XX AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1912 
It’s High Time You Got Your 
Heads Together And Selected 
Your Boddington Quality Seeds 
LAN and plant (on paper) your garden now. It 
doubles gardening joys and makes surer garden- 
ing results. Send promptly for Boddington’s 
Garden Guide and browse through it and make your 
plans and order your seeds. You will find this Guide 
so much more thana mere seed catalog that you will 
put it in a safe place for ready reference all through the 
season. In other words, it’s a real garden guide. Order 
your seeds early so you can plant them early. Here 
are three special offers—some one of which you will 
surely want. 
$5,000 Prize Sweet Pea 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. 
| packet of the above four prize winners, postpaid, for 
5 cenls, 
Six Variety Lot— 
Pansy—Boddington’s Challenge_value 25c. per package 
Aster—Noventy Single Southcote 
Beauty _-____......_..-..---value 25c. per package 
Larkspur—Boddington’s Scarlet 
ehance eee 2s oe value 25c. per package 
Zinnia — Boddington’s Dwar 
Double;2es 6s 822 2 value 10c. per package 
Mignonette — Large, sweet 
scented ......_______________value 5c. per package 
Nigella—Miss Jekyll____________- value 10c. per package 
Value $1.00 
Special price for lot—postpaid—50c. 
A quarter of a pound of gigantic Orchid Flowering 
mixed Sweet Peas for 25c. 
This quarter of a pound of Sweet Peas (mailed free), 
contains the finest mixture of the Spencer varieties ever 
sent out by a seed house. he range of color is from 
pure white to darkest crimson, and all intermediate 
shades. Our sales last year were nearly 3,000 
packages. 
We will send you the three lots. postpaid, for $1.00. 
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Grow Boddington’s Quality Giant Pansies this year. 
hey are sturdy free bloomers in a riot 
of unusual color combinations. 
Boddington’s Seeds 
ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, 326 W. 14th St., N. Y. 
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Dried and pulverized. No waste and no 
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00 Large barrel, freight prepaid East of 
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Write for interesting booklet and quantity 
prices. 
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21 Union Stock Yards Chicago, Ill. 
SILENT WAVERLEY LIMOUSINE-FIVE 
Ample room for five adults—full view ahead for the driver. Most con- 
venient and luxurious of town and suburban cars at half the gas car's 
upkeep cost. Beautiful art catalog shows all models. 
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Factery and Home Office: 212 South East Street Indianapolis, Ind. 
FRANCIS HOWARD 
5 W. 28th St.. N, Y. C. 
Benches. Pedestals, 
Fonts, Vases, Busts. 
GARDEN EXPERTS 
Send 15c. for Booklet 
SRST ED 
Mantels Entrances 
friend, the Yorkshire Terrier, with fifty-six. 
The remainder are made up of thirty-five 
other well-known breeds. 
Again, an English newspaper recently 
contained the following paragraph: “The 
entry for Fulham show is the magnificent 
one of nineteen hundred and _ thirty-four, 
of which Pekingese are three hundred and 
sixty-three; Pomeranians, two hundred 
and thirty-three, and Fox Terriers, one 
hundred and eighty.” Fulham is one of 
London’s suburbs, and can in no way be 
considered one of England’s leading shows, 
nor is it a specialty show, although one of 
the many good exhibitions of the year. 
Therefore the fact is suggested that al- 
though we are showing a rapid increase in 
dog fanciers, we would have to take many 
long strides before we can compete in en- 
thusiasm with our cousins across the water, 
at least in the number of our opportunities 
to bring our pets to the public notice. The 
writer finds on glancing over the show fix- 
tures in various parts of England during a 
single month, that of December, for exam- 
ple, that there are no less than forty-eight 
shows in England. There are there few 
owners of good dogs that do not have the 
chance to compare the value of their own 
animals with those of others in open com- 
petition, and, after all, there is no schooling 
for the dog fancier to compare with open 
competition. He learns more from attending 
good shows, and watching and_ studying 
methods and good judges, than from a shelf 
of books. One can look back with pride on 
the growth of the interest in dogs in this 
country during the past ten years, and I 
always feel that when the “dog fever” 
really takes its hold here, which it surely 
will do, we shall, in the matter of dogs, as 
we have in most things, then come to hold 
our own with all comers, and one hopes 
to see the day when we shall find American 
kennel literature as indicative of our prog- 
ress in this pursuit as the English dog 
journals are of English interest in kennel 
matters. 
EFFECT OF CHEWING UPON 
CHILDREN’S TEETH 
NVESTIGATIONS on the children in 
the town of Kotzling in Bavaria showed 
that of those who eat hard bread the per- 
centage with bad teeth was 6.9; of those 
who eat both hard and soft bread, 8.2; of 
those eating only soft bread, 10.5. In the 
town of Ihringen (Baden) the percentages 
before and after the introduction of soft 
bread were as follows: In 1894, when only 
hard bread was eaten, 12.4 per cent; in 
1897, just after soft bread had been intro- 
duced, 12.9 per cent; and in 1901, where 
most of the bread consumed was soft, 20.9 
per cent. 
TRIPOLI PROVERBS 
HE Arabs are noted for their trite 
_proverbs, and those living in Tripoli and 
its vicinity have many to which Europeans 
are introduced, the following being charac- 
teristic ones: 
“You cannot,” says one of the proverbs, 
“escape your fate, even on a horse.” 
“Whoever,” says another, “has maize will 
soon find one who will lend him flour.” 
“Tf a dog has to be beaten,” says a third, 
with a familiar though perhaps more ele- 
gant ring, “there will be no lack of sticks.” 
A fourth proverb points out that ‘““Who- 
ever is seeking pearls must go to the depths 
of the ocean.” 
Yet another shrewdly remarks that “Even 
a soothsayer cannot foretell his own fate.” 
Warp nor Split 
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8 x 1234 in.—wind-tight—rain-proof—frost-defy- 
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good as best quarry slate. 
Twenty years after laying 
Reynolds 
Flexible Asphalt 
Slate Shingles 
you'll find them still serviceable, because they never warp, 
split nor rot. e can show many recommendations from 
prominent architects who specify these shingles for fine houses. 
f you want the last and best word in guaranteed roofing 
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investigate Reynolds’ Asphalt Shingles—they’ve had a _10- 
years’ test. Beware of imitations. Booklet free. Also high 
grade granite surfaced roofing in rolls. 
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Original Manufacturer 
174 Oakland Avenue Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Established 1868 
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Beautiful beveled mirror door. Nickel] 
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Costs Less Than Wood 
Never warps. shrinks, nor swells. 
Dust and vermin proof, easily cleaned. 
Should Be In Every Bath Room 
Four styles—four sizes. To recess in 
wall or to hang outside. Send for illus- 
a trated circular. 
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Medicine Cabinet Makers of Steel Furnaces.—Free Booklet. 
Kelsey’s Hardy American Plants 
and Carolina Mountain Flowers 
The Queen of Hardy Orchids 
Cypripedium reginae (spectabile) 
The most exquisite and lasting material for Landscape, 
wild or Formal Gardens. 
We have the largest collection of rare Native Plants in 
existence. hododendrons, Azaleas, Leucothoes, 
Ferns, Bulbs and other specialties for Woods Planting, 
Borders, Shady Spots, Rockeries and Water Gardens. 
These dainty things are easily grown, if you do it 
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