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House & Garden 
CURTAIN RODS 
The Original FLA T Curtain Rod 
CURTAIN 
RODS 
Fit Every Window 
— Here’s the solution of every window draping 
problem. Easy to have as attractive drapes as you 
see in other homes, or in pictures. 
Perhaps you have an extra wide window or series of 
windows, a bay window, French doors, casement win¬ 
dows. They are simple to drape, using Kirsch Rods. 
Kirsch Curtain Rods come single, double or triple— 
extension style or cut-to-length—in lasting Velvetone 
Brass or Velvetone White finish. 
The Kirsch bracket has no equal for simplicity, prac¬ 
ticability and utility. Rod goes up or comes down 
by just tilting. So easy—no effort; yet it will never 
come down accidentally. 
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KIRSCH MANUFACTURING CO. 
242 Prospect Avenue 
Sturgis, Mich., U. S. A. 
KIRSCH MANUFACTURING CO. OF CANADA. Ltd. 
453 Tecumseh Street, Woodstock, Ontario 
Window No. 4 at top utilizes a single 
rod; window No. 3 uses double rod, 
and windows Nos. 2 and 3 use a 
regular triple rod. On window No. 
I a Kirsch Triple Rod for lambre¬ 
quin effect is used. This rod makes 
it easy to have up-to-the minute lam¬ 
brequins with the box effect without 
resorting to expensive, bothersome 
wooden valance boards. 
April sees the buds beginning to 
unfold and the color to show 
Flowering 
(Continued jr 
appearance upon the new, just matured 
shoots and they remain in this condi¬ 
tion throughout the winter. 
The month of January covers them 
with a thick blanket of snow, Febru¬ 
ary imbeds them with glittering ice 
which sparkles in all the colors of the 
rainbow when the sun shines down 
upon them. It is the month of April 
which causes the buds to swell while 
the beautiful month of May awakens 
them, and, as they are bathed in the 
soft light, they sleepily open their 
large white bracts. 
There is no other medium sized tree 
for the garden as decorative as the 
flowering dogwood. It is in harmony 
with any of its surroundings, is satis¬ 
fied with shade or with sunlight, and 
fits in any location. In the shrubbery 
this tiny tree outranks its fellows and 
so becomes the center of attraction. 
Placed before a group of soft woods, 
its gorgeous white sepals come to their 
full effect, and in the fall, its bright 
red berries are especially charming 
against the dark, almost sombre green 
of the conifers. But there, on the 
edge of the woodland site in the larger 
gardens is its own characteristic place. 
It is not at all difficult to trans¬ 
plant the flowering dogwood although 
but few leaves will be developed in its 
new location during the first spring. 
May, and the twig is heavy with 
creamy four-petaled blossoms 
Dogwoods 
om page 158 ) 
It is during the second year that it 
recovers its lost vitality. When the 
tree has been transplanted with proper 
care, it invariably recovers, and the 
most successful season for doing it is 
not the fall, but the early spring. 
It is not at all necessary to prune 
this flowering tree, but if this ever 
should become essential, it ought to 
be accomplished as soon as possible 
after the flowering period. Then the 
tree will blossom next year as the buds 
are formed during the summer months. 
Winter or fall pruning removes them. 
Quite a considerable number of vari¬ 
eties of the flowering dogwood are 
known. Even in their native state 
does the color of the bracts vary from 
the purest white to yellow and light 
rose red. This latter form is known 
as var. rubra and the more character¬ 
istic color may be a light or a dark 
red. This variety of Cornus florida 
is not so hardy as the species itself, 
and, in addition, it is primarily found 
in our more southern states. Var pen- 
dula has weeping branches while var. 
flore pleno has so called double flow¬ 
ers. Here a second inner row of 
sepals have been developed. 
A new variety has recently been 
formed which produces yellow instead 
of bright red fruit. This variety, 
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Through May the dogwood flowers, but by June 
the blossoms begin to show a little deterioration 
in beauty 
By July the blossoms are sup¬ 
planted by leaves, and the tree 
now wears the green foliage of 
summer 
In August this same twig begins 
to show the tiny buds from 
which will spring the flowers of 
next year 
