HOUSE AND GARDEN 
132 
February, 1915 
ORINOKA 
C f uavanteed 
SUN FAST FABRICS 
Yor- /Drapery and Upholstery 
will add much to the beauty of your home 
and absolutely will not fade. You can 
safely use them in windows exposed to the 
strongest sunlight. They will wash and al¬ 
ways remain fresh and have the appearance 
of silk. The Biltmore, New York’s newest 
and finest hotel, is draped with these fabrics. 
Send for Booklet, “Draping the Home” 
It contains valuable hints on home decoration. We 
will also send you the name of the dealer nearest 
you, where you can see these goods for yourself. 
ORINOKA MILLS 
156 Clarendon Bldg. 
NEW YORK 
For Your Protection Insist 
on This Guarantee: 
These goods are guaranteed absolutely 
fadeless. If color changes from expo¬ 
sure to the sunlight or from washing, 
the merchant is hereby authorized to 
replace them with new goods or refund 
the purchase price. 
This Tag and Guarantee on every bolt. 
DEFER your diffi- 
cult garden prob¬ 
lems to us. Direct 
representatives of our 
nursery (expert plantsmen — we 
have no “agents”) travel widely 
each year, combining touch with 
your local conditions with our 
broad knowledge of hardy plants 
which best meet those conditions. 
We can answer your questions 
by mail. Or our representative 
may arrange to call while en tour 
in January or February, if the 
points involved necessitate it. 
In any event, get 
catalog. It is ready. 
our new 
Thomas Meehan & Sons 
Box 40 
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
many years; I aim to keep in touch with 
new methods, new varieties, new discov¬ 
eries and new theories; but there is not a 
magazine among the scores in my files — 
stacked around three walls of the room, 
and too frequently, 1 confess, left scat¬ 
tered over table, chairs and floor — in 
which I cannot find information and sug¬ 
gestions in the personal experience of 
others. Gardening is a game that never 
ends and never loses interest. 
And there are the books ! Magazines we 
could not do without, but they can never 
take the place of hooks. No more wel¬ 
come gift can be made to a friend who 
is interested in gardening than a good 
book on the subject. Narratives of per¬ 
sonal experience are particularly interest¬ 
ing, but occasionally they are not genuine: 
the back-to-the-land faker is as much to be 
guarded against as the nature faker. But 
good books, both interesting and instruc¬ 
tive and most attractively “gotten up,” 
there are in plenty; and one can never give 
—or receive—too many of them. 
SOUTHERN- GARDEN 
DEPARTMENT 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON 
Inquiries and problems for this department will receive prompt 
attention. Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for reply. 
Shrubs for February Planting 
T HERE are many shrubs, both de¬ 
ciduous and evergreen, that may 
be put out at once and will give satisfac¬ 
tion from their planting. In general terms, 
all the shrubs that have finished their sea¬ 
son of bloom, and all those that blossom 
late in summer or autumn, may be planted 
at this time. Only these are given here. 
There will be many cold days and colder 
nights in the months to come which will 
keep the leaf buds dormant while the root 
systems are being established, which will 
insure a safe passage over the hot, dry 
days of the summer. 
The blossoms of the Lagerstroemias 
indica, in white and red and pink, may be 
safely counted upon for the summer 
months. The shrubbery bordery may re¬ 
ceive groups of the Hibiscus syriacus, the 
Rose of Sharon, or altheas, as we usually 
call them, in both the dwarf and tree 
forms. If these shrubs are planted in 
masses of known colors they are very ef¬ 
fective and attractive at a time when there 
are few other flowers in bloom. 
The Loniceras, Rhodotypus kerrioides, 
Berberis Thunbergii , with the Viburnums, 
opulus and lantana, form another group 
of late spring and summer-flowering 
shrubs. The sumacs, Rhus glabra and 
Rhus copallina, which bloom in August, 
and the Rhus cotinus, which gives us a 
cloud of purple mist among its branches 
in June, are all desirable and hardy. For 
the golden yellow that is rarely found in 
the summer-flowering shrubs we may 
plant Hypericum moserianum, which is al¬ 
most an evergreen in this section. 
Make your garden worth while j 
= Glass must be used whether you garden for profit or pf 
== merely for the love of having flowers and vegetables §§ 
HI when they are a luxury. Ee 
^ For the best results you must use the Sunlight |§ 
H Double Glass Sash. They make the earliest and 
H healthiest plants at the least cost of money and labor. p 
They are complete without mats and shutters. They ^ 
H are the standard sash of today among successful gardeners. jj 
H; Immediate shipment will be made. Sash ordered today = 
if will reach you within a week and an order for our com- |= 
H plete little greenhouse will reach you within 10 days. ^ 
H A handy man can set it up in a few hours. 1= 
Get our free catalog with all details , also Prof . Massey's ^ 
H booklet on hot-beds, cold frames and small greenhouses for ^ 
H 4- cents in stamps. 1= 
U SUNLIGHT DOUBLE GLASS SASH CO., 944 E. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. || 
DWARF 
FRUIT 
I II W ■ I PLUM 
T D C C C CHERRY 
I it C C O PEACH 
Best for 
Home Garden 
Bear Quicker 
Less Room 
Finest Fruit 
Also Full Line 
Standard Fruit Trees 
CHOICE STOCK 
CATALOGUE FREE 
XShe VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
W. L. McKAY, Prop. Box B. GENEVA. N. Y. 
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Poisoning Your Food? 
A leading medical authority says: 
"Wasted ice means not only wasted 
food, but often wasted lives from 
spoiled food." Read what physi¬ 
cians and others say about wonder¬ 
ful ice-saving and health protec¬ 
tion the Monroe affords. 
Approved by Good 
1 Housekeeping Institute 
5ft e Monroe 
The Monroe food compartments 
are Genuine Solid Porcelain 
ware—in one piece — over an 
inch thick—every corner round¬ 
ed. Not cheap porcelain-enam¬ 
el on metal base—but one piece 
of white unbreakable porcelain 
ware which can be easily kept free 
of germs—no cracks, joints, or cor¬ 
ners—nothing to break or chip. 
30 Days’ Trial—Cash or Credit 
Sold direct from factory at fac¬ 
tory price. Freight paid and all 
money back if not absolutely satis¬ 
factory. 
Monroe Refrigerator Co. (Est. 1868) Sta. 4, Lockland, 0 
“Using about one- 
third the ice the 
others did” T. G. 
Mackie, NewOrleans. 
“Cut ice bills from 
S36 to S8 ” T. W. Wil¬ 
liams, Milwaukee. 
“ Reduced ice bills 
nearly 40 per cent” 
Dr. B. H. Wells, 
Southport, Conn. 
“Much more eco¬ 
nomical than any 
other of several I 
have had” Dr. O. B. 
Shreve, Salem, Mass. 
“Saved about 50 
lbs. of ice per day 
over another ma.ee 
of same size” W. M. 
Rieke. Paducah, Ky. 
“ Monroe twice as 
large as former re¬ 
frigerator, cut ice 
bill more than half” 
S. Dickson, West 
Orange, N. J. 
“ Economical in use 
of ice; and preserv¬ 
ing in best manner 
articles placed in it” 
Dr.R. E. Starkweath¬ 
er, Evanston, Ills. 
on"e Free Book 
about refrigerators 
It tells you how to se¬ 
lect the home refrig¬ 
erator—how to keep 
food longer without 
spoiling—how to cut 
down ice bills—how 
to guard against sick¬ 
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