vi AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
September, 1911 
Old Wood Paneling, Oxford, England 
is responsible for a most impor- 
tant share of distinction of inte- 
rior woodwork in this country. 
Not only the hard woods, but 
more especially the easily pro- 
cured Red Gum, Cypress and 
other less expensive woods, attain 
a permanent finish of refinement 
Johnson’s 
Samples Supplied Free 
T IS remarkable to note 
the beauty and variety 
of the woodwork in our 
modern American Homes. 
The noblespecimens of English 
woodwork exampled by our 
(illustration are not surprising. 
England has always been a 
| timber-using country, and such 
workmanship is the result of 
centuries of development. 
It zs surprising to enter our 
‘modest, newly built homes where 
| inexpensive woods are employed, 
where short-time building con- 
tracts have limited the niceties of 
carpentry, and to find woodwork 
worthy of our sincere admiration. 
Johnson’s 
Wood Dye 
and beauty by the use of Johnson’s 
Wood Dye. If you are interested 
in finishing or refinishing any in- 
terior woodwork including floors 
and furniture let us mail to you 
our Illustrated Booklet A.H.-9, rec- 
ognized by craftsmen everywhere 
as an authority on finishing wood- 
work, floors and furniture. 
Wood Dye—made in fifteen shades, also Johnson's 
Under-Lac—better than any shellac or varnish, and Johnson’s 
Prepared Wax for obtaining a soft, dull finish, are put up in trial packages which your local paint dealer 
will furnish you without charge. 
Failing to. find them, send us your dealer’s name and we will see that you 
are supplied with the particular shade you wish to try—FREE. 
S. C. Johnson & Son, Racine, Wis. 
“The Wood Finishing Authorities’’ 
Send for catalogue A 27 of pergolas. sun dials and garden | 
furniture or A 40 of wood columns. 
Hartmann - Sanders Co. 
Exclusive Manufacturers of 
Koll’s Patent Lock Joint Columns 
Suitable for 
Pergolas, Porches or Interior Use 
ELSTON and WEBSTER AVES., 
Eastern Office: 
1123 Broadway, New York City 
Our illustration shows the attractive effect that can be obtained by 
adopting pergola treatment for your garage. This adds but very little 
to the cost of the building and makes it an attractive feature of your 
general landscape scheme instead of an eyesore, as it frequently is. 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
The Schilling Press 
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Printers of AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
STANDING SEAM 
seistlcetes ROOF | 
4 IRONS 
(CLINCH right through the 
standing seam of metal 
roofe. No rails are needed 
unless desired. We make a 
similar one for slate roofs. 
Send for Circular 
Berger Bros. Co. 
PATENTED PHILADELPHIA 
WASHABLE WALL-COVERING 
By J. MACKAY 
MW cee wall-coverings are nov~ 
elties which are as unknown gen- 
erally as they are practical and 
sanitary. 
Never was this fact impressed upon me 
quite so forcefully as when upon visiting 
a very wideawake little housekeeper friend 
of mine. I found her home fitted from 
foyer to kitchen with washable wall-cover- 
ings. Walls and ceilings were free from 
the least suspicion of dust and dirt—and 
always kept so, spotless, stainless, cleanly. 
Moreover, with the most expensive papers 
more wholly artistic decorative treatments 
could not have been evolved. 
The halls were a quiet harmony of olive 
and copper tones. The big sunny living- 
room was done in imitation burlap effect 
in dull terra-cotta with a cut-out border of 
frost-touched oak leaves. The library 
showed the combination of a modern 
French design with a plain tone reprodu- 
cing the deep glowing red which was the 
dominating shade in the figured texture. 
Of the bedrooms, it was hard to decide 
which was the most delightful. One dis- 
played upon its walls the reproduction of 
a quaint English print so perfect as to 
mislead a connoisseur in drapery stuffs. In 
another, Colonial treatment prevailed, and 
the gracefully patterned wall-covering was 
in strict accord. Still a third had its wall 
strewn with delicately tinted blossoms. In 
the dining-room, the library, the tiny recep- 
tion-room, everywhere, this strictly modern 
texture appeared upon walls and ceiling. 
All might be subjected to frequent clean- 
ings, and yet not one bit of artistic beauty 
had been sacrificed. 
The material used with such charming 
effect had a pleasing dull finish, in some 
cases almost a “‘crépey,’ appearance. No 
one could recognize in it the old-fashioned 
oilcloth. Yet such upon investigation it 
proved to be. It was perfected, or I might 
better say glorified, called by a new trade 
name, but still fundamentally oilcloth. A 
strong muslin foundation had been treated 
to successive coats of oil and paint, but 
with such skill that the results rivaled the 
most beautiful French, English and Jap- 
anese hangings. 
Not only in the more formal rooms of the 
house had this sensible and sanitary wall 
treatment been adopted, but throughout its 
entire length, breadth and height. In the 
kitchen, pantry, laundry and _ bathroom, 
where cleanliness is the all-important end, 
it reached perhaps its highest degree of 
utility. Glaze finish from which every ves- 
tige of dirt and soil could be instantly re- 
moved had been found preferable for these 
rooms and frequently tiling patterns were 
employed. These appeared in tan, green, 
light and delft blue. The kitchen was the 
acme of spotless purity. The lower walls 
showed tiling effect reproductions of minia- 
ture Holland scenes. The upper walls and 
ceiling were of immaculate white. 
FRUIT DISEASE INVESTIGATIONS 
HE investigation and study of fruit 
diseases have been vigorously pushed 
and have shown a healthy progress. 
The destructive tumor disease of limes and 
other citrus fruits has been shown to be of 
fungus origin, and attacks oranges as well 
as limes. The new methods of spraying 
with sulphur compound worked out by the 
pathologists of the department has been 
widely adopted by apple growers. The in- 
vestigation shows that fine fruit can be pro- 
