House and Garden 
Painting As An 
Investment 
AK outlay of money can always be divided into two classes: 
/\ Expense and Investment. It is always Expense when 
you do not receive full value for your money. 
It is an Investment when you do receive full value. All paints 
can be classed in this manner. Some are simply Expense. Others 
are an Investment. Some fall short of requirements. Others more 
than fulfill all requirements. 
Lowe Brothers 
^‘High Standard” Liquid Paint 
is an Investment paint. It more than fulfills all 
requirements. With 35 years of experience in 
paint-making Eowe Brothers produce a paint 
that has a better covering capacity and will 
cover more square feet to the gallon than any 
other paint. Every can of ''High Standard" 
Liquid Paint is full U. S. Standard measure¬ 
ment. All the ingredients used in "High 
Standard" Paint are the best quality 
obtainable. All the ingenuity, all the skill, 
all the best mechanical appliances are em¬ 
ployed to make "High Standard" Liquid Paint 
the best that money or brains can produce. 
Little Blue Flag" Eowe Brothers 
emblem of quality. It’s on every can of their 
Paint and Varnish—and there’s a special 
product for every need. 
Write for Booklet, '"Attractive Homes 
and How to Make Them," and Color Cards 
of latest fashions. 
They are free for the asking. 
The Lowe Brothers Company, Paintmakers, Vamishmakers 
450-456 E. Third Street, DAYTON, OHIO New York Chicago Kansas City 
Pure White “Bone China” Toilet Accessories 
Plate 1610.K Plate 1620-K Plate 1615-K 
These bone china toilet 
fixtures for fastening upon 
the tvall are the very things 
needed to complete the re¬ 
fined toilet. 
On account of the purity 
of the material and neatness 
of pattern and workman¬ 
ship, they are a necessity 
in the toilet of discriminat¬ 
ing persons, being easy of 
installation and of the 
proper durability for the 
uses to which toilet articles 
are subject. 
They are also reasonable 
in price and are absolutely 
the most sanitary fixtures 
made. 
PRICES:—No. 1610-K, China Bracket, China Receptor, China Tooth Brush Vase with heavy Nickel Plated 
Brass connection, complete. $3.0° 
No. 161S-K, China Bracket with China Receptor and China Drinking Cup with heavy Nickel Plated 
Brass connection, complete. 3 -°° 
No. 1620-K, China Bracket with China Receptor and China Soap Cup with heavy Nickel Plated Brass 
connection, complete. 3 .°° 
Note—W e also make numerous other specialties for bathroom and toilet, 
pleased to send on request. 
Main Office and Works 
TRENTON, N, J., U. S. A. 
T/tG 'Irenton 
PotteriQs Company 
illustrations of which we will be 
The Canadian-Trenton Potteries 
Co., Ltd. 
ST. JOHN’S, QUEBEC 
Hand Book of Greenhouse Material.” 
It describes every piece, stick and fitting 
required to erect and equip a green¬ 
house, and is so arranged that each part, 
or any group of parts, may be taken 
right from a prepared list with accom¬ 
panying prices. 
It is interesting to see a classified cata¬ 
logue that has on one page paint and 
putty, and on others door hardware, 
boilers, heating fittings, etc. Any reader 
of House and Garden interested in 
greenhouses, or contemplating the build¬ 
ing or repairing of greenhouses, will do 
well to send for a copy of the book, 
which is free for the asking. 
FICTION TO THE RESCUE OF FORESTS 
TN the State of Maine, where its 
scene is laid, Holman Day’s new 
novel deals with a very vital problem 
that is just now occupying a great deal 
of public attention. Various projects 
to preserve the timber lands from the 
destruction that is rapidly overtaking 
them are being pressed upon the Maine 
Legislature by the Boston newspapers as 
well as by local opinion. The danger 
to the forests, it is said, would be largely 
abated if existing laws could be enforced 
and the illegal practice of indiscriminate 
lumbering thus brought to an end. It 
is the graphic picture of the persistent 
lawlessness in this regard furnished by 
Mr. Day in his novel that gives to the 
latter its value in the present movement 
for the enforcement as well as the reform 
of the Maine forest laws. — evo York 
Times. 
MANURING, MULCHING, PRUNING 
TN closing his address on hardy 
shrubs delivered at the general 
meeting in 1907 of the Society of Amer¬ 
ican Florists and Ornamental Horticul¬ 
turists, Mr. Samuel C. Moon said: 
Under the heading “How to Treat 
Shrubs,” I will allude to manuring, 
mulching and pruning. After planting 
apply a good mulch of manure to con¬ 
serve moisture, furnish nourishment and 
to suppress weeds. An annual mulching 
of leaves, with coarse manure to prevent 
their blowing away, is beneficial to every 
class of plants; and mulched or fallow 
ground is better than grass around the 
stems. 
Most deciduous shrubs should be 
pruned severely when planted. Rhodo- 
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