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House S’ Garden 
ATTRACTIVE WEDDING GIETS 
OVINGTON’S 
Fifth Avenue at 32nd‘Street New York 
I F it seems to you as if everybody were getting 
married, by all means come to Ovington’s for 
the necessary wedding gifts. With so much to 
choose from, making a selection will be quite pain¬ 
less—and quite as easy on your purse. 
Send for the Ovington Gift Book. 
Handwrotight Sheffield is dis¬ 
tinctive, and this after-dinner 
Coffee Set is a splendid ex¬ 
ample of this ware. The 
price, for sugar bowl, creamer, 
pot and tray, complete, with 
the monogram free, is $25.00. 
Sheffield Ware possesses the unique ad¬ 
vantage of being both rich in appearance 
and low in cost. Particularly desirable is 
this Cracker and Cheese Set in pierced 
design, Butler finish, at $10.00. The Cheese 
Dish itself is of engraved glass. 
Mirrors are always welcome as wedding 
gifts, and this Mahogany Mirror at $3.50 
may solve a gift problem^ for you, in a 
most economical way. It is 22" high and 
9yT' wide. 
A fashionable way to serve 
candies is in this new Glass 
Candy Jar, attractively deco¬ 
rated with light blue, black, 
or yellow enamelled band and 
pink roses. In the pound 
size the price is $7.50; to hold 
three pounds, $10.00. 
An umisually low hgure is the $6.50 asked for this 
Chop Set of a platter and twelve plates. The Greek 
key design of black is on a coin gold band. 
Bucks, Frills and Horseflesh in Old English Prints 
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into the coach window, and bids the 
company to hand out their purses. 
I saw two more fine prints up for 
sale recently. One was "A Scene in 
Kensington Gardens, or, Fashions 
and Frights of 1829.” The other was 
"Elephant and Castle on the Brighton 
Road.” 
The first was a pippin; as a satire 
on the modes of the day, perfect. 
One naturally expected the broad 
humor of balloony crinoline and gro¬ 
tesque male dandyism, but the ab¬ 
surd, empty pretentiousness of the 
expressions upon the faces of the 
people was more subtly and satisfy- 
ingly funny, richly suggestive, as it 
was, of the laughable contents of 
their minds. These were the May- 
fair macaroni of the period, the ex¬ 
quisites of the Four Hundred, as far 
removed from the solid stuff of the 
nation as any clique well could be. 
One dolled-up beau is depicted in 
the act of pushing the ball of his 
fancy cane into his mouth, an im¬ 
probable posture at first blush, but 
looking closer you see its naturalness. 
He has just winked at an attractive 
damsel passing by with her father, 
the old boy noticed it, frowned fero¬ 
ciously, and Dick the Dasher is cov¬ 
ered with embarrassment: seated 
there on the park bench he pretends 
to be contemplative!}^ sucking the ball 
of the cane, but it won’t do, he does 
it too determinedly, and he reminds 
one of the nervous little girl who 
gathers up fold after fold of her 
frock as she lisps before company, for 
the first time, the history of Mary and 
her little lamb. 
The other was a coaching scene of 
1826, and showed a famous road¬ 
house where the stages pulled up. At 
that date the ‘‘Elephant and Castle” 
was probably the last stop from 
Brighton before running into the 
metropolis, being several miles in the 
country, but if my memory serves me 
well, it’s a mighty short way ‘‘on the 
Brighton Road” now, as the title says. 
London has swelled out like a turkey- 
cock and gobbled it up. 
You are a trolley-car terminus 
now, “Elephant and Castle.” ’S’ 
death, what a drop ! 
