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AMERICAN HOMES AND GA 



R D E N S 



February, 1907 



Sun-Dials with Pedestals, Complete 



By utilizing- our Koll'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. MFC. CO. 



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



New York Office : 1123 Broadway 

 ^^cstcrn Factory: Henry Sanders Co.. CKicago, 111. 



MANUFACTURERS OP 



KOLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 



For Pergolas, Porches, or Interior Use 



CARPENTERS 



in these days of close competition 



Need the Best 

 Possible Equipment 



and this they can have in 



BARNES' 

 Hand and Foot Power 

 Machinery 



W.F.& JOHN BARNES CO. 



567 Ruby Street ROCKFORD, ILL. 



Our New 

 Foot and Hand Power 

 Circular Saw No. 4 



'^HE strongest, most 

 powerful, and in e\'ery 

 way the best machine of 

 its kind ever made. For 

 rippiny:, cross-cutting, bor- 

 mg and grooving. 



Send 

 for 

 our 

 New 

 Cata- 

 logue 



The Varnish that lasts lonerest 



Made b)- Murphy Varnish Company. 



Plant for Immediate Effect 



NOT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS 



Start with the largest stock that can be secured! It takes over twenty years to 



grow such trees and shrubs as we offer. 

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

 immediate effect. Send for descriptive and price lists. 



m Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 



S& ^^^^^^ HARPER, PROPRIETOR ^» 



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will light up the garden in the dull days of 

 November when all the other flowers have 

 had their day and passed on, with their wealth 

 of gold and crimson. These and the golden 

 wallflower are of the autumn's treasures — her 

 best gift to the garden's wealth. 



Much may be added to the beauty of the 

 garden in the bleak days of winter and late 

 fall by a generous planting of berry-bearing 

 shrubs and those whose bark takes on a ruddy 

 tinge during winter. 



One of the most notable of ornamental ber- 

 ried shrubs is the Japanese rose — Rosa ru- 

 gosa—which forms sturdy bushes which are 

 hardy in all situations. They produce, 

 throughout the summer months, large fra- 

 grant single and semi-double flowers which 

 are followed by orange red and scarlet hips or 

 seed pods, which are highly ornamental. In 

 striking contrast to this we have the snow- 

 berry — Symphoricarpus racemosus. This is 

 an ornamental shrub with rose-colored flow- 

 ers in loose racemes followed in late July by 

 snow-white berries which remain until late 

 in winter. In autumn the white flowering 

 dogwood is covered with brilliant scarlet 

 berries and rich foliage of crimson and gold, 

 while the winterberry — Ilex verticillata, 

 hangs its slender branches with bright, scarlet 

 berries which are valuable for Christmas 

 decoration. 



The barberry is an exceedingly beautiful 

 shrub when laden with its large clusters of 

 oval crimson fruit, which cling throughout the 

 winter. The dogwoods strike a grateful 

 color note through the dull days of winter, 

 with the rich red, bright green and yellow of 

 their bark and large clusters of bluish and 

 cream-white berries. The golden osier, the 

 Cornelian cherry and the strawberry bush 

 are all valuable additions to this class for 

 shrubberies and winter effects. 



French Pottery and Porcelain. By 

 Henri Frantz. New York. Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. Pp. 9 + 177. Price, 

 $2.50 net. 



The admirable Newnes' Library of the Ap- 

 plied Arts has a welcome addition in this in- 

 teresting sketch of French pottery and porce- 

 lain. The scheme of this series of books has 

 been more than once adverted to in American 

 Homes and Gardens. It is, in short, to 

 provide brief, yet complete monographs on 

 various aspects of industrial art. Not a few of 

 the subjects already treated are without rep- 

 resentation in other books, and while the pres- 

 ent subject is not new this presentation of it 

 is not the less helpful to amateurs and col- 

 lectors and not the less welcome. 



French ceramic art dates no earlier than 

 the fifteenth century, although it can scarcely 

 be said to have begun before the sixteenth. It 

 was, therefore, considerably behind other ap- 

 plied arts, and was notably later in develop- 

 ment than the much more diflScult arts of 

 architecture and sculpture. Presently, how- 

 ever, the art made great progress, and French 

 ceramics as a whole, constitute one of the most 

 important chapters in the history of this beau- 

 tiful art. The purpose of the author of the 

 present volume has been to trace the main out- 

 lines of the story, and this he has done with 

 sufllicient fulness, notwithstanding the fact 

 that his book is barely more than a sketch. 

 But it is an admirable beginning to a fascinat- 



