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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1907 



Sun-Dials with Pedestals, Complete 



By utilizing' our Koll's Patent Lock Joint in the con- 

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 are enabled to ofTer this most attractive feature of the 

 formal garden at a price tliat places them within the 

 reach of all. 



A special booklet showing a number of designs of 

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 u|)on request. Ask for Circular "A-2(i." 



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New Yort Office: lU! Broadway 

 Western Factory: Henry Sanders Co., Chicago, III. 



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For Pergolas, Porches, or Interior Use 



Complete Outfit 



Hand and 

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Our No. 3 Wood Turning Lathe 



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 Stopped or reversed at will of operator. 



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ROCKFORD, ILL. 



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or one equally pleasing. Then buy My Books or write me about special plans. 

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PICTURESQUE SUBURBAN HOUSES (New 1907). Price by mail, $2.00. 

 New, artistic and original designs for Cement, Stone and Frame houses. 

 Colonial, Spanish and English styles, from S:j,ooo to $10,000. Estimates and 

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NEW PICTURESQUE COTTAGES. Price by mail, $1.00. Containing 

 original and beautiful designs for Suburban Homes, from $2,800 to $6,000. 



BOOK OF BUNGALOWS, 1906. Price by mail, $2.00. A unique and 

 artistic book, containing designs for one and one-and-a-half story Bunga- 

 lows in various styles Si, 000 up. Printed in Sepia tones. 

 Vol.111. Price by mai I, $1.00. New and Revised 1906 Edition. Old favor- 



PICTURESQUE SUMMER COTTAGES 



ites and new designs for Stone, Shingle and Rustic Summer Cottages 



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WM. WARNER HARPER. PROPRIETOR <^ ^ ^ 



and as soon as up and showing a pair of true 

 leaves, placed in a sunny window and given 

 all the sunshine and fresh air they need. This 

 docs not mean that they are to be exposed, 

 unshaded, to the hot sun from the start, but a 

 thin piece of cheese cloth may be drawn be- 

 tween the plants and the window glass at the 

 start and removed when the plants are of a 

 size to no longer need it. 



The several species of abutilons make hand- 

 some and effective hedges ; especially is this the 

 case with the variegated foliage section, many 

 of which have handsome and striking flowers. 

 The colors range from pure white through 

 shades of most delicate shell pink, rose, straw 

 color, crimson, orange and purplish rose; they 

 produce single bells, double blooms of daintiest 

 crinkled silk, with centers somewhat resem- 

 bling that of the hibiscus or hollyhock. They 

 may be easily grown from seed sown early in 

 spring and planted out when the weather is 

 warm. 



The crape myrtle, though rarely seen at the 

 North, is one of the most beautiful of our 

 flowering shrubs and covers itself with a per- 

 fect shower of lovely crape-like blooms of pink, 

 of crimson and of pure white throughout the 

 greater part of summer. The foliage also is 

 attractive, but the plant needs some pruning, 

 as it is a little inclined to grow somewhat 

 straggly. It may be obtained of most Southern 

 florists at a reasonable price, and where ordered 

 in large quantities by express large plants will 

 be furnished that will give immediate effect. 



Somewhat lower in growth, but of sturdy, 

 robust habit, the various justitias are much 

 to be recommended for ornamental hedges. 

 There are two colors in common culture — a 

 rosy pink and an orange, the former being the 

 more desirable. The plants should be pinched 

 hack when small to encourage a stocky growth, 

 and after each bloom fades it should be re- 

 moved, the tip of the branch which produced 

 it then branching out into two shoots which 

 quickly produce a double tuft of flowers, these 

 branches again dividing into new branches, 

 the flowers being always produced on this new 

 growth. The plants are very easily propagated 

 from cuttings stuck in wet sand or in water, 

 and are of the easiest culture, and nothing 

 could be showier or more desirable for out- 

 door use. 



For taller hedges the single and double 

 brugmansias are delightful. The single has 

 great satiny trumpet-shaped flowers of creamy 

 white which open at night and are delightfully 

 fragrant ; the foliage is large and tropical look- 

 ing in the extreme and the growth is rapid and 

 vigorous, small plants set in the spring pro- 

 ducing by fall stocky, shrub-like plants four or 

 five feet tall and covered with their great 

 blooms. The general characteristics of the 

 double form are much the same, but the plant 

 comes into bloom later, and is therefore not so 

 desirable, but both may be taken up in the fall 

 and carried indoors for winter blooming. 



Among the lower growing ornamentals 

 should be listed the vincas — beautiful, waxy- 

 leaved plants with starry blooms of white, of 

 white with crimson eye and of crimson. In 

 general appearance the plants much resemble 

 the jessamines; the manner of growth and 

 florescence is most attractive, and as the plants 

 lift well, they may be taken in for winter 

 blooming, and are most ornamental for dec- 

 orating corridors and drawing-rooms and for 

 banking staircases for receptions or other social 

 functions. They are easily raised from seed, 

 which may be sown in the house or hot-bed in 

 March or early April and transplanted into 

 the open ground as soon as all danger of frost 

 is passed. 



For tall hedges or for masking any portion 

 of the grounds which it is not desired to have 

 conspicuous there is nothing so fine as the 

 neriums or oleanders. The well-known pink 



