GLE LTA T ER AAR ORR hl at OE GA THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY GAM VAL hy Ks iat Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2025 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign https://archive.org/details/gardenmagazine4419unse Wares! 955)” fh. (ia ae cee yy ¢ a Le -¢ . 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 Gran DEIN GC Pek NG We YOLK Ks DOWUBIEH DAYs PAGE GOmMLP ANY IeSaee/ 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, 447°, 453° us aN NN — Fn = tn —| cee me ia” Ses ag EY SS wD) ore — £ Andra 3 SNS: PAS SE hee ( W., A., article by, 240 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, 4 Wilder, Mrs. L. B., garden of, 450* 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* CTI ae 0 on ee heneedevpcerall 4 r pe tg a re ‘yp ‘ Af HF Worrell j i 4 W) ye 4 i fi 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. Treasure trove indeed !\)). 45 7. ae 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. MOHRWK CARPET MILLS,INC: Amsterdam, WY This beautiful rug is No. 9016-T. Ask your dealer to show it to you. Ne SEPTEMBER, 1926 Vi) THE GARDEN & HOME BUILDER Tuxedo Park Golf Club, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Bishopric was specified by Kenneth M. Murchison, Architect. SWING TO COLORED STUCCO Everywhere builders are securing this rich beauty and Note the increasing number of colored stucco homes in every neighborhood. The charm of its warm colors and interesting textures is winning build- ers everywhere to this beautiful ma- terial. And now you can give your home this charm, with great strength and durability of construction, at frame- house cost. Bishopric has made it possible. Bishopric is a unit-wall construc- tion. It consists of (1) a patented re- inforcing base, (2) a stucco, and (3) an attractive color finish. All three materials are designed and made to be used together. They. com- bine to form a unit-wall—as opposed to a wall made from miscellaneous materials mixed together. The result is a coherence and strength of construction obtainable only with Bishopric. The diagram at THE BISHOPRIC MFG. CoO. 309 Este Avenue, Cincinnati, O. Enclosed find 10 cents (stamps or wrapped coin) for which please send me your new booklet, ““The Renaissance of Colored Stucco. enduring strength at low cost WATERPROOF FIBER BOARD LAYER OF ASPHALT NAIL GOES INTERLOCK THIS*IS#THE UNET-WaALE 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. the left illustrates why this is so. Bishopric is also economical. The reinforcing base may be applied di- rectly to studdings, producing a stronger, warmer wall than sheathing, metal base, and stucco—and the cost is less. Bishopric Stucco is also applied with excellent results over hollow tile, concrete blocks, and similar materials. Send for New Booker 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 authorita- tive and helpful book. Enclose 10 cents with coupon below. Tke BISHOPRIC MANUFACTURING & ESTE AVE, CINCINNATI, OHIO ©7hke BISHOPRIC MFG. CO. OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES ” Ss. A O Pe Roe] GARDEN ‘tf HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926 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- e e 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 BABAR ‘* 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. ! | BORAGE AAGkGAGaE | GIGS GGG GG GGG GG GGG GG GGG G HH GSS GIGS The GarpwN AND Home Buriper, September, 1926, Vol, XLIV. No. 1. Published monthly by DPeuhlodey, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. Subseription price, $3.00 a year. Entered as second class matter at Garden City, N. Y¥., under te Set of Congress, March 38, 1879. ~ 5 See GARDEN & HOME BUILDER a ' i BP eee v : Fi a Photo by Underwood TULIP TIME IN ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS | f This photograph shows the remarkable uniformity in size, perfect form, and exquisite colors of im HENDERSON’S MAY FLOWERING DARWIN AND COTTAGE TULIPS | Be Grown at **Friendship’’ the gardens of Mrs. Edward B. McLean, Washington, D. C. | i F | Henderson S Imported Bulbs | / Bulbs are practically all grown in Holland, and as we are among the largest of American importers, | we get the pick and import only ‘‘firsts.”” We have been importers for three-quarters of a century | Semmeacelvathe best crowers of the different vara Uj ieties. Some excel in growing one kind and others in ‘ aa eat 72 ye ‘ PETER HENDERSON & CO. AGS s. another, so that we are in a position to get the +43 eae 5-37 Cortlandt Street best qualities of All Varieties. Our Annual Bulb 3 ra RY a . : : e or it » Catalogue is now ready. It is unusually attractive i y and complete and should be in the hands of every selaase send me your 1926 Bulb Catalogue as advertised 1 in Garden & Home Builder. = lover of Bulbs. ; Peter Henderson & Co. ‘ 35-37 Cortlandt Street i New York City Tati ——UUtT—TJZtTTVwOTII IC TEACH 9. J ee ee eee ee ee eee eee GARDEN & HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926 5 %eetectectectectectectestectectectectestectectectectestestestectectectectectectectectectectectectectestectectectectectectectectectectectectectectectoctestectectectectestectectectectectee™ Ho eectectectectectectectectestectecte etectectectoctestestestestestecteete EDEL EXILE XTX RIE EEX EX EEX EEN EXEL EET EX ETEK EE ERENT EX EN LX EXE KEKE EX EXER EX EERE EERE EXEC EEOC O50 050 050 050 050 050 050 050 0,0 0000 OLS OOO OOOO OOOO OO OOO O00 0. ‘3 —e 9 “e AZ 0,0 08 1% Get Ready to Plant Tulips, Hyacinths, etc.—and ee boy) = Get them at Dreer’s : IGHTY-EIGHT years of continuous service cause us to be looked upon as a 3 reliable source for the best in Bulbs. Patronizing the most conscientious # Dutch Growers, we buy quality merchandise in such quantities as to insure us # reasonable prices. Dreer customers benefit by this policy which stands back of # every Dreer product. Six Super-Superb Darwin Tulips z Here are six truly superb varieties of outstanding merit. Each is a decided leader in its color * class, while in vigorous blooming qualities they have no superiors. & Bleu Aimable—Clear lavender of fine form. 75c Flamingo—Delicate shell-pink. Most attractive. ‘7 oo! per doz.; $5.50 per 100. 85c per doz.; $6.50 per 100. ¥% Centenaire—Rich, rosy pink of most distinctive Isis—Intense, fiery scarlet. Extremely showy. oc character. 85c per doz.; $6.50 per 100. per doz.; $5.00 per 100. *x Faust—Deep pansy violet of splendid sub- Prince of the Netherlands—Striking cerise-rose of stance. 