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House & Garden 
Dodson Wren House, 
solid oak. cypress shin¬ 
gles, copper coping. 4 
compartments. 28" high. 
18" dia. Price $6.Oft. 
Dodson Sexangular 
Flicker House, 16% 
inches long, 12 inches 
wide, 11 inches deep. 
Price $6.00. 
Dodson Purple Martin 
House, (cottage stvle) 28 
compartments, 32 x 27 
inches. Price $16 00. 
Other styles up to $78.00. 
Dodson Bluebird House, solid 
H ■ oak. cypress shingles, copper 
Wm A coping. 4 crmpartmerits. 21" 
■11 high, 18" dia. Price $6.00. 
Cultivate the Song Birds 
Invite the Wrens, Flickers. Martins, Swallows, 
Chickadees, Blue Birds and countless other feath¬ 
ered songsters. They will come to your grounds 
and stay if you erect 
Dodson Bird Houses 
You will enjoy hearing the birds sing and watching 
them teed their young. They will eliminate the 
mosquitos, gnats, and other annoying insects which 
destroy your trees, shrubbery and garden. 
Dodson Bird Houses are built by Mr. Dodson who 
has spent many years studying the birds and their 
habits. He has embodied in his houses the little 
details necessary for the birds’ comfort and protec¬ 
tion which attract and keep them with you. 
Thousands of birds flock to beautiful Bird Lodge 
Mr. Dodson’s home and Bird Sanctuary on the 
Kankakee River. 
Order Now Fre , e Bird Book “Your Bird Friends 
and How to Win Them", sent on re¬ 
quest illustrating Dodson line and giving prices; free also 
a beautiful colored bird picture, worthy of framing. 
Joseph H. Dodson 
731 Harrison Avenue Kankakee IllinnU 
The Gladiolus, a Super-Flower from Africa 
(Continued from page 70) 
is no temptation to be lavish, though 
the form of Cracker Jack, and its clear, 
fine color, almost persuade one to create 
a setting for its exclusive use. With 
Mrs. A. C. Beal, a white flower with 
a red tongue, or with Willy Wigman 
it would be excellent. Indeed, one of 
the best gladiolus plantings I ever saw 
was on a vacant lot in Chicago where 
were great masses of cosmos not yet 
come into bloom, and piercing the soft, 
indeterminate mass of their foliage, the 
flame-colored spikes of Mrs. Francis 
King. 
Reds after all are not to be dismissed 
with a word. Prince of India, a mottled 
red and purple, makes an extremely in¬ 
teresting combination with the orchid 
Mary Fennell. It is oriental in char¬ 
acter, and needs, like the other reds, to 
be isolated. 
The planting of gladiolus with cosmos 
brings up the point of supplementing 
crops which flower at the opposite ends 
of the calendar from the ones mentioned 
before — namely, the fall-flowering 
plants. Gladioli planted early near the 
chrysanthemums, the Japanese anemone 
or the late monkshood, will supply mid¬ 
summer flowers in a space which with¬ 
out them it would be hard not to regard 
as lost during all the first part of the 
summer. 
If near these autumn flowers are 
planted clumps of aconitum, Sparks va¬ 
riety, which blooms in July, its glisten¬ 
ing jewel-like caps will be lovely with 
the solid mass of the salmon gladiolus 
Gil Bias or the coral Halley, with a 
late white phlox like Independence to 
lighten the contrast. 
A later summer group, one smaller in 
scale, are the primulinus hybrids in all 
shades of salmon and orange, masses 
of feverfew and the clear little blue 
annual verbena, as an edge. If one 
can contrive to have with this a few 
belated larkspurs with their blue—price¬ 
less in midsummer when the garden has 
turned to lavenders and purples — so 
much the better. 
The primulinus hybrids are compara¬ 
tively new; somewhat lighter and more 
delicate in form than the other gladioli, 
and for the most part ranging in color 
through the salmons and apricots to 
orange and even bronze. There is no 
such thing as a poor primulinus, and 
one buys a mixture of the seedlings with 
the assurance that they will all be 
lovely. 
