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SWEET 
QUARTET 
Plant Them This Year 
Orr in London last July, in the great Flower Show, 
held at the Crystal Palace, Mrs. Fraser won, with 
this Sweet Pea Quartet, the one thousand pound 
sterling prize for tbe best vase of blooms. 
10,000 exhibitors competing. 
This shows the tremendous popularity there is in England 
for these exquisite, fragrance laden flowers. 
s a result, sweet peas will be grown over here more than 
ever this year. 
This means you will surely want some of the seeds of this 
Prize Quartet to plant along with your others. 
It will be intensely interesting in growing them, to find in 
their blooms the excelling points that brought them into such 
prominence, 
here is going to be a lot of good-natured, neighborly 
competition in growing them—a competition in the pleasure 
of which you will want to join. ; 
So order your seeds early and plant them early, for much 
of their success, as you know, depends on a good deep root 
growth before the hot spring suns come. 
Here are the varieties in the Quartet— 
Paradise Carmine—clear, lovely, carmine, waved. 
Constance Oliver—delicate pink, suffused with cream, 
waved. 
Arthur Unwin—rose shaded with cream, waved. 
Tom Bolton—dark maroon, waved. 
1 packet of the above four prize winners, postpaid, 35c 
3 collections, or 12 packets in all, postpaid, .___. $ 
With your order we will send along our 
1912 GARDEN GUIDE 
which contains a complete description of the contest. It isa 
beautifully illustrated book of 152 pages, and is a decided 
departure from the usual so-called “‘Seed Catalog.” 
The “‘tell you how”’ cultural directions are told in a mat- 
ter-of-fact, interesting way by successful gardening lovers. 
hether you buy the Quartet or not, we will be glad to 
send you this Garden Guide. 
Get it now—and plan your garden now—pick out your 
seeds now—and so get things started now for an earlier gar- 
den this year. 
There were over 
.BODDINGTONS SEEDS | 
oe ; eg — Arthur T. Boddington 
S 326 West 14th St. 
New York 
Livingston’s Tomatoes 
are valued by all friends of this fruit as the choicest procurable. For 
sixty years we have bred tomatoes for yield and quality, and our new 
“‘slobe’’ shaped sorts are as near perfection as anything evolved. Of 
ideal shape, with solid meat of finest flavor, they stand unsurpassed. 
| Trial Packet of Livingston’s “Globe,” illustrated 
below(enough seeds for 250plants),10c. postpaid 
Useful 130-page Catalog 
and Tomato Booklet F ree 
Nearly 300 illustrations from photographs and honest descriptions 
make the catalog one of the most reliable seed books published. 
| “Tomato Facts” explains why we are the leaders in the tomato line. 
Both books are free. May we send copies to you? 
The 
Livingston Seed Co. 
546 High Street 
Columbus 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
January, 1608; but the most famous of all 
was that of 1683-4, which lasted from the 
beginning of December to the 5th of Feb- 
ruary. Evelyn gives the following descrip- 
tion of this fair in his “Diary”: “The frost 
continuing more and more severe, the 
Thames before London was still planted 
with boothes in formal streetes, all sorts of 
trades and shops furnish’d and full of com- 
modities, even to a printing presse, where 
the people and ladyes tooke a fancy to have 
their names printed, and the day and yeare 
set down when printed on the Thames: this 
humour tooke so universally, that ’twas esti- 
mated the printer gain’d £5 a day, for print- 
ing a line onely, at sixpence a name, be- 
sides what he got by ballads, etc. Coaches 
plied from Westminster to the Temple, and 
from several other staires, to and fro, as in 
the streetes, sleds sliding on skeetes, a bull- 
baiting, horse and coach races, puppet-plays, 
and interludes, cookes, tipling, so that it 
seeme’d to be a bacchanalian triumph, or 
carnival on the water.” King Charles II. 
and his family visited the fair, and had 
their names printed on a quarto sheet of 
Dutch paper, which is still extant. 
During the frost fair of January, 1716, it 
is recorded that an uncommonly high spring 
tide, which overflowed cellars on the banks 
of the river, raised the ice fully fourteen 
feet, without interrupting the people in their 
pursuits. 
Similar fairs were held in 1740, 1788-9, 
and 1814. The last was one of the gayest 
and most animated of these events, though 
it lasted only four days. 
