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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1914 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested in 
poultry The manager will gladly answer any troublesome questions. 
Address “Poultry Department" and enclose a self-addressed envelope. 
CloSe-tO-NatUre Open Air Hovers and Brooders 
As natural as the broody hen; contact warmth; open air ventilation; no piling up or over¬ 
crowding; used with lamp or as fireless. Send for circular. 
CLOSE-TO-NATURE CO., 104 Front St., Colfax, Iowa. 
Greider’s Fine Catalogue 
and calendar of fine, pure-bred poultry lor 1914. 
This book contains many pages of poultry facts.- 70 
different varieties, some shown in natural colors. 
All illustrated and described, tells how to make 
hens lay, raise and care for them, all about the 
Famous Greider Incubators and Brooders. Shows 
photo of the largest pou'tryfarm in Penn. Prices of 
breeding stock and eggsfor hatching and supplies 
within reach of all. A perfect guide to all poultry 
raisers. Send 10c for this noted book on poultry. 
B. H. GREIDER, Box 26 Rtieems, Pa. 
YAM FARMS 
Yoducts 
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AMAHARMA spe¬ 
cialize in S. C. Black 
Minorca chickens be¬ 
cause they lay the largest 
hen’s egg known—white 
shelled—and in Barred 
Plymouth Rocks, be¬ 
cause they are such a 
good all around chicken 
(layers of brown eggs) 
and because specimens 
perfect in feather barring 
are so interesting to de¬ 
velop from a breeder’s 
standpoint. 
Eggs for hatching sold from 
both varieties. Send for booklet. 
We also have about three thousand 
pigeons bred to produce one pound 
squabs. We have young mated 
breeders to sell, pure-bred varieties and 
cross-breds. Send for Pigeon Booklet. 
On our Dairy Farm we have a herd of 
registered Jerseys with “Register of 
Merit” cows among them. Also Reg¬ 
istered Large Yorkshire Swine. 
Everything sold on approval. 
YMJMFJ1MS 
NAPANOC. 14 N Y 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
Beautiful Swans, FancyPheasants, 
Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Ducks and Geese, Flam¬ 
ingoes, Game and Cage Birds 
“Everything in the bird line from 
Canary to an Ostrich” 
1 am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
dealer in land and water birds in America and have 
on hand the most extensive stock in the United States 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
Bob White Quail, Partridges and Pheasants 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
Rabbits, Deer, etc, for stocking purposes. Fancy 
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks, Ornamental 
Geese and Ducks, Foxes, Squirrels, Ferrets, etc., and all 
kinds of birds and animals. 
WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist 
Dept. Y. Pheasantry and Game Park YARD LEY, PA. 
THE POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
of House & Garden 
will furnish upon request any information relat ve to 
the selection, raising and care of poultry. Address, 
enclosing stamped returned envelope. 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
House & Garden 
31 East 17th Street, New York City 
wood makes it not unsightly in winter. If 
cut closely three times a year it may be 
kept within bounds and nothing can pene¬ 
trate it, “from a rabbit to an elephant.” 
The Prunus Caroliniana, the mock 
orange of the South, is almost too well 
known to need mention. It grows very 
rapidly and must be kept closely sheared 
and watched carefully on this account. It 
is, however, a beautiful evergreen hedge 
plant, and for large boundaries, where 
quick growth and strong protection are 
needed, nothing will give better results. 
bor the old-fashioned formal garden, 
such as our great grandmothers used to 
make, the dwarf boxwood is in great de¬ 
mand. All through the South, from Rich¬ 
mond to New Orleans, these old gardens 
may be seen. Some of them are unkempt 
and uncared for, and others are trim and 
neat and in perfect condition; but in their 
quaint and stilted way they all stand as 
monuments to that antebellum period of 
the geometric design and the formal gai- 
den. 1 he old boxwood borders are cer¬ 
tainly attractive; the old evergreens are 
many of them stately and beautiful at this 
time, and both seem everlasting in their 
slow growth, but who would make such a 
garden now? Let us preserve these that 
we have in honor of a day long dead, but, 
for the new ones, the new order to which 
we have changed is certainly best. 
From the multiplicity of vines which 
may be grown in the South, choice would 
seem to be unlimited, but in reality there 
are but a few on which one can depend for 
unfailing beauty and grace. First among 
the evergreen vines for foundation walls of 
buildings and terraces, and also for climb¬ 
ing pillars and pergolas, nothing is more 
desirable than the English ivy, Hedera 
helix. To serve almost the same purposes, 
but slightly heavier in growth, the Climb¬ 
ing euonymus, Euonymus radicans, is also 
good. For a close covering of stone or 
brick or wooden walls the trailing fig, Ficus 
repens, is a most beautiful vine. It clings 
very closely and is delicate and dainty. Its 
leaves are a very dark green, finely marked, 
and unless the winter is very severe it is 
hardy and evergreen in the latitude of 
Augusta. 
The two most attractive evergreen vines 
with blossoms are the Rhynchospermum 
jasminoides and Qelsemium sempervirens, 
the Caroline yellow jasmine. The former 
is easily grown and blooms for many 
months. If put out in February it will 
probably come into bloom in earlv June 
and give two months of flower. It is of 
rather slow growth, but gains in beauty 
year by year. Its fragrant clusters of 
starry white blossoms against the back¬ 
ground of rich, dark-green leaves are al¬ 
ways a most striking picture. 
The yellow jasmine is of daintier foliage 
than the star jasmine and its blossoming 
period is shorter, but it is a mass of 
golden yellow cups of amazing sweetness 
just about the time that the purple tones 
of the fragrant wistarias are flung out as 
heralds of the spring that is to be. 
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