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House & Garden 
The New Brand Peony : Victory Chateau Thierry 
The Brand Peonies 
Originated by O. F. Brand and Son, America’s 
foremost hybridizers of the Peony 
I would again call your attention to the fact that 
the members of the American Peony Society by 
their vote as recorded in the 2nd symposium of 
that Society have declared 
E. B. Browning Martha Bulloch 
Longfellow Frances Willard 
4 of the world’s 22 best Peonies are 
BRAND PEONIES 
Now that the season is nearing its close and 
before it is too late we wish to introduce to all 
lovers of good peonies 
Two New 1921 Brand Peonies 
DAVID HARUM— 
Light bright red. Flower large, full and beautifully 
formed. Guard petals prominent and well expanded. 
Sterne tall, straight, strong. Foliage broad, light 
green and clean. Profuse bloomer. A distinct flower 
of a distinct shade of red. Very fine. $25.00 each. 
MRS. JENNIE R. GOWDY— 
A very large flower with long narrow pinkish white 
petals minutely flecked with red like Asa Gray, with 
several heavy blotches of carmine on the central petals. 
General appearance of flower would be called ruffled. 
The ruffled peony. Very beautiful. Each $25.00. 
Our best judgment matured thru an experience cover¬ 
ing a period of over 22 years actively engaged in originat¬ 
ing new varieties guarantees in these two peonies something 
extra good. 
We also still have in stock for this fall’s trade, in an 
almost unbroken list of varieties, the largest stock of 
Brand Varieties in the World and the largest stock in 
America of the World’s Best French, English, and other 
American sorts. 
Peonies can be safely planted until the ground freezes. 
If you have not placed your order, do so now for you 
still have plenty of time in which to plant. 
A. M. BRAND 
FARIBAULT MINNESOTA 
Opportunities For House Plans 
(Continued from page 86) 
by the American Face Brick Associa¬ 
tion, Chicago, Ill. The plans for these 
cottages have been prepared by com¬ 
petent architects, after careful study 
into the housekeeping problems of the 
day. The interior arrangements of all 
the cottages are not only convenient 
but exceedingly economical. The houses 
run in size from three to eight rooms. 
Complete working plans and specifica¬ 
tions for these houses are on sale. 
Many problems for the builder and 
housekeeper have been simplified in 
"Building with Assurance” published by 
Morgan Sash and Door Co., Chicago, 
Ill. You will find in this book not only 
scores of modern bungalows, cottages, 
Colonial houses and garages, but some 
extremely valuable material about the 
arrangement of the different rooms of 
the house, about various woodworks 
and stains, about floor coverings, light¬ 
ing, plumbing and heating—a book you 
must study if you are going to build. 
“The Home You Long For” is the 
interesting title of a delightful book¬ 
let on different types of wooden houses 
published by the Arkansas Soft Pine 
Bureau, Little Rock, Ark. This pam¬ 
phlet is really a series of pages of 
houses, and with each house is shown 
the floor plans, and there is an in¬ 
teresting little talk about the finish of 
the woodwork. These designs are par¬ 
ticularly good, showing really fine styles 
of architecture, with unusually livable 
detail. And with every set of plans 
a mill bill is given which will help to 
get at the cost of your house and as¬ 
sist your builder in making his speci¬ 
fications. 
If you are interested in building your 
house of redwood you should send to 
the Pacific Lumber Company, Chicago, 
Ill., for their Information Sheet No. 11 
on residential building. This tells the 
story of redwood in relation to house 
building. It will incidentally also show 
you some interesting designs of houses 
suited to this building material. 
“Plans for Minter Homes” —Pub¬ 
lished by Minter Homes Corporation, 
Huntington, W. Va., is a pamphlet 
showing that not only can you find 
houses and plans ready to use, but the 
house itself all prepared for your build¬ 
er to set up. This system of home-get- 
ting promises to be labor-saving and 
time-saving. There is a variety of these 
houses with practical plans which suit 
different sites and plans. 
