AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1913 



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Canton 

 chair No. 

 18, height 

 36 inches, 

 width 17 

 inches, 

 weighs 8 

 lbs., price 

 S5.C0. 



Comfortable Summer Chairs 



FROM Canton, China, come these artistic examples 

 of Oriental craftsmanship — "hour-glass chairs" — 

 suggesting in every line cool and restful repose. Graceful 

 in design, sanitary in construction and inexpensive in price. 

 Theideal chair for summer use. Woven by hand without 

 a nail in their entire construction — prices $4.50 to $12 



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Illustrating in colors the various designs of these unique 

 chairs, tabltf and stools. 



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 NEW YORK 



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contains the germs of a disease peculiar to raw and mice only and is abso- 

 lutely harmless to birds, human beings and other animals. 



The rodents always die in the open, because of feverish condition. The 

 disease is also contagious to them. Easily prepared and applied. 



How much to use.— A small house, one tube. Ordinary dwelling, 

 three tubes (if rats are numerous, not less than 6 tubes). One or two dozen 

 for large stable with hay loft and yard or 5000 sq. ft. floor space in build- 

 ings. Price: One tube, 75c; 3 tubes, $1 .75; 6 tubes, $3.25; one doz, $6 

 INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL CO., 72 Front St., New Yorl, 



European 

 Beech 



Fine specimens 



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 The Elm City Nursery Co. 

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»««jsa« Pumps £kbs 



CYLINDERS, ETC. 

 Hay Unloading Tools 



Barn Door Hanger* 

 Write for Circular* and Price* 



F. E. MYERS & BRO., Ashland, O. 



Ashland Pump and Hay Tool Works 



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"The Why and How of Orchard Success" 



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 Gives the best methods of budding, grafting, 

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FIELD FORCE PUMP CO. 

 106 Grand Ave. Elmira, N. Y. 



Grail and they are to be had, by the way, 

 in prints which produce all the glorious 

 coloring of the originals. An English firm 

 is selling very lovely reproductions of illu- 

 minations from old missals and breviaries 

 and the Arundel prints, splendid in color, 

 possess much of the texture and beauty of 

 color of some of the great masters. Other 

 firms reproduce the masterpieces of the 

 Dutch and Flemish schools and for a very 

 delicate effect the French pictures by 

 Watteau, Boucher, and Fragenard are 

 available. 



Collections of etchings or engravings or 

 prints of any kind are generally more in- 

 teresting when kept collected in portfolios, 

 but sometimes it is desired to use them as 

 decorations and some wonderfully interest- 

 ing results are possible. I know of a hall 

 in a very beautiful suburban home in 

 which is hung a collection of etchings 

 which is the treasure of the house. This 

 hall is paneled in wood painted white and 

 fitted within each panel is an old etching 

 framed in narrow gilt without a mat. 

 The collection, already extensive, is still 

 growing, until all the panels of the hall are 

 filled, the panels along the stairs and in the 

 upper hall and it is now climbing the stairs 

 leading to the third floor. 



Why must every picture the house pos- 

 sesses be used at the same time? I have 

 always admired the artistic reticence of the 

 Japanese who have a marvelous aptitude 

 for arranging pictures and ornaments. 

 Even the greatest of Japanese homes will 

 show only a few treasures, but these are 

 arranged very thoughtfully. Then the ar- 

 rangement is altered and new treasures ap- 

 pear to be used until they give way to a 

 new selection. To the Japanese mind the 

 displaying of all our possessions at a time 

 would be exceedingly vulgar. ' Their plan 

 makes possible an endless variety of beau- 

 ful and distinctive effects without crowd- 

 ing or confusion. This characteristic ap- 

 pears even in certain Japanese shops out- 

 side of Japan. Not far from the offices of 

 American Homes and Gardens are many 

 shops where pottery and prints are sold. 

 Among many show windows crowded with 

 a vast array of things which destroy the ef- 

 fect of one another there stands out the 

 window of a little Japanese shop where 

 only a few things are shown, but these few 

 are so well selected and so thoughtfully ar- 

 ranged that the result is a delight. 



A few general rules regarding the fram- 

 ing and hanging of pictures may be helpful. 

 The function of a frame is to separate a 

 picture from its surroundings, to isolate it 

 in a way from its environment and yet to 

 bring it into harmony and closer relation- 

 ship with other furnishings. One should 

 try to select frames which increase and en- 

 hance decorative values. No rules can be 

 laid down which will govern all cases. 

 Generally pictures in color demand gilt 

 frames although if the tones be low and 

 neutral frames of black, gray or brown 

 may be more effective than gilt. Etchings 

 and prints are usually more successful if 

 framed in brown or black, but here again 

 the rule does not always apply for many 

 engravings, particularly old prints, are 

 greatly improved by gilt frames. Mats, too, 

 should be carefully and I might almost say 

 sparingly used and colored mats are to be 

 used only with great caution. I have seen 

 some very beautiful pictures utterly ruined 

 by the unwise use of a mat where no mat 

 should be. 



In hanging pictures place colored prints 

 in one room and black and white prints by 

 themselves. If all be hung together the ef- 

 fect is ruined, each detracting from the 

 beauty of the others. If black and white 



Moth Proof Cedar Chest 



A beautiful 

 ^ Piedmont Southern Red Cedar Chest 



more than pays for itself in what it saves. 

 It protects furs, woolens and plumes from 

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Norway 

 Spruce 



Specimens ten to fifteen feet 



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