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House & Garden 
\ Bossert Houses I 
J UST as modern machinery has displaced slow 
old-fashioned hand labor in almost every line of 
manufacture, at a great saving in time, labor and 
money, so in a Bossert house you buy the finished prod¬ 
uct and save in materials and the high cost of slow hand 
labor. Bossert houses are not ready cut lumber, but 
completely built houses, built of standardized units and 
ready to erect. No painting to do, no muss and fuss. 
O UR modern methods applied to building enable 
you to get more house for less money, if you buy 
The Best White Flowers 
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Iheris. Snowflake. Creeping, large- 
flowered—May and June. 
Iris pumila, hybrid Schneekuppe, 
10". May. 
Papaver nudicaule, white, 12". 
Spring and on. 
Annuals 
Tall 
Cosmos, extra early, 6'. End of 
July on. 
Campanula calycanthcma, white, 3'. 
June to July. 
Campanula medium, white 3'. June. 
Cleomc gigantca, alba, 'hYT.' July 
and on. 
Climbing nasturtium, “Pearl,” 6' to 
10'. Summer to frost. 
Nicotiana affinis, 2' to 3'. June on. 
Scabiosa, white, ZYz'. July and on. 
Sweet peas, climbing. 8' to 10'. June 
on. King White is the finest of the 
whites. 
Zinnia, giant double, 3'. June to 
frost. 
Low Growing 
Asters, to 18". Royal, July; Os¬ 
trich Feather. Aug.: American Vic¬ 
toria, Aug.-Oct.; King, Aug.-Oct.; 
Fate Branching, Sept. 
Ageratum, 8". Imperial dwarf, 
white. All summer, by successive 
sowings. 
Alyssum, Little Gem, trailing. 
Spring to autumn. 
Alyssum, Tom Thumb, 4" to 6". 
Carnation, Alarguerite strain, 18". 
July on. 
Centaurea imperialis, white, 20". 
June. 
Chysanthemum inodoratum plenis- 
simum, 2'. July on. 
Iberis umbellata, 1'. June on, by 
successive sowings. 
Godetia, Duchess of Albany, 1'. 
July on. 
l\Iatricaria Capensis, alba plena, 
18". All summer. 
Nasturtium, Tom Thumb "Pearl,” 
about 12". July on. 
Pansy, Giant Trimardeau, white, 
8". End of June on. 
Petunia, Snowball, creeping. All 
summer. 
Portulaca, white, creeping. All 
summer. 
Phlox Drummondi. snow white, 
18". End of June on. 
Verbena, mammoth white, creep- 
ing._ July on. 
Zinnia, large flowering white, 20". 
Early summer on. 
S Here we show two houses from the many in our catalog. 
= One an all-year-round Dutch Colonial home, air chamber con- 
^ struction, with two 9x12 bedrooms, a 9 x I 8 living room, 
= kitchen, etc.; screens, lattice work and benches included in 
= price of Eleven Hundred Dollars, exclusive of plumbing. 
^ F. O. B. Brooklyn. 
The other a delightful 
camp for summer use. 
Either can be put up 
quickly by unskilled 
labor. 
Send 12 cents today for 
complete catalog show¬ 
ing details of Bossert 
construction. 
Put up this camp out where the Woods are green. 
Five Hundred doltars is a small investment for health 
and contentment. Price $500. F. 0. B. Brooklyn. 
LOUIS B0SSERT&S0NS,Inc. 
1306 Grand St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
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Full Fence Protection 
T his is the day of full utiliza¬ 
tion; the day of Efficiency. 
To make every square foot of 
your property pay you full dividends 
(whether in crops or in pleasurable 
satisfaction) you must protect it. 
Protect it from lawless tres¬ 
passers, as well as from thoughtless 
children, chickens, dogs and num¬ 
berless other things. 
This staunch fence with its close 
heavy mesh and menacing barbed 
wire overhang, bars all intruders. 
It affords full protection to orchards 
or outside boundary lines. 
