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THE (x A R D E N MAGAZINE 
January, 1917 
Greenis 
Trees 
HODGSON PORTABLE HOUSES 
The various models of these houses are arranged after the most scientific methods of raising poultry. Years of experience have 
proved this. The brooder can be operated outdoors in zero weather. The poultry house is made in sections that can be quickly bolted 
together by anyone. The setting coop keeps a hen by herself while setting. All neatly painted. Send for illustrated catalogue. 
E. F. HODGSON COMPANY 
Bartlett Pears 
luy Direct from Green the 
Grower — Get Better Trees 
— Pay Half Agents’ Prices 
You plant your home orchard for a life- 
time’s bearing. Don’t make the mistake 
of planting poor trees. Green’s trees are 
grown where fruit trees develop best. 
Every shipment contains shapely, well- 
rooted, healthy stock. 
Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum, Quince and Cherry Trees. Grape Vines. 
Currants, Ornamental Trees. Full line of Roses, Shrubs and 
Plants. Best New Fruit. 40 years’ shipping direct and sat- 
isfying customers has built our great nurseries. Buyers 
order again and again. Special prices on large orders. 
You Will be Pleased With Your Trees 
Write for fine free catalogue. Also C. A. (ireen’s interesting 
book, “Thirty Years with Fruits and Flowers,” or “How I 
Made the Old Farm Pay.” Either book free. Address 
GREEN’S NURSERY COMPANY, 7 Wall St., Rochester, N. Y 
Drawn by one horse and operated by one man, the 
TRIPLEX MOWER will mow more lawn in a day 
than the best motor mower ever made, cut it better 
and at a fraction of the cost. 
Drawn by one horse and operated by one man, it will 
mow more lawn in a day than any three ordmary 
horsedrawn mowers with three horses and three men. 
Floats over the uneven ground as a ship rides the 
waves. One mower may be climbing a knoll, the 
second skimming a level and the third paring a hollow. 
Does not smash the grass to earth and plaster it in the 
mud in springtime nor crush out its life between 
hot rollers and hard, hot ground in summer as does 
the motor mower. 
Send for Catalogue illustrating all types of TOWNSEND MOWERS. 
TOWNSEND’S 
TRIPLEX 
The Public is warned not to 
purchase mowers infringing this 
patent. 
The Greatest Grass- 
cutter on Earth, cuts a 
Swath 86 inches wide. 
S.P. TOWNSEND & CO. 
23 Central Ave., Orange, N. J. 
Decorating the Informal Dining Room 
T here is no more delightful task in house furn- 
ishing than decorating an informal dining room, 
nor does any apartment of the home offer 
such possibilities for the expression of individuality. 
For the simple house it is always advisable to avoid 
fads in furniture, for the conventional type will prove 
far more interesting in the long run. 
Then, too, as to the color scheme, it will be well 
to adhere to cheerful tones— yellow in its many 
shadings is perhaps the best for all the year 
round uses since it lights best and forms an ex 
cellent background for nearly every person. 
A good deal 
depends on the 
wall treatment. 
If one is obliged 
to use paper, 
and particularly 
a figured design, 
then care must 
be taken to get 
the correct 
materials for 
hangings. 
Perhaps it 
will be helpful 
to some if we 
work up a de- 
corative scheme 
using the wall 
paper illustrat- 
ed here as the 
basis of our 
plan. 
Letusimagine 
a dining room 
sixteen feet 
square assum- 
ing that there is 
a wide door 
opening from 
the adjacent hall or living room and opposite this a door 
to the butler’s pantry; the fire place occupies a third 
wall, while two windows balance this on the fourth wall. 
First let us make a dado by placing a chair board 
molding thirty-six inches above the floor, painting the 
plaster between this and the baseboard or using plain 
paper the same tone of ivory used on the woodwork. 
Above this, to the picture molding, fixed at the ceiling, 
hang this charming paper which has birds, foliage and 
flowers in soft natural colors on a pale yellow ground. 
The ceiling will be pale ivory'. The rug will be solid 
mulberry to match the full blown flowers in the paper, 
while the hangings over the cream white scrim curtains 
will be a five inch-wide striped silk of mulberry' and 
pale yellow. For the furnishings let us choose ma- 
hogany of very simple straight lines, or this new birch 
and wicker furniture mahoganized, a chair of which 
is shown here. These are very good looking and can 
be made even more inteVesting by being fitted with 
flat seat cushions of a cretonne that duplicates the 
paper. This bit of color breaks the plainness of the 
floor and really gives a finishing touch to the scheme. 
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