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No hint by day of the bed within. 
Easy to convert from day to night 
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move about, easily aired, easily 
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Our brochure, showing sixty-six styles, 
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On House & Garden’s Book Shelf 
(Continued from page 112) 
In the matter of language, indeed, the 
reader is in for several jolly surprises, 
unless he knows his author. In the 
Foreword alone are disclosed joyaunce, 
demesne, shew place, purview and be¬ 
hoof—a promise of more in store later 
on— but perhaps it can be accounted 
for when the reader gets to the end 
of the Foreword and finds it dated 
“Whitsuntide, 19 22”. This is not a sub¬ 
urb of Philadelphia, which dignified name 
immediately precedes “Whitsuntide”, but 
a time of year which most of us feel 
an uneasy necessity of looking up, if 
we want to know just when it was 
that joyaunce, behoof, and the other 
things tripped so blithely from Mr. 
Eberlein’s pen. Many of us who are 
his best friends wish that he would let 
English books be published in England, 
and American ones here, and conse¬ 
quently spare us “colour” and "endeav¬ 
our” and “connexion” and so forth. 
But we can unqualifiedly affirm that 
his camera does not betray him into 
any of these affectations of the pen. or 
into the "double exposures” that often 
occur in the text. He has taken a 
generous number of excellent photo¬ 
graphs, not only in this book but else¬ 
where. Among the Tuscan villa pic¬ 
tures not architects alone will get abid¬ 
ing pleasure from the illustrations of 
the garden gate of Cigliano, the garden 
and cortile of il Giojello, the north front 
of il Frullino, and all the Villa Capponi 
pictures. And best of all. the picture 
of the little walled garden of the Villa 
Pazzi, which is Plate 47, and too good 
to be missed even by anyone looking 
through the book casually. 
There is always a vein of keen sym¬ 
pathy with old times, and old things 
in Mr. Eberlein's writing, and always 
a thoroughness which is interesting in¬ 
stead of being wearying. This book is 
well documented, and without a doubt 
opens a new vista for both the archi¬ 
tect and the lover of things Italian. In 
addition to the descriptions of twenty 
three Tuscan villas, small and large, 
unusually thoroughly illustrated, there 
are fine interesting chapters on the 
Tuscan villa as a type, before the 16th 
Century, of the 16th Century and of 
the 17th Century, a chapter on deco¬ 
ration and furnishing, and on “Gardens 
Early and Late”. 
BOOK NOTES 
Two of the volumes on House & 
Garden's Book Shelf this month con¬ 
tain author's obligations to the maga¬ 
zine for permission to republish ma¬ 
terial w’hich has appeared in these 
pages. This is very encouraging. Pub¬ 
lishers are realizing the permanent and 
significant value of the contributions 
in House & Garden. These two books 
are to be followed by three others 
that we know of. 
H. Stuart Ortloff, the landscape archi¬ 
tect. who has been contributing quite 
regularly to House & Garden, has just 
had accepted for publication a book 
on annuals, parts of which have ap¬ 
peared here. 
Minga Pope Duryea, who has been 
contributing a series of articles on 
city gardens in London, Paris and New 
York, has just finished the manuscript 
of a book on this subject. The chapters 
have appeared mostly in House & 
Garden. 
Mr. Wright, the editor, expects to 
have a book on flowers for cutting and 
decoration out this spring; of this the 
chapters have also been published in 
various forms and various issues of 
House & Garden. 
J. Horace McFarland, whose con¬ 
tributions on various flower subjects 
have been found on these pages, is ex¬ 
pected to have out shortly a compre¬ 
hensive volume on roses. Readers of 
House & Garden will remember his 
contributions on bush and climbing 
roses published during the past two 
years. 
SPRING PLANT ORDERING 
T HE time for garden-making is very 
near. Even though the day upon 
which you will receive this number of 
House & Garden may be cold and 
blustery, there will be little shy indica¬ 
tions of spring in the air just the same. 
We hope, therefore, that your seed 
beds are already made and started and 
that your orders for trees and shrubs, 
for perennials and roses are already in 
the hands of your nurserymen. If not, 
do your ordering at once. Early shop¬ 
ping and early ordering is far more im¬ 
portant for the garden than for Christ¬ 
mas. It is not only that it is always 
first come, first served, at nurseries but 
there are only a very few weeks of 
the spring in which it is desirable to 
move plants from place to place. 
You can send in an order to a nur¬ 
sery with the understanding that they 
will supply you with the whole order 
whether they have the stock themselves 
or not. They will, then, do the shop¬ 
ping for you, collect the stock from 
various and sundry places and reship 
it to you. Generally speaking, I prefer 
to do my own shopping. All gardeners 
and garden-makers I suppose, have 
their own pet places where they buy 
plants. They seem to ferret out the 
best places for each kind of plant and 
for specially favorite plants and they 
get to know the quality of each nur¬ 
sery's stock. Plant shopping is just 
like any other kind of shopping, of 
course, you get to know where you can 
buy to the best advantage. 
I generally get my ordinary nur¬ 
sery stock of shrubs and trees from 
one big wholesale nursery and I get 
it there even though it is sometimes 
hundreds of miles from the place where 
it is to be planted. I know the repu¬ 
tation of the nursery and the exact 
grade of material they offer. I know 
I will never be disappointed in that 
stock and have no come-backs from 
clients. This stock, I know, will be 
true to name, well grown, well dug, 
well packed. I know that it can be 
several w'eeks on the road without in¬ 
jury. 
It is best to order from a reliable 
nursery with the distinct understand¬ 
ing that no replacing is to be done in 
case the stock dies. Many of the leading 
nurseries, now-a-days, never do re¬ 
placing. Nurseries who do replacing 
always charge it up to you on the bill, 
you may be sure. You may as well 
take the risk yourself for if your ma¬ 
terial is well planted, has ordinary 
care and is fitted at all to your locality, 
it will thrive. 
For spring shipping of shrubs and 
trees it is best to order early with in¬ 
structions to ship as early as the nur¬ 
sery thinks it advisable. The exact 
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