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Show WMraMHBHBHBBnaMHHi " " 1 Admirable TreafimeiM of Flat for TMs Cosajpetit sw Mloise I L ALTHOUGH small, this house has a substantial appcara aud is quite out of the ordinary. It is planned to be built ou a lot 50 by 100 feet, and land and building have been worked 1 out together ns a whole so that each fits the other and every bit of lain! i HiitiwfiillT utilised. The first story is built of interlocking -ti brik nnd the upper story of stucco and lV half timber The w Iowa are an attrao-tive attrao-tive feature, there brins a group f four windows in the front of the living room and a similar group of slightly smaller windows in the front bedroom ftpstairs, A larco loaded window tarnishes light for the stairway. The balconies nt several sev-eral of the upstairs windows nr.- also an attractive feature. The house has three porches a small entrance porch, a ten foot piazza and a breakfast porch. '-'his has a pleasant !'J outlook over a pool in the rear, the lawn and old fashioned border beyond it. The dining; room, which is twelve feet I ' square, also has this outlook. Then- is no ball, properly speaking; only a vestibule, vesti-bule, with n coat closet on one side, and the Inrgf living room, which occupies the entire front of the house, with the stairway stair-way going up from one side. The pantry shuts off the kitchen from the living room and from the dining room. On the second fk..r there are tw.i lar.-re bedrooms and a small one, with numerous closets, a bathroom and, what I one seldom gets in a house of this aise, Saw" an extra toilet Tht- treatment of the grounds is extremely ex-tremely good. The house sits back from l the Btreet about thirty feet, nnd a straight path leads to and from the door. This is bordered on one side by high terminals, screening the path that leads to the kitchen. There is a three and a half foot walk terrace across the front of the house and the lawn, which which is open except fr a specimen tree in the centre and a few shrubs near the street. The house is placed as near as possible pos-sible to the boundary on one side, so that there may be as much in one piece as possible fur lawn and flowen on the side nf the living nnd dining rooms. A border filled with perennials forms the boundary on this side of the plot, affording privacy for the lawn, in the rear of which is the charming little pool, which may form the centre for appropriate appro-priate planting, and near which there may be n seat under ji tree. This part kfitot the grounds la entirely cut off from the part back of the kitchen by a ions rose covered trellis. On the other side of this trellis is the drying yard, and at to the rear of it a plot about twenty-feet twenty-feet square, with a path through the centre for home vegetables HEBE are some of this season's 'novelties offered by florists: An early blooming campanula, Canterbury bell, which is said to bloom three weeks earlier than the older sorts The cardinal climber, one of the most brilliant annual climbers ever grown. It attains a height of twenty-five feet, with fern like foliage, and is literally covered with cardinal red flowers from midsummer midsum-mer to frost. The flowers are about one inch in diameter and are borne in clusters clus-ters of from five to seven flowers. The Chinese wool flower grows from two to three feet high, with a round central cen-tral head Scores of branches are thrown out, each benring a small scarlet ball. Karlsruhe balcony petunia has an upright up-right plant and rich violet blue flowers. There is a genista or broom that is per fectly hardy in the northern climate It can be grown in any one's garden or shrubbery It is of slow growth, but eventually reaches a height of three to four feet and as many feet across. In .7 mir it is covered with beautiful yellow : 6Dr" VlLW yl' ; pea-shaped flowers, which remain a long time on the plant. Senccio divorum, a new Chinese introduction in-troduction with ample foliage and large heads of rich yellow flowers. planting tfje itertjaceousi barton MRS. HERBERT S HARDE, who is an amateur gardener who has couverted several stony acres into a veritable flower paradise, has been telling tell-ing trroups of other women how to make the most and the best of their gardens. l:e..Mtly she spoke of the herbaceous garden, the herbaceous border they always al-ways call it in England, and recommended recom-mended that only the flowers of distinction distinc-tion should have a place in the garden. Of course, there will be certain old time favorites that every one will want to cherish for sentimental reasons, but they need not predominate when there are so many wonderful new hybrids We talk much of the charm of old fashioned gardens, gar-dens, but the ladies who made them were keen in their time to get the newest and inot beautiful novelties. When they got anything new from abroad it was considered con-sidered a sre.it triumph, and one who hail something not common to her neigh-bora neigh-bora was the object of miugled admiration admira-tion and envy. They were not nt all averse to improving on the gardens of their grandmothers. So, while we profit by the achievements achieve-ments of the gardeners of other goner ations, it is by no means a sign of superiority su-periority to confine ourselves to the routine flowers of long established garth gar-th oa There are so many glorious new hybrids. Every year the catalogues contain introductory pages depicting the superior charms of new plants. Many of them arc never