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How You Can Make 
Casements The Most 
Practical Windows of all 
T HINK of outswung casements with which 
you never have to disturb inside screens— 
windows with 100 per cent openings that leave 
all the space in a room available for decorations. 
You may have such windows in your home simply 
by the attachment of the right sort of hardware— 
Monarch Control Locks. 
Note the illustration of how the Monarch Con¬ 
trol-Lock is used. Merely raise the little handle, 
and you can swing a window to any position. To 
firmly lock the window, wide open, tightly closed 
or at any angle in between, just press the handle 
down. 
Flowers, draperies and screens are never dis¬ 
turbed in the least. You enjoy the distinct beauty 
of outswung casements and find them the most 
practical windows of all. 
The Monarch Control-Lock is as sturdy as a solid 
piece of steel and as ornamental as an artistic 
doorknob. 
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House & Garden 
The Gardens of the Jungle 
(Continued from page 64) 
at last I found the bit of uselessness, 
which, carried onward and developed in 
ages to come, as it had been elsewhere 
in ages past, was to evolve into botany, 
and back-yard gardens, and greenhouses, 
and wars of roses, and beautiful paint¬ 
ings, and music with a soul of its own, 
and verse more than human. To Degas 
the toko-nook was “just name,” “and it 
was nothing more.” But he was for¬ 
given, for he had all unwittingly sowed 
the seeds of religion, through faith in 
his glowing caladiums. But Grand¬ 
mother, though all the sunlight seemed 
dusk, and the dawn but as night, yet 
clung to her little plant, whose glory 
was that it was of no use whatsoever, 
f but in months to come would be yellow, 
[ and would smell. 
Farther down river, in the small 
hamlets of the bovianders—the peo¬ 
ple of mixed blood—the practical 
was still necessity, but almost every 
thatched and wattled hut had its swing¬ 
ing orchid branch, and perhaps a hide¬ 
ous painted tub with picketed rim, in 
which grew a golden splash of croton. 
This ostentatious floweritis might fur¬ 
nish a theme for a wholly new phase of 
the subject—for in almost every respect 
these people are less worthy human 
beings—physically, mentally and moral¬ 
ly—than the Indians. But one cannot 
shift literary overalls for philosophical 
paragraphs in mid-article, so let us take 
the little river steamer down stream for 
forty miles to the coast of British 
Guiana, and there see what Nature her¬ 
self does in the way of gardens. We 
drive twenty miles or more before we 
reach Georgetown, and the sides of the 
road are lined for most of the distance 
with huts and hovels of East Indian 
coolies and native Guiana negroes. Some 
are made of boxes, others of bark, more 
of thatch or rough-hewn boards and 
barrel staves, and some of split bam¬ 
boo. But they resemble one another 
in several respects—all are ramshackle, 
all lean with the grace of Pisa, all have 
shutters and doors, so that at night they 
may be hermetically closed, and all are 
half-hidden in the folds of a curtain of 
flowers. The most shiftless, unlovely 
hovel, poised ready to return to its orig¬ 
inal chemical elements, is embowered in 
a mosaic of color, which in a northern 
garden would be worth a king’s ransom 
—or to be strictly modern, should I not 
say a labor foreman’s or a comrade’s 
ransom! 
The deep trench which extends along 
the front of these sad dwellings is some¬ 
times blue with water hyacinths; next 
the water disappears beneath a maze of 
tall stalks, topped with a pink mist of 
lotus; then come floating lilies and more 
hyacinth. Wherever there is sufficient 
clear water, the wonderful curve of a 
cocoanut palm is etched upon it, re¬ 
flection meeting palm, to form a den¬ 
dritic pattern unequalled in human de¬ 
vising. 
Over a hut of rusty oil-cans, bougain- 
villia stretches its glowing branches, 
sometimes cerise, sometimes purple, or 
allamanders fill the air with a golden 
haze from their glowing search-lights, 
either hiding the huts altogether, or 
softening their details into picturesque 
ruins. I remember one coolie dwelling 
which was dirtier and less habitable 
than the meanest stable, and all around 
it were hundreds upon hundreds of 
frangipanni blooms—the white and gold 
temple flowers of the East—giving forth 
of scent and color all that a flower is 
capable, to alleviate the miserable blot 
of human construction. Now and then 
a flamboyant tree comes into view, and 
as, at night, the head-lights of an ap¬ 
proaching car eclipse all else, so this 
tree of burning scarlet draws eye and 
mind from adjacent human-made squal¬ 
or. In all the tropics of the world I 
scarcely remember to have seen more 
magnificent color than in these unat¬ 
tended, wilful-grown gardens. 
In tropical cities such as Georgetown, 
there are very beautiful private gardens, 
and the public one is second only to that 
of Java. But for the most part one is 
as conscious of the very dreadful bor¬ 
ders of brick, or bottles, or conchs, as 
of the flowers themselves. Someone 
who is a master gardener will some day 
write of the possibilities of a tropical 
garden, which will hold the reader as 
does desire to behold the gardens of 
Carcassonne itself. 
Growing Hydrangeas In Tubs 
( Continued, from page 42) 
with the treatment that they are to em¬ 
phasize, it is advisable to have them 
specially designed, built of cypress with 
copper lining. A well proportioned 
square tub is 1' 10" wide and 2' high 
outside dimensions. In all cases pots 
and tubs should be adequately provided 
with drainage, which means that the pots 
should have from one to three holes, 
V 2 " to 1" in diameter, in the bottom, 
and in the tubs from two to eight holes. 
When painting the tubs choose a color 
that will blend in well with the other 
colors, using either the color of the trim 
of the house or the blinds. Where the 
tubs or pots are to be set on the lawn, 
they should rest on three bricks or 
stones, leaving a minimum air space of 
2 between the bottom and the ground. 
During their growing season, the 
plants require a great deal of water. 
This- is particularly true during the 
period when the flowers are forming 
when it may be necessary to water them 
twice a day. In October and November 
they should be watered just enough to 
keep the soil in a semi-moist condition. 
Give them an application of liquid cow 
manure once a week before the flowers 
appear. 
The housing of the plants during the 
winter months is important, and it can 
be done through using a cold frame, 
that is a pit about 4' deep with wooden 
side frames and a glass top. Choose a 
location where the water will not drain 
into the pit. On the approach of the 
first frost, remove the plants from the 
pots or tubs but do not shake the soil 
off. Place them close together in the 
bottom of the cold frame and leave 
them exposed to the sun and air as long 
as the weather permits. The frame 
should be deep enough so that there 
will be at least 4" between the top of 
the branches and the glass. 
Cover the roots somewhat firmly 
with good soil, and over this then 
spread a mulching of hay, straw or leaf 
mould 1' thick. Place glass frame on 
the pit and protect it with wooden 
boards adding a layer of straw or hay 
on top of the boards. 
In the early spring after the danger 
of frost is over, remove the covers and 
glass frame, and after the plants have 
been hardened by the exposure for a 
few days, choose a dull day for their 
repotting, having the pots previously 
cleaned and the tubs painted for the 
season’s use. Pick off an inch or two 
of the old soil and plant in rich soil of 
a porous nature to which has been 
added a sprinkling of bone meal and 
soot. Provide plenty of drainage in 
the bottom of the pot or tub. Press 
the new soil down in the pots or tubs 
(Continued on page 68 
