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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
XTO matter how inexpensively you plan your new home, the 
^ selection of the equipment for your bathroom should have 
the most thoughtful consideration, "^tattcfar >d" guaranteed fixtures, because of 
their assurance of sanitary safety, should be specified always. Their installation 
will make your bathroom a constant source of comfort and satisfaction. 
Genuine 'Standard" fixtures for the Home 
and for Schools, Office Buildings, Public 
Institutions, etc., are identified by the 
Green and Gold Label, with the exception 
of one brand of baths bearing the Red and 
Black Label, which, while of the first 
quality of manufacture, have a slightly 
thinner enameling, and thus meet the re¬ 
quirements of those who demand 'Standard" 
quality at less expense. All "Standard" fix¬ 
tures, with care, will last a lifetime. And 
no fixture is genuine unless it bears the 
guarantee label. In order to avoid sub¬ 
stitution of inferior fixtures, specify "Standard" 
goods in writing (not verbally) and make 
sure that you get them. 
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Pittsburgh 
St. Louis 
. 35 West 31st Street 
900 S. Michigan Ave. 
1215 Walnut Street 
. 59 Richmond St. E. 
. 106 Federal Street 
100 N. Fourth Street 
Cincinnati . . 633 Walnut Street 
Nashville . 315 Tenth Avenue, So. 
New Orleans, Baronne & St.JosephSts. 
Montreal, Can. . 215 Coristine Bldg. 
. John Hancock Bldg. 
. 319-23 W. Main Street 
. 648 Huron Road, S.E. 
PITTSBURGH, PA. 
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London, 57-60 Holborn Viaduct, E. C. 
Houston, Tex., Preston and Smith Sts. 
Washington, D.C. . Southern Bldg. 
Toledo, Ohio . 311-321 Erie Street 
Fort Worth. Tex., Front and Jones Sts. 
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ground without a root being disarranged. 
Set them about ten inches apart in the 
border, and to within five inches of the 
edge of it, along a walk. The straggling 
habit of the plants has been much over¬ 
come in the work that has been done with 
them ; but they still are somewhat uncertain 
and wobbly — and need space, in case they 
do spread about. Their fragrance and 
beauty as cut flowers is one of their 
strongest points, and their freedom of 
bloom is another great advantage. But 
they were for so long a time such a craze 
that I suppose one should be somewhat 
careful in indulging in them now. For 
they are not up to the mark of a really fine 
garden standby in many ways. 
I have spoken several times of the neces¬ 
sity of picking the flowers from annuals 
as fast as they fade. This is not only to 
keep the plant a more sightly object, but 
to stimulate further bloom. When the 
seed forming is thus nipped in the 
flower— not exactly in the bud, though 
figuratively so— a plant will go on pro¬ 
ducing more flowers in the effort to pro¬ 
duce seeds, that being all it blossoms for 
anyway. So the removal of flowers in¬ 
duces more flowers, and in this way the 
entire season may be filled with bloom that 
otherwise would be over in a fortnight or 
a month at the most. 
Planted sufficiently close for the best 
effect, very few beds or borders will need 
much care after the plants are grown— 
for these themselves will crowd out weeds, 
and keep the space about them clear. Un¬ 
til they are fully grown, however, it is 
necessary to till the soil of a flower garden 
quite as much as the soil of a vegetable 
garden. Moisture needs conserving here 
too—and though the annuals are hardy 
and will grow almost in spite of the rough¬ 
est kind of treatment, they will do so much 
better for a little care that it is hard to be¬ 
lieve they are the same plants. It is too 
much to expect to get the best results from 
any plants that are forced to struggle 
against the double handicap of weeds and 
dry, hard baked soil that lack of care 
induces. 
For the sake of the garden’s future, a 
record of this summer is to be kept — not 
an exhaustive one, but just a simple line 
or two a day, as the circumstances may 
demand. Some of the seed I may save, 
if the variety pleases; indeed, it is quite 
possible that some really wonderful and 
valuable variety may be developed from 
the most ordinary garden, any summer. 
For the seed of a plant of exceptional color 
may lead to a find, if consistently saved, 
the plants of succeeding generations show¬ 
ing this in greater and greater intensity 
where only seed from the brightest or 
darkest flowers is saved. This is one of 
the “by products,” so to speak, that adds 
to the interest of the happy-go-lucky an¬ 
nual garden — the garden of change, of 
surprises, of greatest careless liberty — the 
one garden that, more than all the rest, 
is never finished because every year it is 
begun anew, right where it began the year 
before. 
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