspur, Lily-of-the-valley, a few
Asters and hardy Sunflowers.
Mr. Taylor in “The Complete Garden,” which has much
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Lily-of-the-valley is that it should not be divided or transplanted,
but that those who have an intimate acquaintance with the
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once in every three years if an abundance of large blooms is to be
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Plants may be dug up and separated by hand or thinned out
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removing excess plants. Replanting should be done in fresh
soil or that into which new soil and bonemeal have been thor-
oughly worked, being careful in replanting not to smother the
crown of the plant. Those fall-flowering plants as the Chrysan-
themum and Anemone are to be divided and transplanted in the
spring. ‘he early flowering kinds such as most of the Irises,
are best divided and reset shortly after their flowering period;
while for perennials in general, fall is the best time for lifting and
separating. Care, however, must be exercised in the spring
“cleaning up”’ that these plants are not lost.

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over once in three years, for, when a garden is filled with peren-
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nor does it cover the entire area.

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are, under favorable conditions, not very susceptible to disease.
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minor insects which are easily controlled by spraying, the safest
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the plant. If you do not wish a disorderly looking garden stake
early all tall growing plants. Generally speaking, the better
established a perennial is the less winter protection it requires.
Even though many may winter safely without covering, we
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until spring as they form some protection to the plant over
winter. A mulch is the best protection for perennials. Care,
however, must be taken not to cover the border too early.
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Signs and portents for the planter

Continued from page 408

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The charm of special gardens
Continued from page 450

later, comes the queen of this entire class of what has been called
“the poor man’s orchid,” the Japanese varieties, blooming well _

along into July and sometimes reaching four feet in height. They
are higher priced than other branches of the family, in the or-
dinary run, but provide unusual interest and should be in every
collection.

Ins foliage remains attractive until winter, and makes a good
ground cover so that by planting the rhizomes 23 or 3 ft. apart,
there would be space in between to set out some of the tall,
late-flowering hardy Lilies.

THE LILY GARDEN

A truly royal Lily is Lilium regale and worthy a place in any |

garden! A lovely white, shaded at the base with yellow, and
striped on the outside with a reddish brown that gleams through
in a pearly tint, blooming in July. Lilium parryi is tall, delicately
scented, soft yellow, and will stand partial shade. L. superbum,
varying from pale yellow to deep.crimson, with the inner sur-
face of the petals spotted, often reaches 8 feet, carries a dozen or
more wonderful blooms through both July and August. L. will-
mottiae, a rare splendid new Lily from China grows to seven
feet, and carries many orange-red blooms to a single stem, that
are three inches in diameter with recurved petals spotted in
brown remarkably valuable in July.

For August are available the creamy white L. auratum or Gold-
banded Lily of Japan; L. batemanniae, a large clear apricot shade;
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of a deep, orange yellow, through August and September; and
then the glorious L. speciosum, introduced from Korea, one
variety of which is a snow white with a green stripe, one a deep
red with a green stripe, and one a carmine with a margin of white,
blooming through the late summer well into the autumn.

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usually thrive in any good, well-drained ordinary soil, and close
the summer with a garden of unsurpassed distinction.

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attention to the practically unlimited possibilities in their class.

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ally displayed in a natural design. And while many gardeners
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Phlox divaricata, just as many prefer to see the well-kept, rich,
dark soil.

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15 especially fine named varieties were the production of Lord

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mother’s garden, has been cultivated in this country more than
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ture. Those earlier fires were strictly utili-
tarian and it is pleasant to know that
these old cranes are being wrought to-day,
provided with eyes to fasten them into
the brick of the modern fireplace, pro-
vided also with the chain and iron pot.

Attractive little hearth brooms in
brown, green, tan and other colors, may
be had, with handles woven in so that they
may be hung beside the fireplace, decora-
tive and out of the way. Of course, every
hearth is improved by the addition of a
Cape Cod fire-lighter, which may be had
in material to match the other fireplace
fittings, and which are valuable indeed in
forcing the stubborn log to burn.

SCREENS

Fireplace screens and spark guards are
not only necessary but distinctly beauti-
ful, coming in simple wire mesh or brass
bound and with brass posts, in one piece,
or of three and four leaves, to fit over the
andirons or to stand outside them. For
all of these screens there are easily at-
tached metal silhouettes of ships and
birds, of clouds and jutting headlands to
be outlined against the rosy glow of the
flames. Still other styles of screens there
are of a special mesh to hang like curtains

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either to conceal the opening of the fire-
place or to be drawn back to frame the
blaze like draperies. Another screen is
designed like a roller shade, running on
metal guides and easily raised or lowered.

Heavy steel log rollers are made for
handling large logs with smaller pokers
and tongs to match, while for the smaller
fireplace the brass fire tools find their
gleam reflected in fat brass scuttles or
wood baskets. If the fire must be of gas or
electricity the simulated fireplace should
be carefully lined, such linings coming
ready to use in various sizes with frame,
hood, hearth and lining all in one piece
ready for gas or electric logs or coals.

Still another substitute, or rather

Fireplace Booklets

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THE BOOK OF FIREPLACES AND ANDIRONS

The Donley Bros. Co. 0. 30
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The Colonial Fireplace Co... . . No.
COLONIAL HARDWARE AND MANTELS

Arthur Todhunter . . . =... No. I5I
MANTELPIECES AND FIREPLACE FITTINGS

Edwin A. Jackson &§ Bro. Inc. ») Norrts3
MANTELS OF CRETAN STONE

Wins iy Jackson Conair Oe TOO
FITTINGS FOR YOUR FIREPLACE

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variation, of the beloved fireplace is the
Franklin stove which in its modern guise
is most decorative and provides the
cheer of an open grate in a fireplaceless
room. In installing these stoves, the floor
should be protected and tiling is particu-
larly well suited to this as it increases
the resemblance to a real fireplace. One
of the larger of these stoves is partic-
ularly like a real fireplace with its open
grate, andirons, hearth and well designed
frame 33 inches wide.

The old gas logs, too, have given way
to new. Some are known as Driftwood
logs with an individual feed for each log
and with a water reservoir in the back
which keeps the air moist and removes
one of the strongest objections to this type
of heat. Odorless, too, are these new gas
logs with metal burners to ensure such
perfect combustion as to require neither
flue nor vent in the fireplace.

EEC PREG ED Ree Ss

If an electric fire be desirable, these can
be made to reproduce in uncanny fashion
the swirl and drift of smoke, the blaze and

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Booklets (see next page) may be had upon re-
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glow of a real fire. Special attachments _

permit such grates to be lighted for
decorative purposes only, without giving
added heat if the room already be suffici-
ently warmed. Another switch will turn
on the heat reflecting it from copper back-
plates that throw out a surprising degree
of warmth. These electric logs or coals
come with grates that are both with and
without fenders and andirons, many of
them being made like the hob grate of
other days.

