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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1913 
Real Estate 
This department aims to acquaint 
its readers with real estate offer¬ 
ings, either in the shape of homes 
for sale or new developments in suburban communities. It offers its readers a 
splendid medium through which to buy, sell or exchange property. The real estate 
agent operating in the better class of residential property will find here an unusual 
opportunity of interesting a large buying clientele. 
SOUTHERN GARDEN 
DEPARTMENT 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON 
The writer of this department will gladly 
answer inquiries from Southern readers in 
regard to their garden problems. Please 
enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope 
if a prompt personal reply is desired. 
(ff&aemont (Estate 
Tit Scars Dale Station 
Picturesque woodland surroundings. 
Far-reaching views, invigorating air, 
YVithin 19 miles of Grand Central Station 
Efficient planning and building service. 
jTcarjsDale <&oi^ag|ii 
J.Warren Thayer, es’jbifjgpB 
Select Country Places 
and Superb Waterfronts 
At Greenwich, Conn. 
Tel. 866 Greenwich Smith Building 
A WONDERFUL RESIDENCE SITE, 20 TO 30 ACRES, 
in the high altitude (640 feet) pure air belt of Chappaqua; 
magnificent scenery and roads. Address Brevoort Hill, 
Chappaqua, Westchester County, N. Y. 
PROPERTY FOR SALE AT 
PORT JERVIS, ORANGE CO., 
NEW YORK 
Attractive house, consisting of 
13 rooms. New sanitary plumbing. 
Large back and front veranda. 
Two minutes’ walk to street cars. 
Grounds in rear of house extend 
to Neversink River. 
Mrs. O. P. Howell, Port Jervis, 
Orange County, New York 
RESIDENCE PLOTS, 3 TO 30 ACRES, SPLENDID 
roads; wonderful views; 500 to over 600 feet altitude; high 
class residences only. Address Perry Heights, Chappaqua, 
Westchester County, N. Y. 
ONE OF THE FINEST HIGH ALTITUDE RESI- 
dence sites in Westchester County; 40 acres; beautifully 
landscaped; no finer residence site. Address Treeholme, 
Chappaqua, Westchester County, N. Y. 
- 1 -, 
MODERN STUCCO RESIDENCE, JUST FINISHED, 
with 3 to 70 aerps; fiOO feet qltitude,, .'magnificent water 
supply; wonderful - Hatyisal scenery. 'Addiess .ojirirg Cot¬ 
tage, Chappaqua,,Westenester County, N. Y. ' « 
NORTH CAROLINA 
Attractive, 7 -room, .cotjtage. ,,Bath„ large, 
sunny porch; big riving rqotn w.itrT-fire-place. 
In Blue Ridge Mountains’ne^ir Asheville. Fine 
climate. $ 1500 . , . , 
A. A. CAPPS, 
483 Brunswick Avenue, - - Toronto, Canada 
Are You Looking 
for a 
Country 
Place? 
Have You a Place 
For Sale? 
If you are seeking for, 
or wish to dispose of, 
any particular kind of 
a place — an inexpensive 
rural property within 
reasonable distance of 
a city, a suburban 
house and plot, a 
summer house in the 
mountains or at the 
seashore, or a farm 
adapted to the raising 
of any special product 
— the Real Estate 
Bureau will help you 
without any charge for 
its services. 
In writing state in as 
much detail as possible 
just what is required, 
or just what you have, 
and address the 
Manager of the 
Real Estate Bureau 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
Union Square New York 
Satisfactory Deciduous Shrubs 
A S a rule, November is the acceptable 
time for the planting of all decidu¬ 
ous trees and shrubs, but no cut-and-dried 
formula will ever apply to our Southern 
gardens. If your order has to be sent to 
other than a local nurseryman, note on it, 
“Ship after the first hard frost,” then you 
will be ready at the proper time. All the 
small fruits, as well as the deciduous trees 
and shrubs, should be planted during this 
month. 
Individual selection, largely a matter of 
personal preference, size of grounds and 
amount of money to be expended, must all 
be taken into consideration in choosing 
the shrubs for the beautifying of the home 
grounds. Remember that shrubs stand 
for permanent improvements. The first 
thing to do is to make a drawing of the 
ideal to be achieved, making due allowance 
for habits of growth, time of bloom, and 
so forth. Decide how much can be af¬ 
forded at this time for the plantings. 
Then selection may be made. Vacant 
places may be left for the later evergreen 
plantings and quick-growing shrubs may 
be put in with the intention of cutting 
them out later when the slower-growing 
evergreens are large enough to cover the 
desired spaces. 
Both the blossoming trees and shrubs 
planted in masses give distinction to a 
place. Who has not heard of the beautiful 
avenues of cherry blossoms that make the 
ioadways of Japan the Mecca of tourists 
from all parts of the world? In North 
Georgia there is a turnpike which is 
bordered by apple-trees for a distance of 
forty miles. Some day, when the motor¬ 
ists discover its fairy-like beauty in the 
early spring, it will also be a famous tryst- 
ing place for the beauty lovers of the 
world. High up among the old red hills 
its beauty and charm are worth while 
from early spring until latest fall. One 
home in Augusta, Ga., is known far. 
and wide for the white and pink crape 
myrtles, Lagerstroemias, which fill the air 
with fragrance and delight the eye with 
beauty, all through the long, hot summer 
months. Another home is the delight of 
all the passing throng, in the early spring, 
on account of the wonderful vistas framed 
by the blossoming dogwood trees, both the 
Cornus Florida alba, and rubra. I might 
cite instance after instance of places made 
beautiful and become famous by massed 
plantings, but these are mentioned, in 
passing, as it were, to stress the suggestion 
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