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HOUSE & GARDEN 
>-$ The Sure Way 
To Surely Have 
An Early Garden 
T HE most troublesome trouble with 
gardens, just as it used to be with 
Automobiles, is in getting them 
started. 
Dame Spring has such an exasperating 
way of luring us on with warmish days 
full of hope; and then playing us with 
some of the most exasperating varieties 
of weather, that just knocks gardening 
progress galley-west. 
So to have that coveted early garden, we 
must get the running jump on Spring, by 
starting our seeds, and growing good husky, 
stocky plants in cold frames. 
Happily for you, we have at least six dif¬ 
ferent sizes of frames to fit your needs, as 
well as your pocketbook. 
For example, there are the tote-about sizes. 
You can buy ten of them for so little as $6.56. 
Five Melor Frames cost $4.62. 
Or a two sash Junior Frame 68" long by 
38 A" wide for $8.40. 
Then if you want the big frames with their 
sash 3x6 feet, we can sell you any length. 
Don’t put off ordering. Every day’s extra 
start now means several days ahead, later on. 
Send for Two P’s Booklet for further facts 
and figures. 
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III. 
Dreer’s 
Dahlias 
W E offer and 
fully de- 
scribe in our , 
Garden Book 
this season four v 
h u n d r e d and 
forty-seven of the 
choicest N c w and C 
Standard varieties, 
which include all < 
types and colors of 
this favorite Fall 
flower, every one 
having been care¬ 
fully tested and 
found desirable. If 
you have never 
grown Dahlias you 
should begin by get¬ 
ting a free copy of 
Dreer’s Garden 
Book for 1916 
Write for it to-day, and please 
mention this magazine. 
HENRY A DREER, 
A Row of House & Garden Books 
(Continued from page 82) 
Color as well as form is coming Early American Craftsmen. By Walter 
into its own, and no one can read A. Dyer. The Century Co. $2.40. 
Mrs. King’s book without feeling that The vogue of Americana is ever 
here indeed is something to ponder increasing, because more and more 
over. the skill, artistry and honesty of 
The “Well-Considered Garden” is spirit of the early American crafts- 
primarily a book of color harmony, men are becoming more apparent. 
Therein lies its chief value to the That they must have been remark- 
flower gardener, and its inspiration, able men is a conviction forced upon 
too. For it is inspirational—there is everybody. But hitherto, though 
no denying that. Without didacti- much has been written about their 
cism, and yet instructively, the author work, little attention has been paid 
gives us the impulse 
to make our gar¬ 
dens the color har¬ 
monies they should 
be. “I have,” she 
says, “a new pro¬ 
fession to propose, 
a profession of spe¬ 
cialists ; it should 
be called that of the 
garden colorist. . . . 
The garden colorist 
shall be qualified to 
plant beautifully, ac¬ 
cording to color, 
the best- planned 
gardens of our best 
designers. It shall 
be his duty, first, 
to possess a true 
color instinct; sec¬ 
ond, to have had 
much experience in 
the growing of flow¬ 
ers, notably in the 
growing of varie¬ 
ties in form and 
color; third, so to 
make his planting 
plans that there shall 
Martha Foote Crow, au¬ 
thor of “The American 
Country Girl” 
to their personal 
characters and stories. 
This need Mr. 
Dyer’s book fills. 
While conveying an 
immense amount of 
detailed information 
about their work he 
also tells about the 
men themselves. Even 
the names of some of 
our most distin¬ 
guished craftsmen are 
scarcely known to 
most Americans: 
Duncan Phyfe, for 
example, maker of 
exquisite furniture, 
who adapted and im¬ 
proved the Sheraton 
style; or Samuel Mc- 
Intire, master carpen¬ 
ter, who learned arch¬ 
itecture out of books 
and built in Salem so 
many delightfully 
proportioned houses 
with interiors incom¬ 
parably carved; or the 
romantic Baron Stie- 
be successive pictures of loveliness gel, inventor of stoves, ironmaster, 
melting into each other with succes- and creator of beautiful glassware, 
sive months; and last, he must pay, who lived like a feudal lord in Penn- 
if possible, a weekly visit to his gar- sylvania, fell into a debtor’s prison 
dens, for no eye but his discerning and ended his life as a bookkeeper, 
one will see in them the evil and the These—with Paul Revere, silversmith, 
good.” engraver and bell-founder—are a few 
So Mrs. King shows how we may of the personalities in Mr. Dyer’s 
all become garden colorists to the book, which is also a very complete 
best of our abilities. She gives us survey of their work. 
many of the planting schemes she has - 
worked out in her long experience ; r,le American Country Girl. By Martha 
she tells of garden accessories, gar- Foote Crow. Irederick A. Stokes Co. 
den expedients, garden books and $1-50 net. 
garden clubs. Her book is much In this book Mrs. Crow seeks to 
more than an introduction to the sub- show the opportunities which are 
ject of color in the garden; it is a open for the country girl to make 
reference work of merit and charm, her own life and the lives of those 
about her more cheering, helpful 
and optimistic. To get to the root 
Poultry Husbandry. By Edward Brown, of the matter and learn, if possible, 
Longmans, Green & Co. $ 2 . 40 . the outlook upon life which the coun¬ 
try girl really holds, she has corre- 
When a book by Edward Brown sponded extensively with the girls on 
is announced, poultry keepers all farmsteads in many districts, and 
over the world are interested, for no out of the mass of material' thus 
greater authority lives. Although he obtained has drawn conclusions that 
writes as an English breeder, he is are anything but gloomy, 
familiar with the poultry industry The book is written avowedly for 
in almost every land, for he has vis- the country girl herself, and as such 
ited nearly every country in Europe, is inspiring and optimistic. The stu- 
as well as Canada and the United dent of sociology, too, and those who 
States. His large and practical are interested in any form of the 
“back - to - the - land” 
Dahlia 
Specialist 
714-716 Chestnut St. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
knowledge has 
made it possible for 
him to produce a 
volume which cov¬ 
ers every feature of 
poultry keeping, and 
with an accuracy of 
detail which should 
prove of no little 
value to amateur 
and professional 
alike. Both as a 
text-book in schools 
and a reference 
book in the home 
library, Poultry 
Husbandry should 
find high favor as a 
volume of authori¬ 
tative information. 
movement, will find 
here considerable il¬ 
luminating reading; 
yet we cannot but 
wonder whether the 
composite picture pre¬ 
sented of the country 
girl is truly represen¬ 
tative of the six mil¬ 
lion and a half such 
persons now living in 
the United States. 
Garden fans will ap¬ 
preciate “The Gar¬ 
den Bluebook” 
