HOUSE AND GARDEN 
340 
November, 19 ii 
Pompeian Stone offers an inexpensive substitute for Marble 
in the construction of the fireplace and allows of exact reproduc¬ 
tion from Old World masterpieces or carrying out of original 
designs. 
Our large illustrated catalogue N of hall and garden furniture 
mailed on request. 
Our booklet “City Back Yards” will be of interest to city dwellers. 
THE ERKINS STUDIOS, Inc. 
226 Lexington Ave. New York City 
Factory: Astoria, Long Island. 
Interior Decoration 
Interior decorations of all descriptions 
planned and executed. Single rooms 
or whole houses furnished, and wall 
coverings, hangings, rugs, furniture, 
etc., selected to suit any scheme. 
Out of town orders carefully attended to. 
Lamp and candle shades. Stenciling. 
MISS THROOP—MISS VEERHOFF 
37 EAST 60th STREET NEW YORK 
Grow Dwarf 
Apple Trees 
Novel, but practical, and intensely interesting. Require little 
room. Easily cultivated, pruned and sprayed. Bear fruit earlier 
than the standards. Make little shade, permitting other crops 
to be grown between rows. May be trimmed and trained on 
wire to grow in almost any shape. Suburbanites, farmers and 
amateur norticulturalists alike find pleasure and profit growing 
Dwarf Apple Trees. No garden or orchard is now complete 
without several of these wonderfully productive trees. 
VARIETIES: Duchess of Oldenburg, yellow, striped red; 
Winter Maiden’s Blush red cheek; Bismarck, red, beautiful; Red 
Astrachan, crimson. Plant this Fall and gain a season. Prompt 
shipment. Send today for illustrated booklet, free. 
Arthur J. Collins 
Box Y 
Moorestown - N. J. 
A Combination Range 
for Every Purpose 
Good for winter cooking 
with heating; good for 
summer cooking without 
heating—the 
Deane Combination 
Coal and Gas Range 
Two ranges in one. Has 
gridiron broilers, 
and all other up- 
features. Gas and 
n be used at the 
same time when preparing a big 
meal; or separately if desired. 
Don't buy any range before 
calling upon us. 
One of our many 
models now in stock. 
Call or Write for Our 
Catalog of Ranges and 
Butler’s Pantry Plate 
Warmers. 
Bramhall-Deane Company, 
261 W. 36th St., New York City 
Cooking Apparatus of All Kinds. 
A Baker’s Dozen of Old English 
Teapots 
r T'HE old teapots belonging to the Staf- 
fordshire class comprise many col¬ 
ors and designs ; a study of them will show 
thirteen varieties of shapes, handles, 
spouts and knobs. If color photography 
could have been employed to bring before 
the reader these rows of antiques, with 
hues shading from pink to the dark pur¬ 
plish tints of the mulberry; the light blues 
to the depths of the dark, rich blue of the 
Washington's tomb pot; the fine red, blue, 
green and pink floral designs on the back- 
A baker’s dozen of Staffordshire ware show¬ 
ing the different varieties of interesting 
teapots 
grounds of white — it would make him con¬ 
cede the palm for good colors to the Staf¬ 
fordshire potters — Adams, Wood, Mayer, 
Joseph Heath, Wedgwood, Clews (James 
and Ralph), Alcock and many others. 
These were the men who from the latter 
part of the eighteenth almost to the middle 
of the nineteenth century made the beau¬ 
tiful designs which are a lasting joy to the 
cellector. Their sphere of work was in 
the English villages and smaller places of 
Staffordshire — that clay country which has 
been the seat of potteries from earliest 
times — in Fenton, Lane End, Lane Delph, 
Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Cobridge, Burs- 
lem, Tunstall, Longport, Shelton and less 
well-known places, all adjoining, and 
which now make almost a continuous city 
ten miles in length. In recognition of the 
artistic achievements of these renowned 
workers in clay, who would not place their 
names in the Hall of Fame of potters! 
Beginning from left to right in our illus¬ 
tration, on the top shelf of the old cup¬ 
board is a teapot in pink and white floral 
decorations; next comes a prettily shaped 
low one, with red, green and a bit of yel¬ 
low in the floral pattern on a white ground ; 
while the third is of the same white back¬ 
ground with a floral band of pink, blue 
(Continued on page 342) 
Window Shades 
Look Better—Last Longest 
B RENLIN will outwear several 
ordinary shades and will always 
look well. 
Brenlin is supple, not stiff—and 
always hangs 
straight and 
smooth. It 
won’t bag or 
sag — won't 
crack— won't 
fade. 
Look at the 
o r d i n a r y 
shade. It is 
cracked and 
streaked, 
looks u n- 
sightly. This 
is because it 
was “filled” 
with chalk or 
clay to give it 
“body,” and 
the “filling” 
dropped out. 
Then look at 
a Brenlin shade. 
It has no streaks 
—no pinholes. 
Its body is natural; there is no “filling.” 
So there is nothing to make it crack 
or sag. 
Brenlin is made in all colors and in 
Brenlin Duplex, light one side, dark the 
other. The possibilities of color schemes 
with Brenlin are almost unlimited. 
Write today for this book 
and samples in all colors. 
With the help of 
many suggestions in 
the book and sam¬ 
ples, select your 
shades. Then go to 
any good dealer and 
get Brenlin. Find out 
why Brenlin is the 
cheapest shade you 
can put up. 
Chas. W. Breneman & Co. 
2069-2079 Reading Road, Cincinnati, O. 
The name is perforated along the edge of every 
yard like this. BRENLIN^ Look for it. 
HAVE ELECTRICITY IN YOUR COUNTRY HOME 
Install an Alamo-Westinghouao electric lighting set in 
your house. These little plants are safe, durable, eco¬ 
nomical and do not require the services of an engineer. We 
also install Complete Water Systems of all kinds. AH of 
our apparatus is guaranteed. Write for our booklet entitled 
“Electric Light and Power for Country Home and Farm.” 
ALAMO MFG. CO. - Hillsdale, Mich. 
Eastern Representatives, OTIS & WELLS, Electrical 
Engineers, 2 Rector Street, New York City, 
CHAS. PFAU, Bourse Bldg., Philadelphia. 
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