What 9 s G Hgw for the 
garden of 1923? 
V AUGHAN’S Gardening 
Illustrated, issued annually 
in January, is more than a 
seed catalogue. It is a maga¬ 
zine of horticultural infor¬ 
mation as well as a 
complete list with pictures, 
prices and descriptions of 
everything the up-to-date 
garden owner needs or 
desires. It tells the garden 
news which everyone wants to know. 
No year passes nowadays without new colors and 
selections of our favorite flowers; and improved types of 
vegetables, bred for better form, or flavor, earliness or disease 
resistant qualities. The gardener who does not keep abreast of prog¬ 
ress is soon behind the times. 
70 Colored Plates of Flowers. 
W HEN you buy flower seed you are purchasing color. Garden¬ 
ing Illustrated pictures the annual flowers in their true colors. 
To our original collection, the most complete ever published in an 
American seed catalog, we have added largely this year. Our list 
of annual and perennial flowers is the most complete in this country. 
We specialize in gladioli grown on our own farms, and illustrate in 
colors standard and new varieties, and our fields in flower. 
Vaughan’s Colossal Zinnias 
T F you have not grown them you do not know the magnificence to 
which plant breeding has raised this flower. Send 10 cents to our 
store nearest you for a packet of Vaughan's Special Mixture of Colos¬ 
sal Zinnias and a copy of Vaughan’s Gardening Illustrated for 
1923, or write for the Catalog alone. Mailed FREE 
Vaughan’s Seed Store 
10-12 W. Randolph St. 41-43 Barclay St. 
Chicago New York 
Milford, Penna. 
With many thanks for your courteous letter, and much apprecia¬ 
tion of your methods of doing busmess.I was particularly pleased 
with the treatment you have accorded to me. 
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot 
(Mrs. Gifford Pinchot) 
BETTER PLANTS - - By Farr 
This phrase expresses my own ambition and that 
of my associates. It represents an ideal towards 
which we are striving—better method's, better 
service, better products—a surpassing of our best 
efforts of previous years. 
It is our intention to produce only the chief 
varieties of Peonies, Iris, Phlox, and other peren¬ 
nials, Lilacs, flowering shrubs, vines and creepers. 
To meet this decision many old varieties have been 
discarded—not necessarily because they 
are worthless, but because later intro¬ 
ductions are better. 
The first edition of 
BETTER PLANTS - By Farr 
features plants and shrubs adapted to 
the small garden and the large estate; it offers 
helpful suggestions to the experienced gardener 
and to the amateur, and should appeal to 
everyone who desires a garden of 
more than ordinary loveliness. 
We shall be pleased to send 
you a copy on request. 
Bertrand H. Farr 
Wyomissing Nurseries Co. 
106 Garfield Ave., 
Wyomissing, Penna. 
House & Garden 
ON HOUSE S'GARDEN’S BOOK SHELF 
T HE Practical Book of Fur¬ 
nishing the Small House and 
Apartment, by Edward Stratton 
Halloway, published by J. B. Lippin- 
cott Company. 
Here is a book that fills a long felt 
want, for it treats in a most thorough 
manner the problem of furnishing at 
medium cost the small house, apart¬ 
ment or cottage. The first part is given 
over to a consideration of modern, 
non-period decoration and in this sec¬ 
tion every room in the house is treated 
in detail. The subjects of color and 
form are gone into thoroughly and 
particularly interesting are the color 
schemes suggested for the various 
rooms. These ought to prove unusually 
helpful for in addition to the sugges¬ 
tions offered for wall finish, hangings, 
upholstery, furniture and rugs, many 
individual photographs of furniture and 
textiles are shown, all of which can be 
purchased in the shop today. So if one 
takes a fancy to any of the interesting 
interiors suggested by Mr. Holloway, 
it is possible to purchase the room, in 
its entirety. 
In addition to furniture made in this 
country, an interesting chapter is de¬ 
voted to the work of the leading de¬ 
signers of furniture in England today. 
This is profusely illustrated. In fact 
a large part of the book is given 
over to photographs of various types 
of rooms, many of the illustrations be¬ 
ing in color. In addition are shown 
individual pieces of furniture as well 
as textiles, so that one has no difficulty 
in visualizing the rooms mentioned. 
The last part of the book deals with 
period furnishing. Not only is English, 
French and Italian furniture of the 
16th, 17th and 18th Centuries described 
with accompanying illustrations but in 
many cases photographs of entire 
rooms show the various pieces in their 
proper surroundings. 
