HOUSE AND GARDEN 
220 
March, 
1914 
Why We Are Able to Guarantee 
25 Per Cent. Saving on Coal 
All “open” heating systems (that is, straight- 
vapor, steam and hot water) must constantly 
work against an outside atmospheric pressure 
of 15 pounds to the square inch. 
Enough coal must be burned to bring the water 
up to 212 degrees F., the boiling point, to over¬ 
come the 15 pounds atmospheric pressure. With 
Vapor-Vacuum Heating 
Trade Mack. Registered 
Kriebcl System 
instead of an atmospheric resistance, there is a par¬ 
tial-vacuum assistance to draw and hold the vapor 
in the line. 
This is the big reason we can guarantee the saving 
of 25 per cent, in coal. 
That’s the story in a nutshell — resistance with steam, straight-vapor and hot-water; assist¬ 
ance with vapor-vacuum; 25 per cent, coal saved. Valves are conveniently placed at the top 
of the radiators, and are quickly regulated to give any degree of heat. 
Our “Little Primer,” written so anybody can understand it, will be mailed free upon request. 
Be informed, at least. 
Vapor Vacuum Heating Company 
1211 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 
A Beautiful Lawn 
Insure a velvety, green, quick-growing lawn; also double the 
yield of the garden and produce earlier and better vegetables. 
by feeding the soil with 
SHEEP’S HEAD 
SHEEP MANURE 
Rich in nitrogen, phosphoric acid 
and potash. Pulverized, ready to 
apply. Also will show quick 
results on flower beds, shrubbery 
and orchard. Two 100-lb. bags 
$4. freight prepaid east of the 
Missouri River. Send for folder. 
Natural Guano Co., 804 River Street, Aurora, 111 
A Fine Garden 
12 for SI 
Postpaid 
75 for §5 
by express 
ROSEBAYS 
6 to 12 inch plants of Rhodo. maximum, the Great Ameri¬ 
can Rosebay; or of Kalinia, Leucothoe, Am. Holly, in 
combinations to suit. Carolina Hemlocks, Red Cedars, 
Mountain Pines at similar rates. Galax, Arbutus, Ferns, 
Hepaticas. Price list free. Rosebay Nursery, Garden 
City, N. C. 
DWARF APPLE TREES 
DWARF PEAR TREES 
DWARF PLUM TREES! 
DWARF CHERRY TREES 
DWARF PEACH TREES 
Catalogue free 
THE VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
W. L. McKAY, Prop. Box “A” Geneva, N. Y. 
HARTMANN-SANDERS CO., Exclusive Manufacturers of 
We have issued A VERY INTERESTING CATALOGUE on 
“PERGOLAS” and Garden Accessories 
showing a series of new designs — can be had on request. 
Catalogue “P-28”—for Pergolas and Column for Pergolas 
Catalogue “P-40” — for Exterior and Interior Wood Columns 
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY 
ELSTON & WEBSTER AVES. 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
Pacific Coast Factory 
A. J. Koll Pig. Mill Co. 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
Eastern Office 
1123 Broadway 
New York, N. Y. 
Patent 
Joint 
Column 
Suitable for Pergolas, Porches or Interior Use 
earth over them, or whether we had sown 
the seeds too thickly in the first place, 
we will never know, but the lawn and 
meadow speak for themselves as to the 
success of our scientific method of farm¬ 
ing. 
The Legend of the Willow Pattern 
I N a recently published paper, prepared 
by Mrs. Elliot J. Aldrich, who has 
an interesting and valuable collection of 
old china containing about three hundred 
pieces in her home in Old Hadley, 
Massachusetts, is found this prose form 
of the story of the “willow pattern 
. . . . “When Mary Lyon opened 
Mount Holyoke Seminary ‘willow’ was 
the pattern on the crockery used. The 
following is the legend of the willow- 
ware. A certain Chinese nobleman had 
a beautiful daughter named Li-chi, with 
whom a humble secretary named Chang 
fell in love. In spite of the difference in 
their condition, Chang wooed and won 
Li-chi. But when he asked the Man¬ 
darin’s permission to marry his daughter 
the great man flew into a terrible rage, 
and absolutely refused ever to give his 
consent to such a union. The lovers, 
being exceedingly devoted to one another, 
felt they could not live apart, so they 
arranged to run away together and get 
married. Now, the palace of the man¬ 
darin stood near the water-side, while 
Chang’s home was upon an island not 
far distant. Thither the young man 
thought to take his beloved; so, assisted 
by the mandarin’s head gardiner, who 
was his friend, he laid plans for a boat to 
come one night to take Li-chi and him¬ 
self across the water. But, alas! Very 
soon after the mandarin learned whither 
the runaway lovers had fled, and quickly 
folowed them. So terrible was his wrath 
that he was about to flog them to death, 
when, by the merciful power of magic, 
they were turned into turtle doves, and 
so escaped his cruel rage. And, as turtle 
doves we may think of them as living 
happily ever after. But it will be noticed 
that the bridge pictured in this pattern is 
zig-zag. That is because the Chinese be¬ 
lieved that evil spirits could not turn 
corners, but must go in straight lines. 
They therefore built their bridges and 
walls in a zig-zag fashion so that demons 
could not follow them.” In a nutshell, 
in the words of another writer: ‘the 
princess and her lover flee from the 
angry mandarin — a kind fate changing 
them all into birds,-—the bad mandarin 
flying out to sea, while the lover birds 
hovered forever over the bridge.” 
In Longfellow’s “Keramos” is found 
this reference to the familiar design: 
“The willow pattern that we knew 
In childhood, with its bridge of blue, 
Leading to unknown thoroughfares; 
The solitary man who stares 
At the white river flowing through 
Its arches, the fantastic trees 
And wild perspective of the view!” 
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