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House'- & 
Wagner s New 
Free Catalog 
No. 121 
tells how, when and 
what to plant. You 
are sure of garden 
beauty when you 
follow the simple 
directions. Lists 
roses, bulbs, hardy 
perennials, shrubs, 
vines, evergreens, 
hedges and orna¬ 
mental trees. 
Every lover of 
flowers should have 
it. Write now. 
’^GNER 
Flowers 
are vigorous, certain, full blooming 
—they never disappoint you. 
There is available an excep¬ 
tional variety of hardy plants, 
roses and bedding plants that will 
bloom the same season they are 
planted. You need not wait two 
or three years for a beautiful yard. 
Wagner stocks include every kind of 
bulb, root, shrub and evergreen that 
you are likely to need. These are 
nurtured with great care to assure un¬ 
usual vigor and successful growth. 
Plant them according to Wagner di¬ 
rections and there will be no question 
of results. 
Wi\GN.ER 
Landscape 
Service 
places at your disposal the experience 
and skill of creative gardeners—men 
who can suggest novel and delightful 
effects, who know how to get the most 
in beauty from the spaces available. 
They will carry out ideas you already 
have if you prefer. They can tell you 
whether and to what extent your plans 
are practical, and suggest additions in. 
keeping with the spirit of the scheme. 
They will help you take advantage of 
every special condition of soil, location 
The Third Year Living 
{Continued from page 36) 
A third year 
cushion in green, 
and with mul¬ 
berry and buff 
scalloped ruffle $8 
Room 
piece. The frame is of dull gold and 
the sunk molding of the blue green 
antiqued and made especially to fit in 
with the dimensions of the chimney 
breast. The frame is of unusual shape. 
The rooms have started now to be quite 
handsome and still we have spent very 
little, as the painting in a size to fit the 
mantel breast costs $11S, and there are 
a variety of old masters which can be 
copied, if one does not care for the 
little bird on the tree branch. 
The third year the couch is drawn 
up before the fireplace and gets its per¬ 
manent covering of striped mulberry 
velvet, because while the sateen is still 
good, we want to have the room more 
elegant. On it are put two large taffeta 
cushions, one in sage green and one in 
reddish orange, a tone to brighten up 
the mulberry, costing $16 a piece. 
The new chair to be added matches 
the sofa but is covered in striped uphols¬ 
tery material in mulberry. It sets off 
the velvet of the sofa. The chair costs 
$60 and takes five yards of $S material. 
The sewed up carpeting is replaced by 
a thick rich chenille rug in a darker tone 
than the carpet as the room has be¬ 
come more rich and therefore needs the 
deeper color on the floor. The rug 
costs $144. The expense this year with 
the exception of the one chair and the 
sofa cushions goes into the rug, the 
hangings and the couch upholstery. The 
wicker chair goes with the curtains up¬ 
stairs into a guest room, or if the cur¬ 
tains are worn out, the wicker chair 
goes out to the porch. 
The windows now are ready for their 
permanent treatment. For overcurtains 
we use a rich mulberry SO" damask at 
$9.75 a yard. The pattern is striking 
and the whole room is now keyed to 
mulberry, instead of blue green as we 
started. This is done by the selection 
of a chintz, in the first year, that con¬ 
tains two favorite colors. It takes eight 
yards for the curtains and one and a 
half yards for the valances, costing 
$96.33, and the making and lining, in¬ 
cluding fringe on the valance, will cost 
$38. 
For under curtains we will use a SO" 
champagne silk gauze. It throws a 
mellow light through the room and 
tones in with the damask. It will take 
eight and two-thirds yards at $3 a yard. 
The room as it now stands will defy 
the criticism of the most censorious in¬ 
law and the bride has “the proper back¬ 
ground,” as we decorators say, for her 
personality as a woman of society. 
The following tables show the ex¬ 
penditures year by year for three years. 
Of course, this furnishing can extend 
over a much longer period. The costs 
are based on the current prices and the 
articles selected are such as will be per¬ 
manent, long-wearing and a constant 
source of satisfaction. 
First Year 
Carpet—16 yds. @ $4.00 plus 
sewing and binding. 
Chintz curtains—8 yds. @ $1.90 
and 1% yds. taffeta, plus 
making $10 .. 
Scrim curtains . 
Couch—$10S plus 10 yds’, sateen 
@ $1.80 plus two cushions... 
Couch table . 
Lamp and shade for couch table 
Long table . 
Desk set.] ’ 
Straight chair.!!!!!.!!! 
Wicker chair.’ 
Wrought iron standing lamp and 
shade . 
{Continued on page 84) 
$70.00 
29.70 
S.S6 
134.00 
18.50 
17.50 
9S.00 
8.00 
22.50 
2S.00 
31.50 
For first year an Italian couch 
table, $18.50. Wrought iron 
standing lamp and shade, $31.50 
