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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1911 
A Wagner Hardy Border provides, at slight A Wagner Border, varieties labelled, numbered 
cost, pictures of living beauty from earliest and packed in order of planting, saves money on 
spring till frost. regular catalog rates; saves the trouble of plan- 
Finest-grown hardy herbaceous perennials ning; insures certain success. 
arranged for color harmonies, picturesque out- Any of these delightful flower-schemes will 
line, continuous bloom and permanence. make your place one to be proud of. 
Arranged Ready for Planting 
Border B1—4x10 feet, 15 strong, hardy plants, $ 2 . 25 ; extra large, $ 3.75 
Border B2—4x20 “30 “ “ “ 4 . 50 ; extra large, 7.50 
Border B3—5x10 “ 20 “ “ “ 3 . 00 ; extra large, 5.00 
Border B4—5x20 “40 “ “ ‘ 6 . 00 ; extra large, 10.00 
Larger quantities (artistic grouping maintained) at proportionate rates. 
Order Your Warner Border Now Complete Catalogue, New Edition, Ready! 
We will ship at proper time. Write us about Trees, shrubs, roses, miscellaneous plants, 
soil, etc., and we will advise you. Write for this splendid book. Free. 
WAGNER PARK NURSERIES 
Box 600, Sidney, Ohio Florists, Nurserymen, Landscape Gardeners 
REMEMBER —You make your selection from more than 6oo acres of 
choicest nursery products—from our own gardens shown below, 
which-have been growing for more than half a century. The 
finest collection of trees, shrubbery and garden plants in America; 
all hardy and old, well-established growths. 
Remember —Our expert landscape gardeners plan your place for 
you, selecting plants suitable to soil and situation, with special 
regard to immediate and permanent effects. 
Remember —We make a specialty of moving and planting large trees 
and shrubbery, and furnish from our nurseries all varieties of 
large trees, evergreens and conifers to screen unsightly views or 
to produce woodland effects. , 
Everything for the home garden, including fruit trees, 
berry bushes, etc. 
Write at once for Catalog■ D-and ,lct us know your plans. 
THE STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS COMPANY 
Est. 1848 NEW CANAAN, CONN. I™- 1903 
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vision continues on eastward to Rockville 
Centre, an active trading point. Bald¬ 
win, already mentioned as the average 
commuting distance from New York, 
Freeport, Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh, 
Seaford, Massapequa, Amityville, Copta- 
gue and Lindenhurst. 
Babylon lies just beyond, the largest 
town since leaving Jamaica. With Bay- 
shore and Islip, it has a magnificient loca¬ 
tion on the Great South Bay and is further 
blessed by many fresh water lakes, old 
trees and wide streets. From here the 
commuter who wants all the sea air he 
can get may take a boat across the Bay to 
Saltaire and Ocean Beach — two compara¬ 
tively new communities on Fire Island. At 
Great River, the next station beyond Islip, 
and forty-six miles out, an arm of the Bay 
provides special facilities for small boat¬ 
ing. Beyond this, about Oakdale, are 
some of the large estates, while at Say- 
ville the typical home is nearer the middle- 
class purse. Bayport, Blue Point, and 
finally Patchogue, nestle around Pat- 
chogue Bay. Patchogue is the most 
flourishing city of the South Shore. Be¬ 
yond it lie many communities which to 
their inhabitants and friends surpass any¬ 
thing on the western end of the Island— 
the picturesque Flamptons, Aquebogue, 
Mattituck, Cutchogue, Southold, River- 
head, and Amagansett, but they are, for 
most people, beyond the commuting zone. 
Not many years ago the pioneer com¬ 
muter blazed the way for all this; and to 
him is due much of the credit for carry¬ 
ing out into the country the comforts 
and conveniences that we now demand 
as a matter of course. Drainage, ade¬ 
quate water supply, gas, electricity, libra¬ 
ries, good roads — all these were counted 
luxuries by the pioneer of but a few short 
years ago; to-day they are the necessities 
that we insist upon. 
Modern invention, too, has helped along 
this great movement of the city’s toilers 
out into fresh air and quiet, out among 
the trees and the growing things. She 
has brought us the individual drainage sys¬ 
tem, the individual water supply without 
the difficulties of the past, the individ¬ 
ual power plant for generating electricity. 
Only yesterday she has brought, through 
the German chemist, Hermann Blau, an 
illuminating gas that seems particularly 
well suited to the needs of the isolated 
home or group of homes that has no pub¬ 
lic service supply. The gas is subjected 
to a pressure that liquefies it and permits 
of its being transported in iron cylinders, 
which are connected directly to the ordi¬ 
nary piping systems. 
To sum up, if you will, divide the Isl¬ 
and into zones. At Jamaica and Flush¬ 
ing there is the country house, but still 
in immediate connection with the city 
either by trolley or train ; from there on 
to the line of Patchogue is the commu¬ 
ter’s section, and here are the colony de¬ 
velopments and estates — both for the man 
of moderate means and the millionaire. 
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