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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1915 
‘‘CREX in the HOME” is the title of our 1915 historical booklet and catalog, 1 Combined. 
It describes and illustrates the various processes of growth and manufacture of CREX, 
contains actual photographs of rooms showing the artistic effect of CREX coverings 
on every kind of home floor. You will also find complete 1915 patterns in life-like 
colorings, with sizes. Send us your name and address for a Free Copy. 
Look for the word CREX in side binding of all rugs. It was put 
there to protect you against cheap substitutes. 
CREX CARPET COMPANY, 1133 Broadway, NEW YORK 
Originators of Wire-Grass Floor Coverings. 
“ How does the CREX rug suit, 
Nurse?” 
“Nothing could be better, ma'am! 
It stands the wear and tear, which 
this room certainly gets, cleans 
easily and lays flat at the edges ” 
It insures getting your choice. If your 
dealer cannot supply you from stock, 
Chi ’dl rACT ^ ie can °b ta i n just what you want from 
his jobber on short notice. 
The New 
George Dickson Rose 
==^ is a marvel of velvety black-crimson. Backs of petals 
heavily veined with deep maroon. It’s the 
^ Winner of the Gold Medal 
of the National Rose Society of England and guaranteed 
by us to grow and bloom. Delightfully scented. 1-year size, 
50c., 2-year size, SI.00; postpaid. Should bloom the first 
season. One of nearly 400 C. & J. varieties. This season’s 
stock the largest and choicest ever offered. Our 1915 ^ 
Rose Guide is free. Has 85 illustrations—19 in color. ^jj 
Our Book, “ How to Grow Roses,” 10c. Price includes lljl 
a 25c. coupon good on first $1.00 order. Write now, 
for planting time will soon be here. 
^ The CONARD & Jones Co. 
Hose Specialists Over 50 Years' Experience^^gmm 
Box.126 West Grove, Pa. ^I 
refuge in stakes made from 1" mill stock, 
four feet long and driven into the tarth a 
foot. 
My back fence cost $22 for five fifteen- 
foot bays, including posts and paint. It 
was, in effect, an open lattice, 8" x 18", 
with a 12" foot-board and a 4" top run¬ 
ning-board. The posts were 4" x 4", 8 
feet long, i l / 2 feet in the ground, and the 
lattice Yfl’ x 1%", nailed to an interior 
frame 1" cove moulding. I wanted an or¬ 
namental background for the garden, 
something to grow roses on and set off my 
currant bushes, something to differentiate 
the garden from the wall of forest behind 
it. The photographs tell about how we 
succeeded. I fussed with it odd times 
during September and finished it in three 
afternoons’ work, besides a number of 
morning hours before business. 
The garden that had been a flat fizzle 
the year before turned out a screaming 
success this year, even with none of its 
fruit trees bearing, except a few raspberry 
stalks. The 10 to 4 o’clock sunlight was 
just right, indeed many people build a 
windbreak on the north and west sides of 
a garden to shut off north winds and after¬ 
noon sun, that scorching heat that wilts 
plants around 4 o’clock when the summer 
day is hottest. I had proved that my prob¬ 
lem was a soil and drainage one; that I 
had plenty of sun, enough to grow any¬ 
thing; and a trip across the State in May 
and September showed that I was ahead 
of the average farm truck garden — few, 
indeed, could show corn eight feet high in 
mid-July ! So I began to cast longing eyes 
at my remaining uncleared forest land, and 
smoked many pipes in the woods on the 
site of the future barn and chicken house, 
the green-house that I had promised my¬ 
self for twenty years, and the pergolas 
which would flank it, covered with Dela¬ 
ware and Concord grapes. 
The principal trouble with my garden 
for this season had been that there was not 
enough of anything. It had turned in 
about $130 worth of green groceries in six 
months, but we had put up nothing for the 
winter—no preserves, no winter vege¬ 
tables, no green vegetables salted down in 
crocks in the good, old way. I wanted 
more land, and before leaving for my an¬ 
nual hunting trip in the West, late in Sep¬ 
tember I engaged a laborer to take out all 
the blazed trees on a strip of forest to the 
west, and to grub up all the roots and 
bushes on it. 
Editor’s Note.—The reader zvho fol¬ 
lowed Mr. Miller’s work in the March 
issue of House and Garden, and zvho has 
read this record of the second year, will; 
learn a secret about gardening—that suc¬ 
cess is rarely attained the first season, 
especially by the amateur. A garden is a 
gilt-edge bond, but Nature doesn’t pay a 
big dividend the first year, nor sometimes 
even the second, but zvlien she pays, she 
pays zvell. 
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