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OFFICES ANL> AGENCIES EVERYWHERE 
Landscape Gardening 
A course for Homemakers and 
Gardeners taught by Prof. Craig 
and Prof. Beal of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. 
Gardeners who understand up- 
to-date methods and practice are 
in demand for the best positions. 
A knowledge of Landscape 
Gardening is indispensable to 
those who would have the pleas¬ 
antest homes. 
2S0 page Catalog free. Write to-day . 
THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 
Dept. 226, Springfield, Mass. 
IRON AND WIRE FENCES 
Fences of all descriptions for City and Suburban 
Homes. Write today for our Loose Leaf Catalog, 
stating briefly your requirements. 
American Fence Construction Co. 
100 Church St., New York 
Formerly Fence Dept. American Wire Form Co. 
PLANTS & SHRUBS 
Before selecting anything in the line of 
trees, plants and shrubbery, you should visit 
our Nursery or write for illustrated cata¬ 
logue on Nursery Stock which we send free. 
Julius Roshrs Co., Exotic Nurseries, Rutherford, N. J. 
y% Actual Size 
St. Regis Everbearing 
The Raspberry for the million and the 
Millionaire. “There’s Millions in It.” 
You can now have wonderful rasp¬ 
berries from June to October by set¬ 
ting out the plants this Fall. 
St. Regis produces continuously 
from June to October —heavy crops of 
large, luscious, sugary berries of 
bright crimson. 
Its summer and autumn crops do not 
consist of a few scattered berries, but 
food to heavy pickings all the time. 
One party who had a small patch, say 
yi an acre, picked and shipped from it 
two or three pickings each week for 4 
months and his profits were enormous. 
Grows successfully in any soil—en¬ 
dures without injury heat, drought 
and severest cold. Catalogue free. 
Grow 
Chestnuts 
Like This 
For Profit 
Covers a 50c piece 
The trees are hardy, rapid, sym¬ 
metrical growth; luxuriant foliage; 
spreading boughs; clean trunk; 
stateliness. 
These qualities combined and de¬ 
veloped by science to a degree that 
closely borders perfection in the new 
SOBER PARAGON 
Mammoth, Sweet Chestnut 
Crop, Fall of 1911, brought $48,- 
000, orchard only 10 years old. 
The only large sweet chestnut in 
the world. 
Bears the first year. The nuts 
average 1 to 2 inches in diameter. 
United States Pomologist, G. B. 
Brackett, says, “It is of large size, 
fine appearance and excellent flavor.” 
Testimony from growers, com¬ 
mission merchants, Forestry Ex¬ 
perts, etc., given in our free catalog. 
We own exclusive control of the Sober 
Paragon. This 
copyrighted 
metal seal is at¬ 
tached to every 
genuine tree. 
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Mantura Pecans 
Large Nuts—Paper Shell 
Hardy Acclimated Pecan 
Trees for Planting in 
Northern States 
Here are Pecan Trees which will 
thrive in Northern States —produc¬ 
ing as prolifically and as profitably 
as any Southern Pecans. 
Pecan Orchards pay far bigger 
profits per acre than wheat or corn. 
A shade-tree of wondrous beauty, 
long the pride of the South, may 
now adorn any Northern landscape. 
We control five varieties of hardy 
trees best suited for Northern Plant¬ 
ing. These have withstood tempera¬ 
ture far below zero—never been 
known to “winter-kill.” Successful 
in almost any soil. Begin hearing in 
3 to s years. Catalogue Free. 
GLEN BROTHERS, Glenwood Nursery (Est. 1866), 2015 Main St., Rochester, N. Y. 
der which serves to identify it to any one 
who has seen it. These stripes accentuate 
size of rug, which is in itself large. The 
field of the rug is generally severely plain, 
relieved by a medallion center. The ef¬ 
fect, however, is rich. The rug is most 
at home in library, smoking-room, large 
den, dining-room or living-room. It is a 
homelike rug. 
As to the buying of rugs there are a few 
suggestions that may appropriately be of¬ 
fered. First and foremost, buy of reliable 
houses. They have a reputation to sus¬ 
tain, and it is to their advantage to serve 
you sincerely and to the best of their abil¬ 
ity. A discreet method is to assume an 
entire ignorance of rugs, unless you are 
thoroughly posted on the subject. By this 
means you can draw most copiously upon 
the knowledge, good faith and judgment 
of the house; and incidentally acquire con¬ 
siderable interesting information, espe¬ 
cially if the salesman be a competent one. 
Of course a connoisseur needs no such 
outside assistance. He knows what he 
wants and seeks it until he finds it here or 
abroad. Most of us, however, are not so 
favorably circumstanced, and are depend¬ 
ent upon a market of which we know little 
or nothing. It is the part of wisdom 
therefore, for us to say, “I wish to pro¬ 
cure a rug for such and such a purpose 
and wish your advice and assistance in 
procuring it.” Most merchants respond 
honorably to such an approach; whereas, 
the egotist who claims to know it all is 
likely to fare badly, because his very as¬ 
sumption is soon discovered to be false. 
Especially should the novice avoid auc¬ 
tions, where no one but the connoisseur 
can have any conception of values; and 
when prices often exceed those of the le¬ 
gitimate stores. 
There is something delightfully inti¬ 
mate and even friendly about the rugs 
which adorn our floors. Their artistic 
appeal surely equals that of the pictures 
upon our walls, and their story is hardly 
less interesting. They rest our feet after 
the stony pavements and they rest our 
eyes after the glaring sun, and as their life 
equals that of more than a generation, 
they come to be a part of the family life. 
Utilizing the Autumn Leaves 
G OOD loam, that is, virgin soil, is a 
very scarce commodity just at pres¬ 
ent and particularly so near large cities. 
To get it even in quantities it will cost 
from $1.50 to $2.50 per cubic yard, de¬ 
pending on the hauling distance. There 
was a time not very long ago when $1 a 
load was the usual price for loam, with an 
almost unlimited supply; but building op¬ 
erations have gone on so rapidly that the 
former lawns and gardens have disap¬ 
peared, thereby shortening the supply of 
loam. Realizing this condition it seems a 
great pity that people with little gardens 
do not take advantage of the great possi- 
In writing to advertiser, s please mention House and Garden. 
