XXVI1 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
April, 1912 
HOW TO TELL 
66 99 
REG US PAT OFF 
RAIN COATS 
<2 This circular 
. registered trade mark 
his stamped on 
the inside and a 
Silk Gen Label 
is sewed at the collar or elsewhere. 
“None Genuine Without Them’ 
is applied to 
many kinds of cloth suitable for 
men's, women’s and children’s outer 
garments in light, medium and 
heavy weights for all seasons of the 
year, and are for wear in rain or 
shine. 
“Rain will neither wet nor 
spot them.” 
They contain no rabber. have 
no disagreeable odor; will not over- 
heat or cause perspiration. 
For sale by leading dealers in Men’s, 
Women’s and Children’s Clothing. 
Giavendle Co.,Ltd 
BRADFORD, ENGLAND 
Go. USA, 
HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY 
BPricatley + GO, 
BRADFORD, ENGLAND 
A postal to the New York office of B. Priestley & Co., 
100 Fifth Avenue, will bring interesting booklet. 
WANTED —Young man of good birth desires engage- 
ment as companion to gentleman in country, or as traveling 
companion. European reared, experienced traveler. Missions 
to foreign countries undertaken. Address, J. Condenhove, 
care of V. Osris, 500 Shady Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
FURNITURE DRAPERIES FLOOR COVERINGS 
ARTHUR D. RUSSELL 
INTERIOR DECORATIONS 
Schemes for harmonious furnishings, with the 
essential keynote of Owner’s individuality necessary 
to their appreciation. 
TELEPHONE, GREELEY 2707 
1 WEST 34TH STREET NEW YORK 
FRANCIS HOWARD 
5 W. 28th St.. N, Y.C. 
Benches. Pedestals, 
Fonts, Vases, Busts. 
GARDEN EXPERTS 
Send 15c. for Booklet : : 
See Sweet’s Catalogue for 1912, Pages 1598 and 1599. 
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Mantels 
In large parks also, where no sprinkling 
is done it is important that this circle of 
loose, bare earth should be left around all 
trees which are moisture demanding, and 
which stand on hillsides, so the ground may 
absorb all the moisture possible after every 
rain during the late Spring and the long, 
hot Summers, and immediately after every 
rain which beats the ground down hard this 
circle should be dug up again, putting it in 
shape to catch more moisture during the 
next rain, also forming a dust mulch to 
assist in retaining the moisture longer, 
should no more rain fall for a long time. 
This digging and all other cultivation should 
stop, however, in thé late Summer, since 
cultivation induces growth and growth 
should stop in August, in order to give the 
new wood formed that season time to 
toughen and harden before cold weather. 
If the cultivation is continued too late the 
buds will be kept in a swollen condition, and 
will be in danger of early freezing, espe- 
cially in northern latitudes. 
The tree planter should also know some- 
thing about the character of a tree’s root 
system, whether its roots go down deep in 
the earth or not. If the roots are shallow 
the tree should be planted rather deep in 
loose, loamy soil, in order to make sure 
that the roots extending out towards the 
street may pass under the curbstone, which 
may have been let into the ground from 
twelve to sixteen inches, for if they strike 
it they will be turned back, and may come 
to the top of the ground, or form a snarled 
bunch of roots against the curbstone, just 
below the surface of the ground, greatly 
retarding the growth of the tree. 
The city tree planter or forester should 
be careful also to prune his trees properly. 
This means that the limbs should not be 
cut off too close to the body of the tree, nor 
yet should they be left too long. The length 
of the nub left should depend upon the size 
of the limb. A good rule is to let the 
length equal one-quarter the diameter of 
the limb cut off. The cut should preferably 
be somewhat slanting, and the cut place 
should be painted with white paint contain- 
ing a good deal of oil or else use a grafting 
or coaltar wax. 
Some of these preparations should be 
used every time a cut is made upon a tree, 
whether in pruning off lower limbs or hew- 
ing off the bark slightly where it is neces- 
sary to drive a staple into a tree, as in case 
of fastening a woven wire fence to a tree 
in the yard, or where you cut off a limb 
higher up in a tree to prevent the shade 
from being too dense, or to prevent the 
rubbing together of two limbs. It should 
be remembered that pruning out limbs in 
the crown of the trees is as necessary as 
cutting off low limbs, where the trees 
stand in grassy yards or lawns, and espe- 
cially if they stand somewhat thick, for the 
thin tops allow the sunshine to fall upon 
the grass and give it luxuriance. It is more 
necessary that trees have thin tops when 
standing in grassy yards, parks and lawns 
than when standing anywhere else. 
The tree planter should know just what 
trees are moisture demanding and which 
are drouth enduring, and give them just 
the amount of moisture they need. The 
drouth enduring trees will do reasonably 
well anywhere. 
It is easily possible, however, to give such 
trees too much moisture. To trees which 
do best in dry sections, an excess of mois- 
ture is a detriment. 
Among the drouth enduring trees suit- 
able for ornamental planting in yards, 
parks and lawns, are the red cedar, most 
of the pines, mesquit, Russian mulberry, 
white elm, hackberry, silver maple and most 
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matter of dollars, but of taste. Of course, the more 
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By putting intothe 
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Beauty isn’t a 
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Its Surroundings. from its surroundings is 
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