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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1914 
NEW YORK 
1170 Broadway 
BOSTON 
49 Federal Street 
Factory, Elizabeth, N. J, 
PHILADELPHIA 
Pennsylvania Bldg. 
Villa Reale Della Pelraja, Florence, Italy 
T here is a charm and a fascination about the formal garden that cannot 
be gainsaid. One feels always that it reflects the mind of the designer in 
the careful arrangement of every detail, the fine sense of proportion between 
architecture and landscape, between verdure and stone. 
The Italians of the Middle Ages have left us superb examples of the formal 
garden adorned with masterpieces of sculpture unrivalled for garden ornamentation. 
Our collection of over 1500 models of Pompeian Store contains a wide 
variety of reproductions of Old World masterpieces. In it you will find just what 
you want for your garden. 
Our handsomely illustrated catalogue of vases, fountains, sundials, statuary 
and benches sent on request. 
Factory 
Astoria, L. I. 
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THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF ORNAMENTAL STONE 
leopard’s bane (Doronicum). It is rather 
coarse, but has an interesting flower of a 
cadmium hue and good foliage. A good 
June yellow is Tliermopsis Caroliniana , 
about five feet tall, with pretty foliage and 
feathery spikes of pea-shaped blossoms of 
a pale lemon chrome. 
Most of the rudbeckias, helenia and 
gaillardias are too orange, but some of the 
named hybrid gaillardias are good yellows. 
Several of the helianthi .are fine, clear yel¬ 
lows of the lemon chrome tones. Common 
tansy ( Tanacetum vulgare) is a good deep 
chrome, but turns rusty. Sentimental- 
sounding Bible Leaf, Sweet Mary, or Cost- 
mary {T. Balsamita) , is a delusion and a 
snare, with roots like a doormat. One of 
the best of backgrounds is Jerusalem arti¬ 
choke, like a small sunflower; lift it like a 
dahlia, to prevent spreading. Of the early 
chrysanthemums, “Well’s Primrose” is a 
lovely pale lemon, and “Roi des Jaimes,” 
a deeper tone. 
Of the annuals, the best are the x-\frican 
marigolds, “Lemon Queen” (sulphur 
color), and “Pride of the Garden” (bright 
lemon chrome). The lovely California 
poppies are a little inclined to orange, and 
might form the connecting link between 
that and yellow; they vary somewhat and 
are hard to place. The dwarf annual sun¬ 
flowers “Cucumerifolius” and “Perkeo” 
are good, and bloom profusely. There is 
one “bedding-out” flower, beloved of Eng¬ 
lish gardeners, without which no article on 
“yellow” would be complete — the fat little 
Calceolaria. This comes in a variety of 
colors, but the yellow kind is not yellow — 
it is yeller!” 
The points to bear in mind in using yel¬ 
low are these 
ist. Use the pale straw and maize tints 
anywhere, just as you would white. 
2d. Clear yellow with most blues, using 
cream white freely in the group; creamy 
yellow of any depth with any blue, white 
not being necessary. 
3d. Bright yellow with deep blue and 
deep violet (not the red-purples). Clear 
yellow very sparingly with pale blue-violet, 
and not at all with pink. 
4th. Remember that yellow “carries” 
farther than other colors, so it is best to 
have the other color in a combination in 
greater quantity than the yellow — “picked 
out,” as the dressmakers would say — with 
touches of the fairy gold. 
What You Must Do With the 
Garden Now 
( Continued from page 283) 
tion of getting the job done more quick¬ 
ly ; think of the difference in marking out 
the rows straight as a string; opening the 
drill; dropping the seed; covering and 
rolling, all at one operation, and all as 
fast as you care to walk, and performing 
these jobs in succession, laboriously, one 
bv one, by hand and with an aching back! 
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