Among the prints of olden-time 
merrie England coaching scenes stand 
first in favor, by long odds, and for¬ 
tunately there are many hundreds of 
them to be had. Coaches in all sorts 
of predicaments are seen, ‘‘Under 
Way Without a Pilot” (the team of 
the Liverpool Royal Mail has taken 
fright and is running away full lick 
without a driver), ‘‘Mail-Coach in a 
Flood,” “A Mail in Deep Snow,” 
"Mail-Coach in a Thunderstorm on 
Newmarket Heath,” “Mail Behind 
Time” (some speed and excitement 
here, I give you my word, for the 
Manchester Coach is passing an inn 
with the horses stretching out like 
good ’uns), and, mighty topical at 
present, "Stage Coach with the News 
of Peace.” 
This last is dated 1819. The York 
Coach with six horses is crossing a 
bridge at full speed, displaying ban¬ 
ners with the word "Peace,” announc¬ 
ing the news from the Congress at 
Vienna. Much more exciting than 
wiring the news, isn’t it? 
And what a tender tale there is in 
that print recently sold for one hun¬ 
dred dollars, entitled; ‘‘A False 
Alarm on the Road to Gretna Green 
—’tis only the jMail.” 
My, that’s a print to take off the 
wall one winter evening when the 
snow drifts are heaping up too heavi¬ 
ly outside for the youngsters’ play. 
’Tis only the mail coach, and the 
fleeing elopers thought it was her 
pater coming after them hell-for- 
leather to regain his daughter sweet. 
Look at Grace there with shining 
eyes, a romantic American schoolgirl. 
She didn't think of old prints that 
way. 
“Isn’t there a Gretna Green in New 
Jersey, Daddy?” 
What a Fifty-Foot Garden Will Grow 
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the flat side of the board. Drench the 
hotbed with a watering pot having 
a fine rose spout that will not wash 
out the seed. 
Seeds for transplanting should be 
sown in one-third of the hotbed tbe 
latter part of February or the first 
of March. The young cabbages and 
Brussels sprouts may be set out in 
the open ground when they show 
two or three true leaves; but toma¬ 
toes, egg-plants and peppers must 
wait until all danger of frost is over, 
while celery is not transplanted until 
after a good rain the last of June or 
the first part of July. 
Very early lettuce and radishes 
may be sown in the other two-thirds 
of the hotbed. By using the lettuce 
for the table as soon as the loose 
leaves are big enough, the plants are 
thinned out, which gives the later 
lettuce a chance to form heads. 
From June until September the hot¬ 
bed takes a rest, the only time it is 
empty. It comes into use again when 
late lettuce and endive, planted in 
the open ground in August, are set 
out in the hotbed in late September, 
for table use in early fall, winter 
and spring. 
The space between the hotbed and 
side fence will be large enough for 
two rows of rhubarb, four plants to 
a row, the rows 3' apart, the plants 
18" apart in the row. 
Between the raspberries and the 
central garden walk, starting 3' from 
the berries, lay out a strawberry bed 
of twelve rows, the plants 2' apart 
each way. This will take one hun¬ 
dred and twenty plants, which should 
be given hill culture to produce the 
finest berries. There are many ex¬ 
cellent varieties, but, after having 
grown a number of them, I consider 
the Marshall berry better than any 
other. It is a heavy yielder of extra 
large size, good shape and fine flavor. 
The ever-bearing strawberries are 
good, and worth trying. 
The Vegetable Rows 
Two feet from the lower end of 
the strawberry bed, transplant a row 
of ten peppers, 2' apart. Follow 
these with cabbages, Brussels sprouts, 
and egg-plants, in three rows, 2^' 
apart, the plants lyC apart in the 
rowL This leaves a space 12' wide 
between the egg-plants and the back 
fence. Six feet will be used for 
fourteen asparagus plants in two 
rows, 3' apart. To make the bed. 
furrows 2' deep are dug, then filled 
in to a depth of 18" with manure, 
with 3" or 4" of dirt spread on top 
of it. The tw-o-year-old roots are 
put in so the crowns stand 4" to 6" 
below the surface of the ground, the 
long stringy roots spread out in tw'o 
layers at right angles so they will 
lie flat in the row, covered with 3" 
or 4" of loose soil. This leaves the 
plants in a slight depression that 
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