A mantelpiece over and at the sides of
these various fires will add a charming
decorative note to any room and such
mantels, like the fires themselves, come
ready to install. When made of wood, they
are carefully designed and finished, most
of this being fine hand work. Their variety
is so great that any type of room can
have its appropriate mantel. Their finish
also 1s varied, coming in white enamel, in
red and brown mahogany; and, if desired,
they may be purchased unfinished with-
out paint or stain, ready to be finished to
match any color of the woodwork.

BRICK OR STONE VE URS Piers

It is also possible to purchase brick or
stone fireplaces, and with them the plan
for the fireplace, showing in detail just
how to take each step. Diagrams show
how to shape the lining so that it will
throw the maximum of heat into the
room; how to set the head throat and
damper so that the fireplace will not
smoke; how to guide the smoke to the flue
and how large to make this flue. In these
fireplaces of brick each brick is marked,
a diagram showing where to place each
one and howto build the hearth both at the
front and inside the firebox. In fact, the
plans are so carefully made and so
plainly marked that anyone can easily
understand them. With these fireplaces
come various parts; the above-mentioned
damper and head throat, a dustless ash
trap, an angle bar to carry the brick
across the top span, a wrought iron fender,
the best unglazed tiles for the front
hearth. For the face of the fireplace,
there are bricks of the best quality of
either plain or tapestry selected for each
fireplace with the bricks cut and ground to
ft all panels, arches or any intricate parts.
The only things not included are the
andirons, grates, firetools, etc. The pur-
chaser can specify the color and style of
bricks he wishes sent so that his fire-
place can be beautiful as well as efficient.

Continued on page 506

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BEAUTIFUL TILES
Associated Tile Mfrs. . .
WALLS OF WORTH
U. S. Gypsum Co.
A NEW HOUSE FOR THE OLD
American Face Brick Assn. .
POSSIBILITIES OF CONCRETE
Atlas Portland Cement Co.
INSULATION OF DWELLINGS
Armstrong Cork & Insulation Co.
THE CHARM OF THE SOVEREIGN WOOD
Oak Service Bureau
THE RENAISSANCE OF COLORED STUCCO
The Bishopric Mfg. Co.
DISTINCTIVE HOUSES
Indiana Limestone Co.
BEAUTIFUL AGECROST. BRICK
The Medal Brick &5 Tile Co. .

PINE HOMES

California White &5 Sugar Pine Mfrs. .

HOMES & GARAGES

National Fireproofing Co. . .
SMALL HOMES OF MERIT

California Redwood Assn.
A PERMANENT WALL FINISH

The Craftex Co.

THROUGH Jae HOME OF TAPESTRY. BRICK

Fiske & Co., Inc..
THE HOME BUILDER’S
Truscon Steel Co.
WALLBOARDS & INSULATION
The Upson Co. op ce
BUILD THE CASTLE OF YOUR DREAMS
Lehigh Portland Cement Co.
WOOD THAT NATURE ARMED
DECAY
Red Cedar Lumber Mfrs. Assn.
HOMEBUILDING
Northwestern Expanded Metal Co.
INSULATED HOMES
Universal Gypsum Co.
BEAUTIFUL HOMES OF STONE TILE
National Stone Tile Corp.
DURABLE DOUGLAS FIR
West Coast Lumber Extension Bureau
BUILDING FOR PERMANENCE, COMFORT &
Mason Fibre Co. . 3. Ae
GUIDE TO INTERIOR TREATMENTS
The Bostwick-Steel Lath Co.
I65 USES FOR WOOD BOARDS
Cornell Wood Products Co.
VITREOUS MARBLE FOR WALLS
Marietta Mfg. Co.
OUR FOURTH HOUSE
Insulite Co. eae ge
HEAT INSULATION FOR HOUSES
Flax-Li-Num Insulating Co.
SUGGESTIONS FOR INTERIOR TRIM
Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau.

Roofs and Paints

COLOR IN ASBESTOS SHINGLES
Johns-Manville Inc.
COPPER STEEL ROOFING TIN
American Sheet &§ Tin Plate Co.
tHE CONSTRUCTION OF THATCH ROOFS
Weatherbest Stained Shingle Co.
DECORATING THE HOME
National Lead Co. j
MAGIC TOUCH OF PRESTON SHINGLES
Keystone Roofing Co..
TAPERED SHINGLES
Asbestos Shingle Co. .
MAKING HOME HOMELIKE
Berry Bros.
WHAT COLOR FOR THE ROOF?
The Richardson Co.
SHINGLE STAINS
Samuel Cabot, Inc. —
TUDOR STONE FLAGGING & ROOFS
Lehigh Portland Cement Co.
HOW TO USE VALSPAR ENAMELS
Valentine &F Co...
HOME SWEET HOME
The Edham Co., Inc..
THATCH SLATE ROOFS
John D, Emack Co.
A GARDEN OF COLOR IN YOUR
The Glidden Co.
PAINT & VARNISH FACTS
McDougall-Butler Co., Inc. .
PAINTING STUCCO & CEMENT
The Reardon Co. .
WHEN WHITE IS WHITE
New Jersey Zinc Co.

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DISTINCTIVE HARDWARE
Russell &§ Erwin Mfg. Co.
THE COLONIAL BOOK-(HARDWARE)
Wareem CO a ts ae sk
WOVEN WOOD FENCING

Robert C. Reeves Co. .

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FENCES FOR PROTECTION & BEAUTY
Page Fence 3 Wire Products Assn.
¥YORGED IRON HARDWARE
McKinney Mfg. Co. .
COLONIAL HARDWARE & MANTELS
Arthur Todhunter
EARLY ENGLISH & COLONIAL
HANDCRAFT
P.«S F. Corbin
HOME FENCES
American Fence Construction Co.
ANCHOR FENCES
Anchor Post Iron Works.
LOCKs & TRIM
Yale 3 Towne Mfg. Co.
SLIDING DOOR HARDWARE

Coburn Trolley Track Mfg. Co.

HARDWARE

Fixtures, etc.

PLUMBING FOR THE HOME
The Kohler Co.
THE WINDOW ARTISTIC
International Casement Co.
SCREENING YOUR HOME
The Higgin Mfg. Co. ‘
BETTER WIRING FOR BETTER LIGHTING
National Metal Molding Co.
MAKING BATHROOMS MORE ATTRACTIVE
C. F. Church Mfg. Co.
BATHROOM ARRANGEMENT
Crane Co. .
COPPER SCREENS
New Jersey Wire Cloth Co.
BATHROOM BOOKLETS
Speakman COs = semen |e
RUNNING WATER
Flint &F Walling Co. .
BEAUTIFUL BATHROOMS
Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co.
A REAL HOME
Copper 9 Brass Research Assn.
SERVING A GREAT KNOWN NEED
American Metal Products Co.
THE INSTALLATION COST OF PIPE
A. M. Byers Co.
TEN YEARS HENCE
The American Brass Co.
WATER SYSTEMS
The Deming Co.
CASEMENT WINDOWS
Crittall Casement Window Co.
INDIVIDUAL WATER SYSTEMS
Milwaukee Air Power Pump Co.
BATHROOMS OF DUROCK
Thomas Maddock’s Sons Co.
THE NEW VOGUE IN AWNIN
Andrew Swanfeldt
SCREENS & OTHER PRODUCTS
Orange Screen Co.
COMFORT
Monarch Metal Products Co.

