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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1914 
•enzen Fire Place in the Home 
CARRIE JACOBS-BOND 
^Composer of 
The Keynote 
of the Home 
is the Lorenzen Fireplace. It is 
bound to be in harmony with your 
living room, no matter how distinctive your 
scheme of interior decoration may be be¬ 
cause the Lorenzen line covers every style 
of material and design. More than that 
Lorenzen 
Fire Places 
are built scientifically to throw the heat out 
into the room and draw the smoke up the 
chimney. They are shipped complete witli full 
instructions that make it easy for any workman 
to put them up without mistakes. 
The satisfactory fireplace must meet your require¬ 
ments in design, size, price and heating qualities. 
Lorenzen Fireplaces — but send today for the 
Beautiful Free 
Lorenzen Book 
the finest and largest Book 
on fireplaces ever pub¬ 
lished. It will tell you 
every thing you want to 
know about fireplaces— 
how to select exactly the 
one you want and justwhere- 
the Lorenzen Line excels. 
Send for it today. 
harles F. Lorenzen & Co, (Inc.) 
80 W. Washington St., Chicago, U. S .A. 
Start Feeding 
the Birds NOW 
Use HOWES* 
Suet-Grain Cake 
A cominbination of the good things birds like, all cooked 
up in a delicious cake at our bird kitchen. 
2 lb. cakes (sauare shape). $ .50 
1 lb. cakes (crescent shape). .25 
Post Extra. 
Send to-day and start right this year. We also make 
special bird foods, all kinds of feeding devises, houses, baths 
and everything for attracting wild birds. 
Prices, 15c. to $50.00. Send for List H. 
THE MAPLEWOOD BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, 
Stamford, Conn. 
spotted by water; in such cases it must be 
gone over with a cloth and perhaps the 
damaged portion re-waxed. Between the 
stain and wax it is customary to give a 
coat of either white or orange shellac, from 
which the wax may be removed should an¬ 
other finish he desired later. If the wax 
is put directly on either the natural or the 
stained wood it sinks into the pores and can 
never be entirely removed, and varnish will 
not stick to wax. Shellac, theoretically, is 
not a good under-coat for varnish, but I 
know of cases where it has been perfectly 
successful. Shellac stands well under wax, 
although wax will soften a varnish. 
Another simple finish for wood is coat¬ 
ing it with glycerine and alcohol, which 
leave it almost its natural color; still an¬ 
other is in simply brushing on raw linseed 
oil or crude oil, rubbing ofif the excess after 
the wood has soaked up all it will. The 
oiling darkens the wood, of course. 
The different finishes might be scheduled 
in this manner: 
(Stain) filler varnish. 
(Stain) colored filler varnish. 
(Stain) shellac wax. 
(Stain) wax. 
Glvcerine and alcohol. 
Oil. 
In any of them the stain may be 
omitted. In all of them the material must 
be good, and it can be stated most forcibly 
that the only way to he sure of good ma¬ 
terial is to have it ordered from a manu¬ 
facturer with a good reputation, and to see 
with one’s own eyes his labels on the cans. 
A Valuable Source of Potash 
I F the European war should cause our 
large annual imports of potash to 
dwindle (says a report from the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture) many farmers will 
look to wood ashes, among other sub¬ 
stances, to replenish the potash supply. 
While the amount of wood ashes that a 
farmer could accumulate on his own farm 
would hardly ever be sufficient to supply 
his need for potash, nevertheless, if they 
are carefully stored and not permitted to 
leach, they may be of considerable value 
to him. Wood ashes are now a factor in 
Canada, being considered a regular com¬ 
mercial commodity, and the large lumber 
mills and other plants using wood or saw¬ 
dust for fuel in this country which at pres¬ 
ent make no use of the ashes from their 
furnaces or waste piles may find it profit¬ 
able to store and sell them if the demand 
warrant it. 
Wood ashes may he profitably applied 
as a top dressing to grass land and to pas¬ 
tures where they will encourage the 
growth of clover and better kinds of 
grasses, which will then crowd out in¬ 
ferior kinds and weeds. Wood ashes may 
he also used for corn and roots. Because 
Make the Floors of 
Your Home Sanitary 
Whether you now have either old or new wood floors, Santilite 
Composition Flooring can be laid and sets withinTeight or ten 
hours intotan^absolutely fire-proof, water-proof, germ-proof and 
sanitary floor . 
Santilite Composition Flooring 
is easily applied upon wood, concrete or hollow tile floor—a 
solid, continuous, smooth surface which is non-slippery, durable, 
practically noiseless, easy to the tread and, above all, easily kept 
clean. 
Santilite costs much less than tile or marble and will outwear 
at least ten applications of linoleum. 
ANY1CEMENT WORKER CAN APPLY IT FROM 
COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FURNISHED 
Send us the size of the rooms that need new floors. We will 
be glad to quote prices, send samples and literature. State 
colors preferred—red, buff, green, light grayjand dark gray. 
Sanitary Composition Floor Co. 
325 W. Fayette St. Syracuse, N. Y. 
No advance in price because of European war 
1915 Seed Catalog will be quite 
a wonder, and will contain some 
novel suggestions and real helps. 
The Thorburn advertising will 
tell you all about it in this and 
many other publications next 
month. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO. 
53-E Barclay St., New York 
Let Us Help You 
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 garden planting 
Write for Catalog D 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons Co. ETc.' itoi New Canaan, Conn. 
For durable painting of all kinds use 
National Lead Company's Pure White Lead 
(Dutch Boy Painter trade mark) 
AskforPaint Adviser No. 145. Sent free on request 
National Lead Company, 111 Broadway, New York 
BOOKLET FREE 
“BATH ROOMS OF CHARACTER” 
THE TRENTON POTTERIES COMPANY 
The Largest Manufacturers of Sanitary Pottery In the U. S. A 
TRENTON N. J. 
* j Then write for our interest- 
I0M? tO ntlllu i ing book written i ust f ° r 
UUIU^ H/ MJ 1 U • proS p ec ti ve builders. 
THE YALE & TOWNE MFG. CO. 
Makers of Yale Products. 9 E. 40th St., New York 
“MY GARDEN OF DREAMS” 
By Abram Linwood Urban. A book that makes deep appeal 
to every flower lover. An attractive gift. Price, $1.30, Prepaid. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Box 40, Germantown, Pa. 
A Garden ol Hardy Plants j-H 
six or eight weeks, but the earlier you start the better. Write me 
today about Phloxes, Peonies, or other perennials. Bertrand H. Farr, 
Wyomissing Nurseries, 106 Garfield Ave., Wyomissing, Pa. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
