HOUSE AND GARDEN 
474 
June, 1911 
GARDEN ORNAMENTS 
TAROM beautiful flower vases in Cast Iron 
^ and Bronze to Fountains of artistic de¬ 
sign, everything in metal ornaments for the 
garden and lawn is included in our produc¬ 
tions. Whatever you require in this line you 
will find illustrated and described in one of 
our catalogues. 
We issue separate catalogues of Display Fountains, 
Drinking Fountains, Electroliers, Vases, Grills and 
Gateways, Settees and Chairs, Statuary, Aquariums, 
Tree Guards, Sanitary Fittings for Stable and Cow 
Barn. 
Address: Ornamental Iron Dept. 
THE J. L-. MOTT IRON WORKS 
FIFTH AVENUE J7th STREET, N£W YORK 
f WAMPAGE SHORES 
READY THIS SPRING 
A magnificently located, perfectly developed property of the high- 
st class for people who desire a home for the Summer or all the 
ear ’round, at not too great cost. 
ONE MILE OF ACTUAL WATERFRONT on Manhasset Bay, Sands 
Point, Long Island. Opposite Great Neck. Railroad Station Port Washing¬ 
ton. No road or reservation in front. Surroundings and restrictions insure 
absolute privacy and protection and make Wampage Shores the most ideal 
site ever offered. It is the coolest spot around New York in Summer. 
Plots l A Acre up with every possible convenience — running water supply, 
electric power and telephone lines in conduits. Splendid Macadam roads. 
Elegant Landscape gardening. 
Send for photographs or better let us take you out for personal inspection. 
S. OSGOOD PELL & COMPANY 542 Fifth Ave. NEW YORK 
TELEPHONE BRYANT 5610 
One Of Our Farmstead Greenhouses 
And why do we call it a “Farmstead”? Simply because it is a farm greenhouse 
attached directly to the farmhouse. It only goes to show how indispensable greenhouses 
are getting to be. Cold frames are all right in their way, but if you really want to raise 
top notch plants, with the least trouble and a surety of success, then a greenhouse is 
the thing. 
Here and there we hear every once in a while of some one putting up an all-wooden 
house on a private place. Of course you and I wonder at it in these days of the splendid 
Iron Frame construction, with all their lightness, attractiveness and wonderful endurance. 
Any Iron Frame house is better than a wooden one, but there are certain hard and 
fast reasons why Hitchings’ is actually the best. Give us a chance to give you the 
reasons. As a starter, send for the new catalog. It is beautifully illustrated. 
FT itrKinde (HA F m nn n V Main Office and Factory: Elizabeth, N. J. 
niicnings i&L company , New York Office: mo Broadway 
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which bring the bounty of flowers, fruits 
and fresh vegetables. All this has been 
accomplished with the smallest possible 
outlay of funds. The expenditure has 
always meant improvement. The young 
woman worker has had enjoyment and 
gratification in a country house, out of all 
proportion to the money, labor and time 
invested, for it is an expression of her own 
personality. 
Summering the More Tender 
H ouse Plants 
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uation; and as for cuttings, anything that 
will root in any situation and under any 
conditions will root here; it is only neces¬ 
sary to thrust the cutting up to the first 
joint or leaf bud in the sand between the 
pots and leave them, and in an astonish¬ 
ingly short time they will be found to have 
taken root and commenced growth. 
Roses, especially, root readily here; be¬ 
gonias and gloxinias grow as if by magic, 
and if one forms the habit of sticking all 
the cuttings, stems of cut flowers of many 
kinds, and the like, into the sand, when fall 
comes there will be a fine lot of little plants 
waiting to be potted. 
In arranging the plants in the sand-box 
care should be taken to place such sun-lov¬ 
ing plants as the geraniums in the front or 
on that side of the box which receives the 
most sunshine. Shade-loving plants should 
be shielded from too great amount of sun¬ 
shine by being placed in the rear of the box 
or behind taller plants. So, too, cuttings 
of shade-loving plants may be thrust in be¬ 
tween the pots where they will be shielded 
from the sun; gloxinia leaves may be laid 
flat on the sand with the stem thrust under 
a pot and in this position will quickly form 
a callus and then a bulb, and by fall will be 
ready for potting; if kept growing during 
winter it will be large enough to bloom in 
the following summer. 
The sand-box may be beautified with 
trailing vines, and vines may be planted in 
the rear of the box and trained on the wall 
to form a background. Choice greenhouse 
vines which one hesitates to commit to the 
ground may be grown here in perfect safe¬ 
ty, providing there is sufficient sunshine. 
The passiflora, Southern Beauty, is a fine 
vine for this purpose as it is a very free 
bloomer and the blossoms are of great 
beauty. 
The sand-box may be kept gay with the 
blossoms of the tuberous begonias, glox¬ 
inias, amaryllis and fancy-leaved caladiums 
if one wishes to devote it to this purpose, or 
it may be made to serve the double part of 
utility and beauty. 
New Old Possibilities in Stucco 
Houses 
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terity of line, already referred to regarding 
concrete houses, again crops out. In its 
plasticity, however, lies a remedy for this 
repellent hardness, and it needs only some- 
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