House and Garden 
I - The Standard of Excellence - 
in Builders’ 
Fine Hardware 
With Correct Designs in 
all the Leading Schools of 
Art is found in the produc¬ 
tions of 
P. & F. 
CORBIN 
N. W. Corner 
Eighth and Arch Streets 
PHILADELPHIA 
FACTORIES 
New Britain, Conn. 
Interior view of the First Church of Christ 
Scientist, Boston, Mass., in which we laid 
30,000 feet of Interlocking Rubber Tiling, ii 
a solid color, to harmonize with the stoin 
finish. 
Interlocking 
Rubber Tiling 
Noiseless, non-slippery, restful to the feet 
sanitary, extraordinarily durable. The finest 
floor for use in public buildings, banks, offices 
theatres, hospitals, libraries, kitchens, laun¬ 
dries, billiard rooms, bath rooms, stairways 
etc., etc. 
Samples, estimates, and special designs fur¬ 
nished upon application. 
Beware of infringers. Patented. 
Manufactured solely by 
New York Belting and Packing Company, Ltd., 
91 and 93 Chambers Street, New York City 
Chicago: 150 Lake Street. 
St. Louis; 218-220 Chestnut Street. 
Philadelphia: 118-120 North 8th Street. 
San Francisco : 1 
Cakland: 1 Cal. 
E. iith Street and 3d Avenue. 'J 
Boston: 232 Summer Street. 
Indianapolis, Ind. : 229 South Meridian St. 
Baltimore: 114 West Baltimore Street. 
Buffalo: 600 Prudential Building. 
Pittsburgh ; 913-915 Liberty Avenue. 
Spokane, Wash. ; 163 S. Lincoln Street. 
Sole European Depot, Anglo-American Rub¬ 
ber Co., Ltd., 58 Holborn Viaduct, London, 
E. C. 
plant where heavy stakes are used, first 
make a hole with a crowbar, and then 
drive the stake with a mallet. 
For dahlias of ordinary height use 
broom handles. These may be obtained 
from dealers in broom material, who also 
keep mop handles, a few of which come 
handy for very tall plants. These may 
be painted brown, green or gray and last 
some years. Bamboo canes come in ten 
to fifteen feet lengths and do not cost 
much. They may be cut into proper 
lengths, the lighter points being used for 
slender plants and work at the front of 
the border, and the thicker canes for 
heavy work. One can also buy what 
are called “pipe stem” canes, being the 
tips only, running four to six feet in 
length. These are splendid to use, being 
slender, hut quite strong. One can buy 
wooden sticks, painted green, but often 
they are cross-grained and not durable. 
There are a few plants, broad and 
spreading in character like the peony, 
that are more readily staked by using a 
ring of heavy wire supported by three 
wire legs. 
For peonies of some age take their 
circumference when at a summer’s 
maturity, immediately under the top 
foliage and allow for future growth. 
Say the circumference is four feet. Cut 
telephone wire into lengths five and one- 
half feet long, looping one end to form 
an eye, and the other end to form a hook. 
Cut three legs for each loop about three 
feet long, bending an eye at one end 
large enough to slip the ring into. The 
first season the hoops are too wide for the 
plant. Draw them in closer allowing 
the ends of the ring to lap and tie in 
place. When the plants grow too large 
for the rings, place the rings in proper 
j:osition and run a string from loop to 
hook to complete the circle. This is a 
splendid way to stake the peony, as the 
foliage entirely hides the support. 
Under ordinary conditions this is all 
the support the peony requires, hut 
when growth is strong and the situation 
an exposed one, the flower stems may 
lop over after heavy rains, so if one is 
very particular and desires to prevent it, 
the above described iron or cane stakes 
may be used, in addition to the ring, 
placing one to each flower stalk and 
removing after blooming. 
In the general line of staking you 
can he an artist, not disturbing the 
natural habit of a plant, or a bungler, 
hugging it to a single stake as a mother 
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