Kitchen 
Helps for 
Summer 
W HETHER 
you plan to 
furnish your 
new kitchen com¬ 
pletely— from sink 
brush to refrigera¬ 
tor—or merely need 
an odd dishcloth or 
saucepan to replen¬ 
ish last summer’s 
kitchen — come to 
Lewis & Conger’s. 
Our nine floors con¬ 
tain every house¬ 
hold article you will 
require, and all are 
of the quality that 
serves you long and 
faithfully. 
Pyrex Ware goes into the 
oven and out to the table 
—a c onv enient way of 
serving meats, vegetables 
and desserts. Casserole 
$1.75. Pie plate 90 cents. 
No stooping necessary to 
open this Sanitary Refuse 
can. The pedal opens and 
closes the lid. $4.75. 
rail 
White enamelled sink unit hangs 
above your sink and holds brushes, 
powders, and other accessories for 
cleaning and polishing. $32.50. 
Why dry dishes 
when they will 
dry themselves 
with mirror gloss¬ 
iness, in a sani¬ 
tary dish drainer? 
White enamelled 
$3.25. Aluminum 
$4. 
Ice Cream without turn¬ 
ing a crank. You put in 
your ingredients and take 
out your delicious ices or 
ice cream. The Auto 
Vacuum freezer 1 qt. size 
$5. 2 qt. $6. 4 qt. $10. 
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Jewis&.Qpeh 
“Nine floors of household equipment’’ 
45th Street and 6th Avenue, New York 
The bricked path should be slightly higher in the center 
than at the sides, in order to provide drainage. Bricks 
on edge form a good coping for it 
A Variety of Garden Paths and Edgings 
(Continued from page 27) 
cases they are less expensive than brick 
or stone, are extremely popular. With 
stone or brick paths, or grass paths 
edged with stone or brick, practically 
any edging is effective. Box, box-bar¬ 
berry, aubretia, saxifrage, pinks, Alys- 
sum saxatile, etc., make delightful 
edgings, but should the path be raised 
above the bed, taller plants should be 
used. If the path be lower than the 
bed, flat-growing plants may be used, 
and they may be allowed to encroach 
slightly on the path. Grass paths which 
are level with the beds might be edged 
with box or box-barberry, santolina, 
nepeta, and large-growing saxifrage. 
Fine-growing species of plants should 
be avoided, for they are apt to get 
mixed with the grass, and their foliage 
provides too little contrast with it. 
Gravel paths offer the widest scope 
for edgings, since practically every form 
looks well, but if a growing edging is 
used, it must be protected from the 
gravel which will otherwise spread 
about its roots. With box or similar 
low edging an inconspicuous edging 
should be concealed under the plants. 
Brick or stone, on edge, is good, or 
even thick tiles may be used. For 
mossy-growing plants, such as saxifrage 
or aubretia, stone on edge may be used 
for them to trail over. This not only 
helps to give a thicker effect to the 
border, but the porous nature of the 
stone retains moisture in summer, and 
so tends to keep the roots and foliage 
of the plants fresh. 
Oil Jars as Garden Ornaments 
(Continued from page 44) 
variety to a monotone. Others, again, 
are used to hold a choice plant on the 
short pillar at the top or bottom of 
a flight of steps to the garden. 
They look well at the door posts of 
a summerhouse, on a low pedestal in 
the middle of a wide garden path, or 
in the center of a lawn; at the corners 
of a squarely built fountain, at the 
ends of a pergola, in fact, in most 
places where a graceful curve is required 
to break up straight lines. 
Indoors the smaller kinds look well 
in a corner, or in the fold of a screen, 
either empty or containing some bull- 
rushes, willow branches, fruit tree blos¬ 
soms, iris or any tall decorative flowers. 
Among the fascinating designs is the 
strawberry jar, which came first from 
Italy. Doubtless, holes were originally 
knocked in a cracked oil jar and straw¬ 
berries planted therein, but now the 
jars are molded for this purpose, with 
regularly placed holes and lips or rings 
to each. They give a pleasing effect 
with the strawberries pendant from 
the holes, and, incidentally, produce fine 
clean fruit, thus combining the ideal 
of the useful and the ornamental. 
They can also be used for other plants, 
such as vines or ferns, and look well 
when both are grown. 
It requires no great stretch of imag¬ 
ination to visualize how perfectly oil 
jars fit into the landscape scheme. The 
garden path slopes down either side 
to an open space with a lily pond and 
small rose clusters in the corners. At 
the farther end of the pool is a step 
down to the water, on either side a 
short brick pillar with an oil vase of 
the palest yellow or white, and behind 
these, the lines of a vine-entwined per¬ 
gola. Nothing is in or on the vases. 
They are beautiful in themselves. 
Would not one wish to linger there? 
And would not the vases make perfect 
this impression? 
