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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, ign 
Greenhouse and Garage 
A very practical idea this of conserv¬ 
ing space by using “the lid” of the gar¬ 
age for a greenhouse location. 
It certainly looks well, and the one 
boiler heats them both. Seeing this will 
start you thinking, but don’t spend too 
much time trying to solve location tan¬ 
gles. Send for us, we will help you out. 
Our Iron Frame House is the one you 
want because of its endurance and the 
way it is built to give your plants best 
possible growing advantages. 
SENT) FOR CATALOG 
Ini 1170 BROADWAY, N.Y.. > 
Rhododendrons for mass planting and for 
specimen plants. I can supply bushy 
clumps in small or large quantities. 
Before placing your order get my prices. 
Hardy Ferns for open sun, dry shade, 
moist shade or wet open ground. 
Hardy Flowers for open border, dark 
shade, wild garden or rockery. 
Azaleas and ornamental shrubs for lawns. 
My illustrated catalog containing 75 
pages will be of interest to all lovers of 
wild flowers. Mailed free on request. 
EDW. GILLETT, Box F, Sonthwick, Mass. 
HUTCHINGS 6 
Largest growers of pedigree farm and garden 
seeds in the world — Clovers, Grasses, Oats, 
Rye, Barley, Potatoes, Seed Corn, etc. We 
breed only' pedigree heavy yielding stocks. 
CATALOGUE FREE 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED COMPANY,Box 
Sworn yield 259 
bushels per acre. 
You can beat that 
in 1911 . 
La Crossei Wis. 
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people who would be apt to be interested in House & 
Garden and to whom we may send our circulation 
literature. 
"Low Cost Suburban Homes” abounds in helpful 
hints and suggestions for anyone interested in build¬ 
ing a country home anywhere. In its 62 pages it 
shows attractive houses of many widely different 
types, giving the floor plans and in many instances 
the prices, varying from $1,000 to $7,000, at which 
they have been built. It is also full of pictures of in¬ 
teriors and suggestions for arrangement of the gar¬ 
dens and home grounds. Attractively illustrated and 
printed on coated paper. 
Send us 25 names and addresses and the book will 
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To demonstrate the superiority of Henderson’s Tested Seeds, we have made up six of the best yve 
have into a Henderson Collection, consisting: of one packet each of the following great specialties: 
Ponderosa Tomato Henderson’s Invincible Asters 
Big Boston Lettuce Mammoth Butterfly Pansies 
Scarlet Globe Radish Giant Spencer Sweet Peas 
To obtain for our annual catalogue, “Everything for the Garden,” 
described below, the largest possible distribution, we make the follow¬ 
ing unusual offer: To every one who will mail us ten cents, mention¬ 
ing this publication, we will mail the catalogue and also send our 
Henderson Specialty Collection as above. 
Every Empty Envelope Counts as Cash 
This Collection is enclosed in a coupon envelope, which when emptied and returned, 
will be accepted as 25c cash payment on any order of one dollar or over. 
“EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN” 
our 1911 catalogue, is without exception the best we have ever issued. 208 pages, 8 
colored plates, 800 photo engravings, showing actual results without exaggeration, make 
it the most complete as well as beautiful horticultural publicatio of the year. Also 
contains full cultural directions for flowers and vegetables. 
dener's soul in California is the long dry 
summer. In this rainless half year, water 
must be gotten into the ground artificially, 
if at all; and the list of plants given above 
is the result of several years’ experiment¬ 
ing to maintain an enjoyable garden on a 
basis that will carry it through the dry 
season without irrigation becoming a bur¬ 
den. This list is intended for what may be 
called the more conventional garden. 
There is, however, another type of gar¬ 
den possible in California which can be 
kept up with even less labor, and at the 
same time is always beautiful. This we 
may call the native California garden. 
The luxuriance of flowers which we now 
habitually associate with Southern Cali¬ 
fornia is comparatively a recent develop¬ 
ment — a case of man’s making the desert 
to blossom as the rose; and if water were 
withheld for one season the land would re¬ 
vert to its original semi-aridity. 
The native flora of this semi-desert, 
however, is very interesting, and of re¬ 
cent years there has been an increasing 
disposition to introduce suitable represen¬ 
tatives of it into gardens here. In large 
grounds there is usually, now at least, a 
corner given up to Cacti, Yuccas, Coty¬ 
ledons, etc., or a bit of wild tangle where 
seeds scattered before the winter rains be¬ 
gin yield in late winter and early spring a 
crop of the lovely wild bloom that never 
fails to charm the Eastern visitor—such 
as California poppy, Baby-blue-eyes, In¬ 
dian paint brush, shooting-star, peuste- 
mons, gilias, phacelias and cream-cups. 
For permanent effect, however, in this 
type of garden, particularly .for the sum¬ 
mer and autumn when most herbaceous 
natives have died down, reliance must be 
had on shrubs of good foliage, of which 
there are many. Of these may be men¬ 
tioned two or three species of California 
sumacs — stately plants, hardly recogniza¬ 
ble as sumacs by Eastern eyes; two spe¬ 
cies of buckthorn with glossy leaves and 
pretty berries; California holly or toyon 
(botanically heteromeles), whose scarlet 
berries are California Christmas berries r 
and various species of ceanothus or wild 
lilac. Selections from these native plants, 
with a judicious intermingling of such 
exotics from Australia, South Africa and 
South America as thrive naturally under 
the conditions of the California climate— 
plants like the various species of pittos- 
porum and coprosma — will ensure in> 
Southern California a garden small or 
great which is both intrinsically beautiful, 
harmonious with the land, and of fascinat¬ 
ing interest to the discriminating plant 
lover. In such a garden the use of rock 
work and boulders, with lippia and inesem- 
bryanthemum as a ground cover, gives, 
completeness better than in the more con¬ 
ventional garden. 
The Little Red House—Ardsley 
S EVERAL summers ago we happened' 
to pass a quaint little red house set close- 
to a Westchester road. Its old-fashioned’ 
simplicity and the abundance of flowers; 
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