June, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
fli Clothes Rae 
SIMPLE in construction. Nothing to get 
out of order. Made in two light parts—Reel 
and Post. Reel folds up like an umbrella; 
locks automatically to post-cannot blow off. 
STRONG Made of the best materials. 
Malleable castings all galvanized. Cannot 
rust out. Post, either wood painted or steel 
tube galvanized. Best cotton thread line. 
EFFECTIVE Carries from 100 to 150 
feet of line and takes up less than fourteen 
feet of your lawn whenin use. Accommo- 
dates a whole wash. Every inch of line can 
be reached by standing in one place. 
Sold by leading dealers everywhere. If they 
cannot supply you we will. Send for illus- 
trated folder No. 9 and your dealer’s name. 
HILL DRYER COMPARNY,: 309 Park Ave. ,Worcester,Mass. 
G Fung Tine Cupnrure (78) 
So Perfect and So Peerless 
CARPETS, RUGS, UPHOLSTERY 
FABRICS, INTERIOR DECORATIONS 
Prices marked in plain figures 
will always be found EXCEED- 
INGLY LOW when compared 
with the best value obtainable 
elsewhere 
Geo. C. Funt Co. 
4a-47West 23°St. 24-28 West 24"St 
ee COOK THE COOK 
“ECONOMY” GAS 
For Cooking, Water Heating and 
Laundry Work also for Lighting 
“‘It makes the house a home’’ 
Send stamp today for “‘Economy Way”’ 
Economy Gas MachineCo. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
“ Economy ”? Gas 1s automatic, Sanitary and Not-Poisonous 
Your floors 
PROTEC and floor 
coverings from injury. Also beautify 
your furniture by using Glass Onward 
Sliding Furniture and Piano Shoes in 
place of casters. Made in 110 styles 
and sizes, If your dealer will not 
supply you 
Write un—Onward Mfg. Co., 
Menasha, Wisconsin, U.S, A. 
Canadian Factory, Berlin, Ont. 
CLINCH right through the 
standing seam of metal 
roofs. No rails are needed 
unless desired. We makea 
similar one for slate roofs. 
Send for Circular 
Berger Bros. Co. 
PHILADELPHIA 
» Iron Railings, Wire Fences and Entrance 
Gates of all designs and for all purposes. 
Correspondence solicited: Catalogs furnished. 
Tennis Court Enclosures, Unclimbable Wire Mesh 
and Spiral Netting (Chain Link) Fences for Estate 
Boundaries and Industrial Properties—Lawn Furni- 
ture—Stable Fittings. 
F.E. CARPENTER CO., 2°92 Broadway 
New York City 
plan to have an opening in the rear, some 
distance above the perches, to give a bet- 
ter circulation of air. In any case, the 
house which is to be used for growing 
pullets should be of the fresh-air type; 
that is, it should have large window open- 
ings without glass. It is well to have doors 
covered with poultry wire. Growing pul- 
lets can not have too much fresh air and 
by being made accustomed to open houses 
from the first, they will not suffer if kept 
in houses of that type in winter, for they 
will grow heavy coverings of feathers. And 
fresh air is just as much needed for the 
pullets after they become laying hens as 
when they are merely chicks. 
FLOWERS FOR LATE PLANTING 
By E. I. F. 
T often happens that no opportunity for 
making a garden offers until late in the 
season, perhaps as late as the last of June. 
In many instances people who have Sum- 
mer homes in the country or at the seashore 
defer their planting until that time, by vir- 
tue of necessity. 
Plants started late must be the kinds 
which love hot weather or the results will 
be most unsatisfactory. There are plenty 
of good kinds for late planting, though, 
among the best being the portulaca, annual 
poppy, mignonette, balsam, and candytuft. 
The first named is one of the most obliging 
flowers imaginable. The seeds must not be 
started until the ground is warm, but they 
germinate quickly and flower in a very 
short time. The creeping plants spread 
rapidly and the plants may be transplanted 
when in full flower, apparently without suf- 
fering any inconvenience. Very little water 
is required and the hottest kind of location 
is tolerated. Some of the double portu- 
lacas look like little roses and the colors are 
very fine. At night the flowers close. Of- 
ten the seed is self-sown and new plants 
come up year after year. Sometimes the 
plant increases too rapidly, for it is a cou- 
sin of the common garden weed known as 
pusley. Portulacas make handsome _bor- 
ders and nothing is more reliable for the 
seashore, 
The annual poppy is also most obliging, 
except for the matter of transplanting. If 
the seeds are scattered on a bed or in a 
border just before a light rain, nothing fur- 
ther in the way of attention will be needed. 
The flowers are very attractive with their 
brilliant colors and the plants are excellent 
for the garden which is started late—or for 
any other, for that matter. Candytuft and 
mignonette are always popular and are eas- 
ily grown in hot weather and when planted 
late. In fact, it is well to make a succes- 
sion of plantings in order to have flowers 
all Summer. 
If it is possible to purchase plants, the 
petunias, verbenas, four o’clocks, zinnias, 
marigolds and pinks may be set in the gar- 
den very late and will continue to flourish. 
People who go to their Summer homes late 
in the Spring and remain late in the Fall 
may sow seeds of asters, verbenas, nastur- 
tiums, cannas, cockscombs, zinnias and 
four o’clocks and still get flowers before the 
end of the season in most instances. Of 
course, the flowers which mature more 
quickly, the started plants, are needed for 
immediate blossoming. The kinds named do 
not require a great amount of attention and 
it is often better to let them grow ina more’ 
or less natural way on the grounds of the 
Summer home, rather than to attempt any 
elaborate garden scheme. 
% BAY STATE 
"YU. s, pat: 
of 
Your Concrete and 
Stucco Construction 
Needs My Coating 
My Bay State Brick and 
Cement Coating is backed 
by twelve years of practical 
experience in making a ce- 
ment coating. It has been 
tried under all sorts of con- 
ditions and met all require- 
ments. 
Years before anyone else had 
put a coating on the market 
Bay State Brick and Cement 
Coating was an established 
success. It had been used 
on large and small houses, 
factory walls and _ factory 
floors, on the vats and damp 
rooms of textile mills and 
breweries. It is the only 
coating that | know of that 
won't burn when subjected 
to heat. It has a flat finish, 
doesn’t destroy the texture of 
concrete and saves it from 
cracking from moisture. 
Just write me for our Booklet No. 3. 
Give our salesman a good hearing 
when he calls. He’s got the goods. 
Wadsworth, Howland & Co. 
Incorporated 
Paint and Varnish Makers and Lead Corroders 
82-84 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 
HOTEL VICTORIA 
Cor. Dartmouth and Newbury Sts. 
@ One half block from Copley Square. Two 
minutes walk to Public Library, Trinity 
Church and Back Bay Stations. In center 
of the Back Bay district, and particularly 
accessible for automobilists. 
European Plan 
THOMAS O. PAIGE, Manager 
