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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1911 
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Flints Fine Furniture 
Making a New Home 
Out of the Old 
A little money judiciously expended at 
Flint s ’ will accomplish much in the refurnish¬ 
ing of a new home of artistic character from an 
old one furnished m mediocre taste. 
Those whose plans must be governed largely 
by cost will find in our exhibit of new patterns 
for Fall, inexpensive designs which afford the 
broadest opportunity for individual taste in 
selection and values which must leave undis¬ 
puted the fact that Flint Prices are uniformly 
LOW. 
Our TRADEMARK 1 and SEVENTY 
YEARS’ REPUTATION is 
your GUARANTEE 
Geo. C. Flint Co. 
43-47 West 23- St 
84-28 West 24- St. 
SO S1MPLU A C'HI I.L) CAN OPKKA1E IT 
CO ADD ROTARY ASH 
Oil A IVI RECEIVING SYSTEM 
Do away with unsightly ash barrels—the inconvenience 
and drudgery of ash disposal. No piling of ashes on the 
cellar floor—no furnace dust in your living rooms. Ashes 
and waste matter held in removable, strong, iron cans 
that revolve in cement-lined vault. Save cost and nuisance 
of an outside garbage disposal, especially in winter. Per¬ 
fectly sanitary. No chance for flies or vermin. Odors 
and gases go through fire and are burned or escape up 
the chimney. 
EASY TO MOVE 6 to 10 WEEKS ASHES IN PORTABLE CANS 
The Sharp Rotary Ash Receiving System can be installed 
building, old or now, under any style of House-Heating Fu 
Boiler, before or after it is in operation. Ashes 
fall directly into strong iron cans that revolve 
easily as filled. 
Endorsed by Health Officers, Architects and 
Heating Contractors. Worth while to investi¬ 
gate before you complete your building plans. 
Write Today for illustrated catalog 
of practical demonstrations and 
testimonials. Dealers* and Archi¬ 
tects* names appreciated. 
W. M. SHARP COMPANY a S ds 6 r &“aT ek of 
2 17 Park Ave. Binghamton, N. Y. which is no effort. 
Possess a Periect Lawn 
Old England’s historic estates are carpeted 
with the most beautiful stretches of Lawn. 
Through centuries of careful study and trial, 
coarse undesirable grasses have been sup¬ 
planted by a uniform durable species, almost 
the texture of velvet. 
Let English Lawns Surround Your 
Own Home 
Barwell’s Imported English Lawn Grass 
Seed Mixture comes across the Atlantic in 
large quantities every season. It is literally 
the finest, straight from its “Native Heath.” 
It is thoroughly hardy and grows luxuriantly 
in sun or shade. 
Directions and information for seeding and 
making a perfect Lawn, free on application. 
Just mail us the measurement of your lawn 
space describing its soil and situation. 
Barwell’s Agricultural Works 
WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS 
Established at Leicester, England, in 1800 
riched very liberally with both the manure 
and the bone and potash mixture. If this 
treatment does not restore them to vigor it 
may be necessary to cut them back entirely 
and develop a new bush from the sucker 
growth which the roots will send up. In 
this case let two or three of the strongest 
and best grow, cutting away all others. 
Division of a shrub at its roots may be 
the only resort when frequent cutting back 
has made of those roots a tangled, choked 
and wide-spreading mass. Shrubbery that 
has been mowed over by some ruthless 
wielder of a scythe who has regarded it as 
“wu’thless” is an example. It will often 
send up shoots over an area half a dozen 
times as broad as even a huge specimen of 
the variety could possibly cover. To reduce 
such a growth to a “shrub” is something 
of a task, and only the actual taking away 
of a large part of the overgrown root will 
accomplish it. 
The main roots are not taken from the 
ground, however, but deep digging all 
around uncovers the portions which are to 
be amputated, while the main mass remains 
undisturbed. With the roots uncovered by 
such excavating, remove those which have 
formed clumps apart from the main mass 
and thus reduce the unruly spread below 
ground. Cut them off sharply with the 
spade and trim the stumps with a sharp 
knife so that there are no ragged edges to 
invite fungous and disease. Mix fertilizer 
with the earth before restoring it to the 
hole. The tops will consist entirely of the 
sprout or sucker growth probably — and a 
considerable interval must elapse before a 
real shrub can be evolved. But a season 
or two of good care, with right priming, 
which will throw all the energies of growth 
into the selected and strongest two or 
three sprouts, and with just enough head¬ 
ing in to induce lateral branching and pre¬ 
vent lanky growth, will bring surprising 
results from even this unpromising mate¬ 
rial. 
After a shrub is once reformed and re¬ 
habilitated, stop pruning it. Be liberal with 
fertilizer for three or four seasons and 
keep the inside branches (those that tend 
to develop toward the center) pinched out 
of existence the moment they start little 
green points along the bark of the old 
branches. There will be no need for prun¬ 
ing if this is done, and all the strength of 
the plant will be conserved. When this is 
the case its age becomes a factor in its 
favor rather than against it. Every bit of 
energy should be conserved, however, es¬ 
pecially with old plants which have lived 
under disadvantages for years; they par¬ 
ticularly need it. 
Keep the ground around each shrub 
that is being renovated perfectly clean for 
at least a year. Do not allow even grass to 
grow up "to its base — and till the soil just 
as it is tilled in a vegetable garden, thus 
retaining all the moisture for the plant’s 
benefit. 
Old shrubs may usually be transplanted 
with success when they stand in the way 
of alterations or of new developments in 
the outside arrangement of an old place, 
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