HOUSE AND GARDEN 
340 
ArRiL, 1913 
Grimm’s Galvanized Corrugated Wire Lathing 
requires no furring on account 
of the V-shaped corrugations 
which are imbedded at intervals 
of seven inches. 
This feature alone is worth 
considering, but that’s not all. 
It WILL NOT RUST as it is 
heavily galvanized with the fin¬ 
est grade of Western Spelter, 
and is much easier to handle and 
will conform to irregular curves 
much better than any other form 
of metal or wood lath. 
Walls or ceilings plastered on 
this lathing WILL NOT 
CRACK OR DROP OFF, ow¬ 
ing to its great keying quali¬ 
ties, which we will explain if 
you will drop us a card asking 
for our booklet No. 61. 
“Note the V” 
Our general catalog will also 
be mailed free upon request, which describes our entire line, such as Greening’s Patent Trussed 
Steel Wire Lathing, Buffalo Crimped Wire Concrete Reinforcing, Wire Cloth of all kinds and 
Wire and Artistic Metal Work for all purposes. DROP US A LINE AT ONCE. 
BUFFALO WIRE WORKS COMPANY 
464 TERRACE 
FORMERLY SCHEELER S SONS 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
NOW IS THE TIME TO GET 
Planning a Trip Abroad 
By BLAIR JAEKEL, F. R. G. S. 
I T is not too early to begin to think about your trip to Europe, and to make plans for it. Par¬ 
ticularly timely, therefore, is this valuable book, for it is a guide to both the planning and 
the going. It suggests preparatory reading, helps you to choose steamer and stateroom advan¬ 
tageously, tells you the clothing you will need, how to carry your money, what provision to 
make for steamship comforts, how much and when to give tips; and there is a great wealth of 
other information on every travel need. 75 Cents net; postage 8c; 
Your bookseller can supply you. Send for catalogue. 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Publishers, Union Square, New York City 
1913 Specialty 
Plant B o oR 
Meehans’ 
Mallow 
Marvels 
Brilliant red, soft 
pink and white. 
Blossoms the width 
of this page. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons Germantown, Phila. 
is full of information on well-grown trees, shrubs and 
hardy garden flowers. Unlike most catalogs, it in¬ 
cludes many of the rarer, more unusual plants that 
give individuality to your garden. Includes improved 
strains of the famous 
Meehans’ Mallow Marvels 
— the plant creation of the century. Intro¬ 
duced by us in 1907, after twenty-eight years 
of experimentation — a plant combining all the 
virtues of the beautiful tropical Hibiscus with 
the hardy native mallow. Grows five to eight 
feet high, is covered with a luxuriance of bril¬ 
liantly colored flowers from July till frost 
comes. Herbaceous — -dies to ground in Fall, 
but root lives and grows luxuriantly the follow¬ 
ing season. Survives severest Winters. 
2-year roots in pink or white, 50c each. 
2-year roots in red.75c each. 
Meehans’ 1913 Specialty Plant Book also tells about the 
finest hardy chrysanthemums, including the best varieties, 
such as Souer Melaine, May Suydam, A. Neilson, Golden 
Mile. Martha, Julia Lagravere, and Fremy —five plants of each, 30 
in all, being offered for $3. 
Write today for this book. If you have a new, unplanted property of an acre 
or less, ask us to send also our Special New Property Proposition . 
January 10, 1912 
Pansies transplanted into sunny borders. 
(January 11 to 15, 1912, heaviest snowfall 
in the history of our city. Pansies un¬ 
protected.) 
April i to 8, 1912 
Pansies slowly coming into bloom. 
April 15, 1912 
Pansies blooming everywhere. 
April 15 to June 15, 1912 
The same entry was made, “Pansies 
everywhere,” for eight consecutive weeks. 
(They were picked daily by the hundreds, 
and this lengthened the time of bloom.) 
June 21, 1912 
Pansies over. Plants thrown out. 
They were planted in the borders next 
to the violets, which separate the flower¬ 
beds from the lawn, and the colors were 
massed so that when they came into bloom 
the varieties were distinct. The efifect was 
very striking and beautiful. 
From, the above record you will see that 
1 have in my garden book a complete gar¬ 
den guide, and am enabled by its help to 
repeat my successes and to avoid my mis¬ 
takes. 1 could easily multiply instances 
that would serve to show how this little 
calendar of my weekly garden progress 
has helped me to gain garden joy. Not 
the least of its pleasant features is that it 
makes of the garden a permanent posses¬ 
sion ; for is not memory possession ? It is 
easy to recall the beauty and sweetness of 
the flowers as I turn over its almost fra¬ 
grant leaves. As I read on the April 
pages, “Pansies everywhere,” my memory 
gives me a glowing picture of their bright 
faces and rich colors in the borders, and in 
the bowls and vases, which not only 
brought joy to me, but to many, many, of 
my friends. I can see the rhythmic beauty 
of my pansy color scale, with its snowy 
masses of white melting into the delicate 
blues, which, again, darkened into the 
deeper tones. I remember the golden 
glories of the yellows blending with the 
rich harmonies of the mauves, turning 
again into violets and reds and blacks, and, 
whether in the garden or in the rooms, al¬ 
ways and everywhere, fragrant and beau¬ 
tiful. Ten weeks of such wonderful har¬ 
mony are enough garden joy to balance 
the mistakes and failures of a year. 
“Lettuce fine,” calls to mv mind the long 
lines of delicate green that formed such a 
beautiful background for the pansies and 
such a delicious foreground for the lunch¬ 
eon table. 
“Roses glorious,” serves to emphasize 
the fact that roses are always wonderful 
and that April is essentially the month of 
roses in the South. Then it is that they 
blossom out in their full spring fragrance 
and beauty. White or yellow, crimson or 
scarlet, clearest and most dainty of pinks, 
or deepest and richest of reds, climbing to 
the tops of the tallest trees or trellises, or 
blooming a foot or two above the ground, 
wherever and whenever found, the rose is 
the queen of the garden beauties and best 
of our Southern garden friends. 
Julia Lester Dillon 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
