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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1914 | 
Hardware 
JACOBS BIRD-HOUSE CO. 
404 South Washington Street, Waynesburg, Pa. 
Nothinginthe appoint¬ 
ments of a building can 
give it so much distinc¬ 
tion as correctly chosen 
hardware. 
First in America, best in the 
world, are Jacobs Bird-Houses. 
Eleven beautiful designs for 
Purple Martin, $6.50 up. 
Individual nesting boxes for 
Wrens, Bluebirds, Swallows, 
Chickadees, Titmice Flickers, 
Crested Flycatchers and other 
hole nesting birds, $1.00 each. 
Sparrow proof Automatic Food 
Shelters for Winter Birds. 
Government Sparrow Traps, 
36 x 18 x 12 inches, $4.00. 
All prices f. o. b. Waynesburg, 
Pa. Complete instructions 
with each purchase. Send 10 
cents, mentioning this maga¬ 
zine, and receive our latest 
our indorsement bird-house booklet. 
Sargent Hardware of¬ 
fers a selection that 
covers every period of 
design. 
The 
Cremorne 
Bolt 
, for 
Casement 
or 
French 
windows. 
Back of the beauty of 
design — under the 
richness of finish— 
Sargent Hard ware 
possesses the qualities 
of material and work¬ 
manship that insure 
permanence. 
The Sargent Book 
of Designs 
showing a large number 
of the mostartisticpatterns, 
will be sent free on request. 
The colonial book, illus- 
tratingcolomal patterns, will 
be included if you desire. 
SARGENT & COMPANY ' 
142 Leonard Street, New York 
Choosing Flowers For Their Color 
( Continued from page 424) 
First — Rose pink, especially of the clear 
tint of the annual mallows, with pale blue- 
violet or violet-blue, pale blue, pale, 
creamy (maize) yellow; and with deeper 
rose pinks, shading into carmine if care¬ 
fully handled. 
Second — The creamy pinks of the her- 
mosa and La France tints with gray-blues, 
maize yellow of the palest, and occasional¬ 
ly with palest blue-violet. 
Third — The flame-pinks (eosine and be¬ 
gonia rose, geranium and Rose doree ) 
with coldest gray-blue, cream white and 
deep or gray-green foliage. 
Fourth—The deep rose pinks (rosolane 
purple) with deep green and cream white. 
I'ifth — Both flame and rosolane tones 
to be, in general, isolated. 
Pink is indeed a bit difficult, but if one 
exercises a little care one may have a “pink 
border as lovely as if one viewed it truly 
“through rose-colored 'Spectacles." 
The Best Ornamental Crab Apples 
T HE following crab apples belong to 
what is botanically known as the Ma¬ 
ins section of Pyrns, and this in turn is 
a member of the Rosaceae family. These 
Maliises certainly have many claims upon 
the garden lover, as they produce enor¬ 
mous quantities of blossoms in the 
spring; their foliage remains in good 
condition till the fall, and many of them 
carry a profusion of ornamental fruits. 
Mains Floribunda, a native of Japan, 
is one of the most desirable, and makes 
an excellent specimen where it has suffi¬ 
cient room to develop. As it grows here 
it is a broad shrub with a trunk dividing 
at the base into several large branches. 
It is the earliest to flower, and the 
flowers are deep rose color in the bud, 
but when open are white, suffused with 
rose, of good size, and are produced in 
great numbers along the full length of 
the branches. The foliage is dark green 
and abundant. A variety of this, Atro- 
sangninea, is one of the handsomest flow¬ 
ering shrubs, the flowers being a de¬ 
cided dark red color, and the habit is fre¬ 
quently pendulous. 
Mains Neidzoetakiana is particularly 
ornamental and very distinct from any 
other species. The flowers are large, ex¬ 
tremely showy and a peculiar rosy-red 
color. This mains fruits quite freely, 
and the fruits are permeated, as are the 
leaves and bark, with a reddish tinge. 
Mains Halleana, or Parkmanni, is one 
of the most beautiful, and has rosy-red 
flowers, which are semi-double and last 
for a considerable time in good condi¬ 
tion. It is a small, not vigorous, tree. 
This variety and Mains Scheideckeri, 
which has large flowers deeply flushed 
with pink, are two excellent subjects for 
forcing in pots. 
(Continued on page 428) 
InTERtwnofML-Economy 
Combination Heat¬ 
ing System Money 
RESIDENCE OF MR. REESE 
I consider it the very best apparatus for heating a home that I 
know of. We have had very low temperature, say from one to 
fifteen degrees below zero, but your heater has never failed to 
keep us warm inside with a temperature of from 75 to 80 de¬ 
grees. v, . J. H. Reese. 
An ImERMTion/iL-Economy Combin¬ 
ation System (formerly called Pease- 
Economy) is a combination of the best 
features of heating with Steam and Warm 
Air or with Hot Water and Warm Air. 
It does away with objectionable radiat¬ 
ors in the main living rooms and heats 
and ventilates these with a flood of fresh, 
warm air. 
It puts ample radiation 
in exposed bays, draughty 
corners and distant rooms 
that cannot easily be 
reached with warm air 
pipes and registers. 
It takes the chill off the 
house in late spring or 
early fall without over¬ 
heating and it leaves no 
cold passages or exposed 
corners unheated when the 
mercury drops below zero. 
It is no experimental 
system. Mr. Reese put 
his in over 15 years ago. 
Write us for full partic¬ 
ulars, giving name of your 
architect and contractor. 
IrffERn/mOMLHE/TTERCO., 
General Offices, UTICA, N.Y. 
NEW YORK CHICAGO 
601 West 27th Street 1933-35 Wentworth Ave. 
BOSTON 
162-172 Washington St., North 
Catalogued in Sweets', Page 1303 
‘EASY EMPTYING” 
Grass Catcher 
Saves the Work and Damage of Raking 
Keeps the lawn clean, smooth and velvety. 
Fits any mower. Easily attached and de¬ 
tached. “Lift it off to empty.” 
Non-Slip Bottom 
with adjustable front flange pre¬ 
vents grass sliding forward onto 
mower roller. 
Insist on getting “Easy 
Emptying.” 
Ask your hardware dealer to 
show you or write for free booklet 
“Useful Things for the Lawn.” 
Specialty IVffg. Co. 
1053 Raymond Ave. 
ST. PAUL MINN. 
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