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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July , 19 11 



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The Good Road 

 For Universal Service ! 



Every man's home faces on a road which 

 connects with every other road and leads 

 to every other home throughout the whole 

 land. 



Main highways connect with cross-roads 

 so that a man can go where he chooses, 

 easily and comfortably if conditions are 

 favorable. But the going is not always the 

 same; some roads are good — some are bad. 



The experts in the South illustrate the 

 difference by showing four mules drawing 

 two bales of cotton slowly over a poor, 

 muddy cross-road, and two mules drawing 

 eight bales of cotton rapidly over a first- 

 class macadam highway. 



The Bell Telephone lines are the roads 

 over which the speech of the nation passes. 



The highways and byways of personal 

 communication are the 12,000,000 miles of 

 wire connecting 6,000,000 telephones in 

 homeson these highways. Steadily the lines 

 are being extended to every man's home. 



The public demands that all the roads 

 of talk shall be good roads. It is not 

 enough to have a system that is universal; 

 there must be macadamized highways 

 for talk all the way to every man's home. 

 A single section of bad telephone line is 

 enough to block communication or confine 

 it to the immediate locality. 



Good going on the telephone lines 

 is only possible with one policy and 

 one system. Good going everywhere, 

 at all times, is the aim of the Bell system. 



American Telephone and Telegraph Company 

 And Associated Companies 



One Policy One System Universal Service 







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Hot Springs, Ark. Atlanta. Ga. 

 Los Angeles, Cal. Dwlght, 111. 

 San Francisco, Cal. ».j„ ,,„■ 

 West Haven, Conn. Marlon, Ind. 

 Washington, D. C. Lexington, Mass. 

 Jacksonville, Fla. Portland, Me. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. Columbus, O. Providence, R. I. 

 Kansas City, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. Columbia. S. C. 

 Manchester, N. H. 8 1 i N. Broad St. Salt Lake City, Utah 

 Buffalo, N. F. Pittsburg, Pa. Winnipeg, Manitoba 

 White Plains, N. Y. 4246 Fifth Ave. London, England 



the former method makes for ease in handling. 

 In any case shade from the sun until they germinate 

 and then protect the young seedling from the 

 birds by mosquito netting. When they are larger 

 and tougher they will offer no further temptation. 

 California. Sydney B. Mitchell. 



Design for a Lath House 



TN SOUTHERN California, the continual 

 *- sunshine makes a lath house almost a neces- 

 sity to the ambitious gardener. I experienced a 

 dismal failure in my seed crop the first year of my 

 residence in that locality, and was determined it 

 would not happen again. With this end in view, 

 I strolled around to see how the lath houses in the 

 neighborhood were constructed. 



Many people appeared to have designed their 

 lath houses according to their own ideas of beauty, 

 rather than for any consideration for the plants 

 within. Some had massive concrete pillars to 

 support the fragile roof of laths. Others had 

 supported the laths on so slender a frame that one 

 might easily imagine it would be unstable in the 

 gentlest zephyr. But what puzzled me most 

 was the variety of directions in which the laths 

 were placed. Some had the roof laths running 

 north and south, some east and west; some had 

 the laths at the sides vertical, others horizontal, 

 many slanting, and a few criss-cross. The open- 

 ings were at all points of the compass. 



Now, the main object of a lath house is to give 

 seedlings and tender plants alternate periods of 

 shade and shine. Logically, then, the only sensible 

 direction for the roof laths is north and south. 

 The laths on the east and west sides of the house 

 should be horizontal, while those on the south side 

 should be vertical. Except, perhaps, in the very 

 height of the summer, the north side, I think, 

 might be entirely open. With regard to the 

 arrangement of the laths, the roof laths and those 

 on the south side should be fairly close together, 

 while the laths on the east and west sides may be 



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A lath house should be so made as to give alter- 

 nate periods of sunlight and shade 



considerably farther apart. Thus, the cool morn- 

 ing sunshine comes through the larger spaces; 

 then, as the sun approaches its zenith, the rays 

 come slantingly through the larger spaces and 

 little sunlight is admitted. As the sun declines, 

 the same operation is reversed. 



Mine is a small house, 8x8 and 6 feet high, 

 designed to bring on seedlings and resuscitate 

 faded ferns and house plants. The frame consists 

 of six uprights, 2 inches wide by 2 inches thick 

 resting on two sills, 3 by 4, on edge. The uprights 

 are joined at the south end by three strips of wood 

 2 by 1 in. placed two feet apart, and by similar 

 strips on the roof. All the corners are braced by 

 two-foot angle braces. The laths on the east and 

 west sides hold the uprights in position. On the 

 roof and south end the laths are spaced the width 

 of a lath apart, while on the east and west sides 

 they are spaced two laths apart. The north end 

 is entirely open, but I have planted canary-bird 

 creepers at the corners, which will be trained to 

 provide shade during the height of the summer. 



So. California. F. H. Mason. 



