HOUSE AND GARDEN | 
April, 
1912 
We want every 
man who makes 
a garden or who 
raises poultry 
to send at 
once for 
this book. 
is free 
rite to-day. 
your local 
laler can’t 
how you 
■on Age 
ools, 
Makers of 
a complete line 
of farm, garden and 
orchard tools. Special 
let on each class of implements 
EVERY HOUSE ^ GARDEN 
READER SHOULD HAVE 
THIS BOOK 
It is for the man or woman who 
s interested in working the soil, 
either for growing a garden of any 
kind,or plowing in the poultry ya d. 
Its purpose is to show what mod¬ 
ern tools accomplish toward making 
the garden more bountiful, more 
profitable and a source of more fun. 
Garden Wheel Hose 
Seed Drills and Fertilizer 
Distributors 
With their 38 or more combinations, offer you opportunities for 
better gardening to W'hich you may have heretofore been blind. 
The numerous attachments add both efficiency and economy to these 
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Box 64. 
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GRENLOCH, N. J., U. S. A- 
THE PALM BEACH CHAIR 
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Cushings in red, brown and green (denim), $1.50 additional. 
If you order without delay you may depend on prompt shipment as we fill 
orders in rotation as received F. O. B. New York. 
Sketch sheets showing a great diversity of styles with price-list mailed free 
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Odd pieces of furniture, artistic draperies 
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T he Administration Building 
at Sault Ste. Marie Locks is 
roofed with Asbestos “Cen¬ 
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were specified by the United States 
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conceded to be authoritative in all 
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responsible roofer—or write us for 
Booklet “Roofing: A Practical 
Talk.” 
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Branch Offices in Principal 
Cities of the United States 
How does your porch 
look to the passer-by 
Has it got that cool, restful appearance 
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outside, they also turn it into a pleasant 
outdoor living room. 
Green Painted 
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the sun out, but let the cool breezes in. They give 
you perfect privacy, yet you can see all who pass. 
If your dealer cannot supply you, write to us for 
full information and the name of a dealer who can. 
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2440-2448 Washburn Ave., Chicago 
{Continued from page 78) 
place the small fruits according to the same 
general instructions that have been given 
for planting the shrubbery borders, or gen¬ 
eral arrangement of shrubs; that is, of 
course, with certain limitations. The 
grape-vine is ideal for arbors and may 
also be trained for porches. The small 
fruits may often be trained up against a 
flat wall in much the same manner. In¬ 
deed, it is only when such treatment is 
used that one appreciates the beauty of 
the flowers of such plants as the black¬ 
berry, for instance. In general, then, the 
idea is to plant your garden as you have 
been advised, laying most stress upon 
shrubs, vines and trees, but substituting 
for the merely decorative ones those that 
are fruitful and beautiful as well. There is 
no reason why you should forego entirely 
the pleasures of hardy bloom in beds, but 
one should restrict their use as much as 
possible wherever berry, fruit or vegetable 
may be used instead. 
A Garden of Yesterday 
{Continued from page 13) 
for him to get wet, and there are so many 
other things I would like to show you. I’m 
sorry you can't come. 
On one table there is a picture of Grand¬ 
father. Grandmother always dusts that ta¬ 
ble.' She puts fresh flowers there, too, 
every morning in a little vase. Then she 
picks up the picture and kisses Grand¬ 
father and I don’t talk to her. 
Oh, Reader — look in my eyes — do you 
understand ? 
I am not a little girl! It has all gone— 
the old garden, the days of play and nights 
of dreaming through insect song, and 
Grandmother has no longer need of Grand¬ 
father’s picture. 
Look quickly down the lane of Long 
Ago if you would see a little girl running 
hard toward a white house with dormer 
windows. That is when she would leave 
her own home to come on one of those 
visits. The stage lets her down at the big 
gate. Then she runs past the little whis¬ 
pering grove, past the two horsechestnut 
trees that hold the hammock, past the cir¬ 
cle where the trumpet creeper climbs high. 
The little girl is almost out of breath. 
The door of the house opens. An old lady 
comes out and stands on the porch. The 
curls each side of her face are twilight 
grey and the little girl’s curls are yellow in 
the morning of life. There is a rush into 
open arms — “Oh ! Grandmother — I’ve 
come!” 
Shut the double door very gently. Lead 
other little girls’ feet of your guiding into 
the garden of a Now, that perchance, some 
time in the years to come they may lean 
out of the window of remembrance and say 
“Make me a child again.” 
When the fragrance of the Past steals 
back as from a faded rose, how sweet. 
But if not - 
Whose the reproach ? Whose the gar¬ 
den spot, unplanted? 
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