XVI 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1908 



The Home Beautiful 



The Easiest and Most Economical Way to Make 



and Keep Your Home HT 



Really Beautiful Is By 



following the complete, explicit, and very 

 simple directions and suggestions contained 

 in "The Proper Treatment for Floors. Wood- 

 work and Furniture," which we will gladly 

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 your name and address on a postal. 



This interesting, valuable and handsome 

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 the work yourself at trifling expense. It 

 tells you how to change the color of wood to 

 make your furniture, woodwork and floors 

 harmonize and have all finished in modern 

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 least labor and expense. 



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Book Edition H<l-6, Racine, Wisconsin 



"Tilt Wood Finishing Authorities." 



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HE Floors, Interior Woodwork and Furniture, more than 

 anything else, make or mar the appearance and influence 

 of your home — they are the most in evidence and cost 

 the most to install. 



And their attractiveness depends, almost wholly, upon the 

 finish — for nothing can lend such elegance, refinement and dis- 

 tinction — nothing can make the home brighter or more cheer- 

 ful than finely finished woodwork, floors and furniture. 



You see such things represent too much to be experimented 

 upon and possibly ruined with poor finishing preparations. 



Now there are practically two classes of wood finishes: 



One class consists of varnish stains, varnish, shellac 

 and similar preparations — meie 'surface coaters" which hide the 

 beauty of the wood because they are too thick to penetrate the 

 grain ami cannot wear well because they are scraped off the surface 

 by every scratch and blow. 



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Oil stains and water stains cannot be considered because 

 they do not penetrate and they raise the grain of the wood, leav- 

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Johnson's Wood Dyes are really dyes — not mere stains — stains 

 dry so quickly that it is very difficult to apply them evenly — they 

 show laps — light and dark spots, and rub off. 



Johnson's Wood Dye has peculiar penetrative power — it goes 

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 bringing out all its natural beauty and actually coloring the 

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Johnson's Prepared Wax is simply applied and polished with 



loth — it gives a rich, subdued, lustrous and enduring surface 

 Which cannot be produced by any other finish. 



Unlike shellac and varnish, it does not show heel marks or 

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When any part of a varnished or shellaced surface becomes 

 worn it is necessary to refinish the entire surface; but with 

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The reason why Johnson's is much better than any other 

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Therefore it covers a fifth more space — can be brought to a 

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 pei feet condition with the least care. 



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another. If the vines are started in this way- 

 it will be very easy to prune them afterward, 

 as there is no network to untangle. With 

 honeysuckle, for instance, one simply cuts off 

 all side shoots from top to bottom, and in a 

 week the whole space is a mass of green. It 

 is an advantage also to have the vines run 

 from the outmost point of the eaves to the 

 ground, as this keeps the vines from the piazza 

 rail so that it can be painted without taking 

 them down ; and this arrangement also gives 

 more room on the piazza. 



CLIMBING ROSES 



(Reply to O. L., S. S. and others.) 



There are many new climbing roses which 

 look well on posts in the garden or on arches 

 over a walk. Trained to a lattice on the house 

 or at the sides of a Colonial porch they give 

 it a singular air of age and culture. 



Roses need more attention than vines in the 

 way of tying up and training, and their flowers 

 last a shorter time, since they bloom but once 

 a season. The foliage, too, is more likely to 

 be injured by worms and mildew. 



Crimson rambler is the commonest climbing 

 rose ; too common one sometimes thinks ; but 

 it is not the best because the color is harsh 

 and it has no fragrance. A better one is the 

 Dawson rose, which is a vigorous grower with 

 clusters of a better color and very fragrant. 

 It is a hybrid of Rosa multiflora and the hy- 

 brid perpetual General Jacqueminot. 



Debutante, grown by Walsh, is another 

 good one. It is very double, delicate pink, 

 and fragrant. 



Queen Alexandra, introduced by Veitch, is 

 pink, a strong grower. 



Tausendschon, brought out by Schmidt in 

 1906, is pink, and turns, as the flowers open, to 

 bright rose and carmine. The trusses are 

 large, last a long time, and the plant is vigor- 

 ous and productive. 



The Prairie roses can also be trained to a 

 post or lattice. They bloom much later than 

 other roses, and the clustered pink flowers are 

 very graceful, but are not fragrant. Baltimore 

 Bell, Queen of the Prairie and Setigera are the 

 varieties. 



The Wichuraiana rose and its hybrids are 

 very good on rocks, at the top of terrace walls 

 or banks, where they will hang down many 

 feet. They can be trained to pillars also. 

 Wichuraiana itself is white with yellow sta- 

 mens, deliciously scented and with dark green 

 shining leaves. 



Dorothy Perkins is very double, pink and 

 sweetly perfumed. 



Hiawatha is single, bright crimson with 

 large yellow stamens. 



William C. Egan has very double flesh- 

 colored flowers in large clusters. This is a 

 hybrid of Wichuraiana and General Jacque- 

 minot, originated by Dawson in 1896. 



THE GARDEN IN 

 THE TEMPORARY HOME 



By Ida D. Bennett 



THE garden in the temporary home does 

 not present the same inducement to 

 create that is found in the permanent 

 home, but it is not without its possibilities of 

 development, and often this is along so origi- 

 nal line^ as to be highly interesting and in- 

 structive. 



Our American people have become so ac- 

 customed to pulling up stakes and setting up 

 their household gods for a season or two 

 wherever business or pleasure calls them, that 

 the permanent home — the home of succeeding 

 generations — is practically unknown through- 

 out the greater part of the country. When 

 one is so fortunate as to possess their ances- 

 tral acres, inherited or acquired, like certain 

 pedigrees, it is by no means certain that they 



