HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1910 
THE 
PERGOIA 
HARTMANN-^SANDER'S COMPANY 
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A very interesting pamphlet just issued by us on the Per¬ 
gola can he had free on request. Ask for catalogue P-27. 
HARTMANN-SANDERS CO. 
Elston Webster Avenues, Chicago. Ill. 
East, office, 1123 Broadway, NewYork City 
Exclusive Manufacturers of 
ROLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 
Suitable for Pergolas, porches and interior use. 
We also publish catalogues P-29of sun-dials and P-40 of wood columns 
THE FIREPLACE 
is the feature around which the family life cen¬ 
ters. Let it be honest, genuine and built for 
burning logs. 
tf]J Send for our “ Hints on Fireplace Construction,” 
TU containing- reliable rules for the proportioning of 
fireplaces and flues, and catalogue of our fireplace Throats 
and Dampers, Iron Coal Windows, Etc. 
THE H. W. COVERT CO. 
169 Duane Street NEW YORK 
—A Building Manual— 
If homebuilding' has any appeal 
to you—if you have in prospect 
building operations of any de¬ 
scription-you simply must not 
be without the 
Great January 1910 Building Num¬ 
ber of House and Garden 
50 Pages of Distinctive Homes—Colonial 
Half Timber—Cement—Remodeled Farm¬ 
houses— Bungalows —Summer Camps. 
A limited number of this superb issue are 
on hand. Write for a copy and see if it 
doesn’t crystalize your ideas. 
Sent by return mail on receipt of 25 cents. 
McBRIDE, WINSTON & CO. 
449 Fourth Avenue, New York 
"You choose the 
colors, we'll make 
the rug.” ...... 
Y OL'R own individual rug, differ¬ 
ent from all other rugs, and in 
a high class wool fabric adapt¬ 
ed to your own decorations. If the 
rugs in stock colors do not suit your 
require nents, we will make one that 
will, either plain, self-tone or con¬ 
trast. All sizes up to twelve feet 
wide, any length. Seamless, wool 
weft, reversible, heavy and durable. 
Sold by best shops, or write for color 
line and price list to Arnold, Con¬ 
stable & Co., New York. 
THREAD ® THRUM WORKSHOP. 
Auburn, N. Y. 
abundant blossoming and proper low 
growth may be assured if the tops are 
stopped and lateral growths well spurred. 
The tall tree-stemmed Roses will seem 
less bare in the garden if the lovely 
Wichuraiana Roses, “Elsie Robichon,” 
“Alberic Barbier” and others are used as 
a covering, and the Petunia also lends it¬ 
self excellently to this end. 
Fertilizer for Ferns. 
O NE of the best fertilizers for the 
Maidenhair Fern and for other 
ferns is nitrate of soda dissolved in the 
water that is fed to them. If your ferns 
are small or weak do not make the pro¬ 
portion of nitrate more than one-quarter 
of ounce to the gallon, but large plants 
and those of vigorous growth should be 
watered with a solution in proportion of 
one-half an ounce of nitrate to the gallon. 
Apply this fertilizer not oftener than once 
every ten days. Soot and salt are also 
useful. Some gardeners declare that the 
soot water fertilizer imparts a rich dark 
green hue to the fronds. 
Plants for Wire Baskets. 
T HE hanging baskets of wire, made for 
porch use, may be lined with moss 
and filled with an earth composed of a 
mixture of loam, leaf-mould, a little well 
rotted stable manure and sand, the whole 
being made fairly firm. In this soil one 
may plant small Begonias, Fuchsias, trail¬ 
ing Lobelias, Ferns, Ivy-leaved Gerani¬ 
ums and Tradescantia, besides other vine¬ 
like plants. 
Pepper Plants for Use and Or¬ 
nament 
by Georgia Torrey Drennan 
C URIOUS, but true it is, that while a 
certain genus of plants will scatter 
its growth in all lands, there will be some 
species that will grow nowhere but in 
some one locality. For instance, there is 
a member of the Capsicum family that 
grows nowhere in the world but on a 
strip of land beginning somewhat north of 
New Orleans, extending through the Rio 
Grande section of Texas and beyond the 
City of Mexico. It is closely allied to the 
Cayenne or Capsicum minimum. It is 
called “chili patin” by the Mexicans. Un¬ 
like the Cayenne pepper, which the French 
call “piment,” and the Americans, “Bird’s- 
eye pepper,” the chili patin is so fiery 
that no one can eat it but Mexicans. They 
feed on pepper from childhood to old age. 
The healthful properties are such that its 
use is considered to prolong life. It gives 
powerful aid to digestion. No plant pro¬ 
duces a seed-berry that burns like the chili 
patin. The pods are round, about the size 
of a pea, and dazzling scarlet, with blos¬ 
soms as white as snow. The green pods, 
the red pods and the white blossoms, at 
certain times of the year, are all on the 
^Turning Big 
Country 
Properties 
into Com¬ 
munities 
of 
Small Farms 
Thousands of city people 
every year grow discontented 
with their restricted way of 
living. They yearn to get back 
to nature—to lead the ideal life, in a 
community of small farms, with other 
congenial people. And yet be within 
reasonable distance of a metropolitan 
center. 
CJ If you own a large country estate or 
wish to make a profitable investment by de¬ 
veloping such a tract into a high-class farm 
community—we can show you how to do it. 
CJ Being experts on all agricultural matters 
and having upon our staff leading engi¬ 
neers, architects and landscape artists, 
we are especially qualified and equipped 
to draw plans and advise you on every 
step of the development. 
CJ But this is only one of our spe¬ 
cialties. 
CJ We advise on all agricultural 
matters whether they be in relation to 
farming, orchard growing, cattle 
and poultry raising, landscape gar¬ 
dening, land buying or building 
erection. And our fees are moderate., 
CJ Send for full information on 
community farm living, also for 
our regular booklet, if you are 
interested in the general work 
we are doing. 
The AGRICULTURAL 
EXPERTS Ass’n 
We Solve Your Country Problems’* 
t* 
CEO T. POWELL, President 
CHARLES H. PLUMP, 
Treasurer and Manager 
5 East Forty-second Street 
NEW YORK 
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Bungalows and American Homes 
i Design No. 2, Built in California and Iowa—Cost $2800 
Our Handsome 112 page, 8x11 book of Bungalows, Mission, Colo¬ 
nial, English timbered and Concrete houses for 1910 shows inte¬ 
riors, exteriors, and floor plans and actual cost to build, ranging 
from $1,000 io $10,000. These designs are photos of structures 
we have built throughout the country—not theoretical pen pic¬ 
tures, Special specifications and details of construction made to 
suit any climate. Price of book $1.00 prepaid. Sample leaves free. 
BROWN BROS., Architects, 917 Security Bank Bldg., Cedar Rapids, Iowa 
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