HOUSE AND GARDEN 
M A 
V. 
1912 
Trees by 
their attractive¬ 
ness and their utility 
add to the property and 
rental value of a house, there¬ 
fore they should receive attention 
—but only by experts. 
We have an interesting book upon 
the subject of Tree Surgery which 
should be read by every man and 
woman who is interested in a home 
and its trees. If you are the owner 
of an estate, a country or city house 
with trees, we will mail you this book 
Free. It explains what the 
Davey Tree Experts 
Do 
It tells the fascinating story of John Davey, 
Father of Tree Surgery — the work he has 
accomplished — the institution he founded, and 
the wonderful results of his work. 
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unless he shows you credentials proving him 
qualified to perform the work. 
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Surgery carry such testimony, and are em¬ 
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Branch Offices: 
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A Better Room for the Children 
{Continued from page 23) 
bring the joinings in inconspicuous places, 
as at the edge of a print or in a corner. 
The glasses may be held securely in place 
by a molding at the top and at the bottom 
of the frieze or dado, as the case may be. 
The prints may be spaced in a number of 
arrangements, close together or far apart, 
one above the other, or alternating, and 
many or few prints can be used as the 
mother desires. The square prints cost 
35 cents each, the panel prints, 75 cents 
each. 
Instead of making the arrangement of 
the frieze merely a matter of color, the 
child may learn from the nursery decora¬ 
tion a lesson in natural history. One side 
of the wall might have prints of domes¬ 
tic animals, of which there is a wide selec¬ 
tion of subjects, roosters and hens and 
chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, cats, and 
mice. Another wall might have birds of 
the helds and woods, another of wild ani¬ 
mals, and the fourth wall the fishes and 
frogs. A story may be drawm from this 
object lesson, beginning with a stroll in 
the yard, venturing further into the field, 
and lastly losing one's self in the woods. 
In fact, the story telling value of these 
prints is one of their principal charms, and 
the mother who know^s and loves the best 
stories for children can weave innumer¬ 
able delightful tales around these prints. 
Indeed, the decorating and furnishing of 
a nursery seem to me to be not only a 
matter of harmonious color, least of all a 
collection of strictly commercial things 
such as one often sees in the so-called 
“best homes,” but an intelligent collection 
and arrangement of things that are going 
to be of lasting value in the development 
of the child’s education and personality. 
Of course, the selection of the wall paper, 
the furniture, the rugs, and the hangings 
must be made intelligently and with an 
appreciation for harmonious color and line 
also, but this done — and it is a very sim- 
I)le matter — it takes more thought and 
more time to bring into this room the 
things which make for its real distinctive¬ 
ness and permanent usefulness in the lives 
of the children. 
The Useful Columbine 
(Continued from page 24) 
several years. By sowing seed each sum¬ 
mer and bestowing upon the young plants 
the comparatively small labor of occa¬ 
sional weeding and one transplanting, a 
successful border of this charmingly dain¬ 
ty flower can be maintained. 
I find all of the forms interesting. 
There is the frail canadensis, called by 
Maeterlinck “tbe sad columbinea lav¬ 
ender and white of much the same form 
growls in the Canadian Rockies and I 
brought seed of it from there. The low- 
growdng and broad-flowered dabellata 
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