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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1914 
TRADE 
MARK 
COPYRiCHT 
If you want to please 
some smoker— 
surprise him with an ash tray of 
Heisey s ^ 
Glassware 
He’ll appreciate their beauty 
and you’ll both appreciate 
their “useableness”—they 
are so easily cleaned and too 
substantial to be carelessly 
.upset. 
If your dealer cannot supply the 
attractive designs shown here we 
will deliver them by Parcel Post, 
i prepaid, at the following prices: 
To points east of the Mississippi 
River- 
No. 356 _ $1.00 
No. 436 _ .50 
No. 1184 _ .65 
To points west of the Mississippi 
River, add 50c to cover delivery. 
Write for illustrated booklet. Learn 
how many beautiful things for the 
home you can get in Heisey’s $ 
Glassware. v 
A. H. HEISEY & CO. 
Dept. 52 
* 
Newark, Ohio 
No. 31, Bluebird No. 25, Woodpecker No. 23, Wren 
1.25 EACH, THE THREE FOR 3.50 
Woodpecker nests should be put up in the Autumn. Wire Sparrow 
Trap, best out, $4.00 F.O.B. Toms River; Bird Feeding Houses $5.00. 
All kinds of Bird Goods. Circular free. Booklet,** Bird Architecture,” 
20 cents. The CRESCENT COM PAN Y, Toms River,, N. J. 
Turn it over and cut off its roots up to 
within two inches of their tops. Then re¬ 
set the plant with these root stumps as 
carefully wedged with soil as the roots 
were when you took it up — this to insure 
against loss of the parent plant—and turn 
your attention to the mass of fine hair¬ 
like roots which you have to work with. 
Put this mass on a board or into a chop¬ 
ping bowl, and chop them up as you would 
chop a vegetable — only not too fine. When 
they are brought to particles about an 
inch long, scatter them just as you would 
seed on a bed previously prepared, of light 
soil nicely raked and leveled. Cover them 
with a little dirt, or just with leaves, and 
branches to hold these down; and when 
spring comes, he assures me, the ground 
will be found covered with a mass of tiny 
phlox plants which have sprung up during 
thC 1 winter! These are then to be trans¬ 
planted to a larger bed, where they can 
stand four or five inches apart, and grown 
there during their first summer, then re¬ 
moved to their permanent places; or they 
may be put immediately into their per¬ 
manent places and save handling a second 
time. 
Cuttings of the spring flowering division 
should be made immediately after the 
plants have finished flowering and set in 
boxes of sandy soil. Or a layering sys¬ 
tem may be resorted to, with subulata and 
such creepers, earth being heaped over the 
long, trailing branches at intervals and 
then left undisturbed until these have 
rooted. Then cut away each root cluster 
and set out as a separate plant. 
It is interesting business raising phlox 
from seed, if one is not aiming to pre¬ 
serve the integrity of a variety—for there 
is never any telling but you may get some¬ 
thing finer! The seed of phlox are pecu¬ 
liar, however, and demand special treat¬ 
ment if they are to germinate. Follow 
Nature’s method with them and plant them 
in the fall in a bed of good loam, raking 
them in a very little bit. Cover the bed 
with not more than a quarter of an inch 
of earth and rake again lightly and gently; 
then spread leaves over the ground just 
as the fall mulch of leaves or grasses 
spreads itself, and leave them to the ac¬ 
tion of frost and snow and slush. This is 
what tliey like — and expect. Tt is their 
native element and they hate being tended 
with too much care, for they are hardy 
by nature. 
Tt is popularly supposed that phlox 
seed will not germinate unless sown the 
same year it is ripened; that is, of course, 
the natural time of sowing, for the seeds 
are shed by the parent plant on the ground 
about it, there to lie during the winter in 
snow and freezing weather. Possibly the 
vitality of the seed is not impaired by 
waiting over until spring, but probably the 
action of frost and snow is essential, and 
the spring-sown seed, missing this, fail to 
germinate through lack of it, rather than 
of vitality. 
Phlox seeds are contained in pods, and 
Win your house last 
one hundred years? 
New York City has over a 
score of frame houses built 
before 1800 . 
“Well built,” you say. 
True, but well painted, too, 
and almost uniformly with 
Dutch Boy White Lead 
and Dutch Boy linseed oil. Such paint, 
tinted any color, is so fine that it sinks 
into every joint and wood pore. It is 
just elastic enough to prevent cracking, 
to keep the wood thoroughly covered 
and hence perfectly preserved. 
Write for Paint Adviser No. If9 
A group of prac- T?ni?T? 
tical helps sent -* JaHiJJi 
Tells how to mix materials for any 
surface or weather condition; how to 
choose look-best and last-longest col¬ 
ors; how to estimate quantity of paint 
and probable cost; how to test paint 
for purity. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 
New York Boston Cincinnati Cleveland 
Buffalo Chicago San Francisco SL Louis 
(John T. Lewis A Bros. Co.. Philadelphia) 
(Nadonal Lead A Oil Co., Pittsburgh) 
McCRAY REFRIGERATORS 
Active cold air circulation — Sanitary linings. 
Send for catalogue. 
McCRAY REFRIGERATOR COMPANY. 
60.5 Lake Street. Kendallville. Ind. 
.■ nii 'Tl 
Made to order—to exactly match 
the color scheme of any room 
H AVE your fine rugs made to order, not 
cheap stereotyped fabrics, made in unlimited 
quantities; but rugs that are different and sold 
only through exclusive shops. We are only too 
glad to submit sketch in color to harmonize with 
surroundings of the room. Woven in selected 
camel's hair in undyed effects or pure wool in 
any color tone. Any length, any width—seam¬ 
less up to 16 ft. Order through your furnisher. 
Write us for color card—today. 
Thread £i Thrum Workshop 
Auburn, New York 
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