85c per doz.; $6.50 per 100. great sizeand substance. $1.10 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. < Special Collection Offers: * 3 each of the above 6 sorts, 18 bulbs $1.25 12 each of the above 6 sorts, 72 bulbs $4.50 ~ 6 each of the above 6 sorts, 36 bulbs 2.35 25 each of the above 6 sorts, 150 bulbs 8.50 4, Dreer’s Superb Darwin Tulips, in Mixture = or Please write for * For thoce who are not particular as to specific varieties, we offer a mixture that brings, A Gaul & the finest which this type affords, in a great latitude of color, and containing early, utumn Catalogue “e midseason and late blooming sorts. Plant several hundred for cutting, and enjoy glori- Besides fully describing the ax ous bouquets at low cost. 50c per doz.; $3.50 per 100; $30.00 per 1,000. Se ee Soh ay pee If wanted by Parcel Post, add 5% to value of order to 1st, 2nd and 3rd zones; 10% to Seeds ee eiga eee Bx : 7, rown traw Derr ants, ems ee 4th, 5th and 6th zones; 15% to 7th and 8th zones. ved cer reas Lae ee * : or sun lan and sundry garden ff WENRY A. DREER, 1306 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pa. |" "ee" oticds | ef (; 29) 2 bi : EY slootecteotontooteatoote e re Mote ctectectectectectestecteeetetaeetestectecte te ctenta Meta ctnctac*ectactactant Mo ote ctectectectectectectectestectectectactectectectactacte tects ohn a%e Ma oF na Me Mn oF. .% .% .% .% .% © os PaO MeO MF HOH ,0 1009 OOOOH, 9 OO 0% OF, 9%, 0%, OU,O0, 00,09, 99,00, 00 90, COO 0 0,0 0,9 MeO Mah a0 MgO MAO MO OMAP OOOO HAO MOM O HOMO OOH SOOO OO OU OU OOO OU OU OU OO OU OO OF OO 00 O00 +: oe LITTON vean GREENHOUSES * so oMoctectectectcctoctectectectectent HP HOO 9% 98,9009, 00, 00,09, 09 0000.0 a a LUTTON OWNER Fruit Range, built for MOSES TAYLOR, Newport, R. I. ard house, remember {LU eAn Indoor grown in your own Sd outdoor garden. wg Orchard In planning an orch- A glass enclosed that the vines and f V fruit house provides trees need a great ‘ BURPEE'S ““ TULIPS your table with sun- deal of sunshine. ripened peaches, nec- Lutton V-bar green- ) UST beautiful! How vaguely these words express the joy that steals into \ Scare Me WPI ier on be built so our hearts at the sight of these glorious nl A mer selection of \ e glass extends blending colors, which complement one another, gives to the assortment an f ‘ regular season. This almost down to the artistic and finished touch. POA AN fruit is even better ground. They let in The collections contain these five varieties: NR Ki - < flavored than that a maximum of light. Inglescomb Pink—Soft rosy pink. Inglescomb Yellow—Glistening golden yellow. Farncombe Sanders—Vivid cherry-scarlet. Orange King—Brilliant orange. . aap? \ ‘ Our new book, “Greenhouses of Quality,” Bleu Aimable—Bright violet-purple. awaits your address. Nowto7320Six Bulbs: each/s = 0 ee ae ee bulb 8 No9733. ol welve Bulbs cache) 1 oy eee éo poe om | No. 9734 Twenty-five Bulbseach. . . . . . (125 bulbs) 6.25 \ No. 9735 Fifty Bulbs each". 2) 9) ae bulbs) — 12.00 : y, No. 9736 One hundred Bulbseach . . . . . (500 bulbs) 23.50 pute ® i Order your Tulips now for planting this Fall. wm. HH. LUTTON COMPANY, Inc. iene NUON HAE: (OO) 265 Kearney Ave., w Jersey City, N.J. Seed and Bulb Growers Philadelphia SEPTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER THATCHER BOILERS-FURNACES-RANGES Sections that break up the water and ““stagger’’ the fire travel, giving the utmost in thermal heating units. In a Thatcher Round Boiler many small units of water heat more quickly than one large mass HIS is the principle which makes the Thatcher Round Boiler the most powerful of all house heaters for rated capacity: in both the number of thermal heat units transmitted to the water and in the length of time between firings. The ingenious construction of the sections shown above and their posi- tion in the boiler divide the mass of water into many small parts. They also “stagger’”’ the fire travel so that the full effect of the heat isobtained and circulated below, above and beside each unit. e e Consult your local dealer and fill out the coupon accompanying this OS 1 d 1 advertisement. } 4 ee Hospitality demands that you afford your guests every comfort while they are in your home—partic- ularly a well-heated bedroom to dress in and a cosy warmth to cheer the breakfast hour. With a THATCHER Boiler every room of your home will reflect warmth, comfort and hospitality that will impress itself upon your guests. With a Thatcher Round Boiler less fuel is required than in an ordinary boiler and the radiators begin to “‘sing’’ soon after a fire ,” is started. Its small coal consumption quick ample heat, and ease of operation are among the many points of efficiency oa : ee SF which have, for nearly a century, pleased owners of “< se Thatcher Round Boilers. cane me ” s a : : OE RO ey Mail accompanying coupon and Iiterature will be sent bs g You regarding the Thatcher Round Boiler here illustrated. aan = od x og ax vat 2 ra THE THATCHER COMPANY 43". formerly Thatcher Furnace Co. 2 oS 3 ? “s 4) Since 1850 Abe 2 s oe Se Ro NEWARK, N. J. 39-41 St. Francis Street AG ile NEW YORK 21 West 44th Street Ay & We ' Ip CHICAGO 341 North Clark Street "6? ie é ee GARDEN & HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926 g 7 S LEN. Products} 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. = = moists spots, as the case may be. Now the Climbing Roses in pa ata plapting are now available, 3 E fact that there are hardy perennials for ae aan z every conceivable situation has caused us to When asking for catalogues it 1s quite important to state what you intend to plant. = | prepare some leaflets that contain the very BOBBINK & ATKINS, Rutuerrorp, New JERSEY = info rmation you desire about different plants LLL LLL eR for different soils and situations. Whether ° OS), SD SS, WES ES OES ay RE) Sy, Wy Bay wy WG i VEC Be you have a hardy perennial border or rock- Dyk 4S. Uy C) 22 3 eS OU : : : DVS Ay fe Ke Ae US SO! QS LAVA Y EPR N KES. : is garden or are just in the act of planning for CNA AG A UNENE? <7 PANES one, you'll find these leaflets a mine of valu- able information. And they are free—gladly sent on request. Bulbs, too, for Garden and Rockery I hes for that Fall Gather » 4 of Spring Delights! wy .