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HOUSE & GARDEN 
No. 4, 836.00 
CARRARA MARBLE 
BENCHES, FOR THE 
GARDEN AND HALL. 
MARBLE MANTELS 
CONSOLES 
S. KLABER & CO. 
126 W. 34 th ST., N. Y. 
Established 1849 
To Make Your Garden 
Delightful— 
Bird 
Basin 
27" diam. 
Height 32 
Base 
14" x 
Many Styles 
in Table 
Fountains 
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Catalogue 
Fountain 
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tain that made a 
hit at the Flower 
Show! 
A garden full of I 
birds is delightful. 
A garden without 
birds is dreary. Re¬ 
solve now to luive 
your garden full of 
birds this summer! 
Here is the way 
to do it. Let us 
send you this finely 
designed, substan¬ 
tial fount ain, 
carefully 
made of 
well - toned 
gray cement. 
The price, 
with or with¬ 
out pipe con¬ 
nection, i s 
but $15. If 
required, we can fit a small electric pump at 
small extra charge. 
The first day this fountain is placed in your 
garden, it will attract a host of birds. 
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348'A West 42nd Street, New York 
Branches in WASHINGTON and CHICAGO 
Portable — Electric—Luminous Fountains 
HANDEL / 0 
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A WELL chosen lamp supplies a 
decorative touch equalled by no 
other single furnishing. Handel 
Lamps are noted for artistic beauty 
that combines with practical utility. 
The electric illustrated is No. 6282. 
Ask your dealer or write for booklet 
illustrating various styles. 
THE HANDEL COMPANY 
390 East Main St., Meriden, Conn. 
The Late Garden and Its Usefulness 
(Continued from page 66) 
grown, stored and prepared. Seeds 
of either Black Spanish, White Chi¬ 
nese or Scarlet China may be sown 
as close to July 1st as space becomes 
available. Scarlet China is the earl¬ 
iest, producing handsome roots, 5" 
long by 4" in diameter by the end of 
September from seeds sown the mid¬ 
dle of July. They should be used 
quickly since they get pithy soon after 
they are overgrown, which happens 
about two weeks after they reach full 
size. 
White Chinese prolongs the season, 
since it reaches full size about the 
middle of October and may be left 
in the ground until there is danger 
of hard freezing, light frosts only 
improving its quality. Black Spanish 
is the latest, hardiest and the best 
keeper. Last fall, which was unusu¬ 
ally favorable for New York State, 
we pulled our Black Spanish radishes 
the 10th of November for winter 
storage. 
To get a quality equal to that of the 
spring radishes out of the fall-grown 
product during the winter, remove 
the thick skin of the root. Slice 
them thinly and sprinkle with salt. 
Let them stand for half an hour, 
pour off the juice and serve with 
sandwiches. 
Turnips and rutabagas are, perhaps, 
the most popular of all root crops 
for the late garden and little need 
be said about the advisability of 
growing them. For fall use, choose 
Purple Top White Globe among the 
turnips, while American Purple Top 
rutabaga is as good a keeper as any. 
Be sure to thin out both to stand 4" 
apart in the row, else you will get 
many unshapely roots. We do not 
broadcast seeds—it proves a waste of 
seeds and space. For best results, 
turnips need more cultivation than 
they will probably get if sown broad¬ 
cast. 
But the possibilities of the late gar¬ 
den and its usefulness are not limited 
to these classes of vegetables by any 
means. Supposing you should not 
care to grow any of them, there are 
still a sufficient number of other 
classes and sorts to enable you to 
keep the ground busy clear up to 
frost. 
Prolific Extra Early and Thomas 
Laxton peas will bear fair crops of 
well-filled pods by September 10th 
from seeds sown early in July. Ten- 
derheart lettuce furnished us small 
but solid heads from end of Septem¬ 
ber to November 10th from seeds 
sown July 20th, and light frosts, 
which occurred throughout October, 
did not injure the heads perceptibly. 
Spinach and kale, both sown near the 
end of July, provided fine greens until 
a few weeks before Thanksgiving, 
when Jack Frost got serious and 
made up for lost time in his fight 
upon vegetation. 
Flowers for the Seaside Garden 
(Continued from page 39) 
to be really valuable. Blooming im¬ 
mediately after the late spring plants 
outlined above, masses of columbines 
thrive exceedingly well in a porous, 
sandy soil. Of these we should 
choose the California hybrids, creamy 
white and pink; Aquilegia c (Brule a in 
tones of blue; and the lemon yellow 
A. chrysantha, which blooms a little 
later than the others. The common 
wild blue lupines are good, as are 
creamy yellow mulleins, and the com¬ 
mon fern-like foliage, gold-buttoned 
tansy. The Black-eyed Susan ( Rud- 
heckia speciosa ) ; wild carrot or 
Queen Anne’s Lace; the vivid orange 
butterfly weed (Asclcpias tuberosa), 
which in itself could be effectively 
used to cover an entire field; and the 
despised chickory, a straggling plant 
with sky-blue flowers—all are wonder¬ 
fully showy for this part of the 
season. 
