Flowering Dogwoods 
n with 
ERSEY 
This Year 
M ANY people regard fre¬ 
quent replacement of 
screen cloth as a neces¬ 
sary evil. Such is not the case. 
By the use of Jersey Copper 
Screen Cloth for windows, 
porches and doors you can 
eliminate for years to come this 
source of expense and annoy¬ 
ance. Even under the severe 
climatic conditions found along 
the coast and in the tropics Jer¬ 
sey Copper Cloth ought to give 
you many years of satisfactory 
service. 
The unusual wearing quality of Jer¬ 
sey Copper Insect Screen Cloth is 
due to this fact—it is made of copper 
99.8% pure, which, by a special Roeb- 
ling process is given a strength and 
stiffness comparable to that of steel. 
Because of the pure copper the cloth 
cannot rust out. Because of the 
Roehling process it will not sag or 
bulge. 
Screen with Jersey Copper this year. 
Use 16 mesh (coarser will admit 
mosquitoes) and the dark finish 
which is almost invisible. 
Manufacturers of custom-made 
screens universally recognize the vir¬ 
tues of Jersey Copper Screen Cloth 
and use it extensively. Many hard¬ 
ware merchants throughout the coun¬ 
try carry it in stock. If you cannot 
obtain it in your locality write us. 
A booklet “A Matter of Health and 
Comfort ’ will be sent you on request. 
It gives a lot of interesting facts 
regarding screen cloth. 
The New Jersey Wire Cloth Company 
622 South Broad Street 
Trenton 
New Jersey 
Copper Screen Cloth 
S I Made of Copper 99.6% Pure 
(Continued from page 160) 
which has not only been discovered on 
Long Island but also in North Caroli¬ 
na, does not come true to form from 
seeds; it must be grafted. 
When our own dogwood has ceased 
to blossom, the Japanese form, Cornus 
kousa, begins. It generally flowers 
about two weeks after our native tree. 
Here the flowering bracts are slightly 
more pointed, in all other respects the 
flowers of both are quite similar. One 
is as hardy as the other, but the fruit 
of C. kousa is spherical and edible. 
Cornus nuttalli, a native of our 
northwestern coastal regions is far 
more beautiful than our eastern dog¬ 
wood. It is a tree which may attain 
a height of 75' and produces floral 
bracts approximately 5 pi" in diameter. 
Since it is primarily found in the damp 
swampy forests of the soft woods, it 
is seldom able to thrive outside of its 
natural and restricted zone. Only a 
comparatively few species have been 
able to develop to stately trees in the 
gardens of Europe. 
Furniture of the Italian Renaissance 
(Continued jrom page 104) 
for its beauty. The furniture of this 
period represents the highest point of 
art in furniture ornament. French and 
English period furniture draw largely 
upon these models. Many a chair that 
we call Jacobean or cabinet that we 
call William and Mary is really Italian 
Renaissance with a slight divergence. 
Beauty is the key-note of Italian 
Renaissance furniture design. Velvet 
and brocade upholstery of the period 
enhance its beauty. It is the kind of 
furniture that satisfies you completely 
when you come, reluctantly, into the 
house from a beautiful garden. 
Editor’s Note—This is the first of a 
series of short graphic articles on the 
characteristic marks of the great his¬ 
torical furniture periods that Mr. and 
Mrs. Gould are doing for House & 
Garden. The next topic is Jacobean 
furniture . The facts of the periods will 
be so condensed and graphically pre¬ 
sented that they should prove invalu¬ 
able for study and preservation by 
decorators, architects and students of 
furniture history as well as the amateur 
who is preparing for the decoration of 
his or her home. 
An A 11-A merican Flower 
(Continued from page 76) 
has been commonly placed in a false 
light by being given the name Moss 
Pink. The slight resemblance to the 
pink family in the shape of its leaf and 
the fact that its foliage, like that of 
the pinks, is evergreen, has most likely 
been the cause of this confusion. Those 
of us who suppose that the more com¬ 
mon and rather raw lavender-pink 
color of the creeping phlox usually 
seen in cultivation marks the limit of 
its range should promptly disabuse our¬ 
selves of the misconception for it is 
to be had in several delightful tints and 
pure white. Planted on a dry bank it 
soon spreads out in wide patches which 
in early May are a mass of color. I 
have used it with excellent effect along 
a sunken, stone bordered garden path. 
It makes valuable material for the rock 
garden as well. 
Phlox suffruticosa has given one of 
the most useful garden plants intro¬ 
duced in many years, the beautiful 
white phlox of our June and July 
borders, known to all garden lovers 
as Miss Lingard. Too much could 
hardly be said of the admirable plant, 
which has come to be the inevitable 
accompaniment of delphiniums and 
Madonna lilies. In purchasing plants 
of the Miss Lingard one should, as 
though such a thing were possible, 
guard against having the less desirable 
white in the same group foisted upon 
one instead of the true variety. The 
inferior sort is called Perfection and in 
flower is to be distinguished from the 
other by its much more conspicuous 
pink eye. Its truss is at the same time 
flatter and more compact in shape, and 
it blooms a few days earlier and has a 
shorter season. Miss Lingard is not 
only taller but its flower head is more 
elongated, sometimes measuring on 
healthy young plants over a foot in 
length and half as broad at the base. 
Its somewhat narrow, sharply pointed 
foliage is quite distinctive, being dark 
glossy green in color. Several colored 
varieties have been introduced in this 
same class. These I have tried and 
found rather unsatisfactory. The 
colors, pink, red, and striped pink and 
white, are lacking in clearness and 
proved quite useless for my purposes. 
And now we come to the great 
wealth of the magnificent midsummer 
phloxes, without which our gardens 
during the months of July and August 
would be bare indeed. This great 
group, comprising several hundred 
named varieties, is mainly derived 
from phlox paniculata, found growing 
wild in the central and some of the 
southern states. The Panicula group 
is unquestionably the most important 
from the gardener’s point of view, and 
whatever more I shall have to say here 
of phloxes will concern this branch of 
the genus. 
A moment since I spoke of the 
great wealth of the group, and anyone 
who has had occasion to study the 
inexhaustible lists furnished by the 
dealers in hardy plants will bear me 
out on that point. It is, however, when 
all is said and done, something of an 
overabundance of riches. In short, 
there are too many phloxes, as is the 
case with all flowers where new va¬ 
rieties are easily produced. In conse¬ 
quence our catalogues, while listing the 
invaluable acquisitions, carry the names 
of dozens of inferior sorts as well and 
in most cases make little or no distinc¬ 
tion between the two. 
All phloxes are, so far as I have 
observed, equally hardy, though there 
appears to be some difference in the 
rapidity with which they grow and 
(Continued on page 164) 
