HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1911 
\ / THE HEART OF HOUSE 
HEATING 
The greatest as¬ 
set of comfort in 
winter is a bright 
warm home, and in 
no way can you keep 
your house more et- 
ficiently and satis¬ 
factorily heated than 
by The Dunning 
System. 
If you have suf¬ 
fered discomfort this 
winter we should be 
glad to take up the 
matter of efficient 
house heating with 
you now. 
The Dunning Sys¬ 
tem provides reli¬ 
able uniform heat all 
through your house. 
It is built to last 
and when installed 
is good for a life¬ 
time. 
How Dunning 
boilers work, of 
what they are built, 
why we claim them 
to be the best on earth, is contained in a booklet we 
have had prepared. Write for it. 
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heights up to 10 feet. 
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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 
A New Book By Miron E. Hard, A. M. 
This volume contains 624 pages (754 x 10 inches), good 
paper, large type and 500 half-tone engravings made from 
original photographs. 
PUBLISHED BY 
MUSHROOM PUBLISHING CO. 
512 SCHULTZ BLDG., COLUMBUS, OHIO 
An 01d=Fashioned 
SUNDIAL 
enhancing the delight of your Garden, 
adds a real touch of romance 
and sentiment 
Our collection of more than 
20 designs is on exhibition at 
our studio. 
All models copied from 
Old World masterpieces and 
executed in marble, stone and 
Pompeian stone. 
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Sundials and Garden 
Furniture. 
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226 Lexington Avenue, New York 
Factories: Astoria, L. I 
Carrara, Italy 
the first part of May. Give extra manure 
or fertilizer just as the heads begin to 
show, and keep them shaded, either by 
tying the leaves together over the heads or 
putting on paper. 
Celery. It would be easy to use a whole 
article in describing the details of celery 
growing, but I have space for only a few 
directions. In the first place, it must have 
moisture, either in the soil or artificially 
supplied. Start the seed carefully, as it is 
fine and of slow germination; firm it well 
into the soil and barely cover. For early, 
start in March under glass; for late, in 
April, either inside or out, but where it 
may be watered and if necessary shaded, 
until up. Transplant to flats. When set¬ 
ting out, shorten back the roots and set in 
firmly, just up to the crown. Give clean 
frequent shallow culture. Early in Aug¬ 
ust bank up that to be used in September; 
and by August 15 th hill up that for fall 
and winter use, and handle about Septem¬ 
ber 1 st to get it ready for winter storing. 
It is usually planted in rows two or three 
feet apart, and the plants about six inches 
in the row. On rich soil, where moisture 
can be supplied, it may be grown in solid 
beds, setting the plants eight to twelve 
inches apart each way, and thus letting it 
blanch itself. 
Endive. Is grown much like lettuce, ex¬ 
cept that it is of much better quality in 
late fall, and needs tying up to blanch it. 
Kale. Is another not frequently used 
vegetable. It is grown like cabbage and 
used for greens. Much improved by frost. 
Lettuce. For first crop out-of-doors, 
sow under glass about February first; 
again March 1 st, and outside April 1 st. 
During late spring and summer, sow every 
two weeks for succession crops. If wanted 
for winter in coldframes or hotbeds, be¬ 
gin sowing about August 10 th, using a va¬ 
riety suitable for forcing. Cultivate often, 
and use dressings of nitrate of soda to in¬ 
duce rapid growth, for upon this the 
quality depends. 
Parsley. Soak the seed in warm water 
before planting, and sow a few radish with 
it to mark the rows. Will do well in par¬ 
tial shade. Take up a few plants and set 
in a box of good soil for winter use. 
Rhubarb. Set out one or two roots — 
division of old clumps, every three or four 
feet in the row. Enrich liberally with old 
manure, as directed for asparagus. Top- 
dress every spring with old manure and 
nitrate of soda. Keep seed stalls cut out. 
Sea kale. Is grown in permanent beds, 
like asparagus. Sow seed in drills four¬ 
teen inches apart and one inch deep. 
Transplant in following spring, as directed 
for asparagus, three feet each way. In 
late autumn, after the leaf stalks fall, 
cover each hill with a half-peck of sand 
and on top of this a foot or more of soil. 
The blanched stalks are cut in the spring, 
and then the earth and sand shovelled off 
and manure spaded in about the plants. 
This most delicious vegetable is not as 
widely grown as it deserves. 
(Continued on page 380 ) 
Make your 
windows attractive 
The freshest, daintiest curtain 
stuffs will look cheap and inar¬ 
tistic if your window shades are 
cracked and wrinkled. 
Brenlin, the new window shade 
material, always hangs straight 
and smooth. 
BRENLIN 
Window Shades 
Won’t CracK 
Won’t Fade 
Unlike ordinary window shades, 
Brenlin is made without chalk or 
clay “filling” of any kind. It is the 
“filling” in ordinary shades that 
cracks and falls out, leaving un¬ 
sightly streaks and pin holes. Bren¬ 
lin will not crack, wrinkle or fade 
and yet really shades. 
The wearing qualities of Brenlin 
make it the most economical shade 
for you to buy. 
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and samples 
This book contains 
valuable suggestions 
on the artistic treat¬ 
ment of windows— 
and shows actual 
samples of Brenlin 
in all colors and 
n Brenlin Du¬ 
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it today. 
Chas. W. 
Breneman & 
Co., 2069-2079 
Reading Road, 
Cincinnati, O. 
DRICES marked in plain figures will 
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LOW when compared with the best 
values obtainable elsewhere. 
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