Heat &¥ Cold

HELPFUL HINTS ON CHOOSING
The Thatcher Co. :
THE BOOK OF FIREPLACE & ANDIRONS.
The Donley Bros. Co.
WHICH HEAT & WHY?
Richardson &§ Boynton Co.
HEATING SATISFACTION
The H. B. Smith Co.
WARM AIR HEATING
Kelsey Heating Co.
EDUCATING THE BASEMENT
The Home Incinerator Co.
BRICK FIREPLACES
Colonial Fireplace Co. :
THE PROPER OPERATION OF THE HOME HEAT-
ING PLANT
Minneapolis Heat Regulator Co.
ADVENTURES IN COMFORT
May Oil Burner Corp. ve
MANTELPIECES & FIREPLACE FITTINGS
Edwin A. Jackson &§ Bro. Inc.
OIL HEATING
Wiliams Oil-O-Matic Heating Corp.
COMFORT HEAT
Burnham Boiler Corp.
OIL HEAT FOR HOMES
The American Nokol Co.
MANTELS OF CRETAN STONE
Wm. H. Jackson Co. ,
FITTINGS FOR YOUR FIREPLACE
S. M. Howes Co.
HOT WATER SERVICE
Humphrey Co.

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National Warm Air Heating S
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HOT WATER SERVICE FOR THE HOME—
Riverside Boiler Works, Inc.
COOK WITH THE GAS TURNED OFF
Chambers Mfg. Co.
WARMTH & COMFORT CONVENIENTLY
The Bryant Heater & Mfg. Co.
THE WELL MANAGED HOME
Pittsburgh Water Heater Co. . .
THE SERVANT IN THE CELLAR
Caloroil Burner Gorp. . . . . «
HOME COMFORT WITH KLEEN HEAT
Winslow Boiler tS Eng. Co. a ees
THE RANGE WOMEN WANT
Armstrong Mfg. Co. ee
A PERFECT OIL BURNER
The Silent Glow Oil Burner Co.
GARBAGE BURNERS
L. J. Muller Furnace Co. ee
OIL BURNER REVOLUTIONIZED HOME HEAT
The Combustion Fuel Oil Burner Co. .

SERVEL COLDERY

& Ventilat-

The Servel Corporation . . .
FIREPLACE CONSTRUCTION

H. W. Covert Co. ee ae 2
ELECTRIC REFRIGERATION

Delco-Licht Co. eae Aw

KELVINATOR & KELVINATED FOODS
Kelvinator Corporation

Radiators

A MODERN HOUSEWARMING

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RADIATOR FURNITURE

Schleicher Inc.) cane ene
RADIATOR SHIELDS

Sodemann Heat &§ Power Co.
INVISIBLE RADIATORS

The Herman Nelson Corp.
RADIATOR CUPBOARDS

Home Radiator Cabinet Co. .
RADIATOR COVERS

Art Metal Radiator Cover Co. .
RADIATOR SCREENS & REGISTERS

Tutle &F Bailey .
JA-NAR RADIATOR COVERS

The Fulton Co. .
RADIATOR ENCLOSURES

W. H. Johnson &F Son Co.

Kitchens

INCINERATOR INFORMATION
Kerner Incinerator Co. . . . .
HOW TO PLAN THE NEW STYLE KITCHEN
Standard Gas Equipment Corp.
KITCHEN MAID STANDARD UNITS
Wasmuth-EndicottCo. . . . .
YOUR KITCHEN & YOU
The Hoosier Mfg. Co. .
COME INTO THE KITCHEN
G. I. Sellers §§ Sons Co. cle

Interior Decoration

HOME FURNISHING
Elgin A. Simonds Co. :
THE GLORIOUS ADVENTURE OF HOUSE FURN-
ISHING
S. Karpen & Bros.
SUMMER FURNITURE
B. Altman’S Co. . .
PERMANENT FURNITURE
Curtis Co.
SPACE SAVERS
The White Door Bed Co. .
FINISHED TO ORDER FURNITURE
Wm. Leavens Co.
THE CHARM OF THE COLONIAL
Nichols &5 Stone Co. .
THE FASCINATION OF OLD
Kensingion Mfg. Co.
INFORMAL HOSPITALITY
Paalman Furniture Co.
APPROPRIATE FURNISHINGS
Pullman Couch Co. ‘
THE WINDSOR BEAUTIFUL
W.F. Whitney Co. Inc.. . ». « -»
HOW TO KNOW A GOOD PIANO
Baldwin Piano Go. . ; . =. «
VOICE OF MUSIC
The Wurlitzer Co.
THE HOME MAGNET
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.
TICKLESS TIME
Warren Telechron Co.

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Floors—Rugs

COLOR HARMONY IN FLOORS

Maple Flooring Mfs. Assn. 3 5
THE STORY OF OAK FLOORS

Oak Flooring Bureau. . . Bie ae
OAK FLOORS

Wm. Ritter Lumber Co.
BEAUTIFUL FLOORS, WOODWORK & FURNI-

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PROPER TREATMENT FOR FLOORS,
WORK & FURNITURE

S.C. Johnson Son la) eee
ABOUT RUGS

James M. Shoemaker Co. Inc . . .
CREATING A CHARMING HOME

Congoleum-Nairn, Inc... . . .
HOW FLOORS ARE CARED FOR

The Butcher Polish Gola ee
RUG HARMONY SERVICE WITH COLOR PRINTS

Mohawk Rug Dept.-W.'& J. Sloane .
BEAUTIFUL FLOORS

Long Bell Lumber Cone
THE PROPER CARE OF RUGS & CARPETS

Clinton ‘Carper Go ee
ORIENTAL ART IN WHITTALL RUGS

M. J. Whittall Assn... “hive
THE MAGIC OF ORIENTAL BEAUTY IN RUGS

C. H. Masland &§ Sons, Inc. . . .
THE FLOOR FOR THE MODERN HOME

The George W. Blabon Co. ait
FACTS WORTH KNOWING

The Ruberoid Go :
BEAUTIFUL FLOORS THE ELECTRIC WAY.

