HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
See what an admirable finish it gives to 
the eaves of this house with its shingle 
thatch effect. 
The Solution, of Your 
Gutter Troubles 
I F you are a house owner, you know 
the constant annoyance and ex¬ 
pense your gutters are. If you 
are not, make sure when you do build 
that you use Hitchings’ Indestructible 
Cast Iron Gutters. 
The regular sheet metal gutters rust 
out before you know it, and the first 
intimation you have is the streaks of 
rust stain on your house. Even the 
costly copper gutters are short-lived 
in some vicinities. 
In England cast iron gutters are in 
use everywhere, and have been for 
over a century. They stand that de¬ 
structive climate for generations. 
Just so you can see the actual gut¬ 
ters themselves and know their shape, 
thickness, and so on, we will send you, 
at our expense, a section of each of 
the two styles. Along with it will be 
a circular explaining and illustrating 
the gutters fully. Write us. 
The Moulded Face Gutter is made in 6 
foot lengths, 5 inches unde and 3 deep. 
HITCHIN6S & COMPANY 
Meadow Street Elizabeth, N. J. 
Moe’s Dog and Cat 
Drinking Fountain 
HoIdsSpints. Wateralwaysavail- 
able—never slops over—dog can’t 
upset. Dead air space keeps water 
coot and fresh. Holds entire day's 
supply. No valves to get out of order 
—not complicated. If not at dealers, 
sent on receipt of price; nickel plated. 
$3.50; silver plated. $5.00. 
isfaction guaranteed. 
I OTIS & MOE, 
fifiOS.Dearborn.Cbicago 
to try them, but being dissatisfied gets up 
and hunts further. At last he finds it. 
If he is a little fellow, it may be in the 
rotted out heart of a prostrate hemlock. 
One of my acquaintances once crawled 
head first into such a retreat after a sup¬ 
posed coon, and was mightily surprised 
when he shot a last spring’s cub. The 
bear’s retreat may be between two rocks, 
with a down tree forming the roof, and 
an old top or brush heap well banked with 
snow makes a snug haven. Through the 
deepening blanket his warm breath makes 
a little blow hole. If some hunter chances 
upon it, he will dig down and put effective 
stop to the spring awakening. 
This story of the snow is a fascinating 
narrative. It is no fireside tale, to pass 
an idle hour while the toes are toasted, 
but takes one far afield, over broad, white 
meadows and in the crisp winter woods, in 
the very theater where all the action has 
occurred. The setting itself is sufficiently 
beautiful to lure one out. But when one 
can reconstruct all the vital scenes them¬ 
selves from the records in black and white 
— sometimes red — the interest is irresist¬ 
ible. Ordinarily the reports are full and 
complete, but there is upon occasion op¬ 
portunity for full sweep of the imagina¬ 
tion. It may be where one of the tiny 
mouse tracks has ceased, with no back 
trail. The snow holds no explanation, 
unless it be in little agitated patches on 
either side, brushed by the downy wings 
of some noiseless, swooping vagabond of 
the air, “such as,” to paraphrase the old 
English, “sleeps on the day and flies on 
the night, and haunts caverns and ques¬ 
tionable places, and no thing wots whence 
it comes nor whither it goes.” 
Forehandedness in the Vegetable 
Garden 
{Continued from page 37) 
the way. If the tops are cut back at 
transplanting about one-third it will im¬ 
prove the plants. 
Corn has to be handled somewhat dif¬ 
ferently. As it is not started until the 
frost is out of the ground, you can pro¬ 
cure sod, which should be cut into four 
or six inch squares, several inches thick. 
These are packed together, inverted, and 
the seed sown and covered with an inch 
or so of fine soil. When the weather is 
settled, these “hills” are set out, the sur¬ 
face of the sod being put two or three 
inches below the level of the ground. 
Squashes, melons and cucumbers may 
be started in the same way. But four-inch 
pots, packed in leaf mold or moss in deep 
flats, make a more convenient method. 