% Regardless of how N& great or small x your garden may 3%\ be, it is simply 2 ION S No hardy border is complete without a liberal not complete un- x = sprinkling of stately Breeder or Darwin Tulips, ONE less it holds some Mae, a or the more graceful Cottage Tulips or Daffodils. : Tulips. We have tA . The Rockgarden as well should hold some of the seen dismal nooks Prep a dainty Snowdrops and Grape Hyacinths, Blue and corners trans- Le x a Bells, Crocuses and the most interesting botani- formed into ver- X\ 9 itable fairy lands cal species of Tulips in which we specialize. Our = pee a Mey NaN of bulb I duct of experts in Holland and = Oe meen = ulbs are the product of expert = 2 those tall stately we stand back of every one that comes to you = Darwin Tulips Py in a Wayside package. / that we import ai * = from Holland. sf AK Fall Catalog FREE! = Since we buy them BS & It’s the best ever—an improvement over last year 2 in generous quan- = \ E> and we were proud of that issue! This new Fall = tities, we are able to hand them on to you at a sub- ie Catalog truthfully pictures and describes reliable = stantial saving. ae plants and bulbs for your garden, at prices you'll . Several 100,000 to Arrive Late This Month eo consider fair. Please ask for this guide to fall garden = Rrery one erin’ ne is of top size. ‘There artes as : oer = ; re ten dis- \G & making today, mentioning Garden & Home Builder. = tinct and beautiful varieties. They may be had either \ Vg 7 - 2 separately or in mixture at e, \ ; \ \ | = $3.50 per hundred $30.00 per thousand Nb fy ayside Gardens (6 = eg Illustrated circular tells the whole story. Please ask for it. te arégest Growers of Hardy Plants in Ameri «|: OS WAN largest Growers of Hardy Plants in America -| AY GLEN BROS., Inc. We Mentor. .s3a<s=eQOhio.|2| 2% 2 3) Glenwood Nursery Established 1866 Rochester, N. Y. /e “ E. H. Schultz, Pres. J. J. Grullemans, Sec. Treas EX S355 4B ¥ Me Wwe ayy HA yD QQ w S3 ct (theese SY SO f= =| lA 6 SEPTEMBER, EG.2:0 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER See Zee EL ew LP en EL? Wer Pee LP les BL eee LP Cle PL Ces mf hes mf? hes OA? Ries Pf? Zhe Of? Lies A? Liew BS? Rie He oR Ae 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 $7.00 White with June rose Bloom” ranks among the most inspiring pieces of business litera- oo ture that reaches them. Originally it was the loving work of a ‘ man deeply in love with Peonies, the late Mr. John M. Good. He felt that ic would be almost sacrilegeous to describe Peonies in the sense of ordinary merchandise and to calculate their value as is done in «he average catalog. “Glory Bloom” introduces to you a collection of this greatest of all June flowers, in a fashion that will delight those who look upon flowers as one of the greatest joys in life. INCORPORATED World’s Largest Peony Growers Springfield, Ohio The Good & Reese Company, Sales Agents Department 500 ‘poems. odt Your copy of this deluxe booklet together with price list for the best in Peonydom is awaiting your call. The Good & Welsh Peony Farms uty af .. Bt “eRe Above is shown “Departing Sun” the marvelous Japanese Peony, included in “Bizarre” Collection. Alongside—A small part of the 85 acres of Peonies on our farms, constituting the great- est single Peony plantation in : the World! Ro TE A a y X BMA FR PA oF TR Ao THY A 0 TRY Ao RO PA IROL GARDEN & HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926 Quantities of Roses Next Summer! +>-—$ In GLOri>—___<> 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. blips @hprinifine 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: THE CONARD-PYLE CO. % Star Rose Growers ye © 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 DAFFODILS and NARCISSI FOR NATURALIZING and LAWN PLANTING 1000 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 100 Single Early Tulips in 10 named varieties ..... . . $6.50 >, .% oo OOD OC) F ro ate at Come See These Roses in Bloom *, * *, ou °, Literally miles of roses to greet your eyes with their 4°. 100 Double Early Tulips in 10 named varieties . ..... . 7.50 “e ip Bee Rupe De re ge at $ Fregrnt bloom of beauty: 100 Breeder or Art Tulips in 5 rare named varieties. Wonderful % thousand husky bushes in all the shades of red, pink, 100 Patt os Once Mulige in 4 uae iced ae en & yellow, and copper. 100 Grocas tab aamed waneuee aM tice tina mies wh = we fea 'O0 % Any day from now until frost these everblooming \/ 9% 5% Discount—if cash accompanies order varieties offer you a sight worth traveling miles to see. >, -%, 0 #9 9,5 °, % Should you want to have roses like these in your garden, we gladly advise with all the frankness our ex- perience can give. Extraordinary Offer 100 DARWIN TULIPS Awe for only . . , .%, 6%, rt M2 8 <2 AA UC? _ Fall Planting by all means plus our insurance policy and our special Three-Fifteen Collection make it easy for you to have the best of results with your roses next year at a very reasonable cost. % *, % 7 ~~? Choicest, first-prize bulbs, sure to bloom. Schling’s 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 <7 , + % o. .% ©. rat 42% Pa Pn aM 2% a 2a aPn 2% 0%e aha 0% 0% 0a ahs Peas Me ae atea%eateatestenten + ¢. 7 9%, Plan your trip to our Rose Gardens real soon and be sure to send for our treatise on Roses—How to make them grow and bloom. NEW BRUNSWICK NURSERIES * 3 o i £5 Along the Lincoln Highway South of New Brunswick, N. J. e 5 oF oF Me ote ctectcctcctectectecte create cts che ate ate aM aM Meche aM Me aM aM nF % 2%, .%. .%, .%, .% SSE SES IIIT T IIIT IT TITEL TLE XIE EEE ELLE ECE ECE ECE ECLECTIC AA 9.0%, 0 00% 7 *,¢ Schlings Bulbs MAX SCHLING SEEDS MEN, INC., Madison Avenue, at 58th Street, New York City %, .%, <> 9 00,009 \7 re! Gl RO mnt eee = SHOLHPHHPH OHHH HHOHHHHHH HH HHHHHHHHHHH IDI DIDI HHD HHH III III IID IIS DIOLS SSIS DPS SSS HHHHHHHHHHHH GGYGGGYGYYIGYGYUGYGYYGGYGYYGGG GGG GG GGG IGG GIG IGG IGG IG GIG GGG GGG GIGS IGG IIS IIS ISIS SI SIS SSIS SI SIS SI SIS SSIS SUSI Sp | SEPTEMBER, 1926 Six Room House No. 629 This is one of the 128 Houses, embracing a wide variety of architectural styles and interior arrangement shown in our “Face Brick Bungalow and Small House Plans.” GARAGE I O"'x19-0" TEKITCHEN % 14-3 X10-O; LIVING RGDM 12-9%20-0" BEDRaoM || 12°0°x 14-3) SECOND FLOOR GARDEN & HOME BUILDER Designed for the Service Department ot ) the American Face Brick Association CWhen you build, get full value for your money ~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 these “Booklets “The Story of Brick” is an attractive booklet with beautiful illustrations of modern homes, and discusses such matters as Comparative Costs, Basic Re- quirements in Building, The Ex- travagance of Cheapness, and kindred subjects. Sent free. “Face Brick Bungalow and Small House Plans” embrace 128 designs of Face Brick bungalows and small houses. These houses are unu- sual and distinctive in design, economical to build, and con- venient in floor plan. Issued in four booklets, showing 3 to 4- room houses, 5-room houses, 