HOUSE AND GARDEN 
238 
October, 1912 
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The Long-Life 
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New Style Book of Dutch Furniture 
The most complete Arts & Crafts Furniture Style Book 
ever offered will be mailed to you—free—upon request. 
It contains an instructive and interesting story about 
how, why and where this chaiming furniture is made- 
several beautiful colored interiors, and illustrates over 
31)0 patterns of real Holland Dutch Furniture, made in 
a quaint little Dutch city by clever Dutch Craftsmen, 
who impart a distinctive touch and individuality to 
every piece which bears our branded Trade Mark. 
We will send you the address of our Associate Dis¬ 
tributor nearest you. Call on him and ask to see 
Limbert's Arts & Crafts Furniture. 
Gran MicS p,ds ' Charles P. Limbert Company "S’ 
Dept. V 
sor chairs, a Hepplewhite bureau and a 
dressing table of mixed New England and 
French parentage, painted a yellowish 
gray. The wall paper had a very unob¬ 
trusive flowered repeat. No two pieces in 
the room were alike and hardly any two 
belonged to the same date. 
Certain guiding principles governing the 
arrangement of "nondescript” rooms may 
be suggested. In the first place, much uni¬ 
fying influence can be exerted by the gen¬ 
eral color scheme; in other words, have a 
care to the carpet, curtains and walls if 
you would avail yourself of a powerful 
factor in bonding miscellaneous things to¬ 
gether. Again, the harmonizing and amal¬ 
gamating effect of upholstery, and espe¬ 
cially of the flowered cretonnes, should be 
kept in mind. The quality of restraint is 
most useful and should be sedulously pre¬ 
served. It is well to remember, too, that 
elimination will often prove the key to a 
successful solution of a puzzling situation. 
The achievement of felicitously arrang¬ 
ing and combining nondescript furniture 
is always gratifying. There is a stimu¬ 
lating fascination about experimenting 
and solving the difficulty just as there is 
about working out a puzzle or a problem 
in mathematics. From what has been said 
it is abundantly evident that there is no 
excuse for awkward furnishing because 
the pieces are of miscellaneous character. 
Planning the Bulb Garden 
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spring; or even left to lie loose on the 
ground. It will reach through the soil un¬ 
der the rain and enrich it down to where 
the feeding roots are. 
Bulbous plants are different from all 
others in that they make and store away 
each season’s bloom during the preceding 
season. This is the process that is going 
on when we speak of the bulb’s “ripen¬ 
ing;” and unless it is absolutely uninter¬ 
rupted, no flowers can be produced during 
the succeeding year. Every bulb as it 
comes from the ground in a dormant state, 
contains next season's flowers, every one 
of them — tiny, rudimentary embryos to be 
sure, yet nevertheless the actual blossoms. 
Bulbs that do not are immature and can¬ 
not bloom until they have been given time 
and opportunity, in the ground, to reach 
maturity. 
Some require longer for this than 
others, and naturally the time needed en¬ 
ters into the price of the bulb. “Extra 
Selected First Size Named Hyacinths,” 
for example, have been cultivated from 
four to six years in Holland — where soil 
and general conditions are ideal, hence the 
great Dutch industry of bulb culture — be¬ 
fore they reach the full size necessary to 
produce the finest flowers here in our gar¬ 
dens, consequently before they are large 
enough to bring the highest market price. 
Such bulbs are from eight to ten inches in 
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