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House & Garden 
orious Ways 
Can’t Forget 
I S there anything more beautiful—anything that 
brings more joy to the heart of the flower-lover than 
a bed, border, or edging of Tulips in full bloom in early 
spring ? 
Single and double, early and late, all are perfectly charming 
in the garden—and just think, you can have Tulips in bloom 
from April until June if you plant our special selections offered 
below! 
Plant Bulbs Generously 
as many as you can possibly afford—and Tulip time in your 
garden next spring will be a period of unbounded joy and 
happiness, days and weeks never to be forgotten. 
To encourage extensive planting we make the following ex¬ 
traordinary offers. All bulbs are guaranteed top size and of 
the very best quality. 
Matchless Collections of Tulips 
at Remarkable Savings 
to Early Buyers! 
100 Single Early Tulips in 10 shades of Bronze, Orange, 
named varieties .$4.00 Buff and Apricot) 
( Bloom in April and early May) 100 Rembrandt Tulips in 5 
100 Double Early Tulips in 5 named varieties .$5.00 
named varieties.4.00 (Striped, flamed and feath- 
(Bloom in April and early May) cred. Bloom in May and 
100 Darwin Tulips in 10 June) 
named varieties. 4.50 100 Parrot or Orchid Tulips 
(Immense flowers on stems in 4 named varieties.. 4.00 
2/ feet tall) (Bloom May and June) 
100 Cottage Tulips in 10 named Special Combination Offer: 
varieties . 4.00 One hundred each of above 
(The tulips of Grand - seven types—seven hundred 
mother’s garden, improved bulbs in all, in 49 separate va- 
and more beautiful than rieties .29.00 
ever. Bloom May and The most wonderful offer 
June) _ ever made. 
100 Breeder or Art Tulips in One-half above Combination 
5 named varieties. 5.50 Offer: Fifty each of above 
(Tall and stately like the seven types—350 bulbs in all, 
Darwins. In wonderful in 49 named varieties .16.00 
Included in the above are the wonderful Cottage Garden 
Tulips that you see in the old Dutch, Flemish, and English gar¬ 
dens where they have flourished for years, treasured by their 
owners, hallowed by sentiment, beautiful in their own right 
and with the fragrance of sweet memories. 
Plant them among the shrubbery and in borders, as well as 
in beds. They multiply rapidly, and will last and flower well 
for three years. Long-stemmed, graceful, enduring, thev are 
MAX SCHL1NG, Seedsman, Inc, 
24 West 59th St, 
Building the Smokeless Fireplace 
(.Continued from page 64) 
her should be 1/12 the area of the fire¬ 
place opening; if two stories, 7/12; and 
a single story but never less than 64 
square inches. In the case of coal fires 
these proportions may be reduced 25 
to 30 per cent. 
All chimneys above the roof should 
be laid in cement mortar and have a 
brick, concrete or stone cap with a 
wash. If the latter is used it should 
be cut out of one piece. Allow the flue 
linings, if no ornamental chimney pots 
are used, to extend at least 1" above 
the cap so that water will not have a 
tendency to drain down into the flue and 
fireplace. 
The following summary of causes will 
help in determining why a fireplace does 
not draw well and smokes: 
1. The fact that all doors and win¬ 
dows in a room are closed permits no 
leakage of air into the room to supply a 
draft to the fire. 
2. Depth of the fireplace may be too 
shallow. 
3. Some dampers have an insuffi¬ 
cient throat opening to accommodate 
the draft. 
4. It may be due to lack of a wind or 
back draft shelf at the throat to pre¬ 
vent down drafts. 
5. The flue may be undersize and the 
proportions of the various parts of the 
fireplace incorrect. 
6. Faulty construction of the flue, es¬ 
pecially at the points of the changes of 
direction, causing a choking of the 
draft. 
7. Care has not been taken in ex¬ 
tending the chimney at least 3' above 
the point of contact on a flat roof and 
2' above the corresponding point on the 
ridge of a pitched roof. 
8. A decrease in the net flue area may 
have been made by having built the 
chimney cap over the flue opening and 
not permitting the flue lining to extend 
at least 1" above it. 
