j HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1913 
216 
IS A $1000. 3-ROOM CYPRESS COTTAGE 
ABOUT RIGHT? WELL, HERE IT IS! 
And a joy and a blessing it will be to anyone with a little plot of earth to put it on. 
FULL PLANS & SPECIFICATIONS FREE LOVE 1 LITTLE L HOMES 
Ample for any competent carpenter to build from. Above estimate of cost is a fair average figure the country over. 
WRITE RIGHT NOW for VOL. 32, of the CYPRESS POCKET LIBRARY 
Remember—We recommend Cypress Lumber only where it is your one best buy. 
Let our “ALL-’ROUND HELPS DEPARTMENT” help YOU. Our entire resources are at your service. 
SOUTHERN CYPRESS MANUFACTURERS’ ASSN., 
_1210 HIBERNIA BANK BUILDING, NEW ORLEANS, LA. _ 
INSIST ON CYPRESS at YOUR LOCAL DEALER’S. IF HE HASN’T IT, LET US KNOW QUICK. 
MAKE REPEATED SALES 
90% of my business comes from discriminating 
people who are buying from me repeatedly. 
They do this because they know that antiques 
should be thick and glowing with soft rich 
colors, and because they want only worthy rugs 
that will enhance in value; they abominate doc¬ 
tored rugs; they wish to buy economically, and 
do it. 
Write today for FREE booklet and price list. 
_ All express paid. Rugs sent on approval. 
L. B. LAWTON, MAJOR, U. S. A., Retired 
181 CAYUGA ST., SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK 
ORIENTAL RUG GEMS 
Special Interior Decorators 
OF 
City and Country Houses 
Designs and estimates furnished for single rooms or 
entire houses in any' period desired. 
A SPECIALTY MADE OF COUNTRY HOUSES 
THE RELDA CO. 
Tel. Schuyler 7446 141 West 75th St., N.Y. City 
Private Water Supply Plants 
SEND FOR CATALOC L HAND 
s, « KEWANEC WATER SUPPLY CO power 
NEW YORK CITY KEWANEE.ILL. CHICAGO 
March Activities in Southern 
Gardens 
Editor's Note: — To meet the needs of our 
southern readers, the department, beginning with 
this number, devoted to the problems and inter¬ 
ests of southern gardens, will be continued from 
month to month. 
THE women of other sections of our 
United States may cover their 
gardens with wrappings of brown leaves 
and let them sleep all the long winter 
through tucked away in warm blankets of 
soft white snow, but not so may Southern 
women rest from their labors. Their 
gardens must be kept in blossom all the 
year. The violets and tea-olives come 
with Christmas; January brings narcis¬ 
sus and snowdrops; February wakes the 
hyacinths, the multi-colored japonicas and 
the ,pearly camellias, and, by the time the 
March winds blow, the garden is in its 
early spring attire. 
March is preeminently garden-waking 
and garden-making time in the South. 
The lawn has to be made, if it was not 
done in the fall; the seed of salvias, ver¬ 
benas, and antirrhinums must be planted 
in boxes, and also the vegetables, tomatoes 
and peppers. In sunny situations, where 
they are to bloom, are placed the seed of 
dwarf nasturtiums, morning - glories, 
dwarf helianthus, ageratum. sweet alys- 
sum, larkspur, and marvel of Peru. For 
either sunny or shady spots are the zinnias 
and hyacinth beans. 
The gladioli and dahlias require full 
sunlight, and should be planted as early 
in March as possible, as should also the 
roses, which ought to have been put out 
in December or January, but will well re¬ 
pay the later planting. On March Four¬ 
teenth last year, I planted fifteen roses, 
from which I cut many flowers during the 
summer. They were the Frau Karl 
Druschki, most glorious of white roses, the 
Etoile de Lyon, the beautiful yellow, and 
the Killarney, clearest and most exquisite 
of pinks. Planting five of each variety 
enabled me at any time to cut enough of 
one color for a vase or bowl — a most de¬ 
sirable thing to be able to do. 
Sea Island yuccas, cannas of all kinds, 
shasta daisies, veronicas, and physostegia 
virginianas grow equally well in sun or 
shade, and planted early in March form 
invaluable aids to garden beauty and 
bloom. 
The wistaria, rhynchospernum jasmin- 
oides or star jessamine, clematis panicula- 
ta, hydrangea grandidora, and roses, hav¬ 
ing had a fall dressing of manure, ap¬ 
preciate a spring portion of bonemeal and 
potash. For the lawn, nothing is better 
than cotton seed meal at this time of the 
year. 
Of the salvias, “Ball of Fire” and “Bon¬ 
fire” are most reliable and satisfactory, 
both as to quality of bloom and length of 
time of flowering. The salvias can be de¬ 
pended on in any situation, whether sun 
or shade, provided that the soil is rich. 
The Mammoth verbenas, white, pink, 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden. 
