HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 
I9D 
“ ’ETOILE d’OR ” 
Totty’s ’Mums 
The above is one of the Nov¬ 
elties in the Early Flowering 
section of Hardy ’Mums, that 
we are distributing this year. 
We catalog over seventy varieties of this 
wonderful type, that will give you a continu¬ 
ous succession of flowers from the middle of 
September until late in November, without 
the protection of a greenhouse. Handling 
as we do, more Chrysanthemums than any 
other house in the world, we can supply your 
wants for any purpose and in any quantity. 
Our catalog which describes over four hun¬ 
dred varieties of all types of Chrysanthe¬ 
mums, and a full list of Novelty and 
Standard Roses and Carnations will be 
mailed you on request. 
We grow Roses for greenhouse and garden 
culture, Our Rose catalogue describes the 
two Novelties for this year, “ Mrs. F. F. 
Thompson,” a lovely shell pink, and 
“ White Shawyer,” a superb white — ask 
for it. 
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER 
We will send a dozen Assorted Early 
Flowering ’Mums, and include a plant 
of “ Etoile d’Or,” prepaid to any 
address for $2.00. 
CHARLES H. TOTTY 
Specialist 
Roses Carnations Chrysanthemums 
Ridgedale Avenue, Madison, N. J. 
$ 1 - 00 thiEmeta! Window Box 
That Makes Plants Grow 
It can be set inside or 
outside the window or on 
the porch railing. Will not 
leak and damage the wood¬ 
work. Patented ventilated 
and drainage bottom. 
Made of heavy galvanized 
steel, enameled dark green, 
6" deep, 7^" wide and 
made in any lengths. 
To introduce and show you this box, we will send you by 
Parcel Post, One 30" long, anywhere East of the Mississippi on 
receipt of $1.00 — West of the Mississippi for $1.50. Your 
money back if*not satisfied. 
Get our free Booklet on plants and how to grow them. 
SUCCESS MANUFACTURING COMPANY 
15 SARGENT STREET GLOUCESTER. MASS. 
half. No country place, even a little one, 
is complete without some pigeons flapping 
down into the driveway and making an 
ornament of themselves about the barn 
(once we even tried a white rabbit, but 
he ate up all the pansies and was such a 
general nuisance that we gave him away to 
save the garden), and there is always 
room for them up in the gable ends of the 
barn, so I omitted the cornice on the west 
gable and brought out the shingling to 
meet the eave moulding, pierced five 
pigeon holes through the shingles with a 
couple of shelves under them, and there 
you were! The sheathing on this end 
went behind the studding, leaving a space 
of some 16 inches between it and the 
shingles; ample for a pigeon loft, as it 
only needed some roosts and some nest 
boxes close under the slant of the roof to 
make an entirely practical abode for a 
dozen pigeons. Less than that, many will 
seldom stay with you, and they need at 
first a temporary wire cage in front, built 
out over the chicken-house roof. 
All these operations sent the winter 
whizzing by like a bobsled, so that we 
hardly had time to do any skating, and by 
the time the chickens were in it was the 
middle of February and time to plant the 
new lettuce and radishes in the green¬ 
house. The last of the old lettuce was 
cleaned out of the hotbed and eaten 
(making an unbroken record of lettuce for 
the whole year), and we went into our 
third spring with a rush. By the middle 
of March the first peas went in outside, 
the leaves were cleared off the straw¬ 
berries and a good sprinkling of manure 
added to them, and then in regular suc¬ 
cession the spinach, beets, outside radishes 
and lettuce were planted, all the fruits and 
berries began to bud, and by the nth of 
April we had a pretty little floral display 
of first blossoms. A day in March de¬ 
voted to pruning and spraying the fruit 
trees was all the attention they asked. In 
big orchards the pruning is done in De¬ 
cember, January or February, as there is 
too much to do in March to wait that long, 
but I wait until the winter is through and 
then prune out all the winter-killed shoots, 
cutting off about an inch beyond the green 
wood, which is all the pruning they need 
during the first few years. The spraying 
is essential, to discourage a certain lively 
spring fly, who stings the young blossom, 
making it set wormy fruit. 
About the middle of April our horse 
arrived. I had sworn by the nine o'clock 
commuter’s train that the onlv “car” that 
ever got into our “garage” would be a 
four-legged one; a silky-haired, black 
“car,” with a white blaze on his nose, 14 
hands high," with fuzzy ears and wonder¬ 
ful brown eyes! He was a Western 
cayuse, one of a carload of Montana stock, 
broken to saddle and “democrat,” which 
in our case was a light, four-seated 
phaeton. He is busy paying dividends on 
his bale of hay all day long, for he gets 
hitched up to take me to the train, the 
Residence (and porch) of A. P. 
Wieland, Harrisburg. Pennsyl¬ 
vania, equipped with Vudor Porch 
Shades. 
'W’UDOR Porch Shades are flat, slats of 
* stained wood — not bamboo. They 
are woven together with non-rotting seine 
twine, with double rows of warp at each 
edge. Strips cannot slip. They are woven 
with reenforcing in the body of the shade. 
Every Vudor Shade is equipped with a Vudor 
Safety Wind Device that does not have to be 
hooked or unhooked each time you roll the shade 
up or down. This device, being independent of the 
shade, puts all wind pressure on the porch itself. 
Over 600,000 Vudor * in daily use 
Vudor 
Reenforced 
Porch 
Shades 
will add a cooler room 
to your home at little 
cost. Ten minutes with 
a screw-driver puts 
them up. 
Send for Free Booklet 
See how easily Vudor 
Shades add an extra room 
to your house. We send 
the name of a merchant 
who can show you the 
shades. Send today, be¬ 
fore hot weather comes. 
HOUGH SHADE CORP. 
261 Mill Street, Janesville, Wis. 
Tbe name-plate marks the genu¬ 
ine Vudor Reenforced 
Porch Shades 
Cullen Flats, Janesville, Wiscon¬ 
sin, equipped with Vudor Porch 
Shades« 
Residence of K. M. Brough, Vicks¬ 
burg, Miss., equipped with Vudor 
Porch Shades. 
Residence of G. W. Gray, Fort 
Thomas, Kentucky, equipped with 
Vudor Porch Shades - 
Invite the Birds 
Give them a house like this and they'U 
stay all summer. They’ll protect trees, 
shrubs and plants. Our free portfolio' 
shows 35 new bird house designs, 
built by master workmen. Send for 
it today. 
The MATHEWS MANUFACTURING CO. 
941 Williamson Bldg., Cleveland, O. 
GROWN IN NEW JERSEY 
under soil and climate advantages, 
Steele’s Sturdy Stock is the satisfac¬ 
tory kind. Great assortment of Fruit. 
Nut, Shade and Evergreen STrees, 
Small-fruit Plants, Hardy Shrubs, 
Roses, etc. Fully Described in my 
Beautiful Illustrated Descriptive Cat¬ 
alogue — it’s free! 
T. E. STEELE. Pomona Nurseries. Palmyra, N. J. 
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