130 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1911 
DURABLE AND ARTISTIC ROOFING 
Meurer’s Metal, Spanish 
and Mission Tiles 
The Ideal Roof Covering 
made in tin, galvanized and copper 
MEURER BROTHERS CO. 
Residence of W. T. Phillips, San Mateo, Cal. 
Covered with Meurer’s Metal Tile 
MANUFACTURERS 
575 Flushing Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
WORKS, Washington, Penn. 
130 East 120th St., New York City 
Pergolas 
Ready To Set Up 
NOTHING 
so helps the 
appearance of a 
garden, or gives 
thedesired char¬ 
acter to a house 
like a well de¬ 
signed pergola. 
We ship them 
in crated sec¬ 
tions with sim¬ 
ple instructions 
that will enable 
anyone handy with tools to assemble them 
quickly and easily. Planned by an experienced 
architect, they are of absolutely correct design 
and attractive appearance. Price, $40.00 up. 
Our catalog also shows gateways, boundary 
markers, posts, etc. Send for it today. 
One of our Pergolas as erected 
The Pergola Company 
923 Association Building, Chicago 
MOW YOUR HEDGE 
IN y 5 THE TIME 
Cutting it takes too 
long. You can mow a 
13-inch swath, easily, 
quickly, with 
The UNIQUE 
HEDGE TRIMMER 
Every movement counts! 
Hedge contractors can 
quadruple their wages 
and profits. Workman¬ 
ship and material in¬ 
definitely guaranteed. 
Sent prepaid etc 00 
on receipt of - 
If not satisfactory after one week's trial, can be re¬ 
turned. Write for booklet. 
Fountain Cutlery Co., P ^ d F j££l s k. 
Refer to any bank in Philadelphia. 
SAVE 
YOUR 
They are too precious to lose. Get expert surgeons 
to examine tlv m and advise you as to what »hev need. 
A void iree fakers and *ree butchers. Our free booklets 
explain tree surgery, the science founded by John Davey. 
TDriTQ Write for them. 
I iaLILO The Davey Tree Expert Co., Inc.. 458 «corn St., Kent, Ohio 
One of our many 
models now in 
stock. 
Call or Write for 
Our Catalog and 
Full Information 
on Kitchen Equip¬ 
ment. 
A Combination Range 
for Every Purpuse 
Good for winter cooking with 
heating; good for summer cook¬ 
ing without heating—the 
Deane Combination 
• oal and Gas Range 
Two ranges in one. Has ovens, 
gridiron broilers, toasters and 
ail other up-to-date features. 
Gas and coal can be used at 
the same time when preparing a 
big meal; or separately as desired. 
Don’t buy any range before 
calling upon us. 
Hramball-Deaae Company, 
2G1 W, 3«th St„ New York City 
Cooking Apparatus of All Kinds 
A Reasonable Suggestion 
Why Not Buy Direct fr< m the Manufacturers? 
$ 4 . 
THE 
NORFOLK 
CHAIR 
(without cushion) 
With Arm Rest 
and Magazine 
Pocket. 
Size of Seat. 20 in. x 
20 in. Height of 
Back, 34 in. 
(Shipped on receipt of Money Order or N. Y. Draft) 
MINNET&CO. , Manufacturers of Willow Furniture 
Established 1898 
365 Lexington Ave. (bet. 40th and 41st Sts.) 
NEW YORK 
Richard M. Archer, Mgr. Factory, Carlstadt, N.J. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE SENT ON REQUEST 
Garden Furniture 
T^EAUTIFUL reproductions of famous 
models from the gardens of Italy. 
VVTE have no competition in the quality 
vv of our work in composition stone. 
VISIT to our studio will prove well worth 
your time. 
QUR catalogue L containing more than 800 
illustrations of Benches, Sundials, Statu¬ 
ary, Pedestals, Mantels, Vases and Fountains 
mailed upon request. 
THE ERKINS STUDIOS 
in Marble, Stone 
and Pompeiian Stone 
A 
226 Lexington Ave, 
New York 
/ Astoria, L. I 
Far tones j tararra, Italy 
ber vines up an unsightly trellis and has 
raised all the green cucumbers she wanted 
to use. 
So don't be discouraged at your sur¬ 
roundings. If a tiny bit of soil is to be had, 
you can raise a few green vegetables. 
Where there is a will you can “wiggle out 
a way.’’ 
Establishing Summer Ferns Indoors 
(Continued from page hi) 
up in the dewy air but taken in before the 
sun strikes them in the morning. 
In filling large jars and boxes it is often 
necessary to combine several plants of the 
favored variety intermedium or other 
species, but fronds from several crowns 
rarely have the desired pose unassisted; 
this may he deftly done with heavy wire 
hairpins at the base of the stalk or else 
supported by branching twigs of the pussy 
willow; the soft gray catkins and richly 
colored bark of the varying species of wil¬ 
low are highly efifective among the fern 
fronds, quite worth while for their beauty 
alone. Ferns of lesser growth which 
droop over and down are always attract¬ 
ive and often give the needed finishing 
touch. 
The most attractive indoor window box 
that I ever saw was made an inch or so 
wider than the low sill on which it rested; 
it was of galvanized iron and hark covered. 
Two magnificent ostrich ferns reached 
almost to the top and nearly filled the win¬ 
dow ; they were carefully cut out to fit the 
width of the box after they were perhaps 
eighteen inches high — as the roots were 
undisturbed the growth preceded upward 
for lack of space to expand in the outdoor 
vase-like way. To prevent breakage be¬ 
cause of certain inevitable spreading of 
fronds, cramped only on the window side, 
a ribbon guard was tied to brackets half 
way up on either side. Maidenhair, blad¬ 
der and Christmas ferns with the delicate 
bishop’s cap and foam flower filled the re¬ 
maining space in the box. Pussy willows 
were also on duty for gathering in stray¬ 
ing fronds. Nothing in the world of plants 
so transforms the plainest of rooms or 
hides as an intelligent and artistic use of 
native ferns. 
For the smaller ferns, especially for 
table or for use in the endless niches in any 
home that needs the touch of a wild flower 
or fern, glass dishes are preferable to all 
others — the plainer they are the better; if 
lined with a sheet of moss over an inch of 
pebbles an artistic effect is obtained. The 
moss keeps the soil from working down 
and the pebbles quickly show an over¬ 
supply of water which can be drained out. 
The lining moss should be large enough to 
turn over the top and be pinned down 
with invisible hairpins ; this prevents too 
rapid evaporation and makes an attractive 
finish. An eight-inch glass can quite easily 
carry a tall maidenhair as centerpiece with 
Cystopteris bulbifera, small Chrstmas and 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
