HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
A welcome spot on a hot day 
The veranda fitted with Komi Green 
Painted Porch Curtains offers a cheerful 
welcome to summer-day visitors. It adds 
to the house a shady, out-door room in 
which to entertain your friends. 
« Green Painted 
jnLLrlill Porch Curtains 
will stand all kinds of weather and wilt 
not fade. They are made of tough bam¬ 
boo and fitted with galvanized blocks and 
cotton rope. Ask your dealer to show 
you Komi Porch Curtains—they cost so 
little and mean so much in comfort that 
no home should be without them. If 
your dealer doesn’t handle them, write 
to us. 
R. H. COMEY CO., Camden, N. J. 
3440-2448 Washburn Ave., Chicago 
Landscape Gardening 
.-\ course for Homemakers and 
Gardeners taught by Prof. Craig 
and Prof. Beal of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. 
Gardeners who understand up- 
to-date methods and practice are 
in demand for the best positions. 
A knowledge of Landscape 
Gardening is indispensable to 
those who would have the pleas¬ 
antest homes. 
250 page Catalog free. tVrifc to-day. 
THE HONE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 
Dept. 226, Springfield, Mass. 
YOU CAN HAVE " 
EARLY VEGETABLES, 
fully a month or more ahead of your neighbors, by 
sowing the seeds during FEBRUARY, in paperpots 
in the house. (Much preferable to earthern-ware.) 
LIST of BEST SORTS for EARLY PLANTING | 
Bush Beans, Choicest Lima, 
Brussels Sprouts, Abundance, 
Cabbage, Early Danish Giant, 
Cauliflower, Early Snowball, 
Celery, White or Golden Plume, 
Eggplant, Improved Spineless, 
Sweet Corn, Golden Bantam, 
Sweet Corn, Country Gentleman, 
Muskraelon, Emerald Gem. 
Muskmelon, Fordhook prize, 
Watermelon, Honey dew, 
Parsley, Moss curled, 
Pepper, Sweet Giant, 
Kohlrabi, Early delight. 
Tomato, Early Jewel, 
Tomato, Dwarf Stone, 
Tomato, Ponderosa. 
Herbs, Marjoram, 
Herbs, Thyme. 
Herbs, Savory. 
Any of above single packets . 10 cents 
12 I’aekets, your choice . $1.00 
20 Packets, your choice . $1.50, postpaid 
With every purchase amounting to $1.00 we send FREE 
one Dozen Paperpots. 
With every packet sent, we mail ‘‘FULL DIRECTIONS 
how best to succeed with EARLY VEGETABLES started 
In the house.” 
Our IDEAL GARDEN BOOK for 1912 is free to all. 
SEND FOR IT. Address: 
H. H. BERGER & CO. 
70 Warren St., (Established'l87R) New York City 
cut the end cleanly, stuck it about an inch 
down into good black dirt in a shady place 
in the garden and set a fruit jar over it, 
piling the dirt nearly half way up the jar. 
This was in June. I could see through 
the glass that the cutting was not dead and 
meant to let it stay undisturbed in its im¬ 
provised hot house all winter, but—that 
fall the whole garden had to be shifted. 
When the baby bush came up it had no 
roots, but a white bunch at the end of the 
stem that looked promising, so it was reset 
under its jar. The next spring it put out 
leaves in businesslike fashion and pro¬ 
ceeded to grow, so I took off the jar. The 
little bush stretched itself proudly like a 
boy in his first “long pants,” threw out 
branches and grew a foot high that sum¬ 
mer. It did not blossom. 
In autumn it was cut back a little, pro¬ 
tected as the other hybrid perpetuals were 
with strawy manure and left to take its 
chance. The next season it bore twenty 
roses. Not so large as the mother flower, 
which grew on a three-year, disbudded 
bush, but lovely roses nevertheless. 
