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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1913 
PO UL TR Y DEPAR TMENT 
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. 
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Send for Sample and Victoria Poultry Book. 
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Bob White Quail, Partridges' and Pheasants 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Qualls, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Geese and Docks, Foxes, Squirrels, Ferrets, 
etc., and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist 
Dept. Y. Pbeasantry and Game Park YARDLEY, PA. 
OF COURSE ! 
“The Wood 
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Active cold air circulation—Sanitary linings. 
Send for Catalogue. 
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Let Me Send You the Best of My 
1200 Kinds of Betscher Peonies 
They bloom, increase in quantity and achieve 
more beauty year by year for you, your chil¬ 
dren and grandchildren. GLADIOLI BET- 
SCHERI — marks the perfection attained 
through long study and experiment in plant 
and flower breeding. Discriminating flower 
lovers and experts call them wonderful. Let 
me advise you bow best to have a bed of 
gorgeous peonies. Bulbs, $2.50 up per dozen. 
Extreme range of coloring; Iris, $1 doz., for 
cash. Order now — plant this fall —write for 
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Dept. T, Canal Dover, O. 
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Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheas¬ 
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Ornamental Ducks and Geese, 
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“Everything in the bird line from a 
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G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
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A WORD TO THE HOUSEKEEPER 
Last year you had to take the second-best In your 
Improvements because the best was beyond the reach 
of your designers and there were no experts In your 
locality. 
House and Garden Is the advisor you need If you 
contemplate improvements of any kind about the house 
or garden. It covers the field of decoration, furnishing 
and gardening with authority, artistic taste and pre¬ 
cision, and its purpose is to make the home more 
beautiful and more livable. The beauty of the magazine 
and its illustrations will be a pleasure for you, even 
If you do not plan any changes or improvements just 
now. Let your subscriptions start with August 1st, and 
Include this helpful expert among your regular visitors. 
$3.00 a year; 25 cents a copy. 
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Ask for Helps No. 18. Sent free on request. 
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P. S. A. Trenton. Now Jersey. 
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One of our Pompeian Stone Bird Baths 
will give new charm to your garden. We 
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benches, vases, fountains, bird baths, 
statuary and pedestals. Send for free 
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Fall Garden Guide now ready. It’s 
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334 West 14th Street New York City 
things. Christmas we added to the above 
menu the spinach. January added kale 
and carrots to the list, and there are pars¬ 
ley and mint all the year. 
From the viewpoint of esthetics alone 
the winter garden is well worth while. 
The beautiful rows of fresh green edibles 
instead of barren soil at a time when the 
earth is not expected to be fertile is sur¬ 
prisingly refreshing. 
Summary of Vegetables for 
Fall Sowings 
Lettuce — Silver Ball, All Heart, Big Bos¬ 
ton. 
Kale — Dwarf Scotch, Tall Scotch. 
Spinach — Long Standing, Bloomsdale 
Savoy. 
Radishes — Chinese Rose Winter, Long 
Black Spanish, Scarlet turnip white- 
tipped, Early scarlet turnip (to be 
planted in the order named for winter 
and spring succession). 
Rape — Dwarf Essex or Georgia Salad. 
Celery — Monarch, Golden Self-blanching. 
Carrots — Chantenay. 
The Collector’s Corner 
Conducted by N. Hudson Moore 
The editor of this department will be 
glad to answer inquiries as to the subjects 
of which it treats. For a direct personal 
reply, please enclose stamped, addressed 
envelope. 
Slant Top Desk 
T HE interesting desk shown in the ac¬ 
companying photograph has a num¬ 
ber of things about it to make it of value 
to the collector, and it is worthy of study 
by the novice who “wants to know.” 
It is undoubtedly of American make, be¬ 
longs to the second half of the Seventeenth 
Century, has the original drop handles, the 
front is covered with burl veneer, and the 
(beading is upon the frame, not on the 
drawers. The earliest beading on furni¬ 
ture belonging to the last half of the Sev¬ 
enteenth and early Eighteenth Centuries 
was a single line. Then came a double 
line like that on our desk; later the bead¬ 
ing was placed upon the drawers, and later 
yet was the overlapping drawer which 
covered up the opening between drawer 
and frame. 
Such pieces as this were built when the 
art of writing had become more generally 
known and the small portable desk had 
outlived its usefulness. The lack of banks 
and places of deposit necessitated some 
safe place for the storing of papers and 
money, so such a desk as this had become 
almost a household necessity. 
Burl veneer is veneer cut from a burl or 
knot of a tree, which gives great variations 
and unusual patterns in the grain. Knot 
bowls of apple, pear or maple wood were 
much in demand among our ancestors. 
After the knot was properly seasoned it 
was turned by the village cabinet-maker. 
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