xvi AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1909 
if you have a stone fence to cover, take the 
Boston ivy, although the Virginia creeper is 
e 
Are you uniformly heated ? ||scv ies: wisn pian in 
does not. 
I have given you my best advice concerning 
If you hang a thermometer flowers for a small beginning, and for a small 
in each of the rooms ofa house country place. I advise strenuously against 
: All.) an effort to do too much at the outset. I 
heated by old-fashioned meth- eae, SS would grow these flowers mainly, at least for 
ods, you will find no two of «li) | Call: a while, where they can be cultivated with 
i 10 BD WNT horse power, just as you cultivate your vege- 
them showing the same tem- ; ¢ 7 IN 7 tables. Work will be heavy enough at the 
perature—especially on windy Lm] SY If) Sa es best, and it is this starting in the country which 
ae: Ala) WW) F ‘ , J taxes and puzzles. So if you grow even your 
days. This is an WISSEL 9 b 7 (AYA NE ie shrubs in rows, and cultivate them with the 
S , . aN plow for a year or two, you can have more 
time to lay out your grounds wisely—that is, 
to let things grow, and you grow with them. 
Always think of a country home as a growth, 
and a place where art is as necessary as science. 
“a\ 
WERICAN «DAL ‘ 
P You want not only to cultivate your vegetables 
RADIATORS BOILERS AN well, but cultivate yourself. Every farmer 
ought to study how to lay out his grounds for 
will make the thermometers throughout the house tell the same story—a story the beautiful as well as for the useful. 
of equal, soft, clean warmth— perfect sanitation. 
EDITORIAL NOTE 
Don’t think that IDEAL Boilers and AMERICAN Radiators are solely for the We are informed by Albro & Lindeberg 
wealthy. It is true that they are used in thousands of skyscrapers, public build- that the house which figured in the January 
ings, hospitals, churches, colleges, laboratories, schools, depots, mansions, etc. cover design of AMERICAN HoMEs AND GAR- 
But we have now simplified them so that in smaller forms they are easily, DENS was planned by them. The Editor of 
within the reach of the pocket-books of the humblest cottager. AMERICAN Homes AND GARDENS was ignor- 
ant of the fact at the time and hereby acknowl- 
These outfits save money so fast in lessened coal-bills, absence of repairs, toil, and  ¢ gg } edges his indebtedness to the firm in question. 
trouble that they quickly repay their cost. They are an investment—not an expense. i 
IDEAL Boilers 
supply heat at 
night for not less 
than eight hours 
in zero weather on 
one charging of coal 
: with ample fire to 
startup nextmorn-, 
ing. So simple a 
child can run the 
outfit. 
Please let us send you our book free 
— we cannot explain all in one ad- CoMPETITIVE DESIGNS FOR CONCRETE 
OE Sin [phere ern ah Houses or Mopsrate Cost. (Ranging 
Prices are now most favorable, and 
A No. 015IDEAL Boiler and 175 ft. of A No. 3-22 IDEAL Boiler and 400 ft. of at this season you get the services from $2000 to $4500 each.) Published 
38-in. AMERICAN Radiators, costing 38-in. AMERICAN Radiators, costing ofthe most skilled fitters. As easily by Association of Portland Cement Man- 
the owner $118, were used to Steam the owner $240, were used to Hot- . wg: : ges 
put in OLD buildings as in new . - . 
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At these prices the goods can be bought of any reputable, competent Fitter. Public showrooms and warehouses 15 inches: cloth: illustrated. Price, 
This did not include cost of labor, pipe, valves, freight, etc., which installa- throughout America and Europe. ) d 
tion is extra and varies according to climatic and other conditions. $1. oo. 
A pronounced effort has been made to pre- 
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