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The Readers' Service will_ aid you 

 in planning your vacation trip 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 



Fri e Book°onHome Refrigeration 



It tells you how to select the Home Refrigerator — how to know the good from the 

 poor — how to keep a Refrigerator sweet and sanitary— how your food can be prop- 

 erly protected and preserved — how to keep down ice bills — lots of things you should 

 know before selecting any Refrigerator. 



Don't be deceived by claims being made for other so-called ' 

 "porcelain" refrigerators. The "Monroe" has the only real por- 

 celain food compartments made in a pottery and in one piece of 

 solid, unbreakable White Porcelain Ware over an inch thick, 

 with every corner rounded, no cracks or crevices anywhere. 

 There are no hiding places for germs — no odors, no dampness. 



GKMonroe 



The Lifetime Refrigerator 



The leading hospitals use the ' 'Monroe' ' 

 exclusively and it is found today in a 

 large majority of the very best homes. 

 It is built to last a lifetime and will 

 save you its cost many times over in 

 ice bills, food waste and repair bills. 



Always sold DIRECT 



and at Factory Prices. 



Cash or Monthly Payments. 



The "Monroe" is never sold in stores, but direct from the factory to you, freight 

 prepaid to your railroad station, under our liberal trial offer and an ironclad 

 guarantee of "full satisfaction or money refunded." 

 Easy Payments We depart this year from our rule of all cash with order 



and will send the "Monroe" freight prepaid on our 



liberal credit terms to all desiring to buy that way. 

 Just say, "Send Monroe Book," on a postal card and it will go to you by next mail. (10) 



MONROE REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, Station 13, Lockland, Ohio 



WROUGHT IRON PICKET FENCE, ORNAMENTAL 

 WOVEN WIRE LAWN FENCE. FARM AND POUL- 

 TRY FENCE, IRON FENCE POSTS. WINDOW 

 GUARDS. RAILINGS. VASES. SETTEES, 

 GRILLES, FIRE ESCAPES. 

 AREA GRATINGS. ETC 

 HIGH 

 GRADE 



VOUR XSENTS IN NEW YORK. BOSTON. PHILADELPHIA, 

 . CHICAGO. NEW ORLEANS. PITTSBURG, ATLANTA, 

 I DES MOINES. ETC. WILL CONTRACT TO FUR- 

 6 NISH AND ERECT FENCE. WRITE OUR FAC' 

 TORY FOR THEIR ADDRESS. 



WRITE OUR FACTORY FOR FREE CATALOGUE. 

 ONE HUNDRED ARTISTIC DESIGNS OF FENCE 

 AND ENTRANCE GATES ALSO LETTERED 

 ARCHES. WE MAKE SPECIAL 



DESIGNS FOR PAR- 

 TICULAR PEOPLE. 

 SUPERIOR 

 aUALITYj 



ENTERPRISE 



FOUNDRY & FENCE CO 



1221 E. 24TH ST., - - - INDIANAPOLIS. INC 



GRANITE STATE ball bearings are right! 



Tool steel cones are hardened through- 

 out and guaranteed never to show wear. 



The adjustment is simple; check nut 

 is loosened — the cone unscrewed and 

 the nut retightened, brings the cone 

 in absolute alignment. 



Felt washers — oil saturated — form a 

 dust proof bearing — almost air tight. 

 Ordinary ball bearings — cause trouble 

 — We have never had to replace one 

 of this type. 



The acme of perfection — backed by 

 our guarantee and forty years' experi- 

 ence in lawn mower construction. 



Ask your dealer to see them, or write 

 us direct. 



Our catalogue on request. 



The Granite State Mowing Machine Co., Hinsdale, N. H. 



Easy Construction for a Lily 

 Pond 



LOCATED in a natural hollow where one 

 might expect to meet with water lilies, 

 fed by an artificial brooklet and draining into the 

 nearby river through underground tile, my lily 

 pond resembles many others. The pond proper 

 is a concrete cistern about four feet deep with an 

 outline approximating an oval, and the great 

 problem when building it was how to achieve this 

 outline most economically. Making a special 

 mould for it would have been an expensive piece 

 of work, with little likelihood of any future use 

 for the mould. 



A hole was dug fully a foot wider than the 

 desired width of the pond, to allow for the thick- 

 ness of the wall, while its depth was determined 

 by the fact that sufficient fall had to be provided 

 from the bottom of the pond to the level of the 

 water in the river to provide for drainage. This 

 made it necessary to raise the ground about a 

 foot to bring it up to a level with the top of the 

 pond, which happily did not detract from the 

 appearance of the hollow. The sides of the hole 

 were cut perpendicular and as smooth as a spade 

 could make them. On the bottom was first spread 

 a four-inch layer of cinders wetted down and 

 firmly tamped. Where the ditch leading to the 

 river connects with this hole a drain pipe was 

 imbedded so that it would extend about two feet 

 into the cistern beneath the concrete floor. To 

 this pipe was attached a T into which could be 

 fitted an upright and which was likewise provided 

 with a movable plug at the top. Upon the cinders 

 a concrete floor about three inches thick was laid, 

 sloping slightly from all sides toward this drain 

 pipe, where a pocket was formed so that by re- 

 moving the plug in the T the pond could be emptied 

 completely. By means of the upright pipe the 

 water level in the pond can be determined. The 

 mixture used for the floor consisted of one part 

 of cement to three parts of sand. To this a 

 finishing coat was applied consisting of equal 

 parts of cement and finely screened sand. 



The floor was laid from the sides toward the 

 centre, and into it, while still wet, was pressed a 

 row of bricks extending completely around, fol- 

 lowing in outline, but. everywhere a foot distant 

 from the sides of the hole. This was the first 

 course of a single brick wall which was to serve 



A single brick wall served as a frame for the con- 

 crete walls of the pond 



