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The most splendid flower in cultivation. Our collection is 
one of the largest in the world. We guarantee our Peonies 
true to name. The following 
Old Garden Collection 
Alexandre Dumas, Pink ... .50 
Auguste Lemonier, Red.75 
Charlemagne, Lilac ... . . .75 
Duchess de Nemours, White . . .75 
Fragrans, Red . 75 
Jenny Lind, Light pink.75 
Queen Victoria, White.50 
_ $4.75 
This entire collection -for §3.75 
America’s Supreme Collection 
Aurore, White.2.00 
Carmen, Pink. 2.25 
Madame Auguste Dessert. Carmine 3.00 
Madame Fouid, White .... 2.00 
President Taft, Pink .... 2.00 
Eugene Bigot, Red.2.50 
$13.75 
This entire collection for $10.00 
G & R De Luxe Collection 
Martha Bulloch, Pink .... 25.00 
La France, Apple Blossom pink 10.00 
Frances K. Willard, Blush white 10.00 
Cherry Hill, Deep garnet . . . 25.00 
Ehvood Pleas, Shell pink . . . 10.00 
Lady Alexandra Duff, French white 15.00 
$95.00 
This entire collection for $75.00 
collections we recommend: 
Mother’s Collection 
Livingstone, Lilac-rose .... 1.50 
The Bride, White.1.50 
Marie Lemoine, Ivory white . . 1.00 
Madame Forel, Deep pink . . . 1.00 
Rubra Superba, Deep crimson . .1.00 
Sulfurea, Yellow.1.50 
$7.50 
This entire collection for $6.00 
World’s Best Collection 
Elie Chevalier, Tyrian rose . . 3.50 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Pink . . 3.00 
Ciismonde, Pink.4.00 
Grover Cleveland, Crimson . . . 3.00 
Marie Crousse, Pink.4.00 
Lord Kitchener, Cherry red . . 3.00 
$20.50 
This entire collection for $17.00 
Peonies for Pleasure 
A beautiful booklet de luxe. A 
great treat for every Peony ad¬ 
mirer. Gives facts and helpful 
cultural directions. Send for 
your copy to-day. 
Hardy Climbing Roses 
One year old—field grown. All will bloom next season. Should be 
planted this fall or any time before freezing weather. 
American Pillar, Apple blossom pink ......$ .75 
American Beauty, Red—everybody’s favorite ... .7s 
Silver Moon, Pure white. -75 
Aviateur Bleriot, Saffron yellow. -75 
Christine Wright, Wild rose pink. .75 
Rosaire, The Darker pink Tausendshoen. .75 
Dr. W. Van Fleet, Silver pink ........ .85 
Dorothy Perkins—Red, 75c.—White, 75c.-—Pink, 75c. 
Any 6 of above listed climbing roses for $3.75 
Pauls Scarlet Climber—Dazzling scarlet—new—a. great favorite 1.00 
Dr. Huey, Deep crimson—-one of the latest creations .... 1.50 
Darwin Tulips — The Long Stem Kind 
Clara Butt . . Apple-blossom pink 
Farncomb Sanders . . Brilliant red 
La Tulipe Noir .... Jet black 
Pride of Haarlem . . . Violet-rose 
Painted Lady . . . Creamy white 
Phillippe De Commines . . . Purple 
One dozen, your choice, $1- 
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Wedding Veil.Soft lilac 
Reverend Ewbank . . Flushed lilac 
Mrs. Potter Palmer . Bright violet 
Gretclien . . . Delicate flesh color 
Kate Greenaway . . . Lilac-rose 
Nora Ware.Silver lilac 
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On House & Garden’s Book Shelf 
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her home; the worker in housefurnish¬ 
ing shops concerned with increasing the 
value of his services, and the teacher 
concerned with imparting compact and 
workable knowledge”. But in reading 
the book carefully, it seems to be a 
manual for the student of interior dec¬ 
oration rather than a book that could 
be casually helpful to the housewife in 
making the life about her more gracious 
and charming. 
At the very beginning of his book, Mr. 
Jakway says “that rooms do not grow 
in repose or beauty or dignity. They 
must be invested with these attributes 
by studied, creative processes . . . which 
can only be successfully employed by 
one who knows precisely what he is try¬ 
ing to do”. To an extent this state¬ 
ment of Mr. Jakway’s is true, the more 
you know of the decorating of a house, 
the easier it is for you to achieve the 
results you wish for. On the other hand, 
some of the loveliest homes in the world 
really have “grown in repose, beauty 
and dignity”. Recall, if you will, some 
of the most charming English drawing¬ 
rooms that you know, the house cen¬ 
turies old, the fittings having grown into 
a mellow, beautiful association from gen¬ 
eration to generation. And how many 
women do you know who have de¬ 
veloped the beauty of their homes from 
year to year by adding the appropriate 
thing, by elimination, by an instinctive 
knowdedge of harmony and contrast. 
