AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
The Best of Morning Tonics 
The Most Delicious of All Breakfast Fruits 
Atwood Grape Fruit . 
For the appetite that lags at breakfast-time there 
is no more pleasant or more effective stimulant pos- 
sible than a cool, refreshing ATWOOD Grape Fruit. 
ATWOOD Grape Fruit is the best to be had in grape fruit. 
thin-skinned, delectable kind, the most abundant in its juices. 
It is the solid, 
It provides 
just what the system needs in cleansing, corrective qualities to prepare it 
for the full enjoyment of the morning meal. 
Look for the ATWOOD 
Trade-Mark on the wrappers. 
Insist on it, as it is your assur- 
ance of the perfect product. 
Modern Plumbing 
Illustrated 
By R. M. STARBUCK 
400 (104x734) Paces 
55 FuLL PaGEs OF 
ENGRAVINGS 
PRICE, $4.00 
@ A comprehensive and 
up-to-date work _illus- 
trating and describing 
the Drainage and Ven- 
tilation of Dwellings, 
Apartments and Public 
Buildings, etc. The 
very latest and most ap- 
proved methods in all 
branches of Sanitary In- 
stallation are given. 
@ Many of the subjects treated in the text and illus- 
trated follow in the next column. 
MUNN & COMPANY, Publishers 
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OFFICE, 363 BROADWAY, NEWYORK 
paratus. 
fruit product grown. 
An original and exhaustive treatise, prepared for the use of all engaged 
in the business of Steam, Hot Water Heating and Ventilation 
ATWOOD Grape Fruit is known everywhere as the finest grape 
The ATWOOD Grove in Manavyista, Fla., 
contains over 250 acres devoted exclusively to the cultivation 
of grape fruit on the highest scientific principles. 
To serve, cut in cross sections, remove the core, and serve with or with- 
out sugar. Grape Fruit is better when served without ice. ATWOOD 
Grape Fruit makes the most delicious salads. Taken at night on retiring 
is better than any drug. Buy it by the box—it will keep for weeks. 
THE ATWOOD COMPANY 
KIMBALL C. ATWOOD 
Pres. and Treas. 
290 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK 
SOME OF THE SUBJECTS TREATED 
Connections, sizes and all working data for all 
Plumbing Fixtures and Groups of Fixtures 
Traps — Venting 
Connecting and Supporting of Soil Pipe 
House Trap and Fresh-Air Inlet 
Floor and Yard Drains, etc. 
Rain Leaders 
Sub-soil Drainage 
Floor Connections 
Roof Connections 
Local Venting 
Bath Room Connections [ete. 
Automatic Flushing for Factories, School Houses, 
Use of Flushing Valves 
Modern Fixtures for Public Toilet Rooms 
Durham System 
Plumbing Construction without use of Lead 
Automatic Sewage Lift —Sump Tank 
Disposal of Sewage of Underground Floors of 
High Buildings 
Country Plumbing 
Cesspools 
The Electrolysis of Underground Pipes 
Septic Tanks and Sewage Siphons 
Pneumatic Water Supply, Rams, etc. 
Examples of Poor Practice 
Roughing — Testing 
Continuous Venting for all classes of Work 
Circuit and Loop Venting 
Use of Special Waste and Vent Fittings 
Cellar Work 
House Drain— House Sewer — Sewer Connections 
Plumbing for Cottage House 
Plumbing for Residence 
Plumbing for Two-Flat House 
Plumbing for Apartment Houses 
Plumbing for Office Building 
Plumbing for Public Toilet Rooms 
Plumbing for Bath Establishment 
Plumbing for Engine Houses 
Plumbing for Stables 
Plumbing for Factories 
Plumbing for School Houses, ete. [by Electricity 
Thawing of Underground Mains and Service Pipes 
oo Practical Steam and === | 
Hot Water Heating and Ventilation 
By ALFRED G. KING 
402 Pages. 
Containing 304 Illustrations 
Price $3.00 
HE standard and latest book published. Tells how to get heating contracts, 
how to install heating and ventilating apparatus. Describes all of the prin- 
cipal systems of steam, hot water, vacuum, vapor and vacuum-vapor heating, 
together with the new accellerated systems of hot water circulation, including 
chapters on up-to-date methods of ventilation; fan or blower system of heating 
and ventilation; rules and data for estitnating radiation and cost, and such other 
tables and information as make it an indispensable work for heating contractors, 
journeymen steam fitters, steam fitters’ apprentices, architects and builders. , 
This work represents the best practice of the present day and is exhaustive in 
on text, diagrams and illustrations. 
