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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1906 



Why not Home Comfort, too? 



The largest and most 

 modern of office, store 

 and factory buildings in 

 the world are warmed 

 by our Low Pressure 

 Steam and Hot Water 

 outfits. It is because 

 the genial warmth 

 yielded puts every bread- 

 winner therein at ease and 

 comfort for best work. The home 

 can be made equally delightful for the loved ones 

 by use of smaller sized outfits of 



American x Ideal 



il Radiators *-Mboilers 



The bread-winner thus gets a right start for the day's work by 

 rising, bathing, dressing and breakfasting in a cozily warmed house. 

 So, too, an evening in a cold house — no matter how brightly lighted 

 or richly furnished — is a sad climax to the day's efforts. Then, 

 there are the vacant chairs in a cheerless room- — the genial, cozy 

 warmth of "other places" often lure family members away from 

 what should be the place of all places — home. 



IDEAL Boilers and AMERICAN Radiators soon repay their cost in fuel, labor and 

 repair savings — and thereafter pay dividends. Their cleanliness halves household 

 drudgery and saves furnishings. Made in sizes to fit all classes of buildings, — OLD or 

 new — FARM or city. A child can operate the outfit — which never wears out. True 

 investments for prudent bread-winners. Sales Branches and Warehouses throughout 

 America and Europe. Write today for catalogue (free). 



Dept. 6. 



flMERICAN r feDIATOI\ r OMPANY 



CHICAGO 



SANITARY HEATING 



is impossible without an automatic heat regulator to maintain a uniform 

 temperature. Almost any kind of a heating plant will maintain an 



EVEN TEMPERATURE 



in every room of your home with the 



Minneapolis Heat Regulator 



for many years the standard automatic heat regulator from Florida to 

 Labrador. It saves coal bills and prevents every possible accident from 

 sudden changes in the weather. So susceptible that a change of one 

 degree will operate the dampers. 



Electric Heat Regulator Co. 



Wm. R. Sweatt, Secretary 



First Avenue and G Street MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 





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plant has had a circle cut around it, of the 

 size of the pot it is to occupy, a week or more 

 before lifting. This will reduce the root-area 

 to the requisite dimensions and the time that 

 elapses before lifting will allow of the starting 

 of new feeding-roots from the severed roots 

 and put the plant in the best possible condition 

 for blooming. 



The plants being potted should be placed in 

 a cool, rather shady place for two or three 

 days, and brought into the house before fires 

 have been lighted or doors or windows closed. 

 This will give them time gradually to become 

 accustomed to the change. When the doors 

 must be closed it will be well to admit as 

 much fresh air, always avoiding a draught, for 

 the plants as possible. 



Plants which are to be stored in the cellar 

 or under the benches in the greenhouse may be 

 left until later. 



Hardy perennials which need dividing, espe- 

 cially those which have finished blooming, may 

 be lifted and divided. Perennial phlox is much 

 improved by this treatment and if set now will 

 become established and make considerable 

 growth before cold weather. 



Iris may be planted this month and will 

 make better plants than spring-planted roots 

 which have been in cold storage during the 

 winter. 



Seeds of hardy annuals which do better for 

 fall-sowing may be gotten into the ground as 

 soon as the room can be spared for them. 

 Poppies from fall-sown seeds are much finer 

 than those from seed sown in the spring. 

 The digitalis or fox-glove sheds its seeds in 

 midsummer and comes up the following spring 

 and the seed may be profitably sown at this 

 time, though in this case it will be better to 

 sow under the protection of the cold frame. 



Most of the hardy perennials which will 

 bear transplanting may with profit be sown in 

 the cold frame at this season. Pansies are es- 

 pecially favored by this treatment. 



When the first frost has spoiled the leaves 

 of the caladiums the roots may be lifted and 

 all injured parts cut back and the bulbs stored 

 in a warm, dry place. The caladium requires 

 more heat in storage than most other bulbs and 

 should be placed where it will not be in any 

 danger of being chilled. Gladioli may be 

 left until just before the ground freezes and 

 dahlias are not injured by a frost that does 

 not reach the roots, so that they may be left 

 until the first frost has spoiled the foliage, when 

 they should be dug. 



Any work that will have to be done in the 

 spring, but can be anticipated, should be done 

 now. There is always so much more to do in 

 spring than there is time to do it in that 

 every hour's or day's work that can be done 

 now is time well invested. Fences may be put 

 in order, paths repaired and the curbing of 

 beds looked after. Is a trellis-post weakened 

 be sure that the spring will find it prone on 

 the ground and the vine more or less injured; 

 a new post now will save annoyance and loss 

 later on. Does the cold-frame sash need glaz- 

 ing, do it now; do not trust to boards laid over 

 the broken glass to keep out frost and rain; 

 the first stiff wind will displace it and prob- 

 ably land it on some other part of the sash 

 and the result will be another broken glass. 

 Look the insides of the frames over for knot- 

 holes and see that they are closed with bits 

 of tin nailed over; the failure to do this may 

 result in the mice making their nests under 

 the warm leaves or the moles burrowing 

 therein. 



All pots that shall be needed for winter use 

 should be gathered together and scalded with 

 soapsuds and placed where they can be gotten 

 at readily. Potting-soil that will be needed 

 should be gotten, sifted and placed under shel- 

 ter and, if it is first given a thorough heating 

 on the kitchen-range to destroy all insect-life, 

 it will do well. There is nothing more annoy- 



