HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1911 
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Decorating 
Furnishing 
Talk with me. Costs nothing. May in¬ 
terest and help you. Put your ideas with 
mine; then alterations, decorations, etc., be¬ 
come beautiful and satisfactory. Personal su¬ 
pervision, town or country anywhere. Artistic 
results certain. 
Write or ’phone me. 
H. P. FREAR 
18 W. 34th St., Astor Ct., N. Y., Tel. 4548 Murray Hill 
Johnson’s 
Wood Dye 
is made 
No. 126 
No. 123 
No. 125 
No. 140 
No. 110 
No. 128 
No. 129 
No. 130 
in fifteen artistic 
Light Oak 
Dark Oak 
Mission Oak 
Early English 
Bog Oak 
Light Mahogany . 
Dark Mahogany 
Weathered Oak 
shades', as follows: — 
No'. 131 Brown 
Weathered Oak 
Nb. 1 32 Green 
Weathered Oak 
No. 121 Moss Green 
No. 1 22 Forest Green 
No. 172 Flemish Oak 
No. 178 Broivn 
Flemish Oak 
No. 120 Fumed Oak 
Johnson’s Wood Dye is 
endorsed by architects, 
contractors, painters 
and home owners 
everywhere. We will 
gladly mail you 
600 k and Wood 
Panels FREE 
Tell us the kind of woods 
you plan to use and we 
will mail you panels of 
those woods artistically fin¬ 
ished—also ask for booklet 
H G 10 “Specifications and 
Instructions For Finishing 
New Woodwork and Floors' 
all free and postpaid. Write 
for them today. Address. 
S. C. Johnson & Son 
"The Wood Finishing 
Authorities” 
Racine, Wisconsin 
you Building? 
Bear in mind that it is the manner in 
which your woodwork is finished more than 
the quality of the wood itself that gives 
you artistic interiors. Johnson’s Wood Dye 
makes inexpensive soft woods such as Cy¬ 
press, Red Gum, and others, just 2.3 artistic 
and beautiful as expensive hard woods. 
HOWARD 
Dustless 
Duster 
(25 Cents Prepaid) 
Makes possible 
a dustless home. 
Write for our 
Dust Book “A” 
and small free 
sample. 
It will show you how 
to make dusting a 
pleasure, how to dry 
clean a silk skirt in 
five minutes, how to 
clean windows in a "No Oil to Soil 
twinkling, to polish pianos and highly finished 
furniture, to make cut glass sparkle like dia¬ 
monds, to make an old derby look like new. 
Money hack if not satisfactory 
HOWARD DUSTLESS DUSTER CO. 
164=43 Federal Street, Boston, Mass. 
HOWARD 
ANDIRONS FOR EVERY 
ENVIRONMENT 
Your home should have an atmosphere of comfort 
and refinement. A cheerful fireplace with proper ac¬ 
cessories will do more to give a room character than 
anything else. 
Graf Fireplace Fixture* give a fireplace interest. They 
are made in a wide variety. 
Be the prevailing note of your room Colonial, 
Dutch, French, Mission, or of any other type or 
period, we can supply the proper fixtures. 
Write for our illustrated booklet “Fireplace Fix¬ 
tures.” It shows Andirons, fenders, seat fenders, 
smokeless gas logs, wood boxes, etc. 
Write us NOW. Our book ’‘Fireplace Fixtures” is FREE. 
FRANK H. GRAF MANUFACTURING CO. 
323 Seventh Ave. New York City 
POT GROWN 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
planted now will give a full crop of luscious fruit the 
coming spring. October and November are ideal 
months for the growing of plants. Ten best kinds, 
early, medium, late, the best for most localities; per 
dozen, 50 cents; per 100, $3.00. 
GERMAIN IRIS 
A collection of 24 kinds, every one the-best in its 
color; selected from a large list through 25 years of 
experience; per dozen, $1.50; per 100, $8.00. 
