HOUSE AND GARDEN 
222 
March, 1915 
"THE ISLES THAT WINTER FORGOT” 
Where Skies are Fair, Temperature 
Even, Outdoor Sports Enjoyable: 
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The Steadiest, Largest and Most Magnificent Steam¬ 
ship in this Service is the American Twin-Screw 
S. S. OCEANA” 
“Under the American Flag” Sailing Every 10 days 
We shall be glad to send a beautifully illustrated 
book on Bermuda 
R. M. M U C H, General Passenger Agent 
1460 Broadway (at 42nd, Street) NEW YORK 
Let Us Landscape and Beautify Your Grounds 
Add beauty and value to your property. Land¬ 
scaping is an art, and when properly done grows 
and gets more beautiful every year. Adds 
hundreds of dollars’ worth of value 
, to your property at very small 
cost. Many people desire beautiful 
grounds, but fail to get them be 
.A cause they do not know when 
r j '■/ where, what or how to plant to get 
the proper effects. Let our land¬ 
scape department solve these 
Problems for you. Write 
today for our booklet en¬ 
titled “Gateway to Beautiful 
Grounds,” together with particu 
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DeKalb- 
JNurseries 
Make your home grounds more beautiful 
and plant some of our wonderful varieties 
of Hardy Phlox they are the very best. 
Our assortment of Evergreens Shrubbery 
and trees is extensive and you should have 
our list, please ask for it. 
ADOLF MULLER 
Norristown, Pa. 
When dry, paper in the usual manner. 
Paper is stripped off by damping it with 
water until the paper will come off with¬ 
out difficulty. Give the walls a thorough 
rinsing down with clean water, so as to 
get rid of all old paste and size. It is 
desirable to wash the walls with an anti¬ 
septic, such as carbolic acid. It may be 
difficult to remove varnished paper from 
plastered walls, especially if the paper is a 
good one and has received several coats of 
good varnish and is thoroughly hard. Hot 
lime and soda or potash will remove a re¬ 
cently varnished paper without much 
trouble, and the soda, if properly washed 
off the walls before repapering, cannot 
show through the new paper. To remove 
old varnished paper from walls, a solu¬ 
tion of 2 ozs. borax to 1 pint of water, ap¬ 
plied hot, is generally recommended. 
There are certain ready-prepared solu¬ 
tions which will be of invaluable aid to the 
paper-hanger when he is engaged in strip¬ 
ping old paper, but there are also certain 
other preparations which are not only 
useless, but actually harmful. 
It is never a good plan, not even in so 
simple an operation as stripping old wall 
paper, to use cheap solvents . — Practical 
Decorator. 
Butterfly Weed in the Home 
N O garden should lack the butterfly 
weed, the most gorgeous of all 
our yellow wild flowers. Old plants can 
be divided and will grow if a portion of 
the root be taken up with each piece, or 
plants can be raised from seed. The 
pronged sprays of brilliant orange-colored 
flowers make goldenrod and “Susans” 
look cheap. All the nature books in our 
collection unite in the praise of their 
beauty. One says: “Of this family, no 
member is more satisfying to the color¬ 
craving eye than the butterfly weed, whose 
vivid flower-clusters flame from the dry, 
sandy meadows with such luxuriance of 
growth as to seem almost tropical. Even 
in the tropics one hardly sees anything 
more brilliant than the great masses of 
color made by these flowers along some 
of our New England railways in July.” 
Another: “Bright, orange-colored flowers 
which are exceedingly showy and allow 
the plant to be distinguished at a great 
distance. In this country it is seldom 
seen in gardens, but there is no flower of 
its color capable of producing a more 
brilliant effect.” A third: “Intensely 
brilliant clusters of this most ornamental 
of all native milkweeds set dry fields 
ablaze with color. Above them butter¬ 
flies hover.Surely here is a 
butterfly flower, if ever there was one, 
and such are rare.” Not one of these de¬ 
scriptions oversteps the facts, and the 
wonder of wonders is that this plant is so 
little regarded in this country, when it 
would be such an addition to any home 
garden, small or large. Its ornamental 
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