6-room houses, and 7 to 8-room houses. The entire set for one dollar; any one of the books, 25 cents. We can supply com- plete working drawings at nom- inal prices. “The Home of Beauty” contains 50 designs of two- story six-room Face Brick houses, representing a wide va- riety of architectural styles and interior arrangements, selected from 350 designs submitted ina nation-wide Architectural Com- petition. Sent for 50 cents. Complete working drawings for these houses at nominal cost. “The Home Fires,’’a most attractive fireplace book, with many designs, gives full direc- tions for fireplace construction. Sent for 25 cents. Address, American Face Brick Association, 1748 Peoples Life Building, Chicago, Illinois, USE FACE BRICK 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 ; Rose Arbors Entrances at Their Best! Carden Koll T WAS A SIGHT NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN! Equipment chev amorosie aia Columns (Qe hy c=) 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. Se © Se ES 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. C= ECE se) SEPTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER RU Ns I IMIIETTETTITTNTT" WH i l mt BU INAH NES aie” Sade aliadlaNS canto 2 en Ee mea a ag i = F= ite | = = A . E a 5 '. 3 Rut N 2 Ewe ()) EWE ot E | x a4 h a rine Aa Eau | pe ardttrs Iran erent! Moceeey Kure il Fudor-Htone-Payniny- THE natural texture and soft, variegated color- shapes, sizes and patterns, We. are prepared to ren- ings of our Flagging Slate make it highly desirable der a cooperative service in planning, and to supply 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 ries, it may be cut and laid in any combination of booklet describing Tudor Stone Roofsand Flagging. Piging-and Pelson-Slate-eompant Sales Office and Architects’ Service Department: 101 Park Avenue Quarries and Main Office: West Pawlet, Vermont BOSTON PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO sep ALY ud <f]111 a II SEPTEMBER, 1926 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. TevNe 0a OP THIS TRADE MARK ON EVERY CAN GO" OTe onitle ele. ene. C10 0 het 50! Z Wuy Bucs LEAVE HOME KILLS All INSECTS and BUGS The standard and best insecticide for your flowers, shrubs, evergreens, vegetables, etc. For years it has been used by the most exacting florists and estate superintendents. Absolutely harmless and clean—ideal for small homes. Recommended by the officers of The Garden (lub of cAmerica For sale by Seed stores, Florists and Hardware stores Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. NO: OWW_e: © Mile: © SEO. ONO. ONO. OMe. oO. Fe. ouhe. 0 Re: ONRie: ewe! eRe, este. 1071e! -@) Large, Beautiful Blooms re aise. wae. .0 Waynesboro, Pa., June 10, 1926. ORR 0, OAT e: x0. ‘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 iT) NEW JERSEY PC OR = I Jexaeme: Dept. A SPRINGFIELD 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. “eRtne 1 UaNe. eAM Me: LeTAat je UUTTTTTUTTVTTTTUUTTTVTTTLLETUVLTRELETULLTU ELLA LLUULLeUCeULESULUCOOOCUUUUUCCUUUOUUCOUOLCVLUUULCVOCLHUULTAUDUOPLLNOOLIAUDULVULUIUU OVP L LP Two Remarkable Selections AT AMAZING PRICES! DARWIN TULIPS Ce OO) OO 2 ORO! 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 SEO. [OYE O: .OPFsie: “eSRe: Le Tae. Tess. OPHle Lee. “oie. eATe: “ewisKe! ‘‘True to Name and Character’’ Gloversville, N. Y., July 2, 1926. The Dahlia King 2O.SHEO. [ORES <0. 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. >) OMS. (ONTO, 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 OO [i= OS OR 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. ea a Te Praise ea elewsm: OLNMZS: OMENS. eMC! (ese. 0: “ORME, Le Diie: esas eo. OEhe. osee. I FUNUIVAUUVAUIVOUVVOUUVDUUNOULU0DUUUU4in040Gus4edineitiuninndtUdA AYU LOLLOUUULULOOLULLUOLLVULUOOUVOULYULAOUUEOLUOU LULU STM UCU Nv 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. E-THMITNQOQNINTUNUUTIVTTITIUIQUTNNNNNOQOQOQUUUUUUUUUTUUINONTGQQOUQQOUUUUUUITUTUUUUNVQQOQONQOQQUQUUUUUUTUUIVTUVOAOQOOGOOOCULOCUUUUUUUULUUTUUAVOGQNOOGOQCUOUCULULUOOUUUUUUULUVVVOQIGHGHOQOQOCOOCOLOUUOOOUOTLUUULUOTUUOAHOOGOOSOQQCOCQUUOLOUUOUOUTUVUT UDI ——— SEPTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER =A E — TTT COU UCC ee lite MMII IIL TELE 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 Eugenie Verdier - - Light Pink 1.00 Sister Annie - - - Pink 1.00 Fannie Crosby - - Pinkand Yellow 2.00 Felix Crousse - - - Rose-Red 1.60 Souv. de L’Exposition Rose 75 Midnight - - - - Deep Maroon 1.00 A Total Value of $12.75 for $10.00, delivered anywhere in U.S. Premium Offer: All ordering above —— Selection during September will receive an extra Chas. McKellip with our compliments. Please refer to Garden & Home Builder when taking advantage of this offer. Catalogue FREE Offers over 100 varietie of Peonies —the best from the world’s greatest hybridizers. Almost as many choice Iris, besides a limited number of distinctly worth while hardy peren- nials and a few varieties of Tulips for fall planting complete the make- up of our rather modest catalog for which please write. The Pfeiffer Nursery } . | Winona - =: Minn. C0000 eee 22 ULNA aT 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 The Flower Beautiful which tells you the whole story. George H. Peterson Rose and Peony Specialist Box 50 Fair Lawn, N. J. b mel TURE IMU CIO UMUC CUCU COUT CUCU COO eee TELL ELELEEEE INULIN TTC CELE CE COO AMM MMMM 7 Arrest the Flight of Father Time with the help of POT-GROWN Strawberry Plants \Y LL S\N 4 ll Pe Si WONG 344 ~—— The Lovett Type heavily rooted, that will bear Great Crops of Fine, Big Berries! Catalog No. 118 tells the whole story. Please ask for your Free Copy. LOVETT’S NURSERY Box 125 Little Silver - New Jersey GARDEN & HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 192 RIENDLY arms stretched out to hold 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 hour after dinner a period of real rest. Its wide 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. THE ELGIN A. SIMONDS COMPANY New York Syracuse, N. Y. Chicago yy SIMMONDS Individualism ~in Good Surniture 14 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. 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SLOANE AGH: Sl REE AN Deer Se Lies aay ea gg NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO WAS Hil NG T Om & % ; 2 7 “ eI 4 8 - ‘ ee f 5 " PS é 3 eo 3 % od he ™~ P 4 Re et a ad < aa $ Seat jo | a e oh >? > ee =) ‘% = e a Weta cepccmorttcnees a> Ns wir 10 Sibi MOE 5 Ss egiicnaus o #8 — fWEN & HOME BUILDER Molex LLV.Nowt SEPTEMBER, 1926 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.” 