HOUSE AND GARDEN 
J 
ULY, I9I3 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
The Best Layers 
Are the Best Payers 
To be good layers and good hatchers, your 
hens must be healthy. Feed them on Victoria 
Poultry Food, the premier food of the world, 
and you will have hardy, active fowls, good 
layers and sturdy breeders. In season and out 
of season your hens will fill the egg basket. 
Manufactured by 
Spillers and Bakers, Ltd., Cardiff, England 
Send for Sample and Victoria Poultry Book. 
H. A. ROBINSON & CO. 
Importers 
128 Water Street New York City 
THE CHARM UNUSUAL 
One of our Pompeian Stone Bird Baths 
will give new charm to your garden. We 
manufacture a large variety of sundials, 
benches, vases, fountains, bird baths, 
statuary and pedestals. Send for free 
handsomely illustrated catalogue. 
THE ERKINS STUDIOS 
226 Lexington Avenue, New York 
The Largest Manufacturers of Orna¬ 
mental Stone. 
KEEP THIS MARK IN MIND 
It means MAK-GRO Odorless Plant Food and 
EARLY-CIiOP Odorless Fertilizer. If yon are one 
of the fortunate ones who are trying them out in 
your Garden this Summer, we do not have to 
explain. If you have not tried it, send for our 
literature and be prepared to use it INDOORS for 
your Fall Transplanting and for making LAWN, 
and for seeding down for PASTURE etc. and learn 
how to use it for next year—INDOORS AND 
OUTDOORS. From a pound box to a carload. 
CONSUMERS FERTILIZER COMPANY 
New York LongJAcre Building Suite F 
CONSUMERS 
fertilizer 
COMPANY 
Bob White Quail, Partridges 1 and Pheasants 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., tor stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, Squirrels, Ferret*, 
etc., and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist 
Dept. Y. Pheasantry and Game 'Park YARDLEY, PA. 
YAMA MINORCA 
EGGS are 
¥$ larger 
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than the so-called large first-class eggs 
in the NewYork market—they are infer¬ 
tile and are produced under modern 
sanitary conditions and shipped in 
sealed packages practically the hour laid. 
YAMA 
Napanoch 
FARMS 
New York 
S8E 
IH1 
G. D.TILLEY 
Naturalist 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheas¬ 
ants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, 
Flamingoes, Game and Cage Birds 
“Everything in the bird line from a 
Canary to an Ostrich" 
I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
dealer in land and water birds in America and have on 
hand the most extensive stock in the United States. 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
all the world 
no trip like tit is” 
STEAMSHIP “NORTH-LAND” 
The most delightful trip in America. The best way to make a trip between 
Buffalo and Chicago 
Tickets reading all rail accepted on Steamer at slight 
additional expense. Leaves Buffalo, Wednesday, and 
Chicago, Saturday. Season, June 18 to Sept. 3. 
Meals a la carte—special Club Breakfasts. Calls at 
Cleveland, Detroit, Mackinac Is., Harbor Springs and 
Milwaukee. 
Write, S. Lounsbery, General Passenger Agent, 1x84 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
NORTHERN STEAMSHIP CO. 
ceipts exceeded my expenses by about fif¬ 
teen dollars. 
Not such a bad venture after all, con¬ 
sidering that I am only a sixteen-year-old 
girl and have had no former experience 
with poultry. 
Frances Bullock 
A Weedy Garden 
I F I should invite you to come see my 
wild flower garden how disappointed 
you would be on arrival. You would ex¬ 
pect to find some imposing display. If 
you were not especially invited, and so 
given to believe that some brilliant show 
was in store for you, you might pause 
before the weedy carriage-way in passing, 
stroll in for a time, and perhaps sit some¬ 
where along the bit of stone wall which 
holds, a part of the way up the hill, the 
earth from careering away, together with 
weedy treasures, when the rain floods 
down the slope, as it sometimes does in 
very hard showers. You might even be 
betrayed into slipping a trowel from your 
pocket, and digging up a maidenhair fern, 
a dogtooth violet, or some other trifle from 
under foot. 
That people living near the heart of the 
town, where velvet lawns and delightfully 
respectable flower-borders abound, would 
consider such a place a garden might never 
enter your mind. There are many acres 
of it, chiefly in woodland where wood 
betony, pipsissewa, partridge vines and 
hepaticas nestle in among the mossy 
stones; bloodroots and anemones too, with 
a multitude of other humble children of 
the woods. 
Above these cypripediums hang out 
some fringes; the wands of the black 
snake-root send up their long racemes in 
companies; the yellow foxglove catch, 
through the canopy above, a gilding beam 
of the sun. It is just a wild place. No¬ 
body but nature does anything there. 
And so it is that the violets creep out 
close up to the house, the Canada May 
flower and spring beauties occupy their 
own niches quite close by the door, the 
blazing star is happily at home about a 
dozen feet or less from the window, and 
little wild things of various names look 
up at one from unexpected places. 
The place must he “unkept ?’’ Certainly 
it must be, else how could you or I find 
unexpected things like gold dollars in the 
grass? There are more weeds than need 
to be, but they scarcely count when neces¬ 
sarily there are so many. Who knows 
what may come up with a pull on an un¬ 
welcome weed ? But, after all, weeds, the 
most of them, are more or less delightful 
in their own humble way, and often those 
that do little but stand green and bloom¬ 
less along the roadside in summer, be¬ 
come forms of intense beauty beneath the 
winter snows and frosts. The weeds op¬ 
posite to us are never cut; they form an 
appropriate border to the strip of wood- 
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