The writer has avoided anything ex¬ 
treme in the matter of furnishing. The 
new decoration, the success of which 
depends so much on the unusual use of 
vivid color, has not been neglected, but 
everywhere has been applied the motto 
of the book—common sense. It is 
practical throughout and ought to be 
of help to anyone furnishing a house or 
apartment of moderate size and on a 
moderate income. 
Successful Family Life on the 
Moderate Income, by Mary Hin- 
man Abel, published by J. B. Lip- 
pincott Company 
In turning the first pages of this 
book you feel that it is written with a 
profound purpose, namely, of helping 
the women of America to systematize 
their housekeeping. No man would 
dare attempt the starting of a business 
enterprise without the proper training 
for it, either practical or theoretical. 
Most men who have accomplished 
successful business have been promoted 
from clerks to managers, from office 
boys to presidents, but charming young 
vomen jump into a housekeeping propo¬ 
sition with no more training than a 
flower has when it begins to bloom, 
and unfortunately, without the flower’s 
instinct for right growth. 
Mary Hinman Abel believes there is 
an art of living which includes self¬ 
development, a knowledge of personal 
resources, the adjustment of our own 
relations to those near us and to the 
community. She has arranged her 
book in such a manner with such 
general heads and subheads, that the 
whole system of practical homemaking 
and housekeeping is clarified even for 
the amateur. It also places her book 
in the class that renders it practical 
for study in school and college, and, 
if not included in the curriculum, it 
should at least be a part of the reading 
course. If girls are not going to an 
advance school it might be read at 
home, for it will benefit the mother as 
well as the younger members of the 
family. It takes up in the most prac¬ 
tical, understandable and experienced 
way such matters as the financial Part¬ 
nership of the Home, The Housewife’s 
Contribution as Buyer and Manager, 
The Time Element in Housework, The 
Mother’s Contribution in Relation to 
Her Children, The Family Budget. 
These are chapter headings and each 
chapter is divided into significant sub¬ 
heads. A six months’ course in the 
study of this book would change and 
improve the home life of the coming 
generation, bettering the community 
as well as the nation. If we expect 
women to face fifty per cent of the 
burdens of the nation intelligently, 
the time has come to train them to do 
it. One half our time has been spent 
as simpering sentimentalists so far as 
the training of daughters is concerned. 
We have thought it very fine to work 
for them, to economize for them, “to 
give them a better time than we had,” 
but we have not thought it fine to 
train their character, to develop their 
usefulness and to make them better 
women than we are. 
The House Owner’s Book, by Al¬ 
len L. Churchill and Leonard Wicken- 
den, published by Funk & Wagnalls 
Company. The man or woman who 
is going to own a home, cannot begin 
too soon to study all the details of 
home building and home finishing. The 
things that can happen in the making 
of a. home by an amateur, even with 
a fairly good architect in charge and 
pretty good builder and workmen are 
almost beyond belief. The writers of 
this little book built their own homes 
and found out through practical ex¬ 
perience some of the mistakes that can 
be made in the average homemaking. 
And then they set about to show how 
to avoid or correct them. The writers 
are not owners of estates but of mod¬ 
erate sized homes, and it was in the 
establishing of these homes that they 
learned all the blunders that can be 
committed, as incidentally they paid 
for them. 
This book has an opening chapter on 
how to finance a home, to obtain a 
loan, how to make practical contracts. 
Then there is a chapter on materials. 
After reading this the various amateurs 
will know the kind of material wanted 
in their homes, whether it suits the site, 
whether it can be afforded, how to use 
it, and what materials are appropriate 
in combination or in finish. 
The rules for heating and ventilation 
are set forth in detail and with wisdom. 
We feel from the seriousness of this 
chapter that it is the outcome of per¬ 
sonal mistakes and readjustments. 
Of course such a practical book does 
not overlook paints and painting, the 
treatment of floors and woodwork, every 
kind of house lighting, water supply 
and drainage and the detail of plumb¬ 
ing that will make the average plumber 
sit up and take notice. There is a chap¬ 
ter on Safety in the Household which 
should make insurance almost unneces¬ 
sary, and recipes for all the household 
annoyances that eventually attack even 
the best built and best finished houses. 
There are sketches for the carpenter, 
for the builder, interesting illustrations 
in the chapter on heating and ventila¬ 
tion, also definite charts to help the 
man who is having difficulty with drain¬ 
age. This book should be on the shelf 
of people who are going to build. It 
will put the builders on their mettle, it 
will make it impossible for poor work 
to go into the house of the man who 
has made a thorough study of it. It 
will be worth while to go over each 
chapter again and again as the house 
progresses and again as it is finished 
on the inside. 
