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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1912 
ST ERRIE 
‘¥ Plants by the dozen or by the million. 
120 acres planted in 103 varieties, Al) 
the standards and the most promising of (\) 
Largest grower in 
Every plant true to name, 
Also Raspberry, Blackberry, Gooseberry 
the new ones, 
‘America, 
and Currant Plants, Grape Vines, Cali- \ 
fornia Privet and other Shrubbery. 
yy Cultural directions with each ship- 
@ ment. Beautiful Catalogue FREE. Send 
4 postal today. My personal guarautee 
back of every sale, 
W. F. ALLEN Ng) 
10 Market Street, Salisbury, Md. 
Send $1.00 for my new and complete book—Bungalows showing 
floor plans, interior and exterior perspective from photographs with 
prices for the completed building. 
I Guarantee to Construct at Prices Named 
If book is not satisfactory and is not what you want, | will refund 
the money. 
0. S LANG, Bungalow Specialist, 690 Seventh St., Buffalo, N.Y. 
PLANT THE QUALITY GRAPE 
Catawba - Concord 
The Grape for Everybody Everywhere 
A cross between the Catawba and the 
Concord—so scientifically made that it 
unites all their merits with none of their 
defects. Equal in quality to the finest hot- 
house grapes and as easily grown as the 
Concord. For ten years it has proved its 
superiority. Has received awards wher- 
ever shown. 
Write at once for large descriptive cata- 
log of Raspberries, Blackberries, Grapes, 
Strawberries,Currants, Gooseberries, Gar- 
den Roots, Hardy Perennial Plants, 
Shrubs, Vines, Roses, etc. It tells how 
to plant and grow them—/vee for every- 
body. 
J.T. LOVETT, Box 128, Little Silver, N.J. 
LUTHER BURBANK’S NEW GLADIOLUS 
Offered for the first time, with other 
NEW AND RARE BULSS 
These new gladioli are a revelation, and are without 
doubt the largest, most brilliant and most varied ones 
growing on this earth, and of anew and distinct type, and are 
especially rich in scarlet, salmon and crimson shades. IIlus- 
trated folder free, also list of other catalogs, etc. 
W. A. LEE, Agent, 
Dept. A., 
Covina, Cal. 
Sow Your Grass Seed with. 
_ The Velvetlawn S eeder_ 
UTS the seed in the ground—not on top. 
one blown away or eaten by birds. 
Makes a beautiful, uniform lawn certain in 
the shortest time. Saves enough seed to pay for 
itself. Run easily by one person. o matter how 
small your lawn you can afford to have this seeder. 
Let us send you letters from users, 
prices, illustrations, etc. Weanalyzesoil 
and advise our customers free as to the 
best seed and fertilizer. Write today. 
VELVETLAWN SEEDER CO. 
20 Columbia St. 
Springfield, Ohio 
Filter Your Entire 
Water Supply 
Your own health and that of your family depends 
also on pure water. Install a 
Paddock Water Filter 
and you will have pure water for drinking and 
every household use. 
Write for catalogue. 
Atlantic Filter Company 
309 White Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 
THE GARDEN OF THE SUMMER 
ABSENTEE 
By IDA D. BENNETT 
N the  all-the-year-around 
the Summers, like the Winters, are 
passed under the same roof and the 
same environment surrounds one week 
in and week out, the summer garden 
becomes an important factor in the life 
of the home, and in a beautiful, old- 
fashioned garden, redolent with the per- 
fume of rose and lily and bosked with 
shrubbery and banked with flowers, one 
may well decry the love of change or the 
deference to fashion or custom that yearly 
sends one adrift to find in seashore or 
mountain resort an uncomfortable sub- 
stitute for one’s own fireside. 
It is this universal exodus—that begins 
about the middle of June and continues 
until the frosts of September—that mili- 
tates against the creation of a garden, for 
it hardly seems worth while to plant flow- 
ers which must be neglected for months 
at a time and be found dead or grown up 
to weeds upon one’s return to them in 
early tall—a mute and pathetic protest 
against such fickle affection. 
