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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers' Service will gladly assist 

 in selecting decorations for the home 



May. 1907 



ENTERING THE VESTIBULE OF A RESIDENCE- 



a first impression is received, which must strongly influence any appreciation of the further interior. 

 What is the character of this introduction into your own home ? 



The chief decorative opportunity of a vestibule is the floor. Wood is never a proper 

 material, because it is not adaptable to strikingly predominating effects. Nor is marble, or tilings 

 of ceramic compositions suitable, being cold and unpleasantly harsh under foot, and necessarily 

 having unsightly cracks between the pieces impossible to keep clean. 



A flooring for your vestibule capable of being rendered into designs more beautiful and 

 of richer coloring than any other, that gives peculiarly agreeable contact to the foot, that never 

 wears out but grows more elegant with years of use, that affords the visitor a foretaste of faultless 



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The high character of this material is best conveyed by the fact that it was chosen over 

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 edifices in America, where it is laid over the main aisles, and hundreds of other situations in- 

 volving equally high architectural requirements, both for art and enduring permanence. 



While Pennsylvania Rubber Tiling is suggested as the most effective flooring for the vesti- 

 bule, this is not by any means its most important use in your residence. It is practically a neces- 

 sity in your bathrooms, being absolutely waterproof and sanitary, warm under foot, and most 

 easily kept clean ; in your kitchen and pantries, because it is restful to walk and stand upon ; in 

 your billiard room, for its non-slipperiness and silence — ALL these qualities are vastly desirable 

 in ALL these uses. Pennsylania Rubber Tiling is non-inflammable, odorless, and outwears even 

 marble. Any workman of ordinary skill can lay it successfully right over your existing floors. 



When you write for our Book-of-Designs-in-Color, which will be mailed tree on request, 

 it is suggested that you send measurements of your vestibule, bathroom, or other space you might 

 possibly wish covered, and receive figures of cost and full information. 



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Our Lawn Grass Seed containing a mixture of the finest grasses 

 especially adapted to grass plots and that will give quick and 

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 during the summer before every rain on bare or wornout places. 



Our grass seed mixtures are all composed of the highest grade 

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Making an Azalea Bed 



AZALEAS may be transplanted while- 

 • they are still in flower, which gives- 

 you a chance to stop the free fight that gen- 

 erally ensues from the average gardener's 

 color schemes. The important thing is to 

 keep the lavender-magenta-purple series- 

 separate from the yellow-orange-red series, 

 and have a good neutral zone of white flowers 

 or green foliage. 



The making of an azalea bed should be 

 undertaken in the same spirit as ship- 

 building. Spare no expense and make it to 

 last. The heath family are peat-lovers and 

 lime-haters, but Mr. Dunbar has proved 

 that he can grow azaleas, rhododendrons, 

 etc., without peat, and can even water them 

 with rather hard water provided the limy 

 soil be thrown out to the depth of two and 

 half feet and replaced by good soil over 

 a thick layer of brickbats, stones, or other 

 drainage material. This soil, should De- 

 composed of muck, sand, and leaf mold — 

 the last being a compost of hardwood leaves. 

 The object is a combination of never-failing: 

 moisture without dampness, and this in- 

 volves perfect drainage. Once made art 

 azalea bed should never be cultivated, be- 

 cause the shallow feeding roots will be de- 

 stroyed, but every year you should give it a. 

 light coating of perfectly rotted cow manure. 

 Never remove this mulch or dig it in. 



Luckily, the most gorgeous lilies — the 

 ones that are popularly considered the best 

 like these same conditions and bloom after 

 the rhododendrons. 



The best azaleas for forcing are the- 

 varieties of Indica. The mollis hybrids are 

 the next best. Red is the favorite color for 

 Christmas and white for Easter. Plants for 

 Christmas bloom, or earlier, are best kept in> 

 pots the year round. Those for later bloom 

 may be planted outdoors for the summer in. 

 prepared beds under trees, and syringed daily 

 in hot weather. These plants are then potted 

 in the fall and brought indoors. Beginners 

 who do not have a greenhouse will not usually 

 succeed in keeping house azaleas from year 

 to year. Better have a florist take care of 

 them for you. Azaleas bloom in about six 

 weeks in a temperature of 50 to 58 . 

 This can be cut down to four weeks if you. 

 etherize them. Ether seems to act like frost,, 

 and ripens the wood in twenty-four hours. 



New Jersey. Thomas McAdam. 



The New Interest in Dahlias 



THE New England Dahlia Society,, 

 lately organized, promises to have a. 

 national scope and success. A remarkable- 

 new feature of this society's work is the publi- 

 cation of a monthly bulletin about dahlias, 

 called Dahlia News. This feature alone 

 ought to be worth the price of joining, and 

 we hope that it will insure the success of 

 the society. The secretary is Maurice 

 Fuld, 5 Union Street, Boston, Mass. 



Great interest is expressed by the European 

 periodicals in the new peony-flowered race 

 of dahlias introduced by the Dutch firm, 

 Copyn & Son. The new varieties are said 

 to possess the irregular, loosely arranged 

 petals and a large golden centre like a peony. 