Less wild but useful in masses 
against shrubs are the erect purplish- 
pink spikes of blazing star (Liatris 
pycnostachya ) and the tall white 
plume poppy (Bocconia cordata). 
Hclenium Bolanderi, though also 
adaptable to gardens proper, will not 
look out of place if naturalized, its 
yellow-rayed blossoms with brown 
centers lasting from. June until Sep¬ 
tember. Nor must we omit the sturdy 
white daisy, Chrysanthemum uligino- 
sum, useful for the same purpose in 
August. 
These plants will give a variety of 
effective bloom throughout the sum¬ 
mer. The informal planting may be 
extended into the fall by the addition 
of goldenrod and wild asters. The 
best members of the despised sun¬ 
flower family — Helianthus mollis, 
Heliopsis laevis, and Hclenium au- 
tumnale —though rather coarse for 
the garden, are t^ery effective and 
showy on the edges of shrubbery, and, 
placed at the porch, add a decorative 
touch to the house. Boltonias may 
also be massed in the same way. 
They are suitable for the garden as 
well, but require a great deal of room. 
W hile many other varieties may be 
mentioned which would be suitable 
for exposed situations and poor soil, 
not all of them would be as effective 
as those included in the above list. 
In the moist (but not salt) corner 
might be rose mallows (Hibiscus 
Moscheutos ) ; blue Lobelia syphili¬ 
tica; creamy white Spircea filipen- 
dula, or the pink Spircea palmata ele- 
gans; dark red bee balm (Monarda 
didyma ), and tall blue monkshood. 
For More Formal Use 
The list of plants especially adapt¬ 
ed to the seashore flower garden 
proper, beginning where the spring 
plants left off, are: German iris in a 
great variety of colors; the soft mass 
of Gypsophila Stephani, and the lower 
variety G. paniculata; several varie¬ 
ties of coreopsis, including C. rosea, 
with small pink flowers and soft foli¬ 
age, C. vcrticillata with yellow blos¬ 
soms rising above a dark feathery 
mass of green, and the larger- 
bloomed and longer-stemmed varie¬ 
ties, C. grandiflora and C. lanceolata. 
Another excellent yellow summer 
flower is the Oenothera Missourien- 
sis or Missouri primrose, with enor¬ 
mous 3 r ellow flowers rising on long 
stems above a low plant. It has a 
serious drawback, however, in that 
the blossoms last but a day. Oeno¬ 
thera fruticosa var. Youngii is also 
a good yellow with smaller blooms. 
Anthemis tinctoria, a yellow daisy¬ 
like flower with ferny foliage; pure 
white achillea Pearl, and massy yel¬ 
low Achillea tomentosa all grow and 
multiply rapidly. 
Of other colors, the coral bells 
(Heuchera sanguined), with tiny 
deep pink blossoms swaying on red 
stems, look well when combined with 
the broader masses of pink phlox; 
and steely blue Eryngium or sea 
holly, and Echinops or globe thistle 
match well with sea lavender (Sta- 
tice latifolia), Stokesia, and Centu- 
rca montana, both lavender-blue 
daisy-like flowers. 
Silence 
the Banging 
Screen Door 
You can eliminate 
this annoying-draw¬ 
back to summertime comfort by installing 
the 
SARGENT 
Noiseless 
Screen Door Closer 
on all your doors. It closes the door speedily, 
surely, silently. Any housekeeper can install 
tnis door closer unaided. It is readily regulated 
—tits different styles of door frames. Attractive 
antique bronze finish. All working parts en¬ 
closed. This prevents dirt hindering its opera¬ 
tion. Storekeepers, hotel proprietors and, above 
all, housekeepers, will find thisdoor check an aid 
to summertime enjoyment. If not obtainable at 
hardware stores, send the price, $ 2 . 25 , direct to 
SARGENT & COMPANY, 31 Water Street 
New Haven, Conn. 
Also makers of Sargent Locks and 
Hardware. Send for Book of De¬ 
signs if you are going to build. 
No. 14 Wren-Bluebird House $1.35 
A SCREW-DRIVER and a 
minute’s time will turn 
this House from one to 
the other. Have been 
urged to get this invention 
patented, but I am averse 
to have a patent on any¬ 
thing pertaining to the 
noble Bird Cause. 
A. P. Greim, “Birdville” Tents River, N. J. 
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