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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March. 1912 
ALL HOME OWNERS SHOULD USE 
Underground 
GARBAGE RECEIVER 
Underfloor Refuse Receiver 
Underground Earth Closet 
Spiral Truss Ribbed Ash Barrel 
FOR GARBAGE 
Clean, odorless and 
Permanent. Will not 
attract cats, dogs, flies 
and other vermin. 
As it sets in ground. 
Opens with the foot. 
FOR HOUSE 
Fireproof, level with 
floor. Easy to sweep 
into. Safe, sanitary. 
Note neat apnearance 
and convenience. 
FOR HOUSE 
Less weight. No Un¬ 
sanitary corrugations. 
A rolling bottom. 
Spiral Truss Ribs 
Double the life. 
FOR GARAGE 
Holds oily waste and 
sweepings. Occupies 
no floor space. 
Refuse out of sight. 
Sanitary and neat. 
FOR CAMPS 
Prevents pollution 
of the water supply 
sanitary necessity 
for camp or farm. 
SOLD DIRECT 
Send for circulars on each. 
C. H. Stephenson, Mfr., Lynn, Mass. 
Factory and Salesroom, 20 Farrar St., 
Nine years on the market. 
IT PAYS TO LOOK US UP. 
VaMian's Gladiolus 
Bufts 
The best results in flower beds 
and borders are secured from 
picked bulbsof superiorquality 
Vaughan’s Flower Bulbs and Roots 
profiuce plants that are sure to 
hloonu Florists and private gar¬ 
deners have used them for 35 years. 
Our Gladiolus Princeps, Mrs. 
Frances King and Margaret are 
famous. 
35 th Vaughan’s 
Annual 
Catalogue 
mailed FREE to all buyers of 
Garden Seeds, Flower Seeds. Green¬ 
house Plants, Shrubs & Hardy Plants. 
8PECIAL--For $1 wo will send pre- 
pai<l 25 Hulbn, comprising Now 
Blues,Finks,Yellows and Lilaes, in 
an even, well-proportioned mixture, also 
1 ounce each Vaiig:han*8 Spencer 
Sweet Peas, mixed, and newest tall 
Nasturtiums, mixed, r 50 small bulbs of 
abovemixture togetherwithourcatalog. 25c. 
The Gladiolus, new book. 120pp. postpaid 91.25 
VAUGHAN’S SEED STORE 
Sl-'dS W. Randolph Street, Chicago 
29 Barclay Street, New York 
TOY WHITE FRENCH POODLE PUPS, sired 
by FUZZ, Stewart Famous Prize Winner. 
Also Pomeranian Pups. Pedigreed Stock. 
Send Stamp for reply. 
MRS. G. C. RHODE, Ann Arbor Mich. 
Property Is Yours 
Emphasize the division between what is 
yours and what is not with the appropriate 
design of 
AMERICAN IRON 
OR WIRE FENCE 
Wiiether your property be iarge or smaii— 
whether yon desire to enciose it in whoie 
or part (for instance, a lawn tennis court, 
poultry yard or boundary line), you will 
find many suggestions in our loose leaf cata¬ 
log. 
Send for it now. 
AMERICAN FENCE CONSTRUCTION CO. 
100 Church St. New York 
Formerly Fence Dept. American Wire Form Co. 
To those suffici¬ 
ently interested 
in house building 
we commend the 
very practica 
little publication: 
“A Book of 
House Designs 
Contains Prize Winning Drawings of the 
best types of residence architecture, with 
full floor plans, all especially adapted to 
NATCO HOLLOW TILE construction. 
Book is 8^2 X inches, 64 pages; its cost is 25 c. 
We shall be pleased to forward upon receipt of price. 
NATIONAL FIRE PROOFING COMPANY 
DEPT. Y, - - PITTSBURGH, PA. 
DUTCH ROOTS and BULBS 
direct from Holland.' Newett- rotes, dahlias, etc 
Catalogue full of vital facts, FREE. Write to 
Gt. van Waveren & Kruijff, 
Amer.ean Branch Houm 142 N. 13th St.. Ph>Ua«lphl 
You’ll get real comfort and 
pleasure out of your porch this 
summer if you equip it with 
Komi Green Painted Porch 
Curtains. They’ll make it a 
delightful outdoor living room. 
green painted 
IVwlVIl PORCH CURTAINS 
are made of specially selected 
bamboo painted with green 
paint. They won’t fade, are 
tough enough to stand all kinds 
of rough usage and rough 
weather. Sizes to fit almost any 
space always in stock. Ask 
your dealer to show you them— 
or write us for particulars and 
samples. 
R. H. COMEY CO., Camden, N. J. 
I Chicago, 2440 to 2448 Washburn Ave. 
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In similar manner can be constructed the 
stable or garage. 
The old mission and Mexican buildings 
were almost hidden by trees, and for those 
who appreciate landscape gardening this 
type of building affords a splendid oppor¬ 
tunity for artistic effect. 
This Mission style of architecture is not 
applicable to congested city uses, where 
land is so valuable and height of building 
is the ambition, but when applied to coun¬ 
try or suburban uses, what is more appro¬ 
priate? What can be more refreshing than 
after the labors of the day to leave the city 
with its confusion and jumbled collection 
of all kinds and styles of architecture, as 
seen in the average business streets of all 
our cities, to come to the country home 
with its quiet and rest? 
The modern houses of red brick, the fan¬ 
ciful reproduction and imitations of cas¬ 
tles and chateaux, often perched in the 
most inappropriate positions, become irk¬ 
some. Instead of this we come to the 
quiet and restful Mission with its setting 
of trees, flowers, vines and gardens. 
Spring Plant Overhauling 
E very year about February or March 
I give my house plans an overhauling. 
After the long winter in the house they 
need a freshening up, both as to soil and 
a general pruning, and while at that par¬ 
ticular time they may evidence no particu¬ 
lar signs of debility it is just this treatment 
at this particular time that will carry them 
through the summer and have them look¬ 
ing well when again taken into the house 
in the fall. The best of house plants, 
palms, ferns and rubbers cannot be kept 
looking in the best conditions without this 
spring toning up. It is the secret of keep¬ 
ing these plants in condition, as I have 
proved to my satisfaction. 
In February or March, as I have said, I 
do the work. First I examine the roots 
of every palm and fern that I have, by re¬ 
moving it carefully from the pot. If it is 
wormy-looking and lifeless and pot-bound 
I put it into a larger pot, a pot only one 
size larger. A pot too large will defeat the 
object of the potting. I disturb as little 
of the ball as possible and careful put it in 
the new pot. Then I fill up the spaces with 
the best loam I can get at a greenhouse, 
and I rain it into the pot very hard, using a 
stick to do it. This hard ramming is very 
necessary. When on examination I find 
a plant that shows poor roots I put it into 
a pot one size smaller than the one it was 
in, removing as little loam as possible to 
accomplish this. This is what the green¬ 
house man would call “potting back,” 
something the average amateur knows 
nothing about, as they sin most grievously 
on the “over-potting” side, which is a 
great mistake. 
{Continued on page 94 ) 
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