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Just as in showers, there 
are definite advantages in 
SPEAKMAN 
Lavatory Fixtures 
—And even to escutcheons, Speakman 
Showers and Lavatory Fixtures har¬ 
monize perfectly. On the lavatory 
shown is the Unit Acto Fixture. The 
one nozzle enables washing in running 
water at just the desired temperature. 
The shower shown is the H 952'/2 
Mixometer over a built-in corner tub. 
The three handles which you see are 
part of the Deshler Bath Fixture which 
also connects to the shower. 
Ask your plumber or- architect about 
these Speakman Fixtures. Your 
plumber has folders. If he happens 
to be out of them, we’ll have one in 
your hands within a couple of days, 
that is, if you send us word—now. 
SPEAKMAN SHOWERS 
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 
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House & Garden 
Pages from A Decorator’s Diary 
(Continued f, 
has been exhausted and begun over 
again, for the newest litter is named B. 
Bashful and Bachelor and Baffling, and 
so on. After the kennels come the 
stables, where each proud creature must 
be stroked and inspected. Eventually 
we go to look at the young horses, but 
they are miles away across the fields. 
Now we have still to do the many 
flower gardens, and the fruit gardens, 
where apples and pears and peaches and 
quinces grow against pink-red walls of 
old brick. The vegetable gardens are 
all mixed with flowers and berries and 
fruit trees. Through a rose garden 
planned like the British flag, with the 
segments of red and pink and white and 
yellow roses, we reach the glass houses 
—one for figs alone, another for cucum¬ 
bers, others for tomatoes and grapes. 
There are literally dozens of places 
to visit. The tennis courts, with a little 
'■om page 114) 
revolving house in which we can sit and 
watch the games; the dog’s ceme¬ 
tery; the cricket field and cricket house; 
the modern laundry, covered with 
ancient ivy; the irregular swimming 
pool; the precious hot houses of Mal- 
maisons, those extravagant carnations 
peculiar to England; the squash courts, 
where mad battles are always going on, 
and the Chapel, a small and serene lit¬ 
tle building. There is an ancient church, 
also, half Norman and half Gothic, 
where the tenants go, that still boasts a 
good lot of glass that was there before 
William, the Conqueror. 
And so the morning is gone, and 
breakfast is an accomplished thing, and 
when we return to the terrace it is to 
find the decanters of port are waiting, 
and the English day is on! 
RUBY ROSS GOODNOW. 
Forcing Bulbs for Winter Flowering 
{Continued from page 78) 
with the variety, varies from 8" to 9 /". 
A good crocus has a circumference of 
4" to 5", the bulb of the white Roman 
hyacinth is 6" to 6 /" in circumference 
and develops four or five flower 
stalks. But such bulbs are selected 
plants and therefore much more expen¬ 
sive, producing, as they do, exceptional 
results. 
Hardy bulbs and tubers are potted in 
the fall so that a well developed root 
system will quickly form. When one 
of these plants begins to grow under 
adverse conditions, the shoots are pro¬ 
duced before the roots are developed. 
Only when the surface of the soil is 
cooler than the interior is root forma¬ 
tion favored. Therefore it is best to 
leave potted bulbs and tubers in the 
open as long as possible, preferably sink¬ 
ing the-pot into the soil of the garden. 
If this rule is not followed, the result, 
in the majority of cases, will be a dis¬ 
tinct failure, as flowers will not be de¬ 
veloped. A good root system must be 
formed before the pot is placed in a 
warm spot in the window garden. Only 
then will the flowering shaft attain its 
full beauty. 
Just before the bulb is planted, the 
pot must receive a good foundation of 
potsherds. A good garden soil, slightly 
clayed in texture, is then added. Under 
no condition is a fertilizer to be added. 
One that has not fully decayed is in¬ 
jurious. It causes rot. When the pot 
is one-third full, it is lightly tapped 
down so that the soil will settle. It 
should not be too tightly pressed. Then 
the bulb, shoot-tip upward, is placed 
on the soil. More soil is sifted over it 
until the flower pot is practically filled, 
a comparatively high rim being left 
which will later hold a sufficient quan¬ 
tity of water. The soil should be added 
until the tip of the bulb is just covered. 
Water is provided only when absolutely 
necessary. 
If it is undersirable to sink the potted 
plants in the soil, they can be kept in 
a cool, frost free cellar. Light is not, 
as yet, essential, since the shoots have 
not made their appearance. The tem¬ 
perature of the store room should not 
exceed 50°. Then the bulb will not 
only develop a vigorous floral shaft, but 
the foliage will be healthy. Then, too, 
this temperature will prevent the open¬ 
ing of the flowers before the shaft has 
attained its correct height. 
The most favorable condition for root 
formation is a temperature of 40°. 
Leaves and floral shafts are most luxu¬ 
riant at a temperature of 50°. While the 
flowers develop to their best advantage 
at 60 . When the temperature of the 
flowering plant is increased, it quickly 
fades and dies, as it is just as sensitive to 
too much heat as it is to a temperature 
too low. 
Paths and Paving In The Garden 
(Continued from page 79) 
the expense of importing the New 
England variety, we may find some 
comfort in the fact that there is a 
great deal more art and ingenuity in 
making use of a material at hand than 
in going outside our locality for one 
that is frankly foreign, however lovely 
it may be. Nor should we let the style 
of the garden or the dominating archi¬ 
tecture determine to too great an ex¬ 
tent our paving material. Any mate¬ 
rial, whether it is stone, brick, tile or 
concrete, can be made to fit any given 
situation, if it is in the hands of some 
one who is able to handle it sympa¬ 
thetically and intelligently. However, 
stone is generally the most preferable 
material, as it harmonizes more readily 
than any other, both in color and tex¬ 
ture, with the bloom and foliage of the 
garden. Where a suitable stone is not 
obtainable or where the preference lies 
with brick, the latter will be found to 
be susceptible to various interesting 
and delightful treatments. The same 
may be said of tiles, of which there is 
a great variety both in size and color. 
There are shown here some sugges¬ 
tions for two plain stone paths, also 
one which is a combination of brick 
and stone, and in which the brick pan¬ 
els can be varied in length to suit the 
way the path goes. The center of a 
panel should always be made to come 
opposite steps or a path leading off 
at right angles. The pieces of stone 
between the brick panels should be 
considerably larger than the edge but 
all this is, of course, a matter of taste 
and situation. All edges of these form¬ 
al paths should be even. 
As soon as we reach the garden prop¬ 
er, away from buildings and the house, 
much more latitude can be allowed, a 
perfectly plain path of “random” stone 
can be made, as illustrated. Great 
care must be taken not to make a path 
(Continued on page 118) 
