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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1915 
BURPEE- 
SPENCERS 
are revela¬ 
tions of beauty 
and daintiness. If you 
have never seen the Bur- 
pee-Spencers you hardly 
know Sweet Peas of rare 
quality. The House of Burpee 
was the first to grow the Spencer 
type in America. At our Flora- 
Ldale^Ranch, “the California 
home oU Sweet Peas”—are produced 
magnificent strains that have proved 
unsurpassed. A trial of the collec¬ 
tions advertised below will show you 
why we are known the world over as 
American Headquarters for Sweet Peas. 
The Burpee Leaflet on bweet Pea 
Culture withjeach collection. 
Six Superb Spencers 
we will mail one regular 10-cent 
* packet (40 to 50 seeds) each of 
Burpee’s Dainty, a beautiful picotee pink-edged 
Spencer; Burpee’s King Edward, deep carmine 
scarlet; Burpee’s Irish Belle or Dream, rich lilac 
flushed with pink; Mrs. Cuthbertson, an exquisite 
pink, wings white-flushed with rose; Mrs. Hugh Dick¬ 
son, rich apricot on cream ground; also one large packet 
(90 to 100 seeds) of the Burpee Blend of Superb 
Spencers for 1915, the hnest mixture of Spencers or 
Orchid-Flowered Sweet Peas ever offered. 
Six Standard Spencers 
Pifvy* O we will mail one regular 10-cent 
* packet (40 to 50 seeds) each of the 
following standard Spencers. America Spencer, 
striped brilliant red on ivory ground; Burpee’s Capti¬ 
vation Spencer, rich rosy wine red; Burpee’s Decor¬ 
ator, rich rose overlaid with terracotta; Burpee’s 
Ethel Roosevelt, soft primrose splashed with crim¬ 
son; Helen Devvis, intense crimson-orange; Burpee’s 
Queen Victoria, deep primrose flushed rose. 
we will mail both collections named 
* OV/V* above, and also a 15-cent package 
of Illuminator. 
“ Five of the Finest ” 
cn r we will mail one packet each of 
* King White, the giant of Spencers 
— a glistening immaculate pure white; Burpee’s Ver¬ 
milion Brilliant, most brilliant iridescent scarlet 
Spencer; Burpee’s Mrs. Routzahn, buff flushed 
delicate piiiR; Burpee’s Orchid, decidedly the best 
of all lavenders; and Burpee’s Unique Wedgwood. 
These are all of our own introduction. King White 
is shown on cover of Burpee’s Annual for 1915, and the 
other four painted from Nature comprise the beautiful 
flower plate on page 110. 
IZ^v* Ofl we wiU mail a11 three collec- 
1 I tions as offered above, includ¬ 
ing a 15-cent packet of Burpee’s Illuminator, and a 
regular 10-cent packet each of Elfrida Pearson, 
most lovely pink; and Sterling Stent, rich salmon 
orange—making in all Twenty True and Tried Spencers 
for §1.00. This great offer could not be duplicated 
anywhere else in the world. In ordering it is sufficient 
to write for Burpee’s Dollar Box of Spencers 
for 1915. 
Burpee’s Annual 
Known as the leading American seed catalog — 
this bright book of 182 pages for 1915 is better 
than ever before. It is mailed free. Write for 
it today and kindly name House & Garden. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. 
Burpee Building, Philadelphia 
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The plan of the Exposition gardens has 
been formulated by the eminent land¬ 
scape gardener, Mr. John C. McLaren, 
who has designed the famous Golden Gate 
Park at San Francisco. Under Mr. 
McLaren’s supervision a small army of 
expert gardeners are at present working 
on the preparation of plants, blooms, 
trees and flowers that will be used in the 
decoration of the World's Fair of 1915. 
The site of the Exposition at Flarbor 
View lends itself particularly to beautiful 
color and floral effects. It is situated on 
the shores of the bay of San Francisco, 
near the Golden Gate, the entrance to the 
bay from the Pacific Ocean. 
Along the water front which faces the 
hills of Marin county, with Mount Ta- 
malpais overlooking the whole, there is to 
be a grand esplanade a mile in length. 
Here will be planted the hardy trees and 
shrubs and the palms and flowers that 
need less sheltered courts than the more 
delicate specimens which will be used in 
the decoration scheme in great profusion. 
The more exotic plants will ornament 
the formal gardens of the inner courts and 
promenades, where they will be protected 
from the ocean breezes. For the es¬ 
planade there are now being nurtured 
hundreds of pine, lady birch, myrtle, 
olive, cypress, acacia and other hardy 
growths. Against the old ivory white of 
the Exposition palaces and triumphal 
arches, the dead green of the myrtle ming¬ 
ling with the silver green of the olive, the 
gray of the dainty lady birch and the live¬ 
lier greens and yellows of the acacia, will 
produce an effect of striking beauty. 
It is interesting to note the influence of 
Japanese art on floral decorations in the 
Exposition. In many of the open spaces, 
and in the more spacious places of the in¬ 
ner courts, there will be seen the pink and 
white spray-like traceries of the flowering 
peach and delicate heliotrope of the grace¬ 
ful wistaria, which constantly occur in 
Japanese prints and paintings and works 
of applied art. Under the clear, blue of 
the California sky, the wonderful effect on 
these and kindred flowering growths may 
easily be conceived. 
According to Mr. McLaren’s plan, most 
of the beds in most of the courts will be 
laid out with flowers of the same general 
color, producing a brilliantly dazzling 
effect. But in other courts and boulevards 
a marvelous kaleidoscopic spectacle will be 
produced by the use of varicolored plants 
and flowers in generous abundance. 
Here and there will be a court with 
flower beds trimmed with the waxy 
fuchsia, another aflame with the red, 
orange and yellow of the aster, and still 
another set with the scarlet spikes of the 
salvia. There will be vistas lined with 
the star-like marguerites against rich, 
green avenues screened with clematis and 
bougainvillea and gardens flanked with 
asparagus ferns. 
Adding to the general beauty of the 
o T one of 
“ the Com¬ 
mittee ” whohave 
charge of deciding 
on how the 
church is to be 
heated, would 
think of drinking 
stagnant, scum¬ 
my water. Yet 
that same com¬ 
mittee will decide to put 
in a heating apparatus in 
the church t hat heats and 
reheats the same old dead 
poison-infected air. 
Is it a wonder, then, 
that people nod in their 
pews? 
Is it a wonder they go 
home with "a Sunday 
headache?” 
The ideal heat for a 
church, as well as for a 
home, is that heat whicn 
both heats and ventilates 
at the same time. 
Just such a heat is the 
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But it is not 
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heat, it is an 
economical heat. 
In snort, it is a 
healtnizer and 
economizer. 
If you are on 
the heating com¬ 
mittee, let us tell 
you just what 
there is about the Kel¬ 
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commit yourself on any 
kind. 
If the heat in your 
home is unsatisfactory, 
and you are going to re¬ 
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first find out about all 
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then let us tell you about 
the Kelsey health heat. 
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