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Readers' Service may be able to offer suggestions 1 H ft <jr A K D Hj IN 1V± A (j A Z 1 JN hi 



May, 1911 



Save the Dime 

 and 



Jeopardize 

 the Dollar? 



or, Use the Dime 



to Insure 



the 



Dollar? 



■"• • 



THE short-sighted man says 1 , "I am not going to paint my house this year. 

 Materials are higher than they should be. I intend to wait until prices 

 come down." 



Such a man is thinking more of the dimes he imagines he may save by 

 waiting than of the dollars he is sure to lose when his buildings depreciate. 

 His wisdom is reckoned in dimes, his short-sightedness in dollars. 



No thrifty houseowner reasons that way. He says, "My house must 

 have the new coat of paint that is coming to it, even if the cost is four or five 

 dollars more than usual. My house represents an investment, which must be 

 protected. Besides, it is our home; we want it to look as well as possible." 



Any houseowner who wants to do a little figuring should get from his local 

 dealer prices on the following ingredients : 



100 lbs. "Dutch Boy Painter" white lead - % 

 4 gallons pure linseed oil ' - 

 1 gallon turpentine - - I - 

 1 pint turpentine drier - - - - 



This makes 8 gallons genuine old-fashioned paint . 



He should then compare this with the price of any other paint he would 

 think of using, and all the while keep in mind the superior spreading power of 

 old-fashioned lead and oil paint. 



OUR FREE PAINTING HELPS 



We try to be of service to those about to paint. We will send you, if 

 asked, color schemes, miscellaneous painting directions, and names of 

 "Blue List" Painters in your community, men who use our "Dutch Boy 

 Painter" white lead. Ask for "Helps No. 449. That will include everything. 



TO PAINTERS: If you are a skilled white-leader and jse "Dutch Boy Painter" 

 white lead, send us your name for our "Painters' Blue List." Write us for Blue List 

 Circular No 495. It gives particulars. 



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Most cement and plaster exteriors are lacking 

 in warmth and color. By using 



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it's an easy matter to obtain just the right tone to harmonize with the 

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 work. Petrifax fills the pores, waterproofing the surface it covers, 

 yet preserving its texture. The mineral base is carried into the cement 

 by a volatile liquid, which evaporates readily, leaving a hard but 

 elastic surface that will not chip, crack or peel. Rain and dampness 

 cannot penetrate it, climatic changes cannot affect it. 



Let us tell you more about this waterproof coating. Ask for our 

 interesting booklet. 



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and our 



signature 



are on 



every 



barrel, 

 keg ai:d 



surrounding the yellow disk. My fifty plants 

 bordered a path, and I can truthfully say that the 

 interest of watching them come into bloom ex- 

 ceeded even that of the first flowering of a fine 

 strain of seedling larkspurs or long spurred 

 columbines. 



As these chrysanthemums cannot be obtained 

 true to color or habit from seed and there is about 

 a month between the first flowers of some of them, 

 they cannot be used for pattern beds on lawns; 

 but, planted in masses, I have, in addition to the 

 witness of my own eyes, the trained judgment of 

 an artist neighbor in stating that the colors har- 

 monize beautifully. Should a magenta pink 

 appear and offend, it is quite possible to lift the 

 plant with a good ball of earth and put it among 

 white ones where its color will cause no distress. 

 The fact that under the favorable conditions of 

 a dull day and care they may be moved even when 

 coming into bloom, makes them especially useful 

 for filling in spaces in the hardy border, or as suc- 

 cession plants where early tulips or annuals gone 

 by have left bare beds in the fall garden. Indeed, 

 if space in the flower garden is valuable, I see no 



Have single chrysanthemums follow asters and you 

 will have loads of flowers through October 



reason why the plants should not be grown in 

 an out-of-the-way place and, when they show 

 color, be transplanted to where they will be most 

 effective. 



As cut flowers they last very well and their 

 dainty sprays are as becoming for corsage wear 

 as they are charming in the decoration of the 

 dinner table or the house. In some places 

 they are more appropriate and more decorative 

 than the large doubles, and such a range of 

 color is available that many uses for them will 

 be found. 



Of course, being perennials, it is quite possible 

 to propagate any fine variety by taking cuttings 

 in early spring, but except in the South or on the 

 Pacific coast, the plants would not live through 

 the winter outdoors and the old roots would have 

 to be kept under the benches of a greenhouse or 

 possibly heeled in in sand in a cellar. But the 

 man who has what our English friends call "a 

 bit of glass" is not being considered here, for this 

 paean is in praise of the single chrysanthemum 

 treated as an annual to make our smallest gardens 

 everywhere last longer and our dullest houses more 

 cheerful in autumn. 



California. Sydney B. Mitchell. 



Candytuft for Edging 



THE common hardy white candytuft (Iberis 

 sempervirens) is one of the very best edgings 

 for garden walks where durability, cheapness and 

 ease of keeping within bounds are prime con- 

 siderations. Being an early bloomer, it provides 

 flowers when they are not overabundant and then, 

 if the seed stalks are cut off, makes a compact 

 evergreen border, varied by a sparse fall bloom. 

 One such border is as good as ever after nine years. 

 This is also a most desirable plant for carpeting, 

 giving fine results the second year from seed. The 

 other hardy candytuft (/. Gibraltarica) is less 

 reliable as to hardiness. — B. G. 



