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About CALM AN Products 
B ACK in the old “hand-made days” 
before the Civil War, Emil Cai¬ 
man began the manufacture of 
quality Enamels , and Varnishes. 
Ever since that time painters and 
decorators all over the country have 
used Caiman Products for their finest 
work. 
Ask the best decorator you know, 
about ENAMOLIN. 
He will tell you that it absolutely will 
make a white spot on any other white 
enamel—that it will not turn color, 
crack, peel or check, even under the 
severest tests. 
You can use it anywhere on the 
inside or outside of your house. 
If it gets soiled, scrub it, with soap and 
water, ammonia or cleaning powder ex¬ 
actly as you would china, and it will 
return to its original porcelain-like white¬ 
ness and gloss. 
Use ENAMOLIN on your yacht or motor 
boat—hot sun and salt water won’t hurt it, 
neither will oil or gasoline. 
ENAMOLIN flows like the finest carriage 
varnish. It will not show brush marks, laps 
or curtains. 
. It is just as effective and easy to apply on 
iron, cement, brick or stone, as it is on wood. 
Ask your decorator about ENAMOLIN— Enamel your yacht; nos 
ne Knows. sun and salt water won't 
hurt it 
We have a mighty interesting little book called 
THE WHITE SPOT that we will gladly send you; 
also a sample panel, and a brushful of Enamolin. 
TO PAINTERS 
W E have a very special proposi¬ 
tion to make you—get in 
touch with us, please. 
TO DEALERS 
W E have a “Better Business” 
proposition for you—one that 
must interest you. Please write. 
The very finest FLOOR FINISH—one which is zvorthy of 
use in the same room with ENAMOLIN—is 
FINISH 
I-M1L C’AltMAJN UVQ 
established in 
100 William St., New York 
1 hese Himalayan cedars are but sixteen years old, yet they 
have attained considerable size and characteristic beauty 
IN SOUTHERN GARDENS 
Julia Lester Dillon. 
Inquiries for this department receive prompt attention. Please en¬ 
close a sclf-addrcsscd, stamped envelope for reply 
Coniferous Evergreens 
There is nothing which so fitly 
typifies the spirit of the New South 
as the majestic loveliness of the 
stately Himalayan Cedar, Ccdrus dc- 
odara. Its pyramidal outlines tower 
skyward unrestrained and fearless. 
Its roots dig deeply and lovingly 
into the old red clay of the Georgia 
hills with the same fondness with 
which it must cling to oriental clay 
on the heights that hound the far¬ 
ther shores of the Seven Seas. Its 
ambitions and ideals are lofty. For 
just sixteen short years the twin sis¬ 
ters here shown have stood at each 
side of this hospitable doorway, and 
now they lift their waving branches 
at least sixty feet above the sod. 
Graceful and gentle and tenderly 
gracious in their soft coloring and 
delicate tracery of leaf and stem and 
branch, yet strong to endure both 
the summer’s heat and the winter’s 
cold, Antaeus-fashion they bend first 
to touch the earth and thus gain 
strength with which to climb up and 
up and lip on their ambitious way to 
the stars. 
The Soil for Deodaras 
Where there is room, where dig¬ 
nity and grace are desirable, where 
soft coloring in the evergreen notes 
is needed, plant deodaras. In choos¬ 
ing the situation for these trees per¬ 
fect drainage and plenty of clay in 
the soil must be assured. This done, 
nothing will give more satisfactory 
or more beautiful or quicker results. 
It is better to select trees that have 
grown large enough to have some 
character, say from 30" to 36" in 
height, and these can be purchased 
from any reliable Southern nursery 
for about $1.50 each. Small sizes 
can be had for twenty-five cents and 
up, but the difference in strength and 
in rapidity of growth will amply 
repay the additional expense for the 
initial planting. 
With outlines more symmetrical 
and formal, with branches more 
closely appressed, with leafage more 
delicate in color and feathery in 
texture than the native cedar, Juni- 
perus virginiana, of comparatively 
rapid growth and with great adap¬ 
tability, the cypresses from many 
quarters of the earth that grow 
easily and beautifully along the lower 
Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions of 
the Southern States form a long 
list. 
They vary in color, in height, and 
contour and can be secured to suit 
almost any requirement of soil or sit¬ 
uation. Where a screen planting is 
desirable and deciduous plantings 
like the poplars are used, as a back¬ 
ground, the slower-growing cypress 
trees can be put in to fill the spaces 
and ultimately to make an evergreen 
screen. For such positions the Cup- 
ressus Benthami and Cupressus gra¬ 
cilis are equally good. The Ben¬ 
thami forms a perfect cone with its 
greatest diameter 5' or 6' from the 
ground. Its leaves are feathery and 
of a soft glaucous green that is al¬ 
most the same in summer and winter. 
The Benthami is one of the most 
rapid growers among the evergreen 
trees. It is beautiful in every stage 
of its history. Both it and gracilis 
are very fine trees for formal plant¬ 
ings to accent the architectural notes 
in the garden plan and for thickets 
along the boundaries. 
Of a rich green that is almost vel¬ 
vety black in the deep shadows is the 
pyramidal cypress, Cupressus Knigh- 
tiana. On the border of a planta¬ 
tion of pines where the deep browns 
and vivid greens of these trees carry 
the same color tones, this cypress is 
wonderful. Its broad base and up¬ 
lifted arms with closely massed 
leaves are not as graceful as the 
softer colored and more feathery va¬ 
rieties, but its beauty deserves a po¬ 
sition of prominence and its stateli¬ 
ness requires a dignified setting. 
Old-World Cypresses 
For the formal effects made fa¬ 
mous by the beautiful gardens of the 
Orient and Italy there are the Italian 
and Roman cypresses. Cupressus 
sempervirens, ( c. fastigita,) and the 
far-famed Cupressus funebris so ex¬ 
tensively used in the temple courts of 
China. Both of these varieties are of 
easy and rapid growth and adapt 
themselves readily to the various 
soils. Their leaves are very delicate 
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