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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, 1910 
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Box H CHESTNUT HILL, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
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A Butler’s Pantry Door 
should swing both ways; should close gently and 
without noise and stop at once at the centre 
without vibrating. The only way to accomplish 
this is to use the “BARDSLEY” CHECKING 
HINGE. It goes in the floor under the door 
and there are no ugly projections on the door. 
JOSEPH BARDSLEY 
147-151 Baxter Street New York City 
case with leaded glass doors, a pedestal 
sewing-table, a quaint mirror and a dav¬ 
enport, all of mahogany. In the hall we 
have a curly-maple card table with pedes¬ 
tal base, a grandfather’s clock, a daven¬ 
port and a mirror with wide mahogany 
frame. Our third old mirror hangs in 
the dining-room over a small, old-fash¬ 
ioned buft’et. My pewter, every piece of 
which is over one hundred years old. is 
arranged on the dining-room mantel. Two 
of our bedrooms are furnished in curly 
maple heirlooms, the bureaus having still 
the original glass knobs. 
On our walls hang several portraits of 
men and women who ocupied this home 
many years ago. They seem to look ap¬ 
provingly upon the old rooms and the 
new occupants. 
Peony Trouble 
I HAVE read with much interest the peony 
article in a recent issue, and am sending 
you, under another cover, samples of peony 
roots and leaves, to show my experience in 
peony trouble. I shall be very grateful if you 
can suggest anything as a cure. Out of a 
dozen peonies planted four years ago, only one 
(taken from an old garden), has grown and 
blossomed. The other eleven come up every 
year, grow about ten inches, then turn black, 
as if burned, like sample leaf sent. 
At the roots of some I find quantities of 
ants, angle-worms and small slim worms like 
the angle-worm. Can that be the ant worm? 
The peonies are planted around a large bed of 
delphiniums. The bed is covered in the early 
winter with manure. As these peonies are 
rare varieties, the result has been most dis¬ 
appointing. I am making a bed of new peonies 
and would like to guard against a repetition of 
the trouble. 
Mrs. D. W. T. 
The peony root is evidently infested 
with some sort of a borer. The insect, 
however, was not in the root sent, so that 
we cannot say definitely what it is. Prob¬ 
ably it is the common borer in the roots 
of the iris which is the larva of a large 
moth. This moth deposits its eggs on the 
leaves of the iris near the ground in the 
fall of the year, and it probably follows 
the same habit in the case of the peony. 
If this is the case we would advise that 
all parts of the peony above the ground 
be cut off and burned in order to destroy 
any eggs that may be on the stalks. This 
will probably avoid the trouble next year. 
It would be well to dig in around the 
surface of the peony some well rotted ma¬ 
nure before the ground freezes so as to 
give it a good start next spring. 
The peony ordinarily is remarkably 
free from any disease. It might be well 
to move the roots from their present loca¬ 
tion as the soil may be at fault, hut per¬ 
haps it is just as well to try the burning 
process first and see how the plants come 
up next year. 
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