One does not question the fact that a 
knowledge of architecture and of period 
decoration and of the development of 
homemaking here and in Europe are 
vitally interesting and significant to 
the home lover. And there is always, 
to be sure, the woman utterly devoid of 
the ability to associate furniture and fit¬ 
tings with a beautiful result. These 
women need help from books, from 
friends, also from decorators. Perhaps 
every one who is going to furnish a 
house should read one or two practical 
books, such as Mr. Jakway’s, before be¬ 
ginning the work, gathering from it 
what help is needed and then going 
their own cheerful ways and develop¬ 
ing homes that are the best possible ex¬ 
pression of each particular individuality. 
Mr. Jakway does not feel that “beau¬ 
ty and comfort in the home ever result 
from chance or happy accident”. Here 
again it would seem that he is wrong. 
Some very great art and craftsmanship 
has developed in all ages through 
“chance and happy accident”, and we 
have all seen some beautiful rooms that 
have grown out of a combination of 
difficult surroundings, mishaps and 
economy. Unquestionably, the surest 
road to beauty and comfort in the home 
is a cultivated standard, a developed per¬ 
sonal taste, and a definite knowledge of 
the kind of surroundings that are es¬ 
sential for your happiness in your own 
home. 
GREEN MANURES 
ALTHOUGH green manuring is one 
°f the oldest methods used to 
maintain or to increase the prod¬ 
uctivity of the soil, there have been 
enough new developments in the prac¬ 
tice and in the plants used for the pur¬ 
pose in recent years to call them to the 
special attention of the small home 
gardener, who does not realize the im¬ 
portance of green manuring his land. 
The term “green manuring” means 
“the turning under of any crop, while 
green or soon after ripening, for the 
purpose of soil improvement.” The use 
of special green manure crops is much 
more general in the South than in the 
North. In the semi-arid regions under 
dry farming green manures are not 
used, but in irrigated areas in the West 
orchardists depend upon them to a great 
extent to increase the yield of fruit. 
The crops that are grown primarily 
as roughage for feeding the soil pro¬ 
duce both chemical and physical ef¬ 
fects that are of benefit to plants that 
succeed them. When a green manure 
crop is turned under, the various fertil¬ 
izing elements that have gone into the 
making of the crop are returned to the 
soil, and a quantity of organic matter 
not before in the soil is added, and in 
addition to improving the beneficent 
physical condition, serves as food for 
bacteria. One of the most important 
functions of organic matter in the soil 
is to keep up the nitrogen supply. 
There are three ways in which this is 
done: (1) Growth of nodule bacteria on 
roots of leguminous plants; (2) the 
making of nitrates by soil bacteria 
from organic nitrogen in the soil; and 
(3) growth of bacteria and molds that 
feed on plant waste in the soil and take 
nitrogen directly from the air. These 
processes may be stimulated by adopt¬ 
ing the proper practices and suitable 
crops. 
Legumes are of course the most satis¬ 
factory cover crops under most condi¬ 
tions, and all legumes do not have the 
same strain of nodule bacteria. For in¬ 
stance, that of clover is different from 
that of alfalfa, and that of the cowpea 
is distinct from that of the soy bean. 
These selective associations of plants 
and bacteria make inoculation of the 
soil necessary where the crop has not 
been previously grown either by scat¬ 
tering soil from a field where the crop 
to be sown has been grown recently or 
by using an artificial culture. A strain 
of bacteria will often inoculate differ¬ 
ent closely related legumes. Alfalfa, 
bur-clover and sweet clover nodules are 
produced by the same strain; a different 
strain inoculates most of the vetches, as 
well as the field and garden peas; still 
another strain is apparently used in 
common by red, white, alsike, and crim¬ 
son clover. 
The leguminous crops grown in this 
country in order of importance are: Red 
clover, alfalfa, alsike clover, sweet clover,. 
cowpeas, peanuts, soy beans, velvet 
beans, crimson clover, field peas, vetch, 
Japan clover, bur clover, and white 
clover. A few others, such as beggar- 
weed, grass peas, fenugreek and horse 
beans are grown to a small extent in 
restricted localities. Non - leguminous 
crops that are considered as useful green 
manures are grasses, buckwheat, weeds, 
and some plants of the mustard family 
that are used more in Europe than in 
this country. 
A. I. Wilder. 
