July, 19 11 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



// a problem grows in your garden write to 

 the Readers' Service /or assistance 



365 



Suburban 

 residences 



are often without sufficient police 

 protection and for this reason you 

 need a Smith & Wesson revolver. 



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An interesting booklet telling the entire history of the 

 revolver is yours for the asking. 



SMITH & WESSON 



MANUFACTURERS OF SUPERIOR REVOLVERS 



419 Stockbridge Street 



SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 



Catalog on Request 



ATLANTIC 



TERRA COTTA 



COMPANY 



Pottery Dept. 



1 1 70 BROADWAY, N.Y. 



The Burlington Venetian Blind 



will make your rooms shady and your porch cool and 

 comfortable. It can be raised or lowered at will, 

 and can be adjusted to any angle to suit the height of 

 the sun. 



Enclose your porch and see what a change it will 

 make in your whole home. It will give you a cozy, 

 secluded room. The air will circulate freely and you 

 will get all the advantages of open air; at the same 

 time you will not be subjected to an inquisitive public 

 gaze. The Burlington Venetian Blind will give you a 

 place to read, sew or entertain — a place for the children 

 to play, too. 



Write for our illustrated booklet; it 

 will tell you about the various styles 



Burlington Venetian Blind Co., 327 Lake St. Burlington, Vt. 



Niagara Average Flow, 

 222,400 cubic feet per 

 second. 



Ordinary Low -water 

 Flow, 180,800 cubic 

 feet per second. 



Present Power Use, 

 34,000 cubic feet per 

 second. 



What Power Users 

 Now Want, 56,000 

 cubic feet per second. 



o the Real Owners of Niagara: 



T 



J^, If you are willing to help in permanently preventing further 

 injury to Niagara Falls, write or telegraph today to your 

 Senators and to your Representative in Congress, urging the pas- 

 sage unamended of Mr. Burton's Senate Joint Resolution 3, contin- 

 uing during the life of the Waterways Treaty the provisions of the 

 Burton Bill. Get your friends to do likewise. 



The Waterways Treaty with Canada has established a MAXIMUM limit of diversion from 

 Niagara for power production of 56,000 cubic feet per second. This is 25 per cent of the average flow 

 and 30 per cent of the ordinary low-water flow. BUT the treaty puts no limit on the taking of water 

 from Niagara "for sanitary and domestic purposes." There are power schemes now being pushed as 

 drainage canals which would further deplete and more seriously injure the Falls. 



JT0R the Falls "have unquestionably been seriously in- 



jured by the diversions already made," says the report of the Chief of Engineers 

 of the United States Army, and ' additional diversions now under way will add 

 to the damage." (See appendix FFF, page 940, Report of Chief of Engineers, 1909.) 



In places, the American Fall is very thin. The Bridal Veil is considerably lessened in volume. 

 West of Terrapin Rock hundreds of feet on the brink of the American part of the Horseshoe Fall are 

 barely covered. Portions of the Rapids are much less impressive. One great power-house, right at 

 the foot of the Horseshoe Fall, has been doubled in length. 



^PHE Burton Bill, passed by Congress in 1906, and ex- 



tended in 1909, was more than fair to the power companies. It gave them all 

 the water they could then use, or were actually preparing to use. It did not stop 

 a single wheel, nor check any going enterprise. 1WP~ IT EXPIRES June 29, 1911. 

 Seizing the opportunity, the power companies insist that they must have at once the full maxi- 

 mum limitation under the Treaty, which would INCREASE THE DRAIN on the already "seriously 

 injured" cataract by SIXTY-EIGHT PER CENT BEYOND PRESENT USES. They also want all 

 limitation removed on the transmission of power from Canada. The reason is plain. At average 

 present rates, their INCREASED INCOME from the water they want to take FROM THE 

 GLORY OF NIAGARA would be OVER FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY. 



JIIAGARA as a world wonder draws 1,000,000 visitors 



each year, who spend fully twenty-five millions of dollars there and on the 

 way. This vast travel income will increase if the Falls remain as a great spectacle. 

 It would surely be bad business to destroy the source of such an income! 



Permanent protection of Niagara against further depletion for private power advantage can now 

 be secured if the people, who actually own America's greatest scenic possession, will act promptly 

 and with vigor upon the members of the Sixty-second Congress, now in special session. 



Write for further information to the organization that first called President Roosevelt's attention 

 to the national ownership of Niagara, that pushed the Burton Bill through Congress, and that now 

 stands against the aggressions of forty millions of power-company capital. Send us copies of all 

 letters you get from Senators and Congressmen. Use a little of your time and a dozen two-cent 

 stamps to protect your own interest in, and ownership of, Niagara Falls. 



American Civic Association 



914 Union Trust Building, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



J. HORACE McFARLAND, President 

 RICHARD B. WATROUS, Secretary 

 WILLIAM B. H0WLAND, Treasurer 



Plant for Immediate Effect 



Nor for Future Generations 



Start with the largest Stock that can be secured ! It takes over twenty 



years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we ofier. 

 We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that 



give an immediate effect. Spring Price List Now Ready. 



ANDORRA NURSERIES B S 



WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 



CHESTNUT HILL, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



