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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1906 



Sun-Dials with Pedestals, Complete 



By utilizing our Roll's Patent Lock Joint in the con- 

 struction of the wooden pedestals furnished by us, we 

 are enabled to offer this most attractive feature of the 

 formal garden at a price that places them within the 

 reach of all. 



A special booklet showing a number of designs of 

 pedestals, pergolas, etc., with prices, will be sent free 

 upon request. Ask for Circular 'A-26." 



HARTMANN BROS. MFG. CO. 



MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., U. S. A. 



New York Office : 1123 Broadway 



^^estern Factory: Henry Sanders Co., Chicago, 111. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



KOLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 



For Pergolas, Porches, or Interior Use 



The Only 

 Line ot 

 High Grade 

 Tools 

 Under One 



m m Cfffl/fffda ■■ Almost every day some sort of a tool 



could be used to advantage around 

 the house, and oftentimes it is absolutely 

 necessary to have tools at once, to make repairs. 

 The best way to buy them and the most 

 convenient way to keep them is in a cabinet. 



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TOOL CABINETS 



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are the only ones made containing a complete set of high grade tools under 

 one name and trademark. Every tool is a KEEN KUTTER, which means 

 it is the highest grade and fully guaranteed. No cheap tools. 



Ask us to send you handsomely illustrated Catalog showing our complete 

 line of KEEN KUTTER Cabinets ; then select the cabinet containing the 

 assortment of tools you want and your dealer will supply you. If not, 

 write us and "five us your dealer's name. 



This booklet contains cabinets from $8.50 to $50.00, according to 

 assortment of tools. A postal will bring it. 



SIMMONS HARDWARE COMPANY, St. Louis and New York, U. S. A. 



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I Plant for Immediate Effect f 



NOT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS * 



Start with the largest stock that c:m be secured! It takes over twenty years to 



flwf grow such trees and shrubs as we offer. ^m 



jBl We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure trees and shrubs that give an j&k 



immediate effect. Fall Price-list Now Ready. 



ssi Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. s® 



WM. WARNER HARPER, PROPRIETOR - 



have quite different treatment; almost any kind 

 and amount of covering may be given the lat- 

 ter while the former must be protected not 

 only against cold but against wet and decay and 

 sudden thawing. Plants that make a fall 

 growth of leaves like the candidum lily, the 

 hollyhock and the digitalis must have dry 

 covering, and if leaves are used they must be 

 protected by boards or boxes that will shed 

 rain and prevent the admission of snow, nor 

 must the covering used shut out the air, as no 

 matter how cold the weather, plants, even 

 when dormant, need an abundant supply of air; 

 this does not, however, mean a draft, which 

 should be avoided, so it will be seen that the 

 matter of winter protection is somewhat com- 

 plicated. Perhaps the best covering over leaves 

 is a box turned over them ; this should have one 

 end removed and the open end turned to the 

 point of the compass from which the least rain 

 and wind is anticipated. Plants which die 

 down to the ground completely as bulbous 

 plants — the Japan lilies, hardy gloxinias, die- 

 lytras and the like, may have any amount of 

 leaves or similar litter piled over them and 

 simply held in place with a little brush; still 

 better will be a heavy mulch of coarse old 

 manure well mixed with leaves, which may 

 be removed in the spring and the finer manure 

 worked into the soil. 



The heavy mulch of old, rough manure is 

 especially valuable on the rose beds and around 

 the hardy deciduous shrubs such as hydrangeas, 

 altheas, and the like, and may also be applied 

 to the beds of hardy phlox and no other pro- 

 tection will be needed here. As a usual thing 

 the hardy roses will need no other protection 

 than this mulch of rough manure. The Jacque- 

 minots and a few others are not entirely hardy 

 and a swathing in wheat-straw will be a wise 

 precaution ; this should be stood on end around 

 the bush to be protected and tied together at 

 the top and again part way down; it should 

 slant out sufficiently at the bottom to shed rain 

 and to cover whatever protection is placed 

 around the roots. 



Climbing roses and clematis are much im- 

 proved and many times actually saved by tack- 

 ing sacking, old carpet or matting over them 

 when growing on a wall and on the windward 

 side when grown on a trellis. The covering 

 should extend to the ground and be held in 

 place there with stones or something that will 

 secure its permanency, as it is quite possible to 

 have a plant freeze off just below the shield, in 

 which case the protection might quite as well 

 have been omitted. Such rank growing cle- 

 matis as paniculata and the virgin's-bower 

 are not much injured by a severe nipping by 

 the winter's frost ; my clematis of this variety 

 were killed to the ground last winter and if 

 they had not been would have had to have 

 been cut back severely, so rampant was the 

 growth. On the other hand such varieties as 

 Jackmanii, Mrs. Edouard Andree and the 

 various white varieties seldom get beyond con- 

 trol and should be given protection. 



Probably the greatest problem, however, is 

 found in the bed of tender roses, the hybrid 

 teas and perpetuals; for these no form of pro- 

 tection can be considered absolutely safe and 

 satisfactory. Some florists advocate banking 

 the plants with earth to a point where it is de- 

 sired to save the top growth, and this is, un- 

 doubtedly, an excellent way, as the earth pro- 

 tection is complete but must be reinforced with 

 boards laid along the top of the ridge to shed 

 water, which in turn must be permanently se- 

 cured so as not to blow off in a gale of wind. 

 Where the roses are planted in beds the earth 

 protection must extend over the entire bed, 

 being sufficiently high in the center to shed 

 water in all directions; generally beds pro- 

 tected in this manner will be found in good 

 condition in the spring — the earth drawing 

 the frost from the plants, just as it does in the 