The scfil should be half very old rotted 
manure, and the pots at first only half 
filled and then filled in more as growth 
proceeds. Several seeds are sown in each 
pot, and the plants thinned to one or two. 
Potatoes are cut to one eye, half buried 
Sweet Peas 
With our five farms in Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey and California, we have the largest, 
most complete trial grounds , — "to prove all 
things." We were the first in America to grow 
“Spencers” and have to-day the choicest strains 
of these magnificent, gigantic, waved Sweet 
Peas. Unlike seeds generally sold, Burpee’s 
Re-Selected Stocks come absolutely true both 
to color and to superb Spencer type. 
Six Superb Spencers 
For 25 Cts. 
we will mail one regular packet 
each of Florence Nightingale, 
the largest and best lavender; Constance Oliver, rich 
rose pink on cream; Marie Corelli, beautiful, bril¬ 
liant crimson; Primrose Spencer, the best primrose; 
Senator Spencer, claret flaked on heliotrope; and 
W. T. Hutchins, apricot overlaid with blush-pink. 
These Six Superb Spencers are shown painted from 
nature on pages log and no of Burpee’s Annual for 
1912. Purchased separately they would cost 65 cts., 
but all six packets, with leaflet on culture, will be 
mailed for only 25 cts.; five collections for $1.00. 
Six Superfine Spencers 
For 25 Cts. 
Spencer, 
we will mail one regular ten 
cent packet each of Aurora 
orange-salmon flaked; Helen Lewis, rich 
crimson-orange; King Edward Spencer, glossy car¬ 
mine-scarlet; Mrs. C. W. Breadmore, picotee edged 
pink; Mrs. Hugh Dickson, lovely pinkish apricot, 
and a large packet (80 to 90 seeds) of Burpee's Best 
Blend for 1912 of Superb Spencer Seedlings. leaf¬ 
let on culture sent with each collection. 
Six Standard Spencers 
For 25 Cts. 
we will mail one regular ten 
cent packet each of Apple 
Blossom Spencer, rose and pink; Countess_ Spencer, 
the best pink; George Herbert, rosy carmine; Mrs. 
Routzahn, buff suffused with rose; Queen Victoria 
Spencer, primrose flushed pink, and Tennant Spen¬ 
cer, rich rosy purple. 
oc buys any one of the above three 
“O V..I.S. collections, any five collections for 
$1.00 and mailed to different addresses if so ordered. 
we will mail any two of the 
above collections together with 
a 15-cent packet of the most gorgeous, new Thomas 
Stevenson, making in all thirteen packets of 
Superb Spencers for only 50 cts. 
we will mail all three collections, 
neatly boxed, and also one regular 
packet of Thomas Stevenson, the charming new 
Gladys Burt, the dainty Ethel Roosevelt, and Burt 
pee's White Spencer, making in all twenty-two true 
Spencers for $1.00, together with our leaflet on cul¬ 
ture and paper on the Spencer Type of Sweet Peas. 
For 50 Cts. 
For $1.00 
BURPEE^S 
ANNUAL FOR 1912 
This “Silent Salesman” of the World’s Largest 
Mail-Order Seed Trade is a Bright Book of 178 Pages. 
It lells the plain truth about the Best Seeds that 
can be grown, — as proved at our famous Fordhook 
Farms — the largest, most complete_ Trial Grounds in 
America. Handsomely bound in lithographed covers, 
it shows, with the colored' plates. Six Specialties in' 
unequaled Vegetables, and Nine Beautiful New Flow¬ 
ers, including the most superb “Spencer” Sweet Peas. 
It is a Safe Guide to success in the garden and should 
be consulted by every one who plants seeds, whether 
for pleasure or profit. It is Mailed Free upon 
application. Shall we send YOU a copy? If so, 
kindly write to-day, naming House & Garden, and 
address ’ 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 
Philadelphia 
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