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HOUSE & GARDEN 
Edmanson Martin 
House, 28 Booms. 
Trice, $10. F. O. 
15. Chicago. 
Booms, $8.50. 
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Will last a lifetime. Attract the birds. Provide cozy 
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years. Our prices are lowest. Bluebird House, $5.00. 
Houses for Purple Martins $8.50; for Flickers, $3.00; 
for Chickadees, $0.70; for Swallows, $2.50. Cement Bird 
Bath, $11.00. The famous Edmanson Sparrow Trap, elec¬ 
tric welded, automatic, none better, $1.75. 
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E. E. EDMANSON & COMPANY 
624-634 S. Norton Street Chicago, Illinois 
Edmanson Wren 
House, 4 Booms. 
Price, n $4.50. 
F. O. f Chicago 
B. 
Edmanson Feedery. 
Trice. $1. F. O. 
B. Chicago. Feeds 
grain, also suet. 
THE FORMAL GARDEN 
There is a charm and a fascination about 
the formal garden that cannot be gainsaid. 
One feels always that it reflects the mind of 
the designer in the careful arrangement of 
every detail, the fine sense of proportion be¬ 
tween architecture and landscape, between 
verdure and stone. 
The renowned gardens of Italy owe much of their 
interest to the superb sculpture that adorns them. 
Our collection of models made of Pompeian Stone 
cast in perfect reproduction of these Old World mas¬ 
terpieces contains just what you want for your 
garden. 
To those who desire marble ornaments, we offer 
special facilities, insuring reasonable prices and 
prompt deliveries. 
Our. handsome illustrated catalogue of sundials, 
fountains, statuary and benches sent on request. 
ERKINS STUDIOS 
Factory, Astoria, L. I. 226 Lexington Avenue, New York 
The Largest Manufacturers of Ornamental Stone 
$5 ^ 
Mott Bird Fountains 
By the installation 
of a Mott self-sup¬ 
plying, motor-driven 
Fountain, the ex¬ 
pense of piping is 
eliminated. Only 
occasional replenish¬ 
ment of the water 
supply is necessary, 
as it purifies itself 
by continual circula¬ 
tion. 
Write for detailed de¬ 
scriptions of these mo¬ 
tors and their application 
to Mott Fountains. 
We issue separate 
catalogs of Display 
Fountains, Drinking 
Fountains, Bird 
Fountains, Electroliers, 
Vases, Grills and Gate¬ 
ways, Settees and 
Chairs, Statuary, 
Aquariums, Tree 
Guards, Sanitary Fit¬ 
tings for Stable and 
Barn. 
Address Ornamental Department 
THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS 
Fifth Avenue and 17th Street, New York 
Beau Brummels of the Poultry World 
(Continued from page 76) 
is the handsomest and its most dis¬ 
tinguishing characteristic is a large 
knob on the head. Egyptian geese 
are commonly given a place among 
the ornamentals, but they are even 
more pugnacious than the Muscovy 
ducks and are almost sure to start a 
wholesale slaughter if placed in an 
aviary with a lot of miscellaneous 
birds. 
Naturally everybody who thinks of 
ornamental waterfowl gives swans a 
place near the top of the list. Swans 
there should be, as a matter of course, 
if a fairly large pond or pool is avail¬ 
able. They look out of place, how¬ 
ever, on any water that is less than 
50' across. The common mute or 
royal swan is the variety to be recom¬ 
mended and a pair will cost about $40. 
It is a common belief that swans need 
more or less coddling, especially in 
winter, but that is a mistake. They 
are quite as hardy as geese, though 
more stupid, for they will sometimes 
allow their feet to freeze to the ice. 
No housing is necessary even in the 
coldest weather, but a rough shelter 
may be sometimes sought. One feed¬ 
ing a day of ordinary mixed grain 
from the poultry house will keep them 
thriving, especially if they have a lake 
or stream in which they can find 
various kinds of vegetable and animal 
life to their liking. 
Although cranes are not really 
waterfowl, they are commonly classed 
as such and love to wade in the water. 
