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Rare, Historic English Elms 
now offered for the first time 
to the American public 
If In keeping with the Meehan policy of 
offering rare, unusual plants, we are 
pleased to announce a specially grown lot 
of English Elms, from such historic points 
of England and Scotland as 
Tower of London 
Battlefield (Stirling Bridge) 
Cambridge University (Trinity 
College) 
Lichfield (Home of Samuel 
Johnson) 
Ely Cathedral 
<1 These are not seedlings j but actual liv¬ 
ing wood from the famous old elms 
grafted to roots of the common English 
Elm. 
^1 A fitting gift ; a fine living memorial; a 
graceful tribute to some dear friend. 
<1 A full list of th^se historic trees.i with de¬ 
scription, terms of sale and price sent on 
request. 
THOMAS MEEHAN & SONS 
Box 40, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Smoky Fireplaces 
Made to Draw 
Payment Conditional on Success 
FREDERIC N.WHITLEY E ^ r c. a or d 
210 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. N. Y. 
Heating—Ventilating—Air Filtration 
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Stays waterproof 
Trinidad Lake asphalt makes 
roofing stay waterproof. It is the 
product of Nature. And man has 
never equaled it for roofing. We 
use it to make Genasco. 
Genasco doesn’t rot, rust, dry out, 
crack, break — and doesn’t leak. 
Get Genasco for every building on 
the farm. Mineral or smooth surface. 
Comes in rolls ready and easy for any¬ 
body to lay. Ask your dealer for Gen¬ 
asco. Write us for samples and the 
valuable Good Roof Guide Book—free. 
The Kant-Ieak Kleet, 
for smooth-surface roof¬ 
ings, does away with 
nail-leaks and makes 
. . seams watertight with- 
out cement. 
The Barber Asphalt Paving Company 
Largest producers of asphalt, and largest 
manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. | 
Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Chicago (f 
pot of specially prepared earth, and sunk 
in the regular soil in the box, where, if 
necessary, it may be given special treat¬ 
ment in the way of water, liquid manure, 
etc. Animal manures, preferably contain¬ 
ing a large percentage of cow manure, 
should be diluted to about the color of 
weak tea. It should never be applied while 
the soil in the boxes is dry. 
Where plants are grown inside, the win¬ 
dow should be so arranged that ventila¬ 
tion can be given from the top, or, better 
still, through another window, to avoid 
any direct draught on the plants. On 
very cold nights they should be protected 
from cold striking through the glass by 
having several sheets of newspaper in¬ 
serted between them and the window. And 
above all else, scrupulous care must be 
taken to guard against such plant enemies 
as aphids, mealybug and red spider. Fu¬ 
migating, spraying with nicotine prepara¬ 
tions or aphine, and keeping the air suffi¬ 
ciently moist, will prevent trouble from 
this quarter. 
A Garden Contest and What It 
Developed 
(Continued from page 373 ) 
cessful gardening for the small place. 
I. Mr. C. C. Van Vleck. A well designed 
flower garden. The very adroit centering 
of the garden with its semi-circular seat 
and Bungei’s catalpas on the dark recess in 
the trees across the street should be ob¬ 
served. 
II. Mr. E. P. Earle. A very well de¬ 
signed and executed little rose garden. 
Roses (hybrid perpetuals, teas and the 
like) have always a more or less weedy 
character and are difficult to manage ex¬ 
cept in a garden of their own which should 
be secluded. In this one the precise lines 
of the beds make up for the weakness of 
the plants. The garden would be more 
effective if its foliage enclosures were 
more complete allowing only a glimpse of 
the wide terrace steps. 
III. A good composition on the whole 
with the great advantage of well shaped 
trees where they are wanted. The low 
growing material below is massed well but 
much of it not well selected for its place. 
It necessarily comes into competition with 
the house and the trees, and should have 
a certain robustness of size and character 
to be in keeping. 
IV. Mr. C. C. Van Vleck. On the right 
of this picture is the flower garden (No. 
I). A good piece of composition on the 
whole, but the planting, though well 
placed to lead the eye up to and past the 
house, is mostly too small and restless for 
the mass of the house and extent of the 
lawn. The effect of the trees beyond as 
being so much more in character with the 
house should be noted. Also the very ef¬ 
fective aralia at the veranda. 
V. Mr. Otto Jaeger. This stone seat 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
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