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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1914 
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Book contains 103 b autiful half-tone illustra¬ 
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Eugene 0. Murmann 
263 Central Avenue 
Glendale, Los Angeles, Cal. 
NEW P/EONY DAHLIA 
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Our new catalogue entitled “The World’s 
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PEACOCK DAHLIA FARMS 
Berlin, New Jersey 
A Living Room Scheme 
Mrs. A. B. T. 
You will find that if you paper your 
walls downstairs all alike the result will 
be most satisfactory and pleasing. This 
may be in yellow, green, gray, soft tan or 
grav-blue and you will find that with your 
white enamelled woodwork this will be 
restful and not confusing, especially when 
the rooms open so throughout, forming a 
general vista. Your curtain, I would sug¬ 
gest, be made of fine cream scrim, quite 
plain in their making and allowed to hang 
straight, thus giving a bright glow to the 
window and, at the same time, warming 
the roof lights and shadows. Brass is al¬ 
ways a delightful medium in furnishing, 
as it brightens up dark corners and its re¬ 
flecting power is always a source of 
beauty. 
A Bakers’ Dozen of Old English 
Plates 
T HE collection of plates here shown 
has a variety of sizes ranging from 
ten to twelve inches in diameter. For 
colors it has those of the rainbow, shad¬ 
ing from the azure blues to the deep shade 
of the willow blue, pink and mulberry 
tints, and touches of red, green and brown. 
Beginning on the top row of the corner 
cupboard, from left to right, is a light blue 
and white plate with floral design and 
lacy-looking medallions introduced into 
the border. Printed in blue on the back of 
the plate in a festoon under a shield are 
the letters “W & B” with a small figure 
2 at the lower right-hand side of the 
shield. Next is the “Ellesmere” one de¬ 
picting a mother bird alighting on her tree- 
top nest, composed of flowers. A fine 
border is a feature of this beautiful bluish- 
gray plate, which bears on its reverse side 
an excellent representation of the British 
coat-of-arms in the same gray-blue color. 
This plate is from one of the Shropshire 
potteries, for in this county, which is 
south and west of Staffordshire, were 
many potters who had their works at 
Caughley, Coalport and many other nearby 
places. Ellesmere printed on the back of 
the plate is the name of the lake in the 
north part of Shropshire and the town 
which takes its name from the lake on 
whose western shore it is prettily situated. 
This lake is one of a cluster of picturesque 
meres or small lakes near the borders of 
Denbighshire, Wales, of which the largest 
is the entrancing Ellesmere. 
The third of the plates on the first row 
is a dark, rich mulberry-colored one, of 
soup plate size, measuring eleven inches in 
diameter. It has as a mark on the back 
the blue-grav figure of an eagle, with 
“Clementson,” “Iron Stone,” “Cores.” 
This is a Staffordshire one, as is the first 
plate on the second row from left to right. 
This is a blue and white bit, and on the 
reverse side is seen printed “Kaolin” with 
oak leaves in a scroll and a plume. The 
next plate on the second shelf is a “Daven- 
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