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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1913 
Poppies 
Asters 
Zinnias 
HAVE YOU GROWN POP¬ 
PIES? If not you certainly have 
a treat in store. If you have, you 
will be pleased with the excellent 
assortment we now offer. 
EVERYONE GROWS “AS¬ 
TERS.” They are best when 
planted in boxes in a sunny win¬ 
dow to start them. 
A WELL-KNOWN fav¬ 
orite, suitable for every 
garden, blooming profusely 
from July to frost. 
Special 50-Cent Offer 
In order to get you acquainted with our high- 
quality seed, we offer the following: 
4 packets Shirley Poppies— 
4 beautiful shades—Carmine, 
Rose, Salmon and White. Cat¬ 
alogue value 40c. 
6 packets Asters—our famous 
branching White, Shell-Pink, 
Lavender, Crimson, Purple and 
Carmine. Catalogue value, 60c. 
4 packets Zinnias — Giant Double-flowering — Crim¬ 
son, Rose, Yellow and White. Catalogue value, $1.00, 
The above, making 14 packets in all, will be sent care- £— . 
fully packed, with our 1913 Catalogue, prepaid, for 01/ L/6fl(S 
50 Barclay Street 
NEW YORK CITY 
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Dr. Wiley, pure food expert, says: 
“No man, and especially no woman or 
child, should live in a place where it is 
impossible to possess a garden—one of 
the inalienable rights of every human 
being.” A berry garden is the finest garden 
you can plant because it gives renewed vigor to 
you, rosy cheeks to the children, and healthful 
food for all the family. 
THE 1913 BERRYDALE BERRY BOOK will 
be your inspiration and your guide in planting one. Noth¬ 
ing else like it printed. It describes the splendid new 
hardy Blackberry Macatawa, with the largest berries 
known, Giant Himalaya Berry and many others. Send today 
for free copy. 
BERRYDALE EXPERIMENT GARDENS, House Avenue, Holland. Mieh. 
Sketch of the Fireplace de¬ 
signed. and erected by tis in 
the studio of J. C. Leyen- 
decker, Esq., New York. 
We have a splendid 
collection of Fireplaces, 
modeled in Pompeian 
Stone. Original designs 
promptly and carefully 
followed. 
Our large illustrated Catalogue 
F, full of home and garden orna¬ 
ment suggestions, sent free. 
The ERKINS STUDIOS 
The Largest Manufacturers 
of Ornamental Stone 
226 Lexington Ave., New York 
Factory: Astoria, L. I. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO. 
ill years in business in Neiv York City 
33 E.Barclay Street - New York 
A Flower of Great Beauty 
The New Hybrid African Daisy, with its petals of many delicate hues, 
and its centre of deep black, will make a wondrous appeal to those who 
take pride in their gardens. A special trial package of seeds will be 
mailed you upon receipt of io cents in coin or stamps. 
s synonymous everywhere with “The Most Reliable Seeds” and 
their use this Spring will assure you success with your garden. 
Our 1913 beautifully illustrated, 160 page catalog — 
11 2th successive Annual Spring Edition — is ready. It 
contains a wide collection of seeds, bulbs, garden tools, 
etc., as well as many helpful suggestions as to cultivation. 
Write for your copy 11070 and don’t forget to enclose 
10 cents for the package of Hybrid African Daisy. 
rHORBllRHfc 
SEEDS 
collector to possess it, and the length of 
his purse. 
To many collectors the little six-inch 
plate showing St. Paul’s Chapel, New 
York, with the Clinton medallion, and 
Rochester Aqueduct at base is one of the 
most interesting of all the medallion 
pieces. This also has the acorn border 
which is so attractive, and which is found 
on a series of beautiful English views as 
well as these American ones. 
In this view St. Paul’s looks very dif¬ 
ferent from what it does to-day. sur¬ 
rounded by skyscrapers, for when it was 
built it was quite out of town, and placed 
with its back to Broadway, in anticipation 
of the town growing between it and the 
river, according to some authorities, or be¬ 
cause the chancel was to be placed on its 
eastern side according to the ritual. This 
chapel is one of the few pre-Revolutionary 
relics left in New York. 
One of the most interesting of all the medallion 
pieces 
At the time of its manufacture this 
medallion crockery — for it is not china— 
composed dinner sets, for three sizes of 
plates, and platters and pitchers are known 
to bear the medallions. So far the forger 
has left it alone. It is an odd fact that 
very few pieces of this old blue ware of 
any description are known in England, 
and the details about many of the potters 
are meager and vague. 
N. Hudson Moore 
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The Dying Hickory Tree 
XT ITHIN the past ten years a large 
^ * percentage of the hickory trees 
have died in various sections throughout 
the northern tier of States from Wisconsin 
to Vermont and southward through the 
Atlantic States to central Georgia and to 
a greater or less extent within the entire 
range of natural growth of the various 
species. While there are several and 
sometimes complicated causes of the death 
of the trees, investigations by experts of 
the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Depart- 
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