HOUSE AND GARDEN 
50 
January, 1915 
This is “Peace /” the N ew Hardy Pompon 
Chrysanthemum, 
winner of the Chrysanthemum So¬ 
ciety of America* Silver Cup for the 
best new variety of the season. We 
have added “Peace” to our col¬ 
lection and wilFdisseminate it this 
season. We purchased it for the 
reason that pompon chrysan¬ 
themums are increasing in pop¬ 
ularity 1 !and we wished this, the 
finest white variety, added to com¬ 
plete our collection of the best vari¬ 
eties of pompons in existence. 
In “Harvest Moon,” another novelty, 
we have the best early yellow variety ever 
offered. Whether for exhibition or gen¬ 
eral growing, you will find the best varieties 
in our catalog. 
In Hardy Herbaceous Perennials, Garden Roses, 
Greenhouse Roses, Carnations, and other plants 
for the greenhouse and for the garden our catalog 
includes the best varieties and your order will 
prove to you that we grow the best plants. 
We invite you to study our catalog. A postal card will 
Bibring it. 
AN PlERSON inc 
Cromwell Garpens 
Cromwell Conn 
p| Send for 
j Our 1915 Spring Catalog. 
pj It is full of real help in the planting 
A and care of your garden and will 
A make you long for spring to come. 
'C It will be sent free to anyone who has a gar- 
i-gj den or wants one. Drop us a postal today. 
|, M. THOR BURN & CO. 
53 Barclay Street, through to ^ 
% ^ 54 Park Place, New York \ 
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AndO nr 3 j rees gn( j Shrubs in sizes 
Nurseries that will make landscapes of 
- beauty in months rather than 
years. Visit Andorra, or write us if you can¬ 
not come. Our counsel and suggestions will 
be helpful. Booklet mailed free, if requested. 
ANDORRA NURSERIES 
Wm. Warner Harper, Prop. Box H, Chestnut Hilt Philadelphia, Pa. 
May we call on you? 
Direct representatives of our nursery 
(expert plantsmen — we haveno“agents ”) 
will travel widely in January and Feb¬ 
ruary for personal interviews with owners 
of new unplanted properties and those 
contemplating additions to their hardy 
plantings. 
No obligations. We are glad of the 
opportunity. Routes are now being 
planned—write us promptly. Our 
representative can be of most use to you 
if you advise fully regarding size and 
condition of your property. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons 
Box 40 
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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Our 1915 Catalog is on press 
Write today for your free copy 
might prove to be of considerable advan¬ 
tage for purposes of defense — just as to¬ 
day, in tropical climates, the elevated 
Jiouse is a necessity because of spring 
freshets and fall inundations — but in more 
civilized communities, neither necessity 
remains apparent, and there exists every 
aesthetic and personal reason for decreas¬ 
ing the distance separating the first floor 
of the dwelling from the ground without. 
Contrast, if you will, a house placed so 
low as to have but one step from porch 
floor to grass lawn, with a house with a 
higher approach ; and try and analyze for 
yourself the reasons for its appearing so 
much the more attractive. Putting extenu¬ 
ating circumstances of all other sorts to 
one side, you will be surprised to find how 
The modern German type of entrance adds charac¬ 
ter to this plaster house 
overpowering and attractive an element is 
the close relationship established between 
these grade levels. It naturally follows 
that to-day every effort of ingenuity is 
used to relate the house first floor as near¬ 
ly as possible to the grade of its site. If 
one step from grade to porch is possible, 
with another step from porch to door, 
nearly the ideal solution has been arrived 
at. Perhaps two steps from porch to grade 
are absolutely necessary; even so, it is 
sometimes possible to make these steps so 
broad, with a buttress at each end so flat 
that they are hardly more than obvious to 
the approaching visitor. Especially is it 
possible — since the “spindly Colonial’’ pe¬ 
riod has shown signs of passing by—to 
avoid those prim upright columns of 
glaring white that formerly defended the 
doorway and held the venturesome ob- 
truder at good arm’s length. Again, it is 
possible to so soften the house entrance; 
to recess it within the face of the dwelling 
rather than project it beyond that face; 
so blending it in color into the wall treat¬ 
ment that one feels still more successfullv 
the near relation between dwelling within 
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