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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1914 
Ay mar Embury, II., Arch'l. New York 
This is the farmhouse of the Long Island R. R. 
Agricultural Development Station, Medford 
Long Island, stained with 
Cabot’s Creosote Stains 
and this is what the Director says about it: 
“Our farm homestead has a shingled roof 
stained with your stain . . moss green 
while the body of the house . . is 
gray. This coloring has created no end of 
favorable comment, and many have been 
pleased to find it Cabot’s Stain.” 
—H. B. Fullerton, Director. 
You can rely on Cabot’s Stains. The colors are soft, 
rich and beautiful, they wear as well as the best paint, 
and the creosote thoroughly preserves the wood. 
You can get Cabot’s Stains all over the country. Send for 
stained wood samples and name of nearest agent. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Manfg. Chemists. 
11 Oliver Street Boston, Mass. 
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ive measures, all grass growing on waste 
lands should be burned, and especially 
clumps of broom sedge in pastures and 
similar localities. 
It is very important when grass is 
burned that it be dry, and yet burn slow¬ 
ly, so that the heat will penetrate the 
densest portions and reach the bugs. The 
bugs need not come in direct contact with 
the fire. This burning in early fall and 
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CORRESPONDENCE DEPARTMENT 
Extracts from letters of inquiry 
as answered by our experts on 
interior decorating and furnishing 
Editor House & Garden : 
Will you kindly offer suggestions for 
painting and papering the rooms of the 
cottage of which I enclose floor plan? 
At present the living rooms are in 
brown, woodwork painted to match. The 
bedrooms are in white enamel, and I think 
I would like that for living rooms also. 
What color paper should I use with it? 
Should living and dining-rooms be alike? 
The ceiling in dining-room is nine feet 
high, that of the other rooms is ten feet. 
The plaster of dining-room ceiling is in 
poor condition, what would you advice to 
have done with it? The china closet is of 
yellow pine, varnished. Should it be 
painted like the woodwork ? 
The floors are soft pine, grained and in 
poor condition. Do you know whether or 
not “Congoleum” is a satisfactory floor 
covering for use with rugs? In case it is 
necessary to lay new floors, what wood do 
you advise, and how finished? We hesi¬ 
tate to have expensive floors laid in an old 
house. 
Tile uining-room is rather dark, especi¬ 
ally in summer, on account of trees. Win¬ 
dows are all of the large two-pane variety. 
How should they be draped ? Should I 
have curtains at the six-foot opening be¬ 
tween living and dining-room ? 
I will be very grateful for any sugges¬ 
tion in regard to redecorating or remodel¬ 
ing the house to make it more modern and 
attractive and thank you in advance for 
your advice. 
Yours sincerely, 
Mrs. S. D. R. 
Mrs. S. D. R. 
Dear Madam : 
By all means I should have the wood¬ 
work of the dining and living rooms 
painted white, the same as the bedrooms, 
and the china closet also. 
Under separate cover I am mailing to 
you samples of wall papers, which would 
make your rooms attractive. The prices 
per roll are marked on the back of each, 
and the rooms for which intended. 
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