Finnell Systems ney

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Fabrics—W all-papers

YOUR HOME AND THE INTERIOR DECORATOR

FP. Schumacher (Goya ne
CORRECT CURTAINS

Quaker LaceiCon a
THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOR IN CURTAINS

Orinoka Mills. . . rats
WALL COVERINGS (SANITAS) |

Standard Textile Products Co. so ne
WHAT MAKES A HOUSE A HOME

Wallpaper Guild of America . . .
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Baeck-Wallpaper Co.. . . . . «
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The Shuttlecr.ajt Compe
BEAUTY THAT ENDURES

LG. Chase <5 Co: ee
COLOR HARMONY CHART

James McCutcheon®5 Co. . . . .
RESTFUL SLEEP

Utica Steam §F Mohawk Valley Cotton

Mills sae era
DECORATOR’S METHODS OF WINDOW CUR-
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McGibbon 5: Gov Gee ae
COMFORT CATALOG

Kenwood Mills) = a
THE WINDOWS IN YOUR HOME

E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Co.. . .
WHEN LUXURY OF DECORATION IS NOT AN

EXTRAVAGANCE

Pepperell Myc. Com *- =e
NEW OUTLOOKS FOR EVERY HOME

The Scranton Lace Co. aS) teres
PURITAN COLOR SCHEME

F. A, Foster 5: Go. i nc5
DAMASK FOR DIGNITY

Wm. LaddelS Coa
Silver, China, Glass

SELECTING SILVER FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE

Rogers, Lunt &9 BowlenCo.. . . .
USEFUL GIFTS BY THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN

The Gorham Coes 2%
THE ETIQUETTE OF ENTERTAINING |

R. Wallace tS Sons Mfg.Co. . . .
ETIQUETTE, ENTERTAINING & GOOD SENSE

International Silver Co.. . . . .
THE CORRECTLY SET TABLE

Wm. A. Rogers Co. Ltd. oo kay
CORRECT SERVICE

Oneida Community, Lid.. . . . .
THE BOOK OF SOLID SILVER

Towle Mig: (Gov pe i:
PATTERNS IN SILVER TABLE WARE.

Reed &§ Barton . . . s
STORY OF SPODE-COPELAND, CHINA.

Copeland-Thompson Co., Inc. . . .
WEDGWOOD

Josiah Wedgwood tf Sons, Inc. Pa
POTTERY

The Cowan Pottery Co. . . . . .
THE LITTLE BOOK ABOUT GLASSWARE

The Fostoria Glass Gone
WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. . . . .
CANDLE GLOW

The Atlantic Refining Co. . . .
FOOD SURPRISES

Aluminum Goods Mfg.Co.. . . .
LAMPS

Carbone. Inc... . cl9 3 ae
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Aluminum Wares Assn. «a eee

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TOWER CHIMES FOR COUNTRY ESTATES
Jo: Deagen = 2.
GLASS GARDENS
Lordi BurnhamCo. . ... .
GREENHOUSES OF DISTINCTION
Hatchings §5\ Co), ase
WHEN YOUR TREES NEED THE TREE SURGEON
The Davey Tree Expert Co. oe
DISHWASHING & DRYING
Walker Dishwasher Corp. . . . .
THE STORY OF RAISINS
Sun-Maid Raisin Growers of Calif. .
DECORATIVE YARD & GARDEN ACCESSORIES
Unadilla Silo Gon) as

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The charm of special gardens

Continued from page 502

300 years. The Austrian Brier, which I believe was her
variety, was a mass of clear soft single bloom. The Damask, the
Moss, and the Cabbage Rose all belong in this old-fashioned
group, and really are necessary to complete a Rose collection.

THE WATER GARDEN

A water garden, especially in limited space, often will prove
the most easily arranged as well as the most interesting. While
particularly suitable where a brook or a pond can be used as a
natural feature on large grounds, even a city backyard can enjoy
a pool. Made of cement, it can easily be connected with the
water supply and waste systems, and if backed by a few ever-
greens or flowering shrubs, with its outline partially hidden by
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THE BIRD GARDEN

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a wooden chopping bowl, on a post or stump high enough that
cats cannot ascend, could be effectively surrounded by greenery,
and made to answer the same purpose. Another attraction during
the winter would be a revolving bird shelter, kept well supplied
with grain protected from storms at a time when other food js
scarce. Bird houses have a persuasive influence, while a daily
scattering of crumbs and chopped suet will bring steadily in-
creasing numbers. Of course, the berry bearing shrubs should
be added, chosen for all year round production.

THE GREEN GARDEN

The green garden can prove not only the most easily cared for
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This bleak month of February seems a long way from the
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hailed with delight.

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were still luxuriant, but the hangings were faded, and the painted
wallboard that encased the little room looked cold and uninvit-
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blue and yellow blossoms on a cream ground, with now and then
a vermilion Poppy pushing up its bright head. This paper was
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could injure it. The floor we painted green, and flung on it a
couple of those Indian rugs that are so decorative yet inexpen-
sive. These were green and gold with a deep blue ground. We had
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painted it two coats of flat paint and one of shining enamel.
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pyralin and most unusual in shape, and installed two canaries.
One cage was pale green, and I painted a little decoration on it
in yellow where there was a line of wicker that would serve as
trimming. I also painted the top section of the cage itself yel-
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vermilion perch. He loved it, for he seemed to realize that the
gay color was a perfect foil for his blond beauty. The other cage
was blue and black; pale blue, of course, and this songster had a
green perch, not so striking but equally becoming! The cheery
songs that went on in the early morning hours made a most
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convenient beside the big chairs. I find they may be pur-
chased with delicate decorations of vines and flowers in iron
clustering around the main standard. These are touched with
color, and if well done are much more attractive for such a room
than the plainer ones. The shades that seem most appropriate
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canvas with yellow binding on the seams, and with a few gay
pillows it will ft perfectly into the color scheme. This may be
transferred to the real garden when June arrives, but meanwhile

it will be most useful in my winter garden.

Dining Room

Bo the small dining room of the present home where sim-
plicity and character rather than massiveness is the keynote,
this beautiful dining-room set is admirably suited. Combining
the very latest of current furniture design with the best of the

Colonial period, this Leavens offering is of unusual distinction.

The delicate turnings of the legs and the tapering bow-backed chairs are reminiscent
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the charm of modern design. Buffet may be had with or without cupboard top.

Finished-to-your-Order Plan

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FEBRUARY, 1927

Loses of New Castle

Are the sturdiest, easiest growing, freest
blooming rose plants in America. _ Always
grown on their own roots in the fertile soil of
New Castle. We are expert rose growers and
give you the benefit of a lifetime experi-
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is included in our immense stock; also, a com-
plete list of miscellaneous garden plants—
and the prices are right.

Our Rose Book for 1927—(and it’s free)—
“ROSES OF NEW CASTLE”

tells you how to make rose growing a success. The
most complete book on rose culture ever published,
elaborately printed in actual colors. Gives all infor-
mation you need. It’s free. Send for your copy today.

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THE HOUSE OF QUALITY

Again invites your consideration of its CHOICE LINE of
HARDY NEW ENGLAND GROWN ORNAMENTAL
EVERGREENS, TREES, SHRUBS, AND VINES.

These are GROWN ESPECIALLY for those who wish their
homes to have that PECULIAR CHARM which we all so
much desire.

Our new catalog will describe the various varieties together
with the sizes we have to offer.

Our PRICES are REASONABLE indeed when you consider
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Extra selected varieties of the wonderfully beau-
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the species, lending themselves to artistic alrange-

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The flowers are of most attractive and delicately
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Gift Box

25 Choice Gladioli $1.0

All different, selected from finest named varieties
Our Gladioli awarded Gold Medal of Massachusetts Horticultural Society, at Varese,
Italy, Newport, R. I., Newport Sweepstake Cup, etc.

