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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1914 
Full 
0 / Gladioli 
for $fQO 
The Gladioli is one of the most 
satisfactory flowers grown because 
it blooms continuously when it is 
cut and put in water just as well as 
when in the ground. 
There is no reason why every family cannot 
enjoy this grand flower, for the simple reason that 
it is as easy to grow as the potato. 
You can have them in bloom from July to 
frost if you plant a few bulbs each month from 
April to July. 
For only ONE DOLLAR we will send 75 
BULBS of our GRAND PRIZE Mixture, which 
covers every conceivable shade in the Gladioli 
kingdom. 
Last year we sold 150,000 of the bulbs and have 
received hundreds of testimonials as to their 
merits. 
ORDER YOUR BULBS NOW 
so as to have them to plant when you begin 
making your garden. 
The culture of Gladioli is a simple one; bulbs 
may be inserted in the ground with a trowel, 
about four inches deep and one to two feet apart, 
being careful to rake over the ground with a 
small weeder, after the bulbs have started to 
grow, so as to keep it from becoming hard or 
cakey. This will insure splendid blooms. 
Write or call at our store, mention “House & 
Garden,” and secure this splendid collection of 
Gladioli Bulbs for only $1.00, prepaid to your 
home, anywhere in the United States, with our 
1914 Catalogue. 
30 & 32 Barclay Street. 
New York City 
a spicy, agreeable little salad plant, and the 
first to be ready in the spring from outdoor 
sowing. Plant in drills twelve or fifteen 
inches apart as early as possible. Sow only 
a small quantity at a time, and sow fre¬ 
quently if a continuous supply is desired, 
as it matures and goes to seed very quickly. 
A good plan is to make a small sowing 
with each planting of radishes you put in. 
Adventures in Bird Land 
(Continued from page 94) 
bird to show her how patient and gentle 
and friendly I am?” 
“You can’t from this craft. Other boats 
that looked like this to the birds have pre¬ 
ceded us carrying the black flag. We will 
anchor at the head of the river just above 
here, and you shall come back in canoe or 
skiff every hour of every day if you wish.” 
Soon our bow rested on the edge of the 
Everglades, and we looked out upon the 
clear little streams that fed the river, and 
over the submerged flowery meadows 
dotted with tiny keys of myrtle, sweet bav 
and cocoa plums. 
“Do birds live on those wonderful fields 
of flowers?” 
“Not many, Marion, though you will 
find a few floating nests cunningly an¬ 
chored to the grass, and you may see the 
mother birds scurrying away; but the real 
food for your camera is hidden in thickets, 
on trees, in bonnet-covered bayous and 
lily-padded ponds.” 
“Can't we go for them now?” asked the 
girl, and my reply was to get out the little 
forty-pound canoe and give her the place 
in the bow to which she was accustomed, 
but this time with a camera instead of a 
paddle in her hands. Our progress was as 
silent as the falling of the snow outside of 
my window as I write, and our course led 
among cat tail flags and long grasses and 
through deep water channels that made 
islands of many acres of the river bank. 
The cat family is fond of squabs, but it 
doesn’t like to wet its feet, and the birds 
built their nests where these channels pro¬ 
tected them from panther and lynx, as the 
moat protects the castle. As we ap¬ 
proached an island of nest-burdened trees 
the air was filled with flying birds and bur¬ 
dened with their cries of alarm. There 
were nests by the hundred, many contain¬ 
ing eggs, and others birds too young to 
scramble and get away. The girl photo¬ 
graphed a nest containing two fluffy white 
birds and one egg unhatched. 
“What are these ?” she asked, and when 
told they were little blue herons, observed: 
“I ought to have remembered that when 
they look white they must be black or blue, 
or both.” 
“See that black water turkey that has 
stayed on her nest? There may be some 
white children there, or perhaps she will 
wait to have her own picture taken.” 
Slowly as I turned the canoe the bird 
divined my purpose and abandoned her 
nest, which contained only eggs, but nest 
and eggs were duly photographed. Many 
Tindale 
Music Cabinets 
This Cabinet (Style 
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on artistic, simple 
lines and not over 
ornate. It affords a 
practical means of 
keeping about 700 
pieces of music. 
Every copy instant¬ 
ly at hand when 
wanted and safe 
from damage. Ma¬ 
hogany, $29; Fumed 
Oak or Early Eng¬ 
lish Oak, $25. 
There are more than a dozen styles and 
sizes of Tindale Cabinets — one to meet 
any music-lover’s requirements, and the 
prices are from #15 to $95, cash or 
monthly payments. 
Write to-day for Folio of Designs No. 6 
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Heating Ventilating Air Filtration 
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