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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 
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Asters and Dahlias 
It is our aim to grow and have grown for 
us only the very best and Highest Grade 
Seed—both flower and vegetable—that 
experienced growers can produce. 
FRANKLIN PARK LAWN SEED 
The original formula that has made our 
Boston Parks famous. It is made up of all 
recleaned seeds of known vitality, is quick 
to germinate, is free from weed seeds, it 
starts at once. 
OUR 1915 SEED CATALOG FREE 
Contains 208 pages of over 600 illustrations. 
Most of them are from photographs from 
seed or plants grown from our seeds. This 
Seed Annual free for the asking. 
n »UI 1 K O —also you will find 30 pages com- 
prising our complete list of over 
600 varieties, many new and never before offered. 
FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO. 
Fanueil Flail Square, Boston. 
“PEACE” 
Cowee’s New 
GLADIOLUS 
The flowers of this 
magnificent variety are 
almost pure white, ex¬ 
tra large size; the extra long, upright 
spikes are unsurpassed for cutting. 
Cowee’s choice Meadowvale-grown 
bulbs, $1 per dozen, postpaid. 
Co wee's New Booklet 
About the Gladiolus 
is the story of a dear old lady who loved these 
beautiful flowers. I know you will enjoy the 
story, and the dainty illustrations. If you will 
send me your name and address a copy will be 
mailed to you at once. 
ARTHUR COWEE 
Meadowvale Farm Box 171, Berlin, N. Y. 
but for little else. Put it in a pail of water 
and it sinks, inert, to the bottom like a 
white mud; such molecules which have 
not found their Carbonic Acid mates will 
accept the water instead, and there is a 
certain amount of bubbling. 
For Quicklime has also a strong affinity 
for water, and changes to Calcium Hy¬ 
droxide with enthusiasm, with great bub¬ 
bling and heat, with steam arising and a 
vast to-do. 
This Calcium Hydroxide, or Hydrated 
Lime or Slaked Lime (not Air-slaked 
Lime) or Line Putty, or “Fine Stuff,” is 
what is used in building. Mixed with sand 
it formed the only mortar generally used 
throughout Northern Europe and the 
United States until Portland Cement was 
developed in the last century. 
The slaked-lime and sand, too, mixed 
with cattle hair and called “Coarse Stuff,” 
is used for the first coats of the common 
inside plastering of houses; formerly it 
was used for the finishing coat, too, 
though without the hair. Its disadvan¬ 
tages are its slowness to dry and the diffi¬ 
culty of slaking the Quicklime; for, not¬ 
withstanding its violent bubbling and 
steaming when water is poured on, there 
always are a few particles which resist 
the water, which prefer their single state 
and will not unite, despite the Italian with 
his hoe. Time alone seems to solve the 
difficulty; all architectural specifications 
call for the lime to be slaked “at least 
three weeks before using,” or sometimes 
“three monthsthe old Romans, Pliny 
tells us, had a civil law by which it had to 
slake for three years before anyone could 
use it! The longer it slakes, the better 
it becomes. 
On the wall it dries out and “sets” in a 
day or two; but a very slow change be¬ 
gins which is not completed for hundreds 
of years, perhaps—the divorcing of the 
water and substitution of such Carbonic 
Acid Gas as it can absorb from the air, 
when it has returned to its original form 
and is actually artificial limestone, very 
hard and strong. 
Plaster of Paris is the next to consider. 
It is formed by roasting Gypsum or Ala¬ 
baster, which are chemically Calcium Sul¬ 
phate -}- Water. The roasting drives off 
part of the water, leaving the fine powder 
we know as Plaster of Paris. Mix it with 
water and part of the water is absorbed; 
it quickly hardens into its original chemi¬ 
cal state, though it never gets as hard as 
the Gypsum it was made from, nor as hard 
as Lime does. It swells slightly as it 
“sets,” so fills moulds well. Therefore it 
is the material always used for cast deco¬ 
rations. 
It does not stand the weather as lime 
will; rain disintegrates it, so it is not used 
out-of-doors. Mixed with slaked lime, 
however, it sets slowly, taking hours, in¬ 
stead of minutes, and is used for the last 
coat of inside house-plastering. Formerly 
Y OU’VE wanted those sunny south windows 
daintily dressed in rose color, perhaps, or blue 
or green. But it has hardly paid, they were so soon 
reduced to an unlovely neutral by the scorching 
sun. Try 
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Sun FAST FABRICS 
Jot- JDropery and Upholstery 
in one of your favorite colors. Hang them at your 
sunniest windows. Wash them when soiled and 
hang them back. Months of such treatment will 
find them still bravely flaunting their original colors 
without a shadow of change. 
Delicate tones and filmy fabrics. Rich colorings and 
heavier qualities. To know something of their beauty 
and variety, send for free booklet, “ Draping the —* 
Home, ** and name of Orinoka dealer nearest you. 
ORINOKA MILLS ■-^- 
156 Clarendon Bldg., New York 
For your protection insist on 
this Guarantee: 
These goods are guaranteed absolutely 
fadeless. If color changes from exposure 
to the sunlight or from washing, the mer¬ 
chant is hereby authorized to replace 
them with new goods or refund the pur¬ 
chase price. 
This Tag and Guarantee on every bolt. 
Miiuittfmtinowr 
WE ANNOUNCE 
TO PROSPECTIVE BUILDERS 
THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF INEX¬ 
PENSIVE HOUSES WITH CASEMENT 
WINDOWS DESIGNED FOR US BY A 
NOTED AMERICAN ARCHITECT. 
FOR REPRODUCTIONS 
OF THE ARCHITECT’S BEAUTIFUL 
DRAWINGS, WITH FLOOR PLANS, 
FULL DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AND IN¬ 
FORMATION AS TO COMPLETE WORK¬ 
ING PLANS. SEND TEN CENTS TO 
CASEMENT HARDWARE CO. 
9 SO. CLINTON ST. CHICAGO 
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