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House & Garden 
T HE purchase by The Stan¬ 
ley Works of the Stanley 
Rule and Level Company will 
enable us to serve you in the 
future even more efficiently than 
in the past. 
For more than 70 years the two 
Stanley Companies have been 
building steadily towards one 
end—to make the name Stanley 
a mark of dependable quality in 
Wrought Steel Hardware 
and 
Carpenters' Tools 
A new trade mark as here shown 
has been established as the result 
of this merger. 
The combined experience and 
facilities of these two great com¬ 
panies will hereafter be devoted 
to maintaining and increasing 
the service represented by the 
name Stanley. 
Main offices and plants: 
NEW BRITAIN, CONN. 
Branch offices: 
New \ ork Chicago San Francisco 
Los Angeles Seattle 
Goblet, tembladera, beaker and salt cellar brought 
to America by the Conquistadores 
Silver of the Conquistadores 
(Continued from page 62) 
‘Many of the beakers also came from that he had seen a large fork, similar 
this family. to that photographed, which inciden- 
The basis, or ewer, has a most in- tally weighs more than a pound, used 
teresting history. It was seen in Mexi- to spear a roasted young lamb. Fork 
co by a friend of the collectors, and and spoon were generally placed on the 
after some correspondence with them, plate in the Spanish colonial way of 
purchased. But when it arrived at the laying the table. 
border the customs officials would not The marks on the silver would fur- 
let it pass. There it lay for over a nish invaluable proofs to silver experts, 
year, while lawyers worked to secure The mark of the maker, the name of 
its release. Finally the matter was the owner, sometimes his crest the 
taken up in Washington and after near- names of the subsequent owners,’ half 
ly two years the ewer was allowed obliterated, the silver test, and the 
through the customs on the ground that scratched initials of different vandals 
it was a work of art over one hundred who wished to mark them as their own, 
years old. appear on practically every piece. 
Many of the beakers and goblets The collection includes many pieces 
came from Governor Manuel Armijo, not shown in the photographs, among 
who ruled under three governments, which are some plainer plates which it 
Spain, Mexico and the United States, is almost certain were made in Mexico, 
The beauty of these beakers is obvious, and were not brought from Spain. Raw 
A well known authority on silver says silver was plentiful in the new world 
that they are undoubtedly latter 16th and Spanish silversmiths could easily 
Century, and are as exquisitely beauti- supply the lack of sufficient table ware, 
ful as any he has ever seen. The round These latter examples are as a rule not 
chalice came from Don Manuel Gon- as elaborate, not perhaps as beautiful 
zales; other old families represented in workmanship as those made in Spain 
are: Yrisarri, Montoya, Gutierrez, Although several small and charming 
Garcia, Romero, Abeyta, Juan Mar- pieces which were secured in Mexico 
quez, Martinez and Jaramillo. may have originated there, an uncer- 
The Flat Silver tainty which stimulates much romancing 
surrounds the entire collection. 
The large fork and spoon are par- Never before has it been written of 
ticularly interesting. They were used or photographed, except on one oc- 
for serving, of course, but were also casion when pictures were taken as 
employed in cooking. Silver knives models for a superb silver service which 
were not known. The men used hunt- was presented by the state of New 
ing knives, and dishes were so prepared Mexico to the flagship. Then someone 
that cutting was rarely necessary; had a bright inspiration, and permission 
sopas, ground meat balls and stews be- was obtained from the owners to copy 
ing the favorite manner of serving the beautiful designs for the benefit of 
meats. An “old timer” told the writer the state’s namesake. 
Notes of the Garden Clubs 
T HE Garden Club of Lexington, other at Mr. and Mrs. Lebue’s “Hinata”, 
Kentucky, founded 1916, whose where there is a Japanese garden. Mr.’ 
President is Mrs. Howard McGor- and Mrs. Louis Lee Haggin designed 
kle, has seventy men and women in- and laid out their own garden^ in 
eluded in its membership, eligibility colonial style, using old box borders 
depending on owning a garden and and producing a perfect effect of the 
working it. The object of the Club is period. 
“To stimulate the knowledge and love Mrs. W. L. Carter, one of the or- 
of gardening, to beautify home grounds, ganizers and a former president of the 
to aid in protection of native trees, club, has a garden 65' x 72', in the city, 
plants and birds, and to encourage civic which is constantly in bloom. In it 
planting.” Meetings are held weekly are roses, 150 varieties of iris, 100 
from March to July, and bi-monthly peonies, 5,000 bulbs, and all the worth- 
from September to October. while perennials and annuals. 
Field meets are often arranged on Some members have grown compre- 
members’ estates, sometimes of thou- hensive lists of different families of 
sands of acres, in suitable season for perennials, specializing in delphiniums, 
subjects of lectures. Among these meet- hardy chrysanthemums, dahlias, etc.^ 
ings was a trip to "Airdrie”, the home and varieties of annuals such as zinnias’ 
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sims, to see snapdragons and marigolds are grown 
the planting of 15,000 roses, and a in groups. Mrs. Carter has cross-fer- 
rock garden with all the native wild tilized coreopsis and gaillardia, resulting 
flowers and naturalized planting of in a fluffy, beautiful flower, 
thousands of bulbs. Another was at In 1920 the program of each club 
Mr. Kenneth Alexander’s, with its gar- meeting was arranged by three different 
den in a natural amphitheatre sur- members, as a surprise to the club. The 
rounded by giant trees and shrubbery, May 2nd meeting at Bell Place, the 
where a noted Danish lecturer talked home of Mrs. Arthur Cary’s family for 
on landscape gardening; and still an- ( Continued on page 68) 
