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Special Table Cloth 
No 1588 (Illustrated) Arabesque pattern in 
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2 yards square 5.25 
2 x 2 t /2 yards 6.25 
2x3 yards 7.00 
214 yards square 7.25 
214 yards square 7.50 
2K x 3 yards 9.25 
Napkins to Match 
Breakfast size 5.25 
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This novel set consists of one 18x27 inch Oval 
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7.75 
Oval Tray Doylie to match, size 
6 x 12 inches, each 
50 cents 
Centre Piece Roll. A convenient novelty for 
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19 inches long .50 
26 inches long .75 
38 inches long 1.00 
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such as theaters and clothes, and each was 
planted with our own hands, all the family 
taking part in the ceremony. What joys 
our neighbors missed, of the arrival of 
long boxes from the nurseries, of unpack¬ 
ing the beauties, of arranging them like 
furniture in a new room until each reached 
its own best location, they will never know, 
but we regard those plantings as among 
the most cherished memories of the growth 
of our place. 
In a Dutch Colonial house the usual 
group of evergreens planted thick around 
the watertable is absolutely out of keeping 
with the style of the building. Our porch 
was a great red concrete expanse, 42 feet 
long by ten feet wide, and the top of the 
lawn sloped directly off from it at the 
same level. To plant evergreens around 
such a porch would be in the last degree 
banal. What was wanted was a few formal 
plants, just enough to embellish salient 
points, and for this what better tree than 
Holland’s own glory, the box! The illus¬ 
trations show how this feature was carried 
out; also the box window-gardens on the 
roof. These in Germany are often of 
flowing petunias, billowing down over the 
spotless white sides of marble window 
boxes. Our climate is not favorable to 
develop petunias as they are done in Pots¬ 
dam, and annuals in a window box are 
more or less of a nuisance, besides not 
being visible during eight months of 
the year, so we chose the permanent deco¬ 
ration of small box trees, and arranged 
them in the design shown. They cost 
about twenty dollars altogether, but were 
well worth it because of the permanency 
assured us. 
The first thing we needed around 
the place was some sort of hedge. We 
bought the inevitable — California privet. 
It is the cheapest and the hardiest fence 
ever invented. Barberry, if one can afford 
it, is beautiful, but its cost is out of the 
reach of the small home builder's means; 
the same is true of hemlock. Privet will 
cost you about $22 for 400 feet of hedge, 
in three-foot plants, provided that you buy 
it from one of the great nurseries located 
in the South or up State, away from any 
large city. Privet will grow anywhere, sun 
or shade, any soil, unless it is swampy, 
and will even come to life in the most 
miraculous manner, if thoroughly dead 
from root starvation. Some of mine, that 
had given up the ghost in a swampy cor¬ 
ner, bloomed afresh when the lawn mower 
grasses were piled against it — a most 
worthy instance of converting worthless 
waste into money! But do not load the 
bottom of your planting trench with fresh 
manure and put the privet directly on it. 
A neighbor of mine did this very thing, 
transgressing thereby one of the first rules 
of planting, which is that fresh manure 
will surely rot your roots. The result was 
that for two years he had a spindly and 
half-dead hedge until the privet could 
grow a new set of roots up near the sur¬ 
face. 
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ORIENTAL RUG 
COLLECTORS_ 
Several famous small rugs were sold recently in New 
York, from the Brayton Ives collection, for thousands of 
dollars each. These same rugs were undoubtedly bought 
originally for less money; they were chosen by someone 
who knew values. 
It is my hobby to collect real antique pieces, so as to 
help other collectors to the pieces they desire. I recently 
bought and sold fifty pieces from the famous Ellwanger 
collection. Many of my customers loaning to museums 
in different parts of the country are establishing increasing 
appreciation of rugs that it is my pleasure to furnish. 
Through several sources I am confident that I have the 
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3 LEITCH AVE., SKANEATELES, NEW YORK 
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