Send for catalogue in color introducing new. varie-
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President and Manager

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OU will never know how delicious As-

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Our Giant Roots, especially selected for the home garden
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A dollar-a-year garden

Masses of color in continuous bloom and all the flowers you
wish with which to decorate the house or give to your friends
may be had for a dollar a year invested in flower seeds. That is,
of course, if you have a small plot of ground and a real desire to
make a garden.

The idea of A Dollar-A-Year Garden is to spend one dollar
a year for seeds for several years, say five years. At the end of
that time you may have hundreds of plants in a wide range of
colors, or many plants for especial color schemes. With this
comes the pleasure of experiment and the satisfaction of growing
things yourself and finding out how much garden initiative and
efficiency you have.

FLOWERS THE FIRST Yoru

For the beginner in gardening it may be wise to spend the
first dollar for seeds of annuals, as the perennials take two years
to mature. It is much more encouraging to have some flowers
in bloom the first year. A good list to begin with is: Aster,
Sweet Alyssum, Candytuft, early flowering Cosmos, Larkspur,
Marigold, Phlox, Petunia, Snapdragon and Zinnia. This will
give continuous bloom from early summer until frost time if the
seed pods are cut off before they mature. One should, of course,
allow some of the best plants to go to seed for self sowing the
following year, or for choice specimens to sow in a seedbed
next year. It is this system of selection that will mark the
individuality of the gardener and increase the beauty of the
garden.

Packets of seeds in mixed colors were selected in most of
the flowers in the above list, though one might work out some
color combinations, as for instance lavender Candytuft and
Rosy Morn Petunia, which are charming together, or pink
Larkspur and Sweet Alyssum. The Cosmos, Phlox, and Snap-
dragon all seem to have harmonizing colors. If one finds a
particularly lovely shade the seeds from this should be saved
and labeled for sowing the next year. It is always wise to save
some seeds in case you wish to change your arrangement of
flower beds or to carry out a color scheme without further
initial expense.

MIXED PERENNIALS AND ANNUALS

If one wishes to have a very small garden the first year the
Dollar-A-Year Garden might be made on a fifty-fifty basis of
annuals and perennials. In that case a good choice would be
Candytuft, Petunia, Early Cosmos, Larkspur and Marigold for
the annuals. Aquilegia, Linum, Coreopsis, and Boltonia are excel-
lent perennials, easy to grow. %

The five annuals chosen will give a wide range of colors and
will bloom continuously from early summer until frost if not
allowed to go to seed—they are hardy varieties, too.

The four perennials are chosen because the long spurred Col- —
umbines give exquisite colors in graceful sprays. The Linum
or flax is a most satisfactory blue flower which remains in bloom —
for a long time and if cut back gives delicate green foliage for the
border followed by a second bloom. Coreopsisisa good yellow, for
it harmonizes with so many other flowers particularly the blue
Larkspur. The Boltonia gives tall graceful sprays of aster-_
like flowers late in the season and is decorative both for gar-
den and house. The perennials of course do not bloom the
first year.

EASY PERENNIALS (F Rom SEED

If one chooses to make a perennial garden the following list
may prove a helpful guide: Columbine or Aquilegia, long
spurred; Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus); Pinks (Dianthus
plumarius); Lupinus polyphyllus varieties; Coreopsis; Del-
phinium, Gold Medal Hybrids; Foxglove, Giant Shirley;
Boltonia; Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale.)

With the exception of the Delphinium all of these perennials
are easily grown from seed and even the Delphiniums are not
very difficult if the right conditions are secured. The seeds
should be soaked in warm water at least two hours before

sowing. Good garden soil and partial shade are essential for
best results.

Nevapa D. HircucocKk

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In addition, they have a character
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Our 1927 catalog ‘‘How, When,
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Our 1927 introductions are wonderfully good; our . .
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Large bulbs usually send up from 2 to 3 or
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Scabiosas

BRAND NEW GIANT VARIETY

Offered for the first time this year. Larger and
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and the most satisfactory of all garden annuals,
and is especially fine for bouquets.

Special Offer

Two large packets of seed, one of each color,
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We are large growers of Vegetable Seeds,
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bulbs and many flowering plants. Our cat-
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direct from the grower at much less than
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If you have a Vegetable Garden
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corn. Two weeks earlier than Golden Bantam.

Lots of other good things of our own introduction are described
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Your boy’s room

Continued from page 467
their mark. To provide the necessary campfire for India
and cabin plays and ways, the attractive electric fires a
grates offer a safe solution, holding all the witchery of swirli
smoke and blazing coal with none of their dangers, especiall
if a heavy, not easily knocked over screen be placed in front «
them. (If the words ‘theavy” and “sturdy” and “safe” appear r
peatedly in this article they come from a long experience wit
boys and an understanding of their lovable though carele
ways that throw the pillows first and think of the fire and lamy
after.)

As to rugs in this room, there should be no “kick-ups.” T
stained floor or linoleum floor may be left bare with only a war
rug beside the bed for bare feet to sink into in rising. If the be
himself wants more, it is then time to seek for some guarantee:
to-wear heavy cotton rug. Curtains are also things that mak
of all ages find scant use for. The best possible style is t
straight side curtains of washable heavy fabrics on rods th:
can be easily pulled across the whole window or pushed entire
out of the way. What boy wants a glass curtain! They’re
the way when he wants to yell out of the window or fix his rad
aerial. One decorator solved this question with glass curtair
of yellow gauze that reached only to the mid-window at top ¢
the lower sash. The light was diffused in a pleasing sunny glo
and the boy was not bothered when he curled up on the padde
and pillowed window seat with an apple and a book.

News and comment

Continued from page 445
ably knows more than any other man about the pest, said:

“At the close of last autumn the beetles were known to be d
tributed over an area of about 6,000 square miles. It is not know
to occur outside that area and only about one tenth of it is heavi
infested. . . . In fact, the general public in many sections are not famili
with the beetle, unless they have actually visited the 400 or 5
square miles in New Jersey and Pennsylvania surrounding Philadelph
and Camden.

“The damage which the insect causes is largely through the feedii
of the adult beetle on ornamental plants and fruits. ... There have be
many newspaper articles appearing about the great damage done. T
has come about owing to the fact that it was introduced in the immedia
vicinity of Philadelphia, and the worst cases have been exploited
making good copy. I find that many people outside the area have t’
impression that where the Japanese beetle occurs the territory is devz
tated. It is no such thing. The Japanese beetle is causing serious dar
age to fruit, but the total extent of damage on any particular varie
or varieties is relatively small in proportion to the whole acreage

(And he might have added that the planting of new orchari
and the profitable management of old ones is going on uncheck:
even in the heart of beetle infested territory.) . . .

