December, 1910 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
385 
INERAL WOOL 
HOUSEBUILDING 
INSURES COMFORT 
When you build your home build it for 
comfort. 
In order to attain this you must demand 
the use of Mineral Wool in its construction. 
Your home will be made comfortable from 
cellar to garret. It insures protection from 
Summer heat and the Winter’s cold. It is 
fire-proof, sound-proof and keeps your home 
free from insects and disease germs. This 
is indeed comfort. 
Knowing, now, the inestimable value of 
Mineral Wool incorporate it in your speci¬ 
fications and do not permit any one to dis¬ 
suade you from your purpose. Our booklet 
gives full information regarding its cost and 
installation. Send for it at once. 
U. S. MINERAL WOOL COMPANY 
136 Cedar Street New YorK City, N. Y. 
Pleasure, Pride and Profits 
from gardening are to be had only when proper tools 
are used. The busy man with but an hour each day 
must make the most of his time. The woman who gar* 
dens should have the most convenient tools, and for the 
boys and girls who help, the tools should be simple, 
reliable and easy to handle. Start your next gar¬ 
den with the No. 6 Combined Hill and Drill 
IRON AGE Seeder and Double and 
Single Wheel Hoe. 
Can be used in several unusual, but nece>- 
sary combinations to plant, weed, cultivate, 
etc. Saves seed, time and labor and helps 
to raise a better crop An economical and 
satisfactory investment. Used and re¬ 
commended everywhere for many 
years. Price, $12.00. Other garden 
tools from $2.50 up. To commem¬ 
orate our 75th Anniversary, we 
have built a 64 page catalogue, 
with detailed illustrations and 
full descripticns of our com¬ 
plete line of farm and gar¬ 
den tools, including potato 
machinery, horse hoes 
and cultivators, orchard 
tools, etc. Fiee. 
Write to-day Box 645 
Bateman .llfg. Co., 
Greenloch, N. *J. 
A Happy Thought 
For Your Christmas Tree 
D ON’T have the ordinary, commonplace 
stub of a tree set up in wooden stilts. 
Buy one of Hicks live Christmas Trees 
and the day after the holiday’s frolic, plant it 
out on your lawn. The frost is not deep enough 
then to interfere. Next spring your tree will be 
all ready to begin growing with the first call 
of the robins return. 
It can be delivered to you by wagon, auto¬ 
mobile, or shipped in a crate. We will care¬ 
fully wrap the roots and earth ball in a heavy 
canvas, so both the tree and your house floor 
will be protected. 
When you are ordering that Christmas tree 
for future delivery, why not include some pines, 
spruces or cedars, and have them sent along at 
once. Don’t wait till spring to plant them, as 
then the ground is soft and your lawn will be 
torn up by the planting. And there’s another 
reason—the trees do better if planted now. 
We have any size evergreens you may want, 
from 6 inches up to 25 feet. 
This residence was built in the midst of a village where the surroundings were bams, stables, church sheds, 
wood piles, laundry yards and railroad tracks. By a tall, narrow plantation of evergreens, we completely shut these 
out. A beautiful la™ and garden makes it a delightful retreat. Have you not a similar problem that we can solve 
with one or two carloads of large evergreens from our nursery or from the collecting fields where they are growing wild? 
We keep busy all winter, moving in large wild evergreens and can just as well move them for you. 
ISAAC HICKS SON 
WESTBURY, LONG ISLAND 
THORBURN’S SEEDS 
Our beautifully illustrated catalogue for 1911 will be ready about January 
1st. Register your name now for a copy. Mailed Free. 
J. M. Thorburn Co., 33 Barclay St., New York 
IVES PATENT WIN DO W STOP A D J II S T E It 
IVES WINDOW 
VENTILATING 
LOCK 
Fresh air and security 
against intrusion. 
Simple. Safe, Strong, 
Easily Applied 
THE H. B. IVES CO. „ 
88 page 
New Haven, Conn, catalogue 
% .j. For durable painting of all kinds use National 
m 2 Lead Company’s Pure White Lead (Dutch Boy 
PJ- Painter trade mark). “Dutch Boy Paint Advis- 
(03 er No. 91” on request, free. 
3 NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY, 111 Broadway, New York 
COUNTRY HOMES 
may enjoy city comforts and conven¬ 
iences at less cost than kerosene, elec¬ 
tricity or acetylene, with None of their 
dangers, by using 
Economy Gas Machine 
Produces gas for light and kitchen fuel. 
May be lighted the same as electric* 
light, without batteries or wires. Call 
or write for list of satisfied customers. 
Economy Gas Machine Co., 
437 Main Street Rochester, N. Y. 
In writing to advertisers please mention House and Garden, 
