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HOUSE & GARDEN 
Why not have Spring Flowers 
all through the Winter? 
DO YOU KNOW the 
fragrant snowy white 
French Narcissus 
(Paper White) may 
bo had in flower in 
less than three weeks 
after purchasing? 
The culture is very 
simple. Take any 
glass dish or jar¬ 
diniere about two 
inches deep, place 
bulbs in the bottom, 
cover with pebbles to 
half an inch from 
top of the bulb, then 
cover pebbles with 
water. The same 
treatment for Nar¬ 
cissus Soliel d'Or, 
Crocus or Hyacinths. 
Sauromatum Gutta- 
tam or Monarch of 
the East is a bulb 
that flowers without 
fibre or water. Sim¬ 
ply place on a dry. 
warm shelf or table. 
NARCISSUS CROCUS 
French Paper White, In separate colors. 
Mammoth bulbs, 60c. 20c. per doz. 
per doz. 
NARCISSUS 
Soliel d’Or, Beau¬ 
tiful Yellow Mam¬ 
moth Bulbs, 60c. 
per doz. 
Sauratum Gutta- 
tum or Monarch 
of East, 25c each. 
Japanese Fern 
Balls, 50c. each. 
Send for Catalog. 
KENNEDY & HUNTER 
152 West 34th St. New York 
Winter Flowers 
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LEY blooms in 1G to 18 days from plant¬ 
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CHILDREN, this MAGIC budding and 
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daily delight. 
6 pips .$0.40 
12 pips.65 
20 pips. 1.00 w 
50 pips. 2.25 
Sufficient of our Pre¬ 
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and directions sent 
PREPAID with every 
order. 
OUR 1910 “SPRING 
GARDEN BOOK.” full 
of GOOD THINGS will 
be ready the end of 
January. 
H. H. BERGER & CO. 
(Established 1877) 
70 Warren Street New York 
ROSES 
Let me send you my Catalog 
of the kinds that bloom all 
Summer . 
Y OU can have four or five glorious 
months of bloom joys, instead of 
the one fleeting, petal-strewn June. 
Their blooms come early and lin¬ 
ger late. 
The plants cost no more than other 
roses. 
They require no special care in the 
Summer, or coddling 
in the Winter. 
T want you to have 
some of these choice, 
strong rooted plants; 
hut to secure them, we 
must enter your order 
by not later than Jan¬ 
uary thirty-first. 
Send $1.25 today for 
five choice roses: one 
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Rayon d’Or, Mme. 
Ravery, Mme. Caroline 
Testout, and Etoile de 
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The Promise of American House Building 
(Continued from page 12) 
the construction was still of studds, 
lath, plaster and sheathing, the 
plausible “timbers” being no more 
than inch plank spiked on the outer 
boards, with the intervening spaces 
plastered—usually on lath. In point 
of form also much remained to be 
desired: instead of a return to the 
grave simplicity and the delicate re¬ 
lations of the cottages and farm¬ 
steads and manors of Kent and 
Surrey and Wilts, the tendency 
seemed to be to get as near as pos¬ 
sible to the self-indulgent luxury of 
Compton Wingates, even if the sub¬ 
ject matter were a gardener’s cottage 
or a bank clerk’s “suburban resi¬ 
dence.” There was too much “archi¬ 
tecture,” too passionate a following 
of the specious and pictorial splen¬ 
dors of an ingenious and ambitious 
scene-painter: all outside show, in 
fact, with little of sense or sincerity 
behind. 
Note the change here in the last ten 
years. Of course we have perfect 
masterpieces in the shops of past 
creations like Trowbridge and Acker¬ 
man’s Pratt house at Glen Cove, or 
Mr. Pope’s Duncan house at New¬ 
port ; masterpieces worthy to stand 
with the best work of the 16th Cen¬ 
tury in England. On the other hand 
we find in the small and modest resi¬ 
dences a progressive getting away 
from the overloaded luxuriance and 
a return to simple, colloquial modes 
and manners that are quite beyond 
all praise. 
