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of the virtuoso, searching out 
rare harmonies in a score of 
music, has its counterpart in 
the pure voice of The Cheney. 
Through an original applica^ 
tion of acoustic principles. 
The Cheney has made a 
wonderful contribution to 
music. Records awaken to 
new loveliness. Overtones 
heretofore hidden are revealed. 
1 hro'^^h a series of 
orchestral chambers 
The Cheney ^ains 
complete mastery 
over its tones, and 
them that rich 
quality which distin- 
iiuishes the original 
i^'om a mere repro- 
duction. 
The painstaking care given to 
the perfection of each detail 
in The Cheney stamps it a 
masterpiece. “The Longer 
You Play It, The Sweeter 
It Grows.” 
CHENEY TALKING MACHINE COMPANY, CHICAGO 
Dealers Everywhere 
Reviving the Bell Pull 
(Continued from page 58) 
proved upon by the modern decorator, 
who is constantly turning back to the 
different periods for new ideas. It may 
be found that in a large room, the bell 
pull used alone, that is, independent of 
a group, is not particularly effective, as 
it may appear insignificant if the space 
to be decorated is too large. For the 
small room, however, it certainly adds 
a subtle charm of individuality and dig¬ 
nity which is desirable. 
This great interest at present in the 
bell pull as a feature of decoration is 
really nothing more than a revival of 
the Louis Quinze period style, but there 
is now such a wide scope of subjects 
opened up before us that it is possible 
for every one to be individual in treat¬ 
ment. Japanese motifs are among the 
latest innovations, while even the Chi¬ 
nese have been called upon for inspira¬ 
tion. For the library, there is nothing 
more appropriate than heraldic devices, 
while doubtless the late war will influ¬ 
ence the selection of armorial and mili¬ 
tary subjects. With the unlimited num¬ 
ber of types from which to choose, it 
will not be difficult to produce many 
interesting bell pulls for the further 
decoration of our homes. 
Garden Cities of the South 
(Continued from page 31) 
not seen much in pleasure gardens, un¬ 
less perhaps a row of them along one 
wall or hedge. They blossom in Feb¬ 
ruary and perfume a whole garden, 
and when the fruit is ripe they are ex¬ 
tremely decorative. But those who 
plant oranges for ornament generally 
choose the bitter Seville oranges, be¬ 
cause they are inedible and therefore 
extend no invitation to thieving small 
boys. Long-leaf pine is a very popu¬ 
lar tree in Florida, but, because the 
gardens are planned chiefly for the 
pleasure of their owners in winter, they 
are not laid out to afford much shade, 
therefore trees are sparingly used, open 
lawns, shrubs and varied flower beds 
being the main features adopted. 
St. Augustine, the oldest city in the 
United States, on account of its great 
age, presents a picturesque combina-' 
tion of ancient and modern practice in 
gardening. The centuries-old buildings 
are well set off by groups of various 
palms and century plants interspersed 
with more modern imported roses and 
other Northern flowers. 
Ormond and Its Gardens 
Ormond, lying on both sides of the 
Halifax River, and with its famous 
Ormond beach, is most attractive, with 
its dense tropical growth of sweet 
gums, wild olives, giant cedars, cabbage 
and scrub palmettos, magnolias, yuccas 
or Spanish bayonet, water oak and live 
oak covered with the mysterious-look¬ 
ing gray trailing Spanish moss and 
great blotches of mistletoe, sweet bay 
and flowering bay, holly, andromeda 
and many other varieties of Southern 
vegetation. These things are in the 
“hammock"’ at the western borders of 
the town. The fields roundabout are 
aglow in spring with a profusion of 
phlox, coreopsis, gaillardia and other 
flowers from the northern gardens, all 
growing wild, without cultivation or 
attention. Nearby are forests of im¬ 
mense long-leaf pine and the weird 
cypress swamps. 
Many beautiful places of wealthy 
Northerners are located at Ormond. Its 
climate is uniformly warm enough to 
allow the cultivation of many beauti¬ 
ful palms, trees and flowers, which are 
not native to its soil. Among these 
the date palm is the leader, especially 
the Phoenix Canariensis or flowering 
date. The Washingtonia palm, which has 
been imported into Southern California 
and has done so much to beautify the 
cities of Pasadena and Los Angeles, 
grows in Ormond without fear of frost. 
Many of the coco palms, especially of 
the Australis type, are noticed at Or¬ 
mond, and no garden seems complete 
without the sago palm (Cycas revo- 
liita). Bamboos, oleander, cherry laurel, 
cinnamon, camphor and many other 
shrubs and plants of the northern 
greenhouse are here used as hedge fences 
and windbreaks. 
On the Ormond estates of Mr. John 
D. Rockefeller, Mr. A. B. Lawrence of 
Springfield, Mass., General Ames of 
Lowell, Mass., and many others, the 
planting of tropical shrubs that will 
weather most winters but are touched 
by the frost now and then, is being at¬ 
tempted with great success. Most 
noticeable among these are the plum¬ 
bago, with its great masses of sky blue 
flowers; allamandas, grown either as a 
bush or vine, covered during sunny 
warm weeks with large yellow blos¬ 
soms four or five inches across; daturas 
(brugmanchia) which during January 
carry hundreds of flowers suggestive 
of the Bermuda lily; buddleia, which 
grow fifteen or more feet high and arc 
a mass of white flowers all during 
March, and the bauhinias, of which the 
purpurea is the best, covered in Feb¬ 
ruary and March with white and pur¬ 
ple flowers three inches across and re¬ 
sembling in color and shape a costly 
orchid. 
One cannot write of the flowers of 
Ormond without mentioning its vines. 
First, above all others in the hearts of 
most of the Ormond gardeners, is the 
beautiful native yellow jasmine, which 
grows freely in the surrounding woods 
during February and March. Ne.xt 
comes the well-known and well-loved 
Cherokee rose, which blossoms for but 
a short time and is very beautiful while 
It lasts. Probably the most brilliant 
touch in the Ormond scenery is the 
flame vine, which is a trumpet creeper 
climbing the trees to a height of seventy 
feet or more and producing countless 
tubular flowers of a bright orange red 
throughout the winter. Unfortunately, 
it is quite tender, but comes up again 
from the roots after every frost v/ith 
renewed vigor. 
Palm Beach and Miami 
Palm Beach has probably had moie 
money spent for cultivation than any 
other Southern resort. Its long avenues 
of Australian pines lead to magnificent 
estates, which are veritable tropic Gar¬ 
dens of Eden. Every kind of flower 
which grows in other parts of Florida 
flourishes in Palm Beach. It is per¬ 
haps most noted for its wonderful poin- 
ciana trees, imported from the West 
Indies. Northern millionaires have 
found Palm Beach to their liking a.nd 
have created in this east coast town 
estates which rival the magnificence of 
the old Sultans of Zanzibar. 
Twenty years ago Miami was only an 
Indian trading post. Today it is a city 
of nearly thirty thousand people and 
one of the most beautiful cities of the 
new South. It is making a determined 
(Continued on page 62) 
