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House & Garden 
WING’S IRIS 
“A sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart .”— Ruskin. 
The Iris, taken as a single plant or massed in the border, is 
of surpassing beauty. Graceful in flower and leaf, of noble, 
stately habit, with coloring of pearl-like delicacy, intense bril¬ 
liancy, or deep velvety richness, the plant is without a fault. It 
is of easiest culture and perfectly hardy. 
Our collection is one of the largest in the world, and includes 
the rarest and loveliest American and European hybrids. 
The following collections we recommend; they furnish an in¬ 
finite variety of type and color. 
Collection D. Tall Bearded Iris 
Price $10.00 Actual Value $12.45 
Caprice .Deep Violet Rose 
Cherubim .Pinkish Heliotrope 
Candelabrae .Violet Tigered Brown 
Chester Hunt .Pale and Deep Blue 
Ctsse De Courcy .White and Lilac 
Dalmarius .Pale Blue and Amber 
Eldorado .Bronze and Violet 
Her Majesty .Glowing Rose 
Hiawatha .Lavender and Purple 
Iris King .Old Gold and Crimson 
Innocenza .Pure White 
Jeanne D'Arc .White Frilled Lilac 
Juniata .Bright Blue 
Lohengrin .Cattleya Mauve 
Loreley .Sulphur & Purple 
Mary Garden . .Cream Stippled Maroon 
Mme. Guerville. . .White Sanded Violet 
Monsignor .Pale and Deep Violet 
Mrs. Neubroner .Golden Yellow 
Nokomis .White & Velvety Blue 
Nuee d’ Orage .Stormcloud shades 
Pallida Dalmatica. .. .Silvery Lavender 
Parc De Neuilly .Deep Blue Violet 
Prince d’ Orange 
Golden Yellow & Brown 
Princess Victoria Louise 
Primrose & Plum 
Quaker Lady. . .Lavender, Blue & Gold 
Collection E. Tall Bearded Iris 
Price $5.00 
Canary Bird .Pale Yellow 
Chester Hunt .Pale and Deep Blue 
Chelles. .Golden Yellow and Red-Purple 
Darius .Red, Violet and Gold 
Fairy .White and Soft Blue 
Honorabilis .Mahogany and Gold 
Iris King .Old Gold and Crimson 
Jacquesiana .Fawn and Red-Violet 
Juliette .Snow-White and Violet 
Khedive .Deep Lavender 
Loreley .Sulphur and Purple 
Actual Value $6.25 
Mme. Chereau .White Frilled Blue 
Mme. Guerville. . .White Spotted Violet 
Nuee d’ Orage. .. .“Storm Cloud” color 
Othello .Deep Blue 
Pallida Dalmatica. .. .Silvery Lavender 
Pallida Mandraliscae 
Rich Lavender Purple 
Queen of May .Soft Rose 
Silver King .Pearl White 
Trautlieb .Deep Rose 
Wm. Wallace .Bright Violet-Blue 
By express not prepaid. If wanted by mail, add postage for 5 
pounds for collection D, 4 pounds for collection E. 
Catalogue free upon application. 
THE WING SEED COMPANY 
Box 1427, Mechanicsburg, Ohio 
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY AND MODERATE PRICES 
Gingham Glorified 
(Continued from page 33) 
is gold framed, and on the top of 
the walnut commode is set a henna 
jar upon a runner of black and gold. 
A scheme such as this also would be 
found charming in the living room, the 
more formal dining room, or in the 
library. 
A Green and Rose Bedroom 
Appealing particularly to the beauty- 
loving feminine heart is the bedroom 
of green and rose, again gingham- 
glorified. Against walls of ivory, above 
a floor laid with a rose and gray car¬ 
pet, are hung drapes of green and white 
gingham showing a broken diagonal 
plaid and lined with an ashes-of-roses 
Jap crepe. The furniture is green with 
a wide band of a bronze-putty color, and 
decorated with a bit of rose color in the 
posies. The bed is draped with the 
gingham, but has a throw cover of gray 
linen stitched with rose wool, which 
wool also forms the tassels on the 
bolster case. The floor pillow is of 
ashes-of-roses velour, the chair is of 
gray linen with appliqued strips of ging¬ 
ham and old rose wool tassels; the glass 
curtains are of sea green georgette. 