9. External conditions such as tall 
trees and adjoining roofs sometimes 
contribute toward smoky conditions of 
a fireplace. 
The Revival of Marbling 
( Continued, from page 29) 
it is beautiful, and not because it 
looks expensive. The exact imitation 
of real marbles should be avoided. 
Artificial marbling should merely at¬ 
tempt to recapture what we may call 
the “genius” of real marble—its irregu¬ 
lar markings, its dappled coloring. 
Decorators are now finding that inter¬ 
esting effects may be obtained by the 
irregular application of paint in other 
ways besides marbling. Convention¬ 
alized graining in bright colors—grain¬ 
ing that does not attempt to simulate 
exactly the figure of any wood—can 
be made almost as interesting as mar¬ 
bling. 
The effect of marbling is produced 
by several distinct processes. The mar¬ 
bled papers, used in the bindings of 
books are sometimes effectively em¬ 
ployed as wall-paper. 
There can be no doubt that the most 
beautiful and startling effects of mar¬ 
bling can be produced by floating on 
the colors. But this process is, of 
course, only possible where the surface 
which has to be marbled can be placed 
in a horizontal position. 
Where marbling has to be applied di¬ 
rectly to a wall or to any perpendicular 
surface floating on becomes impossible, 
since all the color would naturally tend 
to run dovn to the bottom. In this 
case other methods of marbling are em¬ 
ployed. Different exponents of the art 
prefer different methods. 
Some produce their effects as follows: 
The whole surface of the wall is given 
a plain coat of whatever color is de¬ 
sired as the ground tone of the mar¬ 
bling. This smooth, even coat is al¬ 
lowed to dry, and when it is complete¬ 
ly dry another color in different states 
of dilution is washed over the top. In 
this way pleasing cloudy effects are 
produced, the imposed color varying 
from almost complete opacity to trans¬ 
parency. When the second color has 
been applied it is worked, while still 
wet, with a brush or rag, so as to pro¬ 
duce the characteristic lining and 
blotching of marble. When dry the 
whole surface is varnished. Marbling is 
generally carried out in oil paints, but 
it is possible to produce effects of a 
beautiful transparency by the use of 
water-colors. 
Other artists in marbling do not be¬ 
gin by applying a first coat of flat, uni¬ 
form color. Their method is to lay a 
series of blotches and streaks of pure 
thick color on to the wall and then to 
work them together so that they fuse 
and cross forming the cloudy “figure” 
of marble. When dry the surface is 
varnished in the usual way. 
The S eptic Tank System for Sewage 
(Continued from page 52) 
form upon the top of the waste mat¬ 
ter without being disturbed by the in¬ 
flowing and out-draining liquids. This 
crust must not be disturbed, as that 
would cause the bacterial action to cease 
until a new one formed. The baffles 
prevent any currents or motions being 
transmitted to the surface. A hole in 
the top is provided so that the tank can 
be cleaned when required, but a per¬ 
fectly operating system may not need 
any attention for years, depending upon 
the quantity and nature of the wastes 
handled. 
The outlet end of the septic tank 
should connect with a tee fitting, the 
upper end of which connects with a 
piece of 1" iron pipe projecting above 
the ground as a vent. The lower end 
of the tee connects to the ground drain¬ 
age line. This disposal drain, or nitrifi¬ 
cation system, as it is called, disposes 
of the clarified and harmless liquid from 
the septic tank. It consists merely of a 
line of loosely laid 4" tile drain pipe 
about 150' in length and laid with a 
slight fall so that the liquid will drain 
slowly along the entire distance, seeping 
out through the loose joints and far 
open end. This line should be buried 
4' or more deep and covered several 
inches with sand, gravel or stone. 
In using be careful that no chemicals 
are employed, especially chloride of 
lime, as they interfere with the bacte¬ 
rial action. Plenty of water flushed 
through the drains will help, on the 
other hand, as it tends to keep the sew¬ 
age in a thin watery state which is 
much to be desired. Manhole covers 
should be kept cemented tight to pre¬ 
vent gases from escaping and air from 
entering. There will be no danger of 
freezing in the coldest climates, as suffi¬ 
cient heat) will be developed in the 
mass. The usual traps should be placed 
on all of the plumbing fixtures in the 
house. 
