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By erecting Houses for useful 
Birds, and getting rid of Spar- 
row Pest, you will have good 
Garden Allies. 
3 Bird Houses for $5.00. 
Parcel Post weight 10 lbs. 
Crescent Sparrow Trap $5.00 and 
Post charges, size 18' x 18 '. CRESCENT CO., “Birdville” 
Weight 9 lbs. Toms Ri ver p. 0 . N. J. 
Brooder for SO to 100 chicks 
Strong, healthy chickens are raised in Hodgson 
Poultry Houses. These practical, attractive houses 
can be erected in less than an hour. They are 
weather proof, vermin proof, thoroughly ventilated, 
No. J Poultry House for 60 hens — 2 units Setting Coop 
warm and dry. Easy to clean and convenient to move. 
There’s a Hodgson Poultry House for every purpose, 
guaranteed to be the best the market affords. Write 
to-day for illustrated catalogue. 
UArv/^ C AM Portable E. F. Hodgson Co., Room 311, 71-73 Federal St. 
M UUvjoUIN HOUSES Boston, Mass. 6 East 39th St., New York City. 
Your Dealer Can Supply You 
Aphine. It is the safest form of “insect insurance.” 
The best remedy known for green, black, white fly, 
thrips and soft scale. Easily applied — Effective. 
Fungine. For rust, mildew and all sorts of blights. 
Vermine. Sure eradicator for insects affecting plant 
roots. 
APHINE MANUFACTURING CO. 
Madison New Jersey 
A Charming Birdbath 
of Artificial Stone 
fifteen inches square, three 
inches thick, hollowed out 
round, two and one half 
inches deep in centre slop- 
ing to three-eighths at edge. Inexpensive, Practical, Artistic. 
Price, $2.50. Three for $6.75, f. o. b. Verona. 
Verona Bird Houses. Send for List. 
W. H. BAYLES, 22 Park Ave. Verona, New Jersey 
YOUR SEEDSMAN HAS 
BUG DEATH and 
BUG DEATH APHIS 
For your 
Flowers — Vines — Vegetables — Shrubs 
NO PARIS GREEN 
NO ARSENIC 
May we send you — free — “Are We 
Builders or Destroyers?”— A Book- 
let of facts about sound soil and 
healthy gardens. 
Danforth Chemical Co. 
Leominster, Mass. 
Est. 1896 
AWAY WITH THE CESSPOOL 
Secure all the sanitary comforts of a 
city building. 
The Aten Sewage Disposal Sys- 
tem allows continuous use of wash- 
stands, bathtubs, toilets, sinks, 
showers, etc. Simple to install, 
nothing to get out of order. 
Our booklet 
No. 11 tells 
how and 
why. Sent 
free upon 
request. 
Aten 
Sewage Disposal Co. 
286 Fifth Ave., New York City 
“ Charlie has gained strength 
and self-reliance and is a happy, 
busy boy since the pony came" 
FUN AND HEALTH 
A boy or girl can get more fun, 
physical development and ruddy 
health out of a pony than from any 
other source, and more real happi- 
ness than he or she is apt to 
get out of a fortune in later life. 
Complete Outfits. Your satisfaction 
is guaranteed. Particulars on request. 
BELLE MEADE FARM 
Dept. 8 Belle Meade, Va. 
Don’t Wear 
a Truss 
Brooks* Appliance, the 
modern scientific invention, the 
wonderful new discovery that 
relieves rupture, will be sent 
on trial. No obnoxious springs 
or pads. 
Brooks’ Rupture Appliance 
Has automatic Air Cushions. Binds and 
draws the broken parts together as you would 
a broken limb. No salves. No lies. Durable, 
cheap. Sent on trial to prove it. Protected by 
U. S. patents. Catalog and measure blanks 
mailed free. Send narpg and address today. 
Brooks Appliance Co.,275H State St, Marshall, Mich. 
