HOUSE AND GARDEN 
336 
November, 1913 
INSURE 
THE STANLEY WORKS 
Department “H” New Britain, Conn. 
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jf;| steel bearings, and the door swings 
I smoothly and softly without creaking 
§ -or binding. These butts have 
NON-RISING PINS 
which will not work out of the joint. 
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booklet “Properly Hung Doors.” 
Sunlight Double Glass Sash 
Always pay 
Whether used on cold frames, hot-beds or on the inex¬ 
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They eliminate the need to use mats and shutters, thus 
saving half the cost of equipment and labor. They give 
the plants all the light and save the stored heat overnight 
thus making them grow steadily without forcing. 
The inexpensive double-glazed 11x12 ft. greenhouse is 
covered with the Sunlight Sash which are removable for 
repairs or to use on hot-beds or cold frames in their season. 
The house, though double-glazed, is always kept bright 
and tight. 
You owe it to your interest to get our literature. The free 
catalog with net prices and all necessary information. And 
Prof. Marsey's booklet on how to make and use hot-beds, 
cold frames and a small greenhouse. For the booklet send 
4 cents in stamps. 
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EVERYTHING for the HOME GROUNDS 
Ornamental, Deciduous. Shade and Weeping Trees, Flowering 
Shrubs, Barberry, Privet, Evergreens, Conifers, Hardy Trailing 
Vines, Climbers, Fruit Trees, Berry Bushes. Hardy Garden 
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The finest selection for lawn and garden planting in 
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Wewill makeaplanting plan of your place, selecting trees.shrubs, 
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of planting and proper time to plant. Send for Catalog D. 
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Established 1848 New Canaan, Conn. Incorporated 1903 
A WORD TO THE HOUSEKEEPER 
Last year you had to take the second-best in your im¬ 
provements because the best was beyond the reach of your 
designers, and there were no experts in your locality, 
House and Garden is the advisor you need if you con¬ 
template improvements of any kind about the house or 
garden. It covers the field of decoration, furnishing and 
gardening with authority, artistic taste and precision, and 
its purpose is to make the home more beautiful and more 
livable. The beauty of the magazine and its illustrations 
will be a pleasure for you, even if you do not plan any 
changes or improvements just now. Let your subscrip¬ 
tions start with October 1st, and include this helpful ex¬ 
pert among your regular visitors. 
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DO YOU LOVE BIRDS? BEEF* SAVE THEM! 
matic 
Sheltered 
Feed ing Table 
The Dodson Feeding Table, 
or the Dodson Sheltered Food 
House or the Dodson Feeding 
Car will save the lives of native 
birds — and will keep many birds 
living near you even during the 
cold months. Thousands of 
birds starve every winter. 
Will you help save them ? 
The Dodson Sheltered Feed¬ 
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weather vane principle — swings 
in the wind so that resting and 
feeding place of birds is always 
sheltered. Built of clear white 
pine. Size 24x22x12 inches. 
Price with eight-foot turned pole. 
$6.00, f.o.b. Chicago; with cop¬ 
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sells a Bird Sheltered Food- 
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BANISH THE SPARROW 
Here’s the Dodson Sparrow Trap. It is catching sparrows all 
over the country—and sparrows are the worst enemies of our 
dear native birds. 
The Dodson Sparrow Trap works automatically. Catches as 
many as 75 to 100 sparrows a day. Made of tinned wire. Size 
37x18x12 inches. Price, including receiving box, $5.00, f.o.b., 
Chicago. 
Don’t complete your Christmas Gift list until you’ve seen Dodson’s Book about Bird Houses. 
If you are interested in native birds write to Mr. Dodson, “The Man the Birds Love.” Ask for 
illustrated folders about Bird Houses, Shelters, Food Houses, Feeding Car, Sparrow Trap, etc. 
JOSEPH H. DODSON, 1201 Association Building, Chicago, Ill. 
(Mr. Dodson is a Director of the Illinois Audubon Society.) 
Preparing the Garden for Winter 
(Continued from page 309) 
done, bulbs will rot or freeze and heave 
out, and the roots of perennials or shrubs, 
if not actually killed, will be at least very 
greatly injured, to say nothing of the fact 
that under such conditions they will not 
make a satisfactory growth. The hardy 
lilies are the most subject to injury in this 
respect, and unless your ground has a 
sandy or gravelly sub-soil it will be best 
to plant them only in a bed raised six or 
eight inches above the surrounding sur¬ 
face, containing, if the soil is at all heavy, 
a sub-surface of small stones, broken brick 
or something of the sort. Provision 
should be made to drain off the surface 
water as well, so that melted snows and 
winter rains will not stay upon the surface 
and freeze when the soil is frozen below 
them. This is easily arranged for by 
making the bed slightly elevated in the 
middle, rounded over like a well-built 
road, so that the water will drain off from 
either side. The various spring flowering 
bulbs are put from two to six inches deep 
and from four to ten or twelve inches 
apart, according to sort and size. Good 
catalogues usually give directions for the 
various types. 
Bulbs should be planted now. The 
shrubs and the hardy perennials can wait 
until a little later, but all preparations 
should he made at once in order that you 
may not find yourself behindhand with an 
extra early winter preventing your plans 
from being carried out. If you leave it to 
your nurseryman he will see to it that the 
shrubs are shipped along at the proper 
time, but you should make ready for them 
before they arrive so that you can get them 
into the ground the same day that they 
reach you. Carefully mark with stakes 
the places where they are to go, and have 
your man spade up good sized holes and 
work into the soil thoroughly some well- 
rotted manure or a few handfuls of bone 
dust — both, if you have them. Set the 
shrubs into the ground about as deep as 
the earthmarks show they were growing 
in the nursery, plant them firmly, using 
your feet as well as your hands, and have 
the earth drawn up slightly around them at 
the center, so that the water will be 
drained away at the circumference of the 
hole, with no possibility of forming a 
puddle and freezing about the stalks. 
Spring is the best time to set out roses, 
but now is the time to make the beds, if 
you expect to plant next year. 
As to the hardy perennials, most of 
them, I have learned from experience, will 
do better with spring planting if you live 
near the latitude of Boston. But a good 
many of them do well with fall planting, 
especially those that are hardy and vigo¬ 
rous in growth, such as peonies, phloxes 
and irises, or those that flower in the 
spring and which sometimes lose a sea¬ 
son’s bloom as the result of spring 
planting. 
As to varieties, that is too wide a sub- 
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