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Ij you are planning to build the Readers’ 
Service can often give helpful suggestion 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
If It’s Artistic, 
Isn’t A Tight Roof Best? 
MAGINE a roof of diamond tiles, 
I slightly variegated in tone; a red 
roof, deep and positive in color, but 
harmonious —an Indian red—warm, rich 
and with the quality of permanently 
pleasing. This is Zolium—the instant 
you see it you concede its beauty. 
But, after all, it’s the tightness of a 
roof that’s important. Zolium is tight 
because we have entirely gotten away 
from the old idea of merely shedding the 
rain water. Shedding does very well 
until a green shingle warps, exposing 
one of the cracks of which there are 
thousands on an old style roof. Then 
you have a leak—and pay for new ceil- 
ings or wall papers—new furniture—new 
draperies. 
Zolium does away with treacherous 
cracks. Each Zolium tile is an integral 
part of a pliable, impenetrable sheet of 
bonded fibre, extending practically from 
gable to gable. These tiles are lapped 
three deep. The rain is not only shed, 
it is forever excluded. 
Zolium will not catch fire from sparks, 
it is very durable, needs no painting, and 
is economical. Jt can be laid over old 
shingles. ‘There is no other roof like it. 
An interesting booklet tells all about 
Zolium. May we send it to you without 
charge? 
J.A&W.BIRD&CO. 
29 INDIA STREET, BOSTON 
HAMMOND’S 
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“CATTLE COMFORT” 
“CATTLE 
COMFORT” 
REGISTERED 
No Cow can thrive when tormented by flies 
Cattle Comfort is an unctuous preparation detrimental to #Zes and 
Gnats that afflict domestic animals. Apply it to the base of the horns, 
along the back to the root of the tail, and on the neck and forequarters. 
It will relieve Horses, Mules, Cattle, Dogs, and Fowls from the 
noxious effect of Horn Files, Guats and Mosquitoes, and it is healing 
to any sore. Applied to the perches in the hennery it prevents the 
spread of lice; put on the heads of fowls it destroys head lice; applied 
to mangy dogs it affords relief and effects a cure. 
Sold by Merchants and Seedsmen 
For pamphlet on Bugs and blights write to 
Hammond’s Slug Shot Works, Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. 
SEPTEMBER, 1908 
Nankeen Lily Seeds at Last 
OR sixty years,” writes Mr. E. 
Huftelen of LeRoy, N. Y., ‘European 
specialists have been trying to get the nan- 
keen lily (L. testacewm or excelsum) to 
produce seed. I have at last succeeded in 
getting some seedlings and am watching 
them with great interest.” 
The significance of this statement is 
two-fold. It gives the hope of getting a 
better yellow lily of the Turk’s cap type 
and it renews speculation about the desira- 
bility and scarcity of lily hybrids. 
The new Golden Gleam lily described in 
THE GARDEN MacazinE for September, 1908, 
on page 61 sounds like the only true yellow 
lily with strongly revolute segments, except- 
ing possibly L. pomponium, var. Pyrenai- 
cum, which has an objectionable odor. 
We have a pale yellow in L. Maximowiczit 
(better known to gardeners as L. Leichtlinii), 
but that is thickly spotted with black; also. 
in L. monadelphum (commonly catalogued 
as S. Szovitzianum), but this is tinged purple 
at base and tip. Moreover, these are costlier 
than the nankeen lily. 
The nankeen lily has long been considered 
the only hybrid lily of the first importance 
in cultivation. It is not known in the wild 
state and is supposed to be a hybrid between 
the madonna lily and the scarlet Turk’s. 
cap (L. candidum and L. Chalcedonicum). 
It resembles the former in ease of culture 
and foliage; the latter in having strongly 
revolute petals, scarlet stamens, and taller 
growth. The pale yellow color may also 
have come from Chalcedonicum, for Pro- 
fessor Waugh says there is a yellow variety 
of it. This yellow form, however, I have 
not yet found offered in any of the Old 
World catalogues. 
New Jersey. T. McApam. 
Improving Boiled Potatoes 
Potatoes Delmonico are made by mixing 
in a frying pan four good-sized boiled and 
finely hashed potatoes with one and a half 
gills cold milk, half gill cream, two salt- 
spoons salt, saltspoon white pepper, salt- 
spoon grated nutmeg. Cook ten minutes, 
stirring occasionally. Stir in tablespoon 
grated Parmesan cheese and transfer the 
whole into a gratin dish, sprinkling another 
tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese over 
the surface. Set in the oven to bake for 
six minutes. 
