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Dwarf Trees Best For The Garden 
The object of a garden is to furnish the mem¬ 
bers of the family a succession of different fruits 
for different purposes and at different seasons. 
Room, therefore, is the important problem. 
Dwarf Trees only solve this problem because 
you can plant 10 times as many dwarfs as stan¬ 
dards in same space. 
Dwarf trees also produce many years earlier 
than standards. You get quick results—as cjuick 
as one year with some varieties. Illustration 
shows second year planted. 
Dwarf trees have many other advantages; 
greater ease in sj^raying, j^runing, thinning and 
picking; you can train them to grow in any form 
desired; less damage from wind; and best of 
all, better fruit. 
Dwarf fruit trees and Van Dusen Nurseries 
are inseparable. Make your garden of Van 
Dusen Dwarfs—the successful and leading kind. 
Get a start this year, if only an experiment. If 
you have only 15 x 25 feet of space, try this 
Van Dusen “Dwarf Trial Collection": Dwarf 
V'calthy Apple Tree, Dwarf Yellow Transpar¬ 
ent Apple Ti-ee, Dwarf Seckel Pear Tree, Dwarf 
iNIontmorency Cherry Tree, Dwarf Japan Plum 
Tree, Dwarf Peach Tree (My Selection). 
List Price is $3.00 but if ordered in collection, special 
bargain price is $2.00. Send for tins ideal assortment 
now. Start something this Spring. 
Imported Tree Roses 
There is no more beautiful 
plant tliau a rose in bloom. 
When tile plant happens to lie 
a tree rose, four or five feet 
high and loaded with blos¬ 
soms, it is about the most- 
satisfactory and beautiful 
plant that you can have in 
your garden. 
Our catalogue lists many 
splendid varieties. Or we 
will send three tree roses, 
one each. Red, Pink and 
White, our selection of vari¬ 
eties for $2.50. 
Wonderful Carolina Poplar 
The most rapid-growing ornamental tree 
known. Beautiful as an individual, pro¬ 
vides substantial shade in two years, an 
admirable wind break, and an exception¬ 
ally pretty background. Easily trans¬ 
planted—really hard to kill. Attain height 
of 40-50 feet. 
Carolina Poplar is a specialty with us, 
because our customers praise it so highly. 
Plant one and you will want more. Our 
price is very low: 6 to 8 ft. 25c each, 
$2.50 a dozen, $15.00 per 100. 
Send for the Van Dusen Book. Don’t plant your garden 
until you read the Van Dusen Book. It is the real authority 
on Dwarf Fruit Trees—14 pages devoted entirely to their 
planting and care. By following this book, you simply can’t 
go wrong. Send postal today. 
VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
C. C. McKAY, Mgr., Box B, Geneva, N. Y. 
Celebrating the Downfall of Golden Oak 
{Continued from page 76) 
ings and mouldings is, perhaps, in the 
estimation of some a relatively small 
matter, hut it must always be remem¬ 
bered that it is the little things that 
count and they cannot afford to be 
overlooked. This is a subject that 
we, in America, need to take very 
much to heart. In the carving of the 
Stuart and Tudor periods we find not 
only modelled work and work in the 
round, as we do almost exclusively 
in the phases first considered, hut we 
also find a great deal of the flat work 
and occasionally instances of scratch 
carving. The character of the wood 
was often responsible for the charac¬ 
ter of the carving and it can he read¬ 
ily seen that oak is a much more 
obstinate medium and imposes many 
more limitations than the white pine 
used in later phases, occasionally with 
lime wood, which permitted iTuidity 
of line and delicacy of execution that 
would have been quite out of the 
question with oak. 
Italian Influence 
Italian architectural types furnish 
a no less inviting field of investigation 
and we could find copious material in 
grilles, ceilings and carved doors to 
liold our interest, hut from the types 
already passed in review and visua¬ 
lized in the mind of the reader certain 
aspects of the subject should he quite 
clear. In the first place, it is plain 
that the past supplied abundant pre¬ 
cedents to convince the most skeptical 
that there is an ample field for in¬ 
terior wood carving and that there 
are well defined types suitable to each 
architectural style. In the second 
place we have seen that our own 
American past supplies us with ad¬ 
mirable precedents for emulation. In 
the third place it is clear that there 
are well defined principles upon which 
the employment of carved decoration 
is based. We have seen in the prac¬ 
tice of the past that the embellish¬ 
ment was invariably applied to some 
feature of architectural significance. 
In other words, the past application 
of carving has obeyed the fundamen¬ 
tal law of adorning structural lines 
and leaving other parts plain. 
Our architects have already availed 
themselves of the inspiration afforded 
by the work of the old interior wood 
carvers and we may be sure they are 
going to do it still more in the future 
tlian they have in the past. It there¬ 
fore behooves the housebuilder and 
the householder, if he is minded to 
bring one more additional source of 
enrichment to the joy of living, to 
study the interior wood carving of 
the past and aid the architect in 
restoring to its rightful place of 
honor a resource of which we were 
so long deprived. 
February Furniture 
{Continued from page 29) 
settee of the type showm w'lfich, in 
this case, is accompanied by a match¬ 
ing chair. In fact, these two pieces 
are copied from favorite models of 
one of the most successful decorators. 
It measures 4' long and has legs of 
mahogan}-, and, like the chair, it is 
shown covered in a fancy chintz with 
a yellow ground striped in white and 
black with a gay design of blue and 
black. The arm-chair comes at $45 
and the settee at $65. Covered in 
denim or muslin it is the same price. 
Another interesting grouping is 
shown belowL To appreciate it one 
must see it in its colors and visualize 
it in place. The small chair, which is 
of English cottage lines, is painted 
green with decorations in dull colors, 
the knobs and rungs being mulberry. 
On the splat is painted a little lady 
of Japan standing beneath a cherry 
blossomed bough. The very shape of 
the chair bespeaks its comfort. It is 
33" over all and the seat is 18" from 
the floor. It sells for $11. 
Beside it is a little nest of tables in 
red or black lacquer. Each table has 
a glass top inserted in the frame. 
Both frame and legs are decorated. 
The largest table is 12" x 14" and 
22" high. It can be used in tbe living- 
room or on tbe porcb, or, for that 
matter, any one of the dozen places 
one finds for a nest of tables. This 
nest of three tables comes priced 
at $27.50. 
The bowl on the largest table is of a 
unique design. Its charm lies in the 
irregularity of its lines and the rich¬ 
ness of its coloring. Italian pottery 
in apple green, it stands on a little 
teakwood base. The price is quite 
reasonable, $14. 
The little cottage chair is painted green with decorations 
in dull colors. $11. A three-tahle nest in red or black lacquer 
stands beside it. $27.50. The bowl is of Italian pottery in 
apple green and stands on a little teakwood base. $14 
