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The Garden Magazine , October, 1920 
Dreer’s Reliable 
Spring-Blooming 
Bulbs 
TNO NOT miss the joy of having a 
a A-/ bed or border of Bulbs next Spring. 
a Plant them this Fall as early as you can and success is 
ft certain. 
We import the very highest grades of the finest var- 
ieties and offer in our Autumn Catalogue splendid 
collections of Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Crocus, 
Lilies, etc., etc. 
The Fall is also the time to set out Roses, Hardy Per- 
ennial Plants, Vines, Shrubs, etc. Our Autumn Cata- 
logue also gives a complete list of seasonable seeds, plants 
and bulbs for out-doors, window-garden and conservatory. 
Mailed free to any one mentioning this magazine 
Henrv A Drepr 714-16 chestnut st. 
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NARCISSUS BULBS 
Biflorus. "The Primrose Peerless.*' very late $2.80 
Campernelle Kugulosus. golden yellow 2.80 
Poetaz. Elvira, white, bunch-flowered . 4 00 
Poeticus, Pheasant Eye. very late white 2.80 
** Grandiflorus. largest poeticus 3.60 
*• King Edwrard, early white 4.00 
Barrii. John Bain, primrose- white, early 2.80 
*• , Conspicuus. ••Yellow Poeticus” 3 60 
M , Albatross, white, large and tall 5.00 
Incomparabilis, Fireflame. yellow, red eye 3.60 
" . Stella Superba, white, yellow cup 4 00 
.Sir Watlcin, big yellow. 440 
Leedsii. Polestar, white and yellow, wheel shape 3.60 
*• . Ariadne, white, refined and dainty 4 00 
•* . White I.ady. very tall 4 00 
Ajax Bicolor. J. B. M. Kamtn. cream and white 4 00 
TULIP BULBS 
Mixed Late-flowering, all colors $2.40 
Wedding Veil, blue-white 2.40 
Clara Butt, richest pink 2.80 
Kate Greenaway, lilac-white 2.80 
White Queen, tall and dainty 3.20 
Farncomhe Sanders, rose-red 4 00 
Price is per loo postpaid. 25 of a kind at 100 rate, 
provided order totals 100 bulbs or more. 
Peonies: Ten varieties in mixtures, 100 plants for $20.00, 
50 for $1 r.oo, 25 for $6.00. Twelve plants, all different, not 
labeled, for S3.00, seven for $2.00, three for $1.00. Prices 
include delivery. 
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PEONIES 
Best varieties in strong clumps. 
PHLOX and IRIS 
in Vigorous, Field-Grown plants. New and choice sorts. 
It is planting time now. Send to-day for our Catalogue. 
FRANKEN BROTHERS Deerfield, 111. 
(Continued from page /ij) 
Glassford,” a wonderful crimson which seemed 
to be destined in the future to occupy a large 
place in American gardens. 
Many Americans who have traveled in Europe, 
have come back enthusiastic over the wonderful 
Roses they have seen there. They forget that in 
a large measure this wonderful success is due to 
a difference in climatic conditions. Many 
of the Roses I saw in Ireland for instance on 
August 6th were then hardly in their swing for a 
first crop! As compared with our conditions 
the climate is milder and intense heat almost 
unknown, and the moisture in the atmosphere 
and at the roots makes the plants grow larger and 
better. In this country the same variety would 
grow to only half the European size. An unin- 
formed amateur American Rose grower standing 
with me looking over the Dickson trial grounds 
would bankrupt himself buying all the varieties 
that then and there appealed to him. And 
possibly the next year in this country he would be 
inclined to say he did not in any case receive the 
varieties ordered. Such are the handicaps under 
which the Rose creators labor. 
COMFORT, CALORIES, AND 
THE KITCHEN SINK 
A NY country woman — or any city woman 
k either — who has occasionally (or oftener) 
to wash dishes, fix vegetables, make preserves, 
concoct candy or do any other kind of kitchen 
work at a table or sink, knows from painful 
experience the cost of having that table or sink 
too high or too low. She may not realize that 
its altitude is the cause of her discomfort, and she 
may not be able to say just how high it should 
be for best results and the greatest ease and con- 
venience, but she knows that “something is 
wrong.” If she happens to be short and the 
sink high the remedy is comparatively simple; a 
stout box or heavy board sawed to size will fur- 
nish the required height If, however, the re- 
verse be true, more than mere ingenuity is needed. 
Well, to get at the bottom of the matter, 
specialists of the Home Economics Division of 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture undertook 
some technical but also very practical investiga- 
tions. They found, for instance, that in washing 
dishes at a sink or table over which she has to 
bend because of its insufficient height, a woman 
expends an average of thirty calories or heat 
units of energy per hour. Working at a sink a 
little too high, she uses up twenty-five calories 
in the same time, which indicates that there is 
less effort involved in lifting the arms and working 
with them in that position than in maintaining 
a bent-back position. However, when the sink 
or table is at just the right height, the expendi- 
ture of energy in the same time is only twenty- 
one calories, or nearly a third less than when the 
support is too low. Probably, too, more work 
could be done in an hour under such conditions 
than when the extra effort was expended. Of 
course the “right height” for a table is an in- 
dividual matter to be determined for and by the 
person who is going to do the work. But what- 
ever it is, it means a good deal to any one, house- 
wife or servant, who attends to the homely but 
necessary task of washing dishes day after day, 
and the other related activities in the culinary life 
of a household. 
