HOUSE AND GARDEN 
74 
January, 
1914 
Your Stucco or 
Concrete House 
Needs Bay State 
Brick and Cement 
Coating Protec¬ 
tion 
The coating does not destroy 
the distinct ve texture of con¬ 
crete, protects against damp¬ 
ness and moisture and has 
been endorsed by the National 
Board of Fire Underwriters as 
a fire retarder. It comes in 
different colors. 
Let us send you a booklet that 
tells you all about it. It has 
been used by the best archi¬ 
tects, contractors and builders 
as a coating in light as well as 
heavy construction of every 
kind; houses, mills, breweries, 
garages, and railroads. 
It is very effective as a tint 
for interior decoration on 
wood, cement or plaster. 
Address for Booklet B 
Wadsworth, Howland & Co. 
Incorporated 
Paint and Varnish Makers and 
Lead Corroders 
82-84 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 
101 Park Avenue, Architects Building 
mesh copper wire. This will keep out all 
bugs, leaves and rodents. Once a year, 
at least, in the spring, a rain storage 
reservoir should be cleaned thoroughly, 
and the top left off for a week for the 
sun to dry it up. 
Saving the water is as important in the 
country as using it. Rain water in par¬ 
ticular should be saved for use. It is the 
softest for washing imaginable, and plants 
appreciate it as well as we. They do bet¬ 
ter when irrigated with rain water than 
when supplied with pond or river water. 
All overflows of tanks, fountains, fish 
ponds and reservoirs should connect with 
pipes that run into the garden. With 
properly constructed ditches all the waste 
water will be taken up by the plants. 
We can never have perfect gardening 
without irrigation of some kind; sprink¬ 
ling with a hose does not compare with it. 
The plants get the water where they most 
need it—around their roots—and the loss 
through evaporation is very much less. 
My Wild Corner 
ROBABLY you have seen the picture 
of the little girl with her hair stand¬ 
ing on end, and her eyes as big as saucers, 
staring fixedly at some flowers growing 
along a woodland path. “What is the mat¬ 
ter?” someone asked. “Oh, I’m afraid,” 
faltered the little girl in trembling accents, 
“The flowers are wild, you know.” 
If this little girl found herself in the 
southeast corner of my yard, she would be 
still more frightened, for there are not 
only wild flowers in abundance, but wild 
vines, ferns, shrubs and trees. 
The “wild corner," as I call this portion 
of our grounds, is separated from the lawn 
by a semicircle of five evergreens— 
spruces, firs and a pine; we enter it by a 
grassy pathway between two spruces, 
which, bv the way, were set out in the 
yard the same month in which our little 
daughter was born. There has ever since 
been quite a race as to growth, with the 
spruces in the lead as to height and the 
little girl ahead on weight. We stop to 
peep under one of the spruces at the win- 
tergreen, thriving lustily fifteen hundred 
miles from its birthplace; under the fir is 
the ground pine, and the trailing arbutus 
grows under another spruce. The brave 
little hepaticas send up their cheery blos¬ 
soms under another fir, so early in the 
spring that we always think they must 
have made a mistake. 
In the vicinity of the water faucet, 
which is itself hidden by an Indian currant 
bush, is a damp place where a big pussy¬ 
willow, the meadowrue, mocassin-flower, 
bluets, meadow lilies and ferns of various 
kinds feel very much at home; a little far¬ 
ther on is a border of bane-berry, wild gin¬ 
ger, Solomon’s seal, the false Solomon’s 
seal, and wild roses, all in front of a giant 
gooseberry bush of the native Nebraska 
variety. This bush makes an ideal nesting 
place for the cat birds and chipping spar¬ 
rows, and is used season after season; just 
“The Wood 
Eternal.” 
SPECIFY 
Angier Trellises 
The tasteful use of trellises 
gives character to the house 
and garden. The ANGIER 
TRELLISES, being non- 
metallic, never burn plants. 
Only the best lumber is used 
in their construction, and the 
experienced workmen em¬ 
ployed in our factory produce 
trustworthy goods. Your 
dealer will supply them. 
ANGIER TRELLIS CO. 
W eslboro :: Mass. 
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7 Jay Street Rochester, N. Y. 
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this little crank^ 
. opens or closes i 
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