I have since tried stems of other per¬ 
petuals, teas, hybrid teas, ramblers and 
the old hardy roses. Under the same 
treatment, some rooted and others from 
the same bush did not. But I have ex¬ 
perimented and found that sun will not 
do as well as shade; that a box with cleats 
inside to hold a pane of glass is as good 
as jars; not to crowd cuttings; that ram- 
bleip and teas root the easiest; that root¬ 
ing roses need plenty of moisture. And 
I have never succeeded in rooting any 
sort of rose cutting but the blossom end 
of a stem. Florists do it, in greenhouses, 
but T can’t, outdoors. 
A Word on Furniture 
I THOUGHT it would come,” exclaimed 
the old-furniture lover, as he and his 
companion stopped before the elaborately 
arranged “room” of a department store 
window. He pointed to a bed-frame, 
tricked out in the reproductions of old- 
fashioned Colonial drapery. 
“Notice anything peculiar about it?” he 
asked. 
Here was a square post, well-propor¬ 
tioned, dull-finished bedstead of mahog¬ 
any. But wait—was it mahogany? The 
speaker looked at his friend quizzically, 
and his friend looked at him inquiringly. 
The former smiled. 
“Just metal tubing, grained ‘mahogany.’ 
Handsome, isn't it? Meant to go with old 
Sheraton pieces, or reproductions in ma¬ 
hogany, in the modern bedroom of the 
swell sort. Clever? Yes. Artistic? No.” 
The graining work of this metal bed 
creation was of a high grade. Five feet 
away in the glare of daylight only an ex¬ 
pert in finishes could tell the difference by 
the eye. * 
“Of what avail the teachings of William 
Morris, that apostle of sincerity in furni- 
Dignity and refinement are given to the country 
place by the proper arrangement, against an appropri¬ 
ate setting, of Garden Ornaments. 
Our models are of Pompeian Stone, an artificial 
product that is everlasting. Send today for illus¬ 
trated catalogue F. 
Visit our exhibition at the N. Y. Cement Show. 
THE ERKINS STUDIOS 
The largest manufacturers of Ornamental Stone. 
226 Lexington Ave., New York. Factory, Astoria, L. 1. 
New York Selling AgoiHs—Ricceri Florentine Terra Cotta. 
On the Estate of Douglas Alexander, Esq., Stamford, Conn. 
KName stamped indelibly on every 
foot) 
The man who builds a house without 
asking about the sash-cord to be used 
is laying up trouble for himself. In¬ 
sist that the specifications mention 
SILVER LAKE A. Its smooth sur¬ 
face offers nothing on which the 
pulley can catch. Guaranteed for 
Twenty years. 
Write /or Fret Booklet, 
SILVER LAKE COMPANY 
87 Chauncey St., 
Boston, Mass. 
Makers of SILVER 
LAKE solid braided 
clothes 
lines. 
CRAFTSMAN 
HOUSE PLANS FREE 
Send 6c for a copy of “84 CRAFTSMAN HOUSES,” 
showing exterior and floor plans of 24 houses that cost from 
$900 up to build. To interest you m oui magazine, "THE 
CRAFTSMAN,” our FREE HOUSE PLANS and 
in Craft articles, we will also send you a beautifully printed 
32-page booklet entitled “The Craftsman House.” If you are 
interested at all, both of these books wRl be very useful 
to you. 
" THE CRAFTSMAN IDEA” means REAL HOMES, 
not mere houses: it shows you how to save money on use¬ 
less partitions—how to avoid over-decoration, how to get 
wide sweeps of space (even in a small house), restful tones 
that match and nlend—and enables anyone always to have 
a beautiful and artistic home. 
"THE CRAFTSMAN MAGAZINE" treats of building, 
furnishing and beautifying homes—of art—embroidery- 
cabinet work—and kindred topics. In the Magazine each 
month are published the plans of two new and entirely 
different houses. Already we have shown 130 houses, and 
you can have your own choice of them. 
" CRAFTSMAN HOMES,” by Gustav Stickley. 205 
pages beautifully bormd and printed, treats of home budd¬ 
ing, home making, home furnishings in full. Address, 
"The CRAFTSMAN” Ben. Wiles, Clr. Manager, 
Room 305,_ 41 W. 34th gt.. New York City 
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