May, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
351 
New Publications of 
Harper & Brothers 
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY ? 
By RUPERT HUGHES 
A brilliant story of New York’s mad 
dance after pleasure and wealth. Through 
hotels and cabarets, ballrooms and coun¬ 
try houses, by motor and on yachts, on 
the backs of blooded horses, eating, drink¬ 
ing, making love, beautiful young girls, 
women who still try to be young, and the 
men of their gay set, follow each other in 
feverish haste, with no break to hold them 
back except the fear of “what will peo¬ 
ple say?” But the piper waits to be 
paid. Illustrated. $1.35 net. 
THE MARRYERS 
By IRVING BACHELLER 
This new story by the author of “ Keep¬ 
ing Up With Lizzie” is characterized by 
thejsame humor and genial laughter at 
the foibles of to-day which has made the 
title of that book a catchword. But this 
time the background is Europe. Illus¬ 
trated. $1.00 net. 
PRINCIPLESTOF CORRECT 
DRESS 
By FLORENCE HULL WINTERBOTTOM 
This book is written not for to-day or 
to-morrow, but for all time, as the princi¬ 
ples it embodies concern not the fashion 
of the moment, but the permanent rules 
of artistic individual dress. It contains 
chapters by the two greatest fashion au¬ 
thorities in the world — Jean Worth and 
Paul Poiret. The combined work of 
three high authorities makes this book 
the most absorbing and helpful on dress 
ever offered to women. 16mo, $1.00 net. 
PLANNING AND FURNISHING 
THE HOME 
By MARY J. QUINN, Instructor in Design, School 
of Household Science and Art, Pratt Institute 
Miss Quinn goes into the good furnish¬ 
ing at a cost which is possible and practi¬ 
cal for the average homemaker. This 
book is intended for the everyday home¬ 
maker who wants her home to be beauti¬ 
ful, but does not know how to go to work 
to bring about the result. 16mo, $1.00 
net. 
HARPER’S BOOK FOR YOUNG 
GARDENERS 
By ALPHEUS HYATT VERRILL 
This book has been prepared to show 
how much profit and pleasure may be 
obtained from simple gardens, and how 
to plan, arrange and care for them prop¬ 
erly. School gardening, experimental 
gardening, ornamental gardening are all 
explained. Fully Illustrated. $1.50 net. 
SOUTHERN- GARDEN 
DEPARTMENT 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON 
The writer of this department gladly 
answers inquiries from Southern readers 
in regard to their garden problems. Please 
enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope 
if a prompt personal reply is desired. 
Solving the May Problems 
W ITH Lent ushered in with a snow¬ 
fall of eleven inches on February 
25, icicles on the trees all over the South¬ 
land as late as March 23, although the air 
was as balmy as April between those dates, 
the spring of 1914 presents unusual prob¬ 
lems to the garden-makers. Everything 
has had to wait and the spring planting 
of summer flowers which usually occurs in 
April, and often in March, has had to be 
delayed until it is now necessary to put in 
the autumn flowers also, and the rush is 
so great that it will be hard to find a sleep¬ 
ing time this month, if all that should be 
done is done. 
Many of the baby perennials, phloxes, 
chrysanthemums, rudbeckias, gaillardias, 
and others, were killed off by the cold, and 
it has not been possible to separate the 
clumps until now that they have regained 
their strength and growth. 
This being the third year, there are 
twenty clumps of hardy phlox that must be 
lifted soon in my garden. Averaging five 
new plants from each old one, I will have 
at least one hundred new phlox for the 
summer’s bloom, without new expense. 
Most of them are white, and this pleases 
me, for in the midsummer days nothing is 
so refreshing as clusters of fragrant white 
blossoms that brighten the borders and 
lighten the corners of the shrubbery. 
A dozen White Bonaffon Chrysanthe¬ 
mums, a like number of Alice Byron, six 
each of Major Bonaffon, and six of Yel¬ 
low October Frost, with twelve Dr. En- 
guehardt, made my May contribution to 
last autumn's blooms. They were a gor¬ 
geous gift to the family and to the passers- 
by. They bloomed from October until 
late frost, which did not come until nearly 
December. Now each one of these plants 
is the center of a clump which must be 
separated to secure strong stocky plants 
for fall bloom this year. There are not 
less than four in the smallest of the 
clumps and as many as ten in others. 
From these two instances it will be read¬ 
ily seen how the Southern hardy borders 
stock themselves and can be secured with 
really small initial expense. Many of the 
perennials multiply as rapidly as do these 
two. 
Do not mix the colors of the chrysan¬ 
themum plantings. Grouping the colors 
separately gives much finer effects. A 
long border of golden yellow against the 
The Open 
Country 
*BecKpns! 
UMMER is upon us! 
The riot of sunshine 
and flowers has already 
begun, and already we 
are overhauling our 
bags and traps and country 
things, getting ready for that 
vacation trip — or better still a 
whole summer out in the open! 
fl The May House & Garden 
now in our hands, is filled with 
summer prophecy. Here is a 
story about Roses, another on 
the Color of Flowers, another on 
Quality Crops, and another on 
the Garden Theatre. These deal 
with the externals of country life 
—but in the matter of actual 
living conditions it remains for 
the next issue to get down to 
“brass tacks.” 
<1 The June SUMMER HOMES 
NUMBER is an institution with 
us, one of our four big numbers, 
and eagerly consulted by thous¬ 
ands of readers. To the people 
who are getting settled in their 
Summer homes, and finding out 
what they need to make those 
homes comfortable, the June 
House & Garden will be a 
timely guide. The direct value 
of the magazine is just here. It 
actually tells how. It doesn’t 
simply describe things that have 
been done. 
A large majority of its readers 
will be guided by its suggestions 
in refitting their Summer homes, 
filling in with furniture, or re¬ 
modeling for occupancy. And 
these people will look to the 
advertising pages to find more 
practical information in regard 
to where the things may be pur¬ 
chased. 
Do you happen to make or sell 
any of the things these people 
of means and desire will be 
likely to need? 
Jn writing to advertisers please mention House & Gauden. 
