January, 1917 
5. 
DREERS 
Garden 
Book 
1917 
more 
is far 
than a mere 
catalogue. Ex¬ 
perts endorse it 
as the best guide to growing vegetables and 
flowers; everything that can possibly interest 
the flower enthusiast, the home gardener, the 
trucker, the farmer, is fully treated. Full di¬ 
rections are given for growing practically 
every flower and vegetable worth growing. 
More than 1000 photographic illustrations, 4 
beautifully colored pages and 4 duotone plates. 
Mailed free to anyone mentioning this pnblieation. 
HENRYA.DREER 
714"16 Chestnut St., Phila. 
These three varieties make the strongest 
trio that can be found in garden roses 
—growth, color, freedom of bloom, put 
them far above ordinary sorts. From 
large pots for Alay delivery. 
Crimson Champion. Scarlet-crimson, overlaid 
with velvety crimson. Flowers large. One 
of the best garden Roses ever sent out. 
Two-year pot plants, $1.50 each, $15 per 
dozen. 
Ophelia. Salmon-pink, shaded roses; large 
flowers, long stems. Two-year pot plants, 
75 cents each, $7.50 per dozen. 
Red Radiance. No other red Rose compares 
with this. Strong grower, large flowers on 
long stems. Two-year pot plants, $1.50 each, 
$15.00 per dozen. 
Cromwell Gardens Best Twelve Roses 
Radiance. Carmine-salmon and rose, shaded copper-yellow. 
Miss Cynthia Forde. Rose-pink shading to light pink. 
Laurent Carle. Brilliant velvety carmine; large. 
Caroline Testout. Satiny rose; full flowers. 
Mrs. Aaron Ward. Deep Indian-yellow shading to primrose-yellow. 
Jonkheer J. L. Mock. A giant. Imperial pink with silvery reflex. 
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. Pearly white, shading to cream. 
Madame Abel Chatenay. Carmine-rose, shading salmon. 
Lady Alice Stanley. Deep coral-rose, shading to pale flesh. 
Madame Leon Paine. Silvery salmon, shading from yellow to orange. 
General MacArthur. Deep velvety scarlet. 
Pharisaer. Rosy white, shaded salmon. 
We offer the Cromwell Gardens “Best Twelve 
in dormant plants, to be shipped before April 25 
Twelve varieties (one plant of 
each) delivered east of the Mis¬ 
sissippi for . 
Cromwell Gardens 
Handbook of Roses, 
Shrubs and Trees 
New edition, will he of great help 
to the gardener, amateur or pro¬ 
fessional. Send today for a copy. 
Cromwell Gardens 
A. N. PIERSON, INC. 
Box 14 Cromwell, Conn. 
S4.S0 
TOWNSEND'S TRIPLEX 
The Greatest Grass-Cutter on Earth 
Cuts a Swath 86 Inches Wide 
Write for the booklet, 
^ “Velvet Water, Velvet Skin” 
The Permutit Company 
30 East 42nd Street 
New York 
A typical Permutit plant 
for home use 
Soft Water Makes Snowy Linens 
Linens washed in hard water become filled with an 
insoluble soapy curd that gives them a dirty color and 
an unpleasant odor. You can’t rinse off this curd—and 
in time it makes the fibres brittle and destroys the cloth. 
Floats over the uneven ground as a ship rides the 
waves. One mower may be climbing a knoll, the sec¬ 
ond skimming a level and the third paring a hollow. 
Drawn by one horse, and 
operated by one man, the 
TRIPLEX MOWER will mow 
more lawn in a day than the 
best motor mower ever made, 
cut it better, and at a fraction 
of the cost. 
Drawn by one horse, and 
operated by one man, it will 
mow more lawn in a day than 
The Public is war 
chase mowers infri 
any three ordinary horse- 
drawn mowers with three 
horses and three men. (We 
guarantee this.) 
Does not smash the grass to 
earth and plaster it in the mud 
in springtime, nor crush cut 
its life between hot rollers and 
hard, hot ground in summer, 
as does the motor mower. 
ned not to pur- 
hging this patent 
Send for catalog illustrating all types of Townsend Lawn Mowers 
S. P. TOWNSEND & CO., 
tsCo 
HARDNESS 
IhardnessI 
Installed in your home will give 
you an ample supply of water 
softer than the purest rain¬ 
water, in which the soap makes 
a pure suds that penetrates and 
softens and cleanses each fibre 
of cloth. Then a rinse in Per- 
mutized water entirely removes 
the soap, leaving the linen 
fresh, sweet and snow wliite. 
L ■■ This is but one of the advan- 
T ■ tages and economies that “vel¬ 
vet water”—Permiitized water 
—will bring to your home. 
