HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1913 
A New Invention That Guarantees 
a Permanent Tone 
Since piano making began there has been a con¬ 
stant endeavor to produce a soundboard in which 
the crown or arch would be permanently maintained. 
The long sought for, has at last been achieved, by a 
newly discovered combination of laminated rims 
and pressure posts, resulting in a piano in which 
the original tone is preserved in all its purity and 
volume. This wonderfully improved soundboard is 
built exclusively in the 
Melodiqrand 
The Piano with the unequalled and unchanging tone. A tone which in the up¬ 
right equals that of the ordinary grand, and in the grand attains a volume never 
before equalled. 
UPRIGHTS PLAYERS LITTLE GRANDS 
ART CATALOGUE ON REQUEST 
Henry S. G. Lindeman 
5th Ave. at 142nd St. New York 
“ Thrilling with human interestsays the New York Times 
Through Our Unknown Southwest 
By AGNES C. LAUT 
This book tells of the remains of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, antedating- 
perhaps that of ancient Egypt; of the Cliff Dwellings, the Pueblos, the Navajo and Hopi 
Indians, and the National Forests — all within the borders of the United States. Every 
American who wishes to know his own country should read this remarkable portrayal of 
some of its greatest wonders. 
“It is no ordinary book of travel .” — Buffalo Evening News. 
“This book will prove a revelation to those who think they are well informed in regard 
to their own country .” — Albany Argus. 
Illustrated. $2.00 net; postage 16 cents 
McBRIDE, NAST fe? CO., Publishers, Union Square, New York City 
FRENCH & SONS 
PLAYER PIANOS 
Art Products of high quality and exceeding good value 
O NE touch changes it from a hand-played piano 
to a player piano. By pulling forward a little 
drawer under the keyboard the devices for 
personal musical expression are brought into oper¬ 
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opens and the pedals swing out into position. A 
great improvement over instruments in which all 
these operations are performed separately, often 
necessitating stooping to adjust the pedals. 
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instrument, it betrays not the faintest trace of mechanism — it is superb. Other desirable 
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JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO., New Castle, Ind. 
“The House of French, established in the Piano Business since 1875” 
fully showy annual valuable for garden 
decoration or pot culture — plants of 
branching growth literally sheeted with 
exquisite butterfly-like flowers much larger 
than the ordinary schizanthus.” I’m very 
glad I didn’t get the ordinary kind because 
my microscope isn't very strong and I 
can't afford a new one. Another glorifier 
of the sausage — yclept posy called it 
dainty. Well, perhaps. 
I spent sound money, too, for seeds of 
Dimorphotheca- aurantica because it was so 
new, so belauded and unpronounceable. It 
had early sowing, the best place and care, 
everything of the best except results. In 
August, weeks after less considered an¬ 
nuals had given richly, it had daisies. 
“Shining, deep orange’’ one enthusiast had 
called its flowers. I don’t see any shine to 
them, nor take any. Deep orange — yes; 
the exact shade of a good, honest pie- 
pumpkin. Nor does mid-August, which 
sees its first bloom, leave it the “greater 
part of the summer’’ for blossom time, ac¬ 
cording to standard calendars. 
Why pay much labor and the cash fool- 
tax that would have bought a tea rose for 
this unbeautiful annual thing when over 
the fence and down the hill bloom big 
daisies of harmonious yellow and brown, 
hardy and hearty and long of stem, ready 
to come to us by the armful or live with us 
for the asking? Or. if it must be a yellow 
annual, are not California poppies, mari¬ 
golds or portulaca a thousand times more 
willing and desirable? 
Then there are the much extolled double 
annual larkspur, double Drummond phlox, 
double cornflowers. Now, when an annual 
larkspur is so poor a thing as it is, why 
double it? Good ground must be at a dis¬ 
count and poor flowers at a premium when 
any one wants annual larkspurs, unless for 
a particular color in an especial place or 
to put in a bloomy zoo. 
Truly, P. T. Barnum was a shrewd ob¬ 
server when he said: “The dear American 
public loves to be humbugged.” 
Gladys Hyatt Sinclair. 
The Right Place for Callas 
A RUNNING stream of water on the 
Tx place settles the question as to the 
the right situation for callas. As my deed 
failed to include that valuable feature, I 
have done the next best thing. I planted 
my callas in a double row, with a ditch be¬ 
tween — which was partly filled with ma¬ 
nure. With the thick growth of the leaves, 
the ditch is not conspicuous. A short 
length of hose screwed to a nearby faucet 
allows the complete filling of the ditch 
twice a month through the hottest part of 
the season. No more water is used by this 
method than is required by the general 
method of an everyday sprinkle — which 
never reaches the roots. The double row 
of plants — twenty-five feet long — has eas- 
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