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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, lywo 



A City Water Supply 



For Your 

 Country Home 



IF you live in the country there is a way for you to 

 enjoy all the comforts and conveniences of a city 

 water supply, without a penny for water tax. 

 It is accomplished by the Kewanee System. 

 With the Kewanee System you get even more 

 than city service, because, in addition to every benefit 

 the latter affords, you may have — 

 — Soft water in your bathroom and laundry. 



The old-fashioned gravity system meant pumping water 

 up in order to get it clown again. 



Now, to give the necessary pressure for fire protection 

 and service, the elevated tank must be located on top of a 

 tall tower. This is expensive, unsightly, and unsafe. 



The water freezes in winter, becomes warm and stag- 

 nant in summer, and repairs are a big item of expense. 



The attic tank doesn't give sufficient pressure for fire 

 protection. Its weight is apt to crack the plastering, and 

 when it leaks (as it is pretty sure to do) your house is 

 flooded. Just one such expensive accident may cost you 

 many times the price of a Kewanee Outfit — 



— Which cannot flood the house because the tank is rest- 

 ing on solid ground, where it can do no damage. 



The installation of a Kewanee Pneumatic 

 Tank and Outfit in the cellar (or in the ground) 

 means: 



— Plenty of pure, fresh water, \ 



— Cool water in the summer, 



— No freezing water in winter, 



— Absolute protection from fire, 



— Decrease in insurance rates, 



— A plant that will last a lifetime, 



— No expensive repairs — 



— It solves the country water problem completely. 



The Kewanee System will take care of all your 

 needs — for home, garden, lawn, stables, poultry houses, 

 etc. * * * 



Our Kewanee Outfits are complete. 



Not an engine only — which in itself cannot give you a 

 water supply — nor a tank only, which is useless unless 

 you have some form of pumping power — ■ 



—But, we furnish the whole thing— a complete system of 

 water supply. 



Our engineering department is prepared to solve your 

 water problem — no matter how difficult that problem 

 may now appear. 



Kewanee Outfits are made in sizes, suited to 

 the smallest cottage or largest building — or group of 

 buildings. 



We guarantee every Kewanee Outfit togiveper- 

 fect service. 



Send for catalogue No. 16, giving names of users in 

 your state — free if you mention this paper. 



KEWANEE WATER SUPPLY CO. 

 'Drawer S, Kewanee, 111. 



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ground is now turned over upon this litter, 

 and the surface finished off. The operation 

 is repeated until the end of the border is 

 reached. The last trench is filled, and fin- 

 ished with the soil removed from the first 

 one. In this way long manure from the 

 stable, leaves, and all the dead plants I can 

 get, are used up. No litter is burned, but 

 everything that will rot, even wood chips, 

 are used, and help to keep the soil open. 

 Remember that manure used in this way is 

 not buried, and away from the plant, but is 

 covered in, not more than one foot from the 

 surface, and where it is within easy reach of 

 the plants. 



The lobelia seedlings were shaded during 

 the hot summer months by stretching and 

 tacking a width of the light shade cloth, sold 

 by seedsmen for the purpose, over a light 

 framework of wood. They were watered as 

 often as necessary. That fall (1904) many 

 of them flowered, and almost as well as 

 the half-dozen parent plants at the end of 

 the bed, which had been transplanted from 

 their native swamps not quite one year before. 



Were I to grow more, I would sow the 

 seed as soon as collected, in a coldframe, and 

 shut it up for the winter, awaiting develop- 

 ments in spring. 

 Pennsylvania. Alexander MacElwee. 





How We Sold 80,000 Bulbs to 

 School Children 



PROBABLY in no city in the country has 

 there been such an extensive and suc- 

 cessful bulb culture in connection with the 

 public schools as in Cleveland, Ohio. It had 

 its great impetus in the prizes which were 

 offered for the flower shows. In 1904 the 

 schools were divided into four groups, ac- 

 cording to size and location. A first prize 

 of $10 was offered for the best show in each 

 group; and $5 for the second best. In ad- 

 dition to this, Judge Dellenbaugh presented 

 a thousand bulbs for outdoor planting to 

 every school which had a creditable flower 

 show and offered prizes for the best home 

 gardens in each ward. These prizes were: 



Class A: for best flower garden in each 

 ward, plot 30-foot front or less; first prize, 

 20c* tulip bulbs; second prize, 100 tulip 

 bulbs ; 



Class B: for the best flower garden in 

 each ward, plot 30 to 50 foot front, first prize, 

 300 tulip bulbs; second prize, 100 tulip 

 bulbs,' 



Class C: for the best window boxes in 

 each ward, first prize, 100 tulip bulbs, and 

 second prize, 100 crocus bulbs. 



Large numbers of bulbs, of crocuses, tulips, 

 narcissus, daffodils and hyacinths were or- 

 dered from Holland, and sold to the teachers 



