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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1908 



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What the Name 



of Johnson Means to the 



Inside of Your Home 



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THE things most in evi- 

 dence, inside your home, 

 are the woodwork, furni- 

 ture and floors. 



And the beauty, harmony, 

 durability and economy of 

 your woodwork, furniture and 

 floors, depend almost wholly 

 upon the finish. 



This is where the name of 

 Johnson comes in. 



We do not make paint, shin- 

 gle stains, enamels, nor putty. 



Simply be- 

 cause the sub- 

 ject of fine 

 woodwork and 

 proper wood 

 finishing is so 

 complex that it demands spe- 

 cialization. 



Wood finishing specialties 

 are our business — not one of 

 many side lines. 



And the woodwork of your 

 home is important enough to 

 require the benefit of special 

 study on the subject. 



For two generations we have 

 worked for perfection in this 

 line alone and that is why 

 people who know have added 

 to our firm name — "The Wood 

 Finishing Authorities." 



Artistic wood fimshes 



Within the past two years it 

 has cost us over $50,000 to find 

 out things that others who 

 make wood finishing prepara- 

 tions have yet to learn — we 

 have paid $50,000 to correct 

 mistakes that other manufac- 

 turers are still making today. 



If you finish your woodwork, 

 furniture and floors with the 

 product of other manufactur- 

 ers you may become the victim 

 of mistakes that we have, in 

 our case, paid a 

 small fortune to 

 rectify. 



You are ab- 

 solutely safe in 

 using Johnson's 

 Wood Finishing Specialties 

 but you are taking chances 

 when you use any others. 



Don't finish or refinish your 

 home before you read our 

 book. 



It will surely give you some 

 helpful suggestions and save 

 you some money. 



It may prevent you from 

 making costly mistakes. 



We will gladly send you a 

 copy, with our compliments, 

 for your name and address on 

 a postal. 



S. C. JOHNSON & SON, Station HG-4 Racine, Wis. 



"The Wood Finishing Authorities." 



If you wish to see them, we will send you a set of wood panels finished with 



Johnson's Ariistic Wood Finishes. 



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of the many artistic shades in which this wall 

 hanging comes could be the choice. 



To determine the right color for a room of 

 this kind the woodwork, rugs, portieres, win- 

 dow hangings and furniture coverings — in fact, 

 every article that contributes to the color ef- 

 fect, besides the conditions of light in the day- 

 time and by artificial aid — must be taken into 

 account. 



LINING FOR A CHINA CLOSET 



"My china closet is built into the dining- 

 room and reaches to the ceiling. The walls 

 are papered with dark red crepe paper, but 

 the white plaster is left uncovered inside the 

 closet. Please tell me what to do with this 

 space." 



The interior wall of the closet may be cov- 

 ered with the same paper that is on the walls 

 of the room ; or, if this can not be accom- 

 plished, a water-color paint to match the 

 paper may be applied. Sometimes a textile 

 fabric is tacked to the wall as a background 

 for the china, and when this is done the wall 

 color need not be followed if care is taken 

 to select a contrasting color that is harmonious 

 with the surroundings. A narrow furniture 

 gimp may be glued over the edges of the ma- 

 terial to give a neat finish. 



THE WALLS OF A VESTIBULE 



There are a number of thick papers made 

 especially for the walls of a vestibule. Some 

 of these are washable, which is needful when 

 there is direct exposure to the weather. For 

 a house of moderate cost, such as described in 

 a letter of inquiry, the walls may be painted 

 a deep buff or orange, or a plain burlap may 

 be applied and then covered with three coats 

 of oil paint. A plain or figured material that 

 resembles unglazed oil cloth is also appropriate. 

 In one's own house it would pay to wainscot 

 the lower part of the wall with tile or wood, 

 leaving only the upper part for decoration; or 

 a simple and more economical expedient would 

 be to make a wainscot of leather paper and 

 finish the top with a chair rail. On the wall 

 above an oil paint may be put on with a pat- 

 tern stenciled over it in a darker shade of the 

 body color. 



THE DOUBLE FLOWERING 

 CHERRY 



By D. Z. Evans, Jr. 



ON a large lawn, where a showy, hand- 

 some tree is desired, one really out 

 of the ordinary, and one second only 

 to the magnolia in point of beauty, is the 

 double flowering cherry. Why these trees 

 are not more often seen is no doubt due to 

 the fact that they seem to be so very little 

 known, especially at the North, though I have 

 seen a number of them in the spacious south- 

 ern lawns in all their striking beauty. 



This tree is a true cherry in all its gen- 

 eral characteristics of growth, form and leaf, 

 differing only in the fact that it seldom, if 

 ever, produces fruit. In fact I have never 

 known one to fruit at all, though I have 

 heard of one or two not well authenticated 

 cases of a few cherries having been found 

 on such trees. The tree is a fairly rapid 

 grower, producing a beautiful shapely head, 

 and annually producing a great profusion of 

 large and beautiful double flower blossoms; 

 these blossoms when fully developed resemb- 

 ling a miniature rose and having the long 

 cherry stems. They are hardy, easily grown, 

 and why the nurserymen and florists do not 

 push the sale of this beautiful tree seems 

 strange. They come into flowering when 

 from three to five years of age and are much 

 longer lived than the ordinary cherry, per- 

 haps owing to the fact that they do not have 

 to stand the strain of fruiting. 



One of the largest and handsomest trees 



