HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1912 
Hitchings and Co, 
Why Not Build That 
Qrapery 
By building it now you can have 
a crop a year from now. Fine, 
luscious fruit with that inimitable 
flavor obtainable only with grapes 
grown under glass. 
Think of going out into your grap¬ 
ery and picking full, beautifully 
developed bunches, when the vines 
outdoors are just showing leaf. 
Or if you choose you can have 
them for the holidays. 
By ordering a grapery now you 
can also use it this coming fall for 
growing chrysanthemums and so get 
a double service out of it. 
Send for 
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— “ FI i t c h i n g s_ 
Green houses” — it's a 
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are used for a wide variety of grow- 
■ng purposes. 
There’s a chapter devoted solely to 
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or if in New York, call at 1170 Broad¬ 
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Wagner Hardy I 
Flowers for beds and borders, rose gardens, 
peonies, iris, phlox, creepers, handsome 
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Wagner stock is splendid, vigorous, com¬ 
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Box 657 SIDNEY. OHIO 
of what may be described as a porcelain 
closet with a glass door. The effect is 
rather imposing and its installation in 
some cases reaches the level of interior 
architecture. That is, where it is actually 
set into the wall. Once within, it is as if 
one were hermetically sealed; the flying 
w'ater does not escape. Among portable 
shower baths there are new forms, at once 
ingenious and satisfactory. In the latest 
examples, the spray is upheld by a stand¬ 
ard of suffleient height to be overhead. 
Out from the circular spray there hangs a 
round shield of prepared canvas reaching 
the floor and surrounding the bather. The 
jets emanate both from the center and 
arms of the spray. They are of the “pin¬ 
point’’ variety, considered an aid to circu¬ 
lation. The attachment for water connec¬ 
tion presents no difficulty. The shower 
bath resembling the refreshing rain, is. 
perhaps, the most natural of all; and in 
primeval days some of our ancestors may 
have delighted to regale themselves in the 
drenching downpours. 
Of Englishmen it has been said that 
wherever they might go, you would find 
them accompanied by a Bible, a copy of 
Macaulay and a bath. It is not surprising, 
therefore, to find that from England comes 
one of the most luxurious ideas in the new 
accessories. W’hat should one do after 
a bath? Hurry to dress and away, or lin¬ 
ger a while in enjoyment of the glow pro¬ 
duced. Physicians tells us to he deliberate 
about our meals. iMight there not be 
something in being deliberate about our 
baths ? The English idea consists of a 
combination of a commodious and inviting 
bath chair of white enameled wicker, tlie 
\vhole being covered by a colossal towel, in 
the grateful and embracing folds of which 
one can sit and think—and dry. The Eng¬ 
lishman uses this time to peruse his paper 
and when he jumps up at last, he can 
throw the news into the white enameled 
wicker waste paper basket, which is flat¬ 
tened at the wall side, that it may stand 
close, and curved in front. All that re¬ 
mains is for the bather to weigh himself 
on the new white scales. They are com¬ 
pact, but sufficient to form a pedestal for 
the living statues surmounting them. The 
record is reflected in a mirror set at the 
pro]5er angle, so it can be read with a mere 
inclination of the head. All of which is 
surely convenience raised to the Ab* 
power ! 
Everyman’s Poultry Plant 
(Continued from page 31) 
116 dozen to the neighbors at an average 
price of forty cents a dozen, making $46.40 
in egg money. From four settings of 
eggs I raised thirty-five chickens, keeping 
fifteen pullets for layers next year, and 
using the others, mostly roosters, for the 
table. xAt an average price of one dollar 
each for choice fowls in the best of condi- 
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