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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1913 
CANOPY SETTEE 
You can buy this famous Rustic piece 
from the original designer and maker 
F. O. B. Toms River, N. J. $20 
Weight 
about 
300 lbs. 
Ships in two 
sections. 
Easily 
set up. 
Water-proof 
roof. 
Wide arms 
can be used 
for plant 
boxes. 
Seats four 
persons. 
Almost a 
house. 
V 6" long, 
V 6" high, 
4' 2" deep. 
Made of 
Jersey Cedar 
with 
Laurel trim. 
No. 1 
No. 2 
No. 3 
Rustic Cedar 'WREN HOUSES by Parcel Post, pre¬ 
paid. Your choice for $1.25, three for $3.50. 
Order now. It is not too late. You will be sure to 
have tenants seeking a place for their second brood. 
These Houses are an ornament to your place, and an 
object of interest the year round, and you will be sure 
to have them in place for next season. 
We expect to be over this rush in June and able to 
wait on you promptly. , 
We are about to put a Sparrow trap on the market. 
A Parcel Post scheme too. 
THE CRESCENT CO. 
Box 252, Toms River, N. J. 
Coldweil 
T -ft jr 
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ure at one’s disposal, is of the utmost im¬ 
portance. It takes time not only to make 
a .garden, but to maintain and enjoy it. 
The moment that the garden uses up more 
time than can be given to it comfortably, 
it gets beyond its province—play becomes 
work. And a flower garden is no place 
for drudgery. Figure out then how much 
time you can spend, comfortably, not 
merely during the season just in sight but 
for at least a few years to come; and cut 
your garden cloth accordingly. 
Climate is safely disposed of only by the 
elimination of all but the really depend¬ 
able flowers, remembering always that in 
some places hot, dry summers are as 
much of a problem as severely cold win¬ 
ters in others. Soil disadvantages can be 
remedied wherever expense does not stand 
in the way. Winds and the force of the 
summer sun are broken by the planting of 
shrubs and vines. Little or no sun is 
harder to get around, though the last re¬ 
sort of a shady garden is far from being 
one to be altogether deplored; sometimes 
such a garden is a place of genuine de- 
Hght. 
All this figuring out what is best to be 
done is prime mental sport for long win¬ 
ter evenings. Those are rare times for the 
planning of gardens — when the fire burns 
bright and you can sit and think, devise 
and revise, with the comfortable feeling 
that spring is still well in the future — that 
there will be no call to dig on the morrow. 
Hurry, indeed, is the last thing to enter 
into the planning of the garden. Much 
has to be thought out, and thought out 
means threshed out until there is a clean 
winnowing of the impractical from the 
practical. 
Preliminaries out of the way, the paper 
stage of the game passes from memo¬ 
randa into the definite form of a plan to 
scale. Blessings on the man who invented 
cross-ruled paper; with it laying out a 
garden is child’s play, even for the un- 
mathematical mind. This paper comes in 
sheets 17x14 in., and is ruled in little 
squares that run thirty-six to the square 
inch. The squares may be called any con¬ 
venient unit from a square foot up, and if 
one sheet of paper is not large enough, 
two or more may be pasted together. 
With a steel tape, if you can get hold of 
one, take measurements of the boundaries 
of the entire home grounds and the base 
lines of the house and any other buildings. 
Then get the distance of the house from 
the boundaries and locate by further meas¬ 
urements all existing roads, paths, trees, 
shrubs and borders. Having decided on 
your unit, transfer these measurements to 
the cross-ruled sheet and you have a plan 
of the place all ready for laying out the 
garden by exact scale. This plan would 
better settle only the location and size of 
the garden. 
A large plan of the garden in detail 
should then go on a separate sheet, this to 
be a working scheme for planting. Here 
it will sometimes be found very conve¬ 
nient to call every six squares each way a 
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