heard of again. They do not stand the test, but, on the other hand, vast numbers of them do and they lend distinction to the gardens into which they are introduced. Besides, it is interesting to try something some-thing new in flowers as in other tluncs. It is still more interesting to try to develop de-velop something new one's self, but that is a more difficult problem and one which takes more time and courage than the amateur has to give. Mrs. Harde spoke of the necessity for cuivful aud painstaking preparation for the herbaceous border Without that the choicest flowers will be of no avail. She explained that many of her friends thought her quite mad on the subject of liming, but she holds fast to the necessity neces-sity of liming if the land is heavy to make it friable; liming if it is sour to make it sweet , liming, any way, whether it Is sweet or sour, to make it better. To prepare the border or garden fur planting it should be dug eight inches, filled iu for about six inches with manure, on top of this place lime nnd on top of that two inches of loam, on top of that more lime, nnd then, in the top 1 : : A- ' ; - . j - ... j soil for planting, a mixture of bone meal, ground bone, commercial sheep manure and soot Mr.s Harde emphasizes the. value of giving a thorough watering of flowers when one uses the water at all nnd theu depending upon cultivation to keep them in gorn condition. In planting a knoll she digs pockets two feet deep and fills the pickets with loam and stable manure, "no knoll she largely covered with the Silver Moon roses, pegging them down and training them laterally. A similar 3t Jk ; I x ' ; I 1 I,,, mmmmmmmmmmmm m rose, which some persons think even more beautiful, is the Dr. von Fleet Mrs. Harde is enthusiastic about the use of violas. These are free and continuous con-tinuous bloomers and very lovely for edging borders. To keep them blooming they should be sheared m a sort of wavelike wave-like shape to remove the 6eed pods. There are the viola pedata, a beautiful native sort, and the viola cbrnuta, almost as large as pansies, with beautiful blue flowers. Heliotrope Is lovely for summer bed-dinsr, bed-dinsr, and especially the little known kind called Elizabeth Dennison. The difficult diffi-cult about cutting the heliotrope has always been that it turned black and wilted so soon, but it is said that if it is put in tepid water in a dark room and kept there for a while at first it will keep several days. Heliotrope is beautiful when crown amnn; piuk roses. garded as a luxury. Its possession should be regarded as a duty to the cause of civilization as well as a response re-sponse to the normal desires inspired by the aesthetic 6ense. All expensive things are not good, nor are all cheap ones bad. The question of selection is one of color, form, line and texture and of the principles prin-ciples that produce harmony. If you have bad things it is never too late to begin to set them right and begin to get better ones ' Have definitely in mind what you would have In a room if you could have everything new and have it at once. Buy "e en-thing with the finished whole in mind, nnd as fast as a bad thing can be eliminated replace it with another that harmonizes with the picture yaa have in mind. "Start with the background of the room. Make the woodwork, walls, ceiling nnd floor right. Next change the rugs and hangings w-hen possible. The furniture furni-ture and decorative material can be dealt with simply and gradually. "In many houses or apartments built twenty-fire or fifty years ao are found grills over doors, plate rails anywhere, abnormal growths on and around the chimney pieces and set mirrors. There are also atrocious stair balustrades, garish tiles around the chimney piece, wedding cake decorations about the ceiling ceil-ing and impossible varnished or grained wood surfaces in the trim. "It is sometimes hard to get the landlord land-lord to tear these things out, but they must come out The trim may at least be painted old ivory or gray. The tiles also can be painted aud they should be m r " '' ... i the color of the trim, for they, too, aro an essential clement of the background "The greatest hindrance to our realization reali-zation of what Is best in house planning is found within ourselves. Personal whims should not govern our choice, but a selection of those things which conform con-form to the laws of beauty and arrange- (Llsr of Chtnt? I THE use of chintzes and cretonnes in furnishing a room is full of fascination, fascina-tion, but attended by many dangers. If you aro going to use highly colored and definitely figured materials of that kind, be sure that they will not scream at the room. The mere fact that the rest of the room may be in quiet colors may make your figured materials all the more glaring and uncomfortable. 1 If you are going to use chintzes make up your mind to one of two things, either you arc going to have a bright and frankly cheerful room or you must so blend it with the other furnishings that it will not jar upon your best taste. )H I recall a room in which there were IH beautiful tones of brown and yellow. Into it intruded large figured cretonnes 11 for chair cushions aud draperies. They simply ought not to have been there. Another room had the softest of mauves and violets and the curtains and one IH chair covering were of large figured chintz, yet they lived together in perfect harmony. Why? The colors of the dH chintz had been carefully studied and j .. 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