“The situation regarding the beetle today is: That as far as is knoy
now, it is an insect which is being controlled in the area where it occu
and, I would say, is being controlled as well as any other insect in th
area. It does certain damage that cannot be prevented, through —
feeding habits. People in the villages and cities have nice gardens, ai
they are not prepared to spray. There is a certain amount of dama
done there, and in the aggregate will probably amount to considerab
The Japanese beetle, where it occurs in the fruit areas, is being cc
trolled =a

“The plans at present are to attempt to hold it back as long as possib
in the meantime giving its parasites an opportunity to develop, and
develop measures or machinery and make them just as effective as it
possible.

And so, what have we? An insect of potential danger surel
but actually of only nominal importance; an insect that is bei
satisfactorily controlled in the territory where it is most num«
ous and where it has been longest established; an insect,
future of which has been clearly outlined on a basis of natu
phenomena and past experience by Prof. Herrick at the begin
ing of these comments. The question calling for the attention
those who are interested primarily in horticulture, the growi
of plants and the beautification of the countryside—and o
secondarily in the insect pests that impede the development
this program—is: How far can precautionary effort and govel
mental regulation be carried before it becomes more strangu
tory and suffocating than beneficial? How long, in other wor
before the treatment becomes worse than the affliction it
designed to cure or prevent?

MBRUARY, 1927 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER

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Flower

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$1.00

Cullen’s surprise collection for a border 3 to
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itil late fall. Planting instructions with each
llection.

16 packets, one each of Alyssum, Carnations,
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yppies, Cosmos, Zinna, Snapdragon, Anthemis
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ROUKY MOUNTAIN FLOWER GARDEN

Packet of. Rocky Mountain Native Flower
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Common ailments

Continued from page 480
growth of the cells in size and in number. This forms weird and
grotesque plant structures which are able to live but are killed
off at some time or other.

The greater majority of the parasitic disease fungus do their
damage while within the tissues of their host and they make
their presence known, only after they have become thoroughly
established, usually by means of spots on the outside of the
plant, primarily on the leaves.

MELD EWS

Probably the greatest amount of damage to plants is pro-
duced by the enormous group of mildews and their allies which
are characterized by a white superficial mycelium and spherical,
usually dark colored fruiting body. Themycelium consists of cob-
web-like structures delicate in texture which are felted or matted
together upon the surface of the leaf. From these, small suckers
are sent into the cells of the host in order to absorb the contents.
These mildews never enter their host plant deeper than the epi-
dermal cells, and in spite of this, they do considerable damage,
for they pass their entire life cycle upon their host. In addition
to this, nearly every plant species has its particular type of
mildew, and the fungus can travel great distances by means of
their tiny spores which are readily carried by the wind.

Especially favorable conditions for their development are to
be found in a warm and moist atmosphere followed by cooler
weather. The first visible signs that the fungus has made its
appearance are in the development of tiny white spots upon
the upper surface of the leaf, which rapidly become larger and
gradually spread so that the leaf soon has an appearance of being
covered with flour. As soon as the first white spots make their
appearance, protective measures must at once be taken. A most
successful control measure has been found in powdered sulphur
dusted on the plants. This must be done on a sunny morning
and when the night dew is still heavy upon the leaves. The
sulphur then attaches itself to the surface and, by means of the
activity of the sun, the sulphur and the moisture combine to
form sulphurous acid which is taken up by the fungus thus
killing this malignant growth. But the use of powdered sulphur
is not always successful. Its beneficial properties depend en-
tirely upon atmospheric conditions and the sulphur does not
become active on cool, cloudy days. On sunless days a mixture
consisting of one ounce of potassium sulphide, three ounces of
soft soap, and 10 quartsof water must be used. The lime-sulphur
spray acts in a similar manner and this is used in a dilution of
2 %. The stock solution, which is ““messy”’ to make, can be
bought on the open market.

Of similar appearance is the false mildew which also produces
a floury powder on the foliage. The mycelium of this particular
fungus forms a single open tube which, after penetrating the epi-
dermis of the leaf, spreads into the interior. When the fungus has
matured the spores do not come out of the upper leaf surface,
but through the stomata situated on the under side, where a
white powdery covering is produced. The false mildew of the
Grape, and the one attacking the leaves and tubers of the Potato,
belong to this class. From out of the matted fruiting bodies of
these fungus, innumerable spores are developed which multiply
the parasites rapidly. These swim in the dewdrops on the leaves
and later attack other plants.

All of these mildews are to be controlled by means of sulphur
sprays as already described

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Considerable damage is also inflicted upon garden plants by
the rusts, perhaps the most common and most destructive of all
fungus, which infest many of our food plants. The mycelium pen-
etrates into the intercellular spaces of higher plants, especially
the leaves, where various types of spores are developed which
demand, for their maturity, a change of host. Only a com-
paratively few are able to pass their entire life cycle upon one
and the same plant. After the mycelium has grown throughout
the leaf and leaf stalk, the epidermis is burst and the summer
spores make their appearance as round or elongated reddish
brown spots or lines. These one-celled summer spores are thin
walled and germinate readily so that the rust is able to spread
very rapidly, for the wind carries these spores great distances.

As autumn approaches these rusty marks become dark brown

of common plants

and another kind of spore, the winter spore, appears. These
germinate the following spring. The germination of these
spores gives rise to growths which develop spherical cells and it
is these which grow into a mycelium, but they do not, as yet,
develop the summer spores. This saprophytic filament has
been called the promycelium and the spores it produces the spori-
dia or basidiospores. On germination the basidiospores develop
a new structure which may take the shape of an inverted cone.
This is the aecidium stage. Within this structure flask-like shapes
are developed, known as spermogonia. Here tiny cells are pro-
duced which giverise tothe original rust again. This is important,
for when a change of host is necessary during its complicated
life history, the rust fungus cannot develop when one of its host
plants is lacking.

A moist summer favors the rusts. The fungus is always accom-
panied by a sickly growth of the host plant for, by means of
their absorbing organs, the rust fungus suck dry the individual
cells of the host so that these parts give the impression of being
withered. Successful methods for the control of rusts are not
known. Only where the rust must pass its life cycle on two
different plants is partial control possible by destroying one of
the two host plants over a wide area. This is the case with the
Wheat rust which passes part of its life on the Barberry and the
apple rust which lives part of its existence on the Red Cedar.

THE SMUTS

The smuts or brand fungus are destructive parasites which
primarily attack the various forms of grasses, each type having
its own host. The mycelium of this fungus usually grows be-
tween the cells, at times it penetrates them; but as a whole only
the haustoria enter to absorb the various liquids present within
the cell. Generally the parasite can only live in the softer tis-
sues of the host and as the host grows, the fungus follows the
softer parts. The spores are formed on leaf stalks, leaves, floral
envelopes, the ovaries and seeds. The attacked parts become
distorted, and swollen. From these tumor-like protuberances
the powdery or dark slimy mass of spores are ejected. These
have an extraordinarily tenacious hold on life and are able to
survive a number of winters and retain their ability to germinate
even after long periods of draught. Favorable conditions for
their propagation are moisture of air and soil. Then the spores
develop rapidly so that the fungus infests the plants, or the spores

develop a short filament of a few cells which produce buds con-—

taining spores which still further propagate this pest. In the former
case the tube penetrates into the tissues of the host and the my-
celium soon spreads throughout the softer parts of the plant. This
is usually the case with young seedlings. The parasite is often
spread by seeds, for the spores may be found to attach themselves
loosely to the outer coating. There is no known method of con-
trol. The seeds may be freed from this pest by placing in hot
water having a temperature of 52° to 56° C for ro to 1g minutes.
Then they are spread in a thin layer to dry. Another method
consists in swelling the seeds in a 3% solution of copper sulphate
from 12 to 16 hours, after which they are to be dried.

