HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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January, 
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Choice Fruit Trees 
Our standard and dwarf apples, cherries, pears, plums, in 
bearing sizes, will save two or three years’ time over ordinary 
nursery stock. We also have a fine collection of theTsmall 
fruits, including four-j'ear grape vines transplanted last 
spring, Currants, Gooseberries and the famous Erskine Park 
Blackberry. They are of fine shape, have splendid fibrous 
root growth, and pronounced by the State Department of 
Agriculture to be free from all insect pests. 
ORNAMENTALS IN EXTRA SIZES 
FOR IMMEDIATE EFFECT 
In addition to ordinary sizes our stock includes shrubs up to 
eight feet and trees up to twenty-five feet, all transplanted to 
develop a mass of fibrous roots. 
Evergreens in 70 varieties. Maples, Lindens, Dogwood 
and other flowering trees, in all the leading sorts. Hardy 
Perennials, Vines and Shrubs. Irish Roses in 200 
varieties, including Everblooming, Choice Climbers in 2, 
3 and 4 year sizes, and Tree Roses on heavy Rugosa stock. 
Send today for illustrated catalog, a cyclopedia of information 
to the planter. Gives sizes as well as prices. Write for special 
quotations on large orders. 
OUR MOTTO: 
Prices as low as Consistent with Highest Quality. 
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To those who desire marbles 
for interior use, we offer ex¬ 
ceptional facilities. We are 
showing several unusually 
attractive pieces and can 
assure prompt delivery and 
reasonable prices on stock 
designs of benches, vases, 
tables, statuary, wall foun¬ 
tains, fireplaces, etc. Special 
attention given to the execu¬ 
tion of original designs. 
Send for Catalogue 
The Erkins Studios 
The Largest Manufacturers of 
Ornamental Stone. 
226 Lexington Ave., New York 
Factory, Astoria, L. I. 
DWARF 
FRUIT 
TREES 
APPLE 
PEAR 
PLUM 
CHERRY 
PEACH 
Best for 
Home Garden 
Bear Quicker 
Less Room 
Finest Fruit 
Also Full Line 
Standard Fruit Trees 
CHOICE STOCK 
CATALOGUE FREE 
TShe VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
W. L. McKAY, Prop. Box B. GENEVA, N. Y. 
n: - 1 Brand Compost 
WELL ROTTED 
HORSE IVIAIMLJRE 
Dried — Ground—Odorless 
Your plants, vegetables and flowers need nour¬ 
ishment during the entire growing season. Our 
Diamond Brand Compost is concentrated and 
immediately available. 
Largely Humus — No weed seeds. No refuse. It 
becomes part of the soil. 
Being moisture holding, will keep your lawns 
green. 
Put up in bags of 100 lbs. 
Write for Circular " B" and prices. 
NEW YORK STABLE MANURE CO. 
273 Washington St., Jersey City, N. J. 
cent Frau Karl Druschki and the deli¬ 
cately lovely Bride. For the sunlight of 
the garden, Etoile de Lyon, Mme. Blumen- 
schmidt and Franz Deegan form yellow 
beds of unrivaled color. Blending into 
these shades of gold we have the orange 
lights to be found in the Sunburst, the 
coppery yellow Francesca Kruger, and 
the salmon yellow, Melanie Soupert, so 
that these varieties, with their tones of 
yellow-orange and salmon-pink, carry the 
color scale through the warm tones into 
the deeper pinks of Paul Neyron and 
George Arends, and these lead us natural¬ 
ly to the deeper crimson and reds of the 
Richmond, Ulrich Brunner, J. B. Clark 
and Meteor. All of these roses will not 
only give an abundance of bloom in the 
spring, but most of them are gorgeous 
from August until the late frosts of No¬ 
vember and December bring winter to the 
garden. 
Framing such a garden of formal beds 
there should be an enclosing wall formed 
of a hedge of Amoor privet or arbor vitae. 
Against this background the more vig¬ 
orous-growing plantings, like the Bour¬ 
bons, Souvenir de Malmaison, Hermosa 
and the Burbank, with the teas, Duchesse 
de Brabant, Devoniensis, and others, may 
be made. Winter pruning of the roses in 
this situation should keep them either 
lower than or on a level with the wall. If 
space does not permit the garden of roses, 
a border or hedge against an ivy-covered 
wall or an evergreen planting of any kind 
is very artistic and always beautiful and 
satisfactory. 