17 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. GARDEN ‘¥ HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926 SMM I =| = Sooo oro eee eer cee e ee ee ee iniiiiiiitt tt itinns “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 >> Garden of Mrs. Edwin Tatham at Lincolndale, New York, designed by Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr. 18 SEPTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER S00 CTL John Weiss, Inc., Photo. a MMe “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 oh) The long border at the home of Mr. Herbert S. Gay, Orange, New Jersey; Clarence Fowler, Landscape Architect 19 we GARDEN §& HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926 UNOCAL CCC Mattie Edwards Hewitt, Photo. m0 TR “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 21 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 a ie 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. 24 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 25 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. Breakfast porch opening into both dining room and garage (see plan below) Ht ae |p E | ama Sa. + i poo al H Be G 5 : ee a = feo Dooa . i g de M) . . It HALL Dining Room “Daryise Rees Ves teem: Beo Roow ,t ' fi ==. = pl) i} ih} beenaneasp Poncnt le ‘a Lj First floor plan 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 29 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 30 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 31 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 33 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 34 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 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER 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. 30 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 44 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 40 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 < WW 7A ia | 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 ES =, Rad SOT SS VE oY 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 48 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 49 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 ED 5 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 51 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 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER 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) 52 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. 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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. 56 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 (Continued on page 58) SEPTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER Pride of the Inland Empire 1 ‘| eu ey M —choice of those who PONDOSA PINE! Sovereign of soft- woods. The ideal lumber for building and repair. Light in weight, yet strong. Beautiful and economical. Definitely dependable. For every trade-marked stick is rigidly graded, thoroughly seasoned and carefully milled. Fifty million acres of timber grow in the Inland Empire of the great Northwest, and new growth is added every year. Enough to build Pondosa Pine tremendous cities. More than enough to supply the needs of all those who build with discrimination and care. You also will want Pondosa. You can get it at good lumber yards. Write for “Bingo of Flathead,” a very interesting booklet, and choose Pondosa Pine with your architect. Address Dept. 12, Western Pine Manufacturers Association of Port- land, Oregon. The Pick o'the Pines Pick o the Pines fi ay Write for this booklet GARDEN & HOME BUILDER (Continued from page 56) 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. 58 SEPTEMBER, 1926 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. i . a PTEMBER, I926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER & foes 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. 59 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926 More Heat for Less Money (Continued from page 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 28) 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- 60 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 delightful substitutes for the heavy porcelain or iron dressing table lamps which seem too ponderous for a boudoir.—A. L. F. | >TEMBER, 1926 6 GOLD MEDAL $1099 WINNERS Each Karl Rosenfield, glowing crimson............--+++++e+05 $ 2.00 Memeeretenoulpnur yellow... 4... 422. tbe ee eee 3.00 G@aean Bernhardt, deep soft pink...........-.-+--+-+-6° 2.00 Lady cAlexandra Duff, seashell pink...........-.+++++++ 3.50 Elie Chevalier, deep rose tinged scarlet..........----+++ 2.00 Marguerite Gaudichau, white touched carmine.........-. 4.00 (VSS OE 3 is ee era $16.50 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. Garden IRIS THOROUGHBREDS 8 Fine Varieties $5.00 Each Ambassadeur, purplish bronze...... $1.00 Lord of June, lavender-blue......... .50 Medrano, rich rose-purple.......... E.25 Moliere, deep velvety violet........ 1.00 ‘Princess Beatrice, true silvery lavender .50 Queen Caterina, iridescent lavender- a 1.00 Shekinah, beautiful soft MellOW ye. 5 Souv. Madame Gaudichau, velvety ES) 1.50 Gai A $7.50 Write for descriptive catalog “Tris For Every Purpose” The American Rose & Plant Company GARDEN & HOME BUILDER National Gold Medal Peonies for Your Garden AY the largest Peony Show of the world, June, 1926, we were awarded the Grand Gold Medal for the finest Peonies exhibited in competi- tion with other growers from all parts of the United States. This is the highest honor that can be conferred on any Peony grower and is awarded by expert Judges for Peonies of Unequalled Quality—Va- riety -Color—Form and Fragrance. In addition to the Grand Gold Medal we were awarded First Prizes for the most perfect flowers of various colors exhibited and these several awards are unquestionable proof of our knowledge of how to grow peonies for best results and that we have for you the choicest varieties of superior quality. Roots which produced the Grand Gold Medal Winning flowers will be delivered to our custom- ers this Fall and with the Big Value Collections we offer, you will have a Prize Winning Garden at a nominal cost. A Galaxy of Prize Beauties that Will Win for You! 4 GOLD MEDAL gins WINNERS Each “Baroness Schroederawhite sy eee ek oe. ke ee $1.25 Georgiana Shaylorsieshi pink ee. a. eee ee ee 5.00 Grover Cleveland adatkectimsong ay mein...) eae 1.25 BUEN US ;SOl Lully Cian Ger: Diilk mrme meet hee a)... 