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House & Garden 
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Has It a Built-in Bath? 
That is the first question asked by the 
woman who goes to look at a new house. 
America s foremost built-in bath is the 
“Viceroy,” a notable example of 
KOHLER WARE 
Always of one quality—the highest 
The “Viceroy” is of genuine one-piece construc¬ 
tion; it is enameled all over; the design is beautiful 
and hygienic, and owing to manufacturing economies 
it is available for all classes of houses and apart¬ 
ments. Be sure to see the Viceroy” if you are 
building or remodeling. 
KOHLER OF KOHLER manufactures first quality bath 
tubs, lavatories and sinks to suit all requirements. Illustra¬ 
tions of all these excellent products are published in an inter¬ 
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Eighteenth Century Italian Wall Furniture 
(Continued from page 56) 
In the matter of decorative proc¬ 
esses, they employed every resource 
common in England and in France, 
including veneering, inlay, marque¬ 
try, carving, lacquering, painting and 
embellishing with metal mounts while 
in the matter of bone inlay they ex¬ 
celled to a great extent the artisans 
of the other two countries. 
Whether we reproach 18th Century 
Italian furniture with the charge of 
decadence or whether we frankly ad¬ 
mire it, we are bound to admit that 
it is deeply interesting, that there is 
much to be learned from it, and that 
it affords a resource that we may 
utilize with profit for the enrichment 
of the furnishings of our own age. 
Pots and Plants for the Indoor Garden 
(Continued from page 47) 
preferably when dormant, as it is 
apt to injure a growing plant. Plants 
in full bloom, however, may be 
shifted without injury if pains are 
taken not to break the ball of earth. 
The Question of Soil 
The tiny seedlings from hotbeds or 
flats should be potted off at first in 
the soil in which they were started, 
and the pots plunged to the rim in 
the hotbed, sand box or flats full of 
sand, earth or sphagnum moss kept 
moist. As the plants advance to 
larger pots a somewhat richer soil 
may be given that is better adapted 
to the particular requirements. As a 
rule a good compost of fibrous loam, 
sharp white sand, leaf mold and a 
little well rotted manure will suit al¬ 
most any plant, the proportions being 
varied to suit the individual case. 
Geraniums will do well in a soil 
composed chiefly of sharp sand and 
fibrous loam, while fuchsias, helio¬ 
tropes, calceolarias and the like pre¬ 
fer a considerable amount of leaf 
mold added to the. loam. Crinums 
and amaryllis require much sharp 
sand, while palms seem to do better 
with a somewhat gravelly loam and 
a little mold. Often a plant which is 
not doing well will take on new life 
and vigor with a change of soil, and 
I have sometimes found that a rough 
compost suits many plants better and 
keeps them in a healthier condition 
than is obtained with a finer soil. 
Not all plants require the same 
mechanical condition of the soil. 
Soft, succulent plants should be 
potted lightly, often the mere tapping 
of the pot on the table to settle the 
soil being sufficient. Hard-wooded 
plants need the earth to be well 
firmed around their roots, pressed 
down a little at a time until the ball 
of earth is quite solid. 
Plants such as primroses, which re¬ 
quire especially good drainage and 
are liable to rot if the water settles 
about their crowns, should always be 
set with the crown a little high and 
the earth sloping toward the rim of 
the pot, while those which make a 
thick mat of fibrous roots may be 
set rather low. In all pottings of 
plants sufficient room should be al¬ 
lowed at the top for watering—at 
least 1" will be required in anything 
more than a 3" pot. Deep saucers 
should be provided to catch the drain¬ 
age, but this should not be allowed 
to stand in the saucer after it has 
ceased to run. Plants standing with 
their toes in water are seldom healthy, 
and the presence of this bottom 
moisture causes the soil above to 
sour and grow musty. 
The Meaning of Soil Terms 
Many gardeners have rather hazy 
ideas of what is meant by the words 
loam, muck, leaf mold, etc. Most 
land is loam, the difference in soils 
consisting in the proportion of sand 
or clay they contain. A loam which 
contains much sand is what is known 
as a warm, sandy loam. Leaf mold 
is the fine, black soil found about 
the roots of trees, in hollows in the 
woods and wherever vegetable mat¬ 
ter has lain undisturbed for some 
time. Technically it is vegetable 
matter decayed without the presence 
of water, while muck, on the other 
hand, is vegetable matter decayed 
under the action of water, as the 
sediment in the bottom of ponds, and 
the earth of bogs and marshes. 
Fibrous loam is that taken from the 
bottom of sods. It contains the roots 
of the grass and is one of the most 
valuable of soils for all garden pur¬ 
poses. In digging this earth the sods 
are lifted in squares and the earth 
shaved off just below the crown of 
the grass, roots and all being used. 
Or the sod may be cut and piled in 
heaps, grass and all, and left to decay. 
Enjoy Your Picnic 
Lunch in a Clean, 
Sanitary Way with 
an Outing Lunch 
Table. 
Simple, Easily Set up, 
Strong, Light, Made of wood. 
Self-supporting. TWO TABLES IN ONE. 18 in. high, 2 ft. wide, 
4 ft. long, suitable for two, four or six guests, or 25 in. high, 2 ft. by 
2 ft., suitable for card table. Folds in bag 4 in. by 6 in. by 25 in. 
Weight Seven Pounds. Price $4.00. Delivered anywhere in U. S. A. 
PUFFER-HUBBARD MFG. CO., Minneapolis, Minn. 
Inside and Out the Colonial House 
(Continued from page 27) 
but this is far from the case. It is 
perfectly feasible to build endless 
varieties of this type by following 
certain fixed precedents, and creating 
a building which is consistent. The 
style lends itself to a freedom of 
treatment which offers opportunity 
for the architect to develop his orig¬ 
inality and resourcefulness. 
The housebuilder need never fear 
that the result of following traditional 
Colonial lines will be a crude farm¬ 
house in any sense of the word. The 
endless monstrosities of forty and 
fifty years ago were the product of 
the building carpenter, who worked 
at a time when architects were scarce, 
and he could ply his trade without 
any architectural education. This 
type of man is fast dying out, and 
his place has been taken by trained 
architects who have devoted their 
lives to the study and appreciation of 
the best work of the past. 
