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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1913 
The Use of Cement 
about a 
Suburban Home 
will do more than any other one thing to make 
the place beautiful. Concrete structures look 
clean, their colors and lines blend effectively 
with the landscape; and they improve with 
exposure. Unless a great deal of money is 
spent upon wood, it deteriorates and looks 
shabby. Concrete costs nothing for repairs— 
is fireproof, vermin proof, sanitary. 
If you have stables, garages, porches, side- 
walks, gateways, fence posts, etc., to build or rebuild 
on your place, write us for full information about 
the use of concrete, its cost and desirability. You 
will be pleased at the results obtained by the use of 
I lUIUPnr A I PORTLAND 
CEMENT 
It is always reliable. We invite inquiries on any 
subject relating to the use of cement. The follow¬ 
ing free booklets are full of interest and information: 
Concrete Silos Concrete Sidewalks 
Concrete Surfaces Concrete in the Country 
Small Farm Buildings of Concrete 
Universal Portland Cement Co. 
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PLANTS AT CHICAGO AND PITTSBURGH 
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Garden Planting. More than 600 Acres of 
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We will make a planting plan of your place, selecting trees, 
shrubs, etc., suitable to soil and situation, and give you the 
exact cost of planting and proper time to plant. 
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The Stephen Hoyt’s Sons Company 
Est. 1843 New Canaan, Conn. Inc. 1903 
EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME GROUNDS 
Ornamental, deciduous, shade and weeping trees, Flowering shrubs, Barberry. 
Privet, Evergreen, Conifers, Hardy trailing vines, Climbers, Fruit trees, Berry 
bushes, Roses, Hardy garden plants, Etc. 
which is desirable for borders, the others 
being well suited for massing also. Since 
various growers have been at work per¬ 
fecting the varieties, it may be well to 
mention some of the more common sorts 
of special merit: 
Crego’s Giant, a branching sort, is a 
great, large-flowered, fluffy blossom with 
the center petals reflexed and curling. It 
may be had in all colors, and blooms from 
the middle of August to the end of Sep¬ 
tember. 
Victoria, one of the earlier flowering 
kinds, has reflex petals and bears from ten 
to twenty well-shaped flowers on a pyra¬ 
midal bush. 
Truffaut’s Peony Flowered Perfection 
has very large double flowers with in¬ 
curved petals, and in its richer colors re¬ 
sembles a peony. It grows to be two feet 
tall. 
The simple branching type bears double 
flowers on long stems in the early fall and 
grows to from two to three feet high. 
The sort known as Crimson Rose or 
Violet King is a popular form of the 
Comet type, bearing flowers almost four 
inches in diameter on eighteen-inch stems, 
a full center blossom with the center petals 
twisted. 
The Daybreak asters are ball-like in 
shape, stiffly erect on long stems with in¬ 
curved petals. Flowers are about two and 
a half inches in diameter, excellent for 
cutting and come to bloom in August. 
There are colored forms of this flower. A 
late improvement is known as the Ostrich 
Plume or Ostrich Feather variety, and has 
light feathery petals, long and twisted, 
gracefully formed and loose. 
The Best Use of Annuals 
(Continued from page 385) 
necessitate or warrant. Whether the 
hardy scheme be formal or informal, a 
vast amount of experience in the effect of 
massing blossoms and foliage, the combi¬ 
nation of colors and the meaning of sky¬ 
lines and vistas is to be had in this way. 
You want to know, perhaps, how small 
tapering evergreens would define certain 
garden formality, or would look in an ir¬ 
regular grouping. Experiment with the 
annual that is well named summer cypress 
(Kochia trichophylla). The color is light 
green, changing to a reddish tint in au¬ 
tumn, but with the needed form there the 
imagination can do the rest. Or if you 
want to get the effect of low shrubs, use 
the bushy four o'clock, which is a better 
annual (really a non-hardy perennial) than 
it appears to be when used separately in 
any of the self-colored varieties. Put to 
a practical test, the color value of sheets 
of low bloom by planting the blood-red 
Drummond’s phlox or the orange esch- 
scholzia, the value of irregular spikes 
with larkspur, of rayed blossoms with 
Brachycorne iberidifolia, of blossoms 
thrown up on long stems with sweet sul- 
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