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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1913 
For Sweet Pea Lovers 
and Others 
W OULDN’T you like to have, at 
pnly the cost of a postal, a Gar¬ 
den Guide that really is a guide? 
One th^t contains the advice of an ex¬ 
pert Sweet Pea grower, for instance, 
with 14'pages for Sweet Peas alone? 
One that gives you a hundred-and-one 
gardening helps; besides making numer¬ 
ous suggestions for securing unusual 
results'in your garden. 
Just such a catalog is this year’s Garden 
Guide of Boddington’s. It’s a combi¬ 
nation dictionary of gardening for 
seeds, bulbs, plants, and roses. 
A postal brings it. 
Arthur T. Boddington 
334 West 14th Street New York City 
Murray 
"*■ And 
LAnm 
^ Florida, 
Water 
holds a privileged place 
uponevery woman’s dress¬ 
ing table. Its use is a 
constant and enduring de¬ 
light. Refreshing beyond 
compare when used in the 
bath, it should never be 
lacking in the home. 
Leading Druggists sell it. 
Accept no Substitute! 
Sample sent on receipt 
of sir cents in stamps 
Lanman & Kemp 
1 .tS Wnfpr .Sr . Naw York 
was following the beast, and it was after 
dark when we saw him again. But for 
the anxiety it would have caused us lie 
would have camped in the woods with the 
hunter to have resumed the trail the next 
day. 
Harry wandered with his camera in a 
country that Jack had found filled with 
living creatures, seeing none of them; but 
every distant mountain top or nearby 
rocky cliff, every tall, snow-burdened hem¬ 
lock and low-growing mass of laurel drew 
his eyes like magnets. With the mercury 
at zero he made Jack stand for the human 
interest while he pictured dark shadows 
that lay across the path. He followed the 
snake-like course of the stream, sluggish¬ 
ly cutting its way through the drifts in 
the valley, and he pictured Bear Hole 
Brook bursting the bonds that the winter 
king had forged. 
One day, there fell upon the cabin a 
shadow in the shape of a letter that Madge 
handed to the lady of the house with tears 
in her eyes. The letter began: 
“We are happy to hear of the ‘lovely 
time’ you have had, but your school vaca¬ 
tion is near its end and you must not fail 
to be home on time. Tell — ” but the rest 
was too intimate to record here. 
It was later in the winter as we sat by 
the blazing logs, opening our mail in the 
peace of our cabin home, when the lady 
handed me a letter, saying: 
“How shall I answer that?” 
I read, “What keeps you from dying of 
loneliness, shut in by the deadly dullness 
of your frozen country?” 
“Tell her, if you like,” said I, “that the 
days need to be forty-eight hours long 
properly to hold our happiness.” 
There came a glance from smiling eyes 
and the lady nodded as she studied the 
faces in the glowing coals. 
The Collector’s Corner 
Medallion China 
T HE rarest, most expensive and highest 
class specimens of what collectors 
call “Old Blue” are those pieces which 
are decorated with medallions. They 
seldom come to auction sales, for they are 
eagerly bought by collectors and dealers 
at private sale. A ten-inch plate at the 
Burritt sale in 1903 with the four portraits 
on it brought $130, and they have doubled 
in value since then. 
The choicest are those with four 
portraits like the platter which has a cen¬ 
tral view of Windsor Castle, Rochester 
Aqueduct at the base, and Jefferson, 
Washington, Lafayette, and Clinton at 
the top, making one of the oddest jumbles 
possible. Like all this blue crockery which 
has an acorn border and which was made 
by Ralph Stevenson, or Ralph Stevenson 
and Williams, the print is clear and the 
YOU, reader, 
can grow 
chrysanthe¬ 
mums as large 
and fancy as shown 
here, if you start 
right. BUY the 
young plants now, 
grow on in pots or 
boxes of soil until 
MAY,' then plant out 
in garden; and follow 
our CULTURAL DI¬ 
RECTIONS. WE will 
send you postpaid by 
parcels post 20 choice 
assorted colors, strong 
plants, for $1.00. OR 
you can make up the 
20 plants, in part, of 
carnation pinks, all colors, geraniums, heli¬ 
otropes, icepinks, double nasturtiums, 
marguerites, salvias, coleus, or any bedding 
plant you desire. CULTURAL directions 
free with all orders. 
ADDRESS at once THE HARLOWARDEN 
GREENHOUSES, Box 148, Greenport, N. Y. 
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