HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, ign 
EVERYTHING for the HOME GROUNDS 
Ornamental, deciduous, shade and weeping trees, Flowering shrubs, Barberry, 
Privet, Evergreens, Conifers, Hardy trailing vines, Climbers, Fruit trees. Berry 
bushes, Roses, Hardy garden plants, etc. 
The Finest Selection in America for Lawn and Garden Planting. 
More than 600 Acres of Choicest Nursery Produce 
We will make a planting-plan of your place, selecting trees, shrubs, etc. suitable 
to soil and situation, and give you the exact 
cost of planting and proper time to plant. 
Write for Catalog D 
The Stephen Hoyt’s Sons 
Company 
Est. 1848 New Canaan, Conn. inc. 1903 
NO DELAY TO GET THE CLOTHES DRY ON WASH DAY 
New Idea JnJ'Von.'bie 
Couch Hammock 
with folding steel stand and adjustable awning 
COOL—because you lie directly upon the duck bed — no 
mattress necessary. 
COMFORTABLE—duck bed of hammock gives to every 
movement and line of your body. 
STRONG—Stand and frame made of fine steel tubing 
which will not bend or break. 
LIGHT—Weighs only half as much as old style “bed” 
hammocks. 
CONVENIENT—Although a full size 6-ft. hammock it 
readily folds in space 36 x 14 inches. 
Can be obtained from dealers or write to us direct. 
Our illustrated booklet and price list free on request. 
D. W. SHOYER & CO. Dept. E. 394 Broadway, New York 
Manufacturers of the “Acme” High Art Hammocks. 
ThisFreeOffer to July 1,1911 
As an extra inducement to order 
your Bulbs early and to avoid being 
rushed later in the season, we will 
give FREE to the first 1000 people 
sending orders for $5.00 or more, 
100 Beautiful Assorted Narcissus Bulbs, 
suitable for naturalizing or bedding. 
These are all hardy , Imported Dutch 
Bulbs. This offer is good until July 1 , 
Order early or you may be disappointed. 
We are Specialists 
in Dutch Bulbs and import direct from immense 
stockin Holland,controlled exclusively byus. 
We therefore sell you these Superior Imported 
Bulbs as low as wholesale prices on ordinary 
American stock. We import to order only — 
so do not wait until Fall to purchase stock. 
Send today for our Import Price List and save 20% to 50% on 
your order. Write at once as you may not see this offer again. 
A. S. DREYER COMPANY 
Bulb Importers 
480 Judd Street, WOODSTOCK, ILL. 
When using the “CHICAGO-FRANCIS” Combined Clothes Dryer and Laundry 
Stove. Clothes are dried without extra expense, as the waste heat from the laundry 
stove dries the clothes. Can furnish stove suitable for burning wood, coal or gas. 
Dries the clothes as perfectly as sunshine Especially adapted for use in Residences, 
Apartment Buildings and Institutions. All Dryers are built to order in various 
sizes and can be made to fit almost any laundry room. Write today for descriptive 
circular and our handsomely illustrated No. D 12 catalog. Address nearest office. 
CHICAGO DRYER CO. OB SHANNON MFG.' CO. 
633 So. Wabash Ave.. CHICAGO, ILL, 124 Lexington Ave., NEW YORK CITY 
©0 HUimfOrU 5FitC 5£lacc 1\ /TY celebrated Old Fashioned fireplaces are scientific- 
* 1VI ally shaped and proportioned to absolutely guar¬ 
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are of asbestite slabs easily erected in new or old chimneys. 
Under no circumstances build without them if you truly 
appreciate a fire that warms men’s souls. All smoky 
fireplaces cured. Write for sizes and prices. 
My Illustrated Volume, “ Rum ford Fireplaces 
and How They Are Made,'* $2.00 
G. CURTIS GILLESPIE. M. E., Architect 
FIREPLACE EXPERT 
132 Nassau Street New York City 
“ Willowcraft” Furniture 
To see . “Willowcraft” furniture is to want it; to want it is to buy it; and 
to buy it is to secure a lifetime of artistic comfort and the feeling of satisfaction 
that alone comes from knowing you have the best. Nothing else like it. 
Ask your dealer for "Willowcraft” furniture bearing the “Willowcraft” stamp. 
None other genuine! 
If your dealer doesn’t carry the genuine stamped “Willowcraft” send for names 
of Willowcraft dealers, illustrated catalogue and price list. 
THE WILLOWCRAFT SHOPS 
Boat C North Cambridge, Mass. 
THE FIRE THAT WARMS MEN’S SOULS 
(Continued from page 482) 
The house for Dr. Hollister at East- 
hampton is a house designed for summer 
occupancy only, but built with a cellar and 
heated, it is intended for frequent use dur¬ 
ing the winters; winter week-end and 
Christmas parties at the seashore have 
quite lost their terrors for the city dwellers. 
The beautiful piazza on this house is ar¬ 
ranged to be enclosed as a sun-parlor in 
colder weather, and what is in the summer¬ 
time open to every breeze that blows, in the 
winter becomes a sheltered spot in which 
one can be, to all intents and purposes, out- 
of-doors and yet with comfort. 
The house at Pocantico Hills is one of 
the very large American summer homes, 
and from the standpoint of pure design 
one of the greatest. The main body of the 
house was built of rough stone, with half¬ 
timber used for the extensions, and the 
proportion between the half-timber and 
the stucco panels between is admirable in¬ 
deed. The stonework has what we call 
texture; small variations in color and a 
play of light and shade over the entire sur¬ 
face. We no longer seek in our materials 
undeviating regularity of form, but rather 
seek to have them express their nature as 
unreservedly as possible, and this charac¬ 
teristic of modern work is here exceedingly 
well displayed. The house conveys a won¬ 
derful impression of power and strength, 
but it is associated also with the idea of 
comfort. The heavy stone walls mean cool 
interiors and the large windows of the 
first story provide plenty of light. Bold 
and simple, it is one of the highest achieve¬ 
ments of the American architect. 
While these houses were all intended 
primarily for summer occupancy most of 
them have been designed also for occa¬ 
sional or extended winter residence, and 
the period of summer occupancy itself is 
being extended every year. People are 
finding that the summer is no more de¬ 
lightful than the spring, and that autumn 
is the best of all; yet both in the spring and 
in the autumn heat is needed in this coun¬ 
try, and the houses are not mere shacks, 
but homes. As has been said before, while 
the illustrations are mainly of large houses 
they all show houses whose quality is not 
a by-product of their size, but is as easily 
obtainable in the smallest as in the greatest. 
The Bird Allies 
T HE pleasure which one feels in having 
a number of birds flying about the 
garden has of late been diminished by the 
raucous cries of the English sparrow. A 
certain effort is being made, however, to 
induce some of the attractive and useful 
birds to gather about the home. The Pur¬ 
ple Martin yields very readily to any atten¬ 
tions that may be shown it. These birds, 
have a pleasant note and are beautiful to 
look at in their shining black plumage. 
They live in colonies, and to i*^uce their 
visits bird houses must be built for them. 
The Secretary of the Audubon Society at 
Evanston, Ill., has been experimenting on 
a type of house to draw these birds, and 
has now made an attractive colony house 
which he find very satisfactory in making 
the birds his neighbors. 
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