If one prefers the daintier growths of 
the Polyantha and Baby Ramblers, they 
are also very beautiful in this setting. 
These dainty little roses are also used for 
the large beds of the informal gardens, 
and the California rose, Cecil Brunner, is 
not only a favorite, but especially de¬ 
serves its popularity. It is the perfec¬ 
tion of rose form, a Killarney in minia¬ 
ture, of a creamy color with deeper saf¬ 
fron tones in the heart, and its clusters of 
blossoms are not only deliciously fragrant, 
but continuously present. 
For the rose borders or the beds in the 
formal plantings, winter carpets of pan¬ 
sies and violets are charming and the 
roses seem to bloom more freely for 
having had the company. 
The hardiness of the Tea and Noisette 
roses in the South enables us to plant these 
vigorous and rampant climbers on trel¬ 
lises, tea-houses, arbors and pergolas, and 
revel in their bounteous beauty and fra¬ 
grance from vear to year and almost from 
month to month. Long walks over which 
are arbors wreathed in the climbing forms 
of the Devoniensis, Malmaison, which are 
nearly evergreen, the Lamarque, Reve 
d’Or, Marechal Niel and Cloth of Gold, 
the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria and La 
Reine Marie Henrietta are scenes of un¬ 
exampled loveliness from month to 
month. All of these are vigorous and 
hardy climbers and make wonderful sum¬ 
mer screens for the second-story sleeping 
porches, as well as for the lower plant¬ 
ings. 
For small arches and porch pillars it is 
better to plant the less vigorous varieties, 
like the Ramblers and Wichuriana Hy¬ 
brids. Of the latter, the Dorothy Per¬ 
kins is the best-known pink, while for the 
yellow tones there is the Gardenia, for the 
white, Alderic Barbier, and for the deeper 
color, the Ferdinand Roussel, which is 
wine-red. The single-flow’ered Jersey 
Beauty and the red Hiawatha, with its 
white center, are also very attractive. 
These roses may be trained to the de¬ 
sired height and then the branches, if al¬ 
lowed to droop, will form graceful fes¬ 
toons of lovely blossoms at the annual 
springtime harvest. These hybrids are 
almost evergreen and very free from in¬ 
sect pests, and, for this reason, perhaps, 
are more popular in the South than the 
ramblers, all of which are well known and 
vigorous here, as elsewhere. 
For evergreen screens, for covering 
walls and terraces or wherever an ever¬ 
green effect is needed, the old wild rose 
of the South, Rosa laezngata, is recom¬ 
mended. The newer Pink Cherokee is 
also very lovely, and both of these, while 
rampant growers, may be kept in bounds 
by pruning. The Banksia roses, in snowy 
white and primrose yellow, with thorn¬ 
less stems and delicate, green leaves, are 
not nearly so well known as they deserve 
to be. Annually the violet-scented clus¬ 
ters of blossoms cover the long, grace¬ 
fully drooping stems to the very tip. 
The Uses of Woodwork in 
Interior Decorations 
(Continued from page 27 ) 
it is a conglomerate stone produced arti¬ 
ficially. 
As to whether it is quite logical to use 
concrete so lavishly while pretending to 
work in a historical period totally ignorant 
of its existence, is another matter. We 
must draw the line somewhere, I suppose, 
between what we should not do and what 
we may. The beautiful qualities of the 
style are what we seek, and anything not 
out of harmony we may surely adopt. 
Their chairs were usually of solid plank, 
too heavy to move easily, and of a stiff 
discomfort; but these are not valid rea- It 
sons for making ours unpractical or un¬ 
comfortable. The chairs we call Jacobean 
are really more like those in Charles 
First’s time than in his predecessor's. 
These reigns are commonly grouped to¬ 
gether under the general name of Ja¬ 
cobean, a period of oak in contradistinc¬ 
tion to the walnut period that followed. 
After the Walnut came the Mahogany, 
and then we are in the full sweep of the 
Georgian classic and our own Colonial. 
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