Other fungus diseases occur more or less locally. Their dis-
tribution upon their host extends but little further than the

outer visible portion. Only when entire plant parts are swollen —
or distorted or show a stunted growth has the disease passed |

through a large part of the entire plant. In the latter case it is
always best to destroy the plant and not to attempt a method
of control. In other cases we have, besides the already men-
tioned sulphur and sulphur compounds, copper and compounds
of copper. It must be mentioned that copper is one of the most
deadly poisons for plant life.

BORDEAUX) MI xT Ui RE

Of all the copper compounds the best known is the copper
sulphate and lime mixture used as a spray for most of the
disease pests. It is best known as bordeaux mixture. The stock
solution consists of one pound of copper sulphate in one gallon
of water. One pound of lime (calcium oxide) is then slaked with
one gallon of water, the water being slowly added with constant
stirring so that the lime is not “drowned.” As soon asa paste is
formed, the rest of the water is added.

These two preparations are kept separately in bottles which

Continued on page 522

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Pruning fruit trees for fruit
Continued from page 471
Pitum The last illustration, Fig. 4, gives three ages of Jap-
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with the small round leaf buds hard against the wood. II has
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4. Japanese Plum

season. The third drawing shows three fruit spurs on three- or
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will find many of the plum stems stil! attached to the spurs at a
point inside the inner bud on the spur. In some cases the stems
are holding on quite alone. Where this happens the spur has failed
through the tree being called upon to carry too heavy a crop.

Carrying the garden into the sunroom

Continued from page 461

winter plants—the room where sunroom and greenhouse are
combined. This may be done on a large or a small scale, and if
planned under expert advice, will not spoil the appearance of the
exterior of the house, as the glassed-in porch is but too apt to do.
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it may also be done more simply, and a most interesting account
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she could easily enjoy her plants during her work. In the green-
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Common ailments of common plants

Continued from page 520

are carefully corked. When required, one part of the copper
solution is stirred into 40 parts of water and an addition of one
part of lime is made. When correctly made the mixture, which
must be dark blue in color, consists of a solution and a precipi-
tate. The latter is insoluble basic copper, the former is calcium
sulphate. For the more delicate plants an excess of lime is ad-
visable, this does no harm and may prevent burning. In fact it
is always best to test the mixture, which should always be freshly
made before use, for free copper. This can easily be done by
pouring a few drops of a concentrated solution of potassium
ferrocyanide (red prussiate of potash) into a glass containing
the spray mixture. If a reddish brown precipitate is formed it
is a sure sign that free copper is present and more lime must be
added. This spray is to be applied a number of times, the inter-
val usually being from 8 to 14 days. Commercial preparations of
the mixture ready to use which save the bother of handling
are to be had at the seed store. They appear under various pro-
prietary names.

A deformation of fruits is produced by a small group of fungus
known as Exoascus and whose mycelium comes out of the epi-
dermis of the host plant. Some of these parasites produce wart-
like protuberances on the leaves, as the one which produces a
characteristic crinkling and deformity of the leaves known as
peach curl. Another produces the so-called plum pockets in which
the young fruit becomes of abnormal size and shrivels. Then, too,
deformities, brush-like in form, are produced on certain trees
such as Cherry, etc. In the case of the plum pocket, the myce-
lium grows into the twigs so that the parasite is present every
year. The same is true of the peach curl disease, for it may also
remain within the twigs of the tree throughout the winter. The
only way of combating the pest is by a thorough pruning after
the leaves have fallen.

Monilla is a fungus found on Peach, Cherry, Plum, Pear, and
Apple. During the moister summer months this parasite becomes
visible as gray spots which gradually change in color to red
and yellow and form tiny heaps or clusters from which spores
are set free. The fruit then shrivels, often before being ripe and
remains on the tree throughout the winter without falling off.
This disease may be controlled by removing all of the fruit and
infested branches late in the fall. Another fungus on the leaf as
well as the fruit of Apple and Pear produces dark spots. It also
causes the bark of the Pear to become scaly and when it attacks
the fruit, makes deep ridges which split and form fissures. For
its control copper-lime solution should be sprayed on the tree a
number of times and, at the same time, the tree itself should be
pruned so that it receives more light and air.

Fortunately, from the practical standpoint of the gardener it
is not necessary to become an expert fungologist in order to fight
the diseases. There are manufactured remedies which can be
bought at the seed stores, preparations which have been worked
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Home-made lime-sulphur

Fruit growers who follow the practice of applying routine
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This spray is prepared by adding 11 gallons of concentrated
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A year after the washout

Continued from page 454

The terraces extend across the middle of the garden. (The
picture shows just about half of it). The length of it is one hun-
dred and seventy feet, and the width one hundred and twenty-
five feet, so there is room for many varieties of flowers.

The prevailing color of the whole garden 1s blue. This color is
brought out strongly up the hundreds of Delphiniums planted
in the lower part of the garden (Wrexham strain). Beginning
with the rock garden, the first plantings at the foot of the first
terrace are several varieties of Japanese Iris. The first path on
the terrace is bordered with varieties of Thyme and Nepeta
mussini. A rustic seat by the tree near the path 1s surrounded by
Lavender. Along the upward path are many kinds of Saxifrage.
Scattered among the rocks are varieties of Columbine. Rock
Aster, Rock-rose, Alpine Poppy, Harebell and other Cam-
panulas, Cynoglossum, Edelweiss, Rock Tulip, Spiderwort,
Thilictrum, Pentstemon, Primroses from all over Europe,
Violas, Pink Spirea, bush and trailing Lobelia.

When we remember that this garden is an infant just three
months old when photographed, we can imagine what it will look
like when all the plants are in full bloom, when they will form
large splashes of brilliant blues, purples, and pinks, with just
rock enough showing to give the effect of coolness and strength
and great variety of form.

The stepping stones outline a horse-shoe shaped plot of fine
turf bordered by a row of Heliotrope and Delphinium. A large
shallow bird bath which is not visible in the picture is situated
just at the extreme right, where the lower path winds down into
the lower garden. Here are some fine native Rhododendrons.
Below the horseshoe is a lovely trellis of Dr. Huey Rose, a dark
rich red climber, having in it a shade of blue that is a perfect
blending with the Delphiniums. Near this are beds of Mignon-
ette, Lupins and Snapdragons. This is an enclosed garden,
having an atmosphere of quiet seclusion. It is enclosed with a
rustic fence of cedar poles in an interesting design. Against the
fence are planted dozens of native shrubs, Syringa, wild Spirea,
Arrowwood or Ocean Spray. At the top of the garden are choice
varieties of Roses, with a Rose trellis at the end of the path.
The arch covered with Grape vines leads into a formal garden
directly in front of the house. A trellis covered with Dr. W. Van
Fleet Rose extends across the width of the house.

