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May, 1910 



Use Paints made with Oxide of Zinc 



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The Delaware River Bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia is a constant 

 reminder of the beauty, durability and protective value of 



OXIDE OF ZINC PAINTS 



It was painted in 1901 and is still in good condition. 



Paint that will stand such service will stand anywhere. 



Does your paint contain Oxide of Zinc ? 



Oxide of Zinc is unalterable 

 even under the blowpipe 



1 he New Jersey Zinc Cxo. 



55 WaJl Street, New York, N. Y. 



We do not grind Zinc in oil. A list of manufacturers of Oxide of Zinc Paints mailed free on request. 



Plant for Immediate Effect 



NOT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS 



Start with the largest Stock that can be secured ! It takes over twenty 

 years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 



We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that 

 give an immediate effect. Price List Now Ready. 



Andorra Nurseries 



wm. warner harper, Prop. Box Q, Chestnut Hill, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Write for Our M O C J* J.* 



Free Book on Home Refrigeration 



This book tells how to select the home Refrigerator — how to know the poor from the good — 

 how to keep down ice bills. It also tells how some Refrigerators harbor germs — how to keep a 

 Refrigerator sanitary and sweet — lots of things you should know before buying ANY Refrigerator. 



It tells all about the "Monroe," the refrigerator with in- 

 ner walls made in one piece from unbreakable SOLID POR- 

 CELAIN an inch thick and highly glazed, with every corner 

 rounded. No cracks or crevices anywhere. The " Monroe " 

 is as easy to keep clean as a china bowl. 



CjKMonroe 



Most other refrigerators have cracks and corners which can- 

 not be cleaned. Here particles of food collect and breed germs 

 by the million. These germs get into your food and make it 

 poison, and the family suffers — from no traceable cause. 



The "Monroe" can be sterilized and made germlessly clean 

 in an instant by simply wiping out with a cloth wrung from hot 

 water. It's like "washing dishes," for the "Monroe" is really 

 a thick porcelain dish inside. 



Always soJd DIRECT ^fD 

 and at FACTORY PRICES, 

 Cash or Monthly Payments 



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Monroe is v costly 

 to manufacture that but few could afford it if sold through 

 dealers. So we sell direct and give our customers the dealers' 

 50 percent commission. This puts the Monroe within the 

 reach of the'MAXV. at a price tney can afford. 



Sent Anywhere on Trial 



jible person any- 



wfaere to 

 unless you 

 its merits. 



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st sell itself to yoa c 



The high death rate among children in the summer months 

 could be greatly reduced if the Monroe Refrigerator was used in 

 every home. 



The " Monroe " is installed in the best flats and apartments, occupied bv 

 people who CARE — and is found today in a large majority of the VERY 

 BEST homes in the United States. The largest and best Hospitals use it 

 exclusively. The health of the whole family is safeguarded by the use of a 

 Monroe Refrigerator. 



When you have carefully read the book and know all about Home Re- 

 frigeration, you will know WHY and will realize how important it is to select 

 carefully. Please write for the book today. (4) 



Monroe Refrigerator Co., Station 13, Cincinnati, Ohio 



Annval Flows 



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Why I Like Cornflowers 



WHEN planting your garden this spring do not 

 make the mistake of overlooking corn- 

 flowers. For profuse and early flowering and 

 variety of color this double variety of the old- 

 time ragged sailor probably excels. 



The quantity of bloom from properly grown 

 plants is marvelous. During one season three well- 

 developed plants bore 1,400 flowers between the 

 last week in May and the second week in August. 

 The flowers were constantly picked, none being left 

 to form seed. On August 9th, after a dozen weeks 

 of steady bloom and when the season was supposed 

 to be over, a plant that had been kept picked clean 

 was still green and bearing over a hundred flowers 

 and buds, while a plant which had been allowed 

 to develop seed held on its withered stems only a few 

 dried seed pods. 



Cornflowers are delightful as cut flowers, and 

 keep well in water or damp sand. They are 

 ragged and graceful in shape and the flowers become 



Plant cornflowers this month and have a gorgeous 

 display like this all summer 



larger and more beautiful in form after being cut. 

 Some, measuring four or five inches in circum- 

 ference when picked, attain a size of nearly six 

 inches round after being four days in water. 



The colors become more various each successive 

 season, as the flowers cross. In addition to the 

 plain colors — white, blue in different shades, 

 light an'd dark pink, lavender, dark red, etc. — 

 later seasons will show an increasing number of 

 striped, ringed, blotched and shaded varieties, all 

 beautiful and delicate in coloring. 



Cornflowers self-sow freely. About the first 

 of August the ground around the plants will be 

 covered with small seedlings and it is from these 

 seedlings that we have full-grown plants in May, 

 blooming at a time when the garden is almost bare. 

 They endure the trying winters near New York 

 without any apparent lessening of their vitality. 



Although described in the catalogues as eighteen 

 inches high, self-sown plants wintered over reach 

 a height of more than three feet at their blooming 

 season in May, when spring seedlings are less than 

 a foot high. Cornflowers can be cut back 

 when they begin to look shabby and will show a 

 second crop of flowers in less than ten days. Corn- 