The same design in a lesser height, 
without the barbed wire overhang, 
is ideal for gardens or yard en¬ 
closures. It is moderate in price 
and easy to erect. 
It is not too late to secure such 
fence protection this year. Let us 
send you the facts and figures about 
the enclosure to meet your particu¬ 
lar requirement. 
American Fence 
Construction Co. 
100 CHURCH 
STREET 
NEW YORK 
CITY 
The Sleeping Porch By Day and Night 
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is done to beautify it, and day time 
sees it hidden behind forbidding 
doors while the victims spend the 
daylight hours in the heat of closed 
rooms and steam heat, taking indul¬ 
gent naps upon warmed beds and 
wondering why they are such inval¬ 
ids. They spend largely upon the 
ventilated fencing and have nothing 
but the beds and their protection. 
The floor is dull and unvarnished— 
everything speaks of desolation and 
discomfort and that revolting bare¬ 
ness of “health - cure” unwillingly 
taken, forgetful that interest, joy, 
sunshine and beauty and the love of 
out-of-door walks, sports, gardening, 
etc., are quite as important as the 
night outdoors. 
Let us dream a bit! 
Apple trees silhouette in fantastic 
shapes against the moonlit sky, the 
stars are so many and the Alilky Way 
so sparkling. Crickets make their 
curious little hum above the strange 
noiseful quiet of the whole great 
world, that keeps one excitedly awake 
those first nights in the open but 
which lulls one into soothing sleep 
when the novelty has become habit. 
Floor, Shutters and Furniture 
V'e look within, turning on the 
light’ and become abashed by the pov¬ 
erty of man’s invention if our porch 
be bare and merely useful. That will 
never do! So we begin with the 
floor. It shall be of tile—a wonder¬ 
ful variation of glaze from rich lapis- 
lazuli to dull jade green. The house 
is of a deliglitful gray stucco with 
beam and trim of the jade color, the 
paling of our porch is jade green with 
accents of lapis-lazuli. Slipping down 
into its pierced depths like those of a 
trolley-car, or extending up to the 
roof, are shutters with tilted slats 
whose downward slant sheds snow 
and sleet or summer showers. 
Instead of iron cots we have “day- 
beds” whose head and foot-pieces 
have the same height and outward 
slanting curve. These are painted 
with coach paint in the jade green and 
adorned with the lapis-lazuli strip- 
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ing. The canvas night cover is the 
color of the stucco with a painted de¬ 
sign of cornstalks, waving leaves 
that carry all the colors from the 
blue to the green with touches of the 
brighter green of the grass and trees 
outside, and here and there warm 
little spots of orange and russet 
where the corn silk shows. 
Making it Tempest Proof 
Cushions for the railing which “go 
in when it rains” are of orange and 
blue. The chair cushions are of the 
canvas with conventional motif of 
corn leaves or ears done like mosaic. 
And the chairs are painted wood like 
the bed, and so are the tables. The 
lamp is pottery with the blue glaze 
settled richly at the base. 
For day use and early evening, 
there are comfortable chairs of the 
steamer type with foot rests and 
tilted back and cushions and con¬ 
venient deck rugs, for those who en¬ 
joy a sleeping-porch enjoy a day- 
porch whereon to read and sew. 
One might love to witness the gath¬ 
ering storm or watch the tempest 
breaking without, but the sheltering 
shutters would impede the view. So, 
instead of shutters, we must have 
glass windows that can be raised 
from within the ample paling. 
A Little French Porch 
The French, who so well under¬ 
stand outdoor life, make a charming 
provision against wind and rain by 
hanging adjustable curtains on rods 
to close as shelters or open for the 
view. One sleeping porch borrowed 
this idea. Climbing upon the con¬ 
structive woodwork of the white 
house a heavy honeysuckle vine shed 
forth its fragrance, calling the hum¬ 
ming birds most of the year and keep¬ 
ing green perennially. It gave pro¬ 
tection from the usual elements. In¬ 
side the open balustrade, a heavy 
green sail-cloth-curtain slipped along 
with ring and pulley. 
The day-beds, chairs and tables 
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