HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 
1913 
Band With 
Tree Tanglefoot! 
No Creeping Insect Escapes 
Its Sticky, Deadly Grip ! 
The destroying army is coming! 
Don’t wait until you see the vanguard. 
Band your trees with Tree Tanglefoot 
two weeks before the Gypsy, Brown-tail 
and Tussock Moth Caterpillars, Canker 
Worms, Climbing Cut Worms and Bag 
Worms begin their ravaging work. 
Easily and Quickly Applied 
With a Wooden Paddle 
Tree Tanglefoot is harmless and the only 
sure and safe protective. One pound makes 
about nine lineal feet of band. One coating 
lasts three months and longer in any tem¬ 
perature, rain or shine — remains sticky and 
powerful twenty times as long as any other 
substance. Needs no mixing — just open the 
can and apply. Will not soften or run down 
the trunks of the trees. Absolutely prevents 
THE O. & W. THUM COMPANY, 
Manufacturers of Tanglefoot 
Yom actual photograph taken at Melrose. Mass. TREE TANGLEFOOT 
saved the tree on the left. Moths stripped tree on right. 
any creeping, crawling pests from harming 
your trees. 
Sold by Reliable Seed Houses 
Prices: One-pound cans, 30c; three-pound 
cans, 85c : ten-pound cans, $2.65 ; twenty-pound 
cans, $4.80. Write today for valuable free 
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Fly Paper and Tree Tanglefoot (2) 
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Order today. Interesting folder free upon request. 
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A WORD TO THE HOUSEKEEPER 
Last year you had to take the second-best in your 
improvements 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 
contemplate improvements of any kind about the house 
or garden. It covers the field of decoration, furnishing 
and gardening with authority, artistic taste and pre¬ 
cision, and its whole 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 subscription start with March 1st, and 
include this helpful expert among your regular visitors. 
$3.00 a year; 25 cents a copy. 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Union Square, New York 
Correspondence 
Editor’s Note:— From the numerous letters 
which come in from subscribers who take ad¬ 
vantage of our offer to help them solve their 
house problems, we select the following which, 
in conjunction with the replies, seem to us to 
have somewhat more than a merely individual 
value. 
Query. — As a subscriber to House & 
Garden I am going to take advantage of 
your offer to answer questions relative 
to interior decoration. 
I wish to know what you would sug¬ 
gest for pictures for a living-room 12' x 
22' (this room being the only one in the 
house where pictures could be hung h> 
advantage) paneled by means of battens 
nailed on rough plaster, plate shelf 5' J l /2 ,h 
from floor, battens and shelf fumed oak 
and plaster dark brown below plate shelf 
and turquoise blue above, beamed ceiling 
and plaster on ceiling buff. 
There are four available spaces for pic¬ 
tures: 2' 5U" x 8' 6", 2' 5 > 4 " x 3' 6", 
2' 5 y 2 " x 4' 9" and 2' 5 y 2 " x 10' o" (over 
fireplace). 
Furniture is slightly mission, fumed 
oak, and consists of couch, table, bookcase, 
two rockers and two pieces of willow, and 
two dark red rugs of sarabend pattern. 
F. G. 
Answer . — Choosing the pictures for 
one’s home is so much a personal matter 
that it is hard to give any advice on the 
matter. I can give you a few suggestions 
that may be of some aid to you in deter¬ 
mining what to buy for your living-room. 
In the first place, I should have har¬ 
monious color. The color of the wall be¬ 
ing dark brown below the plate rail and 
turquoise blue above, I should certainly 
bring the color of the lower wall into the 
upper division in some way. If you are- 
going to use Oriental rugs, I should use 
"fairly colorful pictures (perhaps some em¬ 
broideries, Chinese, Japanese, or Indian) 
either under glass or tacked carefully 
on the wall. Every year at the various art 
exhibitions there are some charming paint¬ 
ings which are moderate in price. One 
can buy some very excellent things in this 
way at from $25.00 to $150.00. If you 
are a devotee to Japanese prints there 
would be no difficulty in selecting subjects 
of very beautiful colors, which would 
bring in the brown, blue, and perhaps a 
touch of that very beautiful Japanese 
orange which they use so much. 
Single prints could be framed on silk 
(as I recommend all Japanese prints being 
framed) in a soft brown 'frame, that 
would fit the smaller spaces you have, 
while the long spaces could have triptyches 
(three piece prints) or five piece prints. 
A triptych would fill your eight foot space 
nicely, while a five or seven piece print 
would be decorative for over the fireplace. 
If you do not care for Japanese prints, 
some photographs or carbon prints of the 
old masters, more particularly prints of 
drawings, would be excellent. Holbein 
prints come in at least three sizes, at $i.oo> 
$1.75 and $2.50 each, and are very excel¬ 
lent. For the long space over the fireplace 
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