1s ees 1.50 cL are, sae ee $9.00 Our illustrated catalog ‘‘Peonies for Every Purpose,” a complete story of the finest varieties of double, single and Japanese peonies, mailed free on request. eAristocrats ARTEMISIA «SILVER KING” After six years of diligent propagation we of- fer this unusual and beautiful foliage plant to the flower loving public. Artemisia Silver King belongs to the peren- nial class, and after numerous tests we find it perfectly hardy when planted in the open ground. It grows toa height of about three feet, is of vigorous habit and thrives in any kind of soil. For landscape effect from early summer until late winter it is the most outstanding plant we have ever seen. Its bright silver colored stems and foliage blend harmoniously with other foliage or blooming plants and its rich striking beauty in form and color is first to attract attention re- gardless of its surroundings. We offer you one-year-old field grown plants for Noy- ember delivery. Each, $1.00. Dept. E Springfield, Ohio Producers of Plants that Grow and Bloom 61 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER SEPTEMBER, 1926 The New, Easy Electric Way to Polish Waxed Floors and Linoleum Quickly— ff without Stooping, Kneeling or even Soiling Your Hands eo) Sm ese ee Ss |S) ee es ee ee Se ee) ns ee) eee ASK YOUR PAINTER to wax your floors elec- trically with aJohnson Electric Floor Pol- \ tsher. Then he can do them ALL in a short time. ! 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The investment is small for so great a convenience. Ask your local merchant for a free demonstra- tion. Or write us, STR RR eee eee S. C. JOHNSON & SON, Dept. GM-9 Racine, Wis. “The Floor Finishing Authorities” Please send me Free and Postpaid your new 25c Book which tells just how to treat new and o and hard wood, linoleum, rubber, marble or tile. oors of all kinds—soft =e PC aD LS | SD | DY CRD 1 GD LD ED | AD 5 SED 1 CD | CED 1 GENS RED | GED CHD: GND: GHESED 1 CREED | GENE REED 1 GREEED J CHRIS | CREED Y CREE | CED | GEREEDD | COREE! CHREEEND | CHEEED | HEEEED | CHEN «= au eae 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) 62 ) SEPTEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER “THEY ARE VERY GOOD LOOKING’’ TAPERED AMBLER ASBESTOS SHINGLES WHAT KIND OF A ROOF IS BEST? There are roofs that will last a lifetime, and there are roofs that look as though they would be good for a hundred years, but leak the first winter. Asbestos shingle roofs are imperishable and don’t leak. They can’t burn. FIREPROOF WEATHERPROOF EVERLASTING The definite charm and distinctive effect of this unique product, in the ‘English Thatch”’ in random widths, irregular courses and rough texture that 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 in a roof. 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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. 64 iJ LL the more advanced tendencies of modern art — its interesting departures from the stereotyped and conventional, its spirit of freedom and individuality and, most particularly, its joyous use of glowing, exotic color— are contained in this superb tapestry. Woven at Felletin, near Aubusson, specially for the Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, it was exhibited there asa striking example of modern tex- tile art. In design, it follows some- 'what the theme of the romantic 17th and 18th century French tapestries. Yet its lofty mountain peaks, its luxuriant foliage, the picturesque gondola on its placid lake, its deep, beautifully beflowered border are all distinctly modern in form. And they glow with the rare colors beloved of Matisse, Picasso and the other modern masters. The car- A TAPESTRY (Modern in design and fraught with the glorious living color of L. Art Moderne toon was painted by J. Van der Bilt, a Dutch artist who has lived in France since around 1910. Exhibitions of his paintings at the va- rious ‘‘Salons’’ have attracted much interest and attention. Especially notable is his won- derful use of light and brilliant color. This unique Pipe is but one of a group of Schumacher fabrics that follow the trend of modern art, and is in color harmony with some of the modern damasks which first came out at the time of the Exposition. Tapestries of every other period are also included in the Schu- macher range. 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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 ancient ar tists be comes famous dragon of Steairied and early Teutonic | egend : known. . } 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- 5; baa] a W a Cc 5 (Continued on page 70) >TEMBER, 1926 GARDEN & HOME BUILDER Candidum) E favorite Lily of the old-fashioned garden produces strong, stiff stems, studded with a mass of pure, glistening white flowers that enliven the perennial Flower garden, or, for contrast with the beautiful green shrubs of the June garden, are unequalled. Plant During Month of October and enjoy a good crop of flowers next June, or pot up, store in cold frame, and force for early winter in the greenhouse or conservatory. 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SMITH 167 Cedar Street Wellesley Hills, Mass. 7 DLO OWRD CBWE DEW I CDOFDTWWNICDOF DWN IDV FOG WOAWD CP OF OG WAI CIV FOC WS I) CDP OF OG WLI DOF OCW CDOF OC WND oC *» me Ae C07 O6 WSC : : : : : CWOMJI DR OG WII ODOF OGWLIY CDPOF OB WIDOT O% | SEPTEMBER, 1926 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 In this regard the San Ildefonso potters follow in the footsteps Nampeyo, that splendid Hopi woman who, more than thirty years 4) conceived the idea of adapting the decoration on the pottery of |’ ancestral village of Sikyatki to her own handiwork, with such suce? that her beautiful jars and bowls may now be seen in every quar’ of the land. - Fb = | 40 i SEPTEMBER, 1926 Drop all waste here—then FORGET it! Dispose of Al/ Garbage | Instantly—No Cost! OW—before you build that new home you're planning—is the time to banish forever the nuisance of garbage can and rubbish pile. The time- tried Kernerator, at one moderate first cost, gives you this permanent freedom. Thousands in use for years—every where. Costs Nothing to Operate Waste is simply dropped through the Kernerator hopper door without leaving the kitchen. This waste falls to the brick combustion chamber in the basement. There, an occasional lighting is all th.t is needed. No fuel, gas, oil, wood or coal—is used. Just the waste itself. Metallic objects (tin cans and the like) are flame-sterilized for removal with the ashes. Ask your architect or contractor—he knows and will recommend the Kernerator or write KERNER INCINERATOR COMPANY 431 EAST WATER ST. