House and Garden 
- The Standard of Excellence - 
in Builders’ 
Fine Hardware 
With Correct Designs in 
all the Leading Schools of 
Art is found in the produc¬ 
tions of 
R & F. 
CORBIN 
N. W. Corner 
Eighth and Arch Streets 
PHILADELPHIA 
FACTORIES 
New Britain, Conn. 
Interior view of the First Church of Christ, 
Scientist, Boston, Mass., in which we laid 
30,000 feet of Interlocking Rubber Tiling, in 
a solid color, to harmonize with the stone 
finish. 
Interlocking 
Rubber Tiling 
Noiseless, non-slippery, restful to the feet, 
sanitary, extraordinarily durable. The finest 
floor for use in public buildings, banks, offices, 
theatres, hospitals, libraries, kitchens, laun¬ 
dries, billiard rooms, bath rooms, stairways, 
etc., etc. 
Samples, estimates, and special designs fur¬ 
nished upon application. 
Beware of infringers. Patented. 
Manufactured solely by 
New York Belting and Packing Company, Ltd., 
91 and 93 Chambers Street, New York City 
Chicago: 150 Lake Street. 
St. Louis: 218-220 Chestnut Street. 
Philadelphia: 118-120 North 8th Street. 
San Francisco : 1 
Cakland: 1 Cal. 
E. iith Street and 3d Avenue. J 
Boston : 232 Summer Street. 
Indianapolis, Ind. : 229 South Meridian St. 
Baltimore: 114 West Baltimore Street. 
Buffalo: 600 Prudential Building. 
Jr^iTTSBURGH: 913-915 Liberty Avenue. 
Spokane, Wash.: 163 S. Lincoln Street. 
Sole European Depot, Anglo-American Rub¬ 
ber Co., Ltd., 58 Holborn Viaduct, London, 
E. C. 
was crossed upon Giant and Magnus 
many seedless fruits were produced, 
some of which were large enough for 
table use. Cuttings taken from plants 
which produced numerous seedless fruits 
of this sort when planted out in the gar¬ 
den gave only normal fruits. 
E. P. Sandsten, working at the Wis¬ 
consin station, produced seedless toma¬ 
toes by an entirely different method, 
i. e., the use of excessive amounts of fer¬ 
tilizers. He worked the greenhouse 
with a good potting soil, using commer¬ 
cial fertilizers at the rate of 800 pounds 
of nitrate of soda, 600 pounds of sul¬ 
phate of potash and 1,000 pounds of 
desiccated bone per acre. xMany ab¬ 
normalities in the growth of the plants 
and fruit were observed. “In almost 
all cases there was a tendency of the 
plants to produce fruits containing a 
much smaller number of seeds than gen¬ 
erally found in the ordinary fruit.” 
We thus have at least two ways of 
securing seedlessness in tomatoes—by 
crossing and selection and by high feed¬ 
ing with fertilizers. The work with 
seedless tomatoes at both these stations 
is being continued and promises to result 
in tbe establishment of varieties with 
far less seeds in than the sorts commonly 
grown. It brings out strikingly the 
variations that may occur in plants as a 
result of crossing and high feeding with 
fertilizers .—Farm and Home. 
A NEW ROSE OF SURPASSING BEAUTY 
LIMBING roses have ever been 
popular m city and country, and 
during June and July the gorgeous crim¬ 
son of the “Pamblers” may be seen 
everywhere in all its glory. 
The present season brings us a new 
rose of surpassing beauty, without 
question the most sensational climbing 
rose yet introduced—not even except¬ 
ing the crimson rambler. Its name is 
the “Tausendschbn” (Thousand Beau¬ 
ties). 
Imagine if you can, a rose producing 
on the same bush so many different 
colored flowers that it is impossible to 
describe or even picture the variations. 
A single cluster of flowers is a bouquet 
in itself, hence the very fitting name, 
“Thousand Beauties.” Blooming pro¬ 
fusely from the beginning of June until 
the last of July, the flowers appear in 
large clusters, ten to fifteen in a cluster, 
are of splendid size and quite double. 
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