March, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XXV 



the end of the lilies for that year, if, indeed, 

 they ever come up again. Last spring my own 

 lilies made an unusually early start — prob- 

 ably owing to the unusually heavy protection 

 they had during winter and the heavy snow, 

 and an unexpected cold wave took nearly all 

 of them, literally cooking them; the same 

 wave also killed all the asparagus above 

 ground — a thing I never knew to happen 

 before. 



Never remove the dead stem from a lily by 

 pvdling it out, this may cause a fatal injury to 

 the bulb; cut it off close to the ground if it is 

 desired to obliterate it, but it is wiser to allow 

 a portion at least to remain above ground as it 

 serves to mark the exact location of the bulb. 

 Another thing: the stem of the lily always 

 forms a number of small bulblets near the sur- 

 face of the ground ; these, when the stem has 

 ripened may be removed and planted and in 

 two or three 3'ears will form blossoming bulbs. 



FURNISHING A DARK OR A 

 COLD NORTH ROOM 



By Alexander Hooper 



IN MANY houses one finds a room so badly 

 lighted that it alwaj's has a gloomy aspect. 

 By a proper use of color such a room may 

 be made comparatively light and cheerful. 

 The woodwork should be painted white, and 

 the walls covered with ingrain paper of a 

 deep, soft yellow. If the paper is not avail- 

 able, paint or calcimine that color; if paint is 

 used, stipple it. Calcimine the ceiling in a 

 light shade of yellow, and if portieres are 

 used, let them be of a duller shade of yellow. 

 Drape the windows in point d'esprit or bobbi- 

 net, and have curtains of some thick, soft ma- 

 terial in yellow, to screen the windows at 

 night. They should be hung on brass rods 

 with rings that can be easily drawn. If the 

 room is used for a bedroom have the bedstead 

 of brass or white enamel and all the other 

 ■furniture of white enamel or light wood. The 

 bedspread should be white, on white and j el- 

 low. The floor should be light, and the rugs 

 should have a good deal of yellow in them. 

 The pictures should be light prints or water- 

 colors framed in gold or old ivory. If pos- 

 sible, have one or two good-sized mirrors 

 placed where they will reflect the light. 



A cold north room may be treated in any 

 shade of red, or deep, warm yellow. Have 

 the woodwork stained a soft brown or ma- 

 hogany color, or, if staining is not possible, 

 paint it a mahogany color. Cover the walls 

 with a paper having a cream ground on which 

 are thrown red flowers with their green foli- 

 age; poppies, chrysanthemums, roses, etc., are 

 all satisfactory. Select a pattern having long, 

 loose sprays of flowers. 



Get crepe, cretonne, or chintz in the same 

 pattern and coloring and make the bedspread, 

 window draperies, and covers for cushions; 

 or the cushion may be covered with denim in 

 the shade of red of the flowers or the green 

 of the foliage. The floor should be stained 

 the same color as the woodwork, and the pre- 

 dominating colors in the rug should be green 

 and red. Use dark woods in the furniture. 



This scheme of color covdd be carried out 

 in a living-room or dining-room having a north- 

 ern exposure. The paper on the wall should be 

 plain and in a dull Indian or Venetian red. 

 The draperies might be a shade of olive ma- 

 terial having much yellow in it ; the carpet or 

 rug a deep, dull red, with a mixture of terra 

 cotta, old blue, and olive. The mahogany fur- 

 niture, if upholstered, should be in dull red or 

 f)live; if terra cotta or yellow be chosen, carry 

 out the scheme in the same manner. 



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MORE EASILY BUILT 



House building greatly facilitated when you 

 are equipped with the proper machinery. 

 When you are surfacing your material, why 

 not double-surface it on a Fay & Egan No. 

 2^2 Double Cylinder Surface Flaning 

 meet every requirement in small Planing Mills, Sash and Door, and 



Machine ? It wi 



Furniture factories. 



The frame is very 

 heavy, the metal being 

 so distributed as to with- 

 stand the strain of the 

 working parts without 

 vibration. The lower 

 cylinder with the bed 

 and lower feed rolls are 

 quickly adjustable to 

 suit any thickness, and 

 have a vertical adjust- 

 ment by hand-wheel 

 and screw. The pres- 

 sure bars are so arranged 

 as to adjust themselves automatically and maintain a proper pressure at all times, 

 are four feed rolls of large diameter, driven by very strong expansion gearing. 



AVHITK rs FOU <ATAI.OC; 



Cylinder belted at both 

 ends. Improved tight- 

 ener for feed belt. Fric- 

 tion rolls in each end 

 of bed. Self acting 

 pressure bars. Bed 

 raised and lowered 

 in extra wide gibs. 



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FAY & EGAN 



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