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House & Garden 
The Mathews Hali 
Mark guarantees 
the artistry of 
the design. 
The Mathews Mfg. Co. 
912 Williamson Bldg.. 
Cleveland, 
Ohio 
Screen Time Is PEARL Time 
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or window or porch. 
You’ll find lots of screen materials that look like PEARL 
but don’t wear like it. The rust resisting properties of C & B PEARL 
are due to a process exclusively used by us. So it will pay you to 
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Wires in the selvage and a round tag on each roll as a mark of per¬ 
manent identification. 
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" G Sc B PEARL for permanently screening doors, win¬ 
dows and porches. See him or write us direct for 
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The Gilbert & Bennett Mfg. Co. 
New York, Georgetown, Conn., Chicago, Kansas City 
Pearl is made in two weights — regular and extra heaey 
The best^Hardware Dealer in your city sells “PEARL” 
Patriotic Prints of Bygone Days 
{Continued from page 58) 
rose and faniille noire porcelains of 
China furnished many a motif for 
the chintz designers of the 17th Cen¬ 
tury. In the Chippendale period buff 
grounds were introduced, whereas in 
the earlier chintzes the grounds had 
been white or untinted. 
The third quarter of the 18th Cen¬ 
tury witnessed an innovation in the 
manufacture of printed fabrics. Vari¬ 
ous mechanical devices were perfected 
and led to an enormous increase in 
chintz manufacture. Cotton printing 
was taken up in the north counties 
and soon the trade center shifted 
thence from London, its old cradle- 
town. Engraved copper plates and 
roller printing came into use. Still, 
as has already been said, hand print¬ 
ing was destined to survive. 
American Prints 
The collector of these various 
printed cottons will find the historical 
group especially interesting. Take, 
for instance, the “Apotheosis of 
Washington” or the “Allegory of 
Washington and Franklin” subjects. 
In both the figures of Washington 
were taken from the famous Trum¬ 
bull portrait. In the “Apotheosis” 
chintz the medallions containing por¬ 
traits of thirteen famous personages 
of early American history are after 
engravings by Du Simtier. “William 
Penn’s Treaty with the Indians” 
forms the subject of another pat¬ 
terned chintz of especial interest to 
American collectors. Then there are 
the later political subjects which the 
19th Century’s early history inspired. 
The printed kerchiefs also came with¬ 
in the province of the collector of 
printed cottons. Many of these ker¬ 
chiefs are especially well adapted for 
framing. Such is the “Lord Thomas 
and Fair Eleanor” kerchief and the 
one bearing the title of “The Token 
or Sailor’s Pledge of Love.” Some 
of these old kerchiefs and also many 
examples of printed chintzes of his¬ 
toric interest have found their way 
into American public collections, such 
as those in the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art, New York, through whose 
courtesy some of the accompanying 
illustrations are reproduced. 
The Culture of Trailing Arbutus 
{Continued from page 46) 
is beneficial, and tends to heighten 
the flower color. If especially early 
flowers are desired, the plants may be 
forced, after two or three months of 
chilling, by alternating the same low 
night temperature with a day tem¬ 
perature of 45° to 60°. 
In a cool, humid atmosphere these 
potted arbutus plants often remain 
in flower three or four weeks. The 
large male flowers, with their yellow 
centers, may be easily distinguished 
from the green-centered female 
flowers, if you wish to locate fruit- 
producing plants at the time of 
flowering. Blossoms produced under 
the conditions here described are not 
only larger and more abundant than 
those of the wild plants, but actually 
retain all their woodland fragrance. 
The strongest plants have been pro¬ 
duced by plunging the pots in moist 
sphagnum moss contained in pots of 
2" greater diameter. The roots then 
grow through the hole in the bot¬ 
tom of the inner pot and develop 
rapidly in the damp sphagnum of the 
outer one. 
Once fairly established, the trailing 
arbutus is hardy and long lived. 
Should the old plants deteriorate, 
however, they may be improved by 
cutting the stems back almost to the 
main root immediately after flower¬ 
ing. They will then throw out new 
branches or runners, and in the fol¬ 
lowing spring will blossom as pro¬ 
fusely as ever. 
Not the least of the pleasure of 
propagating this little understood 
plant lies in the initial search for 
seeds. In some sections, of course, 
the plants grow so abundantly that 
but little search is needed to locate 
quantities of them. Yet through a 
large part of its range arbutus is 
rather thinly scattered. 
In a general way, the plant prefers 
rocky, wooded hillsides with a north¬ 
ern exposure. Often found under 
hemlocks, it also grows on the open, 
hardwood slopes, where in early 
spring the only real shade comes 
from the laurel bushes. Again, I 
have often found it along roadside 
banks in that porous, poor-looking 
soil which seems unfit to grow any¬ 
thing but wintergreen and a peculiar 
short, grayish moss or lichen. Some¬ 
times, too, it will be found in the 
sandy soil of dry valley bottoms. In 
almost every case the northern expo¬ 
sure seems to be a requisite. 
In a natural state, at least, neither 
rich nor deep soil appears to be neces¬ 
sary. You will often find thriving, 
healthy plants growing almost on the 
rocks, especially where there are lit¬ 
tle pockets of soil such as occur at 
the foot of broken ledges. 
Of course, the best time to locate 
wild arbutus is during April or early 
May, when it is in bloom. Not only 
is it more visible then because other 
and concealing things have not grown 
to any great height, but the blos¬ 
soms themselves often lead to the 
discovery. On a sunny, windless day 
their heavy fragrance is noticeable 
at a considerable distance—consider¬ 
able, that is, in view of the small 
size of the blossom. Not infrequently 
on a woody road in early spring you 
catch the indescribable sweet per¬ 
fume, and follow it to where the 
little evergreen leaves and pink- 
white blossoms nestle close to the 
ground. That this fragrance can be 
brought to life again within the con¬ 
fines of an earthen pot is one of the 
triumphs of the flower gardener’s 
efforts to transplant a bit of the wild 
and conserve it for the enjoyment 
of himself and others. 