Scheme and materials of the ‘Victory
Garden’’

Continued from page 459

All the beds in the garden are edged with Dwarf Box and
at important points in the design shown clearly on the plan are
pyramidal bush Box; of the sixteen beds in the center of the
garden, eight are devoted to Roses. Of the other eight beds,
two each at either end of the garden are dominated by blue
flowers and in the other four, two at either end, pink flowers
predominate.

With the bulbs, Crocus, Narcissus, and Tulips begin the
season’s long period of flowering and at no time from the first
Daffodil to the last Rose in November is there a dearth of color.

Among the shrubs used are Lilacs in the shady corners on the
north of the south wall. Euonymus, Azaleas calendulacea and
viscosa, Juniperus virginiana by the pergola over the sea-horse
fountain. Four Retinispora pisifera aurea, one at each side of
the oak seats which terminate the walks on the cross axis, have
become very important additions to the formality of the design
owing to the severe trimming necessary to keep them strictly
within the bounds of their limited quarters.

Peonies are in three corners of the four pink beds; about them
are grouped the season’s supply of color, Dicentra spectabilis,
Aquilegias, pink Astilbe, Campanulas, Phlox. The beds in which
blue predominate are filled with Larkspur, Veronica, Anchusa,
Lupin, and Linum with the addition of many whites and yellows.

Asters, Hollyhocks, Mallows, Foxgloves, Salvia azurea and
many Japanese Anemones are reserved for the outside beds.

The list of bulbs used is a long one for such a small garden
and contains many well known ‘Tulips but the feature of the
tulip season is in the group study in color combinations such as
a Darwin or a Cottage Tulip for a basic color with the addition
of selections from the Breeders, Bizarres and Bybloemens to
furnish contrasting shades.

524

HERRWAR SY, 1027

The dependable popular annual

Continued from page 470

a depth of two or three times their diameter is a good rule
to follow. Outdoor seed sowing should never be done when the
soil is in a very wet condition—it must be friable. When the
seeds have been planted and covered properly, give the bed
a thorough watering with a fine hose spray or watering can.
Keep the seed fairly moist at all times until the sprouts push
through the soil.

Few people have the nerve properly to thin out annuals, and
the commonest cultural mistake is in allowing the plants to re-
main as the seed was sown which means a mass of starved plants
that rush prematurely into bloom with only one weak shoot;
and generally after a short struggle with heat, wind, and rain,
they give up the job. Each plant must have all the room it re-
quires for root formation and food to attain full development.
Most of the annual plants should be thinned out so as to stand
from six to twelve or more inches apart, according to size, and
variety, and conditions.

Cahn oeiieV AnD) Neu Le Rebs OuUs he Neds le Ys

When the young plants are well established, the soil around
each plant should be frequently cultivated with hoe or hand
cultivator. This both encourages strong growth and keeps
down weeds. Frequently stirring and breaking into small pieces
the surface soil (never digging deep enough to disturb the roots)
acts somewhat as a mulch and prevents evaporation to a cer-
tain degree. Hoeing is thus a good substitute for watering, but
it must not be depended upon altogether. Gardens should re-
ceive a thorough watering from some source three or four times
each week in summer, and this watering must penetrate the soil
thoroughly. If using a hose, sprinkle gently, not allowing force
enough to break the delicate foliage or injure the tender flower
buds.

A good mulching of lawn clippings placed around the plants,
especially during the hot months and in dry regions, will help.
As soon as they fade, remove leaves and blossoms, for if allowed
to remain, they give the garden an appearance of neglect and un-
tidiness; also the faded flowers will develop into seed pods, which
will take all of the energies of the plant to mature and will stop
new growth, including new blooms. August 1s the worst month
for seeding.

AUNGN OPAC SS OCR@ So: Pee, GiIlvA UL oN E ED'S

For edgings: Thom Thumb Ageratum; Little Gem Alyssum; Lobelia
erinus Bedding Queen or Crystal Palace or pumila rosea; Love-in-a-
mist (Nigella); Nasturtiums (dwarf varieties); California Poppies;
Verbenas; Swan River Daisy (Brachycome iberidifolia); French Mari-
golds; Calendulas (Scotch or Pot Marigolds); Dwarf Phlox drummondi;
Rose Moss (Portulaca); Dusty Miller (Centaurea candidissima) ;
Torenia; Baby’s Eyes (Nemophila insignis) Baby’s Breath (Gypso-
phila elegans grandiflora).

For middle of the border: There is a great host from which to choose as
the average annual height ranges from eighteen inches to three feet:
Phlox drummondi, grandiflora varieties; China Asters; Centaurea
cyanea; Centaurea imperialis; Centaurea americana; Improved
Camellia-flowered Balsam; Scabiosa; Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana
affinis); Blanket Flower (Annual Gaillardia); Larkspur (Annual Del-
phinium); Bush Eschscholtzia or Giant Yellow Tulip Poppy (Hunne-
mannia fumariaefolia); Mexican Prickly Poppy (Argemone hybrida
grandiflora); Annual Lupin (Lupinus hartwegi); Bush Dolichos;
Butterfly Flower (Schizanthus); Four-o-clocks or Marvel of Peru
(Mirabilis jalapa); and Blue-eyed African Daisy (Arctotis grandis).
Most of these are excellent for individual bedding effects and also for
cutting.

For the back of border or center of large formal bed: Use plants that
are tall, ranging from three to six feet in height—there are not so many
to choose from. African Marigolds Lemon Ball and Orange Ball;
Cockscomb (Celosia); Amaranthus; Rainbow Corn and various Orna-
mental Grasses; Cosmos; Salpiglossis; Spider Plant (Cleome); Castor
Bean (Ricinus); Sunflowers in variety (Helianthus).

For single bedding effects: Poppies; Verbena; Aster; Nasturtium;
Marigold; Cosmos; Phlox drummondi; Petunia; Scabiosa; Zinnia;
Strawflower and other Everlastings.

Annual vines grown for flowers or foliage, or both: Sweet-pea; Climoing

Nasturtium; Hyacinth Bean (Dolichos) in two colors; Moonflower;
Climbing Foxglove; Cypress Vine; Cardinal Climber; and Japanese Hop.

For window or porch boxes or pots: Maurandia; Lobelia erinus; Pe-
tunia: Vinca; Verbena; Nasturtium; Mignonette.

§25

SOUTHERN GROW
DAHLIAS

The Hickory Hill Collection of-
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Northern gardens and our collec-
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enthusiast securing the varieties
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Please ask for our 1927 list

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J. S. Bosher
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