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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1915 
LEAVENS 
MADE FURNITURE 
And this harmony in the complete effect, with 
variety of design in individual pieces, can be made 
much more pronounced by selecting your own 
stains in which to have your furniture finished. 
To anyone with an appreciation of color values, 
our policy of finishing to the customer’s order, 
offers opportunity 
to impress distinct 
individuality upon 
the home. 
Our color chart 
of stains and fin¬ 
ishes offers sugges¬ 
tions and is of 
great assistance in 
working out the 
color schemes of 
your rooms 
We also furnish unfinished if so desired. Ship¬ 
ments carefully made insuring safe delivery. 
Send for complete set No. 4, of over 200 illustra¬ 
tions and color chart. 
WILLIAM LEAVEN5SCQ 
A mistaken impression concerning our furniture 
has apparently been given in some instances by 
our consistent advertising of COTTAGE FURNI¬ 
TURE or Straight Line Furniture. This is by 
no means our only line, but because of its great 
popularity and wide appeal to home furnishers, it 
has been more frequently presented in our 
advertising. 
Our complete stock includes several lines just 
as popular as our Cottage Furniture, and offers 
attractively de¬ 
signed. well made 
pieces to meet 
every need of the 
tastefully furnished 
home. 
By selecting from 
our large stock, it 
is possible to have a 
pleasing variety of 
designs and yet 
have every piece 
harmonious with 
the others, whether 
you select in our 
Cottage or Modern, 
with here and there 
a Colonial piece. 
JAPAN BAMBOO STAKES 
Outlast wooden stakes many years 
Gladioli. Lilies, Herbaceous Plants. 
NATURAL COLOR. 
50 100 250 
6 ft. long 60 SI.00 $2.50 
8 ft. long 85 1.50 3.00 
GREEN COLORED. 
For 
1000 
$7.50 
10.00 
35 
60 
$1 
.50 
$4 
.50 
45 
75 
1, 
.75 
6, 
.00 
60 
$1 
.00 
2. 
.50 
7, 
.50 
85 
1 
.50 
3. 
.25 
10. 
.00 
2 ft. long.... 
3 ft. long.... 
4 ft. long.... 
5 ft. long.... 
EXTRA HEAVY BAMBOO POLES 
For Dahlias, Tomatoes, Young Trees, etc. 
12 50 100 
6 ft. long in. diam. up) 85 $2.75 $5.00 
6 ft. long (M to 1 inchdiam.) $1.25 4.00 7.50 
8 ft. long to 1 inch diam.) 1.75 6.00 10.00 
H. H. BERGER & CO., 70 Warren Street, New York City 
Structure and Decoration of 
Walls 
(Continued from page 22 ) 
them in wall making. The advent of the 
concrete house has introduced new 
methods and created new precedents, and 
among other things it has opened the way 
for encrusting either large or small areas 
with tiles. Such a treatment is suitable 
for conservatories, bathrooms, kitchens, 
vestibules, and, in special instances, occa¬ 
sionally elsewhere, and may either be ap¬ 
plied in place of wainscoting or extended 
over the whole wall surface. In either case 
the tiles must be set firmly in place while 
the concrete is “green,” that is to say, 
while it is soft and fresh. The cost of 
such tiling is not necessarily prohibitive, 
as it is quite possible to secure inexpensive 
tiles of good color and shape. Of course, 
if one wishes to do so, he may pay 
almost any figure, according to quality 
and design, but acceptable tiles may be 
had at a reasonable figure. It is not at all 
necessary to have glazed tiles and it is 
often preferable not to use them. In 
kitchens, laundries, bathrooms and other 
places where there is much moisture or 
where the surface of the wall is occasion¬ 
ally washed down, the tiles ought to be 
set as close together as possible to avoid 
any roughness from cement joints. Where 
tiles are set in walls at intervals, purely 
for decorative purposes, they ought to be 
disposed at points or on lines of structural 
emphasis or else placed in panels. 
Interior concrete walls may be laid on 
expanded metal lath or mesh. Plain walls 
of this sort may be made for about 75 
cents per square yard. The chief objection 
to such walls lies in their uncompromising 
surface. This objection, however, can be 
removed and an agreeable texture im¬ 
parted in several ways. In the first place, 
when the wall is being finished the face 
may be “floated” to approximate smooth¬ 
ness if the sand in the surface coat is fine 
enough. When the wall is thoroughly set 
and dry the surface may be given a coat 
of varnish or shellac. This will fill any 
small holes and roughnesses where dust 
and dirt would otherwise lodge, remove 
some of the appearance of hard asperity 
and temper the cheerless, depressing tone. 
Another agreeable and inexpensive wall 
surface is produced by “scratching” the 
concrete back while it is “green” and ap¬ 
plying a coat of plaster made of lime and 
coarse, gritty sand. Instead of smoothing 
the surface with precision it is “floated,” 
not too regularly, with a piece of board, 
which should be used with a circular 
motion. The sand grits pull and drag, and 
in this way the surface is striated with 
scratches or combings in arcs or circles as 
though it had been dressed with a rough 
currycomb. When the surface is quite 
hard and dry a wash made of cement and 
water, of about the consistency of white¬ 
wash, should be roughly applied with a 
whitewash brush. This will give depth 
In writing to advertisers, please mention House & Garden. 
STANDARD 
OF THE 
WORLD” 
' T is a permanent improve¬ 
ment that adds more than 
"“■its cost to the value of the 
property enclosed. Nothing goes further 
toward giving house and grounds an at¬ 
mosphere of elegance, refinement and 
privacy—the finishing touch to outside 
surroundings. 
Over 350 plain and ornamental designs to har¬ 
monize with any house, garden or grounds. 
Styles for every purpose—town houses, suburban 
homes, country estates, parks, cemeteries, fac¬ 
tories, schools, churches, etc. Book of designs, 
upon request. Write for it, giving brief descrip¬ 
tion of property. 
THE STEWART IRON WORKS CO. 
Dept. “F,'* Cincinnati, Ohio 
The World** Greatest Iron Fence Builders'* 
Vases, Settees, Wire Fence, 
Lamps, Lawn General Iron 
Fountains % 4 and Wire Work 
Live in the Garden 
Spend the summer in your garden. 
Make it comfortable with Mathews 
Decorations. Our free portfolio will 
help you. It shows many designs for Sum¬ 
mer Houses, Pergolas, Lattices, Trellises, 
Furniture and all other Garden decoration. 
Ask about our unique bird baths and bird houses. 
THE MATHEWS MANUFACTURING CO. 
909 Williamson Building Cleveland, Ohio 
All newly painted jobs look alike— 
for a while. Time reveals the house 
upon which 
zinc 
was used. Zinc in paint makes 
paint last. 
If you want Zinc on your house, ask for our book, 
“ Your Move,” and act on it. 
The New Jersey Zinc Company 
Room 412, 55 Wall Street, New York 
For big contract jobs consult our Research Bureau 
