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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1907 



Home=made Gas=Light for 

 Country Houses 



TAKES about one hour's work permonth 

 After that you merely turn a tap 

 whenever you want light, touch a match 

 to the burner, and, presto — light. 



Yes, brilliant, beautiful, white light too, 

 that spreads around a room like daylight. 



A light that gives sparkle to every 

 polished article it falls on — gleam and 

 glisten to white table linen — and a genial, 

 cheery glow to everything it illuminates. 



Just like putting varnish over a faded 

 picture — this glorifying Acetylene Light. 



Now that is cold fact which I'll prove 

 up to your satisfaction or no pay. 



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Wouldn't you like to get rid of the 

 everlasting smell of Kerosene or Gasoline 

 in your home? 



Wouldn't you like to know that never 

 again would you have filthy Kerosene 

 Lamps to clean and fill, wicks to trim, 

 chimneys to wipe, and the permanent 

 dread of fire? 



Wouldn't you like to know that in 

 every room you had a pretty brass fixture 

 firmly attached to ceiling, or wall, where it 

 couldn't be tipped over by the children — 

 where it was never in the way, and was 

 always ready to touch a match to when 

 you wanted light — little or much? 



Wouldn't you glory in the absence of 

 soot, smell or danger? 



Wouldn't you like your visitors to find 

 in your home that smart city style" 

 which Gas-lighting gives, that beautiful, 

 soft radiance shining down from the ceil- 

 ings where it does not get in your eyes 

 like the glaring light of sooty, smelly Ker- 

 osene Table Lamps? 



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Well, Madam Householder, you can 

 have all these at less cost than k er( >sene costs 

 you now, when once installed. 



In about two days' time an eight 

 to ten room house can be completely 

 fitted, from cellar to garret, with beau- 



tiful brass ' / 

 cha n de- ' 



liers and 

 globes, complete 

 piping, and a relia- 

 ble Generator which 

 is absolutely safer than 

 any Kerosene Lamp 

 or Gasoline Light. 



All this, with 35 

 lights, including the la- 

 bor of installation, at 

 $200 complete, (cash or 

 terms) and lower cost if fewer 

 than 35 lights are needed. 



Not a pipe will show on 

 your ceiling or walls, (except 

 in the basement), and not a 

 thread of your carpets will be 

 cut or soiled in the installation. 



This Acetylene Gas Plant 

 will be good for more than 

 twenty years' constant use. 



And from the day your own Acetylene 

 Gas Plant is installed it will cost you one- 

 third less for the most beautiful, softest and 

 whitest Light than it ever did for the same 

 candle-power with smoky, ill-smelling, 

 dangerous Kerosene or Gasolene. 

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Just drop me a line to-day, stating how 

 many rooms you've got, and I'll tell you 

 just about how much it would cost to light 

 them properly with this beautiful white light. 

 And, I'll send you "Sunlight-on-Tap," 

 a book full of mighty interesting things 

 about House, Store and Hotel Lighting. 



Write me to-day, giving number of rooms 

 and number of lights needed. 



"Acetylene G. Jones," 



152 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111. 



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The Californian's Reminder 



ALL annuals, seeds of which were sown 

 in March, will now be in good con- 

 dition provided no failure has occurred. If 

 they are not, it is not too late to make another 

 sowing. Care must be taken not to allow 

 the plants to become crowded. Give each 

 plant room to develop, as one well grown 

 plant will give more flowers than two spindly 

 grown ones. 



Stocks are always useful and so easily grown 

 that no amateur need have any fear of failure. 

 All that is wanted is a sunny, open place to 

 plant them in. Throughout the summer 

 and early autumn, the Ten Weeks stocks 

 will flower in sixty days from the date of 

 sowing, but in the late autumn and winter 

 months they require eighty days to come into 

 full flower. The Brompton stocks, if sown 

 in the middle of April, will flower in Novem- 

 ber. These are much more robust in their 

 growth than the Ten Weeks. 



BUY NEW VARIETIES OF DAHLIA 



Some new varieties of dahlias should be 

 purchased every year. The Eastern growers 

 root cuttings of the new varieties and the 

 young plants are sent out about the end of 

 April or early in May. As soon as the plants 

 are received, place them in warm water for 

 fifteen minutes and plant them in the evening. 

 Stick a shingle into the ground in such a way 

 that it will throw a shade over the young 

 plant during the heat of the day. After four 

 days the shade can be dispensed with. It 

 is best to drive a stake to each plant as soon 

 as planted, and tack on a label with the name 

 of the plant upon it. The most useful stake 

 I have found is made from redwood cut one 

 inch wide and seven-eighths of an inch thick, 

 and four feet six inches long. 



The old plants of begonia are much bene- 

 fited by a good dressing of fertilizer. They 

 like coarse bone meal. Mix a quart into a 

 wheel-barrow load of , well-rotted manure, 

 spread this amongst them and fork it well 

 into the soil. In the southern part of the 

 state, the shrubby varieties are much grown. 

 Prune these into shape and cut out any poor 

 growths before adding the fertilizer. If new 

 plantings are made, select a corner with a 

 southeastern exposure for them, and prepare 

 the soil well before planting. They prefer 

 a sandy, open soil with some old manure well 

 mixed throughout the soil. 



THE CARE OF ROSES 



During April, roses will be in full flower. 

 Should green fly attack them, spray with 

 soap-suds — to make, dissolve two ounces of 

 laundry soap in one gallon of water. If 

 affected with mildew, dust the affected leaves 

 with flowers of sulphur in the early morning, 

 while the dew is on them. Cultivate the 

 ground well, and towards the end of the 

 month, mulch with half-rotted manure. 

 This saves watering and keeps the ground 

 cool. All waterings after the mulch is on 

 must be given from overhead. 



Sweet peas that were sown in the winter 

 will now be in full flower. Pick off all 

 flowers; do not allow the plants to seed, as 

 this stops their flowering. 



Santa Barbara, Cal. W. H. Morse. 



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