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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1914 f 
Real Estate 
This department aims to acquaint 
its readers with real estate offer¬ 
ings, either in the shape of homes 
tor sale or new developments in suburban communities. It offers its readers a 
splendid medium through which to buy, sell or exchange property. The real estate 
agent operating in the better class of residential property will find here an unusual 
opportunity of interesting a large buying clientele. 
5 1/2 ACRE ESTATE BARGAIN 
Beautifully located between Greenwich, Conn, 
and Port Chester, N. Y. 
The house of 9 enormous rooms and 2 bathrooms 
with electricity and modern improvements, is in a 
most charming setting of large picturesque trees, 
shrubbery and lawns — with an abundance of all 
fruits, and in the finest residential section of THE 
QUALITY; a Lodge, containing 5 rooms, bath and 
large modern stable or garage completes the estate. 
This Counrty Place is offered for sale at a large 
sacrifice. Inspection invited. Will show by ap- 
pointment. 
LAURENCE TIMMONS 
Opp. R.R.Sta. GREENWICH. CONN. TEL. 456 
FOR SALE 
A beautiful home in the finest residential 
section of New London, Connecticut, sit¬ 
uated on high land overlooking twenty 
miles of harbor. View unsurpassed and 
permanently unobstructed. The house is 
of stucco and contains twenty large rooms, 
some 36 feet deep, all modern improvements 
and in first class condition. An all year 
home, but as a summer place ideal. Can be 
bought at a most reasonable price. 
For f ull information and photographs address 
BOX H.—HOUSE & GARDEN 
31 East 17th Street New York City 
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Tit Scars Date Station 
COMPLETE ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANT 
Suitable for Estate, Farm or Factory 
Capacity about 500 lights of 16 C. P. each 
It consists of Vertical Boiler 
15 K. W. Westinghouse Generating Set 
Switch Board 
Storage Battery 
Is very compact and would occupy but one small 
room. Exhaust steam from engine could be utilized 
for heating house, or other buildings, making cost of 
operation very low. Is in fine condition but will be 
sold for less than half of original cost. 
WICKES BROTHERS 
Jersey City, N. J 
A delightful spot in Glen Ellyn, one of the most attractive suburbs of Chicago, 
twenty-two miles out, all city improvements. 
Modern house, twelve rooms, full attic and basement. Beautiful lawn occupv, 
ing half block, well wooded, natural ravine and creek through center. Rustic 
summer house, large barn, etc., five blocks from C. & N. W, and electric railroads. 
Surrounding country doubled in value in five years; place is growing rapidlv 
Will sacrifice for quick action at 825,000, terms reasonable. Entire block 720 by 
335 feet can be secured if desired. 
C. L. MOULTON, 
Glen Ellyn, Ill 
Are You Looking for a 
COUNTRY HOME? 
Have You a Place For Sale? 
If you are seeking for, or wish to dispose of, any particular kind of a place—an inex¬ 
pensive rural property within reasonable distance of a city, a surburban house and plot, 
a summer house in the mountains or at the seashore, or a farm adapted to the raising 
of any special product—the Real Estate Bureau will help you without any charge for 
its services. 
In writing state in as much detail as possible just what is required, or just what you 
have, and address the 
Manager of the 
Real Estate Bureau 
HOUSE & GARDEN Union Square, New York 
SOUTHERN GARDEN 
DEPART M E N T 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON 
The writer of this department will 
gladly answer inquiries from Southern 
readers in regard to their garden prob¬ 
lems. Please enclose a self-addressed, 
stamped envelope if a prompt personal 
reply is desired. 
Broad Leaved Evergreens 
C LIMATIC conditions in the Southern 
States are particularly propitious 
in the matter of evergreens. It is not 
only possible for us to grow many of the 
varieties which are popular in the higher 
latitudes but there are many beautiful 
kinds which are perfectly hardy with us 
which cannot be grown out-of-doors 
elsewhere. 
January planting is recommended for 
all the broad-leaved evergreens except the 
camellias and Azalea indicas, which must 
wait until the season of bloom is over and 
are best planted in early spring, the latter 
part of April or the first of May. The 
transplanting of these plants from the 
open ground is a difficult matter and in 
order to be done satisfactorily defoliation 
is necessary. This is especially true of 
the magnolias, photinias, ligustrums, cera- 
sus, eleagnus, English laurel, evergreen 
oaks, and viburnums. 
For the background of the shrubbery 
border nothing can be planted which 
gives better results and more beautiful ef¬ 
fects than these broad-leaved evergreens. 
Where a screen is needed nothing can be 
chosen which will answer the double pur¬ 
pose of beauty and utility like masses of 
English laurel, neriums, or Kalmia loti- 
folia, the American laurel, commonly 
known as calico bush. 
For the extensive grounds and land¬ 
scape effects the magnolias, grandiflor 
and grandiilora gloriosa, Satsuma oranges,, 
the evergreen oaks, and the sweet- 
scented Osmanthus are good. The mag- 
nificient specimens of the beautiful old 
magnolias that grace the spacious lawns 
of the old Southern homes and line the 
avenues of some of our cities and most of 
the old cemeteries are wonderfully beau¬ 
tiful all the year. Individual specimens 
are often planted in the sidewalk grass 
plot and are most attractive in this situa¬ 
tion as well as wherever large evergreen 
planting is desirable. 
Of the smaller shrubs for mass and in¬ 
dividual growth none is sweeter than the 
Olea fragrans, the tea olive, the most 
agrant shrub we have. The dainty 
clusters of creamy white blossoms begin 
to show in November and for six months 
the garden is sweeter for their presence. 
They are also delightful in the rooms and 
are particularly desirable because they are 
of comparatively rapid growth. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
