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The Readers' Service will give 

 information about automobiles 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 



Our Decorative Staff will help you 

 select the right colors and materials 

 for painting the outside 

 or decorating the inside 

 of your house. 



'T^HEY have made a Portfolio of "Color 

 Schemes for Exterior House Paint- 

 ing," which shows in the right colors 

 many houses, with correct specifications 

 for using the Sherwin-Williams products 

 so as to produce the results shown. If 

 you do not find just what you want 

 in this Portfolio, our staff will 

 make a special suggestion for 

 you. The Portfolio is free. 

 Send for it. 



Interior Decoration 



This is a small reproduction 

 from the color design of the 

 interior of one bedroom in the 

 Sherwin-Williams Cottage 

 Bungalow Portfolio, which i> 

 sent free and which will help 

 you to decorate your house. 



Stenciling 



"Stencils and Stencil Materi- 

 als," a helpful and suggestful 

 book for decorating and beau- 

 tifying the home and thethings 

 in it, is sent free upon request 

 to anyone who will ask for it. 



Sherwin-Williams 



Paints & Varnishes 



Sold by dealers everywhere. Ask your local dealer for color cards and full information 

 For the Special Home Decoration Service write to 

 stencil no. 100 The Sherw i n - w >Jliams Company, Decorative Dept. 657 Canal Road, N. W., Cleveland, Ohio. 



An Easy Way to Enjoy a Vision 

 of Roseland 



WHEN a man has to leave his suburban home 

 for town at six in the morning and cannot 

 be back there until seven in the evening, Saturdays 

 included, he is scarcely able to figure on being much 

 of an amateur in flowers. As for roses, looking 

 over into Roseland would seem to be his only 

 hope. 



But, after all, that first syllable of improbability 

 — and even that of impossibility — is not so 

 terribly hard to knock off, once you make up your 

 mind that it can be done. In the case of my rose 

 border it came easy enough. All that was really 

 necessary was to make a beginning. 



As a matter of fact, the beginning had been already 

 made. There were two Madame Plantier roses 

 and one General Jacqueminot, acquired at a cost 

 of a dime apiece and, in their luxuriant growth and 

 profuse bloom, looked like anything but "thirty 

 cents." That is to say, they had not looked 

 that way the past June; it was now April. 



At first it was merely a matter of buying a 

 dozen more hardy roses at the same price and, 

 for their accommodation, rehabilitating, in the 

 direction of the street, the side lawn border in 

 which Florentine iris and two or three of the par- 

 ticularly devilish species of grass were fighting out 

 the question of "might makes right," with a good 

 chance of the latter coming off winner. The roses 

 were brought home, " heeled in " back in the kitchen 

 garden and set out in their new quarters in a straight 

 row the following Sunday morning — of course, 

 while people were not going by to church. The 

 flower product that first season was sufficient to 

 breed enthusiasm at home and attention on the 

 part of the passer-by. 



That was some years ago. The rest of the 

 story is merely a tale of improvements, main- 

 tenance and repairs. Gradually the border was 

 extended to the street and then made a double 

 row of roses with a final definite limit of some 

 sixty bushes. Each April there have been fresh 

 purchases of about half a dozen plants to make 

 good the ravages of mortality and other rose 

 casualties, the latter including certain tendencies 

 to go manetti-ward and in similar disappointing 

 directions. The casualties short of actual decease, 

 however, have meant merely a transfer of lessened 

 usefulness, as several thriving single and double 

 pink roses now testify elsewhere on the home 

 grounds. 



Directly the border was well established the 

 floral output was prodigious and so, from year to 



This rose border, started with three ten-cent plants, 

 now supplies "bushels and bushels of roses" 



