HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
1910 
Order Trees Of The Evergreen 
Family For Planting Now 
Spruces, Pines, Cedars and the like do particu¬ 
larly well if planted before October first, as it 
gives them a chance to gain root growth before 
hard freezing checks them. This extra root growtli 
means better trees for you next Spring — they will 
put forth more and stronger new growth. 
If you want some fine white Pines for a screen, 
windbreak or hedge — we have a hundred or more 
that are 15 feet high. Splendid specimens every 
one of them. If you want smaller and cheaper 
trees and yet big enough to make a tall, solid 
screen, we have 500 trees eight feet high, and 1000 
six feet. They are big, broad trees that have been 
trimmed several times to make them solid and 
bushy. They are wide at the level of the eye. 
You can place them five feet apart and still make 
a solid screen. They can be economically and 
safely shipped. 
With our large trees you can get immediate re¬ 
sults — we have done the waiting and now the 
trees are yours at a very reasonable price, con¬ 
sidering their size and quality. This illustration 
shows a part of the circle of cedars, at the cross¬ 
ing of the two vistas in the Italian Garden of 
Mr. Stanley Mortimer, Roslyn, L. I. It is laid 
out on the lines of the one at the Villa d’Este, 
near Rome, and is a striking example of the 
immediate effects possible with Hicks’ big trees. 
Come now and pick out your evergreens—you 
can at the same time see our wonderful collection 
of big Maples, Lindens, Catalpas and Pin Oaks. 
You might like some of them moved to your place 
during October and November. 
Just off the press is a new catalog on evergreens. 
You will find it worth reading, because it illus¬ 
trates landscape problems and how to solve them. 
It is called “Evergreens for August-September 
Planting.” Send for it. The price list makes or¬ 
dering by mail a very simple matter. 
ISAAC HICKS (Sl SON 
WESTBURt, L. I. 
Horsford’s 
Hardy 
Perennials 
For Cold Weather 
If you have not tried Horsford s Plants, better 
get a few to set with others and watch results. 
It pays to have the best if you are looking for the 
best flowers. Plants from cold Vermont will win¬ 
ter almost anywhere that white men can. If in¬ 
terested in Hardy Bulbs for Autumn setting. Home 
Grown Lilies, Shrubs, Trees or Vines, you can get 
them from a Northern climate and feel sure they 
won’t kill back the first hard winter. My Autumn 
Supplement, ready middle of August, offers many 
inducements to those who have room to plant 
liberally. You should ask for it, also my Spring 
catalogue, before placing Fall orders. 
F. II. HORSFOItD, Charlotte, Vt. 
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 fk? Webster Avenues, Chicago, Ill. 
East, office, 1123 Broadway, New York City 
Exclusive Manufacturers of 
ROLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 
Suitable for Pergolas, porches and interior use. 
We also'publisli r cataloguefl P-29 of sun-dial sand P-40ofwood columns 
of obtaining the best, except you purchase 
from some reliable manufacturer. The 
galvanized iron sold at twenty cents is a 
very good article, but under no circum¬ 
stances use galvanized steel. It will not 
last. A most practical test was lately 
made by a large firm of plumbers to de¬ 
termine which was the better of the two. 
They constructed a pail which was used 
daily about their stable, for watering 
horses, and which was therefore subjected 
to as severe a test as could be imagined. 
Part of the time it was filled with water, 
and the rest of the time it was emptied 
and allowed to dry by itself. After a 
year's constant use the pail made of gal¬ 
vanized iron was in good condition. An¬ 
other made of galvanized steel lasted only 
three months under similar usage. It will 
he seen, therefore that, using the good 
twenty-cent galvanized iron, it could be 
replaced once (allowing the balance be¬ 
tween forty and fifty-four cents for the 
cost of doing so — far too liberal an al¬ 
lowance with entirely new material) and 
still only cost the same as the copper did 
for the material alone. 
Making the Vegetable Garden 
Beautiful 
(Continued from page 150) 
While all of this applies especially to 
gardening within a very limited space, the 
little effort required to design and lay out 
a vegetable garden on lines that shall 
please the eye and satisfy the ever-con- 
stant craving for beauty and charm, is 
well expended no matter how wide the 
domain. Indeed, I am not sure that the 
large place owes it to itself and the world 
at large to take especial pains in this direc¬ 
tion — for it is to the large place, where 
money expenditure does not have to he 
reckoned so carefully, that all places look 
for an example and for inspiration. And 
a vegetable garden once laid down on 
good lines, with a garden exposed here 
and there at suitable spots — a dial with a 
Rose clambering around its base, per¬ 
haps, or a fountain or bird pool to en¬ 
courage the presence of the bird allies so 
that they may be early on hand to devour 
the pernicious worm — may be as perman¬ 
ent as any formal flower garden. 
Rotation of crops is perfectly feasible 
within its limits, as well as the successive 
planting which prolongs the enjoyment of 
its products — and if it is enclosed, as I 
strongly advocate its being, fruit trees 
trained in the European fashion upon its 
walls add just so much more to its advan¬ 
tages as well as to its very real beauty. 
Making Potted Bulbs More 
Attractive 
I N their native state bulbs have a ground 
setting of other plant growths that 
one misses in any potted plant. Therefore 
it often enhances the attractiveness of 
Hyacinths, or other bulbs grown singly, 
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