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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1905 



The (HHMPI0N IRON CO. 



^^^*^ KENTON, OHIO. 



~y 



STRUCTURAL IRON. 



ORNAMENTAL 



CAST and WROUGHT IRON. 



JAIL CELL WORK. 



FENCES and RAILINGS. 



Catalogue of above furnished, and Prices 

 quoted on application. 



Hardest Test of a Water Tank 



IS TO LEAVE IT DRY 



FOR PART OF EACH 



YEAR 



^Absolutely sate and reliable. 

 cAsk your friends. 



We have supplied many 

 tanks and towers for 

 water supply to summer 

 and winter resorts where 

 the tanks are unfilled in 

 the off seasons. Yet each 

 is ready for service when 

 refilled. 



Let us send you testi- 

 monials to this fact. 



27-ft. Tower, 3,000 gal. Tank furnished Mr. J. F. Perkins, Portland. Me. 



W. E. CALDWELL COMPANY & Louisville, Kentucky- 



©*« Davis GX, RoescK 



Water Thermostat 



A DRAFT CONTROLLER FOR 

 HOT WATER HEATERS 



Simple, 

 Durable, 

 Accurate, 

 Inexpensive. 



"Will save 25 per cent, of 

 your coal bill. 



Will regulate (he tempera- 

 ture of your whole House. 



Catalogue free upon request. 



Davis & l^ocsch Temperature Controlling Co. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



enough to completely illustrate the text. The 

 deciduous trees illustrated are exhibited in two 

 states, in summer and in winter, the illustra- 

 tions of the two seasons being of the same tree. 

 Many of these general illustrations are supple- 

 mented with other photographs of the bole, 

 which exhibit the character of the bark, and 

 which are offered as an aid to the identifica- 

 tion of the species. 



The scheme and plan of this book are 

 thoroughly excellent and have been well de- 

 veloped. The text covers most of the points 

 a lover of trees is likely to need, and the illus- 

 tration scheme is so well worked out as to give 

 the pictures a distinct value in themselves. 



PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT 



Concrete, the Modern Stone 



CONCRETE has the quality of getting as 

 close to the original as any imitation 

 product known in the building arts. 

 The basis of its assured solidity is fortified by 

 the absence of flaws; in availability it is easily 

 made when stone is almost unprocurable; and, 

 on its appeal to taste, the face presentation re- 

 wards with an unlimited number of beautiful 

 designs. Of all the building materials the 

 world has ever produced, concrete is the most 

 universal in its application, the most durable, 

 and, when properly handled, the most attrac- 

 tive and one of the least expensive. Concrete 

 has been known and used since early days of 

 civilization, and while its value has been rec- 

 ognized, its application in a practical way has 

 been hampered through lack of proper tools 

 to handle it. The Century Cement Machine 

 Company, of Rochester, N. Y., manufactures 

 simple, durable machines for the making of 

 the greatest possible variety of cement building 

 blocks and ornamental parts, such as sills, 

 coping, lintels, pillars, capitals, bases, pilasters, 

 etc. The illustrations which we reproduce 

 herewith are examples of the striking results 

 which have been achieved in the molding of 

 concrete building blocks by machinery. The 

 idea of variety ob- 

 tained by these de- 

 signs will be greatly 

 magnified when it 

 is understood that 

 the patterns are 

 only limited by the 

 abilities of the de- 

 signers at the works. 

 The company has 

 realized, as a basic 

 principle in the pro- 

 duction of these 

 blocks, the fact that 

 variety is necessary 

 in order to relieve 

 the monotonous ef- 

 fect produced by 

 making an entire 



U -U- l kl„ 1 CONCRETE COLUMN. 



building or blocks 



having the same design, and its constant effort 

 has been to produce as large a number of 

 natural forms of rock faces as possible, in order 

 that the contractor may build a structure hav- 

 ing as many variations as natural stone, with 

 no added expense beyond the primary cost of 

 the face plates needed to produce the designs. 

 Its latest achievement is in the production of 

 molds for the making of bases, columns and 

 capitals, by the use of which the most strik- 

 ing and stately architectural effects can be pro- 

 duced entirely of concrete and at a cost en- 

 tirely prohibitive if it were necessary to use 

 natural stone. The durability of these con- 

 crete structures is beyond question, and their 

 hygienic value is being appreciated more and 