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Here is a typical Kerner- ator installation. It costs no more than a good radio set and you get rid of the garbage nuisance forever. Built-in-the-Cnimnev E_ and t CO] peeve is Gone beautiful riod Pexchisive ts transformation will surprise you! 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They can brighten the dark room and Fine wall papers can also give the small room a sense subdue the glare in an over-bright room. , known writer on decoration, Miss Lucy Taylor, is a book that will give you a hundred and one hints on this new use of wall paper and home decoration. “The Simple Art of Wall Decoration” by the well- | and has actual samples of many of the finest modern Muralia papers, with detailed discussions of each. Although the price of this book is twenty-five cents, we will gladly mail it to readers of this magazine without charge. Just send us the coupon below and ten cents to cover postage. It is profusely decorated both in color and half-tone, | | | | | | sino Beautifying | | } | | BAECK WALL PAPER COMPANY 233-271 ThirtySeventh Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. If your dealer does not have Muralia papers, we will be glad to give the name of one who does have them \| Murata |\& (is ye) xy) WALL PAPERS Baeck Wall Paper Company 1-2 233-271 Thirty-Seventh St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 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 Address City Rug used in \\ above picture os Fay-Durbrow Carpet Co. GARDEN & HOME BUILDER YOU MAY ¢hink your floors look good enough but that’s only because you've become accus- tomed to their dingi- ness. If you want to see them as others do, merely refinish a small spot under a rug, and compare the old sur- face with the new. The difference is usually amazing. Only then do you realize how much your home is handi- capped by your floors —how much more at- tractive it could be if only those floors could be improved. They can be. With the Ponsell you improve them yourself—easily. SCRAPE and REFINISH YOUR FLOORS yourself This amazing little machine does all the heavy work— scrapes, sandpapers, refinishes—then keeps your floors in perfect condition forever after —costs but a fraction of one refinishing job. Loox at your floors. Are you satisfied with them? Completely ‘satisfied? Proud of them? You could be. You could make them ten times lovelier. You could make them envied by every neighbor—admired by every visitor. Within a day you could transform them—quickly change them from dingy surfaces, luckily covered up for the most part by rugs, to gleaming, spotless places of which you hate to hide a single inch, “Oh no!” you say, “Not my floors!” Oh yes, we answer, your floors, ANY floors. The most neglected floors have pos- sibilities. Layer upon layer of old shellac and varnish may disfigure them. Year upon year of ground-in dirt may seem- ingly defy removal. Yet underneath there is the clean and honest wood—the hidden warmth and color of the grain. “But, the expense?” you say. “I’ve had them give me estimates. What about the hundreds of dollars refinishing will cost me?” This advertisement offers you a way to overcome that difficulty. It calls your attention to the most remarkable machine ever made for household use—a machine that refinishes floors, scrubs floors, pol- ishes floors—a machine that costs but a fraction of what you usually pay for one refinishing job. With it you yourself re- finish floors with ease. The apparently impossible job of taking off shellac or varnish becomes absurdly easy. The mani- festly back-breaking jobs of sand-papering and rubbing in new wax turns out to be a matter of merely guiding a machine. And this refinishing only needs to be done once! The floor never has to be re- finished again! Afterward a little waxing and polishing with the machine once in a while—an operation so simple that a child can master it—keeps your floors looking as though they had been refinished the: day before, This is not mere enthusiasm. The claims we make can easily be demonstrated. In twenty-four branch offices we have men ready and anxious to show you, in your own home, what the Ponsell Floor Machine can do. In thousands of homes it has al- ready won the unqualified praise of users. It not only refinishes and polishes wood floors, but scrubs linoleum floors spot- lessly clean without the least splashing, It does away with all the drudgery. Gone is the stooping and kneeling, the wear and tear on your hands of water, soap, cleaning fluids, scrubbing brushes and wet rags. Then the machine polishes the linoleum with a result far surpassing anything you have ever known; a shiny, immaculate surface that dust and dirt have a hard time sticking to, Just what the Ponsell Floor Machine does, and how it does it,’is a fascinating story. It is a story that every home-owner should read. We offer you an interesting booklet that contains it—a clear, brightly- told description interlarded with explana- tory pictures. With your eyes on your floors, can you say, “‘No, I am not inter- ested”? Take the first step toward more beautiful rooms. Mail the coupon or write a letter for further information on how to refinish your floors yourself. Ask us for a FREE demonstration—or, if you are too far from our nearest office, a ten-day FREE trial. Ponsell Floor Machine Co. Dept. 39 220-230 West 19th St., New York City Please mail me complete information and prices regarding your. Electric Floor Machine. This does not obligate me in any way whatever. La hem 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 early chalking of the paint film. When chalking occurs the gloss of 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 desired that outside paints should wear away slowly so that when it becomes time for repainting only an extremely thin layer of the old paint film remains. The chalking of white lead promotes this de- sideratum. 