HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1914 
POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those interested in 
poultry The manager will gladly answer (any troublesome questions. 
Address “Poultry Department ” and enclose a self-addressed envelope. 
Close-to-Nature Open Air Hovers and Brooders 
As natural as the broody hen; contact warmth; open air ventilation; no piling up or over¬ 
crowding; used with lamp or as fireless. Send for circular. 
CLOSE-TO-NATURE CO., 104 Front St., Colfax, Iowa. 
ORPINGTONS AND 
CAMPINES 
Stock for Sale of the highest quality. 
Eggs for Hatching 
From Grand Matings of above varie¬ 
ties. Prices right. Illustrated cata¬ 
log. Price list, etc., free. 
C. A. KEEFER (H. & G.) 
Muskegon, Mich. 
Greider’s Fine Catalogue 
and calendar of fine, pure-bred poultry for 1914. 
This book contains many pages of poultry facts.w 70 
different varieties, some shown in natural colors. 
All illustrated and described, tells how to make 
hens lay, raise and care for them, all about the 
Famous Greider Incubators and Brooders. Shows 
photo of the largest pou'tryfarm in Penn. Prices of 
breeding stock and eggs for hatching and supplies 
within reach of all. A perfect guide to all poultry 
raisers. Send 10c for this noted book on poultry. 
B. H. GREIDER* Box 26 Rheems, Pa. 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
Beautiful Swans, FancyPheasants, 
Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, Orna¬ 
mental Ducks and Geese, Flam¬ 
ingoes, Game and Cage Birds 
“Everything in the bird line from 
Canary to an Ostrich” 
1 am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
dealer in land and water birds in America and have 
on hand the most extensive stock in the United States 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
“Baby Chicks 
of Qualify” 
Shipped by Express 
Healthy, vigorous 
day-old chicks 
hatched from a 
heavy egg-laying 
stock of 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
(The 257 Egg Strain) 
Ready for immediate delivery 
Saves all hatching troubles, assure three weeks earlier matured 
pullets meaning eggs and profit soonest 
Safe delivery in good condition guaranteed 
A New Catalogue Is Now Ready 
One oi the finest ever issued by any breeder. It tells just how 
“Baby Chicks of Quality’’ are produced, and describes every 
grade of stock that we have to sell, with prices. A copy is 
ready tor you. 
R. C. CALDWELL, Box 1030. Lyndon. Rose Co., Ohio 
KENNEL DEPARTMENT 
Lovable Children 
Tho healthier and happier your children are the^—, 
"better men and women they will become. AShetland\ 
PPony for a playfellow orings them health, teaches them ^ 
' self reliance and self control and makes them manly. J$e- 
' cure a pony from the Belle Meade Farm and you can be\ 
' quite sure it will be a sturdy,reliable little fellow, playful as 1 
a kitten but full of good sense and quite unafraidof autos, 
trains or anything to be met with on the road. We have a 
HERD OF 300 
for you to choose from — every 
one well mannered and abso -1 
lutely safe.many of them prize j 
, winners. We always guaran-^ 
\tee satisfaction. Write forj' 
illustrated catalogue.^ 
Belle Meade Farm^ 
Markham, Va. 
Bot 3 
Black Short Haired Cattery 
Oradell, N. J. 
The largest PET STOCK KENNELS 
in America—can supply you with SE¬ 
LECTED PUPPIES and HOUSE 
BROKEN GROWN DOGS, carefully 
bred DOMESTIC CATS and KIT¬ 
TENS — A choice litter of Russian 
Wolf Hounds, a few good Airedales. 
Cockers, Bostons and small breeds. 
Write for catalogue and details. 
New York Office, 112 Carnegie Hall, New York 
Scottish Terriers 
Recommended as companions. 
A really good sort of dog. 
Best for children’s pets. 
NEWCASTLE KENNELS 
Brookline, Mass. 
seen of masses of pinks and reds with 
white. These, however, are justly the 
pride of onr Southern gardens. Many of 
these shrubs, in their evergreen loveliness, 
have been growing for more than a cen¬ 
tury, and some of them have attained a 
height of from twenty to thirty feet. 
Hundreds of visitors go each year to see 
the magnificent specimens in Magnolia 
Gardens at Charleston, which are known 
far and wide for their great beauty. The 
gardens in New Orleans and Mobile, 
Augusta and Savannah, and other South¬ 
ern cities, are filled with these fragrant 
and handsome plants. They must be seen 
to be appreciated. 
The colors seen in the imported A. 
gandavensis, the Ghent Azaleas and the 
A. mollis, a native of China and Japan, 
which the florists offer each year, are 
very attractive and striking,- but, while 
you enjoy these, invest also in those 
others which will grow outside and go 
from grace to grace and from glory to 
glory. 
After the season of bloom is over, 
these pot-grown plants may also be put 
into the open ground, and will give fairly 
satisfactory results. To me, however, 
they do not appeal as do those which are 
indigenous. 
Who does not remember tramping into 
the wildwoods as the earily spring days 
came on and the wild violets and dog¬ 
wood called to the open meadows and the 
shadowy depths of the swamps? Can one 
ever forget the golden harvests of the 
yellow jasmine and the pink whorls of 
honey sweetness and the flaming torches 
that we called “swamp honeysuckle,” but 
which we now know for the native 
azaleas: For the sake of “Auld Lang 
Syne," those halcyon days of childhood, 
let us plant them in our gardens and let 
the new generations revel in the beauty 
and drink in the fragrance of our old 
friends of the woodlands. 
We will have the Azalea vaseyi ( Rho¬ 
dodendron vaseyi ), the Carolina azalea, 
a plant which is unique, but always beau¬ 
tiful, its blossoms a clear rose of several 
shades, and appearing before the leaves 
unfold. Much like this is the Azalea 
nudiflora, Pinkster flower, free-flowering 
shrubs growing from three to five feet, 
and also blossoming freely before a leaf 
bud shows. The Azalea arborescetis, the 
most fragrant of all, is much like the In- 
dicas, but is not evergreen. It is white, 
tinged with pink, with long style and ex- 
serted stamens of deep red. It is one of 
the easiest to grow and is a very de¬ 
sirable plant. The leaves are a deep, 
rich red in the autumn. Lastly, in this 
group is the Azalea viscosa, or small, 
white azalea, the smalest of the species, 
blossoming when very young and giving 
satisfaction wherever found. 
An entirely different color rhythm is 
found in the flame-colored Azalea lutea 
(A. calendulacea) , which is gorgeous for 
many weeks with its profuse clusters of 
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