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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1915 
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that make it look as if it were 
corrugated? Then it was not 
laid over 
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ditto-Jiurn 
Expanded Metal Lath 
for the fine mesh of “Kno-Bum” makes 
streaking impossible. 
Insist on Kno-Burn Metal Lath in your 
new home. It is the practical base for 
plaster and stucco because it unfail¬ 
ingly binds the surface that covers it. 
“Practical Homebuilding” tells how to 
build. It gives you all sorts of compar¬ 
ative cost figures, contains plans, detail 
drawings and photographs—and it is 
the most readable book you ever saw. 
North Western Expanded 
Metal Company 
937 Old Colony Bldg. CHICAGO, ILL. 
Send 10 cents 
to cover cost 
of mailing 
and ask for 
booklet 379 A 
For Home, Seashore or Country 
By Mail Only from '-M.r 
Ford~A^ I 
Allen 
Dainty, Man-Tailored. 
Wash Suits 
6 months to 8 years, 50 cents to $7. 
Mother, write for our Summer 
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dressed boys and girls in all the 
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Beautifying the Clothes-Line Posts 
V INE-COVERED clothes-line posts 
are a unique novelty owned by a 
suburban resident of Cincinnati. This 
owner of a small suburban home, tired of 
seeing the plain wooden posts in his back 
yard, as well as in those of bis neighbors, 
in order to do away with this unsightly 
object decided to try the experiment of 
covering them with vines. With this end 
in view, he planted sprouts of honey¬ 
suckle around the posts, which had pre¬ 
viously been encased in chicken-wire net¬ 
ting. 
In a few weeks the honeysuckle had 
taken root and begun a rapid growth which 
Instead of the glaring white monstrosity, which makes 
the average American “back yard" hideous, one 
sees a pleasant profusion of green leaves 
in a short time completely covered the un¬ 
sightly posts, as shown in the accompany¬ 
ing illustration. 
To make the old posts doubly attractive 
he nailed little bird homes to the tops of 
them, hoping to attract some of those 
native song birds he had been reading so 
much about. He was successful, for early 
last April along came a pair of blue-birds, 
the most desirable of all the song birds, 
and they took possession of the hutlet on 
the post here illustrated. They built a 
nest in the little home provided for them 
and reared a brood of four husky little 
could. 
You 
dip 
iKis 
house 
water, becoming damp, unsanitary and disfigured. 
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THE TRUS-CON LABORATORIES 
103 Trus-Con Building, Detroit, Mich. 
I have a very complete collection of good old 
furniture of the 18th and early 19th centuries, 
both restored and in the rough. 
I will be glad to answer[;inquiries andjlmail 
photographs. 
SUSAN WESTROPE 
694 Main Street/Buffalo, N. Y. 
and^Williamsville, N. Y. 
No payment accepted unless 
successful. 
Also expert services on 
general chimney work. 
FREDERIC N. WHITLEY 
I Engineer and Contractor 
219 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
t of 
Red 
The gorgeous Tritomas, 
flashing like fire, light 
the shrub border and 
m a ke the garden 
brilliant with 
scarlet, yellow, 
orange and gold. 
My splendid collec¬ 
tion of these novel 
plants is illustrated 
and described in the 
new edition of 
Farr’s 
Hardy Plant 
Specialties 
A book of inspiration and help for those 
who want a garden that need not be re¬ 
newed each year. Over 500 varieties of 
Peonies, scores of Irises. Phloxes, Delphiniums, 
and other favorites are included; twelve plates 
in the colors of nature, and many one-color 
illustrations, show these splendid plants. A list 
of new and rare Dahlias is one of the features of 
this splendid book. Send for a copy before you 
make your garden plans this spring. 
BERTRAND H. FARR 
Wyomissing Nurseries 
106 Garfield Ave., Wyomissing, Pa. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
