August, iqii 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
12 7 
It 
Can’t 
Be 
Heard 
It is imposible to hear the flush¬ 
ing of a 
SIWELCLO 
Noiseless Syphon Jet 
CLOSET 
outside of its immediate environment 
If you insist that your plumber install 
a Siwelclo you w 11 be for ever 
free from the embarrassing 
nuisance of the old-style noisy 
Look for this , 
Trade Mark ClOset. 
May we send you Booklet 981 T, giving 
full information? 
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Trenton, N. J., U. S. A. 
The Largest Manufacturers of Sanitary Pottery in U. S. 
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Easy to sweep into 
method to keep your water supply safe from 
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C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr, 
20 Farrar Street, Lynn, Mass. 
L Camp Necessity 
their share of attention. The wood road 
winding through thirty acres, up hill and 
down, had become the exercise ground for 
the hill colony. It is understood among 
our friends that no ferns or flowers grow¬ 
ing within sight of the road shall be picked, 
and all our efforts have been to make the 
roadside attractive. The first year I 
studied its natural advantages. The upper 
road, where the extended view is to be 
had, is too high and dry to harbor spring 
flowers, with the exception of the colum¬ 
bine which grows there in quantities, so 
seeds of wild aster and goldenrod were 
scattered along the paths. On part of the 
steep hillside below the path, masses of 
white boneset flourished; this blooms in 
September. As the road winds down the 
hill it comes to “hepatica land.” Here 
anemonies, hepaticas and many varieties 
of violets and ferns are growing. 
The smell of rich brown leaf mold in 
early spring is full of promise. It has 
tempted us to make the woods an experi¬ 
mental station where every seed and plant 
that can be spared from the town garden 
is tucked in hopes that it may naturalize. 
I have discovered that almost any spring 
flowering plant will thrive in the woods. 
Mid-summer garden plants often find the 
woods too shady after the leaves are 
out, but clematis likes it, and pansies 
will self-sow. The California bulbs that 
can be purchased at moderate cost are a 
novelty in our eastern woodland, and most 
attractive. California adder’s tongue, 
dog's-tooth violets ( erythroniums ) grow 
nearly a foot high, with several flowers on 
a stalk. The different varieties are white, 
pink, purple and yellow. They will grow 
in any spot where our native varieties 
grow. The brodiae Candida, a charming 
light-blue flower has done so well in the 
wild that I am tempted to try every other 
early California bulb. Nemophila macula - 
ta, a small creeping plant with white 
spotted flowers, and the orange-colored 
California poppies are two annuals that 
self-sow each year and bloom for a good 
part of the summer. Many of our own 
spring flowering bulbs like the woods. 
Crocus and squills will do well, I believe, 
in any place where hepaticas grow. I have 
grown them both from seed in the woods. 
It takes three years to mature a flowering 
bulb from seed. A quantity of immature 
bulbs of poet narcissus were moved from 
the garden to the woods and have grown 
and flowered there. Indeed, whenever a 
bulb blossoms and matures seed in the 
town garden, I sow the seed in the woods. 
In this way time will make the wood road 
a joy to those who travel it. 
The Four Best Evergreens 
(Continued from page 107) 
parent because pines generally are charac¬ 
terized by stiffness and rigidity. One spe¬ 
cial merit of the white pine is that it can 
be established and will grow healthily and 
JSk, 
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On Your House 
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Joints are leak tight and stay tight. 
Made for all styles of roofs, no 
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These gutters are the same kind 
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over a hundred years. To show 
you their exact size, shape and 
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moulded face and half round gut¬ 
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complete information. 
Write for these samples and circu¬ 
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This is the moulded face style. It is made in 
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