% AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
September, 1912 
Andorra-Grown Peonies 
For SEPTEMBER Planting 
We catalog a collection of choice varieties, with complete descriptions, in our 
Calendar of Perennials 
Parcaliview of Peony Exhibition at Andorra 
The design and construction of a 100-mile 
wireless telegraph set is described in Scientific 
American Supplement 1605. 
The location and erection of a 100-mile wire- 
less telegraph station is described in Scientific 
American Supplement 1622. 
In Scientific American Supplement 1623, 
tbe installation and adjustment of a 100-mile 
wireless telegraph station is fully explained. 
to any address for 60 cents. 
Order from your newsdealer or from 
"THE most modern, and best illuminating and 
: cooking service for isolated homes and institutions, 
is furnished by the CLIMAX GAS MACHINE. 
Apparatus furnished on TRIAL under a guarantee 
to be satisfactory andin advance of all other methods. 
Cooks, heats water for bath and culinary purposes, 
heats individual rooms between seasons—drives pump- 
ing or power engine in most efficient and economical 
manner —also makes brilliant illumination. 
MACHINE DOES NOT MEET YOUR EXPECTA- 
TIONS, FIRB IT BACK. 
Send for Catalogue and Proposition. 
Low Price 
Better than City Gas or Elee- 
Liberal Terms 
tricity and at Less Cost. 
C. M. KEMP MFG. CO. 
405 to 413 E. Oliver Street, Baltimore, Md. 
How to Make a 100-mile Wireless Telegraph Outfit 
In the following Scientific American Supplements, the well-known wireless 
telegraph expert, Mr. A. Frederick Collins, describes clearly and simply, without 
the aid of mathematics, the construction of a 100-mile wireless telegraph outfit. 
Complete drawings accompany his descriptions. 
These six articles constitute a splendid treatise on the construction, operation 
and theory of wireless telegraph instruments. 
Single number will be mailed for 10 cents. 
MUNN & COMPANY, Inc., 361 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 
SPECIAL OFFER 
TO CLEAR A BLOCK 
Four-year-old Plants, good standard sorts, 
in varieties of our selection. 
Per Dozen $4.00 
Two Dozen 7.00 
Fifty. . 13.00 
Hundred 25.00 
ANDORRA NURSERIES 
Wm. Warner Harper, Proprietor 
BoxN Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. 
Send For Fall Price List 
The adjustment and tuning of a 100-mile wire- 
less telegraph outfit is discussed in Scientific 
American Supplement 1624. 
The theory and action of a 100-mile wireless 
telegraph outfit is explained in Scientific Ameri- 
can Supplement 1625. 
The management and operation of ship and 
shore stations is clearly set forth in Scientific 
American Supplement 1628. 
The complete set will be mailed 
4 
SIMPLE TEXT-BOOK telling in a 
series of plain and simple answers to 
questions all about the various orders as 
well as the general principles of construction. 
The book contains 92 pages, printed on heavy 
cream plate paper and illustrated by 150 engrav- 
ings, amongst which are illustrations of various 
historic buildings. ‘The book is 12mo in size, 
and is attractively bound in cloth. 
PRICE FIFTY CENTS, POSTPAID 
Muwn & Co., INc., 361 Broadway, New York 
bers of a family living on a farm fifty miles 
from New York have never had, until very 
lately, more than a slight interest in the 
fascinating country which stretches out 
about them upon every side. The acquisi- 
tion of an automobile induced exploration 
into the depths of the Hudson River coun- 
try immortalized by Washington Irving 
and led them through the Sleepy Hollow 
region and among the Catskills where Rip 
Van Winkle is said to have lived. A re- 
newed interest in local history took them 
over the historic roads traveled by the 
weary Continentals during the days of the 
Revolution and to the old Colonial homes 
where Washington at various times main- 
tained his headquarters or where certain 
of the American generals were once en- 
camped. Longer trips toward Albany 
made plain much of the history of the 
early Dutch settlers and other journeys 
toward Boston and Philadelphia, regions 
rich in historic associations, brought about 
an entirely new understanding of the 
nation’s history and literature. 
Another family, having explored in vari- 
ous tours in their automobile the greater 
part of the eastern states of our own 
country, took their motor with them upon 
a trip into England and motored through 
some of the most beautiful of the English 
shores in the same car which so often 
carried them over the roads about Phila- 
delphia or over the highways of West- 
chester County, N. Y. The expense and 
difficulty of the transportation of the car 
was much less than had been expected, and 
its use over the roads of a foreign land 
made very pleasant the visiting of many 
places interestingly connected with Amer- 
ican history. 
The place of the automobile in plans for 
a vacation is a very important part of its 
usefulness for it makes possible long camp- 
ing tours with jaunts into wild and remote 
country districts, with nights spent either in 
the most primitive of tents or sleeping upon 
the ground under the stars. So many are 
the uses for the motor in country living 
and so important is the place which it has 
come to fill that it really adds more to the 
pleasure of life in the country than any 
other one thing. 
But besides the social advantages which 
the motor brings to dwellers in the coun- 
try, and in small places it has a decided 
social value in or nearer the city. By its use 
the engagements of the women of the 
family are made much easier of fulfilment 
and calls are made which perhaps would 
be much more difficult if one were obliged 
to depend upon a street car or some other 
means of transportation. Then there is a 
saving which is rarely considered in reck- 
oning up the pros and cons of keeping an 
automobile and where the considerations 
are usually those of a financial nature. In 
even the most economical households there 
are times when one is obliged to make use 
of a cab and when the cost during a year 
of such occasional service is added up it 
will be found to reach a sum which will 
make a very imposing addition to the argu- 
ments in favor of keeping a motor by 
which such expense will be avoided. 
The ownership of a car does not neces- 
sarily involve the keeping of a chauffeur. 
Even in large cities many automobiles are 
run by the women who own them, and it 
may be said that anyone who can operate a 
sewing machine can run a small motor 
about the city’s streets with entire safety 
to the car, to herself and to the public. 
In New York there are many professional 
women physicians chiefly who motor about 
by night as well as by day. 
