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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1913 | 
Beautify 
Your 
Home 
WRITE for 
“Draping the 
Home,” a brochure 
of hints for home- 
lovers. It shows by 
practical examples how 
you can have beautiful draperies and up¬ 
holsteries that will never fade, at wonder¬ 
fully low cost, by using 
Orinoka 
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Absolutely color-fast to sun and water. Easily 
washed at home. Many weaves and patterns in 
endless color schemes, simple effects as well as 
more elaborate ones, all in good 
taste and adapted to every kind of 
room. Some fine reproductions of 
famous old art pieces. We will 
gladly furnish the name of dealer 
nearest you. 
ORINOKA MILLS 
215 Fourth Ave , New York 
GUARANTEE 
These goods are guaranteed absolutely 
fadeless If color changes from ex¬ 
posure to the sunlight or from washing, 
the merchant is hereby authorized to 
replace them with new goods or refund 
the purchase price. 
Ifus Tag and Guarantee on every bolt . 
ROSES ROSES 
Hybrid Tea Roses for fall planting. A 
choice collection of new and standard 
varieties, also Ramblers and Polyantha. 
PEONIES 
This is the right season to plant Peonies. 
White, pink and crimson varieties, strong 
divisions, $2.00 per doz. 
Festiva Maxima double white, extra. Due 
de Cazes and Ne Plus Ultra, choice pink, 
25c. each, $2.00 doz. 
Hardy old-fashioned garden flowers in fine variety. 
See Catalogues, sent free on application. 
W. TRICKER, Arlington, N. J. 
SOUTHERN GARDEN 
DEPARTMENT 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON. 
The un-iter of this department will gladly 
answer inquiries from Southern leadets in 
regard to their garden problems. Please 
enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope 
if a prompt personal reply is desired. 
Dependable Perennials 
F ROM the long list of perennials given 
in the catalogues of the nurserymen 
and by the writers of garden books for 
other sections, it seems hard that we who 
make gardens in the South should have 
our list of desirable and dependable peren¬ 
nials reduced to a mere baker’s dozen, but 
this is a true statement of the case not 
only of my case but of that of many of 
my garden-loving friends who have been 
beguiled by the pictures and stories in 
those above-mentioned books and also by 
their memories of the beautiful gardens of 
the East. 
Many trials, in every possible situation 
and under every known condition, much 
wasted energy and money, have convinced 
me that in order to grow perennials suc¬ 
cessfully in the South it is necessary to 
have Southern-raised plants. 
It is rather an easy matter to raise them 
from the seed. On September 12, 1912, I 
planted the seed of aquilegia, columbine, 
gaillardia, hollyhocks, phlox, sweet will¬ 
iams, foxgloves, Oriental and Iceland pop¬ 
pies, in rows in the borders on the west 
side of my garden. The situation was 
sheltered but sunny. 
The seed germinated promptly and the 
plants were left in these positions and un¬ 
protected until large enough to be trans¬ 
planted, which in most cases was not until 
February and March. The poppies were 
simply thinned out. The primary cost of 
the seed was about one dollar and fifty 
cents, and, from the planting, the garden 
was richer by at least one hundred hardy 
phlox, one hundred and fifty foxgloves, 
sweet williams in quantity, dozens of col¬ 
umbine plants, gaillardias by the score, a 
rich and beautiful bed of poppies, and 
beautiful rows of hollyhocks. 
The columbines were not as satisfactory 
as I hoped. The plants are fine and very 
ornamental, as always, but the blooms are 
not as rich and full as they should be. I 
am hoping for better things another year. 
The hollyhocks in a sandy soil and a 
sunny situation are all that can be desired. 
They bloom from early spring until late 
fall and always give dignity and grace to 
the borders and brightness and color to 
the garden picture. No garden can have 
too many hollyhocks, provided they are 
kept as part of the background. 
No words of praise can be too strong 
for the description of the beauty, and 
grace, and reliability, of the hardy phlox. 
Of all the perennials, whether raised from 
seed or planted from nursery stock, it is 
my favorite because of these characteris- 
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You can get Cabot’s Stains everywhere. 
Send for samples and name of nearest agent. 
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W E live and work in that part of Cape Cod 
through which the first exploring party from 
the Pilgrim ship Mayflower wandered. By the 
pond near which our village stands the party camped. 
We gather the rushes from the pond, and our villag¬ 
ers make by hand a basket-box in which we put two 
seven-inch, old-fashioned hand-dipped bayberry can¬ 
dles; a small packet of bayberries, and a leaflet show¬ 
ing the party’s wanderings. We send the whole for 
$i, postpaid. 
Cape Cod Products Co., North Truro, Mass. 
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