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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1910 
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A Twenty-Six Year Test 
on roof shingles, proving the wonderful wood-preserving properties of 
Cabot’s Shingle Stains 
Mr. W. R Rider, Gloucester, Mass., writes us March 11 , 1910 
“Twenty-six years back I used your Shingle Stains. 
To-day in extending the roof these shingles had to 
be removed. Not a one decayed in the entire lot, 
and the house is in a very exposed location.” 
Our stains are made of Creosote, the best wood 
preservative known, combined with the finest and 
strongest pure colors. They are beautiful, lasting, 
and one-half cheaper than paint. 
Samples on wood and catalogue sent on request. 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc. 141 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 
Agents at all Central Points 
Stained with Cabot's Shingle Stains. 
Davis, McGrath & Kiessling, Arch ts, N. Y. 
The Carnation Year Book for 1910. Edited 
by J. S. Bruton. Cloth, thin i6mo, 53 pp. 
London: The Perpetual Flowering Car¬ 
nation Society, is. net. 
This little book is the year book of the 
British Perpetual Flowering Carnation 
Society, and contains several short illus¬ 
trated articles on carnations and carnation 
growing. 
Some Hardy Flowers for South¬ 
western Gardens 
T T is the common lot of home-builders 
in new countries to meet with failure 
in their earlier attempts to grow the less 
hardy and less enduring plants, including 
flowers and similar ornamentals. This 
has been particularly true in the South¬ 
west where climatic factors are a severe 
test for any but native species or hardy 
introduced ones. After no little experi¬ 
ence and observation in the growing of 
such plants, the writer has prepared this 
article in the hope that it may be of some 
help to those desiring to' beautify their 
surroundings. 
The plants suggested are hardy, and 
ordinarily can be depended upon, except 
in instances noted, to grow, with moderate 
care. Many of them are flowers that grew 
in the gardens of our forefathers and 
hence are hardy throughout the country, 
being as valuable for the East and North 
as for the Southwest. 
A lack of appreciation of the differ¬ 
ences between our winter and spring, and 
our summer growing seasons is respons¬ 
ible for the failure of many plants, par¬ 
ticularly flowers, to make any growth 
whatever when planted. Too often we 
are sowing sweet peas and poppy seeds 
when we should be planting petunias and 
zinnias. Some of us endeavor to grow 
the same varieties of flowers here in the 
summer season that we did in the States 
farther north and east, and in this we al¬ 
most invariably fail. 
Species growing remarkably well dur¬ 
ing our winter and spring months are sel¬ 
dom able to make any headway in the sum¬ 
mer season. In fact, such plants usually 
die at the beginning of the hot, dry fore¬ 
summer, or at least cease growth and 
production of flowers and seeds, even 
with moderate irrigation. Witness, for 
example, the fruitless attempts at our low¬ 
er altitudes to grow sweet peas, ten-weeks 
stock, candytuft, crimson flax, or even 
California poppies in the summer. And 
the reverse is likewise true for such va¬ 
rieties as flourish during the hot weather. 
Seldom do they make any growth worthy 
of note in the winter season, and usually 
they are not at all in evidence, having 
been cut down by the frosts of late fall. 
As concerns annual flowers for late 
winter and spring blossoming, it is true in 
general that varieties listed in seed cata¬ 
logues as “hardy annuals” are the ones 
most certain to thrive during our cooler 
temperatures. This group is made up 
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