HOUSE AND GARDEN 
52 
July, 1910 
First impressions are 
most important. As 
you enter the door a 
Wood Mantel 
in the hall, with a cheerful fire to bid 
you welcome, creates at once a favor¬ 
able impression of the house and its 
owner. Here is one of many 
WOOD MANTELS appropriate for 
a hall. No room is complete without 
a mantel — and Wood Mantels are 
made that harmonize with every 
room. Many suggestions and illus¬ 
trations will be found in the booklet 
Why Wood Mantels? 
which we will gladly send to any one 
thinking of building, remodeling or 
decorating. Address 
Wood Mantel Manufacturers’ Association 
H. T. Bennett, Secretary 
Room 122s. State Life Bldg., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
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few inches. Branches which will not bend 
enough to be forked down and turned 
back up, may sometimes be rooted by tip 
layering, and thus save a resort to the 
more troublesome air layering. 
Now is the time to do this work, and 
a few of those common shrubs which re¬ 
spond most readily to this process and are 
therefore the best for the beginner to work 
with, are listed below. The method to be 
followed with each is practically the same; 
three to four inches is deep enough to 
cover the stems in all cases: 
Calycanthus —• Carolina all-spice or 
sweet shrub: Simple layering; put down 
in summer, sever in late autumn. 
Daphne—Garland flower : Simple lay¬ 
ering ; put down in summer, do not sever 
’till following spring. 
Forsythia: Simple, serpentine or tip ; 
put down in summer, sever late autumn; 
tips will root where they strike the ground. 
Philadelphus—Syringa : Simple layer¬ 
ing ; put down in summer, sever in late 
autumn. 
Ribes—Flowering currant: Mound 
lavering according to directions; sever in 
following spring. 
TERRA COTTA 
Garden Furniture 
Your garden and hall will be more attractive if fur¬ 
nished with the Galloway productions. The material is 
hard burned selected clay fired to a point to insure 
durability in the severest climate. 
The extensive collection of original designs and re¬ 
plicas of antique art includes: 
FLOWERPOTS FLOWER BOXES JARDINIERES 
VASES BENCHES FERNERIES TABLES 
SUNDIALS STATUARY FOUNTAIN! 
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illustrations and full information 
Galloway Terra Cotta Co., 3218 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Road Making on the Country 
Place 
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ing from pitch and creosote to disinfect¬ 
ants, paints and beautiful dyes, furnishes 
a dense black bitumen which is weather¬ 
proof, adhesive and cheap. When the 
engineer has spread down his broken 
stone and rolled it into true contour, he 
heats the viscid tar till it becomes a fluid 
and flushes a heavy coat of it over the 
stone. Before it cools and hardens the 
top layer of fine stone chips is spread and 
rolled into the pitchy bed. The tar cools 
and the stone is thus gripped firmly in a 
viscid matrix. The plasticity of this ma¬ 
trix permits this surface to yield slightly 
instead of pulverizing. It loks like sheet 
asphalt and is dustless in the same sense 
that asphalt is. Its plastic softness is re¬ 
vealed by the difference in sound when a 
horse is driven over it. The sharp metal¬ 
lic ring of the hoofs on ordinary macadam 
is deadened to a velvety thud on the tar- 
impregnated surface. 
Simple as it is, this process of making 
automobile-proof roads was learned only 
by long and costly experiment dating 
from work that began at Nice ten years 
ago. The French engineers worked it out 
to a point where they had abandoned all 
other forms of dust prevention and devel¬ 
oped a new industry with special machin¬ 
ery for tar spreading before the American 
engineers took it up in 1904. To Mont¬ 
clair, New Jersey, falls the honor of hav¬ 
ing first developed the process thoroughly 
in this country. Other towns and cities 
followed suit, and there are now many 
localities, especially suburbs of large cities, 
where the dust problem is especially vex¬ 
ing, that have adopted the policy of build- 
MAULE’S SEEDS 
ONCE GROWN 
ALWAYS GROWN 
Catalogue sent free upon request 
Philadelphia 
WM. HENRY MAULE 
1763 Filbert Street - 
Hoggson Brothers 
7 East 44th Street :: :: :: New York 
Designers and Builders 
UNDER A SINGLE CONTRACT WITH THE 
OWNER. LIMITING COST AND PROFIT 
ROOKWOOD FAIENCE TILE 
in stock sizes and varied colors arranged in geometric design 
for border treatment in connection with plain tiles. 
ROOKWOOD POTTERY COMPANY 
Cincinuati 
Eastern Office 1 Madison Avenue, New York 
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