They are fairly hardy and may be 
kept through the winter with only a 
little shelter to protect them from 
storms. This applies to most varie¬ 
ties, but a few kinds like the Stanley 
and crowned crane need warm houses 
and are best omitted from one’s list 
unless conditions are entirely favor¬ 
able for them. Pelicans are highly 
amusing and interesting birds and so 
easily tamed that they soon become 
great pets. Unfortunately, they can 
be kept only where they can have 
heated quarters in winter. The birds 
named are probably the best to begin 
with when an aviary is being stocked, 
hut in time others like green-wing 
teals, black East India ducks> pin-tail 
ducks, dusky mallards and redheads, 
costing from $8 to $18 a pair, will 
doubtless be added. Indeed, when 
one becomes thoroughly enthusiastic 
over the keeping and rearing of orna¬ 
mental land and water fowl, he sel¬ 
dom knows where to draw the line 
and adds to his collection as fast as 
his pocketbook will allow. Few hob¬ 
bies are more fascinating. 
The Choice of a Style for a Country House 
(Continued from page 13) 
fit a projected house of preconceived 
architectural style. One is not al¬ 
ways free as to the method, for ob¬ 
vious reasons and limitations. It is, 
however, a pleasant thing to picture 
in the mind’s eye the sort of a house 
you would like to live in and then to 
set about selecting a site that would 
be ideal for just such a house. In all 
this the architect can be a great deal 
of help, if you will take him into 
your confidence. 
But even before you start to 
imagine your house, you should take 
into account just the sort of family 
life it is to accent. Some small 
families live in large houses and 
some large families in even smaller 
houses. Where a house is sufficiently 
commodious for the family itself, it 
may still be too small for much or 
for any entertaining. After all, un¬ 
less a man is a hermit, he does not 
build his house for himself alone. 
He is a member of the society of 
human beings, and that fact causes 
him to take into account the factor 
of sociability that will enter into his 
life and into that of his family. And 
in the country, quite as much as else¬ 
where, he will have this impressed 
upon him. 
Let him think of this, then, when 
he starts out to think up the sort of 
house he will have. Perhaps he goes 
to live in the country to enjoy nat¬ 
ural surroundings and to be free 
from the tyranny of town. Well and 
good; but he will wish to enjoy 
country life in communion with his 
fellow-beings, and not as a recluse. 
Questions of hospitality, then, will 
enter the alembic of his plans for a 
house, even when projecting a little 
cottage. Already he knows he must 
have good chimneys; a large, dry cel¬ 
lar, a tight roof and sound architec¬ 
tural structure. 
The Year Round House 
Not only must he consider how the 
house will feel in winter as well as in 
summer, but he will also wish to 
know how it is going to look at all 
seasons of the year, particularly if he 
is to spend the year ’round in the 
countryside. Then, too, his house must 
fit the landscape, just as the house 
must fit him, the individual. In olden 
days a cottage dweller was thought 
of as a poor man. In our own day 
the cottage type of architecture, 
evolved along the lines of various 
architectural styles, has come to be 
the typical type of the home of the 
well-to-do. 
Regarding Architectural Styles 
The modern house in the country 
(this is excluding from considera¬ 
tion the palatial show-places of a 
modern Midas) seeks a character de¬ 
void of pretense, without sham and 
free from the superfluous. Simplicity, 
not grandeur, is the charm of the 
modern home in the country. The 
matter of economy in space has of 
necessity been much more studied by 
the present-day architect than by his 
predecessors. This, again, is a mat¬ 
ter for consideration in settling on a 
style for a house. Fortunately the 
various styles are compounded of 
features that permit an almost in¬ 
finite variety of effects which, though 
the ensemble may immediately be 
recognized as Georgian, Tudor, 
Dutch Colonial, or whatever it may 
truly be, may be rendered adaptable 
to the site and to other considera¬ 
tions through the skill of a good ar¬ 
chitect who has a mastery of their 
handling. 
Broadly speaking, there are those 
who consider the Georgian or the 
Colonial styles formal, the half¬ 
timber style informal and the Dutch 
Colonial a combination of both qual¬ 
ities. However, dignity of aspect, 
such as we find in Colonial archi¬ 
tecture, need never freeze to formal¬ 
ity, nor need the half-timber style 
ever preclude formal use any more 
than it did in Elizabethan days. 
That there is current much theory 
on the subject, both in print and in 
practice, is to be found by the in¬ 
quirer, but after all the main thing 
to seek in choosing a style for a 
house in the country is the ability of 
that style to endow the house with 
an added sense of homelikeness. 
