HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 
1912 
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LAST CALL!! 
Order now —Dutch Bulbs 
Direct from Holland 
The best Dutch 
Bulbs you can buy 
— solid, spotless, 
full of vitality, true 
to name and color 
—are described in 
our new Dutch 
Bulb catalog—just 
issued. 
If you are plant¬ 
ing bulbs this fall 
—or ever expect 
to buy them—you 
owe it to yourself 
to read this book. Tells briefly and definitely 
the difference between the big, flabby bulbs 
which disappoint, and the big, solid bulbs which give 
largest and best results. It tells and illustrates how to 
force bulbs for indoor bloom — indicates the best varieties 
for this and other purposes. Describes and illustrates the 
best new European introductions in tulips, hyacinths, nar¬ 
cissi and the many other Dutch Bulbs and Roots which vou 
should plant. Write for it today — the first edition is be’ing 
rapidly exhausted. 
Qt. van Waveren and Kruijff 
LOUIS BERGER, Mgr. 
American Branch House, 142 N. 13th St„ Phila., Pa., U. S. A. 
Home Offices and Nurseries: Sassenheim (Haarlem), Hol¬ 
land. Other Branches: Moscow, Russia; Leipsic, Ger¬ 
many; Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic; London, Eng¬ 
land; Guteburg, Sweden. 
The Pride 
carminy rose, one-ninth 
surface. 
actual 
Like a yard with shade 
trees and shrubbery, cool, 
secliisive and inviting, is 
the porch screened from 
the blazing sun with 
Burlington 
Venetian Blinds 
You can easily fit your porch 
with Burlington Venetian Blinds, 
and you can readily adjust the 
blinds at an angle that will allow 
free circulation and yet keep out 
the hot sun. 
Write for FREE, 
Illustrated Booklet 
This booklet will show you that 
your porch can be that which 
it ought to be — your summer 
living room. 
Burlington Venetian Blind Co. 
355 Lake Street, Burlington, Vt. 
WIZARD Brand Pulverized Sheep Manure 
” is wonderfully effective—economical and con¬ 
venient—superior to bone or chemicals for home 
fertilizing. It makes 
A Beautiful 
T.AW1V and C ARDEN 
because it is nature’s best fertilizer in 
concentrated form—is unequalled for 
lawns — flowers — vegetables — trees — 
fruits—meadow and grain land. 
/d OO per ia| ge barrel freight 
Paid east of Omaha—cash 
~ with order. Ask for quantity 
prices and interesting booklet. 
The Pulverized Manure Co. 
•5 Union Stock Yards - - Chicago 
Wizard Brand is sold by first~class seedsmen. 
are once allowed to gain a foothold, any 
of these suggested treatments are likely 
to prove only partly successful. Plan 
never to let them get a start. Keep on 
hand the means of preventing them, or 
fighting them.to a finish at the first sign 
of their appearance. First of all, keep all 
plants in a state of active healthy growth. 
Second, give clean and frequent culture, 
leaving no old stalks, fruits, or leaves, or 
refuse of any sort about to carry contagion 
or serve as a refuge for eggs or germs. 
Keep on hand, ready for instant use, a 
good hand sprayer — either knapsack or 
compressed air, the latter being preferable 
— and a good powder gun. Also keep 
covered boxes for such plants as cucum¬ 
bers, melons, and squash, and supplies of 
tobacco dust, arsenate of lead, materials 
for kerosene emulsion and Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture. The two machines will last for 
years, with good care, and the powders 
and poisons are cheaply obtained. 
A Remodeled House of Good 'Paste 
(Continued from page 13) 
The mantel shelf is ornamented with 
powder kegs that did service in the Revo¬ 
lutionary war, and other specimens shown 
here are fine examples of pewter charg¬ 
ers. It is rarely that one finds such well 
preserved simplicity as is shown through 
this house. 
Perhaps the most interesting room from 
a collector’s viewpoint is that opening off 
the hallway, opposite the living-room. 
This small room was used originally for 
a kitchen and still shows the old time 
fireplace and the brick oven with kitchen 
accessories, all of which have been care¬ 
fully preserved. In addition it includes a 
fine collection of old jugs, varying in size 
and most unusual in finish. The finest 
collection in the house is that of the old 
bottles of American manufacture, which 
are most cleverly and uniquely arranged. 
They are placed on wooden shelves in 
front of one of the side windows, so that 
the light striking them shows their fine 
colorings, giving an effect that could be 
obtained in no other way. Many of these 
are very rare and unusual specimens, and 
represent prominent historical events. In 
shape they vary from the bulging bottle 
to the house and egg arrangement, and 
comprise a collection of antiques that be¬ 
cause of their extreme fragility are rap¬ 
idly going out of collections. 
The service department which is shut 
off from the main rooms, being situated 
in a wing, is a feature that has been most 
carefully planned. It is so arranged that 
the odor of cooking cannot permeate the 
house to the annoyance of guests. 
There are many good-sized chambers in 
the second story which contain fine closet 
room. One of these has a fine example of 
a fourposter of the field type, hung with 
hand-made netting. 
It has been urged by many house seek¬ 
ers that it is not economical to remodel an 
old house. As this one was done for two 
thousand dollars it proves this idea wrong. 
Roofed with Fireproof Asbestos “Century” Shingles. 
Last forever. Never require paint. 
Fire loss from inflammable roofs costs 
the property owners of this country 
over Forty Million Dollars a year—fires 
that start outside the building, due to 
somebody else’s hard luck or careless¬ 
ness. 
Roof with Asbestos “Century” Shingles 
— the one really fire-proof roofing ma¬ 
terial. 
Write us for Booklet, “Roofing : A 
Practical Talk.” 
KEASBEY & MATTISON CO., Factors 
Dept. C., Ambler, Pa. 
Branch Offices in Principal 
Cities of the United States 
Thorburn’s 
Strawberry Plants 
<J If you are interested in having 
the finest varieties of Strawberry 
Plants, write today for our Straw¬ 
berry Circular and Price List. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO. 
32 Barclay Street New York 
Fountain in the Garden of Mr J . B. Van Vorst, Hackensack, N. J. 
WE WANT YOU 
to have our new catalogue of Garden Furniture beau¬ 
tifully modeled from Old World Masterpieces and 
original designs. 
Our models are executed in Pompeian stone, an artificial pro¬ 
duct that is practically everlasting. Prices most reasonable and 
work guaranteed to be the best. 
Write for catalog Y, mailed free upon request. 
THE ERKINS STUDIOS of Ornamental Stone 
226 Lexington Ave., New York; Factory, Astoria, L. I. 
Now York Selling Agents: Rieceri Florentine Terra Cotta 
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