HOUSE AND GARDEN 
304 
April, 1915 
TRADE 
MARK 
No more flies, 
No bad odors, 
Vermin proof, 
Out of sight, 
A child can operate it. 
Place your toe against^the lever. 
Push—’twill open nice and clever; 
From the lever take your toe. 
Back the lids will quickly go— 
In a manner smooth as ever. 
Sanitary 
Underground 
Garbage 
Receptacle 
Aluminum and Concrete 
Nothing to rust — 
Decompose or break. 
THE MAIN ADVANTAGE 
of the 
NORRISTONE UNDER¬ 
GROUND RECEPTACLE 
is the solid cast aluminum cover. 
This gives lightness, strength and 
durability; no rusting or corroding as 
is the case with cast iron ones. The 
bright aluminum is pleasing to the 
eye and is easily located, even in the 
dark. 
The twin lids are so light 
that a slight touch of the foot 
to either of the spurs in the 
rear will swing them open dis¬ 
closing an eleven-inch opening 
for depositing the garbage. 
When the foot is removed the 
lids swing back to closed 
position. 
The cylinder, which holds 
the galvanized garbage pail, 
is made of reinforced Norri- 
stone Concrete and is inde¬ 
structible. The pail is the only 
thing about the receptacle 
that will wear out, and these 
are standard and can be re¬ 
placed at small cost. 
Write for booklet and full 
Open to remove pail. 
information to 
J. FRANK NORRIS 
Norris Street ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Start Lima Beans, 
Corn and Melons in 
PaperTransplantingPots 
(dirt bands) and when the ground is warm plant them in the 
garden without removing from the pots, and they will be 
ripe two weeks earlier. Tomatoes started this way at the 
Indiana Experiment Station yielded 4 tons more per acre 
and ripened 9 days earlier. 500 3-inch dirt bands or 300 
4-inch prepaid by mail for 31.00 
P. B. CROSBY & SON 
Catonsville Maryland 
Efficiency in the Flower Garden 
(Continued from page 267) 
engaged to plan a house, if he should look 
through a lot of builders’ catalogues and 
select ornamental doors, the newest wall 
papers, paint, lighting fixtures, plumbers’ 
supplies, tiling, trim, finishing, and shingle 
stains, and having got his materials to¬ 
gether, should then attempt to construct 
the houses. Of course, he goes at it the 
other way round. That is the attitude of 
mind you should try to get in garden 
planting. 
But the contractor’s job, however, is no 
less important than the architect’s. After 
you have turned all these things over in 
your mind carefully and finally made your 
selection and sent in your order, it is just 
as important to know how to handle your 
plants to give them every chance of suc¬ 
cess. Many hardy perennials may be ef¬ 
fectively used in small groups or clumps 
or even as individual plants, but far more 
often they are used in the mixed hardy 
border or bed. The success you may have 
in growing hardy plants will depend more 
than anything else upon the thoroughness 
with which the border for them is pre¬ 
pared. Most of them will grow, some of 
them will thrive, in ordinary, good, rich, 
garden soil. But to make sure of success, 
and to make sure of the best results, the 
border should be trenched to a generous 
depth its entire length. This is par¬ 
ticularly necessary if the soil is at all wet 
or heavy or is poorly drained. There is 
but one way of doing it properly, and that 
is by getting right at it and making a man- 
sized job of it. An hour or two of putter¬ 
ing about with a spade or a fork, with your 
collar on, will accomplish little in this di¬ 
rection. The making of a border is a day’s 
work for a couple of men used to handling 
pick and shovels — and in a very hard or 
stony soil, or for a generous-sized border, 
it may take them longer than that. 
First of all, stake out the outlines of the 
proposed border. Then have it excavated 
to a depth of two or three feet, throwing 
all the sods and top-soil to one side and 
the stones and subsoil and roots to the 
other. Any stones or coarse gravel may 
be saved for drainage material. If there 
are not enough of these, as in most cases 
there will not be, coarse, cold cinders, or 
brick or mortar will do, and put in a layer 
several inches thick. Cover this with the 
sods removed from the surface, and re¬ 
place them upside down. In place of sod 
a little strawey manure or leaves may be 
used — anything that will keep the dirt as 
it is thrown back in from packing down 
closely into the drainage layer. On top 
of this put a layer of compost a foot or 
more in depth, enough to come within six 
inches or so of the top of the trench. This 
compost may be made of garden soil, a 
good, heavy loam being preferable, and 
manure mixed about half and half with a 
generous sprinkling of bone through it. 
The top six inches or so of the trench 
HARDEN FURNITURE 
and DECORATIONS in 
REINFORCED CAST STONE 
Sun Dials Bird Baths 
Vases Benches 
Settees Fountains 
Flower Holders 
Send for Catalogue 
J. C. KRAUS CAST 
STONE WORKS, Inc. 
157 W. 32nd Street. New York 
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