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The House Beautiful 



is much more beautiful when stained 

 with the soft, harmonious tones of 



Cabot's 

 Shingle Stains 



Their colors have the same depth nnd richness that is 

 found in nature, ami houses sbiined with them melt 

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 than paint, wear as lon^and itvow old gracefully — no 

 crackins and peeliiiR like paint — and being mnde of 

 Creosote they preserve the wood. 



" Wood treated with Creosote is not subject to dry-ro', 

 or other decay.''— Ceniury Dictionary. 



Siai7ied'with Cabofs Shingle Stai7is, lijiediuiik Caboi^s 

 Sheathing' Qiiilt. — Robert C. Spencer, Archt., Chicago 



The House Comfortable 



— more important even than the house 

 beautiful — is one that is lined with 



Cabot's 



Sheathing Quilt 



which makes houses wind and frost proof. It is incom- 

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 cost ill fuel in two ordinary winters. A penny spent in 

 using it is a dollar saved in heating and doctor's bills. "It is cheaper to build warm houses than to heat cold ones." 

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Dutch Bulbs 



from the growers, direct to the planter 



IT IS NOT TOO LATE 



to plant Holland Bulbs, Lilies, 



Iris and Peonies 

 We still have a fine assortment of these 



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Ellis Parker 

 Butler 



Author of 



" Pigs is Pigs," " That 

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Gardening in Novennber 



NOVEMBER is an excellent month for dividing 

 and replanting hardy herbaceous plants, 

 especially the early bloomers. Do this with your 

 hands and a knife, and you will get more and better 

 plants than if you use a spade. Set out, also, in 

 the place where they will bloom, pansies, forget- 

 me-nots, wallflowers, sweet Williams and fox- 

 gloves, which should have been started from seed 

 in August. Hardy bulbs for spring blooming 

 may be put in as late as December, but remember 

 that early planting is the best insurance for good 

 results. 



Any time after the first rains sow seeds of hardy 

 annuals. They will grow slowly during the rainy 

 season, but in the cool spring and early summer 

 you will get finer flowers than from spring-sown 

 seed. Don't neglect the beautiful California 

 annuals. California poppies (Eschscholtzia) and 

 annual blue lupins (Lupinus bicolor) will enable 

 you to reproduce in a wild or neglected place one 

 of the most glorious color combinations of the 

 California spring landscape, while if you want low 

 beds or edges of delicate cream, or beautiful light 

 blue, Platystemon (cream cups), and Nemophila 

 insignis (baby blue eyes) will give them for the 

 minimum of effort and expense. The best results 

 follow sowing in prepared soil, but if this is not 

 done, and you have reason to expect a strong 

 growth of annual grasses where they are to go, 

 allow these grasses to germinate first and hoe 

 them out before scattering your seed. Always 

 thin the seedlings to six inches apart. 



Sweet peas for early flowers should go in now. 

 At a depth of two inches, sow little groups of three 

 seeds every four inches, as this will allow for 

 failure to germinate and the toll exacted by bi-ds, 

 slugs and cutworms. I have found that boards 

 five inches wide erected each side of the row, with 

 fly-netting stretched over these, protected the 

 young shoots, until they arrived at that state 

 when they no longer tempted the del.cate taste 

 of the birds. Slugs, which especially infest low, 

 damp gardens and places where rubbish is allowed 

 to lie aroimd, can be caught at work by visiting 

 the rows at night with a light, but lettuce leaves 

 will cause them to gather together to feed, and 

 make wholesale destruction possible. It is an 

 astonishing fact that the incomparable Spencer 

 or waved sweet peas are so little grown in Cali- 

 fornia, for they far stirpass the older kinds; and, 

 though the seed is dearer, this is due to their setting 

 less, which is really an advantage to the amateur, 

 as it means they will stand neglect in cutting the 

 flowers longer than will the grandiflora type. A 

 mixture of Sperxers will give great pleasure, 

 though I found the named varieties, King Edward 

 Spencer (red), Florer.ce Morse Spencer (pink), 

 and White Spencer, attracted most attention in 

 my garden last season. 



In the vegetable garden, asparagus roots and 

 globe artichokes (propagated by removing suckers 

 with a pif'ce of root) should now be planted, as 

 should lettuce, peas, cabbage, onions, beets and 

 turnips. In the frostless parts of the state beans, 

 eggplant, potatoes and tomatoes may also be 

 put in. 



CaUfomia. Sydney B. Mitchell. 



Miscible Oils 



How many successive years dare you use mis- 

 cible oils for spraying? A park superin- 

 tendent in Cleveland says that they destroy the 

 cambium the fifth year. 