The Gamut of Ginghams 
It is wise to visit your local gingham 
counters before setting your heart on an 
impossible color scheme. I have hov¬ 
ered near mine long enough to glimpse 
many alluring lengths, which should be 
fairly indicative of an average assort¬ 
ment. In the large bar plaids, broken 
pleasantly in color distribution, were 
seen deep rose and black, with an 
emerald green line; brown and black 
with a lavender line, both of these 
showing a white ground; on a back of 
fine black pin-bar on white, a broad 
band of salmon brown, formed by the 
combination of brown, rose and blue; 
on a background of golden brown 
braided on white, a wide cross-bar of 
rose and black on powder blue; on a 
ground of white finely lined in green 
and black, a noticeable cross-band of 
two tones of deep rose and black. There 
were many attractive stripes, blues, 
greens, tan and cream and black, lav¬ 
enders, pinks. Small pin blocks of black 
on Alice blue, of yellow on white; un¬ 
equal large checks of deep pink and 
green on white; a double small plaid 
of lavender and purple, of old blue and 
dark blue, both on a white background; 
a small broken plaid of tan and blue; 
a small double bar plaid of rose and 
white on a dark green ground. Surely 
on any counter there are ginghams 
enough to choose from, and to inspire. 
A Gingham Dining Room 
In a dining room guaranteed to scare 
away the blues, and to make life in 
general a beauty and a joy forever, 
gingham of turquoise and orchid lined 
with soft yellow was hung at the win¬ 
dows, with glass curtains of a plain buff 
crepe. The walls of this room were a 
creamy buff, on the floor was a mauve 
carpet. Gay cottage furniture was 
used, with a drop-leaf table and Welsh 
dresser, all painted in putty color and 
a clear greenish turquoise, the latter 
lining the interior of the dresser, where 
English porcelain in black and yellow 
on cream was effectively displayed, to¬ 
gether with a few luster glasses. The 
final touch of color in this room was 
arranged in the window seat, for it was 
cushioned in soft peacock, and the pil¬ 
lows laid on it were of old gold, black, 
turquoise, orchid and gingham. A room 
that was a veritable garden spot in a 
gay little house! 
The Setter, An Aristocrat Among Dogs 
( Continued, from page 45) 
factory around the average house. 
Many thoroughbred, pedigreed setters 
are to be had which have not the ex¬ 
treme nervous development of those of 
field trial stock, and it is from among 
these that your selection should be 
made. The Llewellyn strain is a good 
one, and dogs with a fair percentage 
of Laverack blood in their veins are 
also excellent. Many setters are of Glad¬ 
stone stock, than which none is better. 
In conclusion, treat your setter with 
due regard for his physical as well as 
mental nature. Remember that he is a 
dog which needs exercise, good food and 
wholesome surroundings in order to be 
at his best. A pine tree from the 
mountain top will not thrive in a mush¬ 
room cellar, nor will an English setter 
with an ancestry of open-air hunters 
succeed in a boudoir atmosphere of 
sachet powder and steam heat. 
NOTES of the GARDEN CLUBS 
T HE Garden Club of Illinois, 
founded 1912, is composed of 60 
active members (women), and 15 
honorary members, including men, rep¬ 
resenting several places near Chicago, 
notably Lake Forest. Ten meetings are 
held at private houses during the sum¬ 
mer. An annual report is published in 
loose-leaf form for filing in note books. 
Twenty-eight members have a “special¬ 
ty”—bulbs, novelties in perennials, wild 
flowers in gardens, bog-gardens, etc.— 
on which they become authorities. 
The surplus from the gardens has 
been given to the Chicago City Garden 
Association. This year the Club is 
planning a weekly flower market in 
Market Square, Lake Forest, the pro¬ 
ceeds to be used for municipal planting. 
Nearly $3,000 was given in the last 
three years for planting the municipal 
gardens of Chicago. Last year five 
truck-loads of shrubs and plants were 
sent to beautify the temporary quarters 
of soldiers at Fort Sheridan. A com¬ 
petition is held for garden designs. 
Prizes are offered at horticultural shows. 
Among the most valuable accom¬ 
plishments of the Club are the land¬ 
scaping and planting of a beautiful park 
in Lake Forest and the establishing and 
conducting for two years in Lake Forest 
of a school of landscape architecture 
open to members of the Club and the 
College. This work was interrupted by 
the war. This spring the Club was 
addressed by Mr. Jens Jensen, land¬ 
scape architect, on “Our Native Land¬ 
scape”. He advocates the naturalistic 
school, and the use of native vegetation 
rather than foreign. 
T HE Garden Club of Camden, Maine, 
founded 1913, jointly by summer 
and permanent residents, now numbers 
over 100 members, men and women. 
One of the presidents was a descendant 
of John Alden; another, Mr. C. Ded- 
derer Thompson, of New York. The 
president for 1920 is the daughter of 
Italian resident parents. 
The Club has interested townspeople 
in civics, and secured a sprayer for the 
town’s use, to preserve its trees. Repre¬ 
sentatives of the State Agricultural De¬ 
partment, and professional gardeners 
from large private estates, have given 
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