TOY FURNITURE REPRODUCING 
COLONIAL PIECES 
By HELEN W. PREVOST 
T Hingham, Mass., delightful toys are 
made which are miniature models of 
old Colonial pieces of furniture, actually 
reproduced, and with the greatest care as 
to details. As New England is a home of 
such pieces the models are not difficult to 
find and are in some cases reproductions 
of more or less famous ones, in every case 
authentic examples. The style and the pro- 
portions are carefully preserved and one 
can see what the charm might be in finding 
them thus im little, but not less perfect 
types. 
As toys they can give a very direct and 
genuine delight to children and serve beside 
as an excellent lesson in beautiful propor- 
tion as applied to household art, a lesson 
the better learned because it comes in that 
best of ways “Where there is pleasure 
taken.” They form a lesson in history, 
also, both for the child, who shall uncon- 
sciously almost absorb it with a little timely 
word, and for the grown person who has 
had interest and taste awakened in Colonial 
or in simple, good household fashions in 
furniture. They may afford to these a help 
in genuine elementary study, since the his- 
tory and dates of the models, in many cases, 
as said, can be known. 
The articles appear in great variety ; there 
are many and varied patterns of chairs, 
both very simple ones and those more 
elaborate; tables as ingeniously devised to 
fold as any that could be intended for a 
modern apartment and much more pictur- 
esque. The wooden cradle is presented, 
with its characteristic hood, and the writ- 
ing table, the dressing-table, or “low- 
boy,” the kitchen dresser and chests of 
drawers, are all here and with them such 
common articles of use as buckets, churns, 
and foot-stools. Chairs with tall backs of 
the spindle variety appear and as carefully 
made, with each tiny spindle as carefully 
finished and adjusted, as if for a larger 
Is There Any Excuse for Unattractive 
Houses on Account of Expense? 
In answer to this, Geo. M. Kauffman, Architect, announces Ist, 
2nd and 3d series, ‘Distinctive Homes and Gardens.” e masses 
are just awakening to the fact that there is mere building and then 
there is art in building; that under favorable conditions and with 
proper knowledge one should cost no more than the other. e are 
in the dawn of a new era, in which the value of domestic Architec- 
ture will be based not so much upon the cost of production as upon 
true merit. Can you imagine anything more absurd than estimating 
the value of a picture by the price of the paint? The expression of a 
house, its look—forbidding or homelike and inviting, cosy or cheer- 
less—is due to the design. Good Architecture has qualities which 
appeal with special force to the cultured, and as we improve in art 
and refinement the demand for meritorious homes naturally follows. 
“Distinctive Homes and Gardens’ are devoted to the home—its 
planning, building, remodeling, beautifying, etc. They contain many 
illustrations, floor plans and descriptions of the best moderate and low 
cost houses built to-day, thus offering an excellent opportunity of 
studying some of the best designs of the various and popular types o 
domestic Architecture. These books also contain plans of gardens; 
and best of all, we devote many pages to suggestions and general in- 
formation which will greatly aid you in crystallizing your ideas—in 
deciding what you really do want an 
need. xis timely advice 
alone might save or make you hundreds of dollars, to say nothing of 
having as a result a true home instead of perhaps a life-long disap- 
pointment. 
Your home means much to you! It expresses your life—your in- 
dividuality —your taste, and the degree of your culture and refine- 
ment. he soul must be fed in the home as well as the body, there- 
fore there must be poetry as well as mathematics, and while your 
home should be made to fit your every need, it should also be whole- 
some in its art fitting to its environmen: and possessing the charm that 
will increase with age. 
WHY NOT SPEND. YOUR MONEY WISELY? 
WE CAN HELP YOU 
Ist and 2nd series each have 72 (10x13) pages and 35 designs. 
ouses of Ist series vary from $1,000 to $6,000, 2nd series from 
$6,000 to $15,000. Price of each, $1.00 postpaid. Third series 
(a combination of Ist and 2nd series) will be sent postpaid upon re- 
ceipt of $1.50. 
We also furnish plans and specifications as per our special offer. 
THE KAUFFMAN CoO. 
ROSE BUILDING CLEVELAND, O. 
S, BERRIE 
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A. Hitting, Owner American Ave., Holland, Michigan _ 
