HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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220 
March, 1915 
We are the largest growers of Hardy Perennial 
Plants in this country. We have issued a 
special catalogue of these, giving name, color, 
height and time of flowering of nearly a thousand 
species and varieties. Also a number of 
PLANS OF HARDY BORDERS 
together with list of suitable plants for sun or 
shade; and full instructions for planting and 
future care. We will be glad to send you a copy 
free on request. 
HENRY A. DREER ^ 
Hardy Plant 
Specialists 
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Hartrp “Plants 
Joyous Easterbells 
Fragrant and delicious gift. 
Your friends will be delighted. 
The pips can be planted at once 
in ornamental jars in our 
PREPARED MOSSFIBER 
in which they bloom in 15 to 20 
days. 
A daily delight and interest to 
Invalids and shutins watching the 
magic budding and blossoming. 
We furnish POSTPAID with full directions. How to succeed. 
GJpips and Mossfiber to plant. SO.40 
12 “ “ “ 0.65 
20 “ ** “ . 1.00 
50 “ “ “ 2.25 
Send orders EARLY. Demand often exceeds supply. 
NOTE—If you have not received our 1915 Spring GARDEN- 
BOOK, send for it. It will please and INTEREST you. 
H. e. BERGER & CO., 70 Warren St., NEW YORK 
Bird Houses-Lar£e C SmaU“* 
Send for our free portfolio containing 25 new 
designs. The finest line of bird houses in the 
world. We also make the most prac¬ 
tical bird baths in existence. 
THE MATHEWS M’F’Q CO. 
941 Williamson Bldg. 
CLEVELA N D,f O. 
Add beauty, charm and distinctivenea* 
to your home. Give to it an air of 
cultured refinement by having your 
walls finished in the latest offerings of 
Building? 
Get This Free Book 
It tells all about the proper method 
of finishing floors and Interior wood¬ 
work, and improving furniture. A big 
help in beautifying the home—new or 
old. 
Johnson’s Wood Dye 
Comes In 17 harmonious and natural shades. Makes 
cheap, soft woods as artistic as hard woods. 
If you are Interested in building we will mail you free 
a Dollar Portfolio of Wood Panels, showing all popular 
woods finished with Johnson's Wood Finishes. Remember 
—the Panels and the 25c book Edition HG3, are Free 
and Postpaid. 
Take this ad to your dealer—or write. 
S. C. Johnson & Son, Racine, Wis. 
“ The Wood Finishing Authorities " 
No payment accepted unless 
successful. 
Also expert services on 
general chimney work. 
FREDERIC N. WHITLEY 
( Engineer and Contractor 
219 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Horsford’s 
Cold Weather 
Plants 
And Flower Seeds 
That Grow 
Cold weather plants 
and lilies must be per¬ 
fectly fresh when 
planted. We pack her¬ 
baceous plants in fresh 
moss. Customers say 
they arrive fresh. All 
roots of shrubs and 
trees are dipped in a 
preparation of wet 
clay, which excludes the air and prevents drying out. 
We offer a long list of the hardier shrubs, trees, plants, 
vines, wild flowers, hardy ferns, bulbs, etc. See our 
i ew catalog before placing spring orders. Prices 
very low, considering quality^of stock. 
F. H. HORSFORD, ^ Charlotte, Vermont 
Orchids 
Y OU T caiTsuccessfulIy grow 
Orchids. Wejare special¬ 
ists in Orchids; collecting, 
importing, exporting, grow¬ 
ing and|selling them exclu¬ 
sively, both plants and cut 
flowers. Write for further 
information to 
LAGER & MURRELL 
Orchid Growers and Importers SUMMIT, IV. J. 
and forth in this wise, tons and tons of 
the thickest masses of growth are cleared 
out and thrown upon the land, where they 
die as soon as exposed to the sun. 
The water hyacinth is strictly confined 
to fresh water. The opinion prevailed to 
some extent years ago that it had been 
driven in by storms across the Gulf of 
Mexico to the waters of Florida and 
Louisiana. This opinion arose from the 
surprise excited when all at once its stu¬ 
pendous growth was realized. The grad¬ 
ual increase had not caused apprehension. 
In fact, spreading over stagnant waters in 
malarial districts, and even over large 
bodies of pure water, the rank, green 
growth was thought to be beneficial, from 
the fact that the leaves of plants absorb 
carbonic acid gas and emit oxygen. 
That this beautiful adversary of the 
waterways of Florida and Louisiana ever 
crossed salt water, except in a plant col¬ 
lection on shipboard, is not more prob¬ 
able than that the English sparrow first 
winged its own way to our shores across 
the Atlantic Ocean. — G. F. D. 
Some of you may know the poem that 
tells of — 
“ — the land that we cannot go back to see, 
Where the children played that we used 
to be — ” 
Some of us are fortunate enough to go 
back to it. All of you will go back if you 
read Fanny Sage Stone’s story, “In Grand¬ 
mother’s Garden,” in the Spring Planting 
Number of FTouse and Garden. 
Stripping Old Wall Paper 
T HE presence of old paper and paste 
behind the new paper is a menace 
to health. Not only does the paste of old 
papering often decompose and become in 
itself injurious to health, but each cover¬ 
ing of old paper adds to the absorbent 
nature of the walls, and so helps to in¬ 
crease the unhealthfulness and stuffiness 
of the room. Before any new papering is 
put on, the walls should be thoroughly 
scraped and washed down and then coated 
with size. There are various kinds of 
paper now manufactured which are said 
to be easily washable and to he non-ab¬ 
sorbent, and thus to resist the contagion 
of infectious disorders, hut it would 
scarcely be safe to trust to the non-ab¬ 
sorbent qualities of any paperhanging. 
After a case of infectious disease, the 
walls, ceilings and paint should be thor¬ 
oughly cleaned and renewed. Sometimes 
as many as four or five layers of paper 
may be found to have accumulated. 
Stripping is not always neglected simply 
to save labor, but often because the plas¬ 
tered surface has become so defective that 
to strip the paper would involve pulling 
away large patches of the plastering with 
it. If, after consideration, it is decided tp 
leave the old paper on, rub down the joints 
of overlapping blocks, if any exist, witfi 
glasspaper; do any necessary stopping; 
then give the walls a coat of strong size. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
