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House & Garden 
'(UTo Shunter 
REPRODUCTIONS 
of OLD ENGLISH 
and COLONIAL 
WROUGHT IRON 
WORE and fire¬ 
place FURNISH¬ 
INGS 
.4 HAND FORGED 
WEATHERVANE 
TO CATCH THE 
BREEZES - - - 
FOR THE COUNTRV HOUSE 
Alantern of quaint design or wrought 
th umt> latch and old fashioned strap 
hinges for the front door, will afford 
an added touch of interest. 
Illustrations 
upon 
juest 
Brass 
Knocker 
No. 3511 
ARTHUR TODHUNTER 
Showrooms—101 Park Avenue, New York 
The Best Mattress is Made 
Better by Using a 
Quilted Mattress 
Protector 
It’s like sleeping on air to 
sleep on a Quilted Protector. 
They are made of the finest 
materials money can buy. 
Quilted in the Excelsior way 
that keeps them light, soft 
and fluffy even after long use 
and washing. Made in all 
sizes to fit all beds and cribs. 
Because of their many features, 
they are especially suited to use 
on Baby’s Crib. They protect the 
child as well as the mattress— 
save time and labor. 
Endorsed by Physicians and Used 
by the Best Families Who Know 
See that Trademark is stitched in cor¬ 
ner of every Protector you purchase. 
The Excelsior Quilting Co. 
15 Laight St., New York City 
On House Garden’s Book Shelf 
{Continued, from page 76) 
T HE increasing army of those to 
whom motoring means some¬ 
thing more than burning up the 
road in a mad scramble to cover the 
greatest number of miles in the short¬ 
est number of minutes will find Elon 
Jessup’s “The Motor Camping Book” 
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York) a 
source of no little inspiration and 
abundant practical information. 
With the ever-growing interest in 
sane outdoor life, the motor car has 
come into its own as the means.de luxe 
for getting into the open places, and 
innumerable devices have been evolved 
to go within, upon and behind it to 
make its use for out-and-out camping 
as practicable as may be. The best of 
these, and the ways in which they are 
employed, are gathered together in this 
book under such chapter headings as 
“The Car and the Pack,” “Water Con¬ 
tainers,” “The Cooking Kit,” “Food 
Boxes,” and “Beds and Tents,” “Camp 
Furnishings,” etc., all profusely illus¬ 
trated. Other chapters on where to 
go, with maps, and summaries of mo¬ 
tor laws in various States and Canada, 
complete a volume which we enthusi¬ 
astically assert no lover of the car and 
country should miss reading and 
owning. 
M R. M. S. DUDLEY WEST- 
ROPP’S “Irish Glass” (J. B. Lip- 
pincott, Philadelphia) is a valuable 
contribution to the history of glass-mak¬ 
ing. Glass-making in Ireland prior to 
the end of the 17th Century; Dublin 
Glass-Houses; Drumlea and Belfast 
Glass - Houses; Cork Glass-Houses; 
Newry, Ballycastle, and Londonderry 
Glass-Houses, and Irish glass in general 
are its chapters which are indexed. 
Mr. Westropp has been singularly 
fortunate in having exceptional oppor¬ 
tunities for examining many pieces of 
Irish glass and of making comparisons 
with those that have an authenticated 
history. As the author points out, the 
study of Irish glass is like that of 
any other manufacture that has long 
ceased to exist. The more that is 
learned about it the more there is still 
to learn. Some theory may be evolved 
which it is fondly hoped is correct, then 
the next day something turns up that 
knocks the whole fabric to pieces. But 
Mr. Westropp’s study of Irish glass 
appears conservative and illuminating, 
although there is, as he himself points 
out, very little information in the book 
telling how to identify or differentiate 
between the products of the various 
Irish factories. 
SOME GARDEN POSSIBILITIES 
T HE question which confronts the 
owner of the small place is how 
to combine successfully art and 
utility, how to obtain all the fruit and 
vegetables possible and still keep the 
surroundings attractive with flowers 
and shrubs. 
One of the most interesting possibili¬ 
ties of this situation is the grafting of 
one or more varieties of fruit on one 
tree. Take apples, for example. Of 
course dwarf varieties may be used, 
but their crop is comparatively light 
and they do not grow large enough to 
give very much shade. But if you can 
make room for one standard sized 
tree, preferably a winter variety as that 
will be the main crop, place it where 
it will be most effective and set into 
it grafts from two or three other va¬ 
rieties always including a branch of 
the crab. Get your stock from the 
nearest reliable nursery and read up on 
the process of grafting. It is simple 
enough but must be done just right to 
ensure success, the age and size of the 
tree must be considered, etc. If you 
have a well informed friend to call 
upon so* much the better. 
