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Roofed with Fireproof Asbestos “Century” Shingles. Last 
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“Century” Shingles. Every year, thou¬ 
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Asbestos “Century” Shingles. Write us 
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about six inches apart on the branch and 
never left in clusters. It seems reckless to 
follow this rule but it pays. It takes work 
to thin. Yes, indeed, the renewing of an 
old orchard means work if you want the 
fullest success. 
An old neglected orchard in a neigh¬ 
borhood is a menace to all others old and 
new. Like worn out buildings they should 
he condemned. It is always a source of 
disease and insect distribution. If your 
old orchard cannot be saved or cared for, 
cut it down and blow out the stumps. 
Plant the ground to corn or potatoes and 
vou will be better off. 
The Garden Beside the Highway 
(Continued from page 225) 
desolation of the formal garden in winter 
about the roadside garden. There is, 
primarily, always the line of the road and 
the white, encompassing, free landscape. 
Then there are. beside the cups of the wild 
carrots, the glowing berries of the bitter¬ 
sweet, a red limb of them hung' athwart 
the snowy world, as if New England were 
intent to show that it. too, can produce a 
Japanese screen; the lavender stalks of 
blackberry vines; the tawny stems of the 
willows, hi autumn the asters bloom 
when the frost has killed the last of the 
flowers in the formal garden, and when 
all the leaves are gone there is still the 
belated blossom of the witch hazel, shin¬ 
ing like thin gold where, a burning bush, 
it crests a hank against the western sun. 
“The housewives o i f Nature," said 
Thoreau, “wish to see the rooms properly 
cleaned and swept before the upholsterer 
comes and nails down his carpet of snow. 
The swamp burns along its margin with 
the scarlet berries of the black alder, or 
prinos; the leaves of the pitcher plant 
(which old Josselyn called Hollow-leaved 
Lavender) abound, and are of many col¬ 
ors from plain green to a rich striped yel¬ 
low, or deep red." 
It is just here, where the road crosses 
a swamp and is raised a little above the 
surrounding level, that one sees his road¬ 
side garden stretching off and merging 
completely with the landscape. Above tall 
grasses the taller stalks of the cat-o’-nine¬ 
tails lift their brown fingers; the irises 
gem the sedge, scattered like stars, not 
lined in formal rows as in a man-made 
garden ; the brownish-red pitcher plants in 
bloom glimmer dully ; or over against the 
woods, the sticky wild azalea, or meadow 
pink, masses its color and sends out all the 
long June day its incomparable perfume. 
Perhaps a dark swamp pool is pricked 
with water lilies, and tall brake or modest 
maiden-hair fringes the slope at your feet. 
Such, in one season or another, is the 
roadside swamp, a garden wandering with 
the leisure of still water courses away 
into the woods or fields, as much a perma¬ 
nence of the landscape as the sky above 
vour head or the far horizon line. 
One of several 18-ft. garden benches 
erected by us on the Estate of J. J. Chap¬ 
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Platt, architect. 
Our models are executed in Pompeian 
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