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House & Garden 
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Bothatcha study, woven entirely in one piece 
It Is Only a Matter of Geography 
If these Bengal-Oriental Rugs were made in Persia or Turkey or 
China, they could not reflect the spirit of the Orient more perfectly. 
But they are made right here in America of the best wool yarn 
obtainable by an unusual process that reproduces the coloring, the 
soft, firm, pliable fabric—the very atmosphere itself so characteristic 
of rugs from the Far East. 
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James M. Shoemaker Co., Inc. 
D-16-18 West 39th Street at Fifth Avenue :; :: New York 
Twelve Don’ts for Amateur Decorators 
(^Continued from page 68) 
photographs, even though they be of 
the most fascinating people, to swamp 
every available space on tables and 
mantel and to spill all over the living 
room. 
6. Don’t invest in the latest post- 
impressionist chintz done in brilliantly 
unhealthy colors, dye cheesecloth to 
match and hang at the windows, stick a 
Russian pottery bowl with a bit of bit¬ 
tersweet in it on a gateleg table and 
feel that you have achieved the ultimate 
expression of your cosmic urge. 
7. Give the small room a chance to 
breathe. Don’t cover its walls with a 
paper of huge, overpowering design and 
crowd its limited floor space with all 
sorts of unnecessary junk. 
8. There is no excuse for “lace” cur¬ 
tains, when the simplicity, effectiveness 
and good taste of muslin, net, dotted 
Swiss or gauze are remembered, to say 
nothing of their comparative inexpen¬ 
siveness. 
9. Don’t buy cheap imitations—not 
reproductions, but poor substitutes for 
the much abused and misunderstood 
periods of the French Louis. They will 
be expensive in the end. 
10. Decorate ^ a process of elimina¬ 
tion with a careful regard to the suita¬ 
bility of your choice, remembering the 
exact use for which the room is in¬ 
tended. 
11. We have all suffered from poor 
furniture arrangement. It may either 
be so jumbled and crowded together 
that one can barely walk across the 
room with any degree of comfort, or it 
may glower at you from every corner 
and be on unfriendly terms even with 
itself. Either condition is trying and 
under such circumstances, no hostess, 
however charming, could make you feel 
at home. 
12. Try living in your rooms and see 
whether you are comfortable, that’s the 
real test. Don’t go in for tawdry mag¬ 
nificence, but rather aim at ease with 
luxury if you like, but suitability at all 
events. 
Nancy Ashton. 
Autumn Flowering Bulbs 
W. R. GILBERT 
O UTSIDE the ranks of the profes¬ 
sional horticulturist most people 
are probably under the impression 
that with the passing of the snowdrops 
and crocuses, the dafiodils and narcissi, 
and the hyacinths and tulips that make 
our gardens gay in the Spring, the 
flowering of bulbous plants is over for 
another year. Such, however, is not 
the case. Apart from the many lovely 
kinds of lilium that flower during the 
summer months, there are quite a large 
number of bulbous plants that bloom 
freely in the open in the autumn—at 
least between tbe end of July and the 
end of September, and with luck in 
October — thus giving bulbous blossoms 
six or seven months in the year. 
It is interesting to note that when the 
spring flowering bulbs are entering a 
dormant state, to enjoy a period of sus¬ 
pended animation, their autumn flower¬ 
ing brethren are just starting into active 
growth. Each group vegetates, increases, 
and blooms in a period of eight months. 
With the exception of sunshine there is 
very little difference between the cul¬ 
tural conditions of each group. 
As a harbinger of Autumn, premier 
place must be given to the gladiolus. 
As a result of about eighty years of 
hybridizing and cross-breeding hun¬ 
dreds of gorgeously colored varieties 
have been evolved from some of the 
South African species. Lemoinei Nan- 
ceianus and Childsi have received a 
world-wide reputation, and are now be¬ 
ing utilized by American growers to 
create still more wondrous'forms. Al¬ 
most every shade of color is represented 
in the modern garden gladiolus, from 
the most vivid scarlet to the deepest 
of violets and purples, and the purest 
of white, yellows, and pinks. The great 
aim of breeders seems to point to the 
production of large, open, firm petalled 
flowers with a purity of colors such as 
white, yellow, scarlet, pink and blue, 
and very large sums are paid for bulbs, 
or rather corms, of any novelty coming 
near to these conditions. 
Between the pure self colors are in¬ 
numerable forms with a richness and 
variety of coloring impossible to de¬ 
scribe. At present the finest whites in¬ 
clude Albion, L’lmmaculee and Peace. 
The best yellows are Golden Measure, 
Sulphur King and Goldfinder. Pinks 
include America, Perfection and Ro- 
mana, while Badenia, a deep lavender- 
purple, and Baron Joe Hulot, a deep 
violet, come as near a true blue as 
possible. 
To secure trusses of bloom in autumn 
the corms should be planted 4" to 5" 
deep in April or May in a deeply dug 
or trenched sandy loam enriched with 
plenty of well decayed manure. 
The montbretias or tritonias are an¬ 
other splendid race which is being rap¬ 
idly improved. The long, gracefully 
arching sprays of bright yellow or deep 
orange-colored flowers are valuable not 
only for floral decorations, but for the 
brilliant glow they give to the garden 
in early autumn. There are many fine 
varieties, as Croesus, Diadem, Fire King; 
but all these are surpassed by The Star 
of the East, whose rich yellow flowers 
are 4" across. 
The common meadow saffron is one 
of the best known of autumn flowering 
bulbs and is often spoken of as the 
autumn crocus, although it belongs to 
quite a different family. Amongst cro¬ 
cuses proper the finest of the autumn 
flowering kinds is C. speciosus, the lilac 
or purple blooms of which decorate the 
ground in late August. There is a very 
effective white-flowered form, called, 
Aitchisoni. 
For massing boldly in the lawn shrub¬ 
bery or rock garden, or for pot culture 
in a cool greenhouse, the Sternbergias 
are excellent for autumn flowering. 
They like a rich sandy loam and should 
be planted in June. 5. lutea is supposed 
to be the Scriptural “Lily of the Field.” 
Its large yellow flowers nestle among 
the narrow strap-shaped leaves in the 
beginning of September. S. macrantha 
is very similar but throws its flowers 
at the same period without the leaves; 
these develop later. 
Although the above are among the 
finest and best known of autumn flower¬ 
ing bulbs, there are others which are 
entitled to mention in the hope that 
they may soon become more widely 
cultivated. The South African bella¬ 
donna lily {Amaryllis belladonna), if 
planted in a well drained sandy loam 
in a warm south border will flower 
freely when established. The large rosy 
and white flowers appear minus the 
foliage in August on top of fleshy stems. 
The Kew variety has become famous 
for its great size, deep color and large 
number of flowers. 
Crinum Powelli, a hybrid of garden 
origin, deserves to be grown for its love¬ 
ly rosy pink flowers, and the white form 
of it, alba, is even more deserving. 
Less well known autumn flowering 
bulbs include Lycoris squamigera, which 
has rose lilac flowers and should be 
grown like the belladonna lily; and 
/. alata with lilac purple blossoms. 
