House & Garden 
I Gan Surely 
Save You Money 
This Tells How 
First, you send for me, which is 
a very simple matter. A postal 
does it and the return mail 
brings me. Miss Ten Ten is my 
name. As 1 may have men¬ 
tioned, I used to be an honest- 
to-goodness person until the gar¬ 
den fairies turned me into the 
Ten Ten Book. At first I didn’t 
quite like it, but ever since I 
found out what a really like¬ 
able, helpful kind of a gardening 
and planting book they made 
me, 1 wouldn’t care at all to 
ever be anything else. 
This season they put my use-to- 
be picture on the cover, with 
me in my one-time Garden, all 
done most charmingly in colors. 
Then they added a goodly lot 
of new things . in flower seeds, 
hardy flowers, shrubs and the 
like. But quite the best of all, 
we put our heads together and 
worked out the Give-and-Take 
buying plan that is a regular 
little money-saver for you. This 
novel, money-saving plan is ex¬ 
plained fully in the Ten-Ten 
Book. 
Here are three Money Savers that you can 
order right now while you are waiting for 
me, Miss Ten-Ten. 
Some Special Money Savers 
Helianthemums (Rock Roses ) 
We have ten beautiful,, named hybrid Rock Roses. 
Their colors are pure white, opalescent shades of pink, 
pure yellow, orange, bronze and crimson. Some are 
single flowers, others double. Some have green foliage, 
others are silvery. 
They bloom in June and July, and no other dwarf plant 
produces a greater profusion of bloom than these Rock 
Roses. 
The individual blooms are exactly like a single Rose, 
and are about an inch in diameter. Planted in masses 
in a sunny place, on border or rockery, they will be a 
feature of your garden. 
Price 25c each. 
One each of ten varieties, for $2.25. 
Ten Hybrid Tea Roses-$6.50 
Ten Hybrid Tea Roses in three delightful colors 
4 Ophelia Creamy white—salmon tinge 
3 Mrs. Aaron Ward* Indian yellow 
3 Los Angeles* Flame pink 
The above varieties marked with * can be supplied as 
Standards—3^4 ft. stems— $1.75 each. 
Ten Packets of Perennial Seeds-75c 
to Pac kets of Perennial Seeds, which if sown now will 
flower this year. 
This set contains a choice selection of hardy perennials 
that mature quickly. 
The io will contain—Delphinium, Gaillardia, Shasta 
Daisy and seven other choice varieties. 
Complete instructions on each packet. 
A hillside site, bare of 
trees, with a house de¬ 
signed to express har¬ 
mony with the slope 
and stability in itself 
Relating the House to Its Site 
(Continued from page 74) 
examination. They are imaginary sites, 
intended each to be sufficiently differ¬ 
ent from the others to illustrate the 
method of study best suited to the 
site problem. If a method of study, 
or thought, can be evolved, its appli¬ 
cation to any given case should result 
in a sound solution. The sites illus¬ 
trated are, in a sense, typical; they 
represent certain broad classifications 
in which exist an infinite number of 
variations, and the variations would 
suggest corresponding minor modifica¬ 
tions of the houses. 
Before proceeding with a study of 
the sketches, it should be explained that 
the consideration is based primarily on 
profiles, rather than upon style or 
materials. Broadly speaking if the 
profile of a house is right and harmo¬ 
nious in its relationship to its site, all 
other questions of its design become 
secondary. If, in addition to possess¬ 
ing the right profile, the house is also 
built of logical and pleasing materials, 
and designed in an agreeably appro¬ 
priate manner stylistically, so much 
the better; but these merits are seen 
at a disadvantage if the profile and 
general masses of the house are not 
well-related to the site. 
The illustration at the foot of 
page 74 shows a bare hill-crest site, 
such as is commonly found by or near 
the sea. Clumps of low shrubbery 
are the only green, and no trees break 
the lines of the numerous hills and 
knolls of which this assumed site is 
one. The architectural intention here 
was to effect a profile which would 
not do too great violence to the sur¬ 
rounding topography. The building 
is kept as low as possible in mass, and 
its roof line is, in profile, only slightly 
different from the profile of the hill. 
The house, in effect, has not made of 
itself an evident excrescence on tne top 
of the hill, but has assumed a profile 
which seems only to be the same hill, 
with a little added height, or, in other 
words, the profile of the house is 
treated as though it were a continua¬ 
tion of the profile of the hill. 
The thickly wooded hill-top site, in 
the center of page 74, is a different 
problem, met with a different solution. 
Here the sides of the hill are concealed 
by trees, so that its profile is not ap¬ 
parent, and in order to keep the house 
from being smothered, it must rise 
steep and high above the tree-tops. 
The trees eliminate any danger of the 
house seeming to be perched uncom- 
prisingly on its site, and the result 
gained by the steep profile differs con¬ 
spicuously from the result gained by 
the low lines of the first hill-top house. 
(Continued on page 142) 
A suggestion of the type of 
site in which only the Jront 
of the house is a visible 
factor in its setting 
A study of the partly ■,wooded 
hillside site, with a house de¬ 
signed to conform with the 
immediate surroundings 
