March, 1912 
Strength and Durability are essential qualities 
of garden furniture. Galloway ,roductions com- 
bine these qualities with beauty of design. Send 
for catalogue of Sun Dials, Flower Pots, Boxes, 
- Vases and other Garden Furniture. 
GALLOWAY TERRA-COTTA CO. 
3222 Walnut Street Philadelphia 
Books/for House Owners 
and Garden Enthusiasts 
Let’s Make a Flower Garden 
By Hanna Rion 
If you like to dig in the spring and you find it a 
real pleasure to put on your old clothes, get out 
a spade, and turn over damp clods of the re- 
awakening soil, you will find this the greatest 
source of inspiration and at the same time the 
most valuable book you ever read in its wealth of 
practical suggestion. Fully illustrated with pho- 
tographs and with decorations by Frank Ver Beck. 
Price $1.35 net, postage 14 cents. 
The Half-Timber House 
By Allen W. Jackson 
Those to whom the half-timber style appeals as 
the ideal of the home will find this book a mine 
of information regarding the style, how and where 
it originated, and its chief characteristics in con- 
struction and detail. This book will prevent the 
making of mistakes in planning and building 
such a house. It is, moreover, written in a very 
entertaining manner. Fully illustrated. Price 
$2 00 net, postage 20 cents. 
Making Making 
A Rose A Lawn 
Garden 
By Henry H. Saylor Bi Ds WIIG 
This is the first of a 
practical line of books 
in the House and 
Garden Making Series. 
Its title tells just what 
the book holds. Price 
50 cents net, postage 
5 cents. 
Here are given simple, 
succinct directions for 
making just the sort of 
a lawn that you would 
like to have in front of 
your house. There is 
no other book devoted 
to this subject. Price 
50 cents net, postage 
5 cents. 
Inexpensive Homes of Individuality 
Second and enlarged edition. 
This volume is published in response to the con- 
stant demand for pictures and floor plans of the 
best homes of moderate size being built to-day. 
It is full of the greatest amount of suggestion for 
the prospective builder. There is an introduction 
by Frank Miles Day and a discussion of costs by 
Aymar Embury, II. Price 75 cents net, postage 
8 cents. 
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Union Square, New York 
be made up in the increased wearing quali- 
ties. Remember also that you must specify 
what grade material, whether trim or floor- 
ing, because like all oak woods, no matter 
what varieties, they come in different grades, 
according to quality. 
WHAT WOODS TO USE FOR DIFFERENT ROOMS. 
Oak may be used to advantage in the hall, 
for trim, flooring, and also the stairs. It 
is a good wood for the dining-room and the 
library, as its color usually harmonizes with 
the decorations generally found in these 
rooms. The parlor orreception-room in many 
houses is trimmed with a wood which has 
been white enameled. The floor in the kitchen 
and nursery and butler’s pantry may well be 
laid with maple flooring. This wood will 
stand hard usage and is not expensive. Use 
“comb grained” Yellow or North Carolina 
pine for rooms upstairs where you wish 
to have a good, sound, inexpensive floor 
which can be varnished. These woods can 
also be used in the bathroom if you do not 
have a tiled floor, or you can use maple 
instead of them. J do not mention the 
fancy hardwoods such as are sometimes used 
in very expensive houses, for these are 
seldom found in the average home. Floor 
varnishes have been now brought to such 
a state of perfection that a painted floor 
is a rare sight indeed. Trim is also not 
painted as a rule. White pine is becoming 
so expensive for the “clear” grades that 
cypress, chestnut, etc., are being used in- 
stead for trim and doors. If you order 
doors from a distance be sure and specify 
that they shall be oiled one coat before 
leaving the factory. This protects them 
during the journey and if it is not done 
they will be likely to be injured by dust 
and dirt. 
PARQUET FLOORING; WHEN IT CAN BE USED 
TO ADVANTAGE. 
Parquet flooring can be used to advan- 
tage especially in an old house, for it is so 
thin a material that it can be used in one 
room and not in the next; a person stepping 
from one room to the other does not notice 
the slight variation in the floor surface. 
You must have a sound, level floor to lay 
it upon. Many new houses have it in rooms 
on the first floor. It need not have intri- 
cate patterns in its design. Some of the 
neatest I have seen have been plain in the 
entire center; a narrow band of a different 
colored wood making a handsome border, 
and at the corners this strip widens into 
an effective corner piece. 
THICKNESS OF FLOORING, DOORS, TRIM, ETC., 
SHOULD ALWAYS BE SPECIFIED WHEN 
PLACING AN ORDER. 
Always specify the thickness of any floor- 
ing, trim or stair material when you place 
your order. Flooring is made also in differ- 
ent widths, according to the price. When 
you order doors specify the thickness. 
Many people do not know these points and 
so often obtain unsatisfactory goods. It is 
a difficult matter to insert locks in doors 
which are not of sufficient thickness. When 
you obtain an estimate on parquet flooring 
find out what thickness of material will be 
given you if you place the order. Asa rule 
closet doors are only molded in the panels 
on the outside. This makes a saving, and 
it is really unnecessary to have molding on 
the inside of a closet door. 
USE ONLY THOROUGHLY DRY MATERIAL FOR 
TRIM AND FOR FLOORING. 
You should obtain material for flooring, 
trim and doors which has been thoroughly 
dried before the wood is worked. If it is 
not, the flooring will shrink, causing cracks 
to appear between the joints; and the doors 
will get out of shape; as will also the trim. 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS Vv 
Our Barred 
Plymouth 
Rocks 
AST Fall we purchased 
all the Barred Rocks 
of the ‘‘PINE TOP 
POULTRY FARM.” They 
have behind them twelve 
years of careful and skilful 
breeding. There are about 
five hundred splendid fe- 
males, besides cocks and 
cockerels that rank among 
the best. 
Mr. Newton Cosh, who 
was with Gardiner & Dun- 
ning, of Auburn, when their 
Barred Rocks were unsur- 
passed, and who went from 
there to the ‘‘Owen Farms,”’ 
has accepted the position of 
Manager here. Mr. Cosh 
has bred some of the best 
Barred Rocks ever shown. 
Mr. Cosh has mated our pens 
for 1912 and we believe we shall 
produce better birds than ever. 
We have enough so that we can 
sell eggs for hatching from any 
or all of our pens. $3 for 15 
eggs—$15 per hundred. 
This is our offer for our first 
year in Barred Rocks. We don’t 
believe you can get YAMA 
quality for that price anywhere 
else. Even if you only want 
utility birds, why not have good 
ones at such prices—fine, even 
barring, way to the skinP 
Send for catalogue; we 
don’t issue a big one 
but what we say in our 
little one is straight. 
YAMA FARMS 
NEWTON COSH 
Manager Poultry Department 
Yama-no-uchi, Napanoch, N. Y. 
References: Security Bank, New York 
First National Bank, Ellenville, N. Y. 
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