HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, i 
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It’s all 
in the 
wheel 
Look for 
the name 
“Feltoid” 
stamped on 
each wheel 
— not metal 
— not wood 
— not leather 
— not fibre 
“FELTOID” 
Casters and Tips 
are made of specially treated 
material — they are scratchless, 
marless, noiseless. They protect 
expensive hard wood floors from 
grooves and tracks; they save 
your rugs from damage. “Felt- 
oids” wear indefinitely. 
Fit all your furniture with 
“Feltoids.” Then note the differ¬ 
ence in your floors. 
Sold at furniture and hardware 
stores. There’s a style and size 
for every need-all shown in the 
“Feltoid” Booklet No. 12, sent 
on request. 
The Burns & Bassick Company 
Cl TTVJ A Beautiful, Illustrated 
wUll Booklet, “SUN DIALS,” 
r\l A 1 C sent upon request. Esti- 
mates furnished. 
Any Latitude Ask for Booklet No. 4 
E. B. MEYROWITZ, Inc., 237 Fifth Ave., New York 
Branches: New York Minneapolis St. Paul London Paris 
EVERYTHING for the HOME GROUNDS 
Ornamental, Deciduous, Shade and Weeping Trees, Flowering 
Shrubs, Barberry, Privet, Evergreens, Conifers, Hardy Trading 
Vines, Climbers,Fruit Trees,Berry Bushes,Hardy Garden Plants.otc. 
The finest selection for lawn and garden planting in 
America. More than 600 acres of choicest nursery produce. 
We will make a planting plan of your place, selecting trees, shrubs, 
etc., suitable to soil and situation, and give you the exact cost of 
planting and proper time to plant. Send for Catalog D. 
The Stephen Hoyt’s Sons Company 
Established 1848 New Canaan, Conn. Incorporated 1903 
ing of the blossoms next spring. This 
seed bed should not be made rich. Hav¬ 
ing the soil finely worked and full of 
humus is much more important than hav¬ 
ing it rich, because you want something 
that will absorb moisture and will not 
form a surface crust, preventing the lit¬ 
tle seedlings from forcing their way to 
the light even though they may germi¬ 
nate. If a place cannot be found which 
is in itself sufficiently shady, either make 
a temporary framework such as will sup¬ 
port a glass sash made temporarily 
opaque with a white lead wash, or a 
sash covered with protecting cloth. 
In this case an unoccupied coldframe 
is a very convenient spot for the seed 
bed, as the seedlings will be ready for 
transplanting before you need it for any 
fall or winter crop. F. F. R. 
New Furnishings for Old Rooms 
(Continued from page 229) 
orate, and most entrancing “Peasant” and 
cottage furniture. There is no need of 
having one's home unattractive simply be¬ 
cause one is fitting in. 
Dark and dreary bedroom furniture, 
which is not of fine wood, can have won¬ 
ders done to it by using a varnish remover 
and then having it painted ivory or cream 
white. If any member of the family can 
paint charming wreaths and little nose¬ 
gays, so much the better. If there is any 
jig-saw carving on it, have it all planed off 
before spending any time upon it. 
Another very important part played in 
“fixing over” is that of the wall-paper and 
hangings. One must be careful to choose 
a paper which is a good background, a 
restful and beautiful color and design. 
Plain silk fiber papers come in lovely 
colors, and there are many choice two- 
toned papers. Pronounced designs should 
be used with great discretion, for a paper 
that might be charming as a frieze over 
high paneling might be quite unbearable 
when used on a whole wall. Figured 
papers are more often used with success 
in halls and dining-rooms than in living- 
rooms because people do not stop in them 
long enough at a time to grow weary of 
them. Dark papers make a room seem 
smaller, and red should never be used in 
living-rooms as it absorbs light most 
greedily and is an irritating color to the 
nerves. How the idea got about that it is 
a cheerful color for walls is more than I 
can understand. A little red is often nec¬ 
essary, and very beautiful, striking just 
the note needed to hold the scheme to¬ 
gether. In a library, for instance, rich in 
tone with old oak paneling, leather and 
wonderful rugs, there gleamed from a 
dark corner some velvet cushions of a 
clear, beautiful pomegranate red, and on a 
dark oak table lay a few books bound in red 
and touched with gold tooling, and then 
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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. 
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