For the first of September these may 
be planted near Salvia azurea, whose 
blue delicacy needs the foil of a coarser 
mass of color near it. Schwaben again 
is very good with the blue of the salvia, 
or it may be replaced by Yellow Prince, 
which is deeper in color and not so 
magnificent in form. By this time also 
the snowberries have swelled on their 
long bending stems, and their waxy 
whiteness is pleasant with the salvia- 
primulinus combination, or with the 
second blooming of larkspur—a particu¬ 
larly handsome combination whose 
beauty does not suffer by the addition 
of yellow and orange gladioli, or the 
coral pink of Halley. 
A group which embodies the magenta- 
yellow-blue color scheme with which 
gardeners have been playing the last 
few seasons, is blue salvia, gladiolus 
Sunrise, buddleia in the background 
with gladiolus Baron Hulot contribut¬ 
ing a rich purple note. And another in 
which gladiolus Hortense supplies the 
magenta note (not that we have to seek 
far to find this troublesome hue!) is 
Hortense, the delightful cream phlox 
Drummondi, and the blue annual ver¬ 
bena. 
The very best way for a novice to 
familiarize herself with varieties, with¬ 
out having to go to all the trouble of 
planting and waiting for results, is to 
write for several boxes of cut gladioli 
which the growers will send for a nom¬ 
inal sum during the season. Each va¬ 
riety is carefully labelled, and one may 
study the crisp flower stalks in this way 
and arrange compositions with the flow¬ 
ers in the garden, making up recipes on 
the spot for combinations to plant an¬ 
other season. 
Ostracize the Fly 
( Continued, from page 61) 
Your screens should be: (1) Simple 
to manipulate, should pull up, lower, 
raise or thrust out, easily and happily, 
and should be simply removed for stor¬ 
age if necessary and uncomplicatedly 
re-applied. 
(2) Ail the hardware should be in¬ 
separable from the body of the screen 
—that is: catches, bolts, locks, etc. 
(3) All the metal work should be 
rustless and adapted to the region in 
which you live. 
(4) Frames must be rigid and wire 
cloth taut, well fastened at every point 
in the frame, not sag, and be rigid. 
(5) Wooden frame screens must be 
of kiln-dried, seasoned wood, and when 
expedient, of hard wood. 
(6) Renewal of wire cloth must be a 
simple matter without an armory of 
fancy tools. 
(7) All should be neat, attractive, 
matching the window, door or porch 
trim where they are placed. 
( 8 ) They must be a pleasure to use, 
not limiting the use of the window or 
door screened, nor breaking the back 
or arm when in use. 
Screen frames are made of metals and 
of wood. Due to the architectural de¬ 
sign of some windows or doors it is 
necessary for a wood frame to be used, 
and for the same reason it is often wiser 
to use a metal frame. Wherever metal 
frames can be used they are the best 
to buy, as they will stand up longer, 
and, if the best be bought, they will 
need less renovation, as they can be 
made rigid at only half the width of 
the wood screen-. Furthermore, you get 
more ventilation than you do with the 
wood-framed screen. Of course, you 
want air and as much as you can get 
of it; therefore the narrower the frame 
the more perfect the screen. 
The metals used in frames are pretty 
much up to the quality of your screens’ 
maker. They are to be had of bronze 
and various concoctions of bronze de¬ 
pendent on the patents of your pur¬ 
veyor ; of brass finish, copper finish, 
steel enameled; steel painted; steel 
grained to look like the wood trim, steel 
galvanized and steel regalvanized; monel 
metal. 
To be honest, there are two better 
classifications of screens: those that are 
rustless and those that are not. 
Monel metal is used for seashore 
houses, as the salt air does not corrode 
or corrupt it. Variations of the bronze 
screen are also adapted to seashore use. 
The painted steel screen has to be 
painted over and over again to keep it 
from rusting and wearing out. The 
galvanized screen is practically rustless 
and the regalvanized is quite positively 
an insurance against rust. 
Be sure that when you buy a bronze 
frame it is not simply a bronze steel 
frame. Steel invites rust, and the way 
to have a rustless screen is to make 
steel an absentee or galvanize it. 
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