May, 1911 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS xxi 
Garden Work About the Home 
(Continued from page xix) 
“Seeing | is Believing 
ieee , | “Cheap” Mission Fur- 
: niture is an abomination, 
but it is no reflection on 
honest, high-grade furni- 
ture that it can be bought 
for less than half the retail 
store price — especially 
when you know what you 
are getting. Our plan of 
selling ‘*Come- Packt’’ 
$6.75 Sectional Furniture direct 
from our factory to the usercuts out such useless and 
heavy selling expensesthat our low pecs are logical. 
What is better still, there 
can be no doubt as to that 
most important considera- 
tion —the quality. 
You see just what you get 
—and you get Quarter 
Sawed White Oak—rich in 
beautiful flake and grain. 
Selected stock of this kind 
costs twice as much as the 
plain sawed red or white oak 
used in most furniture. No 
stain disguises cheaper sub- 
stitutes in our furniture; no defects can be con- 
cealed. It comes completely stained and finished, but 
not being assembled, 
it is open to careful 
inspection—a solid 
satisfaction to the 
most critical, and a 
big saving in the 
cost to you. 
“Any advice, any suggestions or any help 
will be appreciated.” 
This is a case where help is difficult, be- 
cause our correspondent does not say what 
kind of trees he has purchased nor whether 
the place is to be all orchard or orchard and 
small fruits and vegetables; whether it is to 
be lived in all the year and is to supply a 
large part of the income, or whether it is 
simply a home for the summer. 
The suggested location of the house, 
south of the clump of trees, east of the row 
and a little below the brow of the hill, is a 
good one. It will be cool in summer and 
sheltered from the wind in winter. 
The vegetable garden might be north of 
the house, where space could also be found 
for bees, pigeons and fowl of various kinds. 
The road to the house should enter the 
place just west of the existing row of trees, 
keeping close to the trees all the way to the 
barn on the northern boundary of the place. 
At a convenient point a branch road would 
lead to the front door of the bungalow. 
When we are supplied with more definite 
information about this place, and know 
more about the tastes and desires of the 
owner, we shall be pleased to give more 
advice. 
$6.75 
The assembling 
of the finished sec- 
tions is simple, easy, 
and a matter of an 
hour at most, de- 
pending on the size 
of the piece. All 
the hard one is done at our factory—even 
the holes bored for screws—and you thus have 
MY MINIATURE GARDEN 
(Continued from page xv) 
garden, valued at the village market prices, 
which of course varied through the sea- 
the joy of creation, _ 
shorn of all the & 
son: 
ee deciland 560 (112 bunches) radishes ....... $2.78 
al ee difficulties. Sil INGAGIS WERUCS -o SuGodsono ooo buoer 3.75 
o illustrate, the 12 
Mickialey Rocker GSES PECASTEA seks ces Seki Katee steer 1.20 
PEE ak af this 1A quarts beet “greens, 37 (7 
article comes in bunches ) beets cob oDooD OOOO GD DEO U7 
four completed ’ ROMGMAGESMSELIN Gs DEANS! rim -reisie 2.00 
ee pee $17.75, 3 leaves, 45 in. top SiC ATSHOMECO LM Sian ae ets ee 1.58 
entirely assembled, the front rail fitted to slip into 24 quarts COMALCOESor Hse A aye aires ee 3.60 
the mortised joints, as is a 
also the back and seat. The $15.68 
Settle is equally simple, and 
even the Pedestal Dining 
Table is one of the simplest 
pieces to put together; there 
are but three sections. 
A Tempting 
Assortment 
Over 200 other correctly 
designed and _ beautifully 
proportioned pieces are 
We picked the first of the radishes on 
the 4th of June, and the first heads of let- 
tuce on the 10th. Our first beet greens 
were gathered on the 23d and the first of 
the peas on the 29th. We had string beans 
by July 4th, the first beets on the 20th. 
Corn made its appearance on August 16th 
and tomatoes on August 20th. By the time 
we returned to the city on the 24th of Sep- 
ALL shown in our 60-page cata- 
| pag tember the vegetables were about ex- 
log It will prove fascinat- : : : 
ing to the lover of artistic hausted, excepting the tomatoes. The vines 
Arts and Crafts furniture were still loaded with green and half ripe 
—it will delight the fruit, which it seemed a waste to leave. I 
housewife—and it will 
am sure the tomatoes must have lasted all 
through October. 
Of course, inexperience shows very 
plainly in my summary. We had too many 
radishes and not nearly enough beets and 
peas. The lettuce, string beans, and toma- 
toes were our best crops. The corn was 
delicious, but we did not have so big a yield 
as we should have had and the ears were 
small. I am inclined to think that this was 
because we did not give it enough water. 
At the end of the summer my account 
book showed this summary : 
please the man whio pays 
the bills. Mission Lamps, 
“*Willow-weave’’ furni- 
ture and Cluny Lace 
Curtains are also shown. 
Write us to-day and we 
will mail acopy free, and 
tell you of our liberal guarantce that enables 
us to say 
“Your money 
back if you say 
so,’’ Address 
My family admitted that my garden had 
not been a failure, for the vegetables had 
been delicious and I had saved the family 
pocketbook the enormous sum of $4.82. 
Dab = Creiiie. ob bie 5 eee ee $15.68 
The Come-Packt feria (0. ISIS sys 20 eee 10.86 
539 EDWIN STREET, ANN ARBOR, MICH. BEI BITES. Va tcAdo Sis aot aS eo: $4.82 
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