HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1911 
For Verandas, Porches, Lawns, Indoors 
The Perfect Couch for Outdoor Sleeping 
A Rowe Hammock has hung for 8 or 10 summers on a 
porch within 200 feet of the Atlantic Ocean. Last season 
a visitor referred to it as “your new hammock.” 40 
years’ experience show that Rowe’s Hammocks give 10 
years of continuous out-of-door service. As far as the 
signs of wear go, you can’t tell whether a Rowe Ham¬ 
mock has been used 6 months or 6 years. 
It is made by sailmakers on the model we supplied for 
years to the U. S. Navy. It is made from duck that is 
60 per cent, to 200 per cent, stronger than that in others, 
and sewn with thread that is twice as strong. It has 
sewing and bracing that no other maker has learned the 
need of. It is handsome, but severely plain—no showi¬ 
ness, just solid merit. 
Our Khaki is permanent in color, will not soil clothing. 
A very few first-class stores are licensed to sell ouf 
hammocks. If not conveniently situated, you should buy 
direct from us. Delivery prepaid, ready for hanging. 
WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET 
Small silt name-label on every Rowe Hammock. 
E. L. ROWE & SON, Inc., Sailmakers and Ship Chandlers 
571 Wharf Street, GLOUCESTER, Mass. 
ORCHIDS 
We are specialists 
in Orchids, we col¬ 
lect, import, export, 
grow and sell them 
exclusively. 
Illustrated and 
descriptive catalog 
and price 1 i*st on 
application. 
LAGER & HURRELL 
Orchid Growers and Importers SUMMIT, N. J. 
Complete 
Service 
You can get from us 
real helpful service in 
making your home 
grounds attractive, if you will but write us. 
Whether inquiry or order, it matters not, 
you get direct, personal attention. 
Your queries or orders go direct to one man, 
the District Manager of your State. He is 
competent and will give you helpful, depend¬ 
able advice and assistance. 
For 57 years we have been shipping to 
garden owners, all over the world, the best 
to be had in trees and hardy plants. 
Thousands come to us yearly—we are their head¬ 
quarters. If you own a garden you need to know us 
for your own good. 
The flower pictured is one of our Mallow Marvel 
blossoms. We originated and introduced this 
wonderful strain of plants. Ask us about them. 
1911 PLANT BOOK READY 
Send today for a free copy of our new revised plant book. 
A complete list of Meehan-quality plants, priced at real value. 
Invaluable to the buyers of plants. Send for it today, 
c? —■ 4A for MEEHANS’ GARDEN BULLETIN 
jCIlfl 1U CCIllS —edited by prae ical horticulturists — for 
three months. If you do you’ll want it continually. 
THOMAS MEEHAN & SONS 
Box 40, Germantown, Phlla., Pa. 
I8 7 
Large Pin Oak and Cut-Leaf Maple M^ved to Cedarhurst, L. I., by Hick’s Tree- 
Movers a Few Years Ago. 
I ONG ISLAND’S sandy soil requires drought resistant trees. Don't make 
the costly mistake of selecting the Elms, Basswoods, Poplars and Willows, 
you remember growing so luxuriantly on the mainland. On the mainland 
the rock or clay subsoil holds the moisture. On Long Island the water sinks 
through the sand and gravel to the water table, which may be thirty or one hun¬ 
dred feet deep, and therefore below the reach of tree roots. The trees that grow 
in river bottoms are the kinds generally grown by nurserymen because they are 
cheap to produce, live when transplanted with poor roots, grow rapidly the first 
few years after planting. On most of Long Island, however, they will com¬ 
mence to fail soon after planting and never reach that perfect health, which is 
essential to beauty. We have drought resistant trees grown from Long Island 
seed. 
In our nursery are over 2,000 trees, 15 to 40 years old. They are big,- 
broad specimens, grown wide apart like trees in an orchard. We can move 
these big trees right to your grounds and plant them for you. You -secure 
at once a shady lawn and overcome all those long years of waiting for small 
trees to grow up. We will guarantee the trees to thrive if you wish us to do 
so. Our catalogues show what has been done on Long Island, and the stock- 
available to solve your landscape problems. Send for them. If possible come 
down to the nursery and see how we move these big trees, and talk things 
- over with us. You can select just the trees you want.- Better do this the first 
day possible and get ahead of the inevitable spring rush. 
ISAAC HICKS & SONS, Westbury, L. I. 
Hicks* Trees 
Especially for 
Long Island 
Planting 
The Imperial Floor 
■vThe ideal flooring for private houses and public 
J buildings, is germ proof, fire proof, water proof 
! and practically wear proof. It can be laid over 
’any old or new floor, and presents a warm, non¬ 
slipping surface. Samples free. 
THE 
IMPERIAL 
FLOOR 
CO. 
Mil and Furnace Sts., 
ROCHESTER, 
NEW YORK 
The Imperial Sanitary Table 
Made with our composition top, smooth as glass, 
stainless and not affected by heat. Does away 
with foul-smelling, unsanitary oil-cloth. Frame 
of hard wood, white enameled. 
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