HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1914 
228 
Your Garden: 
Your garden and grounds should be thoroughly and carefully planned 
during the winter and early spring. A new and special feature of our 1914 
issue of the Garden Guide and Record is the introduction of a department 
showing several garden plans laid out by our experts, to fit various sized 
plots, with the view of obtaining the most satisfactory results. 
To get the best results from your garden it is necessary to get the 
best seeds. Every packet of Henderson’s seeds that is sold has behind it 
the accumulated experience of sixty-six years of successful seed growing 
and selling. Adost of the accepted methods of seed testing and trials in 
use to-day originated with the founder of our firm and the methods that 
were the best three generations ago have been improved and bettered by 
us from year to year and are to-day still the best. The 
initial cost of the seeds is really the smallest cost of your 
garden and it pays to be sure you have started right. 
Henderson’s are Tested Seeds. 
Special Offer 
Our 1914 Catalogue, “Everything for the Garden,” a book of 208 
pages, over 800 illustrations, 14 color plates, etc., will be mailed on receipt 
of 10 cents. In addition, we will send without extra charge, the new 
“Henderson Garden Plans,” and our collection of 6 Henderson Specialties, 
in a coupon envelope which will be accepted as 25 cents on any order of 
one dollar or over. 
Peter Henderson & Co. 
35-37 Cortlandt Street New York 
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Catalogue 
150 Designs and Plans, Lattices, 
Trellises, Pergolas. Sleeping 
Porches, Art-Portable Houses, 
Garages, Children's Play Houses, 
Fresh Air Camps and Novelties. 
Enclose 4c stamps for postage 
The Mathews Mfg. Co. 
909 Williamson Bldg. 
Cleveland, O. 
ORSFORD’S 
Plants 
Cold 
Weather 
and Flower Seeds that Grow 
r Flowering Plants, Shrubs, Trees, Vines, Wild 
Flowers, Hardy Ferns, Lilies, etc. — for sun and for 
shade. Raised in the rigorous climate of Vermont. 
Will thrive in the cold north or the sunny south. 
Get our new catalog before placing your spring 
orders—we have just what you need. Write to-day. 
F. H. HORSFORD, Charlotte, Vt. 
Dreer’s Dahlias 
Dreer’s Special Dahlia Catalogue 
is absolutely necessary to all who wish to keep down-to-date 
on the Dahlia interest which is sweeping over the country. 
Mailed FREE . Please mention this publication . Pteony-flowered Dahlia. 
HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia | 
W E grew more than 50 acres last 
year. Over 800 varieties in¬ 
cluding the cream of the world’s 
novelties as well as the best of the old 
favorites. 
As cut flowers for decorating or 
sending to friends, nothing equals 
Dahlias in the late summer or fall. You 
can cut them by the armful every day 
from even a small bed. The newer 
types are a revelation to most people. 
them are excellent in color and design 
and a discriminating purchaser with good 
taste can almost always find something to 
answer the purpose at a moderate cost. 
The main thing is to form a very definite 
idea beforehand of just what is wanted, 
and at the same time to keep clearly in 
mind the principles that ought to govern 
selection. 
Besides these more usual papers of 
commerce, there are several varieties of 
wall coverings to which attention should 
be especially directed. For one, there is 
Japanese grass cloth to be had in va¬ 
rious tones. It is both durable and makes 
a splendid neutral background against 
which almost anything will look well. 
Used by itself, its decorative value is 
considerable. There is a paper imitation 
of grass cloth — much cheaper, of course, 
— obtainable in various colors, and either 
plain or figured. Its effect is excellent. 
Japanese gold and silver papers, plain 
or figured in delicate white or black con¬ 
ventional patterns, offer great decorative 
possibilities, and are not wildly expensive. 
Sometimes an excellent result may be ob¬ 
tained with these papers by covering them 
with the thinnest of rice paper. Other 
plain gold and silver papers come in 
small, oblong sheets, and can often be 
used to good purpose as a wall covering. 
After drying, it is an excellent plan to 
give them a coat of varnish or shellac. 
This mellows the tone, preserves them, 
and gives a smooth, easily cleaned sur¬ 
face. 
Oatmeal, eggshell, and also a number 
of the felt papers, are worthy of special 
commendation. To some, it may seem 
strange to suggest butcher’s brown wrap¬ 
ping paper and other sorts of wrapping 
paper as wall coverings, but decorators 
not infrequently use them with happy 
effect. Many of these coarse papers are 
of delightfully melow color and, besides 
that, they are extremely cheap. Over and 
above the wall coverings here noted, in¬ 
dividual ingenuity will suggest others 
from time to time to meet special needs. 
If one were asked to make a general 
recommendation for papering, one would 
unhesitatingly choose simple, quiet papers, 
preferably quite plain. Of course, there 
are numerous instances in which figured 
papers, and even boldly figured papers, 
are desirable. 
One of the most important things to 
aim at in papering a house is unity. 
Sometimes the effect of a whole house, 
or at least a whole floor papered in one 
paper, is particularly good. It is a recog¬ 
nition of the principle that the house 
should be considered as a whole, and not 
as an aggregation of individual rooms, 
each one of which is to be treated dif¬ 
ferently, like so many samples of styles 
m a department store. 
By using one paper, the relationship of 
one room to another is honored; the 
paper is kept from obtruding itself upon 
one’s consciousness — this is an extremely 
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