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 excellent oil absorber and spreader. It can be used only when com- bined with a softer pigment such as lead, for when used alone it ac-_ celerates the oxidation of the oils to such an extent that the paint film becomes hard and inelastic and checking and peeling results. Thus lead and zinc have serious defects when used alone; but when combined, the good qualities of the one offset the poor qualities of the 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 shelf. Inert anti-settling pigments, usually magnesium silicate (which is finely ground asbestos) or barium sulphate is used to hold the pige ments in suspension in their containers. The amount of inert pigments should not exceed 15 per cent. of the total pigment content in the light colored paints. | 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. per cent. to 30 per cent. The dark colored browns, reds, and greens” cannot be produced on a lead and zinc base owing to the density of color required, The following table is an approximate guide to follow | when purchasing exterior house paints: g Dark Coors | Bottle green, Meptum Coors Light brown,buff, LicHtT Cotors Cream, light WHITE grays, etc slate, etc. dark brown, etc. | *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 I Excellent exterior house paints are put on the market by a few repu- | table manufacturers. These concerns give the formula of their product on the can. Is it not true that we always look for the karat | stamp on gold jewelry before we buy? Are not copper leaders and gutters for the house made of 16 oz. material to meet our specifications? _ When purchasing paint should we not then insist upon knowing its’ formulation, for, paint like gold and copper has enduring and protective qualities which depend upon the ingredients from which it is made? *All figures in above tables are expressed as percentages by weight. 5 These figures appear in the manu- facturer’s formula on the label of the paint can. 1926 EPTEMBER, EE what a barrier the Higgin All-Metal Weather Strip presents to air currents. The metal strip that rises from th> window frame is hugged by the metal in- sett in the window sash. Thus a draft, before it could enter the room, would have to penetrate this snug metal-to-metal contact. To install Higgin All-Metal Weatherstrip is to save many a fuel dollar, incidentally covering the cost of the installation, and 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 telephone directory. THE HIGGIN MFG. CO. 511 Washington Street, Newport, Kentucky Toronto, Canada : ll These books show how Higgin ALL ME et TAL Screens and weather strips . are designed for your home. Screens and Weatherstrips Bond for thom: To double the life of rugs— To give them “oriental” luxury— To make them silent, soft and restful— Lay them over Ozite! Any size, for rugs or carpets. Ask your Furniture, Rug or Department Store. EULAAECS Rug Cushion CLINTON CARPET COMPANY, Chicago American Hair Felt Co., Mjrs. Los Angeles New York — Gels" Like Walking on Velvet: Nee a ES SexSiccs See Cee tee ESSERE CLINTON CARPET CO., <<) 130 N. Wells St., Chicago. G. H. B. 9-26 Kindly send me without obligation your free booklet, “The Proper Care of Rugs and Carpets”, and small sam- ple of Ozite. ite is made of ‘ rilized hai: —the ly rug eahon that ozonized.”” Pat. ted Sept. 9, 1924, | 73 AMERICAN ENCAUSTIC TILING CO., Lrd., Zanesville, Ohio GARDEN & HOME BUILDER TINHLIES as an c/nvesment You expect your home—whether new ot remodeled—to pay dividends in comfort and enjoyment. Then you 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. 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PORTLAND CEMEN [efit The standard by which all other makes are measured GRAY TEW YORK: CHICAGO - BIRMINGHAM - KANSAS CITY: PHILADELPHIA: BOSTON ST LOUIS : DES MOINES : DAYTON: OMAHA: BUFFALO :JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 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- J \4 : Nf. FOR FOUR’ GENERATIONS BUILDERS OF GREENHOUSES | 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 rvington New York Denver Philadelphia = shapely Jars, Bird Baths Ss New York 30 E. 42nd St. 1247 So. Emerson St. Land Title Bldg. Free. Many valuable hints to home- and Fonts, Flower Vases, Chicago Boston Cleveland Kansas City 5; owners and prospective home-builders Pots and Boxes, Gazing i i Cont. Bank Bldg. Little Bldg 1304 Ulmer Bldg. Commerce Bldg. Um es, Benches; etc re eS ee Grease SWy | Eup BIRCH MANUFACTURERS | A collection of over 300 attrac- a) Buffalo Montreal, Can. St. Catharines Y) 232 F.R.A. Building, Oshkosh, Wisconsin tive numbers is shown in our cata- S Jackson Bldg. 124 Stanley St. Ontario, Can. pe | logue, which will be sent upon , receipt of twenty cents in stamps. = Y= ( mG ssoway Terra Cora ©, IQS) Inn QAR SancAd (= 4 WALNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA. a CK S) ESD 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. 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Believe me, there is no pursuit that compares with Interior Dec- oration when it comes to happiness, en- joyable work, big money. Interior Decoration offers all ambi- make seem cool and dark for summer must change its charac- ter and become inviting and cheery. There was space and 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) ANTIQUES A MONTHLY PUBLICATION INOS in its fifth year, the magazine ANTIQUES is the active influence behind the present widespread interest in collecting. Specialized, authoritative, yet entertaining. 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COOLIDGE Y BARNES © National School of Interior Decoration Dept. 439, 2 West 47th Street, New York City You may send me FREE and without obligation, a copy of the new book, “Interior Decorating for Profit.’ Name Out-of-the Ordinary — eg — Inexpenst ote ta! EARLY AMERICAN LAMPS | SUITABLE FOR COLONIAL AND COUNTRY HOUSES | | Electrified with 8 ft. silk cord and plug, painted in any color $7.50 and $8.50 complete, Parcel Post, extra Send for illustrated folder showing full line of Sconces and Lanterns—35 models INDUSTRIAL ARTS SHOP, 120 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mas BIGELOW CHANDLER eAndirons ave a position of prom: ence, and an association f sentiment which demand are in selection; and a dura- ility that justifies more than casual investment. §[We ake fireplace furnishings in ll metals, in finest quality nd design. Jatalogs A showing andirons, showing spark screens, also A showing wood mantels will e forwarded if desired. EDWIN A. JACKSON & BRO., Inc. 8 Beekman Street, New York also ith Street at Lexington Ave., New York (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 Oak and Pine Built in Ipswich on the King’s Highway (Old Bay Road) about 1690. This house, one of five, is my setting for FURNITURE OF AMERICAN OAK AND PINE HOOKED RUGS Our collection of New Eng: land Hooked Rugs is at its best. Many hundreds to choose from. Send for Burnham’s Hooked Rug book, mailed for only 25c in stamps. Fifty designs in illustration and complete instructions. 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A Louisville - - Kentucky 84 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