CONTAINING CHAPTERS ON I. Introduction. Il. Heat. i 
eee IV. Boiler Surface and Settings. 2 
VI. Pipe and Fittings. VII. Valves, Various Kinds. VIII. Forms of Radiating Surfaces. IX. Locating of 
lll. Evolution of Artificial Heating Ap- 
V. The Chimney Flue. 
Radiating Surfaces. X. Estimating Radiation. XI. Steam-Heating Apparatus. XII. Exhaust-Steam Heat. 
ing. XIII. Hot-Water Heating. XIV. Pressure Systems of Hot-Water Work. XV. Hot-Water Appliances. 
XVI. Greenhouse Heating. 
XVII. Vacuum Vapor and Vacuum Exhaust Heating. XVIII. Miscellaneous 
Heating. XIX. Radiator and Pipe Connections. XX. Ventilation. XXI. Mechanical Ventilation and Hot- 
Blast Heating. XXII. Steam Appliances 
XXV. Temperature Regulation and Heat Control. 
XXVIII. Rules, Tables and Useful Information. 
XXIII. District Heating. 
XXVI. Business Methods. 
XXIV. Pipe and Boiler Covering. 
XXVII. Miscellaneous. 
Valuable Data and Tables Used fer Estimating, Installing and Testing of Steam and Hot-Water and Ventilating Apparatus are Given 
MUNN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 361 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY 
February, 1909 
without a border. As a rug, however, is pre- 
ferred to a carpet, the second choice would be 
to make a rug of carpet, shaping it to fit the 
spaces and finishing it with a narrow border. 
An even margin of a foot and a half could, 
by this method, be left around the edges of the 
floor. Some of the Wilton carpets are excel- 
lent for this purpose. To keep a carpet rug 
from slipping a cheesecloth pad to lay under 
the rug isa help. ‘This pad is inexpensive and 
may be- made any size and shape. 
GRAINED OAK WOODWORK 
“Do you think my room very jarring with 
the woodwork a combination of imitation oak 
and white paint?’ asks a Pennsylvania 
reader, H. A. C. “The walls are painted in 
gray, the ceiling an ivory white. The window 
casings and door frames are white, and the 
door panels below are grained oak. A friend 
who is visiting me says this mixture on the 
woodwork is in bad taste, and urges me to 
write to your department to settle the matter.” 
A generation ago, before much attention 
was paid in this country to artistic principles 
in house decoration, the imitation oak was 
popular, and was often combined with white 
paint. Now it is considered in better taste 
to have all of the woodwork treated alike with 
the exception, perhaps, of the doors. If the 
gray wall is to remain, the general appearance 
of the room would be improved by adding 
chintz or taffeta curtains at the windows. 
A UNIQUE HALL LIGHT 
Some kind of light for a hall that will be 
interesting and unusual is inquired for by a 
Brooklyn correspondent, G. E. 
If electricity is the medium for lighting, 
there is quite a variety to draw from for a 
hall light. One of the quaintest of these is a 
bronze Japanese lantern, round in shape, with 
a dragon pierced through the metal. By lin- 
ing the lantern with colored paper it becomes 
a part of the color decoration of the hall 
at night. With gas, it is more difficult to 
carry out the wishes of this correspondent, and 
a conventional shape will probably have to be 
used. 
GARDEN WORK ABOUT THE HOME 
(Continued from page 80) 
pink (Phlox subulata), a rose grows over it 
from the back and in front there are two good 
Japanese andromedas, evergreen and similar 
to that used for the hedge. 
Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) has been used 
also and its pink flowers blend prettily with 
the Dorothy Perkins Rose on the boulder. 
Hall’s magnolia should be there for the 
sake of its white stars in early spring and its 
foliage, which harmonizes with the rhododen- 
drons. 
The graves have simple headstones of mar- 
ble with a marble curb four inches high sur- 
rounding the grave itself.’ In the inclosures 
so made are planted Daphne, Iberis, Phlox 
subulata and ivy, one kind in each grave. 
Near the headstones there is a small group, of 
Poet’s narcissus. 
All the plants used are long lived, but grow 
slowly and will scarcely ever outgrow the 
limits of the lot. With ordinary care they 
should outlive the oldest member of the gen- 
eration now beginning. ‘The necessary mini- 
mum care will, of course, include the 
removal of the rhododendron maximum, and 
the shifting back of the named varieties, as 
they grow taller and need more room. 
The thing to avoid in planting a cemetery 
lot is temporary planting, like the annuals or 
other tender plants which need constant re- 
newal or the quick growing things which will 
soon make an ugly wilderness of any lot. For 
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