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Home of Clarence A. Earle, Copeland Heights, Toledo, Ohio. Architects — Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhoff, Toledo. 
Thatched “CREO-DIPT” Stained Shingles used for Thatched Roof. Color as weathered straw. 
Furnished by 
CREO-DIPT COMPANY, Inc., North Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Sole Manufacturers. 
Working, drawings of construction of Thatched Roof, standard specifications and instruc¬ 
tions for design and construction of same, furnished on request by manufacturer. 
Don* t pay a nickel each for 
Peaches and Pears 
when you can pick them, ripe, off the trees 
Fruit picked ripe from the trees is far superior in taste to that which 
you buy from the vendor’s stand. Such fruit is generally picked green 
and allowed to ripen in transit. Fruit, deprived of the nutritious sap 
from the mother stem, sometimes for weeks, can never equal the luscious 
flavor of that freshly picked. 
Go into partnership with Nature 
and let her provide winter luxuries 
for your table. Grow your own 
fruit and enjoy jams, preserves and 
jellies when fruit is scarce. Your 
home grown, home made preserves 
are infinitely superior to the higher 
priced “canned” varieties. 
But when you plant, take care to 
plant sturdy stock of proven merit, 
that your forethought, expense and 
effort may not be expended in vain. 
Hicks fine fruit trees, berry 
bushes, grape vines and strawberry 
Hicks Nurseries, 
plants are all of pedigreed strain. 
The most expert care has been de¬ 
voted to growing hardy, healthy 
stock which is now just right for 
transplanting. Don’t fail to plant 
a few currant, gooseberry and rasp¬ 
berry bushes. 
Hicks fruit trees planted this fall 
will gain a year’s growth over those 
put out next spring. You take no 
chance of loss because we assume 
all risk. Hicks trees, big and small, 
are guaranteed to grow satisfac¬ 
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Farr’s Superb Lilacs 
For Fall Planting 
Lilac-time is springtime at its best. One can 
scarcely conceive of a spring garden without 
Lilacs; every bush a mass of glorious colors, and 
filling the air with delicate fragrance. 
Seemingly perfect, as were the old purple and 
white sorts, the master hybridizer, Victor Lemoine, 
touched them with his magic hand, and lo, from 
them a multitude of glorified forms and new colors 
appeared, with individual flowers and trusses more 
than doubled in size; with varieties early and 
varieties late, thus considerably lengthening the 
blooming season. 
Ellen Willmott, with pointed trusses a foot in length and 
snow-white flowers nearly an inch in diameter; Belle de Nancy, 
soft lilac pink; the splendid early flowered giant, Leon Gam- 
betta, with semi-double flowers almost as large and as per¬ 
fectly formed as tuberoses. These are but a few examples of 
the more than 1(10 new varieties that I grow on their own roots 
at Wyomissing. All these new Lilacs are unusually free 
bloomers—far surpassing the old sorts. If you wish these rich 
blooms in your garden next spring, the plants must be set 
this fall. 
Farr’s Hardy Plant Specialties 
(Sixth Edition, 1917-1918) describes 'Lemoine’s new Lilacs, 
Deutzias, Philadelphus, Japanese and German Iris, more than 
500 varieties of Peonies, Evergreens, and Rock-plants. 112 
pages of text, 30 full page illustrations (13 in color). A book 
of distinct value to garden lovers. If you do not have a copy 
of this Sixth Edition, send for one today. 
BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing Nurseries Co. 
106 Garfield Avenue, Wyomissing, Penna. 
