HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1913 
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Don’t Wait Till Next Spring 
To Fertilize Your Shrubs, Lawn or Trees— 
Do It Now With Alphano Humus 
D 
ON’T think 
that be¬ 
cause the 
leaves are falling 
and all Nature 
seems at a stand¬ 
still — that she is 
nodding. 
Far from it! 
Down under 
the ground this is 
one of her busi¬ 
est seasons. She 
is making root 
growth so that 
the grass, shrubs, 
hardy plants, and 
trees will be all ready to start leafing 
out early next spring, and make new top 
growth. 
The more you do to encourage this 
Fall root action, the better will be the 
results next Spring and Summer. 
Nature keeps a balance sheet that she 
adheres to faithfully. She balances the 
top growth in proportion with the root 
growth. 
If you wait till next 
Spring to fertilize, she 
will have to divide a 
greater proportion of 
growing strength be¬ 
tween roots and tops. 
Such roots being 
younger and less 
sturdy cannot 
withstand the 
heat and dry¬ 
ness of summer 
as can the fall 
ones. 
So com m o n 
sense plainly in¬ 
dicates that now 
is the time to fer¬ 
tilize with Al¬ 
phano Humus. 
It is a fertilizer 
in powdered form 
that i s odorless 
It is not a chemical 
mixture but Nature’s own make prepareu 
for your use. 
It is five times stronger than barnyard 
manures and lasts many times longer. 
It is not a new thing. Its success 
dates back for years. 
When Alphano Humus is used as we 
direct, the results obtained are absolutely 
certain. 
Send for our Humus 
Book. It tells the com¬ 
plete facts. Order your 
Humus at once and lend 
old Dame Nature a help¬ 
ing hand. 
and inexpensive. 
$12 a ton. $8 by the carload. 
F. O. B. ALPHANO, N. J. 
AlpKgtruo Humnict-s Co. 
938 Whitehall Bldg. 
4 
New York City 
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as a supreme touch, in the windows hung 
three panels of wonderful medieval stained 
glass. In very large and important rooms 
which have the dignified effect of fine 
woodwork or marble, red can be used, and 
the great storehouse of Renaissance de¬ 
sign can be called upon for the designs for 
the velvet and brocade hangings, but it is 
quite another matter with the average 
modern room. There are many reproduc¬ 
tions of old wall-papers which are delight¬ 
ful to use, but, as I said before, when one 
is doing over one’s possessions, one must 
be careful in not choosing too marked a 
style in either paper or furniture, or the 
new will not harmonize with the old, un¬ 
less, luckily, the old needs a fine reproduc¬ 
tion to keep it in countenance. Walls can 
be simply painted or tinted and molding 
put on in panel forms. The molding can 
be picked out a tone darker than the wall. 
These simple paneled walls make charming 
rooms, always, be it understood, if the 
furnishings are in keeping. 
The subject of hangings and rugs is an 
important one, and a great deal of the suc¬ 
cess of the house depends on their being 
right. Stuffs of all kinds and of most 
beautiful colorings come for all kinds of 
rooms, and often one’s difficulty is to 
choose among them. One must take for 
the keynote of the color scheme the piece 
of furniture or rug which cannot be 
changed and build up from that, making all 
the connecting rooms harmonize so the 
vista will be an alluring and restful one, 
and not the series of color bumps and 
shocks one unfortunately too often sees. 
As demonstrating these principles, we 
may take the dining-room and living-room 
of the country house we have been consid¬ 
ering. There is a connecting door between 
these two, so that the color scheme used 
for both is the same. 
In the dining-room the paper is a very 
soft two-toned gray, the curtains at the 
four windows in a large bay and at the 
French door are of mahogany toned case¬ 
ment cloth, treated as they are in the liv¬ 
ing-room. The rug is soft colored Ori¬ 
ental with tones of reddish brown, gray 
and old blue — the sample oak Jacobean 
furniture and Windsor chairs and the 
sporting prints on the walls make a charm¬ 
ing room with a lovely view across the 
garden to the sea. 
The living-room has a two-toned nar¬ 
row striped gray paper. The sofa is cov¬ 
ered with a linen of very fine Jacobean de¬ 
sign in tones of mahogany and green on 
a cream ground. 
The pictures do not give an adequate 
idea of the charm of the rooms. 
The woodwork must be very carefully 
taken into account, for it also plays an im¬ 
portant part in the furnishing of a room. 
The beauty of the natural grain of many 
woods is of high decorative value, and 
should be worked into the color scheme. 
Wooden walls from the plainest sheathing 
to the wonderfully elaborate paneling of 
the different great periods show how im¬ 
portant a medium it has always been con¬ 
sidered. In bungalows wood properly 
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