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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1913 
crr ' a Regard your lighting fixtures as part of the Furniture of 
the room, and select them to harmonize. 
No. 09370 . 
Gaumer 
Hand Wrought 
Cighting Fixtures 
are finished in Antique Copper, Bronze or Brass._ They make 
a pleasing harmony of color. The designs are distinctive and 
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Progressive Dealers display the genuine Gaumer Fixtures 
with a Guarantee Tag attached that means much to the man 
who wants lasting beauty in his home. 
Book of Designs ready—what rooms shall you furnish ? 
John L. Gaumer Co., dept. A 
22d and Wood Sts., Philadelphia, U. S. A. 
Capable 
Cleaning 
Equipment 
Spencer Turbine 
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Don't neglect to include a Vacuum 
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Hundreds of beautiful homes are 
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Machines are for basement installation; made in 
12 sizes, from 34 H. P., i-sweeper, to 40 H. P., 
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of 1,000 installations furnished as references. 
Very probably some of your acquaintances have 
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Spencer Turbine Cleaner Co. 
630 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Conn. 
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■Brand Sheep Manure 
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Comfortable Summer Chairs 
F ROM Canton, China, come these artistic ex¬ 
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In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
the June blossoms are over, there is no 
more bloom until fall, except the masses 
of the hydrangeas, the cannas, or sporadic 
perennials. This is all wrong, and June 
stock-taking will remedy this fault. The 
wonderful beauty of the - spring blossoms 
should not cause us to forget that judicious 
planning and planting will make our 
Southern gardens beautiful for twelve 
months in the year. 
The numerous annuals, if kept well cut, 
will give bloom until frost. If the peren¬ 
nial phlox is planted in mass and in abun¬ 
dance the garden will be fragrant and 
beautiful through all the trying heat of 
the summer days. If the asters, zinnias, 
salvias, and colei are planted in proper 
proportion, the borders will be rich and 
colorful from June until autumn is over. 
Now, now is the time, fill up the barren 
spots. I cannot reiterate this too often. 
The Early Wonder white asters in 
clusters among crimson zinnias will bridge 
the space between the June sweet peas and 
the August flowers. The white ageratum 
will throw its mist-like blossoms among 
the fiery spikes of the scarlet sage, and the 
white petunias, with their fragrant cups 
massed among the vari-colored colei, will 
blossom through all the scorching summer 
days. Plant now, and plant in masses of 
a dozen, or a hundred would be better, and 
see if the result is not worth while. 
A June inheritance of my garden, that 
has given pleasure and beauty for a half 
century, is the hydrangea grandidora, 
which, with its masses of blue and pink 
loveliness, has framed the lines of our 
front porch for all these years. For im¬ 
mediate effect, for terrace and porch deco¬ 
ration, or for masses anywhere, these and 
the neriums may be purchased in tubs and 
used during the summer and placed in 
permanent positions in the fall. The 
monstrosa, the otaksa, and other pink 
varieties of the hydrangea grandidora are 
more attractive to me than the white kinds. 
The use of small lumps of alum around 
the roots of the pink varieties will cause 
them to show heads of beautiful, clear, 
blue blossoms. A little pruning, after the 
winter is over to get rid of the dead 
branches, much fertilizer in the fall and 
spring, and sunshine and rain will do the 
rest. 
The glory of my June garden is a stately 
white oleander or nerium, which has been 
a joy, for many months each year, for at 
least seventy-five years. It was planted 
by my great-grandmother and its fragrant 
clusters of starry white blossoms are as 
invariably a part of our garden picture as 
the summer itself. Annually, I thank the 
dear old lady, whom I never saw, for this, 
my heritage. 
For many years it was absolutely neg¬ 
lected, but bravely and proudly it held up 
its head and now repays the extra feeding 
of manure in the fall and fertilizer in the 
spring, by a prodigal munificence of bloom. 
It must be seen to be appreciated. At 
least ten feet tall and twelve feet in the 
diameter of the spread of its branches, 
with every stem topped by one or a dozen 
