House and Garden 
Social and Scenic Center of the White Mountains 
Maplewood Hotel and Cottages 
Saururus cernuus, the lizard’s tail, is a 
water plant native to half stagnant pools. 
Its spikes of white flowers appear well 
above the surface of the water. 
OPEN FROM JULY TO OCTOBER 
Excellent Cuisine and Service Milk and Vegetables from Maplewood Farm 
Symphony Orchestra morning and evening All the accessories of a first-class summer resort 
Pure Mountain Spring Water Dry and Invigorating Air No Hay Fever High Altitude 
Private Cottages to Rent Booklets Forwarded on Request 
18-HOLE GOLF COURSE, HAVING A RANGE OF 5,300 YARDS UNSURPASSED BY ANY IN 
THE STATE FINE TENNIS COURTS AND BASEBALL 
AMPLE GARAGE, GASOLINE AND ELECTRICITY SUPPLY—REPAIRS 
MAPLEWOOD HOTEL CASINO—Reading-Room, Writing-Room, Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Billiard and 
Pool Rooms, Fine Bowling Alleys, Souvenir Store, Beautiful Ball Room and Theatre, Open Fireplaces, 
Wide Balconies Overlooking Golf Links. 
MAPLEWOOD COTTAGE £ 0 t:K^i 6 o 0p Te™M<5e^ ber 15 
LEON H. CILLEY, Manager, «" 3 B '“Tofr,f!,X£„ a „rr„“" s - 
Garden Pottery 
WILLIAM GALLOWAY 
3216-3224 Walnut St., Philadelphia 
Sun-Dials Vases 
Statuary Fountains 
Catalogue on application. 
PITTSBURG, PA. 
HOTEL SCHENLEY 
Surrounded by three acres of lawn and gardens, 
away from the noise and smoke. 
Absolutely Fireproof 
The Leading Hotel in Pittsburg 
Opposite the Six Million Dollar Carnegie Institute 
and Library, also the Carnegie Technical Schools. 
Wire or write and Automobile will meet you at Union 
Station and take you to Hotel in ten minutes. The 
most attractive Hotel in Pennsylvania. 
Send for Booklet 
JAMES RILEY. 
Proprietor and Manager 
Posts of the black, or yellow locust 
are almost everlasting. Instances are 
recorded where they have been in use 
for fifty years and were then so good 
that they were reset. This locust is the 
Robinia Pseudacacia. 
Laurus nobilis, the sweet bay, is 
becoming a great favorite. The stand¬ 
ard forms are much used near buildings. 
Florists find a good sale for them. They 
can be housed in barns or stables in 
winter; in fact, they have been known 
to live out all winter in Philadelphia 
when in sheltered positions. 
Rhododendron cuttings made of half 
ripened wood and placed in a bed of 
sand and peat in a greenhouse will root. 
It is hardly worth doing this in the case 
of ordinary kinds, but it would be if the 
variety be a valuable one. 
In Iowa and adjacent States the native 
plums and their improved varieties are 
better suited to the climate than either 
the European or the Japanese sorts. In 
fact, in quality they are also deemed 
superior. H. A. Terry, a nursery¬ 
man of Iowa, has done much to improve 
them. 
I he reason Rhododendron maximum, 
our native sort, does not make the ap¬ 
pearance the hybrid varieties do is not 
altogether because of its lack of varied 
color, but not flowering before july the 
trusses of blossoms are hidden by the 
young shoots made since spring opened. 
A little pruning by finger and thumb 
when trees and shrubs are growing 
effects the object a good deal better than 
pruning at any other time. The side 
shoots push out at once, accomplishing 
bushiness the same season. 
Objections are often made to the 
manetti rose as a stock for budding. 
Try the Prairie rose, R. setigera. It does 
not sucker, and in the South, where it 
has been tried, it is much esteemed. 
Ouercus Robur fastig/ata, Ginkgo, 
Lombardy poplar, Van Geerti poplar, 
deciduous cypress, white cedar, native 
arbor-vitae are all slender, tall growing 
trees, well suited to many situations, 
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