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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1913 
Now Ready for Distribution 
The 1913 Catalog of Messrs. James Carter & Co., of 
London, England, listing their flower, grass and 
vegetable seeds and other products of which we are 
sole distributors in the United States and Canada. 
SEEDSMEN BY ROYAL WARRANT 
HIS MAJESTY KINGGEORCEV. 
A copy of this Catalog is 
reserved for you. Please 
write for it. 
are standard throughout the World. In this country 
they have achieved results not equalled by any other 
seeds. Their excellence is due to pedigree, careful 
selection, cleaning and preparation, and to most thor¬ 
ough testing. 
PATTERSON, WYLDE £5? COMPANY 
106 Chamber Commerce Bldg. BOSTON, MASS. 
The Prices in this Catalog are American Prices in 
American Money 
A BOOK FOR FRUIT GROWERS 
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Beautiful trees and perfect fruit are a source of satisfaction and profit to the 
owner, and whether you have a few trees, or several hundred, they should receive 
intelligent attention. 
“The WHY and HOW of ORCHARD SUCCESS” 
is a beautiful new book full of valuable information. It will be of great help to 
you. Send for it today. Only 50 cents postpaid. 
Our big Catalogue of Spraying Machinery is FREE upon request. 
FIELD FORCE PUMP COMPANY 603 Grand Avenue, Elmira, N. Y. 
For durable painting of all kinds use National 
Lead Company’s Pure White Lead “Dutch Boy 
Painter’ ’(trade-mark). Ask for Helps No. 91, Sent 
as FREE*on request. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY, 111 Broadway, New York 
Coiyj-o Y Rnsps Unusually well-bred -nd well- 
1 Cl A 1 \UoC5 grown; will succeed anywhere. 
FREE CATALOGUE TELLS ALL ABOUT THEM. 
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A New Furnace for Low Cellars 
The Ajax heats the house — not the air over it. 
Your house can be properly and comfortably heated at 
all times by installing an 
Ajax Low Construction Furnace 
Particularly suitable for a low cellar. 
A Powerful heater designed on a new principle embodying utility, efficiency, 
economy. 
Built with a two-flue steel Radiator of large depth and diameter and great 
length of fire travel. 
Double feed doors that will accommodate large lengths of wood. 
Let us tell you a few things about Furnaces every home-owner or prospective 
builder should know. 
Write us to-day for descriptive circular. 
CO-OPERATIVE FOUNDRY CO. Rochester, New York 
Killarney fern in habit, but is more fine¬ 
ly cut, and more pendent in its growth. 
For beginners this last or the Killarney 
fern is the best to begin with, as they are 
both hardy and free-growers. If these 
can be managed as planted in a little liv¬ 
ing sphagnum moss and peat fibre, on 
either tufa blocks or pieces of sandstone 
under a bell glass, or in a wardian case, 
then T. reniforme and others of the rarer 
sorts may be tried. It is, as someone has 
said, like a cool and refreshing mental 
salad to see a house full of these plants, 
or a bit of Killarney fern in a case even, 
after seeing a flower garden full of color 
on a hot summer day. Some people may 
laugh and say that ferns in cases remind 
them of birds in cages, but how much 
pleasure would be lost to us by neglecting 
either the birds or the ferns. The above- 
mentioned surgeon loved his ferns, but he 
found that their beauty found a higher 
purpose. His waiting and consulting 
rooms always looked cool and peaceful, 
as the emerald glints came from the win¬ 
dows and corners in which his ferns 
thrived so well. “I feel quite certain,” he 
once told me, “that my ferns do more to 
refresh and calm my patients than any 
other plants, even if not anything else 
could do, and to me they are an ever-abid¬ 
ing comfort and consolation throughout 
the whole year.” W. R. Gilbert 
The Leopard Moth 
M EN obliged to climb trees should be 
cautioned to use extreme care when 
on the upper branches. This caution is 
very necessary, for during the past few 
years great inroads have been made on the 
vitality of trees by the many pests that 
have attacked them. Particularly to be 
feared are the trees where the leopard 
moth has been or is working. This pest 
is doing an incalculable amount of dam¬ 
age in all kinds of trees, and the range of 
his ravages is wide and still extending. 
If it continues at the same rate in the 
future as in the past, trees will disappear 
bv thousands. Very small branches in¬ 
fested by this pest very soon die, but 
when in large limbs there is nothing on 
the exterior to indicate his presence, or 
the dangerous condition of the wood with¬ 
in, which may be thoroughly honeycombed 
and ready to break under the first strain. 
Where this is cause for suspicion all trim¬ 
ming work should be done from a ladder. 
There are a couple of very handy imple¬ 
ments that should be used when working 
this way. One is a long pole with a 
strong hook on the end. With this the 
smaller branches in which there are borers 
can be broken off. They will break with 
but little strain. The other tool is the 
blade of a saw fastened on a pole. To 
make this split the pole at the end the 
length of the saw, insert the blade and 
fasten with rivets. While standing on a 
ladder very effective work can be done 
with this even on large limbs. 
The leopard moth is more to be dreaded 
than many other pests from the fact that 
there seems to be no effective way to han- 
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