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House & Garden 
American-Grown Trees 
and Evergreens 
You are invited to visit 
our Nurseries during 
July and August, when 
the trees and plants are 
at their best, and make 
your selection for fall 
delivery. Our catalog— 
“Suggestions For Effec¬ 
tive Planting” — on re¬ 
quest. 
Andorra 
Nurseries 
Wm. Warner Harper, Prop. 
Box 120 
Chestnut Hill 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
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BIRD HOUSES 
OUR FOLDER illustrating the best, most 
successful and largest line on the market, IS 
FREE. Write to-day and compare values. 
Chicago Bird House Co. 
709-11 So. Leavitt St. Chicago, III. 
Send for Free Bird Book 
and Dodson Catalog the scientific 
houses made by the man the birds love. Full 
line illustrated, including famous sparrow trap 
to rid your ground of these bird enemies. 
Sent free with bird picture. Address 
JOSEPH H. DODSON, Vice Pres. & Director 
American Audubon Assn. 
731 Harrison Avenue Kankakee, III. 
THE CLIPPER 
There are three things that 
destroy your lawns: Dande¬ 
lions. Buck Plantain and Crab 
Grass. In one season the Clip¬ 
per will drive them all out. 
Your dealer should have them 
—if he has not drop us a line 
and we will send circular and 
prices. 
Clipper Lawn Mower Co. 
Dixon, ill. 
CYCLONE 
Property Protection Fencing 
For Country Estates, Country Clubs. Parks, 
School Grounds. Tennis Courts, Church 
Grounds, Cemeteries, etc. Combines strength, 
beauty and economy. Illustrated catalog on 
request. 
CYCLONE FENCE COMPANY 
^Vaukegan Dept. 147 Illinois^ 
Protect the Growing 
Things 
MOW, while they are at 
' their best, is the time to 
give them the necessary pro¬ 
tection that preserves their 
beauty and lengthens their 
life. Guard them with 
FENCES 
trellises, tree-guards, bed-guards, 
etc. Made of extra heavy steel 
wires, held tightly together by pat¬ 
ented steel clamps. Heavily gal¬ 
vanized AFTER making, which pre¬ 
vents rust. For further particulars, 
write for catalog C. 
‘‘The Plough is Our Hope’’ 
(Continued from page 60) 
the tomatoes at the crack of dawn. 
Vegetable raising and canning com¬ 
petitions in increasing numbers are 
slated for this fall, and in addition to 
sock-knitting, bandage-rolling and 
overseas box-dispatching, will make 
Mrs. Agricolo-in-Canada the rapid 
transit wonder of her sex. City 
women in such organizations as the 
Daughters of the Empire, the Na¬ 
tional Council and the Women’s 
Emergency Corps, are also apt at re¬ 
cruiting the root crop. 
When it comes to citing the men’s 
activities of the big cities, the re¬ 
porter’s pen aches. The Toronto 
Board of Trade has organized a War 
Production Club whereby it is putting 
5,000 business and professional men 
on the land for three week terms this 
summer. Having ascertained that on 
the farms of Ontario there was this 
spring an average of but one man to 
every 100 acres, the Club mailed let¬ 
ters to 10,000 farmers asking their 
needs, and to all employers of labor 
in Toronto inviting their coopera¬ 
tion to the extent of giving a three 
weeks’ vacation instead of the cus¬ 
tomary fortnight to any man willing 
to spend the whole period on a farm. 
All the high school principals of the 
province were then invited to a 
luncheon so that the three-week gaps 
in the schedule of workers might be 
filled from the ranks of the senior 
students. The clergymen of Toronto 
promised their assistance, both in 
giving the movement publicity and 
in arousing the country people of 
their various denominations to be 
kindly affectioned to the city brother 
when he donned overalls. Bank pres¬ 
idents and general managers were 
next enlisted as aides, the Daughters 
of the Empire were spurred to re¬ 
newed activities in their backyard 
garden campaign, and the retired 
farmers of Toronto were organized 
“to bring the producer and the con¬ 
sumer closer together.” No wonder 
the city hums like a dynamo and 
generates a current that is revitaliz¬ 
ing the back districts of the province. 
Raising Their Bits 
Smaller Canadian towns like Lon¬ 
don, Ontario, with its 50,000 patriotic 
citizens is also retiring en masse to 
the vegetable trenches. London has a 
Garden Club, with community gar¬ 
dens ploughed by the city and a com¬ 
munity store on the Federal Square 
where the produce of big and little 
plots, public and private, may be dis¬ 
posed of for the benefit of all con¬ 
cerned. Sections of the community 
gardens are taken up by all kinds of 
people and groups of people. One 
mother-faced little deaconess has a 
club of fifteen factory girls, who have 
each preempted an 8' x 10' handker¬ 
chief-sized garden. One evening 
weekly they go out as a class, with 
their dinners in paper boxes and join 
hands with the French aviator, the 
British U-boat patrol, the American 
munition maker and that hero of 
Ypres and St. Julien, the cheero- 
souled Canadian Tommy, in the world 
push against Hades Incarnate. 
Three women own a nearby plot of 
larger size, all hilled up with potatoes. 
The first farmeress is an elderly 
childless married lady who has lived 
all her quiet later years in a small 
flat and has never seen a potato be¬ 
fore unless it came out of a paper 
bag. The second is a widow who 
writes for her living; the third, the 
circulation manager of a magazine. 
