House and Garden 
THE BARDSLEY 
- Improved 1904 Pattern — 
Can be ap¬ 
plied to either 
a right-hand 
or left-hand 
door, or either 
side of a door 
without any 
change what¬ 
ever. It has 
a coiled wire 
spring, the 
most durable 
form of spring 
known, and is 
the easiest of 
Door Checks 
to apply. 
JOSEPH BARDSLEY, 
Boston, 19 Pearl St. Chicago, 86 Lake St. St. Louis, 404 Security Bldg. 
Cncinnati. 3135 Epworth Avenue San Francisco, 519 Mission Street 
JULIUS ROEHRS CO. 
RUTHERFORD, N. J, 
Growers, Importers and Exporters 
ORCHIDS 
CATALOGUE ON REQUEST 
Flowering Plants and Orchids always 
in stock. 
Visitors always welcome. 
The man who buys 
any other Typewriter 
always HOPES it will 
be as good as the 
REMINGTON 
Remington Typewriter Company 
110 S. Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Perfect Columns 
KoH’s Patent Lock Joint 
Columns are masterpieces of 
architecture, perfect in classic 
proportions. Their mechani¬ 
cal construction is faultless. 
They are made of^extra thick 
stock, perfectly seasoned,and 
are weatherproof, very strong 
and very durable. For in¬ 
terior uses they are made of 
every variety of hard wood. 
You caimot secure elsewhere 
as beautiful and substantial 
columns for all porch, in¬ 
terior, pergolas and garden 
uses. 
Write to-day for our illus¬ 
trated catalog P-19. 
HENRY SANDERS CO. 
860-1060 Elston Ave., Chicago 
Eastern Office: 1123 Broadway, New York 
Tlie n<ame “Dins'ce” ex¬ 
presses in roses. It 
is a name familiar to two 
generations of rose lovers. 
Each year adds to our 
skill in producing roses 
of nmisual merit, and 
the “Bingee Roses” for 
this year surpass even 
tiiose of other years. Our 
New Guide 
to Rose Culture 
for 1908 is larger, handsomer, more valu¬ 
able than ever. 134 pages. A number of 
pages in full color illustration 
iiandsome enough to frame. 
Describes over KkX) varieties 
of roses, tells how to grow 
them and all other desirable 
tiowers. Seeds a specialty. 
It is mailed free to all who 
write for it. 
10 Famous Roses $1. ' 
Those who think more of quality than 
of nmnbers will buy the “Dingee Collec¬ 
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and labeled, including Tlionsand l>caa- 
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larney, 1 lelen Gould, The Cochets. Sent 
postpaidanywherefor$i.00. (Juarunteod to 
reach you safely, and to prow ami bloom. 
The Greatest Collection ever offered. Or¬ 
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A dollar bill will bring tltem. Order now. 
THE DINGEE & CONARD CO.. West Goove. Pa. 
. fstablUhod 1^50 70 GreenhouHcs 
Stanley’s Ball-Bearing Hinges 
Nothing equals them for 
hanging doors either in 
Big Public Buildings or 
Private Dwellings 
Two will frequently take the place of three 
ordinary hinges, and their action is noise¬ 
less and perfect. KMade in Wrought 
Bronze and Steel. 
THE STANLEY WORKS 
Myrtle Street, New Britain, Conn. 
New York Office: 79 Chambers Street 
Have you in your house one of our "Brick Open Fire= 
place Mantels? You will find diem in every country 
on this globe. You cannot afford to be without one. Send 
for our catalogue. Address: 
PHILADELPHIA & BOSTON FACE BRICK COMPANY 
165 Milk Street ■ - Boston, Mass., Dept. 46 
a moderate cost and after potting them, 
start them into active growth in a green¬ 
house or hotbed, gradually hardening 
them off and planting out when all dan¬ 
ger of frosts is past. If you have not 
got these facilities, get some florist to 
start them. While most any of the 
begonias would do well there, those I 
have named are the best. When cold 
weather injures the foliage, take up the 
tubers, dry them off", and place them in 
a paper bag and hang them up in some 
dry, frost-proof place. The sweet alys- 
sum may be grown from seed or raised 
from cuttings, but are sold at a very low 
price in the spring by any florist. 
MORNING GLORY “HEAVENLY BLUE ” 
A few years ago I saw in California a 
wire fence covered with a morning glory 
they called Heavenly blue. I was very 
much impressed with its beauty and have 
attempted to grow it here, starting the 
seeds in the greenhouse, but while the 
plants grow vigorously, they do not 
bloom. Do you suppose the soil is too 
rich ? D. C. C. 
Heavenly blue is the very appropriate 
name applied to the Ipotncea rubra 
cerrulea, meaning the red-blue ipomcea, 
the flowers being a lovely shade of blue 
when first open, fading to a red when 
closed and at their end. It is a plant 
thaLunder ordinary cultivation requires 
a long season of growth before bloom¬ 
ing, a condition which exists in Cali¬ 
fornia but not with us, and the frost 
cuts the vine down before it blooms. 
^Vi;You can bloom it however by confin¬ 
ing its roots. Many plants, and this is 
one of them, do not believe in race sui¬ 
cide, and when their roots are confined, 
and as a consequence their food supply 
becomes exhausted, they seem to make 
up their mind that their days are num¬ 
bered and if they are to perpetuate their 
species they must hurry up and flower 
and ripen their seed. 
Start your seed in the greenhouse, 
planting in small pots, say a two and a 
half inch pot at first. Do not shift until 
fairly well pot-bound, then use the next 
size, making one more shift into a three 
and a half. In the meantime these pots 
had better be sunken in a box, in sand, to 
subserve moisture. When the weather 
is surely settled, say about June loth, 
you are ready to set in place. In none 
of the pottings are you to use any broken 
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