February, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
37 
CT71TTAC OF highest grade 
^ H/ Tvl Al TESTED AND OF KNOWN VITALITY 
A practical experience of over forty years in the growing and caring 
for seeds enables us to be in a position to give our customers the 
benefit of our long experience. 
We know what the planter wants in Seeds. 
The best grade is none too good for planting. 
Our Catalogue for 1914 gives you the best varieties to grow. It 
does not give long and elaborate description, but concise and to 
the point. 
Full of Half-Tone illustrations from cover to cover. Perennial 
Plants, Shrubs, Spraying Implements, Insecticides, Sundries, Poultry 
Supplies. 
Everything for the Lawn and 
FISKE Garden is found in our 1914 
Aaawso^ Inj/ Catalogue. Mailed free. 
DAHLIAS 
From the largest collection in America you have the privilege of 
selecting when you have our 1914 Dahlia Catalogue. 
We want you to know more about our collection and we make this 
offer to mail to any Post Office in the United States 
TEN DAHLIAS FOR $1.00 
Your selection as to whether they shall be Cactus, Decorative, 
Paeony Flowered, Show or Single. Our selection as to varieties, 
all with correct names, mailed you for $1.00. 
If interested in Dahlias or Gladioli ask for our special Catalogue- 
Mailed free for the asking. 
FOTTLER FISKE RAWSON CO., 
FANEUIL HALL SQUARE, BOSTON 
When You Fence Your Home 
Combine long life with neatness. Rust is the great enemy of fence. 
When rust comes, the fence goes. The only way to avoid rust is 
to erect a heavy galvanized fence. Its exlra heavy galvanizing is 
one feature which distinguishes 
fences from others. The completed fence is immersed in the galvanizing spelter. 
Every crack and corner are covered much more heavily than is possible in any 
other method of galvanizing. Rust cannot get a hold — it has no chance to start. 
The fence lasts. 
1 he wide variety of Excelsior Rust Proof fences enables you to indulge your taste 
in fencing your home or estate, We also make Excelsior Rust Proof Trellises, 
Trellis Arches, Lawn, Flower Bed and Tree Guards. Ask your hard¬ 
ware dealer, or write us for illustrated Catalog C. 
WRIGHT WIRE COMPANY, Worcester, Mass. 
BERTRAND H. FARR 
WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA 
Farr’s Hardy Plant 
Specialties 
A book full of human interest—unlike 
any other American catalog, for it is the 
story of a garden which began as a 
boy’s hobby and has expanded into the 
great fields of bewitching Irises, gay 
Phloxes, richly colored Peonies, and 
Oriental Poppies, dazzling in their 
barbaric splendor, until they have made 
my nurseries the “Wonderland of 
Wyomissing.” 
From the first warm days of spring 
when the little green shoots push up to 
the light, to the dull, dark days of 
autumn the garden of perennials is a daily 
source of joy—a wonderland, indeed. 
I wish every reader of House and Garden, who is 
interested in growing hardy plants, might have this book, 
for it makes friends for me everywhere and I would like to 
count you among them. It is not only distinct and 
beautiful, but it describes the most complete collection of 
Irises and Peonies in existence. It is everywhere used as an 
authority on these plants, which makes it invaluable to 
every flower lover for this reason alone, to say nothing of the 
splendid collections of Phloxes, Delphiniums, Asters. Chrys-- 
anthemums and everything needful for the hardy garden that 
you find listed therein. 
If you are an old friend, who has already received a copy 
but have mislaid it, I shall be glad to send you a duplicate. If 
we are unknown to each other we may become acquainted 
through my book “Farr's Hardy Plant Specialties,” which will 
be sent free on request. 
BERTRAND 
WYOMISSING 
H. FARR, 
NURSERIES 
10 6 Garfield Avenue, 
Wy omissing, Pennsylvania 
e's Gladioli 
'll Delight You 
They cannot do otherwise because of 
their great beauty, infinite variety, vigor 
and little demand on your time and atten¬ 
tion. I am probably the largest exclusive 
grower of Gladioli in the world. I have 
put my very life into the development of 
these flowers and by years of patient study 
and selection from among more than 
25,000 varieties have produced a strain 
recognized as the best in the world. I 
absolutely control, for the United States, 
the wonderful Groff hybrids. 
Unless you have seen them you have no 
conception of the wonderful beauty of 
these flowers. If you will try one of my special collections 
you will, I am certain, never again be without the Gladioli 
in your garden. For cutting or for the garden they are 
unequalled by any other flowers. 
Send for a Copy of My Little Book 
It will tell you all you want to know — how to plant, and care for 
Gladioli. It describes the best named varieties, my special collections and 
how I grow, harvest, and ship my bulbs. Beautifully illustrated in colors. 
A copy free to you if you ask for it. Write today. 
ARTHUR CO WEE, Meadowvale Farms 
Box 148, BERLIN, NEW YORK 
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