XX AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
April, 1909 
Heat that makes complete 
There are thousands of 
houses that need only to be 
furnished with the home- 
making comfort of Steam, 
Hot- Water, or Vacuum 
heating to secure good ten- 
ants or ready purchasers. 
No one will long live ina 
poorly heated house, and 
the vacant house goes to 
pieces much faster than 
one which is occupied. 
will attract and hold tenants at 10% to 
ME IC AN DE AL 15 % higher rentals; property sells quicker, 
& and owner gets back the full cost of the 
RADIATORS BOILERS heating outfit IDEAL Boilers and 
AMERICAN Radiators are annually re- 
placing thousands of old-fashioned heating equipments that have been found 
wasteful and wanting in OLD cottages, houses, stores, churches, schools, etc. 
Ever hear of any one going back to other forms of heating once they have tried 
our way? Any argument in that to you? 
Don’t delay investigating this well-paying permanent investment with its marked fuel, labor, and 
repair savings, besides the greater comfort, health protection, cleanliness, safety, and durability. 
Just the season to get the 
services of the most skill- 
ful fitters. Prices are now 
most favorable. 
Write to-day for free val- 
uable book, telling how 
to save heating dollars 
and the waytosave buiid- 4 
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A No. 3015 IDEAL Boiler and 175 ft. A No. 3-22 IDEAL Boiler and 400 ings from emptiness and a 
of 38-in. AMERICAN Radiators, ft. of Seas Lilet, decay. Our definite in- @ 
Costing the owner $118, were used costing the owner O5, were usec 6 q 
to Steam heat this cottage. to Hot-Water heat this cottage. formation and _ booklets % 
At these prices the goods can be bought of any reputable, competent fitter. put you under no obliga- 
This did not include cost of labor, pipe, valves, freight, etc., which installa- 63 
tion is extra and varies according to climatic and other conditions. tion whatsoever to buy. 
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pot, the surface covered with newspapers, and 
the sash closed and the seed left to germinate. 
As soon as the seeds have germinated and 
appeared above ground air and light will be 
required, and this must be given with discre- 
tion for the first few days or until the first 
true leaves appear, but insufficient air and 
light will result in spindling plants, which 
will give poor results if, indeed, they recover 
at all. Carefully avoiding chilling or sun- 
burn the more air and light the plants receive 
the better, but care must always be taken to 
avoid a draft across the plants, and when the 
sash is raised above tender plants it is a wise 
precaution to place a screen against the open- 
ing on the windward side. “The beds must not 
be allowed to become overheated, as the tem- 
perature rises very rapidly under a hot sun 
and falls as rapidly when the sun goes under 
a cloud or beyond the range of the hotbed, so- 
that many shiftings of the sash become neces- 
sary during the course of a day in the chang- 
able weather of early spring. 
When the young plants have become esta- 
blished and are growing freely, more and more 
air and light should be given until the sash 
may remain open the greater part of the day, 
replacing them at first with lath screens and 
later with those of wire until, as the nights 
grow warmer, the sash may remain open 
thoughout the twenty-four hours. 
As the time approaches for planting out in 
the open ground the plants should have at- 
tained sufficient size to make a rapid growth 
trom the start; this will more especially be 
the case if the precaution has been taken to 
transplant a portion of the plants into fresh 
rows, and so leave the remaining plants with 
sufficient room to develop a stocky growth. A 
cold frame is a very useful adjunct to a hot- 
bed, as it allows of thinning out the over- 
crowded plats and giving more favorable sur- 
roundings. Asters, cabbage and cauliflower 
especially benefit by transplanting. 
The night before transplanting the bed 
should be thoroughly watered, so that the 
plants may be in the best possible condition 
for removal, and everything should be in 
readiness for the work so that the plants may 
be gotten into the ground as expeditious as 
possible after they are lifted. 
THE HEATING APPARATUS FOR 
THE SMALL COUNTRY HOUSE 
(Continued from page v) 
the return pipes to the bottom of the boiler to 
be reheated. 
The steam plant is slightly different in its 
mechanism and fittings. ‘The boiler is practi- 
cally the same with the exception that the 
steam boiler requires a steam gauge, safety 
valve and water column with gauge, water 
gauge and glass. 
The piping as well as the radiators are 
larger in a hot water plant than in a steam 
plant, the hot water pipes being two inches 
and the steam one and one-quarter inches (if 
a two-pipe system is used, a one-inch flow and 
a three-quarter-inch return). Hot water radi- 
ators should be about forty per cent. larger 
than the steam radiators. In a steam plant 
each radiator must, further, have a vent to let 
the air out, or the steam will not enter the 
radiator. 
Buy a good boiler. There are a great many 
varieties. Sectional boilers, composed of vari- 
ous cast iron sections connected together by 
push nipples or by drums above and on both 
sides, are the best for the country house. They 
may be added to should the original boiler 
prove insufficient, or the house be enlarged. 
They are light and easy to transport and set 
up, and in case of an explosion it will confine 
itself to but one or two sections. A cast iron 
base forms the ashpit. The boiler should 
