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“THE LAST RIDE” 
( Copyrighted) 
ONE SOLUTION OF THE 
GIFT PROBLEM 
Our Holiday Exhibit contains an unusual 
collection of small and inexpensive tables 
particularly appropriate for presentation. 
“Occasional and “Console Tables; 
Card Tables covered with soft-toned silks; 
Smokers Tabourettes; “Tilt and "Nest’ 
Tables, fulfilling a score of useful missions 
in the borne; Tea Tables, * “Tuck-a-way and 
Sewing Tables—all are exhibited in exclusive 
patterns, as also the popular reproductions of 
old-fashioned designs. 
Whatever the Table desired “Flint & Hor¬ 
ner Quality guarantees Artistic Distinc¬ 
tion, Permanent Satisfaction an d the 
LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. 
ORIENTAL AND DOMESTIC RUGS 
AND DRAPERIES 
FLINT & HORNER CO., inc. 
20-26 WEST 36th STREET 
NEW YORK 
House & Garden 
Conscripting the Greenhouse 
(Continued from page 70) 
into the greenhouse and planted in beds 
underneath the benches; any good soil 
will answer the purpose, or the spent 
manure from an old mushroom bed may 
be used to keep the roots moist until 
growth shows that they are active. Then 
frequent sprayings will supply practical¬ 
ly all the moisture required, but care 
must be taken not to let the plants get 
very dry at the roots. Rhubarb starts 
into growth very quickly, and will be 
ready for use in about three weeks’ 
time. Asparagus takes longer, but 
should be ready in about five weeks. 
Whitloof chicory or French endive, 
and sea kale are forced in very much 
Trailing the 
(Continued, f 
“It's a high pile Hartford Saxony; 
you can also get it six by nine, forty- 
seven dollars; copied from an original 
over a hundred years old and worth 
maybe ten thousand.” 
Very firmly, Marmalade said: 
“Young man, you may consider that 
rug sold; pack it up here and now and 
I will take it away in my car.” 
I believe he was afraid they would 
change it if he took his eyes off it. We 
took it home, and last Monday we 
showed it to (Thing Li when he fetched 
the soiled linen; he said “velly nice” 
and was particularly pleased with the 
flying bats, though being a rather gen¬ 
tlemanly fellow he wouldn't let on that 
he knew it was a copy, and I will swear 
he did, as he had an expression of great 
surprise when he picked up a piece of 
the rug and found it almost as stiff as 
cardboard. 
By the way, why doesn’t some enter¬ 
prising business man send to China for 
an expert native rug-maker, and have 
him come here, collect a few score of 
these sad-eyed laundering compatriots 
of his., and revive the sleeping genius 
of their fingers for weaving rugs? If 
there is anything in heredity they could 
soon be taught, and some of us would 
be glad to wash our own linen for a 
time if we thought we could thereby 
obtain cheaply rugs even remotely re¬ 
sembling several that were recently sold 
at a New York auction gallery for prices 
that were, well— 
One had an all-over lotus and but¬ 
terfly design in pale yellow and cream, 
studded with two shades of blue, deli¬ 
cately traced and woven with dainty 
precision; border of deeper salmon, with 
the same way as rhubarb. The roots 
are planted under the benches, but small 
quantities are brought into the forcing 
house at two or .three week intervals, 
so as to assure succession crops. When 
cutting the chicory, be careful not to 
cut the eyes from the top of the root, 
and a second growth will immediately 
start. 
A drop curtain on the side of the 
bench to exclude the light is necessary 
with all the crops mentioned under dark 
forcing. This curtain can be of can¬ 
vas, burlap or tar paper; the last named 
is rather unsightly but as nearly light¬ 
proof as anything obtainable. 
Chinese Rug 
roiu page 59) 
lotus spray in deeper blue, and touches 
of white. It was supposed to have been 
made during the reign of Chien Lung, 
say about 1750. 
Another was what is known as a 
Kong rug, in apricot, with peony, lotus, 
butterfly and coin designs; lemon col¬ 
ored border with framing lines of dark 
blue. (A kong is a Chinese divan.) 
Most of the Chinese rugs are of cot¬ 
ton, some have warp and weft of cotton 
with pile of silk, while a few, probably 
made to order of the Imperial Court, 
are sumptuously woven entirely bf silk 
upon a web of metal threads; when 
these threads are silver their lustre 
adds new gleams of beauty to an already 
magnificent object. 
It is related on moderately good au¬ 
thority that an ancient Chinese emperor 
had maps of the nine provinces of his 
empire engraved upon nine bronze vases. 
These vases, having been deposited in a 
temple, were supposed to secure the 
crown to their possessor. Generations 
later another emperor had them thrown 
into a river to prevent their falling into 
the hands of his enemies. Whether 
these novel topographical surveys were 
ever recovered is not clear, but if this 
is the sort of thing that happened to 
precious bronze works of art something 
equally sad may have happened to ex¬ 
quisite rugs bearing designs and symbols, 
for there are few enough of them, as 
their expensiveness indicates, and unless 
you are the happy possessor of a great 
quantity of those excellently engraved 
certificates issued by the United States 
Mint, you will have to forego the rug 
of Ming or Manchu for the rug of Wor¬ 
cester, Massachusetts—like ours. 
The Story of Sheffield Plate 
(Continued from page 23) 
copper basis, moreover, enhances the 
beauty of the silver coating, and brings 
out a quality which nickel and white 
metal do not. 
Marks and Makers’ Names 
As it was not until 1784 that Parlia¬ 
ment repealed the act that prohibited 
marking plated ware, no Sheffield plate 
that is genuine is found with a mark 
prior to 1784. From 1784 to say 1880, 
Sheffield plate may bear mark and 
maker’s name beside it. The firm of W. 
Green & Co., was the first to have its 
mark and name registered for Sheffield 
plate; this was September 8, 1784. How¬ 
ever, the collector finds pieces bearing 
names and marks together very rare. 
Marks are generally so inconspicuously 
placed as often to be missed even when 
they do occur. Careful examination is 
necessary to discover them. 
It should be borne in mind that the 
genuine Sheffield plate metal consisted 
of silver and copper sheets inseparably 
joined and pressed out to the required 
thinness by being run cold through 
rollers. The metal was then cut and 
shaped by hand-hammering into the 
forms desired. Electro-plated ware con¬ 
sists of a baser metal form already 
shaped before being -coated with silver 
in galvanic solution. The possessor of 
any pieces of genuine Sheffield plate will 
subject them to ruin if he is. at any time, 
so ill-advised as to have them re-plated. 
Such a renovation will utterly destroy 
■ the beauty that intrinsically resides with 
even worn pieces of Sheffield plate that 
show copper traces. 
