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TI-IE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
The Home Acre. 
T-TERE’S why the owner 
A A of the biggest barn in 
Minnesota chose Neponset 
Paroid Roofing: 
"Slowly made” roofings are the only kind 
that wear out slowly. You can’t make 
good roofing quickly. Rush the manufac¬ 
ture and you get "patchy,” uncertain 
products. Omit tests and inspections and 
you get roofing products quick to “run” in 
summer—quick to become brittle in winter 
—quick to start a leak—quick to wear out 
altogether. 
Get “Neponset Roofings”—the “slowly 
made’’kind. Nothing skipped. Nothing 
skimped. Every dollar’s cost gives a dol¬ 
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easily lay them. They are the finest kind 
of insurance against repair bills—fire—and 
all roofing troubles. 
Sold by dealers everywhere. Write for 
name of nearest dealer 
Surely send for our Roof Book—Free 
k PAROID ROOFING 
Other Neponset Roofings are—Neponset Shingles for 
residences; Neponset 1’roslate, the colored roofing. 
BIRD & SON (Est. 1795) 
70S tle.Donset St. Ea«t Walpole, Mas*. 
New V >rk Chicago Washington San Francisco 
Canadian Oftice and Plant: Hamilton, OnL 
Also makers of Neponset Wall Board , used in 
place of larks ami plaster , and Neponset 
Waterproof and Building Paper 
A Farmer’s Garden 
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Helps his wife to plan her table in busy times. Saves work | 
and worry, saves buying so much meat, gives better satis* 3 
faction to the help. A good garden will be almost impossi- s 
ble in your busy life without proper tools. They cost little z 
and save much hard work. 2 
IRON AGE 
WHEEL HOES 
AND DRILLS 
Will Sow, cultivate, ridje, furrow, etc., better than you can 
with old-fashioned tools and ten times quicker. A woman, 
boy or girl can do it. Can plant closer and work these hand 
tools while the horses rest. 38 combinations 
from which to choose at $2.50 to $12. One 
No com l ) ‘ nc< l tool will do all of the work. 
Drill . your dealer to show them and 
and write us for booklet. “Gardening 
Wheel Modern Tools” and “Iron ; 
Hoe Age * arm an d Garden News*’ | 
both free. 
SATEMAN 
M’F’OCO. 
Bo* 1022 
Grenloch, N. J. 
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THE BALTIMORE CO., Baltimore. Md. 
GET YOUR MONEY’S WORTH OF 
FARM VALUE 
Send for booklet. “THE PUBLIC BE TOLD.” 
FARMERS’ REALTY CO., Quakertewn, Pa. 
Send for our FA RM CAT¬ 
ALOGUE. 100 VIEWS of 
FRUIT, POULTRY and 
3ENKRAL FARMS in or 
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BEAUTIFYING THE HOME GROUNDS. 
Hardy Flowering Shrubs. 
Part IV. 
The use of ornamental shrubbery in 
the adornment of the home grounds 
could no more be dispensed with than 
grass in the making of the lawn. The 
omission of either would leave the 
grounds with the appearance of being 
unfinished, if not unsightly and repulsive 
to the eye. In the planting of shrub 
beds and borders, careful consideration 
should be given to the height they will 
attain, habit of growth, the color and 
character of foliage, also the color of 
the flowers and the time of blooming. But 
few shrubs are adapted for specimens on 
the lawn, but should be grown in groups 
containing only such varieties as will 
produce a pleasing effect. These effects 
are altogether the result of the habit of 
growth, foliage and flower of the plants 
used. In planting shrubs they should be 
grouped with the idea of producing as 
natural effect as possible. If in the bor¬ 
der, the taller growing sorts should have 
a rear location; if in the beds they 
should occupy the center. These tall ro¬ 
bust sorts will form a background, 
against which the dwarfer growing va¬ 
rieties may be arranged in regular order 
as to their size, until the border is 
reached, the dwarf or decumbent sorts 
occupying the outer spaces, so that when 
they are viewed from any point the eye 
will be carried from the green lawn to 
the highest point in the shrubbery with¬ 
out being offended by the sight of bare 
stalks. 
In the proper arrangement of shrubs 
we not only gain artistic advantages, but 
the practical as well. The first cost is 
practically the only cost, and their in¬ 
creasing size and beauty from year to 
year, return to the owner increased divi¬ 
dends in pleasure that would be difficult 
of computing. Home grounds liberally 
planted to beautiful flowering shrubs, 
usher in the Spring with bursting bloom 
buds, almost before the ground is bare of 
snow, to be followed by others in great 
profusion, as the season advances, reach¬ 
ing the grand climax of beauty in May 
and June, when the lilacs, Deutzias, 
Azaleas, Weigelas, Spiraeas, Philadel¬ 
phia, roses and many others are in the 
full glory of their bloom. Then on into 
the Summer with the ever-changing flor¬ 
al panorama, until the latter part of July 
and early August we are favored with 
another grand display in the blooms of 
the Althaeas with their glorious hibiscus¬ 
like flowers of white, pink, purple, red, 
blue and rose. Hydrangea paniculata 
grandiflora, with its enormous panicles 
of snow white flowers, presents the ap¬ 
pearance of a great snowbank, when a 
number of plants are grouped together, 
which later turn to a delicate pink color, 
remaining until late in the Autumn. 
At the close of the season when the 
days are shortening and the nights grow¬ 
ing longer and cooler, warning all na¬ 
ture to prepare for a season of rest, those 
of us who have enjoyed the beauty of 
the hardy flowering shrubs on our own 
grounds, for the first time, can mentally 
review the delightful changes they pre¬ 
sented to us for our enjoyment the past 
season, and appropriately say, "There 
may be better and more delightful seasons 
in store for me, but no season of the 
past as good to live in as the one just 
closed.” k. 
JACK’S 1914 CATALOGUE 
just off the Press, giving truthful descriptions and 
cuts of 100 fertile farms of ail sizes, near Philadel¬ 
phia. Splendid locations for Dairy, Fruit and Poul¬ 
try. Liberal terms. Information and catalogue free. 
Write today. JACK’S FARM AGENCY, Schwenkville, P». 
FARMS of all Sizes PURPOSES 
Chenpenough. Mildelimate. For information write 
State Beard ef Agriculture, Dover, Delaware 
CERTILE FARMS—near Philadelphia—Mild climate, ex- 
1 cellent markets, catalog VV. M. Stevens, Perkasie, Pa. 
Raising Potted Plants. 
Could I succeed in raising potted 
plants on an east porch sided up with 
glass on the east and partly on the south 
side, the other sides being filled in with 
rest of the building? The place would 
be heated with a stove. g. g. 
Small quantities of pot plants are 
often successfully grown by amateurs 
with apparently uncongenial surround¬ 
ings, but the location suggested does not 
sound at all promising. A porch with 
an opaque roof, house walls on north 
and west, and only the east side entire¬ 
ly glass would be very dark. Some fol¬ 
iage plants succeed in such locations, but 
few flowering specimens, and the un¬ 
equal distribution of light would tend to 
produce one-sided growth. Such a glass- 
enclosed porch would add much to family 
comfort during cold weather, but we 
should not expect it to be a paying invest¬ 
ment as a plant grower. 
April It. 
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