HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1911 
WILLOWCRAFT 
/1 1 HIS artistic willow furniture is labelled with the 
VI' name “Willowcraft” to protect purchasers from 
the cheaply made and very inferior imitations. 
Insist upon seeing the label. 
Willowcraft is famous for its artistic lines, durability and 
exclusive patterns. 
Ask your dealer if he carries Willowcraft; if not, write us 
for fully illustrated catalog. 
THE WILLOWCRAFT SHOP 
Box C.:: :j NORTH CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
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Wilson’s Outside Venetians 
BLIND AND AWNING COMBINED 
For town and country houses. Very durable and artistic. 
Easily operated from inside. Admit air; exclude sun rays. 
Special Outside Venetians 
for porches and piazzas; 
exclude the sun; admit 
the breeze. Virtually make 
an outdoor room. 
Orders should be placed 
now for early summer. 
Write for Venetian Cata¬ 
logue No. 3. 
Also Inside Venetians, 
Rolling Partitions, Roll¬ 
ing Steel Shutters. Burg¬ 
lar and Fireproof Steel 
Curtains, Wood Block 
_H_IS! Floors. 
Wilson’s Piazza Blinds 
JAS. G. WILSON MFG. CO. 
S and 5 West 29th Street New York 
HICK’S 
BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS OR 
BUFF WYANDOTTES 
will ornament your premises and will supply your 
Family needs of Eggs and Meat for the table. None 
better. 
If you wish to please the Children, order some of 
my Buff Cochin Bantam eggs for setting purposes, 
the greatest of Children’s pets. 
Wnte me today for prices of eggs or stock. 
CALVIN HICKS, Box 15 H, ROCKVILLE, MD. 
Complete 
Working 
Plans from 
S10 up 
I WANT THE MAN 
who knows good architecture to send for my 
new book 
HOMES OF CHARACTER 
which illustrates over 40 choice designs of 
houses, cottages and bungalows. 
All NEW, PRACTICAL plans, with CON¬ 
CISE descriptions and ACCURATE COST 
ESTIMATES. 
Compiled by an architect of ABILITY AND 
20 YEARS EXPERIENCE in building HOMES. 
$1.00 prepaid. Sample pages 2 cents. 
John HenryNewson^ 
ARCHITECT 
1334 WILLIAMSON BUILDING 
CLEVELAND. OHIO 
American Fences and Gates 
Tf you contemplate fence building, the art- 
*■ istic styles and useful information in our 
new catalogue 10 will interest you. 
Write for it today, stating briefly your re¬ 
quirements. 
We should like to tell you things that you 
ought to know about fences, plain and orna¬ 
mental ; it will, therefore, pay you to write 
us before constructing a fence of any kind. 
FENCE DEPARTMENT 
AMERICAN WIRE FORM CO. 
100 Church St. New York City 
Catalog on Request 
ATLANTIC 
TERRA COTTA 
COMPANY 
Landscape Pottery Dept. 
1170 BROADWAY, N. Y. 
Noll’s Tested Seeds 
EACH YEAR OUR BUSINESS OROWS-SO DO OUR SEEDS 
- TRIAL MAKES YOU A PERMANENT CUSTOMER 
$250.00 in Prizes. Write To-day 
SPECIAL OFFER—PRIZE COLLECTION 
NOLL'S Early Short Top Forcing CARROT, NOLL'S Early Prolific 
White Spine CUCUMBER, Champion of all LETTUCE, Prizetaker 
O.VIOV, Scarlet Turnip, White Tipped RADDISH. SEND six two- 
cent stamps to cover postage and packing and receive SEEDS 
POSTPAID, together with beautiful 112 page GARDEN and FLOWER 
BOOK (250 illustrations) and CASH PRIZE Offer Free. 
J. F. NOLL, 110 Mulberry Street, NEWARK, N. J. 
Plant for Immediate Effect 
Not for Future Generations 
Start with the largest stock that can be secured. It takes over twenty years 
to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 
We do the long waiting— thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that give 
an immediate effect. Price List Now Ready. 
ANDORRA NURSERIES B H°. X PHIlTdELPHLA, L PA. 
WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 
About Sweet Peas 
nPHERE is hardly a man or a woman 
but thinks he or she is perfectly 
qualified to grow sweet peas, and should 
there not be a good showing, they never 
for a moment attach any blame to them¬ 
selves, but point to the season, the birds, 
mice, and all kinds of creeping things, both 
above and below the soil, as being the 
cause of the failure; and so failure suc¬ 
ceeds failure. As a matter of fact it is 
not everyone that can grow these lovely 
flowers. 
They do best in a fairly loamy or light 
soil, and I recommend that not one, but 
various colors, should be sown at the same 
time, as the result is distinctively more 
pleasing to the eye. I am, of course, think¬ 
ing more of the man who has but a small 
garden, for in the gardens of professionals 
and “big men” it is becoming more com¬ 
mon to keep the colors distinctive. 
At any rate the ground should be in fine 
tilth before sowing, and a little should be 
raked off the top, when the seeds may be 
put in to a depth of an eighth to a quarter 
of an inch, the soil being again gently 
spread over the top, and the whole patted 
down, though not too hard. Another thing 
to remember is not to plant sweet peas in 
the same ground more than two years in 
succession. It may be done oftener, but 
it is not good practice, and disappointment 
has been experienced from such experi¬ 
ments. Moreover, if there are any insect 
pests in the ground, they will make havoc 
with the rootlets, and even the tops of the 
peas as they show out of the ground. 
Sweet peas may be sown as soon as the 
ground can be worked up fine enough, and 
continue sowing till middle of May. 
Where there are sparrows, it is well be¬ 
fore the sprouting above the ground, to 
place some strands of cotton from one end 
to the other of the rows of seeds. Black 
cotton is preferable to white, as the spar¬ 
rows seem to fear it more. It is also well 
to put the pea sticks or other arrangements 
which may be adopted for training the 
plants, up in time; and if a reasonable 
amount of water is supplied in a dry sea¬ 
son, there should be a good amount of 
bloom, provided good seed has been ob¬ 
tained, and the soil kept loose on top. 
W. R. G. 
Cross Fertilization 
r I 'HIS is an extremely interesting phase 
of the cultivation of this lovely 
flower and one whereby the grower may 
by care and perseverance produce some¬ 
thing new. To those who have not looked 1 
into the structure of the pea flower, it is a 
little puzzling at first, as they are self- 
fertilized before they expand. However,, 
we must select the flowers we are to oper¬ 
ate upon as soon as they show their color 
in the bud, cut away the sepals and petals 
and remove the stamens; this will ensure 
their not being fertilized with their own* 
pollen ; then gather from the variety which 
we wish to cross with, some good dry 
pollen, carrv this on a camels hair brush 
(Continued on page 304) 
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