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For information about live-stock 

 write to the Readers* Service 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1909 



Douglassville Squab Co., Douglassville, Pa. 



Roofed with Amatite. 



After Five Years 



THE success of any article depends 

 upon the repeat orders, the or- 

 ders which come because the article 

 has "made good." 



No manufacturer can succeed with- 

 out these. 



Here is the kind of letters which 

 we are constantly receiving regarding 

 Amatite roofing : 



Gentlemen : 



Five years ago we put our first 

 roofs of Amatite on. Since that 

 time we have roofed four other 

 buildings with Amatite. 



We wish to say in appreciation 

 of your roofing that we never 

 thought it was possible to procure 

 a roofing of such quality for so 

 little money. We have seen Ama- 

 tite outwear tin roofs next door, as 

 it were, to us, and our roof did 

 not cost us nearly as much as the 

 tin cost our neighbor. 



Amatite is all you claim for it, 

 and in our opinion the best of 

 modern roofing materials. 



Very truly yours, 



DOUGLASSVILLE SQUAB CO. 



Douglassville, Pa. 



Such letters mean something. 



The success of Amatite is dependent 

 entirely upon the well-known fact that 

 it always proves satisfactory. The 

 reasons are that it is made of Coal Tar 



Pitch — the greatest waterproofing com- 

 pound known, and that it has a real 



mineral surface. 



Pitch is invariably used for under- 

 ground waterproofing, and instances 

 are known where it has resisted con- 

 tinuous water pressure underground for 

 twenty-five years without deterioration 

 or change. 



The advantage of a mineral surfaced 

 roofing like Amatite over one with a 

 smooth surface is that the latter needs 

 painting and Amatite does not. 



You have no further expense or 

 bother after Amatite is once laid. This 

 means a great saving. A ready roofing 

 which requires painting every two 

 years will cost after a while as much 

 for paint as for the origi?ial roofing. 



In figuring the cost of painted roof- 

 ings the cost of the paint must not be 

 overlooked. 



Free Sample 



The best argument we can offer in 

 favor of Amatite is a sample of the 

 goods themselves. When a practical 

 man takes a piece of Amatite in his 

 hand he recognizes at once that it is 

 thicker, heavier, stronger and more 

 durable than the common kinds. 



Send for a free sample of Amatite, 

 and examine it carefully.- It makes 

 customers for us every time. Address 

 our nearest office. 



Barrett Manufacturing Company 



New York 

 Minneapolis 



Chicago Philadelphia Boston Cleveland St, Louis 



Pittsburg Cinciflnati New Orleans Kansas City 



Make your Roadside a Poem in 

 Vines 



HOW tame is the drive you take every day from 

 home to office? How many ugly places do 

 you wince at in your daily walk ? 



Remember the vine-clad stone walls of Connecti- 

 cut. Think of the great clouds of Virginia creeper 

 you have seen by some country roadside! How 

 your eyes sparkled every day in winter when the 

 red berries of bittersweet glowed upon the horizon! 



How all those ugly spots would be transformed by 

 Virginia creeper! 



What if that raw bank that annoys you daily 

 were covered with masses of Hall's honeysuckle, 

 which would give you great gusts of fragrance in 

 June, scattering flowers all summer and a bit of 

 greenery in November after the trees have shed 

 their leaves? 



Trumpet creeper, too, is running wild in many 

 an old garden near you. Some of it could be spared 

 for the woodside so that you might catch a glimpse 

 of humming birds hovering before the great scarlet- 

 orange trumpets. 



Is there any odor equal to that of wild grape in 

 June? 



Isn't this a superb list ? Yet all of these are 

 native or run wild in America. Some or all of these 

 you can have for the mere trouble of digging. 

 The time is approaching when you can safely trans- 

 plant a few vines to animate your daily walk. 

 No one will hurt them. Year by year they will 

 increase in size and beauty. Your neighbors will 

 catch the enthusiasm. And in ten years a mile of 

 roadside between your house and the railway station 

 will be a poem in vines. Every visitor will rejoice 

 in it. Your locality will be famous for it. 



As soon as the trees shed their leaves, plant vines. 

 But don't wait till then to locate them or you will 

 have trouble in finding them. Scour your neigh- 

 borhood now, make a list of what is available and 

 move half a dozen vines this fall. 



Don't you know a spot that needs creepers badly? 

 Can't you cover it with Hall's honeysuckle. If not, 

 don't you know a colony of ground ivy or money- 

 wort that isn't working? 



There was a mile of pink flowers that used to 

 rejoice me from August to October when I lived 

 along the line of the West Shore Railway. It was 

 produced by the mist flower {Mikania scandens), 

 which grows wild in moist places. 



All these plants you can buy from nurserymen if 

 necessary. If you want big quantities cheap for 

 village improvement work I can tell you about 

 collectors who will save you money. 



Join the Roadside Gardening Club now/ It is 

 a new fraternity that has no expenses or red tape 

 and only one aim, viz., to make every foot of your 

 daily walk or drive delightful the year round with- 

 out expense. 



Write me and I'll tell you how. 



New Jersey. Thomas McAdam. 



[Next month: "How to make Your Roadside 

 Interesting All This Winter.] 



Two Plants Often Confused 



ARE you dead " sure " that what you bought for 

 Gypsophila panicidata (in order to loosen 

 bunches of sweet peas) is righly named? Isn't it Gal- 

 ium Mollugo. Though they have the same type of 

 beauty they are far apart botanically. One belongs 

 to the carnation family; the other to the madder 

 family. The first has separate petals; the second 

 has them more or less grown together at the base. 



