House and Garden 
owned by the Berlin and Vienna mu¬ 
seums, and Dreger has authenticated 
it also in the background of a Tyrolean 
painting of the year 1385. According to 
this, it must have originated about the 
fourteenth century, although by some 
critics it is placed as early as the tenth 
century, inasmuch as it is found in 
Egyptian tombs. It seems very improb¬ 
able that it is Italian, as is sometimes as¬ 
sumed. On the contrary, it may have 
originated in Syria, since some faience 
fragments found in Fostat near Cairo 
show related designs. 
The pleasing flow of lines in this stuff 
has become more stiff in a piece with fly¬ 
ing eagle in the form of the Spanish tiles, 
which originated about the same time 
(fourteenth century) in Spain. Like a 
later Spanish piece, with trees and ara¬ 
besque (first half of fifteenth century), 
it differs essentially in its harsh choice of 
colors from the Italian stuffs of the same 
period, which are delicate and bright in 
coloring as they are graceful in design. 
Of these Italian-Arabian stuffs of the 
fourteenth century two small pieces give 
,a poor idea, especially as they have al¬ 
most lost their color charm. At the 
same time one must admire the playful 
grace with which the conventional form 
of the animals is carried out; the stag 
resting in the meadow in one, the chained 
dog and fluttering eagle in the other; 
and also the skill with which the sym¬ 
bolic meaning clothes itself in a charm¬ 
ing artistic form representing the soul 
now in the form of a stag languishing for 
the sunbeams of divine favor, again in 
that of a dog bound to the earth and 
threatened by danger in the form of the 
flying eagle .—New Tork Herald. 
ROOT PRUNING TREES 
O OOT pruning trees a year or two 
in advance of transplanting them 
has been often advocated, yet the rec¬ 
ommendation will bear repetition, for 
it is too good a practice to let go by with¬ 
out having as many persons as possible 
understand it. If those who have not 
seen the results of root pruning could but 
witness the grand root system such trees 
have after a year or two have elapsed 
since the pruning, they would have all 
trees treated in that way they proposed 
to transplant in a year or two. It re¬ 
quires two seasons’ fresh growth after 
the pruning to have such trees in the 
best condition for removal. Trees not 
From the work room side it is specially attractive 
The G REENHOUSE PRACTICAL 
Here is a range of houses planned lor purely practical purposes—a 
case of maximum of returns required from the least bench s{)ace. A com¬ 
bination of houses adapted to growing either long or short stemmed plants 
—one that ■null produce either fruit, vegetables or cut flowers equally well. 
With all, it is clean cut and attractive. 
Planned as it is, if you do not care to erect all the range at once, the 
center house and work room could be built, and later on the other two 
houses added. 
Send for our illustrated collection of houses which explains more fully 
about these particular houses, and gives numerous other examples, from a 
simple, two compartment house up to extensive ranges. (Conservatories are 
also included. 
necting the houses. 
This view was taken from the roof of a nearby building 
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