Another interesting and space-saving 
process is training the smaller trees, like 
pears, plums, and peaches, flat against a 
fence or trellis. This is done by tying 
the young wood to supports and forcing 
the branches to follow the shape de¬ 
sired. Any good book on pruning 
will give directions for the close 
cutting away of all unnecessary growth, 
and the resulting fruit yield will some¬ 
times be so heavy that the branches 
would break if not firmly supported. 
The grapevine, too, lends itself 
easily to ornamental uses. Of course, it 
makes nice shade over the kitchen door, 
but if this is on the north side of the 
house the fruit will not do its best. 
Very good effects may be obtained by 
dividing the front and back yards by 
a trellis over which the grape is 
trained, and careful trimming will keep 
the vines entirely sightly as well as pro¬ 
ducing better fruit. The street side of 
the screen may be faced with a peren¬ 
nial border of boltonia, one of the 
dwarf hardy sunflowers, iris, etc.; or 
annuals may be used, substituting cos¬ 
mos for the boltonia. This will pro¬ 
vide late flowers for the house as well 
as hide the untidy appearance of the 
grapevines when they begin to drop 
their leaves in September. 
Currant and gooseberry bushes also 
will serve nicely in decorative work if 
two very simple precautions are taken. 
The first is prompt destruction of the 
currant worm as soon as he makes his 
appearance on the foliage. Watch for 
him on the lower branches in toward 
the center of the bush and give him a 
generous dose of dry hellebore powder 
while the leaves are still wet with the 
morning dew. This may be applied 
with a small bellows or by holding 
about a tablespoonful of the powder 
loosely in the hand, allowing it to slip 
easily between the fingers so that it dusts 
those leaves on which the worms are 
feeding. This uses more powder than 
when it is dissolved ini water and 
sprinkled on but it is much more sure 
and the worms will begin to fall in 
five or ten minutes after the application 
is made. It may be necessary to re¬ 
peat the operation a week or ten days 
later, as there will sometimes be a sec¬ 
ond or even a third hatch of the 
worms. 
The second precaution to be taken 
to keep these bushes in. good form is 
not to rag the leaves when picking the 
fruit. Lift each branch by the tip, 
exposing the lower side from which the 
clusters may be easily gathered with 
little or no harm to the foliage. 
Further space may be saved on the 
small lot by using the Japanese climb¬ 
ing cucumber instead of the trailing 
variety and training it over a fence or 
trellis, while tomatoes, trimmed to one, 
two or even three stalks and carefully 
staked, will keep on bearing up in 
the air instead of out over the ground. 
Unsightly bean poles will cease to be 
an eye-sore if they are set to a uniform 
height of b' or 7', the vines being 
trained back and forth from pole to 
pole. This also facilitates picking, but 
only three plants should be left to a 
hill. 
Many other applications of the prin¬ 
ciples of this sort of intensive cultiva¬ 
tion will naturally suggest themselves 
as conditions of the individual garden 
are studied, and the results will fully 
repay the extra thought and labor. 
Mary Nelms. 
Leavens Furniture 
The careful, discriminating pur¬ 
chaser plans a home that will become 
more beautiful as the years go by— 
which both in exterior and interior 
appearance will take on additional 
charm as it grows older. 
He selects 
Leavens 
Colonial 
Furniture 
for interiors knowing that like the 
house itself this wonderful furniture 
will grow old gracefully—remaining 
always in vogue and satisfying even 
the most fastidious taste. 
Personal preference may be exer¬ 
cised in the matter of finish. We will 
gladly supply unfinished pieces if de¬ 
sired or finish to match any interiors. 
Write for set No. 4 of illustrations 
and Leavens stains. 
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Cleans Closet Bowls Without Scouring 
Easy to use—and Effective 
Do you dread the task of cleaning the 
closet bowl? There is no need to, for 
Sani-Flush was made to relieve you of it. 
Just sprinkle a little into the bowl, follow 
the directions and flush. What could be 
easier? And the bowl is clean and odor¬ 
less—cleaned much more thoroughly than 
you could ever do it by the old scrubbing 
and scouring. Sani-Flush leaves the bowl 
and hidden trap sparkling white and abso¬ 
lutely sanitary. Disinfectants are not neces¬ 
sary after Sani-Flush has done its work. 
Sani-Flush is sold at grocery, 
drug, hardware, plumbing, and house¬ 
furnishing stores. If you cannot buy 
it locally at once, send 2 5c tn coin 
or stamps for a full sized can post¬ 
paid. (Canadian price, 35c; foreign 
price, 50c.) 
The Hygienic Products Co. 
Canton, O. 
Canadian Agents: 
Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Ltd. 
Toronto 
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