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How to have 
harmony in your kitchen 
It depends more on your cook stove 
than it does on your cook 
S uppose you were doing your own cooking. Wouldn’t 
you want all your “tools” to be the kind that make 
work easy.? That is the only way to have real contentment 
in your kitchen. 
When you have this new Florence Oil 
Range all you do to start the fire is turn a 
lever and touch a match to the Asbestos 
Klndler. In a few minutes you will have an 
intensely hot blue flame close up under the 
cooking. This flame can be regulated to 
any degree. There is a small burner for 
simmering. 
The result is 
The Big Burner 
places the heat 
close up under the 
cooking 
The vapor from kerosene 
The vapor from kerosene is what burns. 
a blue, intensely hot gas-like 
flame. This flame is not a wick flame, such 
as you see in the ordinary oil lamp. Kero¬ 
sene, as used in the Florence, is an inexpen¬ 
sive fuel. 
The built-in oven has the “baker’s arch” 
and our patented heat distributor to assure 
even baking. You can roast as big a turkey 
as you want. 
A stove of sparkling beauty 
Sunny white enameled panels, gleaming 
nickel trimmings, and jet-black frame make 
this stove an ornament to the most carefully equipped 
kitchen. It is sturdy, and will keep its good looks for years. 
Florence Oil Ranges are sold at hardware, department, 
and furniture stores. If the store has not yet received this 
newest model, write to us and we will see that you get one. 
It costs ^110, plus freight charges from our nearest ware¬ 
housing point. Other models, with portable ovens, in 
various sizes and at various prices. Write for free illus¬ 
trated literature. 
The Florence 
Leveler 
adjusts the sto've 
properly *when the 
floor is unenjen 
CENTRAL OIL &. GAS STOVE CO.. Dept. 541. Gardner. Mass. 
FLORENCE 
OIL RANGE 
House dr Garden '- 
NOTES OF THE GARDEN CLUBS 
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of Philadelphia who lectured on “Peren¬ 
nial Gardens and their Care”. In May, a 
“Wild Flower Meeting” was held at the 
home of Mrs. E. F. Von Wettberg, Mrs. 
N. L. Britton being the speaker. 
The Fairfield Garden Club broadcasted 
posters one year to preserve the laurel, 
the Connecticut State-flower, which legis¬ 
lation afterwards protected. In 1922 the 
club arranged weekly exhibits of wild 
plant material, at the Museum of Bird- 
craft Sanctuary, Fairfield, attracting hun¬ 
dreds of people. As a result of this interest 
this year the club is circulating an illus¬ 
trated twelve page pamphlet with the 
slogan “Stop! Look! Think!”, instructing 
the public in “When and How to Gather 
Wild Flowers and Ferns”. Mabel Osgood 
Wright, the honorary president, wrote 
the booklet which is published under the 
auspices of the Wild Flower Committee, 
Mrs. Thomas B. Lashar, chairman. 
In March, a prize competition was ar¬ 
ranged for members of the club, who were 
invited to submit garden plans and 
models, also suggestions for “Improving 
Local Civic Planting”. 
The Garden Club is encouraging com¬ 
munities to better their gardens and to 
increase the interest in trees and shrubs 
and to carry out its own plan of planting 
around the fountain on the town green 
and the railroad station. 
T he Garden Club of Ithaca, N.Y., of 
which the president is Mrs. Living¬ 
ston Farrand, held its organization meet¬ 
ing in July, 1922, and has 80 members, 
men and women, who pay $5.00 dues, 
assembling monthly, occasionally bi¬ 
monthly. An exhibition of gladioli with 
a Table Decoration Competition was ar¬ 
ranged in August, and in September there 
was a Dahlia Show, with a Plant Ex¬ 
change. Professor Wiegand addressed the 
club on “Wild Asters”, with exhibits, in 
October, and Professor Ralph Curtis 
spoke on “Berry Bearing Plants”, show¬ 
ing specimens of them, in November. In 
1923 one meeting was devoted to color 
photography views of Rochester Gar¬ 
dens, and on other occasions an “Archi¬ 
tectural and Landscape Art Exhibit” was 
held and Mrs. Francis King lectured on 
“Small Gardens”. Members also con¬ 
ducted a Round Table Discussion on 
“Perennials, Annuals, and Roses”, clos¬ 
ing the first year’s program with a “Tea 
and Exhibition of Darwin Tulips”, in 
“President’s (Cornell) Garden”, given at 
the annual meeting. 
The chief accomplishment of the club 
has been financing the planting of the 
East Hill Public School grounds, a mem¬ 
ber landscape architect giving all ser¬ 
vices in planning and supervising the 
work. 
In 1923-24 the emphasis of the Garden 
Club will be laid on developing an appre¬ 
ciation of “Design in Small Gardens”. 
