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House & Garden 
The Logical Method of 
Home Building 
M odern business methods have now included the 
building of the home. Under the old method of 
building, one man makes a line on a board, saws it slow¬ 
ly; you pay for the wasted time. Don’t build until 
you have investigated 
Bossert Houses 
By the BOSSERT logical mod¬ 
ern method thousands of boards 
are sawed to fit in our factory by 
modern machinery. In every 
other part of the house the same 
truth holds good, and the time 
saved goes into extra value in the 
house itself. YOU GET MORE 
HOUSE FOR LESS MONEY. 
By this modern method you 
can have a permanent beautiful 
home like the above erected in a 
short time with a saving of 90% 
on the labor alone. 
Get rid of the delay and con¬ 
fusion of ordinary building. Buy 
the finished product as you do in 
other manufactured articles. 
Send 12 cents today for completely illustrated catalogue showing 
photographs of finished houses, garages, details of construction and 
other valuable information for those about to build. 
W’e also huild the so-called “hnock down " or 
“portable' houses. Some of them are shown in 
our catalogue. 
LOUIS BOSSERT & SONS, Inc. 
1306 Grand Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
LUDOWICI-CELADON CO. 
General Offices: 1107-1117 Monroe Building 
Manufacturers of 
Terra Cotta Roofing Tiles 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
Residence of Mr. C. E. Milter, Cleveland, Ohio—designed by R. H. Hinsdale, Architect 
The Terra Cotta TILE ROOF 
on this beautiful home is of Terra Cotta Tiles known as the Imperial Closed Shinple 
pattern, detail more clearly shouTi in border of advertisement. A Tile roof offers the 
only perfect shelter—Leak-proof, moisture-proof and absolutely fire-proof. Requires 
no paint, stain or repairs to preserve its beauty. 
Our illustrated booklet “The Roof Beautiful,” printed in 
colors, contains views of many beautiful homes with 
roofs of Terra Cotta Tiles, and is sent free upon request. 
New Flowers You Should Know 
{Continued from page 35) 
the name of Lady Len- nias, verbenas, etc. The 
ox. The flowers are colors range through 
truly gigantic in size, and carmine to lilac 
more substantial than the and purple. The flowers 
older types, with the are borne in profusion 
petals overlapping. It is on long sprays or spikes 
particularly fine for cut- 2' or so in height. A 
ting, as the flowers are packet of seed sown this 
borne on long stems. A spring will give you a 
pure white form of Lady number with which to 
Lenox has been devel- work up next year’s sup- 
oped, the two together ply. By all means give 
making a combination of it a good trial, 
unsurpassed charm for There is still another 
the later summer garden. plant dear to the heart 
To get full results they of flower lovers since it 
should be started in- was introduced a few 
doors, as they are me- years ago—the African 
dium late in flowering. golden daisy, Dimor- 
Deserving of particular m photheca aurantiaca, and 
mention, also, is the ex- S its still newer hybrids, 
tra early flowering type The new perpet- It attains a height of 1' 
which is really distinct ual hybrid trito- or so, and bears continu- 
from the “early” late mas bloom from ously daisy-like, single 
sorts. The plants flower May onwards flowers about 2%" in di¬ 
in from seventy-five to ameter. The hybrids 
ninety days from seed. possess an extraordinary 
The varieties of this type scale of color, ranging 
have been improved greatly in the from pure white and golden yellow 
last few years, and one no longer to silver and salmon red. The color- 
need be without this beautiful flower Ing of the individual flowers is 
even if the opportunity for starting it heightened by the bands of contrast- 
early under glass is lacking. ing color showing on the petal. Plants 
One of the real sensations in the started early and set out in the same 
flower world during the last few way as Beilis perennis begin to flower 
years has been the introduction of the early and continue throughout the 
red sunflower. While the predomi- summer. It welcomes a rather light 
nating shade among these really won- soil and full sunshine, succeeding 
derful hybrids is red, the color varies where many of the similar bedding 
considerably. Some of the plants plants do not do well, 
from seed will have yellow flowers, 
but these can be picked out and dis- New Forms of Old Favorites 
carded before they bloom Accord- There are so many things that de- 
mg to their originator, Mrs. W. P. serve comment and recommendation 
Cockerell, the red flowering plants a resume of this kind that many 
have a purple tinge in the stem and of them can be described only in 
leaves while the yellow have not. the briefest terms. The question of 
The plants grow from 6 to T high, selecting flowers is largely a matter 
and are grown frorn seed as readily of individual taste. You mav find 
as the ordinary sunflower. The first among those of which I have yet to 
blossoms are produced in about eight speak, flowers which for you will hold 
weeks. This new type has already ^ore charm than any of those al- 
broken into a number of colors m ready mentioned. I would, there- 
varying combinations which, when fore, recommend these for trial just 
developed and fixed, promise to give earnestly as any of the preceding, 
sunflowers of pure white and pink! To begin with, I have neglected 
Four Good Sorts 
the geraniums and the begonias. It 
One of the humble little plants would take an article as long as this 
widely loved and seen almost every- to do full justice to the improvements 
where, but of which one hears or in either which have been achieved 
reads nothing, is the Marguerite car- in the last decade. I must mention, 
nation. The fact that the beautiful however, the new ever-blooming pe- 
and charmingly fragrant flowers are largoniums or Lady Washington 
produced in a few weeks from sovv- geraniums, Easter Greeting, Garden¬ 
ing the seed naturally adds to their er’s Joy, Swabadian Maid, German 
popularity. A new strain, known as Glory and Graf Zeppelin. Among 
the Giant Marguerite, is of excep- the zonal or ordinary bedding types 
tionally strong and vigorous growth, and the hybrid ivy leaf sorts, there 
and freely bears flowers many of are wonders waiting for the person 
which are 3" or so in 
diameter. The colors 
range through pink and 
white to salmon, scarlet, 
and dark crimson. 
Another extra fine type 
of carnation, especially 
for indoors where the 
growing conditions are 
not favorable for the 
greenhouse varieties, is 
Cherbaud’s perennial 
ever-blooming. This may 
he had in separate col¬ 
ors, or in combinations. 
A flower which has 
not become as widely 
known as it should is the 
pentstemon. The new 
variety. Sensation, is 
likely to take its well-de¬ 
served place with other 
popular bedding plants. 
It is not quite hardy, but 
can readily be handled in 
the same way as petu- 
Gladioli from seed 
in one season? 
Yes, if they are 
the Fordhook Hy¬ 
brids 
who has not tried them. 
The begonias, both 
fibrous and tuberous- 
rooted, contain some 
charming plants. Gloire 
de Chatelaine and Mrs. 
Peterson among the for¬ 
mer, and the wonderful 
new Duke Zeppelin, Yel¬ 
low Zeppelin and Lafay¬ 
ette among the latter, 
will serve to open up 
new wonders to you. 
Among the quite dis¬ 
tinct new types achieved 
the following are worthy 
of special mention: the 
ostrich-plume salvia, 
which in general form 
resembles the well- 
known splendens, but 
with its flowers pro¬ 
ducing a plume-like ef¬ 
fect of dazzling brillian¬ 
cy; the mammoth flow- 
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