February, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
: 45 
GARDEN DRILLS AND WHEEL HOES 
Then, garden making is easy — fascinating and the 
family like to help with the cultivating. 
On a combined tool, you can change from drill to 
wheel hoe or back again in three minutes. The drill sows 
in straight rows and makes 
replanting unnecessary. 
With the wheel hoes, you 
can hoe, cultivate, ridge 
growing crops, open or cover 
furrows, etc. 
See these tools at your local 
dealer’s and write for com¬ 
plete booklet, “Gardening 
with Modern Tools,” show¬ 
ing 38 combinations. Also, 
copy of “Iron Age Farm & 
Garden News.” 
Bateman M’f’g Co. 
Box 64 
Grenloch, New Jersey 
WHAT KIND OF A GARDEN 
WILL YOU HAVE THIS YEAR? 
A good garden should be a part of every 
suburban home. Not the old time garden 
with beds, hand weeding and ancient tools 
that spelled backache in every inch of them, 
but modern gardens laid out in rows and 
worked with 
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SUMMER BRANCH TUXEDO PARK, N. J. 
What is meant by natural alliance in 
grouping may be seen in one of the illus¬ 
trations where small tables are placed at 
the ends of the two sofas facing each 
other before a fireplace. These two little 
tables are set between the ends of the 
sofas and the corners of the fireplace, and 
bear, lamps and books. They are so plainly 
meant for the convenience of the occu¬ 
pants of the sofas that the fitness of the 
grouping is at once apparent. 
A chair and a tea table, or a chair and a 
reading table, as shown in other illustra¬ 
tions, make perfectly logical groupings. 
The grouping of a number of chairs about 
some central point of interest is also quite 
natural—infinitely more natural and in 
better taste than the planting of isolated 
chairs here and there without any particu¬ 
lar reason for their being here or there, 
as one so often sees them. Such a sentry- 
like alignment of unsociable chairs always 
imparts an air of forbidding formality. 
It is the natural, obvious and logical 
grouping of furniture that gives a room 
the delightful air of really being lived in. 
By the arrangement and grouping of fur¬ 
niture, more than in any other way, may 
we express in our rooms all degrees of 
feeling, from the stififest formality down 
to the most invertebrately luxurious cosi¬ 
ness. As to tbe tone of a room, no mat¬ 
ter how formal its treatment, it should 
always be cheerful and expressive of hos¬ 
pitality. 
There is an erroneous notion that some 
people entertain that a room, in order to 
be cheerful or comfortable, must be filled 
almost to overflowing with all sorts of 
odds and ends, besides suffering from a 
repletion of furniture. No conception of 
cheer and comfort could be more unfor¬ 
tunate than this dream of stuffiness. A 
room simply and restrainedly furnished 
can be positively radiant with cheer and 
comfort. 
Objectionable crowding, however, is not 
always the result of too much furniture, 
but is sometimes caused by poor arrange¬ 
ment. In fact, with precisely the same 
pieces of furniture a room may be so ar¬ 
ranged that it will seem crowded in one 
arrangement and spacious in another. A 
number of smaller rugs on the floor, with 
a reasonable amount of uncovered board 
surface, ratber than a few large rugs, will 
give a room a spacious appearance. Too 
many large pieces of furniture in one 
room will often produce the impression of 
crowding. Indeed, a small number of 
large pieces will, time and again, crowd a 
room far more than a large number of 
small pieces. Again, a room frequently 
appears crowded because the furniture is 
either too much scattered about meaning- 
lessly or else grouped in the centre of the 
floor. As a rule, with the exception of 
dining-rooms, it is only large rooms that 
can stand tables and an aggregation of 
other furniture in the middle space of the 
floor without looking crowded. 
By keeping the central space of the 
floor open and free one can always create 
END for a copy 
of our 1914 
Spring Catalog. 
Learn from it 
the best meth¬ 
ods of planting 
and caring for 
every flower and 
vegetable—learn 
too about the 
newest and heretofore unheard 
of novelties we list—and plan 
your garden NOW. 
O further help you 
in planning your 
vegetable garden, 
we have written a 
rather novel little 
book entitled “A 
Thorburn Garden 
for a family of 
Six.” Many new 
thoughts on veg¬ 
etable growing are 
given in it. You will find it 
of unique interest and value 
and well worth the having. 
Write for these two books today 
—they will help you to solve 
all your gardening problems. 
J. M. Thorburn & Co. 
53 E Barclay Street New York 
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