HOUSE AND GARDEN 
136 
February, 
1914 
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Pot-Grown Satisfaction Plants 
Carnations and Mums 
I F YOU are a Carnation lover and have a portion 
of your greenhouse devoted to them, you will 
want some of the newer varieties for they are su¬ 
perior in every respect to varieties that are getting 
older and are not up to the standard of the present. 
Buying plants from pots means that you will get 
plants full rooted ready to go ahead and make 
good. Our Carnation list is a strong one. We 
have the best of the new and the best of the older 
varieties. They are described in the catalog we 
want you to have. The rose you all admire and 
they are our specialty, whether for the private 
greenhouse or for the garden. If your greenhouse 
roses are from Cromwell you will have the best 
plants that can be produced to start you right. 
Your Perennial Garden will need additions this 
coming Spring. Pot grown Perennials which will 
shift without suffering, are the kind you can get 
from Cromwell Gardens. 
Send for our catalog. It will be interesting to 
you. We want you to know what it means to buy 
Satisfaction Plants. 
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painted chairs are found in the furnishing 
of this room. The casing of the beams and 
the woodwork both tell that it was added 
at a much later period than the original 
house was built. 
Few houses have been restored with so 
much careful thought as has this. It ex¬ 
tends not only to wall hangings, many of 
which are reproductions, but to the 
wainscot and the curtains. The latter, 
while not of Colonial material, show the 
soft coloring that was in vogue at that 
time. The bare floors show the original 
boards. They are not covered by modern 
rugs that would distort periods, but by 
single rag mats that lend themselves to cor¬ 
rect lines. Every attempt has been made to 
banish inharmonious details with effect re¬ 
sulting. If we are reproducing the Colo¬ 
nial spirit we could do no better than fol¬ 
low the suggestions contained in this 
house. It is useless to look for furniture 
all the work of design of one maker, for 
in the Colonial period, when houses were a 
part of the family, there must have been a 
collection from various sources. It is, 
therefore, natural to see a variety of de¬ 
signs, but they are here chosen to represent 
exactly what the house of early American 
Colonial times looked like. 
The garden is not an important feature 
of the grounds. It is simple and unas¬ 
suming. Here are planted such flowers as 
were in vogue in our grandmothers’ day. 
The estate has kept all the original de¬ 
tails save the merry brook that originally 
sang as it danced over its stony bed. This 
has been dammed, and is but a semblance 
of what it originally was. No more could 
Sir Harry Frankland and his merry party 
fish here, as in the days of yore. The old 
house must have rung with laughter and 
merriment in those days, when parties 
coming in coaches and on horseback from 
Boston assembled here. Dorothy Q. was 
a favorite with them all, and little wonder 
was it that in after life there was about her 
an air of arrogance and a touch of a 
coquette. 
The Garden Club 
( Continued from page no) 
it, up through the scale of life, to our¬ 
selves ; dust we are, indeed, veritably. The 
great mountains yonder grew small to me 
as I dreamed over it, and the tiny moun¬ 
tains of the garden grew great — and I be¬ 
gan to see that great and small are 
words which we use rather indiscrimi¬ 
nately, and not very intelligently. 
And I came into the house, in the dusk, 
glad that we have the Garden Club. 
Crops of Quality for the Home 
Garden 
(Continued from page 117) 
As the quality of lettuce depends upon 
a luxurious and rapid growth, the ground 
should always be made as rich and mellow 
as possible for it. The early spring crops, 
both in the frames and outdoors, are 
started in flats and transplanted once be- 
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