AMERICAN HOMES AND: GARDENS 
June, 1906 
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Paper Pate for Heating Plants. 
About 40 years ago a man named Butterick made a business of 
cutting patterns for men’s shirts. His wife suggested that patterns 
fF be made in similar manner for women’s and children’s clothes. 
® He did this, and the result is the present tissue paper pattern used 
By using these patterns any woman who can sew 
can save half the cost and make clothes fully as attractive and 
W.@ in every home. 
N: serviceable as she can get from a professional dressmaker. 
‘A We make patterns for Heating Plants. 
¥ your house for exact estimate free. 
now famous Andrews Steam Boiler. 
tools can erect. 
needs no repairs. 
WORTH READING”. 
feet with the Andrews System will do the work of 150 feet ith 
Send plan or sketch of 
Our price will include 
best radiators, pipes cut to fit, fittings, valves, gold bronze, and the 
Everything complete ready 
for erection, with diagrams and directions so any man handy with 
Andrews Steel Boiler has double heating sur- 
® face, requires less fuel, is simple, durable, easily cleaned, and 
We furnish the hottest radiators (100 square 
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Valve and Group System of piping. We design, mauufacture, 
guarantee and sell each plant direct from factory to user, 
giving you the lowest price for the value. Don’t buy a heating 
plant, either water or steam, until you have sent for our 
\catalog, ‘Home Heating,’’ which explains fully 
HOME how you can erect your own plant and save plumbers’ 
HEATING{ charges. Send for list of our customers in your vicinity 
and examine their plants. We do it right in 44 States, 
Canada and Alaska. Plants guaranteed and sold on 
360 days’ trial free. (Remember we manufac- 
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hottest radiators and lowest price for the value.) Freight Rates 
Equalized. Cut out this ad. to-day, send names of other people 
going to buy and get full particulars. Old houses easily fitted. 
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Reasons Why 
it will pay any one who intends to 
build to investigate the merits of 
Cabot’s Shingle Stains 
They are 50 per cent. cheaper than paint, 
applied at half the cost; 
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their colors are softer, richer and handsomer. 
sands have used them on all kinds of houses. 
Samples and Circulars sent on Request 
SAMUEL CABOT, Sole Manfr., 135 Milk St., 
Agents at all Central Points 
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Start with the largest stock that can be secured! 
to grow such trees and shrubs as we offer. 
We do the long waiting—thus enabling you to secure trees and shrubs that give 
It takes over twenty years 
Spring Price List Now Ready. 
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present boxes set away, where they will have 
as natural conditions as possible, for another 
year. 
Following the bulbs, the boxes may be ar- 
ranged for the summer according to the lo- 
cation of the boxes and the taste of the 
gardener. For north and east windows there 
is no better class of plants than the fuchsias, 
the begonias and the gloxinias, while almost 
all ferns do well on the north side of the 
house. For sunny situations the geraniums, 
phlox, verbenas and the snapdragons do ad- 
mirably and any combination of scarlet and 
white, rose and white, pink and white and 
lavender and nearly all shades of red will 
give pleasing results. 
Vines for window boxes should, as a gen- 
eral thing, be of a more delicate form of 
growth than those used on porches, trellises 
and the like, though there are many vines 
grown on the house that will, with a little 
care in pruning, do admirably in the window 
boxes. Among these may be cited the Alle- 
ghany vine, which, when it can be success- 
fully transplanted, is exceedingly graceful 
and dainty. The wild cucumber also has 
merit as a window box vine, draping most 
artistically and gracefully and when in bloom 
is very harmonious with soft pink and rose. 
Among the vines especially appropriate for 
the window box is the maurandia; this is a 
delicate vine with dark green, heart-shaped 
leaves, and tubular flowers of white, mauve 
and pink, which twines and trails and climbs 
in the most graceful manner. “The manettia 
vine with its scarlet, tube-shaped flowers, 
tipped with yellow, is a charming vine for the 
place and when combined with the snowy 
clusters of the solanums, is exquisite indeed. 
The passion flower—Southern Beauty—is 
charming as a window vine and produces its 
white, blue and pink flowers when but a baby 
plant of a few brief inches. “Then there are 
the variegated vincas, the glechoma, with its 
silver edge and a host of pretty trailing flor- 
ists’ flowers and vines with which the gardener 
may beautify at will. 
The construction and care of the window 
box is of the simplest. Any water-tight box 
will meet all requirements and should be 
filled with good garden loam and old, well 
rotted manure for the generality of plants, 
though for such plants as the fuchsias, be- 
gonias and ferns, gloxinias and the like a 
liberal quantity of leaf mold should be added. 
This soil should not be placed directly on 
the bottom of the box, but an inch or two of 
rough charcoal and broken shards should first 
be placed in the box for drainage and over 
this a half-inch of sphagnum moss—such as 
florists use for shipping plants, should be 
placed, to prevent the soil washing down 
into the drainage and clogging it, and on this 
the soil for the plants should be placed. In 
planting the plants in the box a hole the size 
of the pots in which the plants are growing 
at the time should be made and the plant 
slipped from the pot into the earth with as 
little disturbance as possible. Plants received 
by mail should not be placed directly in the 
window boxes—unless the boxes are being 
first started under shelter, but potted off and 
allowed to become established before planting, 
as placed directly in the boxes in the open air 
and hot sun they are quite certain to die. 
The window boxes should never be allowed 
to suffer for water, but should be thoroughly 
watered once a day at least. Another point 
that is of some moment in the care of the 
boxes is—to, as far as possible, keep the win- 
dows under which the boxes are placed, open 
during the heat of the day, otherwise the heat 
of the sun shining on the boxes and reflecting 
from the glass back of them is apt to burn 