Naturally, one’s thoughts of a garden 
center round those exuberant flowers of 
the warmer months—the rose and carna- 
tion, the heliotrope, verbena and all the 
brave array of Summer bedders—which 
will have passed their maximum beauty 
and succumbed to the first frosts of Sep- 
tember ere one returns to enjoy their 
beauty. And did these flowers of mid- 
Summer form the garden’s story it would. 
indeed, be of little profit to plan and 
create a garden that would bloom for 
others or lie neglected and alone. 
Fortunately, the Summer is not all of 
the garden’s story, nor by any means the 
best. The Spring garden has a charm 
quite distinct from its Summer successor, 
and the Fall garden possesses a wealth of 
bloom and color by no means to be 
thought lightly of. Moreover, the flowers 
of the Spring and of the Fall are just those 
which, once planted, require the mini- 
mum of care and may be left for long 
months at a time to the fostering charge 
of nature with little, if any, detriment. 
Such care as they do require must be 
given them at the very time when it is 
most convenient and pleasant to work in 
the garden, so that one gains at one and 
the same time the promise and the re- 
wards of labor. 
The Spring garden will be largely a thing 
of shrubs and bulbs, but what a variety 
of color, form and fragrance is possible. 
While the tints of the flowers of the 
Spring are in a measure cooler and paler 
than those of mid-Summer, not even the 
most gorgeous of the flowers of June can 
rival the splendor of the tulips which 
make gay the parterres in May. As a 
general thing we grow far too few bulbs 
in our gardens—too few in variety and 
too few in number; instead of planting 
tulips and hyacinths by the dozen, with 
an occasional clump of narcissus and a 
few crocus scattered about the lawns, we 
should plant them by the hundreds or 
thousands, in long continuous rows or in 
solid beds, giving the space between them 
to the growing of some of the less robust 
annuals. 
In the hardy garden, with its formal 
beds, the planting of hyacinths, tulips, 
crocus and the like may be made along 
the edges of the bed, where they will not 
be missed when their day is passed, and 
so will not, necessarily, have to be lifted 
home, where 
Vases inthe Garden of Mrs. F. H. Hiscock, Syracuse, N.Y. 
A striking example of the charm and beauty added to the 
garden by the proper use of Garden Ornaments. ur m 
are of Pompeian Stone, an artificial product that is everlasting. 
Send to-day for new illustrated catalogue M of vases, benches, 
sundials, statuary, fountains, etc. 
THE ERKINS STUDIOS 
The largest manufacturers of Ornamental Stone 
230 Lexington Avenue, New York. Factory, Astoria, L. I. 
New York Selling Agents—Ricceri Florentine Terra Cotta 
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$1.25 
~~ MEHLER GARDEN TOOL CO. AMBLER, PA..U.S.A. 
‘YOU ARE SUPPLIED, 
A Beautiful Illustrated Book- 
let, ‘“‘ WHERE SUN DIALS 
ARE MADE,” sent upon re- 
quest. Estimates furnished. 
Any Latitude 
E. B. MEYROWITZ, 108 East 23d St., New York 
Branches: New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, London, Paris 
Ornamental 
Foliage Plants 
We make a specialty of 
choice collection for Green- 
house, as well as everything 
in the line of decorative trees 
and plants. 
Visit our Nurseries or 
send for descriptive catalogue 
of Nursery Stock and 
Greenhouse plants. 
Experienced and competent 
Gardeners 
Any lady or gentleman 
requiring their services can 
No fees. Please give particulars 
Alocasia Argyrea 
heave them by applying to us. 
regarding place. 
JULIUS ROEHRS CO., Exotic Nurseries, Rutherford, N. J. 
For a Most Beautiful Lawn 
Sow KALAKA. It is specially selected, specially tested grass 
seed, and pulverized manure—the ideal combination to grow 
quick, hardy, lasting turf. For seeding new lawnsor putting 
new life into the old lawn nothing equals 
Packed in 5 pound boxes at $1.00 per box, express paid east 
or $1.25 west of Omaha. Write and ask for prices on special 
mixtures for special locations and purposes. Order today 
and have the best seed money can buy. Get ourfreelawn book. 
THE KALAKA CO., 25 Union Stock Yards, Chicago 
OLD ENGLISH GARDEN SEATS 
RUSTIC WORK thi 
Catalog of many designs on request 
North Shore Ferneries Company, 
Beverly, Massachusetts i 