“Hy-Tex House of Moderate Cost ”— 
Published by the Hydraulic-Press Brick 
Company, St. Louis, Mo. This book 
will bring you a large variety of well- 
designed small and medium houses. The 
front elevation is shown in every in¬ 
stance with floor plans and detail draw¬ 
ings, also the cubical contents. The 
architects who design these houses work 
with a definite problem, to plan a de¬ 
tached house faced with Hy-Tex brick 
to build complete at a cost not to ex¬ 
ceed $7,500 (pre-war price). The prize 
houses designed for this competition are 
shown in this pamphlet. 
“Brick for the Average Man’s Home" 
—Published by the Common Brick 
Manufacturers Association of America, 
Cleveland, Ohio. This pamphlet contains 
34 designs for practical and artistic 
homes as well as two-apartment houses; 
one or two garages are also shown. 
Every house is designed to be built of 
common brick. Working drawings and 
specifications available. 
“Own Your Home ”—National Lum¬ 
ber Manufacturing Association of Chi¬ 
cago, Chicago, Ill. This pamphlet con¬ 
tains a series of designs for wooden 
houses of the cottage and small Colonial 
type. Floor plans are shown of each 
house and in some instances interiors 
are given. There is much practical in¬ 
formation about the starting of a house 
that would be of value to those who 
contemplate home building. 
A series of pamphlets called “Better 
Built Homes” published by the Curtis 
Service Bureau, Clinton, Iowa, gives in 
all 200 houses designed to meet the 
needs of American people who want 
practical, comfortable, beautiful small 
houses. There are four different types 
of architecture shown: Colonial, Eng¬ 
lish, Southern and Western. Floor plans 
are given with every exterior, one ex¬ 
terior and interesting detail, also sug¬ 
gestions for the finishing and fitting of 
the house. 
“56 Touchstone Houses,” designed by 
George E. Fowler (5 West 47th Street, 
New York City) is an interesting col¬ 
lection of modern houses, large and 
small, that are comfortable, economical 
and attractive. These houses are 
planned to help solve the servant 
problem, hence every step is consid¬ 
ered, and space is utilized not for 
beauty, but for convenience. Plans 
are for sale, and specifications can be 
written. 
Snapdragons for Beds and Borders 
(Continued from page 58) 
example of how utterly all natural 
beauty may be driven from a flower by 
artificial means.” 
Any open part of the garden is suit¬ 
able, for snapdragons do not like shade. 
The soil needs no special attention be¬ 
yond being ordinarily dug and manured. 
If planted in a wall, either in the cop¬ 
ing or a joint where the mortar is 
loose, they will grow if the seed is in¬ 
serted with a little damp soil. When 
pricking out, remove the leading shoot 
to make the plants more bushy. If 
planted in their flowering positions in 
April they will flower early in June. 
Seed sown under glass in March or 
April will flower the same year from 
July to October. Because it is usually 
treated as a half-hardy annual one is 
apt to forget that the antirrhinum, like 
the wallflower, is a true hardy perennial, 
and will grow on for several seasons. 
In the garden, on cultivated land, it 
is necessary to cut them back after flow¬ 
ering, to force the blooms to develop 
on the young growth and lengthen the 
period of flowering, and, if the plants 
are left for more than a couple of sea¬ 
sons, they get over-rooted, and the top 
growth becomes heavy and untidy, as 
well as hard wooded. The result is that 
rough winds and snow often cause the 
plant to split and lose much of its shape¬ 
liness. For front rank beds it is, there¬ 
fore, advisable to replace them each 
season. In the North snapdragons re¬ 
quire a thorough winter covering. 
Allow plenty of room in bedding out, 
the tall varieties at least 15" apart, the 
medium 12", and the dwarf 8". This 
will then permit of side development, 
and give a much finer effect of color. 
While seed from a garden-grown 
specimen will usually not be found to 
come true the following season, if it 
is desired to increase the stock of a par¬ 
ticular favorite it is quite simple to 
grow cuttings. For this purpose young 
unflowered shoots should be pinched off 
the selected plants in August, inserted 
firmly in a box of sand, and kept in a 
cool place for a couple of weeks; they 
will form sturdy plants for next season. 
The plans give a suggestion for 
schemes of border and beds in a 
medium-sized garden. They are ar¬ 
ranged to give a subtle variation of 
colors. 
