H o u s e 
& Garden 
and of course you don't 
believe in genii and fairies 
But— 
How would you like to have some kind 
genie bring you a beautiful glass house 
wheiein you could hold prisoner 
throughout the winter and early spring 
a bit of the wonderful Summer-land 
you love so well ? 
Think of the joy of standing in a 
bower of the flowers you love and 
breathing in the rich fragrance while 
just a few feet from you, on the other 
side of the glass, you can see the little 
eddies of dry snow scudding before 
the biting blast, and over all the wintry 
leaden sky. 
You can have this joy if you turn to the 
right genie—and that genie is the 
American Greenhouse Mfg. Co. 
You'll enjoy looking through our con¬ 
servatory book. It's gratis and a copy 
is awaiting your address. 
American Greenhouse Mfg. Co. 
NEW YORK 
5 Columbus Circle 
KANSAS CITY 
New York Life Bldg. 
CHICAGO 
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Outstripping the Gale 
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of even heating. Do what he will, the 
furnace man cannot seem to heat the 
house. Often we say: “Why do you 
burn so much coal and give us so little 
heat ?” There may be other causes, but 
the lack of weather stripping is very 
prone to be one. 
Quiet and Cleanliness 
The charm of the house is quiet. 
Don’t we all unconsciously gauge the 
dignity of the homes that we visit by 
the quiet of them? 
The weather strip keeps much of the 
street noises out. It dulls and reduces 
the raucousness of the clang and clatter. 
Every housewife knows that the hang¬ 
ings next to the windows get very dirty. 
She also knows that the room gets full 
of dust whether the windows are closed 
or not. A certain amount of dust will 
get into the room no matter what pre¬ 
cautions are taken, but there will be 
less of it when weather stripping is ap¬ 
plied to the windows. This is a con¬ 
sideration worthy of notice, as the ser¬ 
vant problem today makes all effort in 
the home more arduous and the less 
cleaning there is to be done the better 
for all concerned. 
Weather strips are not a luxury. They 
save money and give comfort by main¬ 
taining an equal temperature and hu¬ 
midity, and by permitting more quiet, 
less drafts and a minimum of dust 
Finally, the weather strip is a good in¬ 
vestment and, although not intrinsically 
a thing of beauty, is a thing of duty and 
lasts forever. 
But remember weather strips are easy 
to make-cheap ones. There are many 
mushroomic dealers—born todav and 
dead tomorrow. Beware of them and 
buy the best. 
The Gazebo and the Garden Wall 
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the south and east. The lower portion 
is used to house horticultural imple¬ 
ments. 
The other gazebo, with an outside 
staircase and beautiful wrought-iron 
balustrade, besides affording an agree¬ 
able lookout and a place to sit, was 
meant to contain an aviary. The clock 
at the top chimes the hours and the 
quarters. 
The gazebo at Avenue House—de¬ 
signed by Sir William Chambers and 
originally part of the garden equipment 
at Houghton Towers—backed against 
a wall of trees, fittingly terminates the 
vista up a long walk. From an archi¬ 
tectural point of view it really makes 
this garden, or rather this small park; 
as an accessory of daily convenience it 
is of distinct utility, and the writer can 
personally testify to the comfort of 
often sitting there to work in quiet, 
unbroken save for the bells of the 
church near by striking the quarter 
hours. 
The little stone structure at The 
Court, in Broadway, is merely a tool- 
house for the gardener, but it imparts 
not a little architectural value to the 
general composition by the simple dig¬ 
nity it brings to the termination of the 
garden wall. The other little building 
of brick, in an angle of the walled gar¬ 
den at Shottery Manor, is a dovecote 
above and a tool-house below—both 
humble, though immensely useful, func¬ 
tions but, apart from this, it gives an 
interest to that garden out of all pro¬ 
portion to the small outlay of labor and 
cost it originally involved. Indeed, in 
every instance noted, the interest con¬ 
tributed by these small garden struc¬ 
tures, quite aside from their manifest 
utilitarian services, is sufficient to justify 
their existence and commend them to 
favorable consideration. 
The connection between gazebos and 
garden walls is so intimate that one can¬ 
not forbear adding a few words touch¬ 
ing the fundamental logic and wisdom 
of a practice against which, curiously 
enough, some display of prejudice crops 
up every now and again—the enclosing 
of gardens with a barrier more substan¬ 
tial than a hedge or an iron paling. 
First of all, a walled garden gives a 
degree of protection and shelter rarely 
obtained in a garden less effectually en¬ 
closed. It also collects and holds the 
heat in chilly weather so that the plants 
within it come into bloom earlier in the 
spring and last later into the autumn 
than where there is less substantial pro¬ 
tection. The walls themselves make the 
best possible support for vines or, if 
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V; 
At The Court, Broadway, is a little 
Cotswold type of building, an excellent 
termination to strengthen the appear¬ 
ance of the garden wall. It is designed 
to keep garden tools 
