HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1912 
The LURE of the 
Darwin Tulip 
A riot of color, a gorgeousness of effect, 
the VERY RAINBOW of springtime. 
Standing erect on tail sturdy stems, these Tulips are 
the ARISTOCRATS of their class. Planted amongst 
shrubbery, in borders, en masse or singly, wherever 
found they create a spot of ideal beauty. You cannot 
afford to miss planting some of them for your next 
spring’s Garden show. Blooming in May and well into 
June they come at a time when early Spring blossoms 
are gone and Summer bloom has yet to appear. We 
have made a selection of 12 of the Choicest variety of 
colors. 
Each Doz. 100 
Clara Butt. Satiny salmon-rose.$0 07 $0 60 $3 50 
Europe. Bright scarlet. 05 50 3 00 
Glow. Dazzling vermilion. 05 50 2 75 
Gretchen. Soft blush-rose. 05 35 2 00 
Kale Greenway, White flushed lilac. 05 35 2 50 
May Queen. Delicate rosy mauve. 05 40 2 50 
Nora Ware. Silvery lilac. 05 50 3 00 
Inglescombe Yellow. The only yellow 10 1 00 6 00 
Painted Lady. White, faintly tinged 
mauve. Beautiful as a Water-lily 05 50 3 00 
Pride of Haarlem Enormous flower; 
rosy purple. 05 50 3 00 
The Sultan. Dark glossy maroon.... 05 35 2 00 
White Quesn, Pure white with black 
anthers . 07 60 3 50 
One of each of the 12 sorts, 12 bulbs, 60 cts. 
One dozen of each of the 12 sorts, 144 bulbs, $5.75 
100 of each of the 12 sorts, 1,200 blubs, $33.50 
Price Includes Delivery 
A customer in Battle Creek Mich., writes us May 
29, 1912; “The Tulips purchased from you last fall 
certainly were TRUE to name, and were the MOST 
magnificent ones I ever saw.” 
Send for our Fall Bulb Book. 
H. H. BERGER & GO., 70 Warren St.. N, Y- 
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Dutch Bulbs-directfromliolland 
And finest new dahlias, described in Free Catalog. 
GT. VAN WAVEBEN & KRTJIJFF 
American Branch House, 142 N. 13th St., Philadelphia 
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Roofed with Fireproof Asbestos “Century” Shingles. 
Last forever. Never require paint. 
P EOPLE are using a lot of these 
Veneered Red Asbestos “Century” 
Shingles. They give you a red roof 
at practically the same cost as a grey 
one. Indian Red face backed up with 
grey. Made of the “Century” asbestos- 
cement composition, by the famous 
“Century” process. Write us for book¬ 
let, “Roofing: A Practical Talk.” 
KEASBEY & MATTISON CO., Factors 
Dept. C., Ambler, Pa. 
Branch Offices in Principal 
Cities of the United States 
A CEMENT HOUSE 
CAN BE SUCCESSFULLY PAINTED AND 
WATERPROOFED 
Send for booklet illustrated in colors telling how 
THE OHIO VARNISH COMPANY 
8602 Kinsman Road CLEVELAND, OHIO 
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Plan your trip to include a stopover at 
Hotel Qmmbek 
<Vlt Old Point Comfort Virginia 
Going—Returning—North 
— South — East — West— 
On Business or Pleasure, 
spend a few days here. It will break up the 
. monotony of your trip, rest and refresh you. 
Old Point Comfort is easily accessible from all 
points. (Consult the map.) All railroads sell 
tickets with stop-over privileges. 
Hotol Chamberlin is noted for its luxurious, yet 
homelike appointments—its unique location—right at 
Hampton Roads and Fortress Monroe, in the center of 
military and naval activities—its historic surroundings 
—its magnificent Sea Fool and Medicinal Baths, Golf, 
Tennis, Boating, etc. Last, but not least, its cuisine 
—real Southern cooking, fresh oysters and seafood from 
nearby waters, fresh vegetables from our own gardens. 
Come—enjoy rest, recreation and 
real Southern hospitality at this ’ 
famous resort. 
For further information and interest¬ 
ing illustrated booklets, apply at any 
Tourist Bureau or Transportatioji 
Office or address me personally. 
GEO. F. ADAMS, Mgr., Fortress Monroe, Va. 
New York Office. 1122 Broadwav 
sect is when it is feeding, if a poison is 
used, because when the insect is in the 
adult stage like a perfect butterfly or moth, 
it is not easily killed by poison. The 
proper time to attack this pest is when it 
is feeding on the foliage in the caterpillar 
stage. This happens twice a year, once in 
spring until June and again in late sum¬ 
mer from August until September. The 
Brown-tail moth passes its caterpillar 
stage in the winter nests and emerges in 
spring and feeds on the foliage until it 
enters the cocoon or pupal stage; it then 
remains dormant for about twenty days 
and comes out as a perfect moth. This 
moth is a fast flier and lays her eggs on 
the under side of the leaves for the August 
generation of caterpillars. The eggs hatch 
in August and the young caterpillars soon 
begin to feed and keep it up until cold 
weather when they go into their winter 
nests. 
The present methods of holding this in¬ 
sect in check have not stopped the spread 
because where one town will enforce laws 
requiring owners to pick the winter nests 
in forest and orchard trees the next town 
will do the reverse. It is an easy matter 
to keep the apple trees clear of the moth 
because the winter nests can be picked off 
the trees with a long handled pruning 
pole used for this purpose, but when sev¬ 
eral acres of woodland are infested, it is 
out of the question. There are many 
farmers owning tracts of woodland, who 
if compelled to go over the entire tract 
and pick the nests would be bankrupt. 
Again, if this work is done one year it 
must be repeated the following season in 
the same manner, because the man across 
the town line did not pick the moth nests 
on his estate. 
In view of the damage done by this pest 
and the fact that my employer was in fa¬ 
vor of experiment work on his farm in 
connection with this matter, I lost no time 
in getting all the information available 
concerning the new parasite. A visit to 
the State experiment station was made, 
and as they were not in possession of the 
needed material, the work was next taken 
up with the Massachusetts State Forest¬ 
ers Office and application made for some 
of the parasite. 
A letter of instructions was received 
with the information how to proceed with 
the work, and notice of the date when the 
parasite would be sent me. The material 
used for this work consisted of a quantity 
of small paper bags, a spool of fine flexible 
wire and a pair of broad nosed forceps. 
The parasite was secured in the form of 
infected material, small caterpillars treated 
with the parasite disease. The instruc¬ 
tions were to place about twenty of the 
diseased caterpillars in one of the bags 
and hang the bag up in a tree as near as 
possible to the webs or where the masses 
of the caterpillars were feeding and cut 
open the bag near the top so that the cat¬ 
erpillars could crawl out and mingle with 
the native ones. If a number of the bags 
of diseased caterpillars are placed in the 
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