HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1914 
25 1 
/ T s HE Lunt Moss System has no equal as a means 
± of supplying water for country homes and farms 
The average plant has a pneumatic tank of the proper 
size, with either gasolene or electrically driven pumps. 
Private electric lighting plants may be installed 
in connection with your water system or separately 
at moderate cost. 
The above residence at Marion, Mass., is 
equipped with the Lunt Moss System installed 
in May, 1907, and consists of 5 ft. x 20 ft. Lunt 
Moss Pneumatic Tank and 20 horse power Alamo 
Gasolene Engine, which in addition to pumping 
from an artesian well, is running an electric plant 
to light the premises. 
We will mail descriptive catalogue 56 on request 
Our engineers will estimate your requirements free of charge. 
LUNT MOSS C03IPANY 
Boston - - New York 
A Perfect Water Supply 
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quabty of the metal “finish” 
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Flighting fixtuREs 
A NEW AUTOMOBILING GUIDE 
The Best Motor Routes Through 
Europe 
By GEORGE D. WEBBER 
For the traveler planning a motor trip on the 
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SOUTHERN GARDEN 
DEPARTMENT 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON 
The writer of this department zvill gladly 
answer inquiries from Southern readers 
in regard to their garden problems. Please 
enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope 
if a prompt personal reply is desired. 
Azaleas and Camellias 
W HETHER planted for the beauty 
of the individual specimen, for 
groups in the shrubbery border, for 
hedges or for plantations, there is noth¬ 
ing which gives more satisfaction, more 
beauty, more fragrance than the azaleas 
of all kinds. The earliest to bloom shows 
its color in January, and from then until 
May one after another of the species may 
he seen. The native, Azalea Indica, and 
the Chinese, Azalea amoena, are both de¬ 
sirable, hardy, evergreen shrubs; the lat¬ 
ter being hardy in the Southern and 
Pacific States, and the former as far 
north as New York. 
The azaleas are very particular as to 
soil. They prefer a rich, moist, well- 
drained earth containing leaf mold or 
wood’s earth, as near like the swampy 
woodlands that form their native habitat 
as it is possible to get. For this reason, 
also, they ask for protection from the 
afternoon sun in summer and the cold, 
piercing winds of winter, and do best 
when planted against a background of 
trees or shrubbery, a garden or boundary 
wall, or where they are sheltered by the 
house. Many city hemes face the north, 
and it is very hard to find plantings that 
will give satisfactory results under such 
conditions of shade and dampness as 
usually prevail here. In this situation, 
given the soil they need, the Azalea Indi- 
cas are ideal. 
The beautiful colorings in these plants 
give one wide choice, and it is possible 
to have not only a succession of bloom in 
group plantings, but also to have a gor¬ 
geous color harmony that ranges in the 
warm side of the color scale from the deep 
tones of the glowing crimson, Le Flam¬ 
beau. the rich rose of Comtesse de Beau¬ 
fort, the pink, delicate and exquisite 
Mine. Van der Cruyssen, up to the purest 
white of the Deutsche Perle. 
In the violet tones are Bernard Andre, 
which is dark violet-purple, very large 
and very double, and Theo. Refiners, a 
double lilac, which is most dainty and 
beautiful. A plantation of these two va¬ 
rieties lightened with the Deutsche Perle 
gives a poem of exquisite color harmony. 
Against a background of spring-blossom¬ 
ing shrubs in yellow tones or the deep 
greens of the evergreen plantings the 
effect is wonderfully fine and rather more 
unusual than the combinations generally 
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your most com¬ 
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VudorsZaL 
and so get health in the open air with perfect privacy. 
You'll find appetite there. You’ll sleep unbrokenly of 
nights, for the air builds nerves while you sleep. 
Vudors don’t flap, can’t come undone at ends, are 
stained, not painted, and so keep NEW. S3 to $10 
fixes the average porch. 
Send for Booklet about Vudor Porch Shades and 
Reinforced Vudor Hammocks. 
HOUGH SHADE CORPORATION 
261 Mill Street, Janesville, Wis. 
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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FLOWER 
The Dahlia of to-day is of 
surpassing beauty as a single 
flower, exquisite for private 
gardens, charming in masses, 
and ideal for planting against 
shrubbery. 
Alexander’s Up-to-date 
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and shape, beautiful in color, 
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Free flowering. 
Our many customers are 
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All Flower Lovers are invited to send to the Dahlia King 
for his Free Illustrated Catalogue, which contains helpful 
descriptions and valuable cultural hints on Dahlias, Gladi¬ 
olus, Roses, Cannas, Peonies and Iris. 
J. K. ALEXANDER. “The Dahlia King/’ 
8-12 Central Street, EAST BRIDGEWATER, MASS. 
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