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December. 1911 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Moving a Big Pine on the estate of the late William C. Whitney . Tree on rollers moved by rope and 
tackle blocks 
A Novel Winter Tree Planting Suggestion 
Right around your place within a radius of say 10 miles, 
haven’t you seen Pines, Cedars and various wild trees that 
you wished were on your grounds ? Can you buy them ? 
Then why don’t you, and we will move them for you now in 
the midst of winter. 
Do it with our special tree moving apparatus and the as¬ 
sistance of your team, or one we will hire from a local man. 
may contain millions of living tubercle 
germs. Young children fed on such milk 
often contract the disease, and it is a fre¬ 
quent cause of death among them. 
"Meat from tuberculous cattle is not so 
likely to convey the infection, for several 
reasons. It does not so frequently contain 
the germs; cooking destroys those that 
may be present, and, lastly, meat is not 
consumed by very young children.” 
As to the spread of the disease, the bul¬ 
letin says: “Sooner or later the tubercu¬ 
lous cow begins to give off the germs of 
the disease. The germs escape by the 
mouth and nose, the bowels, in the milk, 
and in discharges from the genital organs. 
When the germs are being given off in 
any of these ways, the disease is known as 
open tuberculosis.” 
The bulletin concludes with: “Dark, 
dirty, crowded stables are favorable to 
tuberculosis. Under these conditions the 
disease spreads rapidly and is only kept 
out with difficulty. 
“Clean, airy, well-lighted stables, on the 
other hand, are unfavorable to the devel¬ 
opment of the disease. If brought into 
such a stable it does not spread so rapidly 
and is not so difficult to get rid of as in 
the first case. 
“A well-built, sanitary stable need not 
be made of expensive material or of elab¬ 
orate design, but should have plenty of 
light, air, and drainage. 
“Light is very important. Direct sun¬ 
light is a great destroyer of germ life. 
Tubercle bacilli soon die if exposed to 
sunlight. It is a disinfectant, always 
ready to work without cost.” 
Naming the Country Home 
HE return to nature has been the so¬ 
cial phenomenon of the last decade. 
Our grandfathers — or our grand¬ 
mothers, rather—herded in great hotels, 
at Long Branch or Saratoga; our fathers 
“took trips” to Florida, or the Pacific 
Coast; but we, of this generation, are not 
content merely to visit the country, we 
want to own a bit of it. We covet a 
place where we may build a bungalow, 
or moor a houseboat, or, at least, pitch 
a tent; a place that we may call our own, 
and this very calling necessitates a name. 
So, when once the spot is selected and 
the tabernacle rests, the question is “What 
shall we name the summer home?” 
Simple as the question sounds, it is, by 
no means, easy to answer. There are, it 
is true, hundreds of names to select from, 
but to find the one, attractive, euphonious, 
unhackneyed and, above all, suitable, is 
becoming more and more difficult. 
In Adam’s diary—that interesting docu¬ 
ment that Mr. Mark Twain has saved to 
us from oblivion — Adam tells how Eve 
went about naming all the creatures in 
the garden from their “looks.” She called 
the dodo, a “dodo” because it looked like 
a dodo. This intuitive method is really 
the one that should be applied in naming 
Don't think because your walks are 
frozen hard that the ground under the 
trees is. We work all winter among 
the trees in our nursery, and what we 
can do there we can do for you — and 
do it economically. 
Of course, if you prefer to have us 
send your trees from our nursery— 
fine, sturdy, root-pruned trees — we 
will gladly do that. But in either case, 
now is the time to plant big ever¬ 
greens, 6 to 40 feet high. Don’t put 
it off till spring, for the chances are 
the spring rush will make you put it 
off till fall — and then put off till spring 
and so on. Get it done, and have us 
do it for you. Send for our catalog — 
Winter Evergreen Moving—if you 
can't come and talk it over with us at 
our Westbury nursery. We are only 
40 minutes’ train ride from New York, 
or it’s a beautiful motor ride, and we 
are right on the Jericho Turnpike. 
Son* Westbury, L. I. 
FINEST NEW DAHLIAS 
direct from Holland 
Last Spring we sold a large quantity of the lates ^ 
dahlia creations to American flower lovers. ' N 
addition we brought over a quantity of the leadinn J v—’ 
new varieties and planted them in our owng ^ " 
grounds, outside Philadelphia, acclimating 
them to soil and climate. Among the varieties 
are the following Wonderful New Dahlias intro¬ 
duced by us. 
The new decorative Dahlia PRINCESS JULI4NA 
received an award of merit, R. H. S., London, 
1910 and a first-class certificate, Amsterdam, 
1909. The finest decorative dahlia ever in¬ 
troduced S1.50 each. 
Our New Dwarf Paeony Dahlias. The ideal bed¬ 
ding plant, 20 inches high, literally covered 
with Paeony Dahlias of the finest sorts for 
cutting purposes. 60c. each, $5.00 per dozen. _ - ,, _ , „ 
Dwarf Mlgnon Dahlias. A new strain of very “I KlNlESS >il LIANA 
dwarf habit ,'15 inches high); producing a profusion of single flowers, from 
June until frost. Received five first-class certificates and five awards of 
merit at Amsterdam. 75c. each, S3.50 for six. 
Send for a copy of our Dahlia leaflet. Order early, for Spring delivery, 
before acclimated stock is exhausted. 
Gt. van Waveren and Kruijff, 
American Branch House, 142 North 1 3th St. Louis Berger, Mgr. 
Philadelphia, Pa., U. $. A. 
Home Offices and Nurseries: Sassenheim, (Haarlem,) Holland, Other 
Branches; Moscow, Russia; Leipsic, Germany: Buenos Ayres, 
Argentine Republic: London, Englatid; Guteburg, Sweden. 
Baskets 
Make Ideal Christ¬ 
mas Gifts. Write 
for Catalogue. 
Burlington Willow Ware Shops 
207 Washington St. Burlington, Iowa 
THORBURN'S BULBS 
Largest and Finest assortment of high grade bulbs and 
roots in America. — Send for catalogue — mailed free. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO., 33 Barclay St., New York 
RATS 
Send for particulars. I tube 75c., 
3 tubes $ 1.75, per dozen $6.00, 
Independent Chemical Company, 
Killed by Science 
I DANYSZ 
VIRUS 
72 Front St., New York 
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