HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September 
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I ERRINGBONE stands off big and petty losses. A house of 
stucco over Herringbone is fire resisting, economical, durable 
■requires no painting nor repairs. 
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holds stucco and plaster—prevents cracks, falling or discoloration. 
A Herringbone house is warm in winter, cool in summer. Defies 
any climate or weather. Costs but little more than a wooden house. 
For excessively damp climates or places where lath is particularly 
subject to rust or corrosion use Herringbone Armco Iron Lath—of 
the purest, most rust-resisting iron made. 
“ The House that Father Built ” 
is a wonderful book if you want a home that resists fire, decay 
and time. Full of beautiful Herringbone houses. Also contains 
plans by leading architects. Mention your architect's name in 
. writing and we will gladly cooperate with him. 
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A Handsome Color-Combination 
The roofs of this house are stained 
with the light moss-green shade of 
Cabot’s Creosote Shingle Stains 
and the walls are finished in the soft, brilliant white of Cabot’s 
Old Virginia White. The contrast is rich and beautiful and the 
effect will be lastingly satisfactory. The merits of Cabot’s 
Stains are known all over this country and in many other lands, 
and the clean, cool “ whitewash effect” of the Old Virginia White 
i6 a delight to artistic people who dislike “ painty ” colors. Low 
priced, easy to apply, wood-preserving. 
You can get Cabot's Stains all over the country. Send 
for stained wood samples and name of nearest agent. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Mfg. Chemists 
11 Oliver Street Boston, Mass, 
Finished with Cabot's Cresote Shingle Stains and Old 
Virginia White. Milton H. McGuire , Architect, N.Y. 
different point of view. The shrubbery 
inside the path and skirting the lawn at 
intervals is composed of all kinds of 
shrubs of a gardenesque character, like 
Forsythia suspensei, Spiraea tlumbergii > 
Weigela Eva Rathke, Spiraea van Hout- 
tei , Deutzia Pride of Rochester and Spi¬ 
raea Anthony Waterer, which give a suc¬ 
cession of bloom from March to July. On 
the other side of the path, in the boundary 
plantation, shrubs with interesting fruit 
and winter color predominate. 
Near the white pines of the south lawn 
enclosure the border starts with Aralia 
spinosa. Its host of blackberries follow 
immediately after great panicles of white 
flowers. Next is a group of privet with 
black winter berries and Elaeagnus angus- 
tifolia with silvery fruit. Viburnum tomen- 
tosum, Viburnum lentago and Viburnum 
opulus begin the south boundary. Each 
variety has striking, large, white flower 
clusters, but they are especially distin¬ 
guished for the wonderful color of their 
autumn foliage and the brilliancy of their 
red fruit. The bush honeysuckles, 
Lonicera tatarica and L. morrozm, which 
are interplanted with them, produce deli¬ 
cate, translucent berries, some yellow, 
some orange, some red, which mature 
early in July. Next are groups of Indian 
currants and snowberries. They are 
small, graceful shrubs, but inconspicuous 
until the fall brings forth their interesting 
berries, one small coral red in heavy clus¬ 
ters on drooping branches, the others 
round and white on long pendants. Next 
comes a group of buckthorn, a garden 
favorite of a hundred years ago, with 
shining black fruit, then the common bar¬ 
berry with scarlet berries, then the winter- 
berry, Ilex verticillata. This is a very 
modest, retiring plant until winter arrives 
and then its small berries clinging close 
to the stem are the most brilliant of all 
the winter fruits. On the east boundary 
are yellow root with interesting autumn 
foliage, black-berried elders, another July 
fruiting shrub, and Cornus stolonifera 
with conspicuous red stems during the 
winter time. 
This collection of berry-bearing shrubs 
produces color effects which make a won¬ 
derful winter garden quite independent 
of evergreens. Though it is interesting 
at other times, the bright color and the 
individuality of each fruit stimulate a 
special little trip through the garden in 
all kinds of autumn and winter weather. 
The wild garden has an individuality, 
again, quite different. It is decidedly in¬ 
formal in character, irregular in planting 
and unusual in shape. The little boulder- 
edged pond has given the incentive to 
compose this planting of water-loving 
plants, plants of a rock-garden character 
and such that will make good pictures 
when reflected in the water. 
In the pond water lilies are growing. 
Immediately on the edge are azaleas in 
vivid scarlet, yellow and orange tints, made 
doubly bright by the reflection. There are 
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