September, 1911 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
197 
Grow 
Chestnuts 
Like This 
For Profit 
Covers a 50c. piece. 
You can get bigger profits per acre 
from Sober Paragon Chestnuts than from any 
other crop. 
Hardy, rapid, symmetrical growth ; luxuri¬ 
ant foliage ; spreading .boughs ; clean trunk ; 
stateliness. 
These qualities combined and developed by 
science to a degree that closely borders perfec¬ 
tion, in the new 
SOBER PARAGON 
Mammoth, Sweet Chestnut 
Crop, Fall of 1910, brought $48,000, orchard 
only 8 years old. 
The only large sweet chestnut in the world. 
Bears the second year. The nuts average 1 to 
2 inches in diameter—and 3 to 5 nuts in a bur. 
United States Pomologist, G. B. Brackett, says 
"The Sober Paragon comes the nearest in quality 
to the native chestnut of any of the cultivated 
varieties that I have examined. It is of large 
size, fine appearance and excellent flavor.” 
Testimony from growers, commission mer¬ 
chants, Forestry Experts, etc., given in our free 
booklet, together with prices and particulars. 
We own exclusive control 
of the Sober Para¬ 
gon. This copy- 
righted metal seal 
’ is attached to every genu¬ 
ine tree when shipped. 
Write today tor tbe booklet. 
OTHER NUT TREES, 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 
Roses, Shrubs, etc.. 
Our 1911 illustrated Catalog and Planting 
* Guide, with prices— Free. 
GLEN BROS.. Glenwood Nursery 
44th Year. 1808 Main Street, ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
SARGENT 
<1 Artistic Hardware and 
Locks for residence or public 
building. Many patterns. 
H m Catalogue on 
ardware Sargents,co. 
Catalogue on request 
142 Leonard St. 
New York 
Preserve your Rugs 
One of the facts that has brought 
BISSELL 
Carpet Sweepers 
A 
into so great favor is the actual saving 
they accomplish, making carpets and 
rugs wear more than twice as long. This 
saving of carpets is easily explained, as 
the rapidly revolving brush searches 
into the piles of the carpet, lifting dust 
and dirt out, depositing it in the pans 
within the sweeper-case. If this dirt and 
sand is allowed to stay in the carpet, or 
is ground down into it by a broom, it 
acts as a grindstone, cutting the fiber of 
the carpet at each move on the carpet. 
Price $2.75 to $5.75. 
BISSELL CARPET SWEEPER CO. 
Dept. 131 Grand Rapids, Mich. 
AN OBJECT LESSON FOR THE MAN WHO BUYS SAPLINGS 
INSTEAD OF HICKS’ BIG TREES 
N TEN or fifteen years the saplings 
in front of the house below will 
possibly be as big as those in the 
illustration above. Perhaps they 
will be shapely sturdy specimens— 
perhaps not. It’s rather of a chance! 
How much more sensible—more economical it 
is to simply come to Hicks’ nursery and pick 
out grown trees that 
are sturdy, well developed, 
beautiful specimens and 
get immediate results and 
get just there suits you 
want with the long wait 
left out. One fine linden 
or maple with an 8 inch 
trunk and 20 feet spread 
of branches would cost 
a little more than those pa¬ 
thetic saplings, but it would at once add at least 
$200 to the property’s value, to say naught of 
the welcome protection it would afford. 
You take no risk in buying Hicks’ big 
trees — for Hicks’ trees thrive. Now is the 
time to move evergreens; and from next 
month on, Maples, Lindens, Catalpa and 
Pin Oaks. Come to our nursery and pick out 
your trees. 
If you can’t, then send for 
our catalog. It’s an easy 
matter to order from it. 
Pines and evergreens can 
be moved now. Maples, 
Lindens, and the like, from 
October on. But now is 
the time to arrange for it. 
Do not wait till Spring — 
that’s a mistake. 
L . I . 
Gold Medal Paeonies 
O N June 10 th the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society awarded me a gold medal for excel¬ 
lence of cultivation and correct nomen¬ 
clature in present and past exhibitions. No one 
can get a higher award, 
All the choice varieties in the world, and cor¬ 
rectly named. * LISTS FREE. 
E. J. SHAYLOR 
Wellesley Farms, Massachusetts 
THREAD are made seam- 
a less, of pure wool 
ana or camel's hair, 
THRUM in any width up to 
RUGS 16 FEE! 
and in any length, color or combin¬ 
ation of colors. 65 regular shades 
— any other shading madeto match. 
Send for color card and 
name of nearest dealer. 
"You choose Thread & Thrum Work Shop 
the color*, wo’ll Auburn, N. Y. 
make the rug.*' 
New Roses Originated by Jackson Dawson 
Lady Duncan, Dawson, Daybreak, Farquhar, 
William Egan and Minnie Dawson 
WRITE FOR PRICES 
Eastern Nurseries 
Henry S. Dawson, Mgr. 
1090 CENTRE STREET 
Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
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