FreBRUARY, 
1908 
enasco 
Ready 
oofing 
For residences, factories, 
warehouses, farm buildings 
The only roofing water- 
proofed entirely with natu- 
ral asphalt—Trinidad Lake 
Asphalt—the greatest 
weather-resister known. 
Smooth or mineral surface. Several weights. 
Ask any wideawake dealer. Refuse imitations 
and substitutes. Write for Book 60 and 
samples. 
THE BARBER ASPHALT 
PAVING COMPANY 
Largest producers of asphalt, and largest 
manufacturers of ready roofing in the world 
PHILADELPHIA 
New York San Francisco Chicago 
Pets GIVE Nai 
PACKETS TRIAL 
SEND NOW for my 1908 Catalog, and if no member of 
your family has received one (and you so state and also send 
me the addresses of two others who grow flowers,) I will 
\ send with catalog a coupon good for 
W Five Full Packets of Flower Seeds, 
your selection from any kinds listed in my calalog at 3 cts. 
~each—oyer 30 popular sorts to choose from. They will be 
mailed you promptly, with my booklet, ‘‘Culture of Flowers,” 
absolutely free. Address at once. 
MISS EMMA V. WHITE, Seedswoman 
3014 Aldrich Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. 
We manufacture the 
“AMERICAN”? MACHINERY 
for the following described work: 
Well, drilling and prospecting, rotary and coring 
work, Deep well ‘Pumping machinery, Air Com- 
pressors for all duties, Centrifugal Pumps for irriga- 
tion and reclamation purposes. 
We should be glad to mail printed matter to in- 
terested applicants. Ask for Circular GM. 
THE AMERICAN WELL WORKS 
Aurora, Ill. or 1st Natl. Bank Bldg., Chicago 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
The Readers’ Service 1s prepared to 
advise parents in regard to schools 
A Greenhouse 
For Comparatively Little Money 
ERHAPS our talks for the last three months on 
P how to make money with a greenhouse, have 
not appealed to you. You are not particularly 
interested in that side of the question. What you 
are interested in is a house big enough to grow 
a few of the choicer flowers and vegetables all 
the seasons through. You may not care to put 
very much money in such a house at the start—and 
don’t want it so large that the care of it will add to 
the expenseofrunning. Yousimply want astraight 
away, practical little house that is constructed to 
grow things to the best advantage and that is so 
well built that repairs will be a long way off. 
A house eleven feet wide and, say about thirty or 
fifty long makes a splendid little layout that will 
give you two side benches 3 feet wide, with a 3 foot 
center walk. 
You can attach the 
house directly to some 
building you already 
have, and by putting a 
pit under the building 
large enough for the 
boiler,save the expense 
of erecting a potting 
room. 
Masonry founda- 
tions, of course, have 
a look of stability and 
endurance, but if you 
don’t care about hav- 
ing the foundations in 
any particular har- 
mony with those of 
existing buildings, 
we at 8 
Here is a bench of tomatoes as they looked a year ago last February 
then the expense can be considerably cut down by 
using boarded or shingled sides and running the 
iron posts into the ground and imbedding them in 
concrete. With our special way of doing this it 
makes every bit as warm a house. 
All the materials for constructing the Sectional 
Iron Frame House of ours are cut and fitted at the 
factory. When the materials are shipped they are 
all ready for immediate erection, which will be a 
great saving to you in no little time and expense. 
We will sell you the materials alone for such a 
house, or erect it complete, just as you prefer. In 
either case you will have the ideal greenhouse con- 
struction. One that is far in advance of any other 
in every way, and because of its Sectional Construc- 
tion can easily and cheaply be added to. 
Now is one of the very best times to take the 
question up. In fact, 
in many parts of the 
country the building 
could go ahead at once. 
Let us send you more 
information about this 
greenhouse for com- 
paratively littlemoney. 
Lorp& BuRNHAM 
COMPANY 
New York Offices, 
1133 Broadway, Cor. 
26th Street, Boston 
Branch, 819 Tremont 
2 ‘ * Bldg., Philadelphia 
| ea : A Branch, 1215 Filbert 
Street. 
Gillett’s Ferns and Flowers 
For Dark, Shady Places 
There is no corner so shady but that certain ferns and plants will thrive 
there. There is no soilso light and sandy but that some of our hardy wild 
ferns will beautify it. 
and flowers and know what is suited to each condition, 
For 25 years we have been growing these hardy ferns 
We can supply 
ferns for the dark corner by the porch, or ferns and flowers, including our 
native orchids,in quantity, to make beautiful country estates. 
Wet and 
swampy spots, rocky hillsides, dry woods, each may be made beautiful by 
plants especially adapted to them. Nothing adds greater charm to the 
home grounds than clumps of thrifty ferns. 
We also grow the hardy 
flowers which require open sunlight —primroses, campanulas, digitalis, 
violets, etc, 
Write for my descriptive catalogue. 
EDWARD GILLETT, 
It tells about this class of plants. 
Southwick, Mass. 
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