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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 
This border of vegetables, lawn and shrubbery 
grown with Radium Brand Fertilizer R.A.F. 
For better flowers, a perfect lawn, 
luxuriant shrubberies, more vegetables 
and better vegetables—and for in¬ 
creasing the rapidity of all vegetable 
and plant life — use Radium Brand 
Fertilizer (R. A. F.). 
Use it when planting; if planting 
has already been done, it should be 
applied frequently. Dig it in around 
the roots, top dress your lawns, feed 
your shrubbery and vines. Give your 
plants food so that they will grow and 
you will not be disappointed. 
A scientific and thoroughly proven combina¬ 
tion of Radium Element with fertilizer, 
containing Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, 
and Potash. One pound will fertilize 50 
square feel, or a plot 10 feel by 5 feet. 
Dr. H. H. Rusby, of Columbia Uni¬ 
versity, says of tests he made with 
Radium Brand Fertilizer (R. A. F.): 
“These tests also demonstrated that 
the quality of Radium-grown vege¬ 
tables was much better than the 
quality of vegetables grown in un¬ 
treated ground.” 
It also wonderfully im¬ 
proves the bloom of flowers. 
.Prepaid, 25 c 
Radium Brand Fertilizer 
(R. A. F.) is sold by dealers. 
If your dealer cannot supply 
you, send us his name and 
25c for can (12oz. net R.A.F.) 
prepaid. Also sold as fol¬ 
lows, prepaid, where dealers 
cannot supply you: 
2 lb. can. $.50 
5 lb. can. 1.00 
10 lb. can. 1.75 
25 lb. can. 3.75 
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Permanent territorial representa¬ 
tives wanted to call on dealers. Write 
us for particulars. 
RADIUM FERTILIZER COMPANY 
203 Vanadium Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
END OF SEASON SPECIAL 
To close out the few choice 
Irish Roses 
left after filling our orders, 
we make the following un¬ 
precedented offer, viz.: 
Priced Low because all orders 
are to be filled with such plants 
as we have left at the close of 
the shipping season, May 1st. 
They are of the same quality we 
have been shipping and include 
the finest varieties. 
12 Hybrid Perpetuals, Our Selection $2.50 
25 “ “ “ “ 5.00 
12 " Teas “ “ 3.00 
25 “ “ “ “ 6.00 
If three or more of a kind are ordered, deduct 10 per cent, 
from these prices. 
This offer includes the best varieties, all 2-year field-grown, 
dormant plants. 
ROSEDALE NURSERIES 
S. G. HARRIS, BOX B, TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 
oughly successful. After all, it is the color- 
scheme that will make or mar a room. 
There is nothing in the style that de¬ 
mands great expense, once granting a hun¬ 
dred dollars or so for the mantel and 
something more for setting it. There is 
no compulsion in any other direction, as 
there is toward plaster ornament in the 
Adam, for instance. The style is formal, 
unquestionably, but not rigidly conven¬ 
tional ; the flooring may be oak laid at 12 
cents a foot, composition at 25 or 30 cents, 
tile at higher cost; the ceilings may be 
either plastered or with wooden beams; 
walls, plastered and painted or papered, 
or else wainscoted; woodwork painted or 
stained; it seems the most elastic style 
there is ! Though essentially dignified, yet 
it might range anywhere in character from 
the simple Spanish Mission of the South¬ 
west to the almost palace-museum type 
that the last few years have seen devel¬ 
oped here and there throughout the 
United States. 
But — the finish of the room must suit 
its furnishings. The Italian chairs and 
tables we see nowadays in all the furniture 
shops are perfectly suited to it. “Mission” 
or “Craftsman” furniture I have seen in 
a somewhat similar room, and even the 
better types of wicker, without there being 
such a discord as one might expect; but 
the old English mahogany, never; for the 
Chippendales or Sheratons are too delicate 
for its strong and robust nature. 
