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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1905 



SUN DIALS 



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Larger and more elabo- 

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Estimates and directions furnished. 



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used. Eighty per cent, efficiency developed. 



Over 4.500 plants in successful operation. 



Large plants for towns, institutions, railroad 



tanks and irrigation. Catalog & estimates free 



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Manufactory Established 1761 



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Cast-Iron Pipes 



OWING to the inferior quality of many 

 of the earthenware pipes used for 

 underground drainage, cast-iron pipes 

 are now frequently substituted for them. So 

 long as cast-iron pipes can be kept free from 

 corrosion they may be regarded as being satis- 

 factory for drainage purposes. Corrosion, 

 however, soon sets in, with the result that the 

 velocity of flow of the sewage matter in the 

 pipes is seriously impeded, and the efficiency 

 of the drain is lost. Details have been given 

 of a number of tests made on various preserva- 

 tives of cast-iron pipes by a weak solution of 

 sulphuric acid, in every case the preservative 

 being affected. It might be argued that a 

 system of house drainage was not required to 

 stand the action of acids, and that these tests 

 were no guide as to the suitability of cast-iron 

 pipes connected with one of the preparations 

 mentioned for the carrying away of soil and 

 waste from dwelling houses. It would seem 

 on the contrary, however, that a drain should 

 be able to stand the action of any kind of liquid 

 which might be poured into it. No objection 

 on the point could be made against fireclay 

 pipes of first quality. Tests made on fireclay 

 pipes Jed to the following conclusions: (i) 

 That a six inch layer of concrete round a 

 pipe made the pipe sufficiently air-tight. (2) 

 The liability to fracture through unequal set- 

 tlement of the ground on which they are laid 

 may be overcome by the laying of a bed or 

 layer of concrete underneath the pipes. For 

 the joints a slow-setting cement, thoroughly 

 cooled and aerated, should be used, and it 

 should be well stayed into the joints so that 

 all the air in the cement be forced out and a 

 thoroughly air and water tight joint would be 

 the result. With regard to cost, also, there 

 was considerable economy in the use of fire- 

 clay pipes. 



NEW BOOKS 



Garden Design 



The Book of Garden Design. By Charles 

 Thonger. New York: John Lane, 

 1905. Pp. 90. Price, $1.00. 



From cover to cover this little book is filled 

 with valuable, helpful, practical suggestion. 

 It is one of those rare English garden books 

 which, written in England for English readers, 

 and therefore concerned chiefly and, indeed, 

 quite exclusively with English conditions, is 

 so completely general in its treatment as to 

 be as useful in America as in the country in 

 which it originated. The book is at once 

 theoretical and practical. It is theoretical in so 

 far that the author presents no schemes for 

 garden design, offers no concrete advice as 

 to how to lay out a definite plan, abhors, in 

 truth, ready-made plans, and offers a much- 

 needed word of caution against applying a 

 general design to varied conditions. The 

 reader who seeks, therefore, for definite advice 

 as to how to lay out his garden, with diagrams 

 of paths and plants, will fail to find in this 

 book the particular kind of advice he is look- 

 ing for. 



But he will find much that is more valuable. 

 Theoretical as the book is in a certain sense, 

 it is eminently practical and wise in its treat- 

 ment of the whole subject. If the author does 

 not tell us just how to lay out a garden on a 

 set plan, if he does not offer concrete sugges- 

 tions, he does give so much advice, so much 

 practical, useful information, that the intelli- 

 gent garden designer will be both helped and 



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