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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1914 
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i^HE United States Government on its 
parks and reservations, Golf and 
Country Clubs, and owners of Private 
Estates all over the country are using the 
COLDWELL 
Combination Roller and Motor 
Lawn Mower 
They find it the best and most economical equip¬ 
ment for caring for large stretches of lawn. 
The Coldwell both mows and rolls at the same time. It does 
the work of three men and three horse mowers on less than a 
gallon of gasoline an hour. It climbs 25 °fo grades easily. It 
is simply designed and easy to operate. 
The Coldwell line includes horse mowers with the new demountable cutter 
feature. Also hand mowers in 150 different styles and sizes. Write for catalogs 
and an interesting booklet ‘'The Care of Lawns. ” 
COLDWELL 
LAWN MOWER COMPANY 
NEWBURGH, N. Y 
Philadelph; 
Chicago 
COLDWELL LAWN MOWERS 
ASTERS DAHLIAS GLADIOLUS 
The three Greatest flowers for the open ground and for cut flowers. 
Aster Plants — 150 Aster plants of the best cut flower sorts in the world, all col¬ 
ors assorted $1.00 
Dahlias —12 of the worlds freest blooming and most exquisite colored varieties, 
in Decorative, Cactus, Show, Pom Pon and Peony Flowered types, $1.00. 
Gladiolus — 50 Giant flowered bulbs in a great variety of Colors, just the 
shades and types to gladen your garden, $1.00. 
The three special offers together $2.50. 
National Show Gardens b ox 1200 Spencer, Indiana, U. S. A. 
what its name implies. A selection of 
good varieties in each of these forms fol¬ 
lows : 
Cactus 
White, Latime ; yellow, Success ; orange, 
Mrs. de Luca; autumn tint, Sec’ Field; 
pink salmon, Countess of Lonsdale; light 
pink, Margaret Boncher; red, Rene 
Cayeux. 
Show 
White, overlaid with amethyst-blue, 
W. W. Rawson; yellow, Charles Lenere; 
canary yellow, Caesar; red, Hussar. 
Decorative 
White, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria; yel¬ 
low, Colossus ; dark rosv-pink; Delice ; 
scarlet, Lyndhurst; white, tipped scarlet, 
Mine, a Lumier. 
Pompon 
Pink and crimson, Brunette ; Buff, tinted 
orange, Ariel; yellow, Fairy Queen. 
Peony. Flowered 
White, Queen Wilhelmina; light pink, 
Andrew Carnegie; white and yellow, 
Queen Alexandra; salmon pink, Bertha 
von Suttner; canary yellow, Caesar; yel¬ 
low and red, Geisha. 
Collarette 
Carmine, white collar, President Viger; 
white and purple, Directeur Rene Gerard; 
yellow, Souvenir de Chabaune. 
Single 
White, Bride; cerise pink, Coquette; 
deep red, Mme. Curtelin; deep maroon, 
Dr. Peary; scarlet, Duke Henry. 
Choosing Flowers for Their Color 
(Continued from page 287) 
fully, and is an altogether charming flower, 
lower-growing and more informal than the 
later phloxes. 
There are so many purples in the iris 
tribe that space fails in which to describe 
them. Speaking in general, the Germanica 
purples incline to violet, both clear and vel¬ 
vety ; the Pallida section has all tones, 
from “rosy mauve” to “pale blue” (deal¬ 
ers’ description) ; the Neglecta section has, 
usually, standards and falls of very dif¬ 
ferent tones; and those of the Plicata sec¬ 
tion are nearly all white, frilled with vary¬ 
ing tones of blue-violet. /. Sibirica is 
rather a crude blue-violet, a “shouting” 
color; lovely, tiny; I. cristata is called 
“sky-blue,” but is really a soft blue violet; 
as are the paler pumila hybrids, the darker 
ones of which are a fine deep purple. The 
Japanese iris seem to embrace almost 
every tone of violet and purple. 
The old-fashioned, freely self-sowing 
sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis) is a 
light phlox-purple, and very pretty with 
pale rhododendrons of pink foxgloves, be¬ 
ing between them in tone and of much the 
same hue. 
The deep purple campanula?, although a 
fine, clear violet, are an ugly color, hard 
and harsh, like the violet clematis Jack¬ 
in ani, which so many people are possessed 
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