After all, where furniture is delicate, 
decorations must be delicate; where fur¬ 
niture is crude and heavy, the architecture 
must be likewise. Harmony is more im¬ 
portant than period. There is nothing 
necessarily shocking in old chairs or tables 
standing against wallpaper, invented a 
hundred years after they were made. A 
heavy-beamed ceiling over a ITepplewhite 
chair shocks us, not because the men of 
his age abhorred a beamed ceiling, but 
because chair and ceiling are intrinsically 
out of key. We have tried to emphasize 
this in these articles, and if we seem to 
have lavishly followed historic accessories 
it was because other combinations seemed 
discordant, not because they were innova¬ 
tions. No, and more than that, for the 
only true advance seems in the successful 
combinations of elements never combined 
before. 
Concerning Rugs 
Seated by the fireside, with your feet 
upon the hearth rug of silken sheen, did 
you ever indulge in reveries as you gazed 
upon its glorious vista of color harmony? 
Could it speak, what a story of romance, 
adventure, deprivation, it would tell! 
Such stories are told in Dr. G. Griffin 
Lewis’ “The Mystery of the Oriental 
Rug,” from the press of J. B. Lippincott 
Company. The author has successfully 
endeavored to present in a concise form 
certain facts that will enable the novice to 
understand more fully and appreciate the 
characteristics of these Eastern treasures. 
‘STANDARD 
OF THE 
WORLD” 
T is a permanent improve¬ 
ment that adds more than 
'“'its cost to the value of the 
property'enclosed. Nothing goes further 
toward giving house and grounds an at¬ 
mosphere of elegance, refinement and 
privacy — the finishing touch to outside 
surroundings. 
Over 350 plain and ornamental designs to har- 
monize with any house, garden or grounds. 
Styles for every purpose — town houses, suburban 
homes, country estates, parks, cemeteries, fac¬ 
tories, schools, churches, etc. Book of designs, 
upon request. Write for it, giving brief descrip¬ 
tion of property. 
THE STEWART IRON WORKS CO. 
Dept. “F,” Cincinnati, Ohio 
The World’s Greatest Iron Fence Builders” 
Vases, Settees, Wire Fence , 
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Helpful Hints for 
iVIny Planting 
If somebody persists in telling you it is too /ate, 
send for list of trees and shrubs planted in boxes; and 
roses and flowers in pots. 
These are bound to transplant successfully. 
There are also a surprising number of trees, shrubs 
and flowers dug right from our nursery that can be 
planted in May as well as April or March. So don’t 
think it’s.too late, and put off further planting until 
next year. 
Our special Late Planting List shows you what the 
things are. Rhododendrons for one thing. Ever¬ 
greens for another. 
Send for the list, and remember that everything 
you buy of Hicks is guaranteed to grow satisfactorily 
or will be cheerfully replaced. 
Rhodoendrons in bloom May 10 to 
June 20th. 
Come and see them. Our phone 
number is 68 Westbury. 
icks Jreg5 
dsaac Hicks &>Son 
Weslburu . Lorvf Island 
p • 1 n *1 J *) Then write for our interest- 
4101112* 10 DUIIu r ing book written just for 
W U * prospective builders. 
THE YALE & TOWNE MFC. CO. 
Makers of Yale Products. 9 E. 40th St., New York 
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T1ANERSK 
DECORATIVE FURNITURE 
Inexpensive 
Painted 
Fu rnitu re 
for Suburb¬ 
an and Coun¬ 
try homes. 
Complete 
sets for any 
room. Your 
choice of 
color scheme 
Write for Literature “A” 
* ERSKINE- 
^ DANFORTH 
Corporation 
2 West 47th Street, New York 
Danersk Peasant Chair 
Made by hand of Oak and 
Hickory. Woven rush seat. 
Charming for Nursery or as 
an “odd” chair to lend a note 
of color. Price, $6.50. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
