HOUSE AND GARDEN 
118 
February, 1911 
TILES 
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BATH 
ROOM 
A clean looking bathroom 
T HE reason why tiles are more used in bathrooms 
than anywhere else in the American home is 
because they not only are clean, but look clean. Both 
are important. 
It is almost impossible to have a perfectly satis¬ 
factory bathroom without tile. If you think so, before 
you build, send for the book, ‘ ‘Tile for the Bathroom. ’ ’ 
If you are building, you will be interested also in 
these three books: 
j “Tiles for Fireplaces” 
1 “ Tiles for the Kitchen and Laundry” ; 
j “Tiles on the Porch Floor” 
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A first-class lawn mower should he 
self-sharpening, light running and 
wear for many years without repairs 
or re-grinding. 
PENNSYLVANIA 
Quality Lawn Mowers 
have all these good points. 
In “Pennsylvania” Quality Mowers alone 
do you have all blades made of crucible tool 
steel, hardened and tempered in oil. 
This explains why they are actually self-sharpen¬ 
ing—why they are always in A-l cutting condition. 
Crucible oil-tempered steel is used exclusive¬ 
ly in making all first-class cutting instruments. 
It must be used exclusively in your Lawn Mower 
if it is to do the best possible work. Over 30 
years’ experience in building Quality Lawn 
Mowers is back of all “Pennsylvanias.” 
Ask your hardware dealer or seedsman— 
they know. 
“The Lawn — Its Making and Care,” a 
text book written by a prominent authority, 
will prove most helpful to all interested in 
lawns and shrubbery. Mailed free on request. 
SUPPLEE HARDWARE COMPANY 
P. O. BOX 1582 PHILADELPHIA 
dance and Red June. Burbank is also 
highly recommended. 
CHERRIES 
Cherries have one advantage over the 
other fruits—they give quicker returns. 
But, as far as my experience goes, they are 
not as long-lived. The “sour" type is 
hardier, at least north of New Jersey, 
than the “sweet.” It will probably pay to 
try a few of the new and highly recom¬ 
mended varieties. Of the established 
sorts Early Richmond is a good early, to 
be followed by Montmorency and English 
Morello. 
Windsor is a good sweet cherry, also 
Black Tartarian, Sox, Wood and Yellow 
Spanish. 
All the varieties mentioned above are 
proved sorts. But the lists are being added 
to constantly, and where there is a “nov¬ 
elty” strongly recommended by a reliable 
nurseryman it will often pay to try it out 
— on a very small scale at first. 
The Best Use of Brickwork 
(Continued from page 87) 
perts, was in a measure accidental and due 
to immediate exposure to a too fierce fir¬ 
ing that melted the sand particles in which 
this particular sort of brick abounds. 
The double-stretcher Flemish bond 
which, as its name denotes, consists of 
two stretchers together, followed by a 
single header in all courses, the headers 
being laid above the joints between the 
two stretchers in the course next below. 
It is coming more and more into vogue in 
America and has been used in some of 
our largest buildings with signal success. 
For the vertical joints between the con¬ 
tiguous stretchers, mortar colored to ex¬ 
actly match the bricks is often used, thus 
making a blind joint and giving the effect 
of one double-length stretcher. The use 
of double-stretcher Flemish bond sets a 
big, broad scale and can be employed to 
advantage in large wall surfaces, particu¬ 
larly where it is desired to take off some¬ 
what from the appearance of height as 
the strongly marked horizontal lines have 
that effect. This feature can be further 
emphasized by slightly increasing the 
thickness of the horizontal mortar joints. 
English bond and Dutch cross bond, 
like both the single-stretcher and double¬ 
stretcher Flemish bond, are replete with 
artistic feeling and deserve to be far more 
widely known and used than they now are 
in America. Not only are they essentially 
artistic, but they are strong and honest in 
structure. Both English bond and Dutch 
cross bond have alternate courses, the one 
wholly of stretchers and the next wholly 
of headers, but in the English bond the 
stretchers of all the courses come directly 
above each other, while, in the Dutch 
cross bond, the stretchers of the first and 
fifth courses break joints with the 
stretchers of the third and seventh courses 
respectively, and thus throughout, giving 
a half-invisible, diagonally diapered ap¬ 
pearance if the mortar joints and the hue 
of the bricks be judiciously arranged. If 
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