J. L. SCHILLER TOLEDO, O. 
A Furnace Only 51 Inches High 
With more heating surface and capacity than ordinary furnaces of larger 
size, making it possible to get a rise in heat conducting pipes that .is so de¬ 
sirable and necessary. This principle is well recognized, but its application 
is new because the INTENSE is the latest scientific furnace put on the market. 
INTENSE FURNACE 
“ Distributed Draft—Pure, Dustless Air ” 
Its distributed draft and patented check damper insures great fuel economy. 
The surfaces are self-cleaning; no dust or soot can accumulate or get into liv¬ 
ing rooms. It has vast radiating surface; a simple hot water attachment; a 
knocked down square jacket and other features your furnace man will recog¬ 
nize. Note portable ash pan—a great convenience. Two sizes for ordinary re¬ 
quirements. Arranged in batteries for larger buildings. ASK why this is 
done. Send us Architect's and Dealer’s name and ask for booklet and full 
particulars. We will send free a “Physician’s Treatise on Warm Air Heat¬ 
ing and Ventilation.” 
THE G. J. EMENY CO. 51 Hubbard Street, Fulton, N. Y. 
the perfect form and greater size of Maas, 
Sir Thomas Lipton, or the very newest 
Brilliant Star. LTmmaculee appears quite 
outclassed by the White Joost van Vondel 
or White Hawk. Golden Queen causes 
such a good oldtimer as the yellow Chry- 
solora to be utterly scorned, and Cottage 
Maid seems to be remembered only by the 
beauty the faded spinster had in her early 
teens, and the praise once lavished on her 
is now shared by Le Matclas, Pink Beau¬ 
ty and the delicate Queen of the Nether¬ 
lands. Everyone of these newer varieties 
is well worth trying out with an idea to 
choosing varieties to take the place of 
these outworn sorts. When our own tastes 
are suited and we have found the best 
kinds for our purpose, we are more willing 
to give the dealers the dollars they are 
worth. 
Hyacinths, daffodils and crocuses ought 
to be planted as soon as received, the 
daffodils being especially impatient of 
rest. The tulips Should go into the 
ground at about the time that the leaves 
of the deciduous trees begin to fall. I 
have found that early planting of tulips is 
often inadvisable when a cold spring fol¬ 
lows, for the bulbs have started growth so 
promptly that they are nipped by frosts. 
If it is impossible to plant at the proper 
time, spread out hyacinths and narcissi in 
a cool, dry cellar, and keep the crocuses 
and tulips in the bags in which they are 
packed. 
The bulbs of hyacinths and tulips should 
be planted six inches apart each way, and 
the daffodils from four to seven inches 
according to the size of the bulbs. In 
planting crocuses, scillas, Spanish irises 
and other small bulbs, the distance apart 
is not of such great importance. An 
effective way to space them is to take a 
handful from the bag and drop them 
where desired, planting the bulbs as they 
then are. A natural grouping is the re¬ 
sult of such a method, particularly when 
the bulbs are used for naturalizing. 
Tulips should be set five or six inches 
deep, measuring to the base of the bulb; 
the greater depth is best for all the late 
kinds. Hyacinths do best at a depth of 
about six inches. Since the bulbs of Nar¬ 
cissi vary greatly in size, they may be 
planted at a depth equal to two and one- 
half times the length of of the bulb, meas¬ 
ured from its base to the neck, just where 
' it begins to swell out into its rounding 
shape. All plants with small bulbs should 
be covered with three or four inches of 
soil. In very heaVy soils an inch may 
well be taken from these figures. 
A covering of some kind is advisable for 
all bulbs, not so much to keep out the cold 
as to protect them from the alternate 
freezing and thawing, which tears the 
roots and frequently lifts the bulbs quite 
out of the ground. For this purpose noth¬ 
ing is better than a mulch of some four 
inches of leaves, put on as soon as a thin 
frozen crust has formed over the beds or 
borders. This cover must be removed 
promptly at the approach of milder 
weather in March. 
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