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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
pEBRUARY/'-rgilS 
FLints Fine Furniture 
Exhibit of 
Spring and Summer Styles 
We invite inspection of our New Spring 
Patterns in Furniture for Country Homes and" 
particularly emphasize the guarantee in the 
Flint Trademark. 
In the world-wide competition for Excellence, 
the Flint Trademark stands for the highest fur¬ 
niture ideals. “Flint Quality” is recognized as 
“the best” — and Flint prices are proved to be 
uniformly lorv. 
REDUCTIONS 
During January of from 10 % to 50 % on many 
odd pieces and discontinued patterns. 
(Booklet illustrating Spring and 
SummerStyles mailed on request.) 
Geo. C Flint Co 
West 23- St 
Q 4-26 West 24*^ St. 
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Plan Your 
Out-J oor Pictures 
NOW! 
February is the planning time in every 
good gardener’s calendar. 
Of first consideration to home owners 
and garden lovers is the planning of the 
walks, the massing of shrubs, and the dis¬ 
position of trees. 
Use Wagner Landscape Service in work¬ 
ing out these details. It puts at your dis¬ 
posal the skill of expert landscape gardeners. 
Wagner’s Landscape stock and hardy 
flowers are unsurpassed in vigor, beauty 
and variety. 
Write Wagner now about Shrubs, 
Trees, and Flowers for your place. 
’“Plants and Plans for “Beautiful Sur= 
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Florists-Nurserymen-Landscape Gardeners 
Box 656 Sidney, Ohio 
cannas on each side of it and morning 
glories to clamber over it. We stuck moss 
in the crannies of the wall, and planted 
trailing nasturtiums on top. It was - the 
loveliest spot in our garden. 
Between the two front beds in the ter¬ 
race garden the Amateur Gardener made 
the entrance. There are two low steps 
made of railroad ties, and on either side 
a low stone post of rough field stones, 
put together without mortar, like those 
in the wall. These posts are filled with 
soil, and in each grew last summer a tall 
spreading plant of scarlet sage and a tan¬ 
gle of parlor ivy. It made a charming en¬ 
trance to the little garden, and gave just 
the right touch of informal formality, to 
employ a paradoxical statement. 
By the time the Amateur Gardener had 
finished being a carpenter and a mason, 
events of great importance were beginning 
to take place in our garden. I have never 
spent such an interesting and exciting 
summer. When the long-expected green 
things popped up out of the beds we felt 
as proud as a fond mother when baby 
cuts his first tooth. On the whole, the 
garden treated us well. In the back beds 
the portulaca, the phlox, and the larkspur 
made the blaze of color the catalogues had 
promised us. The four o’clocks adorned 
our afternoons with beauty. The nastur¬ 
tiums on the stone wall flourished, but as 
for the ones in the beds — the less said 
about them the better. We had a very 
hot, dry spell when the plants were young, 
and, discouraged by this setback, they re¬ 
fused to “make good.” But the lily bed 
helped us to forget this behavior of the 
nasturtiums. It was wonderful. Each ' 
blossom lived only a day, but the buds 
were so numerous that the bed was filled 
with bloom for over a month. When I 
went out to look at the lilies in the morn¬ 
ing I was always reminded of Omar 
Khayyam’s “Each morn a thousand roses 
brings, you say.” 
Almost as soon as the lilies had gone 
the dwarf sunflowers began to bloom, and 
gave us until frost a tall growth of golden 
and lemon-yellow flowers. For prolific 
and long-continued blooming, however, 
we decided that the palm must go to the 
petunias. The little plants grew tremen¬ 
dously, and by the middle of July had 
completely filled the bed with a mass of 
flowers, shading from white through a 
pinkish lavender to the deepest of purples. 
The number of blooms did not apparently 
begin to diminish until the first of October. 
The cosmos planted along the sides of 
the house was a great disappointment. 
It grew fairly well, but for some reason 
the effect wasn’t at all good. However, 
one learns by experience, and next year 
the cosmos will be banished elsewhere. 
But the morning' glories made up for 
everything! They climbed madly up the 
strings provided for them — two or three 
vines to a string, so lavish had been our 
planting — and when they reached the top 
they kept on growing, and foamed down 
again in a twisty cascade of heart-shaped 
leaves and soap-bubble tinted flowers. It 
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