April, 1917 
93 
34 Pound 
Spencer 
Sweet Peas 
25c Postpaid 
This mixture of gigantic, 
crchid-flowering sweet peas 
contains the finest Spencer 
varieties in all shades from 
purest white to darkest 
crimson. 
This is our 1917 special offer. We 
will send the quarter pound of 
Sweet Peas postpaid to any place 
in the United States or Canada, 
together with a copy of our 
New Garden Guide 
containing full cultural direc¬ 
tions. This guide also describes 
and illustrates the best in flowers 
and vegetables, and gives many 
helpful suggestions for successful 
planting. April sowing insures 
success with Sweet Peas. Mail 
your order today. 
Arthur T. 
Boddington Co., Inc., 
Seedsmen 
Dept. H 3 128 Chambers St., New York 
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Which way do you work ? 
Do you still sow seed by the old slow laborious 
hand-dropping method, or use the up-to-date 
Planet .Ir. Seeders and cover three times the acre¬ 
age in the same time? 
Do you still cultivate in the old back-breaking, 
time-eating way. or use the perfected Planet .Ir. 
hand cultivators and do the work more thoroughly 
in one-third the time? 
Do you get but meagre returns for all the time, 
labor and material you put into your garden; or 
do you get bigger, better crops with less effort and 
greater profit? 
These are Questions no crop-grower, large or 
small, can afford to pass unanswered. 
Planet Jr. 
Garden Implements 
No. 4 Planet Jr. Combined Hill and Drill Seeder. 
Wheel-Hoe, Cultivator and Plow pays for itself in 
a single season in the family garden as well as in 
larger acreage in time saved, labor lightened, and 
the increased amount of work done. Sows all gar¬ 
den seeds (in drills or hills), plows, opens furrows 
and covers them, hoes and cultivates easily and 
thoroughly all through the season. 
No. 12 Planet Jr. Double and Single Wheel- 
Hoo Combined is the greatest hand-cultivating tool 
in the world. It straddles crops till 20 inches 
high, then works between rows with one or two 
wheels. The plows open furrows and cover them. 
The cultivator teeth worlc deep or shallow. The 
hoes are wonderful weed-killers. 
Use these tools and make your work count for 
most. We make 32 styles of seed drills and wheel- 
hoes—various prices. 
NEW 72-PAGE CATALOG, FREE! 
Illustrates Planet Jrs. doing actual farm and 
garden work, and describes over 70 different tools, 
including Seeders, Wlieel-Hoes. Horse-Hoes, Har¬ 
rows, Orchard-, Beet-, and Pivot-Wheel Riding 
Cultivators. Write postal for It today! 
S. L. Allen & Co., p^rADELPHu 
CON-SER-TEX 
We have just issued an attract ivelv illus¬ 
trated booklet on "ROOFING FACTS & 
FIGURES.” We would like to send you a 
free cojjy of this booklet, together with a free 
sample of CON-SER-TEX. Write today ^be¬ 
fore you forget it. 
WILLIAM L. BARRELL CO. 
8 Thomas Street New York City 
New York Galleries - furniture 
Kent-Costikyan - ruj^s 
Richard E. Thibaut - wall paper 
Beaver Board Companies wall board 
This equipment was used in the House & Garden booth at the 
Flower Show. There, we extended the same hospitality and the 
same helpful service to our many visitors. 
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A n opportunity to see and to appreciate the very best in 
building was the feature of the National Building Ex¬ 
position. 
A better understanding and more friendly, helpful co¬ 
operation among the manufacturers and between the 
manufacturers and consumers, will be the result of such 
exhibitions. Each year they will grow in popularity and 
strength, justified as they are through their helpfulness. 
Because of this House & Garden pledges its unqualified 
support to the building shows of the future. 
Unusual compliments were paid to the House & Garden 
booth at the National Building Exposition. Enthusiastic 
good words brought the satisfaction of a thing well done. 
We are glad to pass on these compliments to those who 
supplied ns with the equipment for this booth. 
This Self-Watering 
Plant Basket 
—will insure your success with 
llowers and ferns this Spring. 
Covered with hand-woven wicker. 
It is one of the ILLINOIS Plant 
Baskets that are exhibited at the 
International Flower Show every 
Spring. Requires no care; sim¬ 
ply fill easily detached container 
once a week and the water is 
drawn to the soil in the correct 
quantity thru a sponge. You do 
not have to take basket down to 
water plants. No dripping to 
injure draperies or floors. Mea¬ 
sures 10 inches across top. Fitted 
with strong chains. Price $6 
delivered. 
Send for our interesting booklet 
showing self-watering plant stands^ 
window boxes and hanging baskets. 
MILLER ^ DOING 
62 York Street Brooklyn N. Y. 
Contains practical 
suggestions on how 
make your home artistic, cheery 
and inviting. Explains how you can easily 
and economically keep the woodwork, piano 
and furniture in perfect condition. 
Building? 
This book will tell you of nev.’est, most at¬ 
tractive color combinations for interior dec¬ 
orating. It gives complete specifications for 
finishing inexpensive soft woods so tliey are 
as beautiful as expensive hard woods. We 
will send you this book free and postpaid. 
S. C. JOHNSON & SON, Dept. HG, Racine, Wis. 
"The Wood Finishing Authorities” 
Jap.anese Irises in their Native Home 
In the lower picture Japanese Irises are shown equally at 
home in my fields at Wyomissing. The Rev. Dr. Rice, who 
came here to see them after having spent many years in Japan, 
expressed his surprise at the luxuriant growth and abundant 
bloom. 
in your garden they will thrive as well with only ordinary 
care. Spring is an ideal time to plant, as they will bloom the 
first season. 
BERTRAND H. FARR—Wyomissing Nurseries Co. 
106 Garfield Avenue Wyomissing, Penna. 
I offer twelve named varieties of Japanese Irises, my selection of choice sorts, 
for $2: one hundred plants in twenty-five varieties for $12. 
Farr’s Hardy Plant Specialties 
introduces the rare varieties col¬ 
lected from the old Palace and Tem¬ 
ple Gardens in Japan — parents of 
many new seedlings tliat I have 
raised here at Wyomissing, and which 
I am now offering for the first time. 
The completeness of tlie Japanese 
Iris section : Peonies in over 500 va¬ 
rieties ; Delpliiniums, Hardy Pliloxes, 
hoses and hock ])lants; Lemoine’s 
Lil ac, Philadeli)hus, and Deutzias, 
are all notalile features in tliis book 
of 112 pages of text and 30 full-page 
illustrations (13 in color). If you 
are a lover of these tilings I shall be 
glad to mail you a copy free on 
request. 
