HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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EPTEMBER, 
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have been justly popular for over iii years—not only by 
reason of their low prices, but principally on account of 
their exceptionally high quality. 
When ordering this collection, remember that we will also 
send you our 1913 Bulb Catalog. It is unusually com¬ 
prehensive and contains manv helpful suggestions. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO. 
Established 1802—111 Years Ago 
53-E BARCLAY STREET - NEW YORK 
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12 of the Prettiest 
TULIPS for 25c 
or 30 for 50c 
Be your garden large or small, its beauty 
will be greatly enhanced by this collec¬ 
tion of Tulips. The Bulbs are first size, 
and have just been received from our 
growers in Holland. 
Their colors lend pleasing contrast to each other 
and clearly show the careful thought we have de¬ 
voted to their selection. 
12 Thorburn’s Tulip Bulbs (our selection) for 
25c—or send 50c for 30—postage paid. 
TheDustlessWay 
I Fresh, clean and bright |> 
j is the wake of the Bissell E 
! on carpet or rug. It re- |? 
moves the dingy dust and 
picks up the litter. Broom- I 
mg is a harsh, dusty way to | 
“clean" your carpets and | 
raises more dust than it \ 
gathers. 
a “Cyco” BALL BEARING 
I Carpet Sweeper 
$ with its easy glide and gentle action of 
if the pure bristle revolving brush saves 
1 carpets. There is none of the haisn 
scraping of nozzles and heavy apparatus, 
and remember, there is no substitute for 
the actual airing and sunning to make a 
carpet sanitary to the very ‘'roots.” You 
pan get a Bissell from your 
dealer for $2.75 and up. .3. 
Let us mail you the booklet, JgejgA 
Easy, Economical Sanitary 
Sweeping.” , 
Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. 
Grand Kapias, 
Mich. 
” We Sweep / | 
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Send for our illustrated booklet about 
BURLINGTON VENETIAN BLINDS 
It's a picture-story telling better than mere words just how the ad¬ 
justable Burlington Venetian Blinds shade your porch—insure comfort 
and privacy. It's FREE Send post card to-day 
Burlington Venetian Blind Co 355 Lake St.. Burlington, Vt. 
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A Highly Profitable Orchard 
The demand for good fruit is ever increasing at highly 
profitable prices; nothing else on the farm brings such 
great returns per acre. Fruit trees in comparison 
w.th other crops require little time and can be grown 
by anyone who follows the instructions we furnish. 
We maintain permanently a force of reliable and 
practical men who by experience have become expert 
in this line; these men assist our customers in getting 
the greatest profits from their orchards. They tell 
you what fruit trees are best adapted to your soil and 
climate; they tell you what varieties can be grown 
successfully in your locality; how far apart to plant 
the trees; how to care for them and their cost; they 
tell you everything you ought to know about plant¬ 
ing for profit or home use. 
Our Trees, Shrubs, Vines 
and Flowers 
are of the very highest class, Northern 
grown healthy, vigorous and productive 
Our fruit trees bear early and abundantly; 
they are hardy, true to name, and free 
from scale. All of our stock is thoroughly 
fumigated before shipment, making doub 
ly sure that you get good healthy trees 
and plants, carefully selected, properly 
packed and promptly delivered in good 
condition. 
If you contemplate a commercial orch¬ 
ard or the improvement of your heme 
grounds, write us for information and 
special literature. 
800 acres of fruit trees and ornamentals 
to select from. 
We are the originators of the well-known 
Climbing American Beauty and Christine 
Wright roses; blossoms measure 3 to 4 
inches in diameter. 
HOOPES, BRO. & THOMAS COMPANY 
Department ll t West Chester, Pa. 
Philadelphia Office: 
205 Stephen Girard Building 
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CORRESPONDENCE DEPARTMENT 
Extracts from letters of inquiry 
as answered by our experts on 
interior decorating and furnishing 
Question —I am an appreciative reader 
of House & Garden, and have received 
many good suggestions from the magazine 
for the remodeling of our home. But I 
am uncertain about several things, and am 
taking advantage of your generous offer 
to assist your readers in solving their 
problems. 
I am enclosing herewith a blueprint 
showing the plan of the first floor of the 
house as remodeled. The sun-parlor and 
that part of the hall containing the stairs 
are new. The rest of the house is about 
thirty years old. It is constructed of com¬ 
mon red bricks laid in mortar made of 
brown sand and field lime. The sun-par¬ 
lor below the windows is of common red 
brick, as are also the piers. A stone shelf 
twenty-one inches above the floor runs 
along the entire south side of the sun- 
room, and the radiators are under this 
shelf. The shelf is for flowers. The door 
between the kitchen and the sun-room will 
be closed. Double glass doors with small 
panes will fill the floor spaces between sun- 
room and dining-room and living-room. 
The front doors will be the same. Spaces 
between hall and dining-room and living- 
room to remain open at present and to be 
filled with double glass doors later if 
found desirable. All doors are seven feet 
high in the clear. Ceilings are nine feet. 
The hall is to be paneled in quarter-sawed 
white oak five feet high; stairs are of oak. 
All floors, except sun-parlor, are quarter- 
sawed white oak. An oak beam runs 
across the hall ceiling from the southwest 
corner of library; oak half beam around 
hall in front of beam. 
My troubles are centered chiefly in din¬ 
ing-room and sun-parlor. I should like to 
panel the dining-room, but, on account of 
its having no outside window, I am afraid 
that paneling and beaming will make it 
too dark. I can get enough walnut lum¬ 
ber to put two beams across the ceiling, 
half beaming entirely around the room 
and open panel work (I mean strips with 
open spaces between) five feet high. 
Would mahogany or oak furniture go 
with this? We have not yet bought our 
dining-room furniture. If this plan of 
finish is used, what decoration (material 
and colors) would you advise me to use 
for walls and ceiling? The walls and 
ceiling are now covered with old paper, 
which will have to be replaced by other 
paper or some other sort of covering. I 
have enough tapestry bricks for the fire¬ 
place. The chimney breast is only five feet 
wide. Would you build the bricks to the 
ceiling or only as high as the wainscoting? 
Would you have built-in china-closets on 
either side the chimney-place? I take it 
from reading your articles that you are 
not very strong for china cupboards in 
dining-rooms, unless the owner possesses 
choice old ware which makes a good dis- 
