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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1917 



iAEOW&Y 



GIVES ENDURING CHARM 



Sfend for our illustrated «-«-. 

 'catalogue of Flower Pots. 

 Boxes,"Vases.Benches. Sundials. 

 Gazing Globes, Bird Fonts and 

 other Artistic Pieces for Garden 

 and Interior Decoration, 



GAiromYTERRAG3TTA(b. 



3214 > WALNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA. 



Bird Houses for Christmas 



Gifts are always welcome and will help to save next 

 year's crops, $1.00 for three assorted or $3.50 per doz. 

 With three ply Asbestos Roofing, $1.50 for three. Free 

 to third zone. 



IDEAL BIRD HOUSE COMPANY 

 New Windsor Maryland 



SUNDIALS 



Real Bronze Colonial Designs 

 From $3.50 Up 



Also Bird Baths. Garden Benches. Fountain 

 Sprays and other garden requisites. 

 Manufactured by 



The M. D. JONES CO. 

 72 Portland St. Boston, Mass. 



Send for illustrated Price-List 



School of Horticulture for Women 



AMBLER, PA. 



Two years' practical and theoretical course 



in Horticulture. Next entering class for 



diploma students January 15, 1918. Fall 



course of ten weeks for amateurs begins 



1 September 11th. Write for particulars. 



Early registration advised. 



Elizabeth Leighton Lee, Director, Box 105 



Beautify Furniture 



Protect Floor and Floor Coverings 

 from injury by using 



Glass Onward Sliding 

 Furniture Shoe 



in place of casters. 



If your dealer will not supply you 



write us. 



ONWARD MFG. CO. 

 MENASHA, WIS. DEPT. T 



MR. ROBERT PYLE— the well-known Garden Lecturer and 

 Rosarian invites correspondence from garden lovers and societies. 

 Subject — ■ "The American Rose Garden" illustrated with finely 

 colored lantern slides. Address: West Grove, Pa. 



E DAGES 



WILL MEND IT 



Now for 1918! 



Now that the crops are gathered, 

 it's time to take stock and prepare 

 for an even better garden next year. 



Garden 

 Tools 



will make your work a lot easier and 

 enable you to accomplish more in 

 less time. 38 combinations. 

 Write to-day for free booklet. 



BATEMAN M'F'G CO. 



1R0NAQE 



Box 35C 



Grenloch, N. J. 



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INSIDE 



THE 

 GARDEN HOME 



JAMES COLLIER MARSHALL 



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Some Good Things for the Small House 



Mr. James Collier Marshall, Director of the Decorating Service of The Garden Magazine's Advertising Dept., will solve your problems of home 

 decoration — color schemes, hangings, floor coverings, art objects and interior arrangements, making purchases at the most favorable prices. This 

 service is free to our readers. Address inquiries to "Inside the Garden Home," The Garden Magazine, 1 1 West 32nd Street, New York. 



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Japan sends us this perpetual calen- 

 dar of antimony 



FONE is to judge 

 by the numberof 

 interesting new 

 articles of house dec- 

 orations seen in the 

 shops, it would seem 

 that the war has had 

 a good rather than an 

 ill effect on domestic 

 productions, for there 

 are really many 

 charming things 

 available. Th is is 

 particularly true as 

 regards metal work 

 which several years 

 ago was an almost 

 neglected field but now most happily revived. 



To-day one finds really excellent designs in iron, 

 steel and brass in architectural hardware and accessory 

 decorations, while for fireside tools these new patterns 

 are not only distinctive in pattern but equal in work- 

 manship to the old ones. 

 Indeed, I have recently 

 seen fire screens and fend- 

 ers of hand wrought and 

 engraved steel that needed 

 no apology when compared 

 with antiques. These 

 base metals are being 

 widely used for lighting 

 fixtures and are very good- 

 looking and effective when 

 not too heavy. Very 

 often they are tinted in 

 antique tones of color to 

 harmonize with the decor- 

 ative scheme. 



Apropos of 

 lighting ar- 

 rangements, one 

 of thebestof the 

 new ideas is the 

 use of perfor- 

 ated metal for 

 lamp shades. 

 These are made 

 usually in the 

 round empire 

 shapeofsmooth- 

 ly joined metal 

 sheet finely per- 

 forated and dec- 

 orated with hand-painted designs 

 that, showing to great advantage by 

 day, seem fairly alive when lighted. 

 These punctured metal shades 

 are to be had also in forms for ceil- 

 ing domes, and they are by far the 

 most attractive for this kind of fix- 

 ture one can find. However, I have 

 seen another interesting arrangement 

 that may interest some. It was an 

 homemade one and as dainty as it 

 was artistic. Simply a crochetted 

 net work to cover the plain half 

 round glass bowls that covered the 

 ceiling lights, and from this depended 

 three netted fringes about two inches 

 wide, one around the widest circum- 

 ference of the bowl, at the ceiling, 

 one half way down, and the third 

 and smallest about three inches in 

 diameter at the bpttom. Nodescrip- 



This red marble ash tray is very good- 

 looking 



Florentine patterns in antique tints decorate this excellent 

 bracket tin for flowers 



Exceptionally good for refreshment service is this dainty tray, decorated with deep pink 

 roses and green foliage on a black ground 



Floral festoons embellish this jar for fra- 

 grant salts to freshen the atmosphere 



tion can give an idea of its 

 charm. For intimate, 

 simple arrangements it 

 can hardly be surpassed. 



Metal is being 

 used considerably 

 this season for 

 trays, many new 

 patterns of which 

 are graceful in line 

 and prettily deco- 

 rated, the one pic- 

 tured here having 

 naturally painted 

 roses on a black 

 ground, though 

 most of them have 



far more gorgeous patterns of flowers, with birds, parrots, 

 in particular predominating, the American eagle being 

 very popular. 



Hanging baskets of various descriptions and bracket 

 arrangements for flowers are also to be had in profusion. 

 These are decorated in any 

 manner desired, though the 

 Italian patterns seem to 

 have a preference over all 

 others. Of such is the 

 bracket shown here, the 

 half elipse of tin being deco- 

 rated with birds and flowers 

 on an old gold ground all 

 antiqued, while the bracket 

 is of carved wood in an- 

 tiqded gold. 



Another goodlooking 

 bracket has a scroll fenced 

 shelf supported by an arm 

 of acanthus foli- 

 age all painted 

 in shaded gray 

 green and gold, 

 while the plant 

 receptacle is 

 plain green, the 

 scroll fence 

 forming its dec- 

 oration. 



There are 

 some very good 

 vases and low 

 dishes forcut and 

 growingflowers, 

 to be found 

 among the importations from Italy. 

 Like most of this ware, these are 

 very gay in color and decorated with 

 rococo flower and fruit patterns in 

 relief. They are the best for dining 

 table centre-pieces, since their shapes 

 are especially adapted for fruits. 

 These also may be had in open work 

 pottery — quite an open basket weave 

 in effect and rather bizarre in form, 

 many of them being barge like;others 

 are cornucopia shaped. All are or- 

 nate, though very effective. 



Entirely different, yet every whit 

 as entertaining, is a new curate for 

 tea table use, made of oak and brass. 

 This little piece has twoshelves, quite 

 capacious — each will hold two plates, 

 and this is so constructed that the 

 whole folds quite flat, the oval shelves 

 breaking in the middle. 



The Readers' Service will give you suggestions for the care and purchase of cats ami dogs and other pets 



