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Rarely does the rose grower find three 
such desirable varieties olfiered at one 
time. Now and then one variety may 
come, but such a trio is remarkable. 
We have splendid pot-grown plants, 
which we can send out in May. It will 
be well, however, to enter your order at 
once. 
Crimson Champion. Scarlet-crimson, 
overlaid with rich velvety crimson. 
Flowers large, petals well rounded. One 
of the best Garden Roses ever sent out. 
Two-year pot plants, $1.50 each, $15 
per dozen. 
Ophelia. Salmon-pink, shaded rose; 
large flowers, long stems, free blooming. 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 per dozen. 
Cromwell Gardens “New England Dozen” 
These Roses, embrace a wide range of color. They will give excellent 
results anywhere and are offered because of their high quality. 
Anne De Diesbach. Clear, bright carmine-crimson; fragrant and free. 
Captain Hayward. Bright carmine-crimson; large-petaled flowers. 
Fisher Holmes. Rich crimson, shaded scarlet; large, full and of good form. 
Frau Karl Druschki. The best pure white; perfect form, free-flowering. 
Gloire De Chedane Guinoisseau. Brilliant vermillion-red, shaded velvety red. 
Hugh Dickson. Brilliant crimson, shaded scarlet, good size; free bloomer. 
J. B. Clark. L arge, intense scarlet blooms. Magnificent garden variety. 
Mrs. John Laing. One of the best. Soft pink flowers; large, perfect 
form, exceedingly fragrant. 
Mrs. R. G. Sharman-Crawford. Clear rosy pink, outer petals pale flesh. 
Paul Neyron. An enormous flower; bright shining pink. 
Prince Camille De Rohan. Deep, velvety crimson-maroon. 
Ulrich Brunner. Cherry-red; flowers large, full and globular form. 
Dormant plants to be shipped before April 25. 
Twelve plants (one of each) delivered east of the 
Mississippi River, for $4.50 
Cromwell Gardens Handbook of Roses, Perennials and Nursery Stock 
New edition; will be 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. 
Gorgeous 
NewOwnas 
Of all bedding plants 
these new Cannas are first 
and foremost. The large 
flowers and broad petals 
bring out in a most striking 
way.every shade and tint of 
We offer these new varieties in a 
Three Plants of Each Variety 
for $3 Postpaid 
Firebird. Absolute pure scarlet, without streak or blotch. 
Garam. Bright carmine; the best we have seen. 
Hungaria. The beautiful pink of a Paul Neyron rose. 
Kate F. Deemer. Rich yellow, changing to white with yellow 
throat. 
Long Branch. Bright crimson, with irregular dots of yellow. 
We grow these and many other varieties of Cannas, 
bedding plants, bulbs, roses, in a location peculiarly 
adapted to plant propagating. All your garden needs 
can be supplied from 
Storrs & Harrison Co.’s 
Plant and Seed Annual 
which devotes nearly 200 pages to house and bedding plants, bulbs, 
roses, shrubs, ornamental ami fruit trees, which are true to name, 
free from disease, sold direct to the planter—no agents—and safe 
arrival guaranteed. Write today for the catalogue. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO. 
Box 343 Painesville, Ohio 
What Is Good Taste? 
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fixed, nothing static, in this realm of 
taste? Just so. Hoop-skirts were 
beautiful once. They may be beauti¬ 
ful again. And whenever a critic 
announces that he has discovered the 
“principles of good taste,” it is time 
to call his carriage. Yet we are not 
turning critics out of doors whole¬ 
sale. We set up as critics ourselves, 
most of ns. Even the Philistines who 
“don't know an3-thing about art,” 
know “what they like,” and there 
lurks in the average mind a suspicion 
that certain sensitive souls, with 
learning to back them, will go wrong 
less intuitively than the mere ignora¬ 
mus. Why? 
I think it is because a good critic 
not only trains his sensibilities but, 
with his knowledge of tradition, is in 
a fair way to guess which novelties 
will please for a somewhat consider¬ 
able length of time and which will 
not. In a fair way, I say. Further 
than that, I decline to go; for the 
critic, like the rest of us, feels the 
influences of the period he lives in. 
There were critics in old Rome, but 
not one of them saw beauty in a 
mountain. In fact, Petrarch was the 
first man ever to climb a mountain 
for the view. So I am of the opinion 
that critics should not be too sure of 
themselves or too abusive of others. 
Tread lightly on the erring one. 
Critics killed Keats. Today he is 
worshipped, and where are they? 
Recentl}', a well known New York 
magazine recommended several artis¬ 
tic triumphs in the line of household 
decorations. All had been exhibited 
three years previously at the Museum 
of Bad Taste. 
Yon see, now, what our discussion 
at luncheon led to. A meekness of 
soul and a murkiness of mind. Inci¬ 
dentally, it spoiled our vacation. Too 
bad! However, I have since written 
my apologies to the critic for pre¬ 
cipitating the affliction and received 
his repljv “Pray don’t be alarmed on 
my account,” says he. “Far from 
regretting our pow-wow, I am grate¬ 
ful. It drove me to drink.” 
Irving J. Gill, Architect 
In developing a style suitable for the necessary fireproof materials, 
the architect elected to adopt a Spanish type native to California. 
This is the front view of the Scripps residence on page 33 
Constructing the Unburnable House 
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bronze and copper, and give to the 
feet none of the discomfort that 
earns for the average concrete floor 
in public buildings the anathema of 
all who live on them. This is only a 
beginning, but it sets the imagina¬ 
tion at work. 
The introduction of tile, enameled 
iron, and the various tinbnrnable com¬ 
positions forming that vast fraternity 
of “lites” and “sites,” into bathrooms 
and kitchens in the cause of sanita¬ 
tion has proved an opening wedge 
for their wider use throughout the 
house. When women come to real¬ 
ize that the unburnable house is also 
the sanitary house, easier to keep 
clean, simpler to manage, more com¬ 
fortable from many angles, a tre¬ 
mendous pressure will be brought to 
bear in its favor. 
Is THE House Livable? 
Not long since, I was describing to 
a j'oung woman whom 1 met by 
chance, those California houses with 
the concrete floors and other fea¬ 
tures that make them perhaps more 
nearly unburnable than any other 
houses in the country. I told of 
windows and doors without wood 
frames, sills, jambs, stops or lintels; 
of hard plaster walls that need no 
baseboard to hide their meeting with 
tlie cement floors as the unfriendly 
meeting of crumbly plaster and wood 
floors has so long been hidden, a 
plaster so hard that it needs no chair 
rail to protect it from the furniture, 
hard enough to support pictures 
without long unsightly wires stretch¬ 
ing from a high picture molding. 
She was interested, but her one com¬ 
ment was: 
“It doesn’t sound homelike.” 
The client’s fear of departing from 
precedent and convention makes 
architects afraid to suggest radical 
changes, and that in turn terrorizes 
makers of materials with the result 
that we remain criminally content 
with being cheap imitators of all 
other ages and peoples. The evil 
effect of this course is most pro¬ 
nounced in the west where we have 
a sort of hodge-podge that has been 
aptly dubbed “ragtime architecture.” 
A natural consideration on the part > 
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