MR. C. E. BROOKS 
THE LIGHT BRAHMA 
FOR THE COUNTRY ESTATE 
Is the Largest and Most Beautiful of All Breeds, Unsurpassed as an Ornamen- 
tal Feature and Unexcelled as a Combination Egg Laying and a Table Fowl 
The high quality of my birds was again demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, January, 
1921, by winning 1st Cock, 2nd and 4th Hen, 4th Cockerel, 2nd Pullet, 1st and 4th Old 
Pen and 2nd Young Pen. At Philadelphia, The American Light Brahma Club National 
Meeting, I won 2nd on Cock, 1st and 4th Hen, 5th Cockerel, 1st Pullet, 1st, 4th and 5th 
on Pen, and 3 Specials, and Cups. At Syracuse, N. Y., the Premier of all state shows and 
in strong competition they were awarded First, Second, and Third Cock; First and Second 
Hen; First, Second, and Third Cockerel; First and Second Pullet; First and Second Old 
Pen; First and Second Young Pen; Special for Best Display, and other specials. At Tren- 
ton, N. J., I lanover, Pa., and Mineola, L. I., I won more points than any other exhibitor. 
Send for folder telling about them. Stock for sale and eggs in season. 
C. W. EVERITT HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND 
Reference: Nassau County Trust Co., Mineola, L. I. Buff Cochin Ban lams — At Madison Square Garden, 
1921, I won 2nd, and 5th Cock, 1st and 2nd Hen, 2nd and 4th Cockerel, 2nd and 3rd Pullet. 
The Garden Magazine, June, 1921 
(Continued jrom page 286) 
among gay scarlet poppies growing on a table 
painted dove-gray. Strictly conventional de- 
signs are also good. 
Once the furniture is painted and decorated, 
there comes the fun of planning the accessories — 
cushions and stringers, rugs and curtains that 
make outdoor furniture comfortable and allur- 
ing. There are fascinating cretonnes and drapery 
stuffs to choose from nowadays, and with plain 
wicker furniture, or furniture painted in some dull 
tone, colorful cretonne is most attractive for 
upholsteries. Pillows can be made from scraps 
of the same cretonne or other odd materials that 
harmonize, and can be stuffed with feathers, sweet 
balsam, or rose petals, if one has been indus- 
trious in the rose garden the previous season and 
has stored away plenty of dry petals sprinkled 
with spice. 
For real outdoor comfort several roomy 
chairs and rockers, a porch swing or chaise 
longue, and a table are all needed. Besides 
these pieces, -a screen or two, porch shades, 
awnings, rugs, a lamp, and a tea-wagon with 
pretty cups and saucers will make the porch so 
alluring that one will want to stay there “from 
dawn till dark!” 
And if the porch be city bound, summer 
flowers and scents can be brought to it by having 
bowls of flowers; stands and hanging baskets 
filled with woodsy Ferns; pots of Begonias and 
green-leaved plants; a singing canary or a bowl 
of gold fish. 
Dorothea D. Dun lea, Calif. 
TWO VALUABLE SHRUBS FOR 
CALIFORNIA GARDENS 
A DELIGHTFUL as well as valuable com- 
bination of shrubs for California gardens 
is that of the Spanish Broom (Spartium junceum) 
with its bright yellow, pea-shaped flowers and 
Ceanothus Gloire de Versailles with its clouds of 
soft, gray-blue flowers. Both shrubs come into 
bloom comparatively late in the spring and both 
have a long flowering period. The Broom bursts 
forth late in April; about three or four weeks 
later the blue panicles of the Ceanothus appear. 
For a time they are companions, forming a 
lovely picture, but with the advent of hot weather 
the Broom gradually ceases flowering. Along 
the coast regions, however, it flowers nearly all 
the year. 
In the interior valleys the Ceanothus is par- 
ticularly good as a summer and fall bloomer. It 
seems to have distinct periods of bloom; as fast 
as one set of flowers fades, another set pushes 
out to take its place. On one small bush which 
I have, there were five blossoming periods last 
summer, the last one enduring until November. 
The Broom, with its fragrance, its drought- 
resisting qualities, and its long period of bloom, 
is fairlv well known in California, but the Cean- 
othus is worthy of much more extensive planting 
than it enjoys. It is equally satisfactory winter 
and summer, although its good-sized, evergreen 
leaves will not stand many degrees of frost but 
turn brown and curl. Our native Ceanothus 
thyrsiflorus also is very fine with its small, 
glossy, green leaves and pretty panicles of pale 
blue flowers. 
Leila B. Stapleton, Oroville, California. 