Not far away is another garden, 
much larger, where the workers are a 
bit awkward but they certainly do 
get results. They’re all late-of- 
France boche-disturbers, crippled a 
bit too much to be fed into the war 
machine a second time. They are quite 
content to beat their swords into 
ploughshares during convalescence, 
under the leadership of the pretty 
matron whose husband is still abroad. 
National Service 
Everywhere manufacturers are 
urging their employees gardenward. 
One exuberant-souled Westerner 
promised all the seed potatoes his 
workmen would plant, and lo, the 
first day beheld a line up, and the 
initial applicant demanded four bags! 
Doubtless the employer’s checkbook 
felt the squeeze, with seed potatoes at 
five-fifty a bag; but he was game. 
In the same town there are five 
children in one family, with a father 
over military age and an invalid 
mother. To be sure, Tom, the oldest, 
would be incensed at having his 
eighteen-year-old lanky sophomore 
self described as anything but a man, 
especially since he^awaits call in the 
Aviation Corps. Sis, she is sixteen, 
left last week for her fruit farm, wild 
with excitement and her new semi- 
conventionalized overalls. Ted, four¬ 
teen, is dairying for the summer. 
Bubbles and little Bob are second 
lieutenants under Dad, who cultivates 
an unwieldy home garden after office 
hours and plans another on a piece 
of vacant property at the other end 
of town. These children have never 
done anything but motor and play 
tennis and swim all the other sum¬ 
mers of their fair-haired lives, but 
they are the youngest in a big circle 
of cousins, most of whom are now in 
France and Mesopotamia. And to 
be self-respecting Canadians they 
must, of course, do their bit. 
In conclusion, as a speaker on na¬ 
tional service in Toronto recently 
phrased it, fifteen cents a day saved 
by each adult Canadian would pay 
Canada’s entire war expenses and in¬ 
sure victory, so far as Canada’s part 
was concerned. And that’s just about 
the only way that it can be insured— 
not by the battalions, or the ban or 
the Government, or the munitions 
works alone, but by adding to these 
the effort of Me, John Doe—-—mul¬ 
tiplied by 10,000,000. 
A Flower Pot 
Wherever You 
Can Drive a Nail 
The Universal 
Portable Shelf is 
made of steel and 
beautifully en¬ 
ameled. Weighs only 
8 ounces and sup- 
ports 20 pounds. 
Hangs on a single 
nail. Equally use¬ 
ful for electric 
fans, lamps, vases, 
clocks, hooks, 
and 1000 other 
things, 
both in 
the home, 
garde n, 
garage, greenhouse, office, store, etc. 
Finished light, medium and dark green, white, 
mahogany, light pink, light blue, tan, French 
gray, gilt, aluminum and green-bronze. 
Price, 50c each; $5.00 a dozen. 
AGENTS WANTED. Send for booklet. 
THE GEO. W. CLARK CO. 
259-C FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK 
The most complete stock 
of hardy plants in America 
Illustrated catalog of hardy 
plants, shrubs, trees and 
bulbs sent free on request 
ELLIOTT NURSERY CO. 
319 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
SEED ANNUAL 
FREE 
You really need it. Hundreds of handy, 
handsome pages. Splendid illustrations. 
You certainly will be glad you sent for it. 
Best Annual we’ve ever issued—absolutely 
FREE. 
Fottler, Fiske, Raws on Co. 
Faneull Hall Square, Boston, Mass. 
NEW CANAAN 
CONNECTICUT 
HOYT’S NURSERIES 
Large assortment of Ornamental Deciduous 
trees and Evergreens, all sizes; Herbacious 
Plants. Perennials, Roses. Hedge Plants; 
everything to make the home grounds attrac¬ 
tive. Deliveries by motor trucks; all freshly 
dug Stock. Send for catalogue. 
THE STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS CO., ING 
Telephone 333 New Canaan, Conn. 
Burpee's Seeds Grow 
Send for Burpee’s Annual, the Leading 
American Seed Catalog. A book of 182 
pages, fully illustrated. It is mailed free 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. 
Burpee Buildings, Philadelphia 
PLANT IRIS 
this fall, and you will have vigorous 
clumps and strong blooms next summer. 
Our beautiful collection is one of the 
largest in America and comprises over 
150 varieties. Send for catalog. 
THE WING SEED CO. 
Box 1427 Mechanicsburg, Ohio 
Shrubs and Trees 
for Every Place 
Shade trees, evergreens, shrubs, roses, 
all these and more are grown at 
Cromwell Gardens. Our garden hand¬ 
book is free to those who ask. 
CROMWELL GARDENS 
A. N. Pierson, Inc. Box 14, Cromwell, Conn. 
DWARF APPLE TREES 
DWARF PEAR TREES 
DWARF PLUM TREES 
DWARF CHERRY TREES 
DWARF PEACH TREES 
Catalog Free 
THE VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
C.C. McKAY, Mgr. Box M, Geneva, N. Y. 
T reesReady T o Bear Fruit 
Eight years old. several times trans¬ 
planted ; can be set this fall or next 
spring in your home orchard or garden. 
Write for list of varieties. 
FRASER’S FREE BOOK lists fifty kinds of 
Apples, many varieties of Peaches, Pears, and 
other fruits. Send to-day for a copy. 
SAMUEL FRASER NURSERY, INC. 
179 MAIN St., GENESEO, N. Y. 
