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House & Garden 
For every flower — every plant there is 
"just the right" piece of Fulper 
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FULPER 
NEW YORK STUDIOS: 333 4th Ave. 
Old Tiffany Studio Building 
POTTERIES at 
Flemington, N. ). 
GATES THAT REALLY BEAUTIFY 
F ISKE wrought iron GATES harmonize with their surroundings. 
They add the necessary ornamental touch that brings out to best 
advantage the natural beauty of your garden, park, or home. 
Supplied in standard designs or 
built strictly to your own ideas if 
you wish. 
We can meet any requirement for 
railing, wire fencing, tennis court 
enclosures, ornamental grill work, 
lamp standards, lamps, fountains, 
sundials, etc., for the town or 
country house. 
Our booklet of designs is handsomely 
illustrated and will be sent anywhere on 
request. Call at our showrooms if con¬ 
venient. 
J.W.nSKE IRON WORKS 
Established 1858 
74-86 Park Place New York 
A Row of Gardening Books 
{Continued from page 88) 
tained with certain 
plants, shrubs and trees. 
;£ach plan represents 
some concrete case which 
has actually been worked 
out, ranging from the 
five-acre farm home 
down through the village 
home, the small surbur- 
ban lot, and the informal 
garden to the tiny wall 
garden and the indi¬ 
vidual poppy bed. The 
various treatments are 
such that they can be 
readily varied to meet 
almost any situation, and with the 
supplementary general information 
in the last pages they make up a book 
that is perhaps unequaled in its 
special field. 
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Many good suggestions for im¬ 
proving the home grounds and flower 
garden are contained in the ten chap¬ 
ters of Mary H. Northend’s Garden 
Ornaments (Duffield & Co.) Miss 
Northend’s work as photographer 
by their modern qualities but also by 
the long line of their ancestry which 
stretches back for centuries into the 
history of the Orient. Mrs. Edward 
Harding has given us here a volume 
which is in every sense a peony 
monograph. The plant in history; 
its development from the early Jap¬ 
anese forms; how, when and where 
it should be used in the garden and 
landscaping schemes of today; cul¬ 
tural directions and propagation—all 
is fully described and finely illus¬ 
trated, partly in color. 
^ THE^ 
IPRUNINGI 
|ft MANUAL^ 
and writer is well-known to readers 
of House & Garden. The present 
book considers, in both photographs 
and text, such garden features as 
pergolas, arches, tea-houses, garden 
steps, paths and borders, seats, pools 
and fountains. 
♦ 
Those to whom the imaginative 
style of pseudo-natural history writ¬ 
ing appeals will find in The Human 
Side of Trees, by Royal Dixon and 
Franklyn E. Fitch (Stokes), as high 
flights of fancy as could well be 
asked. Those of a more Biirbankian, 
literal turn of mind, however, 
will read it with distinct scep¬ 
ticism, while admitting that 
the illustrations are excellent 
and well presented. One who 
is familiar with tree facts, can 
hardly be expected to believe 
such statements as, for ex¬ 
ample, that an Adirondack 
spruce attains a diameter of 12' 
in 180 years. Yet in one re¬ 
spect the book is superior to 
Mr. Dixon’s earlier work. The 
Human Side of Plants: it 
contains fewer misstatements 
and less erroneous reasoning 
from effect to cause. 
♦ 
But a brief dip into The 
Book of the Peony (Lippin- 
cott) would be needed to con¬ 
vince the most doubting that 
the popularity of these peren¬ 
nials is fully justified not only 
♦ 
“This little book is designed 
to serve as First Aid to the 
beginning gardener,” says 
Frances Duncan in the fore¬ 
word to her The Joyous Art 
of Gardening (Scribner’s). 
Admirably, indeed, is the idea 
carried out through 240 pages 
of just the sort of things the 
newcomer to the gardening 
game wishes to know. Glance 
at some of the chapter headings 
and then, remembering that 
under each are non-technical. 
common-sense suggestions and 
instructions in word and pic¬ 
ture, you can imagine the value 
of the book. Here are a few: 
Fitting the Garden to the 
House; the Garden in Town; 
The Back-yard Fence; What 
You can Do With a Lattice; 
What to Plant; Why Gardens 
Go Wrong; How to Set Out 
Plants; How to Succeed with An¬ 
nuals. 
♦ 
Partly essaical and partly practical, 
the little book which E. L. D. Sey¬ 
mour has written under the title 
The Home Garden (American Seed- 
tape Co.) is calculated to stimu¬ 
late interest in flower as well as 
vegetable growing. Forty-eight of 
the commoner vegetables and flowers 
are shown in color, and several pages 
are devoted to concise directions for 
the more important of garden opera¬ 
tions. 
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