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House & Garden 
Cornell 
^gsitemg of Srdsation 
Make You ‘‘Rain-Independent” 
W HEN your neighbors’ lawns and 
gardens are burning up during the 
dry days of midsummer, your 
grounds will be flourishing in luxuri¬ 
ant green, if irrigated by the Cornell Sys¬ 
tems. For all time these systems deliver 
you from the anxieties and losses due to un¬ 
certain weather, 
Cornell Systems are quickly installed, 
without injury to the ground. They elim¬ 
inate the inefficient, time-wasting hose. 
And they are inexpensive to operate. 
The Underground Systems for Lawns, 
illustrated below, lends beauty to any lawn, 
and does not interfere with mowing. 
The Overhead System for Gardens con¬ 
sists of upright pipes rising from under¬ 
ground lines. No overhead piping to inter¬ 
fere with cultivation. No small apertures 
to become clogged. 
The famous Cornell *‘Rain Cloud” 
Nozzle produces an artificial rain 
which can be instantly regulated at 
will from a fine mist to a heavy 
shower. For small lawns we recom¬ 
mend our Portable Sprinkler, cover¬ 
ing areas from 15 to 45 feet in dia¬ 
meter. 
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Engineers & Contractors 
UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK 
Plumbing, Heating, Lighting, Automatic 
Sprinklers, Water Supply Systems, Sewage 
Disposal Plants, Automatic Sewage Ejectors. 
Knowing the Wild Mushrooms 
{Continued from page 80) 
out the grass in a complete circle. This is darker in color and possesses 
In one instance three such rings ap- certain very easily determined varia- 
peared in quick succession, much to tions from the form which grows in 
the distress of the owner of the lawn open places. It is non-edible. The 
who could with difficulty be con- fairy rings which grow in pastures 
vinced that the “pesky things” were and on open hillsides_ have no coun¬ 
good to eat. There is no other fungus, terpart among the poisonous species, 
however, to be mistaken for the While the plants are small, the flavor 
“fairy ring”—save a somewhat sim- is similar though somewhat stronger 
ilar form which grows in the woods, than that of the Pleurotus family. 
Color Tendencies in Spring Fabrics 
(Continued from page 37) 
A very beautiful example of a 
hand-blocked French linen is illustrat¬ 
ed here. Among the many flower pat¬ 
terns of the season it stands quite 
alone, first because of its graceful 
design and secondly because of the 
sheer beauty of the color blending. 
Against a putty, a rich wine color or 
a black background,—for the linen 
comes in those tones—are sprays of 
flowers in a riot of vari-colored 
greens and browns, red, violet, tan 
and gray. It comes 31" wide and 
costs $1.75 a yard._ 
Quite European in character is the 
very quaint bird pattern, which woifld 
be most effective with early English 
furniture. Not only is the design 
more than ordinarily good, but the 
colorings are such as one seldom 
finds in a domestic cretonne. The 
narrow stripe is black with the de¬ 
sign in greys, red brown and putty 
color—the wide stripe a light crpm 
color with a very cool green foliage 
•—mauve and mulberry flowers_ and a 
soft green and brown bird crimson¬ 
breasted. The effect is quite like the 
very costly hand blocked English 
linens. It is 36" wide and sells for 
59 cents a yard. 
If you have a summer home with 
a room that looks out to sea, do 
choose for it the sea gull pattern. 
The manufacturer of this and the 
one above has succeeded each season 
in bringing out a series of cretonnes 
that for sheer originality in design 
and color are unlike anything else 
that is made in America. This sea 
gull pattern is highly conventional¬ 
ized and comes in many unusual com¬ 
binations of color,—a black back¬ 
ground shows motifs of old blue and 
brown and white birds with cool 
yellow and mulberry wings. A putty 
background has taupe and blue motifs 
and mustard yellow birds with wings 
of lacquer red and light tan. It is 
priced at 59 cents a yard, 36" wide. 
Jewel Cloth and Others 
A departure of equal interest is 
one of the features of another domes¬ 
tic line. It is called a “jewel cloth.” 
On backgrounds of various color, but 
particularly effective on black, are 
sprinkled gold dots which are oddly 
enough impervious to washing. 
Against this are silhouetted white 
trees and flowers picked out in brown 
and birds of the gayest plumage,— 
red, yellow, green and blue. When 
this cretonne* is hung unlined against 
a window or used for a lamp shade 
or shield, the effect is delightful, as 
the foliage and the birds stand out in 
vivid relief. It is $1.35 a yard; 36" 
wide. The same cretonne may also 
be had without the dots, at 85 cents. 
This manufacturer is also respon¬ 
sible for the bird pattern, which has 
already proved unusually successful. 
The idea was taken from a costly 
linen and has been beautifully ren¬ 
dered in a number of colors—such 
backgrounds as mustard, black, white 
and natural linen color being the 
laest. In the first three instances, the 
pattern shows rich rose colored 
flowers, brilliant green foliage, mus¬ 
tard or gray cloud effects, and bril¬ 
liantly colored birds, but on the nat¬ 
ural colored linen background the 
leaves are gun metal and gray, the 
flowers white and rose varigated, the 
cloud effect soft brown and the birds 
brilliant only as to breast and beak. 
The width is 36" and the price is 50 
cents a yard. 
For the Living Room 
A gay cotton taffeta with a con¬ 
ventionalized pattern is shown at¬ 
tractively used. For living rooms, 
sun parlors or porches of summer 
homes, effective inexpensive patterns 
of this type are greatly in demand. 
This one may be had in a great 
many color combinations. Two that 
are particularly good have a white 
background—black foliage and flow¬ 
ers of mustard, rose and blue in one 
case and mustard, mauve and blue in 
the other. It is 48 cents a yard. _ 
Ideal for the same purpose is the 
Jack-o-lantern pattern, which is pretty 
for indoors in the colors shown in 
the photograph; several shades of 
blue, crimson and violet against a 
white background. But it is even 
more effective with a black back¬ 
ground and the design in crimson 
orange, dark and light green and a bit 
of old blue. With red, black or 
green wdeker furniture a cretonne 
so colorful as this is a wise choice 
for seat cushions particularly Vvfhen 
used W'ith other cushions of one of 
the predominant shades. In this case 
—green or orange cushions would be 
most effective. It comes at 50 cents. 
Fruit designs are still so infre¬ 
quent as to be most w'elcome, partic¬ 
ularly wdien they can be found in 
the less expensive domestic fabrics. 
A very modern apple pattern is 
showui photographed in wdiite with 
brown twigs and green leaves, apple 
blossoms in natural tones and apples 
oddly enough in deep red rose, yellow 
and w'hen violet accompanied bj'' blue 
grapes and illustrated in the drawing 
with a black background and the same 
coloring in the. design; 36" wide, 85 
cents a yard. 
In the midst of all the novelties of 
the season, one greets wdth pleasure 
a simple lovely flower pattern such as 
the wdstaria design. The material is 
a cotton taffeta, the background white, 
the leaves of cool, green tones and 
the flowers prettiest in the natural 
violet of the flower itself, or soft 
tones of rose shading from almost 
a heliotrope tone to a touch of scar¬ 
let. It is 36" wide and costs 48 cents 
a yard. 
