HOUSE AND GARDEN 
190 
March, 1915 
Garden Basket —Designed for the woman 
who cares for^herTown garden. Made of Oak 
□r.Darkj.Green Willow, leatherette lined, and 
zontainsl everything necessary for gardening. 
Price $10.50. Other Baskets at $8.50 and 
SI 1.00 and the Garden Basket de Luxe at 
S19.00. 
Send for the booklet at once, or better 
still come in and let us show you. 
jjpS&^NGER 
Home Furnishings 
45th Street and Sixth Avenue, New York 
T HE pleasure that your’gar- 
den and the care r of it may 
afford you is greatly enhanced by 
the use of the correct equipment. 
Let us send you a booklet showing 
our complete line. There is no better 
equipment obtainable anywhere, and 
the assortment covers every conceiv¬ 
able need. 
A few items are shown below: 
l —Dibbler, for planting. $.25 
*—FernJTrowel ) with leather 1 .75 
l—Bulb^Planter ) sheath f 1.00 
1—BarrowsJPruner (only pruner 
that cuts clean without bruising)2.50 
>—-DaisyGrubber,for weeding(with 
long handle_to prevent stooping) .56 
Landscape Gardening on a Small 
Place 
(Continued from page 172) 
rhododendrons and cedars at either end 
of the house show how effective ever¬ 
greens- can be against red brick walls. 
Two Rose of Sharon bushes, with double, 
pink flowers, frame the entrance porch. 
A new effectiveness has been given to 
the old, neglected Rose of Sharon by the 
production of many new hybrids with 
flowers of clear and single colors. Their 
upright habit accentuates the quiet for¬ 
mality of the entrance porch. This up¬ 
right stiffness which makes it so difficult 
to mould them into a shrubbery border 
invests them, when they are so placed, 
with a peculiar dignity, producing an 
architectural balance. It is especially in 
contrast to these Roses of Sharon that the 
already-mentioned box bushes under the 
windows show that they are in wrong posi¬ 
tions. They illustrate a frequent mistake 
in shrub planting, for they have no rea¬ 
son for existence except the willful cap¬ 
rice of the planter, who is wont to con¬ 
sider his material only at its own and 
separate value, instead of at its subordi¬ 
nate value as part of a well-ordered de¬ 
sign. 
The planting along the house and lawn 
enclosure has been given in such detail to 
show how full of interest a little place 
can be when careful attention is given to 
the proper arrangement of shrubs as a 
boundary around a lawn. 
The evergreens give much winter in¬ 
terest to the lawn, the deciduous planting 
emphasizes the spring bloom. After the 
roses are through blooming in July, the 
lawn is framed by quiet greenery, and the 
color interest is absorbed by the flower 
garden. 
It is a delightful little place not thirty 
feet square, this flower garden. We like 
its friendly colors, its intimacy placed 
close against the house, its little touches 
of formality and its seclusion, standing 
high above the street. 
Part of its success is due to its enclos¬ 
ure. On the north side is the porch, with 
masses of rhododendron. On either side 
of the path is a box bush, and along the 
steps Lilies-of-the-Valley are crowded 
close together. On the east side is the 
picket fence, the curve of which follows 
the slope up to the house level. On the 
west side stand a row of arborvitae trees, 
now six to eight feet high, and on the 
south side the branches of the street trees 
make a heavy, green screen. 
In a small garden the design wins ap¬ 
proval through sheer simplicity. This de¬ 
sign Is based on a circular composition in¬ 
scribed in a square, an old motive kept 
always new bv variety in details. The 
very center was the place designed for a 
sundial. It could have been substituted 
by a slender-columned bird bowl. The 
spreading Pinus rnugho there now is at its 
present height an acceptable central feat- 
I ms 
Book ** 
Will 
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You 
Build 
“Practical Homebuilding” begins 
with the selection of a lot and the 
location of the house upon it. It 
discusses cellar, wall and roof con¬ 
struction, and describes the most 
approved methods for each. It con¬ 
tains comparative costs of frame, 
stucco and brick. It is profusely 
illustrated with photographs of at¬ 
tractive houses, drawings of floor 
plans, etc. 
In addition to its general features, 
“Practical Homebuilding” explains 
why Kno-Burn Expanded Metal 
Lath is the logical base for stucco 
and plaster work. 
One interested reader said that it 
covered the subject from loam to 
lace curtains.” We want you to 
have it now whether you are going 
to build this spring or sometime in 
the dim future. 
Send 10c to cover cost of mail¬ 
ing and ask for booklet No. 379 . 
North Western Expanded 
Metal Co. 
937 Old Colony 
Building 
Chicago, 
Illinois 
—'- - -r. aE53SSES3ES^3K2 
Specimen Trees 
We are offering for spring planting a limited quantity 
of beautiful, large specimens twenty-five feet high with 
clean, straight trunks and uniform heads, every tree of 
COTTAGE GARDENS QUALITY. 
The selection comprises Maples, Oaks, Elms, Lin¬ 
dens, Planes and several varieties of Evergreens. 
We have just published a leaflet giving full particu¬ 
lars. If you are interested, write us and a copy will be 
sent you by return mail. 
Cottage Gardens Co., Inc. 
Nurseries 
Queens New York 
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