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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1914 
One of the 18 
ground plans 
in our booklet 
on ‘‘Hardy 
Gardens Eas¬ 
ily Made.” 
10c. per copy. 
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$10.00 Worth Free Popular Perennials 
Unconsciously you put a good deal of your own personality into 
the lay-out and color scheme of your flower garden. Its value to you 
is that it is your garden and it is at your home, and it pleases you. 
But it also has value for us. It may give us a suggestion which will- 
help some less original gardener. 
Therefore make a rough plan of your garden such as we show 
below. It is most simple and most easy to do and send it in to us 
with your name and address. 
Here at the Palisades Nurseries, we will conduct an amateur garden show and 
award prizes to the winners. First prize: A credit of $10 for our perennials, or any 
of the flowers which you will find in our catalog, which we will send you — to be used 
next Spring or in the Fall, as you see fit. Second prize: $5.00 credit. Third prize: 
$ 1.00 credit. 
This! contest will last during July and August and will close September 1st. 
Therefore take your pen and roughly outline your garden, similar to the plan below. 
It is such a little amount of trouble and you stand a good chance of getting your 
whole garden for next year absolutely free, and you may rest assured that it 
will be of our very best stock. 
PALISADES NURSERIES, Inc., 
R. W. CLUCAS, Manager 
SPARKILL (Rockland County) N. Y. 
GROWERS OF THE [PALISADES POPULAR PERENNIALS 
Visitors especially welcome at our nurseries because they can make 
selections for their next year’s garden while our plants are in flower 
which will of course be most satisfactory as there are thousands of 
varieties of hardy plants in bloom here throughout the Summer and Fall 
The Model Support For 
Tomatoes, Chrysanthemums 
Dahlias and Carnations 
Over 3,000,000 in Use 
Write for catalogue on Lawn and 
Flower Bed Guards, Tree Guards, 
Trellis and other garden specialties 
“For sale by all the leading seed houses” 
IGOE BROTHERS 
67-71 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
There are many kinds of willow furniture — there is 
only one "WILLOWCRAFT." It is so much better 
in material, design and construction that no compari¬ 
son is possible — one recognizes its thorough bred ap¬ 
pearance at once. Its fine lines, workmanship and 
durability stamp "WILLOWCRAFT” as wonderfully 
different from the cheaply constructed kinds which 
are/found at stores generally. 
Our catalog suggests 175 attractive patterns. Send for it to-day 
The Willowcraft Shops 
Box C North Cambridge, Mass. 
Constructed for use on estates, small parks, etc., for spraying: 
shrubbery and fruit trees. Provided with 150 feet of hose, 25-foot 
lengths. Engine, standard Domestic type. Pump capacity, 250 
gallons per hour, removable bronze ball valves, each in separate cage. 
Cylinder has removable brass liner. Barrel fitted with automatic 
paddle agitator and brush for preventing clogging. Engine Catalogue 
No. 14 and “Made Money bvSpraying’’ sent free. Write for these cata- 
lognes to-day. DOMESTIC ENGINE & PUMP C0„ Box 536, Sbippensburg, Pa. 
Seth Thomas Clocks 
For a Century the National Timekeeper 
SETH THOMAS CLOCK CO., 15 Maiden Lane, New York City 
LET US HELP YOU 
Our experienced landscape gar¬ 
deners make a planting plan of 
your place, selecting trees, shrubs, 
etc., suitable to soil and situation. 
Our nurseries ( more than 600 acres) offer the 
finest selection in America for lawn and gar¬ 
den planting. Write for Catalog D. 
STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS CO. 
Est. 1843. Inc. 1903. 
New Canaan, Conn. 
IRON AND WIRE FENCES 
Fences of all descriptions for City 
and Suburban Homes. Write today 
for our Fence and Gate Catalogue, and 
state briefly your requirements. 
American Fence Construction Co, 
100 Church Street, New York 
If You Want 
to buy a dog write to our Kennel Depart¬ 
ment. We are glad to help select the dog 
for your purpose and to give reliable in¬ 
formation as to where you can obtain the 
best. Manager Kennel Department, House 
& Garden, 31 East 17th St., New York. 
LILY FLOWER—Dear lady, dear! 
The King alone can succor! 
DAISY FLOWER— Even I am faint, 
your highness; grant the petition! 
ANOTHER LILY ( very weak)— Ah, 
yes, yes ! How we suffer ! 
HELIA ( obdurate ) — How can this be? 
The kingdom knows none but the fairest 
laws — and these are honestly adminis¬ 
tered. My rule is just! — and wise!—and 
good ! Note the security of days once pal¬ 
pitant with doubt; see the serenity that 
smiles continually over all. There’s more 
than proof sufficient! 
FLOWERS ( murmuring )—Oh, but 
the King! — the King!—Rain !—Rain !— 
long live the King! - 
HELIA ( bitterly) — The King! You’re 
clamoring for the King? Why, how long 
is it since ye wished, by day and night and 
then again by day, for him to go hence? 
How long is it since the realm with one 
accord declared him tyrant? How soon 
have ye forgot! And he was tyrant—yea, 
forsooth! A King whose constant mis¬ 
rule, oftener than not, turned topsy-turvy 
all the wretched kingdom. 
FLOWERS ( murmuring )—But, oh, 
we love the King! — sweet Rain ! — restore 
us Rain ! — the King! — the King!—we die 
without the King! - 
HELIA ( continuing ) — The King, in¬ 
deed ! How much hath he to answer for! 
How many poor, unhappy maids hath he 
not drenched, and wetted to the skin, and 
all their sweet attire spoilt — unfeeling, 
reckless Rain! How many merry green¬ 
wood feasts hath he dismayed, and put to 
dismal rout! How many visitations hath 
he not delayed! How many thousand, 
thousand little pleasures hath he not 
drowned, like kittens, at their birth ! How 
many shoon on dainty, dancing feet hath 
he not wrecked ! And lovely hats—ah, me, 
the hats !—the hats - 
TEA ROSE — Soft, soft, my lady! Dis¬ 
tress thyself not so! 
HELIA — Consider them ! How many, 
many hats have I not seen, to shapeless 
pulp reduced ? And then there is the 
moon — that orb that shines for lovers! 
How many times he’s dimmed the silver 
moon ? 
PURPURIUS — But lovers love in spite 
of moon's not shining! 
HELIA— That may all be ! — but how 
about the fetes of that commencement sea¬ 
son that comes but once into the life of 
youth? How many such hath he, alas, 
undone — chilling the hearts of sweet 
young graduates! ’Twas there, indeed, I 
first saw clear my duty — for tarrying long 
beside a certain campus, I gathered much 
was heretofore not taught, to females 
weak, and full of fears, and clinging. 
There learned I how the laws had need of 
making over. Thence I came straight to 
you; found such conditions that ye all ac¬ 
claimed me, besought my rule, reviled the 
King! What else was there to do, but 
seize from him the reins of sovereignty— 
for he’d not yield them, e’en to my best 
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