Transplanted Beaux-Arts 
Or take another instance, far afield 
this time, the style that is growing 
up amongst city houses and the villas 
of the more exclusive summer re¬ 
sorts, the style that comes in some 
sort of fashion out of France. There, 
in its orginal habitat, it is poor 
enough in all conscience, for what¬ 
ever the French may do in formal 
architecture, their domestic work is 
generally inexcusable. Here, at the 
hands of both the older and the 
younger men who have come from 
the Beaux-Arts, the style they have 
chosen is transformed into a thing 
of beauty and sincerity, and it is easy 
enough to find all over the land ex¬ 
amples of actually exquisite design 
that expresses not only the fastidi¬ 
ous taste—both natural and acquired 
—of the architect, but the best that 
is in American society. 
The same is true of the pure and 
very Italian classic, of which Mc- 
Kim, Mead and White were the re¬ 
vivers. Whether this follows along 
their own scholarly and delicate 
lines, or adapts itself to the more 
American modes of Mr. Platt, it is 
all of the best. 
The Western Work 
As for the Pacific Coast, here we 
find several followings, as diverse 
as may be, but all handled with rare 
vitality. There is the white, marble 
palace with its Roman colonades and 
patios and terraced gardens: the 
“mission” style, released at last from 
its artificial alliance with the spirit 
that lay. behind the trade furniture, 
the same ilk and nomenclature, now 
become generic, genuine, convincing. 
There is also that very baffling and 
engaging sort of thing that came 
from God knows where and natural¬ 
ized in time and space along the sea- 
slopes of the Pacific, where with its 
low, flat roofs, its wide, Thibetan 
eaves, its curious combinations of 
horizontals and verticals, it ingeni¬ 
ous and unexpected materials, it 
stimulates and satisfies as do few- 
other forms of modern domestic 
building. 
And so we might go on almost in¬ 
definitely, finding in every region, at 
the hands of every architect, some 
new and generally beautiful way of 
treating and developing an old and 
beautiful style, from the glorified 
Pennsylvania Dutch of Duhring, 
Okie & Ziegler to Mr. Frank Lloyd 
Wright. Whatever and whoever it is, 
it is filled with a new freshness and 
fineness, it begins at the right place 
and develops after the right fashion, 
with self-restraint, consistency and 
good taste. America may fail in its 
State Capitols, in its cathedrals, in 
its universities, if you like, but for 
the housing of its own people, (if 
they do not live in flats) it succeeds 
as no other nation or race is succeed¬ 
ing to-day. 
The Excess of Architecture 
And yet: there seem to us to be 
two points wherein further improve¬ 
ment is possible, and I am not sure 
that the owner has not quite as much 
to do in bringing about these as the 
architect himself. The first is this: 
Through our increased knowledge, 
our improved training, our widening 
view of the world, we are becoming 
too able and too assured. There is 
too much “architecture” in our 
building, and we are in danger of 
failing to see the forest because there 
are so many trees. Of course this 
is all natural enough : the owner has 
the thrifty sense of getting as much 
good art for his money as his archi¬ 
tect can give him, and the architect 
(if he is not too old and tired) 
honestly wishes to make each work 
a masterpiece, an epitome of all he 
knows—and knows he knows. Indi¬ 
vidualism is rampant, of course, and 
the commercial sense non-existent, 
and the result is apt to be what 
would be obtained (and is obtained) 
by a landscape gardener who de¬ 
signed a park but cared only for 
specimen trees. Economy in the 
use of art is a great virtue: the 
chateaux of the Loire and Touraine, 
the piled-up wonders of Elizabethan 
palaces, are the sort of thing that 
can be done successfully once or 
twice, but not constantly. 
Opulence has been the ruin of the 
world now falling in fragments 
around us. The new spirit that will 
take control after the shattering re¬ 
adjustment is accomplished, will be 
a different thing altogether, and if 
the world is to continue at all, it 
will be along lines of simplicity. 
The Value of a Little Art 
In the new era a little art will go 
a long way, and successfully, just 
because it will be so good. The 
white villas of Italy and Spain, the 
grey little farms of England and 
Normandy, the ascetic mansions of 
New England and Pennsylvania, and 
Virginia, give the key. For with 
them form, texture, proportion, 
workmanship are everything; orna¬ 
ment and detail only the accent. In 
much of our best work there is 
enough intelligent and admirable de¬ 
sign to fit out a community: this is 
improvident and it is also ineffective. 
If owner and architect will content 
themselves with the simplest possible 
expression of the needs of a given 
case, all in terms of good composi¬ 
tion and good workmanship, adding 
as little detail, as little ornament as 
possible, one of the two requisites 
still absent from our house building, 
will have been attained. 
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