House & Garden 
Berkey & Gay 
FURNITURE 
This shop-mark is inset 
in every Berkey & Gay 
production. Itisthe 
customer’s protec¬ 
tion when buying and 
his pride ever after. 
Announcing the Pricing of 
Our Furniture to the Public 
'T'HROUGHOUT America, foremost furniture stores now have 
-L on display the group pictured above. Developed in all American 
walnut, embellished with fancy burl, these pieces will bring a 
delightful note of richness to reception hall, living room and library. 
They may be purchased wherever shown, separately or en suite 
at these prices, to which your Berkey Gay merchant will add 
freight charges: 
Console Table . . . $60 Hall Chair.$40 
Mirror. 35 Armchair. 60 
It is to give you a fuller understanding of how easily you may 
endow your home with an individual charm and distinction — to 
make it more clear that furniture of true worth is within the reach 
of moderate incomes, that Berkey & Gay Furniture will henceforth 
be priced nationally. 
For over 6o years, we have been building furniture for you— 
honest in quality, faithful in crafcsmanship, distinguished in design. 
Now we go further. By pricing our furniture nationally, we 
enable you to buy, confident of quality, secure in the knowledge 
that the price you pay is uniform throughout the country. Thus, 
uncertainty is taken out of your purchasing, shopping^about is 
eliminated. Henceforth, you have a standard by which to judge. 
Your Berkey fe? Gay merchant invites you most cordially to 
see the pieces featured during March. Their moderate cost renders 
them available for any American home. 
Our brochure, illustrating and describing this interesting group, to¬ 
gether with name of nearest Berkey & Qay merchant, sent on request 
berkey 6? Gay Furniture Company 
444 Monroe Avenue Grand Rapids, Michigan 
New York Wholesale Showroom: 115 West 40th Street 
(Admittance by letter of introduction from your merchant) 
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This corner of the Roserie is fitted with beds, arbors, treillage and 
stakes in order that all the newest varieties in every type may be 
grown and shown here to the best advantage 
The Greatest Rose Garden in the World 
(Continued from page 53) 
times, developed practically, the results 
are unhappy. 
I feel it easier to obtain a continuous 
brilliant effect in an ensemble of 
roses by opposing contrasting colors, or 
assembling lightly varied shades. More¬ 
over, to aid the foliage, rose bushes 
often being unable perfectly to make 
the indispensable green background, it 
is necessary to place green hedges of 
other plants with thick dark green 
leaves. The mixing of different 
colored roses does not handicap the 
maintenance of a methodical distribu¬ 
tion in the collection, but to repeat 
the same rose in the plots or along 
the ornamentation means reducing the 
capacity of the garden in so far as the 
collection is concerned. This is the 
reason why the single color parterres 
are kept to the center only of these 
particular rose gardens. Although it 
is true that a garden should not be con¬ 
sidered merely from a scientific point 
of view, it is no less true that a spec¬ 
tacular display can easily be so arranged 
that one’s interest in the individual va¬ 
rieties of the collection can be main¬ 
tained. 
In the gardens of L’Hay, the area of 
which is five acres, there are from eight 
to ten thousand distinct varieties of 
roses, and although strict method is ap¬ 
plied in the distribution, no efforts have 
been spared to prevent the monotony of 
a mere scientific garden. It is divided 
into twelve plots, which, visited in due 
order, show the various gradual steps 
in the evolution of roses since their first 
appearance up to this date. 
The wide space where the “water mir¬ 
ror” is located is in the center of the 
garden and is named “The garden of 
the most beautiful roses”. It is en¬ 
circled by pyramids of roses. To the 
right are the old and to the left the con¬ 
temporary varieties. 
Beginning at the right, we first find 
the collection of interesting species from 
the botanic and horticultural points of 
view; then come the old rosa gallica, 
the rosa centifolia, or “hundred leaved 
roses of Roman feasts and of the paint¬ 
ers of yesterday”, the “Gros Provins”, 
the “Nymphal Limb”, the “Tassel of 
Saint Francis”, etc. After that division 
follows the one bearing the roses that 
Empress Josephine used to cultivate at 
Malmaison. There are the ones bearing 
such pretty names as “Chloris”, “Clio”, 
“Aimable amie”, “Beaute tendre”, “Ten- 
dresse”, “Belle Sultane”, “Nouveau 
petit serment”. They are the centifolia 
or cabbage roses, the Damascan, the 
Evergreens. Then, nearing the central 
division, comes the collection of Orien¬ 
tal roses where can be found roses from 
India, the ever-blooming of China, 
Japan, Bengal and Persia, imported 
(Continued on page 102 ) 
A thatched, half-timber cottage, a reproduction of the type familiar to 
N'ormandy, is used by Mr. Gravereaux to house his interesting collections 
of things pertaining to roses, among which is a series of stamps on 
which roses have been engraved 