Mrs. Farrand has designed an “English 
Garden”, at her Ithaca home and else¬ 
where. Professor John Hutchinson, an¬ 
other member of the Club, has hybridized 
narcissi giving to his seedling the name of 
his wife, Genevra Barrett. 
The two vice-presidents of the club are 
Mr. Louis Smith and Mrs. Andrew D. 
White. Professor E. A. White, the head 
of the Department of Floriculture, of Cor¬ 
nell, is a member of the executive com¬ 
mittee. 
T he Garden Club of Manchester,Ver- 
mont, founded about 1908 was dis¬ 
continued during the War, but is now re¬ 
organized with Mrs. Lewis Heminway as 
president, and 80 members, active and 
associate, including men, paying $1.00 
dues. During July and August meetings 
are held fortnightly, and once or twice in 
September, at the homes of members, 
unless a professional speaker lectures in a 
public hall. Among those who have ad¬ 
dressed the club are Mr. Totty talking 
on “Roses”, Dr. MurriU telling of a ' 
“W’alk through the New York Botani¬ 
cal Gardens”, and Mrs. Verplanck. In 
1923 Mr. Fletcher Steele lectured, with 
slides, on “Landscape Architecture” ap¬ 
plied to Manchester, and the Rev. J. A. 
Donald an amateur dahlia experimental¬ 
ist of the town, spoke on his specialty. 
W Uliamstown Gardens will be visited by 
the club, in September. 
Every August a Flower Show is held 
in a public hall, the schedule of classes 
being previously published in the local 
newspaper and entries are free to all. Be- ’ 
sides numerous horticultural classes, com- I 
petitions in flower arrangement in vases, * 
or baskets, are arranged, 50 points being 
allowed for the container and 50 points ;i 
for “ quality of flow'ers”. Special classes in ,i 
arrangement of both wdld and cultivated | 
flowers are open to children, even under ' 
seven years of age, and up to thirteen. 1 
The attendance, registered, at the 1922 
Flower Show, was over 6co. The walls of 
the hall were decorated to form a back- ^ 
ground for the exhibits, and the judges I 
were Mrs. Varney, Mrs. Clarence Holden, I 
and Mrs. Charles Welles, all from Ben- I 
nington, Vt. J 
The Garden Club also makes an exhibit, | 
at the Town Fair, in September, and is 
striving in various ways to interest as , 
many residents of the village as possible 
in garden and civic improvements. Trees I 
have been planted, and other public plant- | 
ing done, while now the club has a stone / 
bench ready to place, with shrubs, on the 
school grounds. 
) 
HE Garden Club of Catonsville, ’ 
Maryland, whose president is Mrs. 
William Emory Waring, was founded in 
1917. There are 43 members, w'ho pay 
$2.00 dues, holding,at each others’homes, 
monthly meetings for which they some¬ 
times prepare a program of readings or 
talks on horticultural subjects. In 1922 an 
illustrated lecture was given by Miss 
Elizabeth Leighton Lee, then director of 
the Women’s School of Horticulture, at 
Ambler, Penna. Also Mr. Le Clair, of 
Baltimore talked to the club about Tree- 
Planting and Dr. Paul Bartsch, president 
of the American Society for the Preserva¬ 
tion of Wild Flowers, gave a lecture, with 
colored slides, before the school children. 
The Rev. Dr. Alfred H. Barr, of the First 
Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, in June, 
1922, gave a “Talk on Birds”, for theclub. 
Flower Shows are held at the homes of . 
the members. In the Spring of 1923 it was ' 
planned to hold a Tulip Show at the Roll- . 
ing Road Golf Club. At the Annual 
Flower Mart arranged by the Women’s 
Civic League of Baltimore, around the 
monument of Washington, the Catons¬ 
ville Club cooperates by managing one of 
the booths, where many varieties of flow- ; 
ers, both donated and bought wholesale, 
are sold, including five or six hundred 
seedlings which brought a profit of 10% 
for the Baltimore charities. 
The club is also cooperating with chil¬ 
dren, to plant flower and vegetable gar¬ 
dens on vacant lots near the schools, a 
prize being awarded for the best results. 
Efforts are continually exerted by mem¬ 
bers of the club to interest residents of 
Catonsville to decorate with plantings 
both their stores and homes, advocating 
window boxes in the business sections, 
especially. For some time the Garden 
Club has campaigned successfully to free 
the Main Street of obnoxious advertising 
and recently planted a tree, with public 
exercises, in front of a bank, having a 
poster made, showing the street, “before 
and after”. Mrs. Ferdinand Chatard 
Dugan, the vice-president of the Catons¬ 
ville Garden Club, has taken an active 
part in all its affairs, particularly during 
the extended absence of the president, 
Mrs. Waring. 
