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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, 1911 
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Tiled floors and walls 
in the kitchen 
That cool, clean, inviting effect 
noticed so much in the kitchens of 
Europe, is due to the plentiful use 
of tile. Tile practically lasts forever, 
Interior Decorations 
HE furnishing of a house should 
be as carefully planned as the 
house itself. 
Wall coverings, hangings, rugs, furni¬ 
ture, etc., selected to form an har¬ 
monious color scheme for either the 
whole house or single rooms. 
LAMP AND CANDLE SHADES 
Out of town orders attended 
to carefully and promptly. 
Miss Throop& Miss Veerhoff 
37 East 60th Street, New York 
their efforts are often misdirected, for he 
who knows little of gardening is unlikely 
to be able to economize with good effect. 
The usual mistake is to seek to effect a con¬ 
siderable saving in the cost of labor. But 
by doing this the garden is sure to get out 
of hand, and above all things it is fatal to 
try to save by employing cheap incompe¬ 
tent men. W. R. G. 
California Notes 
N February sixth I found the purple- 
crimson tips of our very earliest 
Clematis, the “Scarlet Trumpet,” C. San¬ 
guined or C. Coccinea Sanguined, just 
peeping out of the ground. The old vine 
dies back to the ground each year, but the 
strong young shoots grow rapidly, and be¬ 
fore they have attained a height of three 
feet the buds appear at the leaf axils, and 
while the vine climbs steadily skyward the 
buds grow brighter and more showy. 
The small coral blossoms never open out 
flat like other Clematis, but retain the 
flagon shape of the bud, only opening at 
the tip, absolutely unlike any other Cle¬ 
matis I have seen, dainty, fairy, attractive 
bits of scarlet coral, standing up stiff on 
woody stems and holding much of honey 
in their depths. The humming-birds visit 
them the first thing every morning and 
many times through the day, making the 
delicate drapery of vine over my bedroom 
window a constant delight. 
The vine never grows heavy or thick, 
being a delicate ornament rather than a 
shade. The seed clusters are as ornamen¬ 
tal as the flowers, of soft, pale green, and 
most curiously twisted and curved. It 
grows readily from seed, but the seedlings 
are slow of growth, when two years old 
only attaining a growth of about twelve 
inches. 
The mountain clematis, C. Montana, is 
the second one to bloom here. While I 
find it, and the later and more showy ones, 
very attractive, still nothing is more charm¬ 
ing than the Sanguinea, blooming as it does 
from earliest springtime until fall, all sum¬ 
mer long withstanding the hottest sunshine, 
still growing and blooming and displaying 
Lillie F. Shaw 
The Sprouting Stage 
T FTAVE found the sprouting stage of 
my plantings accompanied with the 
greatest dangers to the little seedlings. 
Last year, in order to have them more fully 
under my care, I planted corn and lima 
beans in small boxes of damp sand; when 
they had come up and seemed sufficiently 
hardy I put them out in the ground and 
discovered that such fostering seemed to 
make them immune from the rot and other 
enemies that blast the life of so many baby 
plants in the raw chill of early spring. 
A. W. D. 
is absolutely sanitary and lends itself 
to the most inviting color schemes. 
Americans do not use it because 
they have a false idea of its cost. 
Our booklet, “Tiles for the Kitchen and Laundry,” 
corrects this false idea and tells some wonderfully 
interesting things about tile for both sanitary and 
decorative purposes. We have three other booklets, 
“Tile for the Bathroom,” “Tiles for Fireplaces,” 
“Tiles on the Porch Floor,” which we send free 
to home builders. You would do well to read 
them before perfecting your plans. 
The Associated Tile Manufacturers 
Room 2, Reeves Building, Beaver Falls, Pa. 
RARE AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 
We can supply everything for 
the Greenhouse as well as deco¬ 
rative trees and plants. 
It will pay you to 
'visit our nurseries 
or send for descriptive cat¬ 
alogue which is sent Free. 
COMPETENT GARDENERS 
and ASSISTANTS 
Any lady or gentleman requiring 
their services can have them by 
applying to us. No fees. Please 
Alocasia Zebrina give particulars regarding place. 
Julius Roehrs Co. s Rutherford, N. J. 
INTERLOCKING MBERTIUNG. 
IT IS THE BEST FLOOR MADE 
FOR CHURCHES, SCHOOLS. BANKS. PUBLIC BUILDINGS,' 
THEATRES AND PRIVATE RESIDENCES, BEING SANITARY 
NQN-SLIPPERY SOFT AND COMFORTABLE TO THE TREAD. 
BEAUTIFUL IN COLORS AND DESIGNS AND DURABLE. 
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