HOUSE AND GARDEN 
112 
August, 1913 
Group of houses erected for J. B. Dickinson, Morristown, N. J. 
GREENHOUSES 
WHAT THEY COST 
B riefly — from $250 up. in 
glancing through our orders for 
the past three years, the average 
price of the big and little houses we 
sell, figures out between two and three 
thousand dollars. 
The average used to be nearer 
$5,000. But in those days, only the 
so-called wealthy thought they could 
afford a greenhouse. 
But now all that has changed, and 
with the great and sane awakening to 
the joys of country 
living, there has 
come an apprecia- i * - -A 
tion of the numer- '' A ; Ell 
ous unthought-of - A- 
pleasures, which 
for a nominal ex- |||g|||g gas ||1S % 
penditure, a green- HMif ill 111 I 
house makes possi- H 
ble. 
So, where we 
used to sell one five-thousand-dollar 
house, there are ten two-thousand- 
dollar ones sold today. And as for 
our $250 houses, they are sprinkled all 
over the country. 
We tell you these things in a frank 
endeavor to show you that, like auto¬ 
mobiles, greenhouses are fast ceasing 
to be looked upon as a luxury, and are 
becoming one of the essentials of a 
complete home in the country. 
Let us send you our booklet showing 
our $250 house and 
a catalog showing 
various kinds from 
the modest ones to 
^ ie h° uses U P U the 
LA jw thousands. T h e n 
B |tl St 11 m mm y° u can select the 
® i!i it* one you want, and 
HuUgS we will gladly go 
into llh matter in 
detail with you. 
$250 house, which is the health giving hobby of 
Mrs. F. H. Lovell, of Madison, N. J. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
1505 Chestnut St. 
1170 Broadway 
FACTORY: ELIZABETH, N. J. 
SI 
NEW YORK CITY 
Residence of Joseph M. Dale, 
Asbury Park, N. J. 
W. C. & A. F. Cottrell, Archts. 
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In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
and delightful tree— Picea excelsa —and is 
one which grows rapidly, moreover, and is 
willing to put up with a variety of soils 
and with almost all kinds of climate— 
which is more than can be said of most of 
this class. Then there is our own hem¬ 
lock— Tsuga Canadensis — which, either 
for hedge or as a tree is without a peer, 
its graceful, waving wand-like branches 
draping a fine strength and ruggedness. 
The Austrian pine— Pinus Austriacus — 
much used because of its stout and rapid 
growth, requires distance if it is to be 
most effective, for it is altogether too 
coarse for real beauty, unless forming a 
part of a considerable landscape. It is a 
splendid windbreak, however, when 
planted in numbers, with the branches of 
each in close contact with its neighbors’. 
Long ago it was the fashion to plant 
arborvitae — Thuya occidentalis — much 
more frequently than it is planted to-day; 
and who does not remember some old 
places, somewhere, with a prim arbor- 
vitae hedge, or a long straight row of the 
pointed, slim, sentinel-like trees, outlining 
a driveway, perhaps? It is of all ever¬ 
green trees the one most suited to a very 
small place—indeed, it is almost the only 
one suited to such a place. And the densi¬ 
ty and persistence of its growth make it 
ideal both for screen and windbreak 
planting anywhere. But combinations of 
it and hemlock, for example—or spruce, 
or any of the large-growing trees must 
be avoided. Keep it by itself, just as 
everything else is to be kept by itself. 
And use it as a tree always, and never as 
a shrub. 
This really sums up the whole matter, 
whatever is to be planted; even the low- 
growing, small forms, not larger than 
shrubs though they may be, must never 
be used as shrubs are used. Shrubs are 
to be mixed together and intermingled— 
indeed, they must be planted in this way 
if they are to produce the best effect; but 
evergreens, first, last and all the time, are 
not ‘‘good mixers.” 
The Motor Emigrants 
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erty ?” asked Spence, belligerently and sud¬ 
denly, turning to the salesman. 
“Sixteen thousand dollars will buy it, I 
think,” was the quiet answer. “Mr. El¬ 
kins, the owner, is holding it at seventeen 
thousand, but I know he wants to sell it— 
I think it could be engineered at the lower 
figure.” 
“Why does he want to sell it?” de¬ 
manded Mr. Spence. “It looks all right.” 
“Oh, it is all right. Mr. Elkins just fell 
into an inheritance of sotne size and wants 
to get a bigger place. He’s talking of one 
a mile further on, with twenty acres. He 
loves to farm, for the fun of it, and he 
says he has been so successful here he 
wants to try it on a bigger scale. I’ll in- 
