HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 
1910 
PRATT’S 
SCALECIDE 
( Will positively destroy SAN JOSE SCALE and all 
soft bodied sucking insects without injury to the 
tree. Simple, more effective and cheape* than 
Lime Sulphur. Not an experiment. On© gallon 
makes 16 to 20 gallons spray by simply adding water. 
Send for Booklet, “Orchard Insurance.” 
B. G. PRATT CO., 50 CHURCH ST., HEW YORK CITY. 
A charming little three-compartment, 
U-Bar greenhouse and shingled work room. 
U-BAR GREENHOUSES 
PIERSON 
DESIGNERS and BUILDERS 
U-BAR CO. 
1 MADISON AYE-NEW YORK. 
VI C K ’ S 
Narcissus, Tulip, Crocus, Hyacinth 
BULBS 
The Poet’s Narcissus 
25 cent* dozen 75 cents hundred 
May-flowering Tulips in .mixture 
30 cents dozen $1.50 hundred 
Crocus, separate colors 
15 cents dozen 60 cents hundred 
Hyacinths, Single, mixed colors 
75 cents dozen $4.00 hundred 
At hundred price we do not prepay postage 
Vick’s Bulb Catalogue, superbly illustrated, tells 
the whole story. Sent free to anyone who asks for it 
James Vkk’s Sons, 
Still Other Greenhouse Possibilities 
Last month we showed you the interior of 
a Conservatory Living Room that was kept 
constantly replenished with fresh growing 
flowers from the greenhouses. One made the 
other possible. This montli we are going to 
explode the very wrong impression that it 
takes a big greenhouse and the expenditure 
of a lot of money to have a Glass Enclosed 
Orchard for the growing of fruits. You can 
do it successfully in a house 25 feet long if 
you want to, only of course the crop will be 
proportionately limited. 
Here is a suggestion: build a house like 
this one above, for instance, and divide it 
into three compartments. Use one for gen¬ 
eral plants or vegetables, another for roses 
or carnations; the third as a Potted Fruit 
or Orchard House. 
You can buy dwarf trees that will bear 
fruit the first year. Put them in the cool 
Orchard House along first of January 
and gradually increase the temperatiire just 
as Nature does in her annual bpring warm¬ 
up. 
In a few weeks your trees will be a bloom 
bower of blossoms and the air laden with 
their fragrance.^ Along last of April or first 
week in May “Cherries will be ripe,” and in 
rotation will come your plums, peaches, nec¬ 
tarines, apples and pears. It’s great fun to 
outdo Nature this way. The fruit is lus¬ 
cious, thin skinned and every one a perfect 
specimen beautiful to look at. 
liy the first of August, your fruit harvest 
will be over, and then out goes the trees, 
and in comes chrysanthemums, which will be 
at their best middle of November. Then 
follows bulbs, and for Christmas day the 
house will be one mass of golden yellow daf¬ 
fodils, gaily colored tulips, paper white nar¬ 
cissus, rainbow hyacinths, such as will glad¬ 
den your heart and surely make you feel life 
is worth living. 
The bulbs over, then you again bring in 
the fruit trees and start your Orchard up. 
So you see, this puts an entirely new light 
on the question and makes it possible for 
the man with moderate means to share in 
the good things. 
Should you take up with us now the mat¬ 
ter of building your greenhouse, we would 
have just about time enough to have the 
house erected in season for your starting up 
the orchard house. But take our warning 
and don't put it off, because it means losing 
just about a year’s fun and the fruits and 
flowers besides. Send for catalog. 
And this is an Orchard House filled with potted 
fruits. By all means have an Orchard House. 
for your Dining Room or Library is only one of 
the many att ract i ve designs we have to offer. 
We have appropriate Ceilings and Walls for 
every room in your house from Parlor to Cellar, 
and for all classes of buildings. 
We make a specialty of Church work. 
If about to build, remodel or decorate, you will find 
the No-Co-Do Steel Ceilings and Walls the most decorative, 
durable and economical of anything you can use. Can be 
put over old plaster by any mech nic. 
I)nst, Vermin and Fireproof. 
Will not crack or fall. 
A Dainty Bathroom 
Tile your Bath Room, Laundry, Pan¬ 
try and Kitchen Walls with the No- 
Co-Do Steel Tiling, better and cheaper 
than the Porcelain, lasts a life-time. 
Separate Catalogues for Ceilings and 
Tiling will be furnished either direct 
or through your dealer. State which 
you want. 
We want a dealer in every town. 
NORTHROP, COBURN & DODGE CO., 34 Cherry St., New York 
Sheep Manure 
Kiln dried and pulverized. Noweedsorbad 
odors. Helps nature hustle. For garden, 
ilawn. trees, shrubs, fruits and house plants. 
<P A rift LARGE BARREL. Freight prepaid East 
•P 0 f Missouri River. Cash with Order 
Apply now 
The Pulverized Manure Co.,25Union StockYirdi.Chlcoto 
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