HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1912 
Although cast iron, these indestructible gutters 
do not look any heavier than those of tin or cop¬ 
per. They are made in two styles. This is the 
hanging one. The moulded face is more orna¬ 
mental. 
PUT THIS GUTTER 
ON YOUR HOUSE 
IT IS INDESTRUCTIBLE 
gutters on your house being 
up out of reach and out of 
sight, you can’t tell whether the paint 
is on or off, and first thing you know 
they are leaking and the side of your 
house is all streaked. 
You endeavor to get every other 
part of your house as lasting as pos¬ 
sible, so why make an exception to 
your gutters — one of the most im¬ 
portant of items ? 
England has experimented with 
the same kind of gutters we make for 
two centuries or more. So you are 
not endangering your house by try¬ 
ing out some new fangle thing. 
They are made of cast iron. A 
high grade iron cast smooth, straight 
and of uniform thickness. They will 
outlast the best copper gutter you 
can buy, and won't begin to cost as 
much. 
They form an ornamental feature 
of the eave — are easy to erect — need 
no repairs. 
Let us send you short lengths of 
each kind of gutter at our expense. 
We want you to see the gutter itself, 
and we will leave the rest to your 
sense of the practical. 
Send for circular and along will 
come the gutter lengths. 
Half Round Hanging Gutters are made in 6 foot 
lengths and in two different sizes. 
HITCHINGS & COMPANY 
Meadow Street Elizabeth, N. J, 
r-STRAWBERRY PLANTS- 
I care not how many berries yon are getting per acre, !f 
yon use my plants, you can eet more. I have devoted 21 
years to up-breeding and improving the strawberry. Each 
year I have produced new and more productive strains. 
THOMAS PURE BRED PLANTS 
are prolific bearers, guaranteed true to label. 
Cost no more than “average quality” plants. 
This one thing I do—I br<>ed strawberry 
plants, have 200 acres. I will select varieties 
best suited to your soil and climate. Send 
for my 48 page Strawberry Book. Contains 65 
superb engravings, tells how to plant, 
cultivate, market. "W^rite to-day. It’s free. 
W w THnWlAC strawberry Plant Man' 
■ m. muiviMo, 276 main st., anna, Illinois, 
The Planting Month for Roses 
{Continued front page 33) 
with great care, as an overdose will work 
injury. Wood ashes may be used as a top 
dressing after the first spring cultivation 
— which should be only one of numerous 
cultivations, as the loose top soil is an 
admirable mulch. 
Roses should be ordered early. If they 
happen to arrive before the ground is pre¬ 
pared for them, they can always be ‘‘heeled 
in’’ somewhere in the vegetable garden. 
If this is not possible, place the plants, up¬ 
right, in the cellar and put a little earth 
over the roots. Let them have air circu¬ 
lation and enough water to keep from dry¬ 
ing. Before planting it will do the roots 
good to soak them in lukewarm water or 
thin mud for about an hour. 
As for the best varieties of roses to 
order, that opens up a vast subject on many 
points of which rose growers will never 
agree. It is safe to say, however, that the 
best all-around type of rose for the garden 
is the hybrid perpetual, sometimes called 
hybrid remontant. It stands the northern 
winter most surely and can be depended on 
for a wealth of blossoms in season and a 
few out of season. This forms the largest 
and most important group of hardy roses. 
Its hardiness, combined with the blossom¬ 
ing capacity of the tea, is chiefly responsi¬ 
ble for the growing class of everblooming 
hybrid tea-roses. Among the most satis¬ 
factory of the roses of these two types are: 
Hybrid Perpetuals 
Baroness Rothschild. 
pale pink 
Alfred Colcomb. 
.cherry red 
T ouis van Hontte. 
.crimson 
Anne de Diesbach. 
.carmine 
General Jacqueminot. 
.red 
Gloire de Margottin. 
.red 
Mabel Morrison. .. 
white 
Mrs. John Laing-. 
.pink 
Paul Neyron. 
.bright pink 
Marshall P. Wilder. 
.crimson 
Ulrich Brunner. 
.crimson 
Prince Camille de Rohan. 
.maroon 
Giant of Battles. 
.crimson 
Perle des Blanches. 
.white 
Captain Christy.'. . . 
.pale pink 
Erau Karl Druschki. 
.white 
Magna Charta. 
.red 
Hybrid Teas 
Gruss an Teplitz. 
.red 
Killarney . 
.pink 
La Erance. 
.silvery pink 
Liberty. 
.crimson scarlet 
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria.white 
Caroline Testout. 
.rose 
Richmond . 
.crimson scarlet 
Konigin Carola. 
.rose 
Souvenir du President Car 
not . 
.soft rose 
IMrs. Aaron Ward. 
.yellow 
Mt. Maryland. 
.pine 
Souvenir de Wooton. 
.deep rose 
The ordinary tea roses are hardy in 
parts of the North if banked with earth or 
covered thickly with leaves held in place 
by chicken wire or a box. In my own gar- 
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 
P—j, oe OP® 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 109 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. 
\ 
SixSuperf ine Spencers 
OC C^i-c '''® °*’® tegular ten 
V-^Lo. cent packet each of Aurora 
Spencer, 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 go seeds) of Burpee’s Best 
Blend for 1912 of Superb Spencer Seedlings. leaf¬ 
let on culture sent with each collection. 
Six Standard Spencers 
P—y. OC P'Y-o we will mail one regular ten 
* v.^L&. 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 P'-l-c buys any one of the above three 
\-L&. rollertinn-; 
$ 1.00 
collections, any five collections for 
and mailed to different addresses if so ordered. 
For 50 Cts. 
For $1.00 
we will mail any two of the 
above collections together with 
a i5-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 Bur¬ 
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. 
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 tells 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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