April, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
281 
It is a place for old-fashioned plants 
and favorites, flowers of odd colors and 
curious shapes. It is a medley of color, 
a spot full of fragrance. Little surprises 
are at every turn, unexpected flowers are 
found in hidden corners; there are little 
blind paths where steps have to be re¬ 
traced through flower tangles. It has ab¬ 
sorbed in a very short time the inde¬ 
scribable, old-fashioned quality of the Co¬ 
lonial gardens, of which it was to be a 
freely rendered replica. 
New Use for Old Plants 
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and attracts the usual notice—or lack of 
notice—that such planting does. But if 
these same plants are grown so that they 
attain an unusual size and an increased 
number of flowers, then the element of 
novelty creeps in and the bed is some¬ 
thing more than just a bed of geraniums. 
There are dozens of hardy plants that 
can be used in the house. A few that 
might be suggested are Aquilegea, Arabis, 
Asperula odorata, Trollius euro pens, Ce- 
r ostium tormentosum, phlox swbulata. 
These are both suitable for the inside and 
outside. The plants should be small. If 
you don’t happen to have a stock, grow 
them from seed, sowing in the early part 
of July and potting when of good size, 
and winter them in a cold frame or pit. 
Take them out in the spring and start 
them into growth at your window. If 
you have a coldframe, give them their start 
there, since they will come along tougher 
than if brought into the house at once. 
For larger plants, such as the Campanu¬ 
las calacanthema, foxgloves, Veronicas 
spicata, anemone, Queen Charlotte, and 
the like, which can be used for veranda 
ornaments, go out into the border and dig 
the plants up early and put them in large 
pots and place them on your steps. 
Large clumps of trollius, although about 
to come into flower, can be dug up and 
potted without any danger of losing them, 
provided a thorough soaking is given when 
first potted. The same is true of the cam¬ 
panula. They are easily grown from seed 
or the old plants can be dug up without 
trouble. A large tub of these flowers 
makes an attractive and unusual sight. 
They can be potted singly, but when 
massed they are more effective. 
The use of hardy plants on the veran¬ 
dah is with the idea of succession, allow¬ 
ing one kind to remain while the flowers 
look fresh, and then substituting another 
and later flowering kind. By this 
process the season is materially length¬ 
ened. 
Returning to the interior use, it would 
be a good idea to make a small window 
box about four bv three deep and wide 
and the length of the window and plunge 
the different plants into these boxes. The 
Aquilegea, particularly, thrives under such 
treatment, and the plants send up masses 
of their wonderfully beautiful flowers, 
lasting for weeks. 
The Agency of 
A striking comparison between a homo¬ 
geneous country and a heterogeneous 
group of countries is obtained by placing 
over the map of the Urited States the map 
of Europe. These represent the same area 
—about 3,000,000 square miles—if a few of 
the remote provinces of Russia are omitted. 
a United People 
By the completion of the Transconti¬ 
nental Line we now talk from one end of 
this country to the other, while in Europe 
the longest conversation is no farther than 
from New York to Atlanta, and even that 
depends on the imperfect co-operation of 
unrelated systems. 
Europe has the advantage in popula¬ 
tion, with more than four times as many 
people as the United States; in the num¬ 
ber of large cities, with two and a half 
times as many cities of over 100,000 
population. 
Yet the United States, a comparatively 
young country, has outstripped Europe in 
the diffusion of civilization, because of its 
wonderfully greater means of communi¬ 
cation between all parts of its area. The 
United States not only excels in transporta¬ 
tion facilities,but it has nearlythree timesas 
many telephones as Europe, or about eleven 
times as many in relation to population. 
Europe, with twenty-five countries and 
many different languages, serves as an il¬ 
luminating contrast to the United States, 
with one language and a homogeneous 
people, despite the fact that our popula¬ 
tion has been derived from all parts of the 
world. 
During the last forty years the steadily 
extending lines of the Bell System have 
contributed in no small measure to this 
amalgamating of different races. The 
latest achievement—the linking of coast 
to coast—has given greater force to the 
national motto, “E Pluribus Unum." 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
One Policy 
And Associated Companies 
One System Universal Service 
Shingled Houses 
are warmer in winter and cooler in summer than tiled, slated, 
clapboarded, or gummed-paper houses. They cover the surface 
with three insulating layers and non-conducting air-spaces, 
and no other finish does this. They are also much more pic¬ 
turesque and attractive, and they admit of far more varied and 
beautiful coloring than any other finish. 
Cabots Creosote Stains 
color them in beautiful tones of moss-green, bark-brown, silver- 
gray, etc., and the creosote thoroughly preserves the wood and 
makes it less inflammable. 
You can get Cabot's Stains all over the country. Send 
for stained wood samples and name of nearest agent. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Manfg., Chemists, 11 Oliver St., Boston, Mass. 
Country Club, Newark, Ohio 
Stained with Cabot's Creosote Stains 
Frank L. Packard , Architect , Columbus 
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