House and Garden 
Russwin Hardware 
is specified by prominent 
Architects throughout 
the country 
Andros Design 
An example of the Greek 
School 
Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company 
NEW BRITAIN, CONN. 
No. 26 West Twenty-Sixth Street, New York No. 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 
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THE WASHABLE 
WALLCOVERING 
THE MODERN MATERIAL 
Use SANITAS in every room. Glazed surface, like 
tile, for bathroom and kitchen—dull surface, like paper, 
for dining room, halls, bedroom and living rooms. New 
Spring patterns and colorings in great variety for every 
part of the house. 
SANITAS is printed on strong muslin in oil colors 
which cannot fade. It won’t discolor, tear or ^ 
crack with the plaster. It can be cleaned in¬ 
stantly with a damp cloth. It costs no more 
than good cartridge paper. 
Write to our special Department of Home Decoration. State which 
rooms you desire to decorate and receive, free, special 
samples and suggestive sketches of clever new interior 
treatments. Write today. 
Standard Oil Cloth Co. 
Dept. 9, 320 Broadway, 
New York City 
""Fireplaces should be put in all available rooms, iiicludinu 
chambers,” says a writer in Country Life in America. They are the 
best ventilators. Our "Brick Mantels are apjn-oved by all 
admirers of good art. We will mail you a book of phot()gra])hic 
plates upon ap 2 )lication. 
Philadelphia and Boston Face Brick Company, 
165 Milk Street, - Dept. 46 - Boston, Mass. 
SEEDLESS TOMATOES 
I ^HE Agricultural Department in a 
recent bulletin compiles reports 
from New Jersey and Wisconsin con¬ 
cerning the production of seedless 
tomatoes. 
The production of any vegetable 
novelty always arouses interest among 
seed growers and gardeners. More or 
less of this work has been done by the 
experiment stations. For a number of 
years breeding experiments with vege¬ 
tables have been carried on by Prof. 
Halsted and his associates at the New 
jersey stations. Among the distinct 
and valuable productions secured in this 
w'ork is a nearly seedless tomato. As 
is well known, each fruit of the ordinary 
tomato contains hundreds of seeds, while 
the form which Prof. Halsted has devel¬ 
oped seldom contains more than fifty 
seeds and frequently there are not more 
than live or six and often none. 
This variety has become pretty well 
established now and has been called the 
Giant because of the very large size that 
the plant attains. It originated five or 
six years ago as a result of a cross of 
Golden Sunrise upon Dwarf Champion. 
“The seedlings frequently bear three 
cotyledons, and the plants are very slow, 
growing long stemmed, with the foliage 
open, due to the long internodes, and 
leaves with the divisions widely sepa¬ 
rated, which are crinkled, and the ter¬ 
minal leaflet blunt pointed. The flower 
clusters are small, flowers cup shaped, 
light lemon yellow, and the fruits few, 
medium small, light yellow and nearly 
seedless. The flesh is particularly fine 
flavored. The plants, three feet apart 
each way, covered the ground devoted 
to the block, and flowered up to the kill¬ 
ing frosts near November i.” 
The type appears to he well flxed. At¬ 
tempts to cross others upon it have failed. 
Seedless fruits have also been pro¬ 
duced by Prof. Halsted on several vari¬ 
eties and crosses of tomatoes, due prob¬ 
ably primarily to nonpollination with 
other conditions favorable to the stim¬ 
ulation of fruit production. These 
crosses were quite uniformly dwarfed in 
size, many in a cluster being not larger 
than peas, but solid fleshed and often 
of good quality. In one instance the 
fruit had the flavor of the strawberry. 
Currant crossed upon Stone produced 
such fruit, likewise Crimson Cushion 
upon Sumatra. When Crimson Cushion 
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