HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1912 
FLints Fine Furniture 
HOLIDAY GIFTS 
THAT APPEAL TO ALL 
The gift which bears the Flint Trademark is 
not necessarily a pretentious or costly remembrance. 
Never has our Holiday Exhibit offered such a 
remarkable choice of selection in “INEXPEN¬ 
SIVE GIFT ARTICLES,” Small Furnishings 
and Artistic Trifles of the kind not commonly 
found elsewhere. 
Whether your selection be a Desk, Table, or 
other piece of substantial value, or some small 
articles of trifling cost, it is a gift “worth while,” —• 
a gift to be treasured in daily service for years to 
come. 
Our Trademark and Seventy 
Years’ Reputation is 
Your Guarantee. 
Geo. C. Flint Ca 
4S-47 West 23 - St 
West 24*-^ St. 
A Greenhouse Question Answered 
“ T T OW large a house do I need?” is a question 
X J. we are continually asked. And we an¬ 
swer: “That depends entirely on what you 
want to grow, and the location you have for your 
greenhouse.” 
After you have told us these two things, then 
we can suggest certain subjects in our new catalog. 
After that will follow some little letter writing, or, 
if you wish, a personal interview. The house can 
then-be ordered, with a perfect assurance on your 
part that all is going to be entirely satisfactory. 
You will have none of the usual building e.xaspera- 
tions and discouragements. You have no further 
responsibility—no worries—that is all up to us. 
For over a quarter of a century we have been 
doing business in this way. It has worked admir¬ 
ably. 
Write us and we will send you the new 104-page 
catalog. 
Spring Street 
O m p 8L V Elizabeth, N. J. 
dow is not a very attractive proposition 
in the ordinary home. It belongs more 
to business and public buildings, where 
enormous windows are used in thick walls,, 
where it is not easy to swing them either 
in or out. These can be pivoted to swing- 
either horizontally or vertically, as the oc¬ 
casion may suggest. 
In the house proper there are several 
points that suggest themselves as good 
places for the use of casement windows. 
If there is a sun room about the house this 
is an ideal room to enclose with casement 
windows so that one can get air as well 
as sun and open them up when the weather 
is balmy, and close them and get the ben¬ 
efit of the sun when the weather is too 
crisp outside for enjoyment. 
Dining-rooms and conservatories may 
be treated to a fair share of casement win¬ 
dows, and they bring relief, too, in 
kitchens that are inclined to be stuffy or 
that are in a climate where lots of air is 
wanted during the hot season. The same 
amount of windows in hinged sash will 
give you just twice the amount of open 
space that you get out of the regular slid¬ 
ing sash. So, it is easy to figure the ad¬ 
vantages in relieving the stuffiness of the 
kitchen or of producing airiness in the 
dining-room by the use of casement win¬ 
dows. 
Where there are dining-rooms, conser¬ 
vatories, or other rooms opening on to 
verandas it is an excellent place to use the 
French type of casement window, which is 
really a sash door, but it is distinguished 
from the sash door proper ’.i that the 
window sash is a very light sash, whereas 
the door sash is a hevay frame—a frame 
similar to that of other doors. One can 
make these French windows as simple and 
plain or as elaborate as may be desired. 
If one is on the lookout for something 
good regardless of expense the French 
windows of beveled plate glass make a 
very attractive as well as a convenient 
opening, and one can either have them 
plain or elaborate and the sash bars de¬ 
signed in any manner desired. 
The English generally divide the top 
half of their casement sash in various 
smaller sections. Sometimes it is straight 
bars and other times cross bars. There is 
much in the present tendency of our own 
sliding sash windows that is suggestive of 
the English type of casement sash and it 
would be only a step to change our sliding 
sash to hinged sash, and we would have an 
improved representation of the typical 
English hinged casement window in this 
country. 
The greatest development in casement 
windows lately has been in the enclosing 
of sleeping porches and balconies. This 
is a good step in the right direction, too. 
It is helping popularize porch sleeping and 
to encourage the building of porches which 
may be opened up in the summer time 
either for rest porches or sleeping porches 
and may be closed up in winter time and 
still made use of. It not only gives one 
more service out of the porch, but it also 
serves as a protection to the porch floor 
and to the interior generally. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
