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Evergreens as: grown for specimens at Andorra Nurseries 
PLANT FOR IMMEDIATE EFFECT 
Not for Future Generations 
Start with the largest stock that can be secured! 
grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 
We do the long waiting—thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that give 
an immediate effect. Spring Price List gives complete information. 
ANDORRA NURSERIES °° pasiceipra 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 
It takes over twenty years to 
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Size 
Painted Ready-to Set Up $ 
Garages, Stores, Churches, Schoolhouses, Playhouses, Studios, etc. Built in sections, convenient 
for handling and are quickly and easily erected simply by bolting sections together. Skilled labor 
is not necessary to set them up, as all sections are numbered and everything fits. Built of first 
class material in the largest and best portable house factory in America. Buildings are substantial 
and as durable as if built on the ground by local contractors. Are handsomer and COST 
MUCH LESS. We build houses to meet every requirement, We pay freight. Art catalog 
by mail on receipt of 4c. stamps. Wyckoff Lumber & Mfg. Co., 410 Lehigh St., Ithaca, N.Y. 
VACUUM CLEANER 
The Broomell VICTOR Stationary Vacuum Cleaner is made in sizes to 
suit any building. We make a specialty of one sweeper machines for residence work 
(1 H. P. electric motor), and on account ot its extreme simplicity, accessibility, 
ease of management and low cost of operation, is an extra fine machine for 
this work. 
Architects and owners who want something good and reliable will find it in 
the VICTOR. 
We make special Vacuum Cleaners, either Stationary or Portable, for Country 
Homes, to operate from Gasoline Engine. 
. Complete 
Broomell’s VICTOR 
Electric Stationary 
Send blue prints for layout of vacuum piping. Send for printed matter. Buy 
direct from the manufacturer and save money. 
VICTOR CLEANER COMPANY York, Pa. 
Ready for Operation 
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A home hotel for the family, the business man and any’ 
one desiring a residence within an hour from New 
- York and enjoy the delights of country eleva- 
tion, rest and environments. ‘This is what the Mont- 
clair Hotel offers. It is operated on the American 
plan, has grillroom with facilities for private parties, 
banquets, dances under the direction of T. Edmund 
& Krumbholz of the Kirkwood, Camden, 
A) S.C. and the Sagamore, on Lake George. 
Mr. R. C. Millard, Resident Manager, will 
reply to all inquiries and call upon request. 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
May, 1912 
TRAIL-BLAZING FOR THE GARDEN 
By HAROLD D. EBERLEIN 
HERE is a man, a very sensible man, 
who makes a point every year of trying 
to grow two or three strange, new plants he 
has never heard of before. He goes carefully 
over all the garden catalogues and notes 
any brand new importation that is an- 
nounced. When he fills out his order sheet 
for the seedsman he always puts down sey- 
eral of the newcomers on principle. Some- 
times he gets pleasant surprises, sometimes 
disappointments, but always an increasing 
store of valuable experience. He has the 
right spirit. 
We are all creatures of habit. In our 
hearts we all acknowledge the truth of this 
though we may be loath to admit it in our 
own particular case. And, now and again, 
we are creatures of habit much to our cost. 
In no respect is this truer than in our select- 
ing of plants, trees and shrubs for our 
gardens. How many of us, pray, when the 
time comes for us to make out owr Spring 
or Fall garden lists, will be daring enough 
to venture in a new path? Will we not 
rather let ourselves fall into a narrow 
groove and stick there, content to order the 
same things year after year, mistrustful, 
perhaps, of branching out into new lines? 
We ought, on the contrary, to cultivate the 
spirit of botanical experimentation. We 
doubtless should if we but realized how 
much pleasure and satisfaction we deprive 
ourselves of by not doing so. There are 
scores of plants native to China, Japan, parts 
of India, South America and other portions 
of the globe, plants about which we know 
nothing or next to nothing, all of them de- 
sirable and suited also to our climate. The 
same may be said of vegetables and fruits. 
There are plenty of them we could grow 
to our great satisfaction. For this unpro- 
gressive state of affairs the cause seems to 
be twofold. It is partly our own fault be- 
cause we do not generally seek out and 
order the new and unusual things and give 
them at least a trial, and it is partly the 
fault of the seedsman and nurserymen be- 
cause they frequently do not keep up the 
variety of their stock. It must be said, how- 
ever, in their defense, that when the demand 
in certain directions is so small that it 
yields no profit they cannot be blamed, from 
a business point of view, for dropping the 
unprofitable branch and keeping only what 
there is a steady call for. Some nursery- 
men, indeed, are making an effort from 
year to year to introduce new plants and 
forign varieties of those we know, but they 
would do infinitely more if they received 
sufficient encouragement from a large num- 
ber of their patrons. 
Now is the most fitting time to branch 
out and try some horticultural experiments. 
Why not order a few of the most unusual 
things we find listed or can in any way hear 
of? Perhaps they may turn out well and 
become our staunch friends in the garden 
and then again perhaps they may not. But 
what matter? 
OLD CEDAR WOOD FOR LEAD 
PENCILS 
T is not generally known that pencil man- 
ufacturers are keen upon obtaining sup-. 
plies of old cedar rails, boards, posts, etc., 
that have undergone years of weathering. 
As new cedar carries a large amount of res- 
inous matter which it is difficult and ex- 
pensive to eliminate, the old wood is far 
superior for use in making lead pencils, as 
any resinous matter remaining in cedar 
tends to warp the pencils and to ooze out, 
thus ultimately marring the appearance of 
the finished product. 
