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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
PEONIES 
Two hundred thousand roots in 
three hundred of the finest varie¬ 
ties guaranteed true to name. 
We offer one and two year old 
stock; also extra large four year 
clumps for fall planting. 
SEND FOE CATALOGUE AND ORDER EARLY 
COTTAGE GARDENS CO., Inc. 
- NURSERIES --- 
QU EENS 
N EW YORK 
Cost S 2 . 5 U 0 
THIS IS ONE 
of the 40 beautiful homes, illustrated 
and described in my new book 
“ HOMES OF CHARACTER.” 
with floor plans, exterior views, and 
accurate cost estimates. Sent postpa'd 
for 51 . 00 . Descriptive circular 2 cents. 
JOHN HENRY NEWSON 
1334 Williamson Bldg. Cleveland. Ohio 
H. T. DEMPSTER 
CARRARA, ITALY 
im'Art.V.I Statuary and De corative Marbles 
XOSiZSZ It alian Gardens 
NEW YOWK OFFICE, 39 EAS T FORTY-SECOND ST. 
CARRARA MARBLE 
Smoky Fireplaces 
Made to Draw 
Your particular chimney problem studied by- 
experts, and estimates given without charge. The 
work is undertaken with this understanding: 
We will not accept payment unless successful. 
Kitchen ventilating systems, preventing cooking odors. 
FREDERIC B.WHITLEY^rsr 
215 Fulton Street. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Catalog on Request 
ATLANTIC 
TERRA COTTA 
COMPANY 
Landscape Pottery Dept. 
1170 BROADWAY, N.Y. 
MOLES 
Killed by the 
Brownie Bean 
Send 25 cents for enough licans for small lawn or 
garden, or $1.00 for carton containing over 500 beans. 
BROWNIE CHEMICAL COMPANY, Bound Brook, N. J. 
Hardy Phloxes 
are unsurpassed in the garden. I have one of the 
largest collections of over 250 varieties. Every kind 
in the market. I also have some very fine Iris, Del¬ 
phiniums and Hibiscus. Send for list. 
W.F.SchmeisKe, Binghamton,N.Y. 
THREAD are made seamless, 
, of pure wool or 
and camel’s hair, in any 
THRUM „ 
rugs 16 FEET 
and in any length, color, or com¬ 
bination of colors. 65 regular 
shades—any other shading made 
to match. Send for color card. 
THREAD 
AN D 
THRUM 
RUGS 
"You choose th 
colors, wo’ll mak 
iho rug." 
. Arnold. Constable S Co.. Selling Agents, New York 
° Thread & Thrum Work Shop, Auburn, N.Y. 
LEST YOU FORGET 
f AUGUST is the month you MUST sow 
PANSIES to enjoy their rich and glorious 
bloom in your garden next spring. 
Our ‘‘ROYAL mixture” embraces all 
shades from white to black. We can send 
you all colors, mixed or separate. Large 
packet 10 ets., small packet 5 cts. 
CLUB together and get % oz., which 
will furnish about 20 ten-eent packets, 
and will only cost you $1.00. 
Plant “Roman Hyacinths” in August 
if you wish them in bloom for Thanksgiving; 
1 12 100 
Large bulbs.08 $ '15 $5.00 
EXTRA size buibs. .10 1.15 6.00 
Ready about August 15 th. Price includes delivery. 
DO NOT FAIL to send for our Fall 1911 Catalogue. 
IT IS FREE. Address 
H. H. Berger & Co., 70 Warren St., Hew York 
“WILLOWCRAFT” 
is different from any other willow furniture. There is no “just as good as.” The 
lines are original, cleverly artistic; the material and workmanship insure a life¬ 
time of service and comfort. “Willowcraft” is imitated but never equalled. Look 
for the “Willowcraft” stamp under each piece of the genuine. 
If your dealer doesn’t carry the genuine, send for names of “Willowcraft” 
dealers, illustrated catalogue, and price list. 
THE WILLOWCRAFT SHOPS 
Box C North Cambridge, Mass. 
August, 1911 
filth he could find in stable, sewage or 
swill barrel. 
You don't want that coffee now ! Rather 
an unpleasant thought. 
And is it not more disgusting to have 
these same flies, after their repast of filth, 
drown in the milk pitcher, drop their 
specks on the frosted cake, leave a reek¬ 
ing trail over the bread or wipe their slimy 
feet on the lips of the sleeping baby or 
tne nipple of the nursing bottle? 
Screen the doors and windows of your 
home against the fly, and protect your food 
so he cannot get to it with his filthy, con¬ 
taminating feet. 
Remove, cover or destroy all the gar¬ 
bage and decaying matter about the prem¬ 
ises not less than once a week, so prevent¬ 
ing the maggots of the fly to develop. 
Where there is no dirt or filth there 
will he no flies. That fact is well worth 
remembering — and putting into practice. 
At a little summer resort in the moun¬ 
tains, where—it was closed during the win¬ 
ter — all flies were frozen out during se¬ 
vere weather, it is a fact that there were 
no flies at the opening of the season, and 
not until a few came up with the horses 
that brought the summer parties. Not¬ 
ing this, these few flies were killed and all 
sewage, garbage and refuse was disposed 
of or treated with chemicals to destroy the 
means of breeding, and thereafter that 
place has been absolutely free of flies. 
If you and your neighbors will adopt the 
same methods you may be practically rid 
of them. If your house is not clean a fly 
will know it by the odor; and he can de¬ 
tect an odor of filth for miles. Their dis¬ 
like for clean and pleasing odors is such 
that it will drive them away. 
Should it be impossible to remove or 
destroy garbage and excreta at least once 
a week, then keep the vault, manure heap 
and refuse piles covered with chloride of 
lime or frequently sprinkle with strong 
solutions of lye, blue vitriol or crude car¬ 
bolic acid. 
To kill flies in the house, heat a shovel 
and place thereon 30 drops of carbolic 
acid; the vapor will kill the flies. Or. dis¬ 
solve one dram of bichromate of potash 
to each two ounces of water, add a little 
sugar, place in shallow dishes and dis¬ 
tribute throughout the house. The cheap¬ 
est and surest exterminator, however, is 
prepared by placing a spoonful of formalin 
in a quarter pint of boiling water for each 
room. The fumes will quickly kill all the 
flies therein. 
But first clean up the premises, inside 
and out. Then effectively screen the 
house. There is more health insured by 
a well screened house than by many a doc¬ 
tor’s visit. 
Richard M. Winans 
An Experience in Remodeling 
np HE house with the “Pine Tree” in the 
July number of House & Garden is 
so like one which it became our fortune to 
own and remodel that we venture to tell 
the story of how we met the problem. The 
house when acquired had little to recom- 
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